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Negotiations
F inalized
B etween the
C alifornia
Faculty
A ssociation and
the CSU System
The Pride
California State University San Marcos
Parrissa Soltani Conducts Diversity Workshop
P ride Photo/Sherrita Cobbs
By Sherrita Cobbs
Pride Staff Writer
The theme for this year’s
Cal State San Marcos-sponsored
Women’s Leadership Conference
was “Decisions Counts” The
theme for this conference is par
ticularly appropriate since it was
held a few days after the Cali
fornia 2002 elections on March
5. A wide spectrum of women
from many diverse backgrounds
attended, including women of
prominence* community women,
mentors, college women, and
high school proteges. “The main
purpose of the event is to intro
duce women to the importance
of mentorship .and building net
works with other women,” said
Bridget Blanshan, conference
committee chair.
Midge Consianza, Governor
Grey Davis’ liaison and an expert
on women’s issues, was selected
as a keynote speaker. Constanza’s experience in “public and
professional life have made her
one of the most recognized,’ and
often controversial, women in
America,” said Becky Martinez,
committee leader for the pro
gram. She spoke of her expe
rience and dedication to public
service and human rights issues.
Following the keynote speaker
was a series of workshops with
titles like ‘Life After High
School,’ ‘Career Decisions
Count,’ and ‘Mentoring.’ This
portion of the conference was
geared toward college women
and high-school students
‘Life After High School’
addressed the options for highschool students after gradua
tion. The lecture was followed
by a brief discussion of what
college has to offer. This work
shop addressed the many unwav
ering questions young women
may experience due to the tran
sition from childhood to wom
anhood. By providing a circle
of college women and students,
they discussed the ins and outs
of college and the preparation
involved.
‘Career Decisions Count’
focused primarily on college
women. This workshop housed
the discussion based on the deci
sions college students face upon
graduation.
To combat these uncertain
tie s the participants were asked
to assess their options to appro
priately move forward as well
as how to detect a choice that
can be paralyzing to one’s career.
» > A rticle cont. on pg. 3
California Primary Election’s Results
By MARTHA SARABIA
News Editor
California’s primary closed
elections took place last Tuesday.
Although the latest results, listed
March 9. on the Secretary of
State web page are not yet offi
cial, some of the results of the
state and local propositions are
clear enough to predict if they
are passed. The final results are
being held up by some 12,000
absentee/provisional county bal
lots yet to be counted.
Results:
Proposition 40
The California Clean Water,
Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood
Parks, and Coastal Protection
Act of 2002 passed with 56.9
percent of the votes. The pro
tection act allows the state to
sell $2.6 billion in bonds for
natural resources conservation,
state and local park acquisition
and improvement, and historical
and cultural resources preserva
tion purposes.
Proposition 41
The Voting Modernization
Act passed with 51.7 percent of
the votes and authorizes the state
to sell $200 million in bonds to
assist counties with the purchase
of new voting systems. The new
systems will replace the punch
card, or chad systems, used in
elections throughout the state.
Proposition 42
The Transportation Conges
tion Improvement Act, et. al,
passed with 69 percent of the
votes. The act requires that gas
oline sales tax revenues be used
annually for state and local trans
portation purposes beginning in
2003-2004. It also allows the leg
islature to suspend or modify the
percentage allocation of the rev
enues with a two-thirds vote.
Proposition 43
The Right to Have Vote
Counted passed with a strong
71.5 percent of the votes. This
requires that the State Constitu
tion be amended to affirm the
right of the voter to have her/his
vote counted. It allows the coun
ties to ask the courts for a dead
line extension to have.more time
to count votes.
Proposition 44
The Chiropractors Unprofes
sional Conduct passed with 79.6
percent of the votes. The new
law requires the Board of Chi
ropractors Examiners to revoke
a chiropractor’s license for a
period of 10 years if He or
she is convicted of various crim
inal offenses, including insur
ance fraud, and will allow an
investigation of any licensed
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Vol. XNo. 6 /Tuesday, March 12,2002
D ecision s Count: W o m e n ’s
L e a d e rsh ip C on feren ce
ByAMYBOLASKI
Graduate Intern
The California Faculty
Association (CFA) and the CSU
administration reached a ten
tative agreement 6n Sunday,
March 2, an agreement that the
CFA Bargaining Team, chap
ter presidents and board rec
ommended for ratification by
the membership after nearly
a year of negotiation. The
membership vote, is scheduled,
on all 23 CSU campuses, for
March 22. CFA Chapter Pres
ident George Diehr said, “I
think the CFA negotiated a very
good agreement with the CSU
administration. By Using a cre
ative approach, the CFA was
able to get agreement for a gen
eral salary increase - the CSU
faculty will see paychecks at
least four percent higher .than
their March 30 check.”
Not only will faculty see
paycheck increases relatively
soon, adjunct faculty, or lec
turers, with six of more years
of service will be awarded
three-year contracts, renewable
barring any “serious conduct
problems” Diehr said. This is
a huge gain for adjunct faculty
according to both Diehr and
CFA Lecturer Representative
Madeleine Marshall. The nego
tiation promises greater job
security to those previously
awarded contracts only on a
semester to semester or yearly
basis. Marshall said, “I am very
pleased that the vital place
of lecturers is acknowledged.
We are very good, very dedi
cated members of the academic
community . . . We deserved
health benefits and reasonable
job security.”
“The lecturers are going to
see some very nice improve
m ent in job security,” said
Dielir.
The CFA, the exclusive
collective bargaining represen
tative for CSU faculty, has
long been in negotiation with
the CSU system for salary
increases, compensation com
mensurate with the salaries of
faculty at comparable institu
tions, better benefits, greater
job security (especially for lec
turers) and affordable, quhlity
education in the CSU system.
The CFA represents tenuretrack faculty, lecturers, librari
ans and counselors. The current
CFA-CSU administration con-*
tract began July 1, 1998, and
technically ended June 30,2001.
» > A rtic le cont. on pg 3
News.
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Food..
Opinion...
chiropractor who is criminally
charged with committing insur
ance fraud.
Proposition 45
The Legislative Term Limits
did not pass. It had 42.3 percent
in favor and 57.7 percent against.
The current term law that limits
the members of the Assembly to
three*two-year terms and state
senators to two four-year terms
was not modified,
The only difference between
votes countywide and statewide
was Proposition 41. It was not
passed in San Diego County, in
which 50.3 percent of voters were
against the proposition.
Proposition A
Make Treasurer/Tax Collec
tor an Appointive Office was not
passed. The proposition received
a resounding 78.8 percent of votes
against. These results, posted in
the county Registrar of Voters,
leave the current treasurer/tax
collector position as an elected
position, which gives voters the
right to vote for whomever they
want instead of giving the power
of appointment to the San Diego
County Board of Supervisors.
This is unofficial informal
tion, updated on Thursday on the
San Diego County Registrar of
Voters website.
Ralph’s Center
a Nearing
Completion
The Ralph*s Center Under Construction
Pride Photo/James Newell
By JAMIEKO LANE
Pride Staff Writer
With the skeleton of yet
another building finished, the
Campus Marketplace, or the
Ralph’s Center, is one step
closer to completion. Ralph’s
Center is growing as quickly
as Cal State San Marcos. “This
center is in a prime location,
right next to the freeway and the
campus [CSUSM]. It’s bound
to be successful,” said Edward
Pejora, construction manager
of the site.
As of today there are 24
shops in the center, and accord
ing to Stephanie Perry, mar
keting manager o f Regency
Centers, “There are no mofe
[shops] in the making.” Four
teen of the 24 shops are occu
pied and up and running. There
are four stores that have yet to
open: Washington Mutual, Pet
Grooming, State Farm and a
General Dentistry, headed by
Dr. Paul E. Kosciuk, D.D S.
These four stores are sched
uled to open by April 13,2002,
the official grand opening of
Campus Marketplace. A radio
host, games, prizes, sidewalk
sales, and fun demonstrations
are scheduled for the celebra
tion.
For those who haven’t had
a chance to explore this brand
-new shopping center, here’s
a little update on what’s new.
Right now the stores that have
been open the longest in the
Campus Marketplace are:
Ralph’s, a local supermarket,
Long’s Drugs, an all-purpose
store with a large pharmacy,
Starbuck’s, a coffee shop,
Blockbuster, a video rental store
and the hidden but large Dis
covery Isle Day Care Center.
For those who may be
unaware of the more recent
store openings, there are now
nine more stores open for busi
ness: Point Loma Credit Union,
a local bank that anyone who
lives, works or worships in San
Diego County can join, Pet
People, an everything-for-animals store , Mailboxes Etc.,
Great Clips, an inexpensive hair
salon, Prestige, Nails, an allpurpose nail salon, A+ Teach
ing Supplies, a supply store
for teachers or anyone who
needs teaching materials, Radio
» > A rtic le cont. on pg 3
�Schmidt’s Boardhouse- Everybody’s Surf and Skate Shop
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By JAMIEKO LANE
Pride Staff Writer
The newest addition to the
Campus
Marketplace
is
Schmidt’s Boardhouse, which
opened Friday, March 1. Walk
ing into the store, one can’t help
but feel the fun environment that
Andy Schmidt, the owner, has
set up. With the light blue col
ored walls, loud modem music,
and the plush red futon towards
the back, one instantly feels wel
comed. Whether you skateboard
or surf, are 12 or 22, Schmidt’s
Boardhouse is for you.
“We have two different mar
kets,” says Schmidt. “The first
is junior high and high school
ers, who are into the entire skate
board industry. They are a lot of
my business. The second is the
grown-up market from Palomar
and Cal State, San Marcos. The
ones who surf.”
Schmidt’s Boardhouse has
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the top of the line in everything
they sell, with brand names like
World Industries, Zero, Ripcurl,
Billabong, Dicky’s, and Rusty, to
name just a few. Everything in
the store is the most recent fash
ion.
“We have nothing from
Winter 2001,” says Schmidt,
vowing to keep only the most
current fashions on the racks.
The store is stocked with every
thing you’d need from skate
boards or surfboards to clothes,
accessories, sandals and" Clive
backpacks. “These backpacks are
rockin’,” says Schmidt. “I wish I
had had them when I was in col
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lege. They are the ultimate func
tional backpack.”
The store is staffed with
three people: Schmidt, Brent Reid
and Nicole Arrington. Schmidt,
who has a bachelor’s in business
administration and 17 years of
surfing experience under his belt,
has been a guest speaker multiple
times on campus for a business
class taught by professor Troy
Nielsen. Once in a suit and tie
in the manufacturing sales world,
Schmidt expresses his view of
his new business venture. “I’m
excited to be putting 100 percent
into this business, but it’s scary
as hell.”
Through a coincidental meet
ing, Schmidt was introduced to
Reid as a professional surfboard
shaper with six years of expe
rience and part owner of Invoy
Surfboards. Reid, who has shaped
boards under the guidance of
better-known shapers such as
Linden, Brewer and Welden, puts
pride into Invoy, vowing to have
the turnaround time for a custom
surfboard to be only three weeks.
Nicole Arrington, the third of
the three musketeers, came on
board as the buyer. Arrington
is in charge of everything that is
non-hardware: clothes, accesso
ries and shoes. “She’s the one
with the fashion sense out of the
three of us,” says Schmidt.
Right now, the store is still
in the growing process. They’re
still hanging clothes on the racks,
installing the television and work
ing on the finishing touches.
Their goal is to have snowboards
and shoes on board by-September.
“We want to be the local shop
known for customer service,”
says Schmidt. “We want to be
known as everybody’s surf and
skate shop.” Schmidt’s Board
house is open Monday through
Friday from 8 a.m.-6 p.m., and
on Saturday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
San Marcos Sheriff’s Department Holds License/Safety -Checkpoint
By JAMIEKO LANE
Pride Staff Writer
The Sheriff's Department
conducted the . first Driver’s
License/Safety Checkpoint of
2002 from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00
a.m. on Friday, March 1. The
checkpoint was set up in the' 500
block of east Mission Avenue,
only 1.4 miles from Cal State
San Marcos, and was conducted
by San Marcos Traffic Unit, San
Marcos COPPS Unit, and Senior
Volunteer Unit.
According to Sergeant Mike
Ceq, the checkpoint was com
pletely random, similar to that of
a DUI checkpoint. Five cars were
pulled aside at a time drivers
were checked for valid driver’s
licenses, registration, seat belts,
and insurance. Once those five
were finished, another five cars
w e re
about what’s going on,
pulled to
“We want to educate through enforcement,”
the side.
people about what’s said Cea. Enforcing the
If
any
use of seatbelts, child
going on, through restraints and stressing
violation
enforcement.” the importance of not
was appar
ent, like
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MikeCea driving without insur
no, s,eat
ance, registration or a
belt being
license was the main
worn, the driver was pulled over goal1of the police department’s
even if not in the group of five.
checkpoint. Driver’s License/
“We want to educate people Safety Checkpoints are held once'
a quarter. DUI checkpoints are
also held once a quarter.
Of the 800 cars that passed,
only 207 were checked. Out
of the 207, 39 were cited for
license, registration, insurance,
or seat -belt violations, three for
not having child restraints, and
10 vehicles were impounded for
issues regarding license or regis
tration.
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�Low Primary Election Voter Turnout Ralph’s Center: The Campus Marketplace
By MARTHA SARABIA
News Editor
Tuesday’s California state
closed primary elections saw a
very low voter turnout, which
almost broke the state record for
lowest voter turn out.
Only one out of three regis
tered voters cast ballots in the
closed primary election, making
it the second lowest election
turnout in the state’s history.
The lowest voter turnout was
recorded in the 1994 primary
election, which had a 35-percent
turnout, when former Gov. Pete
Wilson was re-elected.
According to the county’s
Registrar of Voters website, San
Diego County’s total voter turn
out was 32.3 percent, a total of
438,,761 voters. Statewide, 31.9
percent of voters cast a ballot,
according to the Secretary of
State website. The information
was updated on March 9, and out
of 15,280,808 registered voters
,only 4,888,586 cast a ballot
However, this is not a final count
because ballots are still being
counted.
On the day of the election,
Secretary of State Bill Jones said
that only 36 percent of Califor
nia’s registered voters voted.
» > A r tic le cont. from pg. 1
Shack, an electronics store,
Schmidt’s Boardhouse, which
has a variety of products for
surfers and skateboarders, and
finally, Stir Fresh Mongolian
Grill.
As for the remaining spaces
still available, Perry said, “There
has been talk of a Pick up Sticks
and a La Salsa, but those nego
tiations are still unsure.” And,
as for the skeleton of a building,
“We definitely want that to be
a full bar and restaurant,” said
Perry, “but the decision for which
restaurant is still up in the air.”
Stores Westside o f the Ralph's Center.
P ride Photo/James Newell
W om en M ake T h e ir D ecisio n s C o u n t
» > A rticle cont. from pg. 1
The goal is “upward mobility ....
but to achieve it, it takes plan
ning, evaluating self, and lastly,
making the best decision to meet
your needs,” says Gwynne Wady,
one of the conference’s mentors.
“I did not know what to
expect. . . [but] felt blown away
by the diversity” of women, said
Nina Robinson, a CSUSM stu
dent running for an ASI posi
tion.
The second half of the con
ference focused on many issues
of concerning all women, with
workshops like ‘Defining Your
self in this Ever Changing World,’
‘Who am I,’ and ‘Creating Bal
ance in Your Life.’
‘Defining Yourself in this
Ever Changing World’ focused
on the role women play in society.
This particular session discussed
how the individual perceived her-.
self in the “Bigger Picture” Also
discussed were assessments of
values, culture and social stand
ing, which women individually
place themselves in.
‘Who am I?’ discussed issues
of self-realization and self
esteem.
‘Creating Balance in Your
Life’ provided strategies on how
to maximize your time, balance
your time and priorities, foster
ing healthy habits, and how to
deal with conflict in the home
and at work,
Tanis Brown, a Human
Resource Administrator, felt that
this conference was “an oppor
tunity for the outside commu
nity to come in and see what
we [CSUSM] has to offer...[and]
that the young college women
had a chance to share their expe
riences and make a connection.”
The last portion of the con
ference focused on the whole
woman. What is meant by the
“whole woman” is our differ
ences, our flexibility, our abili
ties, and the many faces of the
woman. Titles such as ‘Moving
Forward By Giving Back’, ‘Com
municating Your Decisions to
Others,’ ‘Let’s talk about Diver
sity,’ and ‘De-Stress this Mess.’
‘Moving Forward By Giving
Back’ discussed how the “educa
tional experiences, professional
aspirations, and accomplish
ments” of a women-or anyoneare useful in mentoring and out
reach. The main focus is that our
successes and life experiences
are highly influential to young
persons 3#d their life.
/Communicating Your Deci
sions to Others’ touched on issues
of communication styles. This
workshop focused on gaining a
better understanding of the self
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and others.
‘Let’s talk About Diversity’
was a delightful discussion focusing on the interactions between
women of diverse backgrounds.
This particular workshop was
guided by a series of activities
that involved self-reflection, andunderstanding others of diverse
cultures, as well as the common
alities shared by all women.
“.While we all come from
different experiences, we each
embrace a similar style of com
munication. As women we have
many different roles, yet we have
similarities and differences that
make us unique,” said Parisa
Soltani, the EOP counselor who
led the diversity workshop.
This year’s Women’s Leader
ship Conference brought women
from all sizes, ages, cultures, and
professions together to create “a
cross section of women together
for goal planning,” said Jonathan
Poullard, dean of students and
committee leader. 150 women
attended the conference this year,
and leaders hope and expect to
exceed that number next year.
Successful Negotiations Between California Faculty and CSU System
> »A rticle cont. from pg. 1
The agreement reached on
March 2 will cover fiscal years
2001/02, 2002/03 and 2003/04.
While many faculty members
have expressed disappointment
over the CFA’s failure to secure
retroactive pay for the 2001/02
fiscal year, Diehr said, “While
faculty will give up some takehome pay in 2001/02, they will
probably recoup the loss in
2002/03 . . . furthermore, giving
up retroactivity locked in a higher
salary increase for 2002/03 than
we could have negotiated with
retroactivity.” Marshall said that
“given the current economic situ
ation in California and the nation,
the trade-off of retroactive pay
for larger gains in the future was
a wise move for both the CFA
and the CSU.
Because more than half the
2001/02 fiscal year is over, fac
ulty would have been entitled
to retroactive pay reflecting the
salary increases that the bar
gaining unit negotiated. H o w t
ever, Diehr noted that the “deal
on retroactivity was made in
exchange for guaranteed servicestep increases (SSIs) and the “Big
Three,” and to lock in a larger sec
ond-year general salary increase.
. . . This tentative agreement
trades some short-term benefits
for important long-term gains.”
Service Step Increases:
These 2.65 percent salary
increases are awarded annually
to many assistant and associate
professors for satisfactory perfor
mance. Formerly, these increases
were paid for out of a “com
pensation increase pool,” which
reduced the actual annual
increase by about % percent (this
means that if the CSU admin
istration awarded a four-percent
salary increase and the state pro
vided funding for the four-percent increase, the actual increase
was, on average, only 3.2 per
cent.) The CFA has successfully
negotiated an end to charging the
pool for these increases, which
Diehr said will increase salaries
by about 6.8 percent (by July
30, 2002) and will also increase
many lecturers’ salaries. “I’m
very pleased that the process
of funding the SSI’s through
the pool has ^een discontinued,”
Diehr said.
The “Big Three:”
Lecturer Health Benefits:
Previously, adjunct faculty was
not eligible for benefits unless
teaching at least 50 percent of the
time. Beginning June 30, 2002,
all lecturers without any other
health coverage will be eligible
for benefits while engaged to
teacfi at least six units, or a time
base of 40 percent. Beginning
June 30, 2003, all lecturers will
be eligible for benefits, regard
less of any other health coverage,
at a 40 percent time base.
Counselors
Placed
on
Instructional Faculty Salary
Schedule: According to Diehr,
the CFA has negotiated unsuc
cessfully for many years to have
counselors placed on the same
pay schedule as instructional fac
ulty. Thisg^ime, the CFA was
Successful in its negotiations.
Those counselors who fall into
the lowest pay range will see pay
increases of up to 15 percent.
Increase in Chair’s Stipends;
A seven-percent increase for
department chairs, according to
academic year classifications,
was successfully negotiated.
Diehr pointed out that each
year the CSU administration has
reduced general salary increases
to pay for the SSIs, as jwell as
other ‘‘enhancements,” and that
the CSU administration wanted
to lower these increases to pay
for the “Big Three.” The CFA
agreement to forfeit retroactive
pay for the 2001/02 fiscal year
locks in a two-percent general
salary increase for the 2002/03
year and guarantees three years
of SSIs - if the CFA had con
ceded to the lowered increase and
agreed to pay for the SSIs and the
“Big Three,” the general salary
increase would have been only
.6 percent. “By using a creative
approach,” said Diehr, “faculty
will see that four percent salary
increase. It’s a very reasonable
contract.”
Other Successfully Negoti
ated Changes for Faculty:
The Faculty Merit Increase
program was terminated, a pro
gram that Diehr called “gener
ally unpopular.” Beginning July
1, 2003, if the total faculty com
pensation increase exceeds a 3.5
percent or greater increase, a new
merit pay system will be devel
oped. SSIs will now be based
on personnel action files, and
the standard for awarding these
increases is satisfactory perfor
mance. Further, faculty denied
SSIs will now be able to file
a grievance. Beginning Summer
2004 (for all campuses on yearround schedules), all faculty will
be compensated at 100 percent,
rather than 80 percent, for
summer workloads.
Anticipated
Changes
Agreed Upon by the CFA and
the CSU Administration:
Diehr stated that while these
changes may not result in any
immediate benefit to faculty or
students, their implementation is
required to uphold standards of
quality education. The CFA is
still trying to reduce the ration
of students to tenure-track fac
ulty. The CSU will conduct 1,200
searches for new tenure-track
faculty beginning in 2002/03.
While a new merit pay system
has not been developed, Diehr
anticipates the formulation of a
system more acceptable to the
CFA. Parking fees are not under
negotiation, and will not change.
The three-year contracts to be
awarded for six years of service
should not only provide adjunct
faculty with greater job security,
but also retain such faculty mem
bers for longer periods of time.
And while pay increases for
summer appointments will not
go into effect until 2004, the
successful negotiations of these
increases should help students
and faculty alike with the tran
sition from a two-semester to a
year-round system.
While all changes and nego
tiations are tentative, the March
8,2002 vote will lock in all nego
tiations through the fiscal year
2004. Diehr said he expects, the
CFA will ratify the vote. Mary
Elizabeth Stivers, associate vice
president for academic affairs and
a member of the CSU bargaining
team, was unavailable for com
ment.
For more information on the
tentative agreement, to access the
complete text of the agreement,
or information on the scheduled
vote and the CFA in general, go
to http://www.calfac.org/
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By SYBILLE HERWIG
Pride Staff Writer
‘Just another war movie/ was
my initial thought when I entered
the movie theatre for the matinee
of We Were Soldiers. Little did I
know that I was about to embark
on a journey into the midst of a
horrific war battle, which direc
tor Randall Wallace portrayed so
realistically and heartbreakingly
that the images sneakecl up on me
days after I saw it.
We Were Soldiers tells the
true story of American com
mander Lt. Hal Moore (played by
Mel Gibson) and his 450 troops
of the 7th Cavalry who were
ordered to air assault into the la
Drang Valley in Vietnam on Nov.
14,1965. Their mission: Find and
kill the enemy!
Moore had no idea, when he
was the first soldier to step off
the chopper and fire his rifle, that
he was about to lead his men into
the first major faceto-face battle between
the U.S. Army and
the Peopled Army of Vietnam.
Despite massive American air
and artillery fire support, this
battle caused a tremendous
amount of casualties among
young American warriors.
Unlike many other movies
about the Vietnam War, director
Randall Wallace considered one
significant factor that is often
portrayed insufficiently. It is the
first movie that shows both the
action on the war front and the sit
uation back home, equally. More
than one hour of the running time
is devoted to the establishment of
the soldiers’ family life - giving
those young men a vulnerable,
human side as loving fathers and
husbands and showing the impor
tance of their marital bonds. Also,
the worries and fearful waiting
of their wives is portrayed in
a realistic manner, when the
storyline emphasizes the heartbreaking'delivery of governmen
tal telegrams that confirm the
death of the soldiers.
The movie’s opening scene,
which shows the slaughtering of
French soldiers in Indo China,
throws the viewer right into the
relentless horrors of war and pro
vides a hint of what is about to
come: Heavy artillery, splashes
of blood landing on the camera
lens, screams of dying soldiers,
the camera angle allowing the
viewer to stare right down the
barrel of a Vietnamese soldier’s
rifle - a horrific
imagery of killing.
All of the demonstrated fight
ing scenes feel Smazingly real
and evoke a wish for escape in
the audience, when the screen
soaks you into a desperate fire
storm battle for survival in 100degree heat while choppers under
severe fire try to bring water and
carry out wounded men.
Gibson does a tremendous
job of portraying the brave, dis
ciplined, and experienced Lt.
Moore, who loves his soldiers
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"Ice
By MELANIE ADDINGTON
Arts Editor
In the new animated movie,
Ice Age, there was fexcitement, a
sense of camaraderie, struggle,
and finally, the move to a new
land. Of course, this was all
before the movie even began. For
the first time ever, the trip to see
the movie became much more
eventful than the movie itself.
My son and I began the
35-minute trek to La Jolla and
made it to the theater right when
the movie should begin. We got
in just in time, sat down and
hoped the movie would start.
But it didn’t ... for over 45
minutes.
A radio station and newspa
per sponsored a free preview of
Ice Age the weekend before its
release (it comes out this Friday).
The two companies took about
20 minutes to hand out free gifts
and to warm up the crowd (a
crowd of noisy kids warmed up
right before a movie is never a
good thing).
After they finally ended the
gift giving, they promised free
posters to all who did not win a
t-shirt or sweatshirt. The crowd
cheered, the kids shouted and
talked. My son sat patiently wait
ing for the movie to begin. I had
a headache.
But finally^ the moment was
here. Ice Age began -with no
sound.
The crowd shouted and jeered
A
like sons and has to see them
die on the battlefield. He captures
the audience by reliving Moore’s
painful war experience onscreen
and seems to almost be Moore
when he steps onto the helicopter
as the last-man to leave the war
zone.
With the words, “I’ll never
forgive myself*that my men died
and I didn’t,” Gibson brings
Moore’s experience to life.
It is the cinematography, the
enormous amount of pyro techr
nique, the unbelievable work of
the make-up artists, who make
every injury a painful and real
experience, as well as the fast
edits, that evoke a sense of entrap
ment and the inability to escape
from this tragic scenery.
The movie lets the audience
relive the hopeless situation of
the soldiers and provides a blunt
picture of what war really feels
like. It is not a simple glorifica
tion of American heroes and the
dehumanization of the enemy, as
it so often is in other war movies.
It is a tribute to the young Ameri
cans who died in la Drang Valley
fighting not for the flag, not for
the country but rather, as Moore
says, “for each other.” It is a trib
ute to the women and children
left behind and suffering from
the fear and pain of losing their
husbands and fathers, and yes,
it is even a tribute to the mur
dered enemies, who too, were
young soldiers leaving behind
their beloved.
The message of this movie is
ge"
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probably best described by Lt. Hal
We Were Soldiers is playing
Moore himself, who explained in theatres everywhere.
in a television interview that We
MPAA: Rated R for sus
Were Soldiers teaches us to ‘hate tained sequences of graphic war
the war, but love the warrior.” violence, and for language.
(Lt. Moore).
Moderniz
up to the booth, trying to get
People looked shocked but
the attention of the booth opera still sat waiting for instructions.
tor. Boos and shouts of “there’s
no sound” filled the theater. The
movie played on silently.
The first 15 minutes of the
film were stressful as we hoped
for sound. A man sitting near
me leaned over to his friend and
said, “I guess ya get what you
pay for, huh.” Yet, some kids
still laughed at the antics of the
Sid, Manfred and Diego.
animated characters (apparently
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sound or not, just their parents).
At moments, the sound would The newspaper people came
begin,'but very faintly. In the to the front and helped to
theater, you could hear a pin organize the migration to the
drop as the crowd quieted and new theater. It was supposed
strained to hear the dialogue. I to be organized, a section at
was impressed that even the little the time, and they asked the
kids stayed quiet.
audience to please go to the same
Then the movie shut off com seats in the new theater. Some
pletely. More boos, more jeering. people actually listened. I tried,
Someone even threw a beachball but those who decided to steal
into the air.
closer seats chose the seats we
Finally,
were supposed to sit in.
a very ner
The area we where were
vous young
supposed to sit quickly filled
attendant came to the front of and we were forced to move from
the crowd and announced that a prime spot in the middle to the
the jnovie would restart after very back row. I let my son have
the sound was fixed. The crowd the seat without a tall person in
applauded loudly.
front of him, arid then a very tall
We waited for about 10 min man sat right in front of my son.
utes (the movie would have been
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It was a survival of the fittest
a third of the way over at this *situation, oddly like Ice Age.
point) until the nervous attendant
But then we breathed a sigh
came back to the front of the the- of relief. The movie was to begin,
ate** to announce that the crowd “Yay!” the crowd shouted. The
would have to move to a new the- first 15 minutes were much funater.
nier with dialogue, and the mulrc
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was a nice addition a very slow
beginning (the first 30 minutes
made most of the kids in
the audience squirm).
But luckily once it got
going, the movie was so
hilarious that the earlier
stress was forgotten.
Ice Age went modem
in this version, with a
ed
to his pack, but in the end dis
covers his real family is with a
wooly mammoth and a weird yet
comical sloth.
At moments the animated
landscape and watery imagery
were eerily realistic and quite
beautiful.
Ray Romano is the voice of
the mammoth and John Leguziamo voices Sid the Sloth, the
comic relief in the film (remi
niscent of the donkey in Shrek).
The third in the odd trio, voiced
by Dennis Leary, is Diego the
Sabertooth tiger.
Oyerall the movie provided
good, old-fashioned family fun.
However, I was concerned about
the two rhinos: they were quite
Pay Romano, the voice o f Manfred the
obviously gay and portrayed as
Mammoth.
the bad guys. Gay jokes were also
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behemoth. I knew it was over the
snowboarding sloth, dodo cults kids’ heads, but it bothered me
claiming the end of the world that the filmmakers even thought
(ironically it was for them), and they needed gay jokes in a chil
an ice train. A bit strange, b u t . dren’s film.
it was an interesting way to pull
So in the end, waiting for the
the kids into those times.
film, and wading through the first
But, the movie is about evo half hour of the film was worth it
lution, the ice age and survival. for a lot of funny pranks, a sim
So, .when dodos were portrayed plistic but touching storyline* and
as cultish freaks who lost their some fantastic animation.
last female and last bits of food,
My four-year-old said, “it was
I laughed (all the while thinking pretty funny” and really enjoyed
that this movie is sick and the simple jokes. Qlder kids might
twisted);
get more out of it, but young ones
Ice Agecenters around a trio still sit through Ice Age.
can
that struggles to return a h u m a n
But, they never did give out
baby they found. The Sabertooth the free posters.
tiger just wants to take him back
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ThePride
The Man and H i s Trumpet Internationally Acclaimed
Artist Welcomed by CSUSM
By VLADISLAV CELIK
For The Pride
He played with Glenn
Miller, he played with Benny
Goodman, and he played with
Artie Shaw. John Best’s lifef is
the story of a successful trum
pet player.
Born in Shelby, North Car
olina, in 1913, John Best
received his first piano lessons
at the age of 6. He quit his
musical education because the
kids in school teased him that
playing the piano was not for
a boy, but several years later
he chose the trumpet and stuck
with it for the rest of his life.
Today, he lives in La Jolla and
is well known for his success
as a jazz musician.
Twenty years ago, Best had
an accident in his avocado
orchard in Pauma Valley. Since
that time, he has been confined
to a wheelchair. Now, at the
age of 88, he no longer plays
often. However, each time he
By EMILY KELLEY
Pride Staff Writer'
The Cal State San Marcos
library is serving as the temporary
home of an installation by artist and
UC Riverside professor Erika Sud
erburg. The installation was wel
comed by CSUSM on Wednesday
and had mixed reviews. One stu
dent voiced his opinion by way of
the comment book adjacent to the
pieces. His comment: “Art is get
ting easier all the time. What is
John Best at his La Jolla home
more impressive is Ms. Suderburg’s
P hoto Courtesy o f V Celik)
handout, describing what her work
takes his trumpet, the memo- Miller again.
‘is.’”
ries of the past become vivid.
After the war, Best played
The handout in question was
Even though he can’t do with the bands of Benny Good
many of the things he loved man and Artie Shaw. The swingi a press release, available in the
library, stating that the slate tab
as a younger man, Best still style was at its height, and so
lets adorned with small black and
likes to talk about his partic was the demand for musicians,
white photos and some writing
ipation with the Glenn Miller until the 1960s, when rockwere “ ... reliquaries, architectural
band in the lqte 1930s, which and-roll became popular. It is
stand-ins, ‘clean slates;’ sullied and
lasted until Glenn disbanded not that the musicians from the
inscribed into a skewed natural his
the orchestra and enlisted in the swing-era could not play rocktory diorama, and a type of objectUS Army Air Force in Octo and-roll, but a new generation
fueled decompression chamber.”
ber of 1942. In the military, of listeners emerged and main
Even without the artist’s loquahe formed a dance band and stream, rock music created its
performed for the troops. Best pwn stars. The demand for the 9 cious account of her work, the over
all tone of the exhibits, with its
continued along a similar path big band and swing musicians
dusty purples, and funereal grays,
and joined the US Navy band. decreased.
is a somber and contemplative one.
In 1964, the Musicians’
Both bands were sqpt to Eng
land, where they had frequent Association of San Diego
performances. For the tour County awarded John Best with
they were both staying in the a plaque for his outstanding
Royal hotel in London. Best musical ability and elected him
saw his friend Miller for the for the All-Star Dance Band.
John Best has been an
last time on Dec. 14, 1944.
Later, on the same day, Glenn inspiration to younger musi
By KATERI RODGERS
boarded a small plane on a cians for many years. His mem
Pride Staff Writer
flight bound for Paris. That ories of the big band era are
plane presumably crashed, vivid and he likes to share them
About 26,000 gray whales
since it never reached its desti any chance he gets.
John Best during the WWII
migrate 10,000 miles annually,
nation. No one ever saw Glenn
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from the winter months beginning
in December through the end of
March. The annual migration takes
the whales from the Bering Sea in
Alaska to the warm waters off Baja,
California. Dolphins, sea lions, blue
whales, and an occasional orca
often accompany them. This jour
ney brings the whales near the
San Diego coastline, which allows
observers to see these awesome
mammals in their natural environ
ment.
Two weeks ago, along with 30
others, I was able to enjoy the
pleasant,, but bumpy, ride on a
boat. We departed Marina Village,
which is off Mission Bay Road, and
headed to the outer skirts of Mis
sion Beach.
The price of the trip is nor
mally $20 per person, but I was
able to get two tickets for the price
of one from a coupon in the San
Diego Reader (a great source for
coupons and events). While many
cruises guarantee whale sightings,
it is possible that certain excursions
will not produce sightings. In the
case of no sightings, most whalewatching companies provide cus
tomers with a complimentary pass
to return on another whale-watch
ing adventure.
Despite the fact that some
people got sick from the bumpy
For participating school districts via the internet:
ride out to sea, the rough ride
was followed by several minutes
'of floating and waiting in anticipa
tion of seeing the whales. Every
or call Career & Assessment Center (760) 750-4900
one on the boat was in awe as we
eagerly awaited the sighting of a
spout, hump, or fin.
In no time, we were able to see
three to four whales as they played
The exhibit consists of about
10 1 foot by 1 foot slate tablets
that have been altered by coloration
and the addition of miniature black
and white photos. The photos are
of subjects as various and abstract
as a handwriting and a woman’s
back.
The significance may not be
immediately apparent, but the slates
are meant to invoke Italian tomb
stones, which are often decorated
with laminated pictures of the
deceased. When the complete work
is laid out in its entirety, it is rem
iniscent of an aerial view of an
urban landscape.
Suderburg is an art professor at
UC Riverside and a widely accom
plished artist. She works in film,
video, and photography as well as
on her installation. Her work has
been exhibited in venues as revered
as The American Film Institute in
Los Angeles, and the Collective for.
Living Cinema and the Museum of
Modem Art in New York.
The installation is available for
viewing free of charge in the library
throughout the months of March
and April.
Whale Season: Things
to do in San Diego
CSUSM TEACHER
CAREER FAIR
Wednesday, March 13, 2002
1:00-5:00 PM
California Center
f or the Arts, Escondido
340 North Escondido Blvd.
Escondido, CA
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around 40 yards off the bow of our
boat. After much observation, we
headed back to the dock. The threehour^ journey was well worth our
time and money. I highly recom
mended the mission for the adven
turous type, or for those willing
to try something new in the San
Diego area.
If you dare to participate in
such an adventure, here is some
friendly advice:
1. Dress in layers: The boat
will go approximately five miles off
shore. Most boats have indoor and
outdoor seating available. Guests
usually want to stay outdoors to
see the sights, so dress in layers,
complete with a warm sweater or
jacket. Due to the time of year of
the migration and the cold ocean
water, it’s at least 10 degrees cooler
on the boat.
2. Bring binoculars, a camera
or a video recorder. Whale watch
ing, for most, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You could catch
a spout or a fin on film and save
it forever. The cruises occasionally
capture a whale breaching, the ulti
mate in whale watching.
3. Be prepared for seasickness.
It was strange to see about six
people throw up overboard at one
time. The experts recommend
eating crackers or toast and.drinking Sprite before, or early, bn the
trip. You may also purchase Dramamine at your nearest drug store.
Some of the area’s whale watch
ing companies to contact are:
Seaforth Sportfishing (Marina Vil
lage) at (619) 224-3383, Homblower
Cruises at (619) 725-8888, H&M
Landing at (619) 222-1144, and
Point Loma Sportfishing at (619)
223-1627. Enjoy what San Diego
has to offer.
�Stir Fresh Mongolian The Grand Bar and Grill: A
Grill
G ourmet Bar and Restaurant
By JAMES NEWELL
Pride Editor
The Mongolian Restaurant o f Braham Drive
P ride Photo/James Newell
By JAMIEKO LANE
Pride Staff Writer
With hunger in mind and
money a factor, many students
take taste for granted. In the
Campus Marketplace, known to
many §s Ralph’s Center, a restau
rant made for food lovers opened
on Feb. 26: Stir Fresh Mongo
lian Grill.
Stir Fresh caters to all types
of lifestyles. Whether you’re a
vegan, a meat lover, diabetic,
Kosher, lactose intolerant or the
good old-fashioned eat-everything-in-front-of-you kind of
person, Stir Fresh is for you.
To many, “Mongolian Grill”
is not only unfamiliar, but intim
idating as well. I went into the
newly built restaurant expecting
a mediocre quality of food,
but I was pleasantly surprised
with the beautiful restaurant. It
was equipped with a television
for sports events or major pro'gramming, but I was thoroughly
impressed with the great-tasting
food. Stir Fresh is exciting, and
as Cory Barhart, a Cal State San
Marcos student said, “DAMN
GOOD ”
Stir Fresh is a buffet-style
restaurant priced under $10, and
its motto is “Grab a bowl and the
adventure begins.” There are
five steps to this adventure. The
first step is to choose
the type of meat you.
want: beef, chicken,
pork or lamb. The
meat is thinly sliced
and frozen for easier and health
ier cooking. The second step
is to choose your veggies. You
have 14 to choose from, includ
ing but not limited to spinach,
broccoli, snow peas, water chest
nuts, and mushrooms. The third
step is to add the noodles. You
are allowed to and encouraged
to pile these ingredients as high
as you can.
“Cory and I like to smash
<it down with our hands to cram
more stuff in,” said Kris Asgharzadeh, a CSUSM student and
friend of Barhart.
The fourth and most impor
tant step is choosing the right
combination from 10 different
flavors of sauce. The different
sauce combinations have differ
ent levels of spiciness and are
made fresh daily. Only two are
oil-based; the others are waterbased. With the water-based
sauces, you are eating not only
flavorful food but also healthy
food.
The water-based sauces tend
to evaporate on the grill and
the cooks, who will send you
back for more sauce if they think
you don’t have enough, want you
to enjoy the food you create.
“Since you’re the creator of your
food we don’t want it to taste
bad,” said Jesi Schiffer, restau
rant consultant for Stir Fresh.
The final and most exciting
step is watching the food being
cooked. The chef grills on
an open, circular grill, walking
around the grill in a circle and
entertaining you as he cooks
your food. After a minute and
a half, your food is done. There
are two grills and the restaurant
has the capacity for three cooks
on a busy weekend night. With
your meal, you also receive a
Chinese pocket biscuit, similar
to a pita, unlimited Egg Drop
Soup, and unlimited white rice;
all three are made fresh daily.
You can either choose an
Express plate, which allows you
one trip to the buffet, or an
unlimited plate, which allows
you, for only one or two dollars
more depending on the time of
day, to go as many Times as you
want. There are also many side
dishes that you can purchase,
including fried rice and spring
rolls.
For those of you who don’t
want the unlimited
sodas or teas and would
rather enjoy a nice
alcoholic
beverage
with your meal, don’t
worry. Stir Fresh has domestic
and import beers as well as pre
mium and house wines.
For family customers with
children who don’t want the
Mongolian cuisine, again, don’t
worry. They can order a corn
dog and frie,s or choose from a
list of familiar food items.
If you have already eaten and
are in the mood for dessert, may
I suggest the Mongolian Moun
tain, which is a warm brownie
topped with chocolate sauce, a
scoop of vanilla ice cream, whip
cream and of course, a Mara
schino cherry. Sit out on the
patio and enjoy it with a coffee
from PowerSurge. It’s the ulti
mate way to end a hard day’s
work.
Stir Fresh Mongolian Grill,
open daily from 11 a.m.-9 p.m.,/
is located on the comer of Twin
Oaks Valley and Barham Dr.,
right across from Starbucks and
next to Subway.
If you’re strolling through
the downtown area of Carlsbad.
Village, you will notice a wide
variety of restaurants and bars
lining the streets, many times on
both sides. Without even searcing, you can find everything
from an open-air cantina to fine
dining. Then, just a bit farther
east on Grand Ave., boarding the
edge of the downtown area, is
The Grand Avenue Bar and Grill.
Hidden behind the face of what
looks like your average bar is
an eclectic menu that will satisfy
your cravings for just about any
thing.
The food at the Grand ranges
from the relatively standard bar
appetizers like nachos, fries and
poppers to more gourmet meals
like halibut and steamed Littleneck Clams, or Greenlip Mus
sels in a white wine garlic sauce
over linguini. The prices are reasSnable, especially when you see
and taste what you are served.
Fresh seafood and vegetables are
always plentiful.
To plan for the daily happen
ings, the kitchen manager and
chef du jour Mark Thompson,
places at . least 15 items on the
list of specials, which includes
three to five different types of
fish. None of the items are on the
main menu, and Thompson bor
rows from many different styles
of cooking. “Many times, I just
create different things to see if
people enjoy their meals,” said
Thompson.
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“I have
pretty much
free reign over the food, so I
can experiment. I try to take into
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Mark Thompson
P ride Photo/James Newell
consideration what my custom
ers want and still offer all the
items at a reasonable price.”
When asked why he chooses
to work his creativity and present
his ideas at a bar, rather than at
a fancier establishment, Thomp
son said he likes the casual atmo
sphere. Although the Grand gets
busy and stressful, he said, “I’ve
dealt with the stuffy fine dining
and corporate crowd in the past.
I’ve seen that side (of the restau
rant business), and I don’t want
to go back.”
Grand Bar and Grill Restaurant.
P ride Photo/James Newell
As for his future outlook
on the food, Thompson said, “I
would love to see this place do
some fancier dining in the future,
but I’m happy just to watch the
restaurant grow, press on and go
where it takes us.” Even after
the economic toils many busi
ness owners faced in the past
year, the Grand’s sales were up
30 percent from last year.
Thompson has been with
the Grand fSt about five years,
but he brings 30 years of restau
rant experience to his position.
Thompson spent the better part
of 25 years with the now cor
porate-owned Chart House, and
five years with Jay’s Gourmet.
Each time I eat at the Grand,
I always try to order something
different. Last Sunday, three
friends and I strolled into the
Grand for a late lunch. I ordered
the Blackened Catfish sand
wich. It consisted of a long
filet, generously seasoned with
Cajun spices, served with let
tuce, tomato and red onion,
and I chose toasted
sourdough bread. It is
always hard to decide
between crispy onion
rings and steak fries
to accompany my
meal, so April, our
server, suggested a half
order of each: problem
solved.
“The food at the
Grand never ceases to
amaze
me*” said
Randy Reyes, manager
of Real. Food Daily,
which i s a certified
green
restaurant
located on the edge of
Beyerly Hills in L.A.
County, as he looked
down at a thick cut
of medium-rare Ahi
topped with seaweed
salad and served on a
toasted sesame bun.
“Even though I live in L.A.
now, when I’m in town visiting
friends, I always come and eat at
the G.”
The price of appetizers
ranges from $1.25 for garlic
bread to $9.95 for a special lob
ster sushi roll. Sandwiches range
from $3.95 for the grilled cheese
to $9.95 for the New York Steak
sandwich. All sandwiches are
served with a choice of potato
salad, french fries or dinner
salad. As for entrees, you can get
Polio Baracho, which is a charbroiled breast of chicken in a
tequila sauce topped with pepper-jack cheese and served with
black beans and flour tortillas,
for $8.95. But the Surf and
Turf, which is a New York steak
and charbroiled shrimp combi
nation served with wild rice pilaf
and garlic bread, will cost you
$13.95.
The everyday menu and
dining is supplemented by a
Happy Hour from 4-7 p.m. daily,
including weekends. The Grand
offers specials on drinks and
has created a couple of theme
nights: Taco Tuesday and Thurs
day’s Wing Night.
For Tac6 Tuesday, you can
get two tacos for $2. The special
runs from 4-8 p.m. and you
can choose from chicken, fish
or carne tacos. On Thursday’s
Wing Night, a dozen wings will
cost you $3, and you can choose
from nine different sauces. The
special runs from 4-10 p.m., dine
in only.
“Wing Night gets very busy,”
said Shery Harding, one of the
bartenders. “It has taken on a life
of its own.”
“Every time I come in, there
are good eats at the Grand,”
said long-time Oceanside resi
dent Joe Lorch. Lorch was eating
the Diablo Burger, which is a
spicy, half-pound burger topped
with roasted jalapeno and sorrento peppers and melted pepper
-jack cheese. “This is one of the
best burgers I’ve ever had, and
it’s got some serious heat.”
This month, the Grand will
celebrate its 10-year anniversary,
a milestone many restaurants
never achieve.
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about where to eat and what kind
of food to choose, don’t make
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head down to the G-spot, and
let the menu put an end to your
indecisiveness.
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The System Works...For Us! A New Cult Classic
By Emily Kelley
Pride Staff Writer
The eternal questions that
plague mankind: To be or not to
be? Fat Elvis or skinny Elvis?
Are we men or are we mice?
Or how about this one: are we
students or are we customers?
This is what we were asked from
March 7 through March 9, as stu
dents were invited to participate
in a system-wide “Customer Sat
isfaction Survey.”
The survey was designed for
students to rate their happiness
with many facets of the CSU
system, including facility ser
vices, financial aid, parking
services, student financial ser
vices, and university police. The
survey was conducted online at
www.csusm.edu/student_survey,
and the results will be posted to
the Chancellor’s Office Web site
in July.
According to the Office of
the Executive Vice President, the
surveys will be “used to deter
mine focus areas for improve
ment; this is a great opportunity
to let us know what areas you
think rate well, what areas may
be improved, and what’s important to you.”
Every semester as we men
tally prepare ourselves for the
grueling academic road ahead,
we must also prepare ourselves
financially for the sacrifices we
make in order to become pro
ductive, well-educated little con
sumers,, ere, I mean members of
society.
But really, what’s the differ
ence? This great nation of ours is
founded on the equally revered
principles of capitalism and selfimprovement. These principles
intersect during the college expe
rience, where students, of their
own volition, pay for the oppor
tunities to better themselves
through education. The goods
and/or services that students
receive should be roughly equiv
alent to the money they lay
down.
Many of us, myself included,
work crappy jobs for too little pay
and receive no insurance bene
fits or job security. We exchange
these benefits for scheduling flex
ibility, which allows for the
mental focus it takes to be a
full-time student. We scrimp and
save, we take out loans, we run
up our credit-card debt, and gem
erally prostrate ourselves to the
financial institutions, which are
the backbone of the system of
indentured servitude that ram
pant debt in our society has cre
ated. Many people spend the
better part of their lives trying to
pay down debt incurred as stu
dents. With that in mind, how
could we possibly not be consid
ered customers?
It is commonly said that the
squeaky wheel gets the grease.
For those of us who have expe
rienced the madness of trying to
find a parking spot or the frus
tration of being unable to enroll
in much-needed classes, this is
our golden opportunity. Use your
voices and be heard. Let’s all
be happy customers who get our.
money’s worth.
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Welcome to the World of Aea-Dementia
By JAMES NEWELL
Pride Editor
I would like to take a short
excursion through the everincreasing world we (that is an
assumption of a college-level
readership) all know as theo
retical argumentation. I will try
and illuminate the extremitivity
of the generalization, but first,
I "must create an open forum
of over-interpretation in order to
have a correct perparitivization
for my look into the sad fate of
over-academicization.
As we as a nation, that is a
faction of globalization, which is
a future prediction of the everpressing corporitization, we con
tinually sift through the paths of
recursive regression and ponder
the world of our creation. At
one time long, long ago, free
speech was an extenuation of the
interpretation of the amendmentization of our strongly guarded
constitution. Now, in order to
have our voice heard, we have
to participate in the institution
alization of written communica
tion.
So what has become of the
personal governization of our
freedom of expression?
The institutionalization of
pur creativity has taken the,orig
inality away from our progress
toward the development of our
individualization. Whatever cat
egorization of information we
decide to find an alignment with
trends to ruin the personalization
of what we truly intend to say.
We get caught up in the highfalutinization of our vocalization,
which confuses the reader and
sends the underling meaning to
the engineers of sanitation. So, if
you seek to discover a world of
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Letters to the editors should include an address, telephone
predilection, the catergorization
is well recorded in the annals of
documentation.
In your research you will
encounter
Marxism,
Foucauldianism, Jeffersonianism, Aristotlelianism, Derrideanism, Anti-Post Colonialization of
the Pro-Imperialization of Soci
etal Regressivism, Antidisestablishmentarianism, Intelligentsia,
and much more as you delve
deeper into the vaults. But when
it comes down to the commu
nication and presentation of the
subjectivism and opinionization
of idea exploration - then @&*%
the euphimistification of your
freedom of expression and just
write. And leave the fascadification 6f information to those who
have to use camouflagification in
order to cover up their stale and
tired academicization.
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Overlooked
By SHERRITA COBBS
Pride Staff Writer
In response to “The New
Friendly Vampire” article in
the Feb. 26 issue of the Pride, I
totally disagree with the opinion
expressed in the article,
When I attended this film
on opening day, the theater was
packed with Anne Rice and Aali
yah fans alike. There was a def
inite buzz in the atmosphere
and Anne Rice’s Queen o f the
Damned was at fault. Forced
to buy tickets in advance, there
weren’t any parking spots avail
able, and the lines were long.
However, this was not enough
to stop moviegoers from attend
ing the opening, debut of Rice’s
third novel turned film, from
‘The Vampire Chronicles’ tril
ogy. Once inside the theater,
there were lines everywhere
filled with moviegoers chatting
about their curiosities and com
parisons of Anne Rice’s ‘The
Vampire Chronicle’s’ trilogy ...
I wonder if the film will be like
this or that was the overture of
expression.
I think this is a fantastic
film, a definite MUST SEE ! The
beginning entranced me with its
dark and ambient metal, which
prepared you for the immortal
star — Lestat De Lioncourt
(played by Stuart Townsend). If
not a metal fan, I guarantee after
viewing this film you will be.
The role of Akasha, the queen of
all vampires, was played by the
late Aaliyah—
who was a rising
and shining star of Hollywood
before her untimely death last
August.
This is a great film that
everybody is watching. On open
ing weekend, this film grossed
$18.5 million, skyrocketing to
the number-one slot. Queen o f
the Damned has continued to
hold a spot in the top 10 for three
weeks now, grossing $33.9 mil-,
lion to date.
If you’re an Anne Rice fan,
you will notice the streaming of
both ‘The Vampire Lestat’ and
‘Queen of the Damned,’ which
really pieced the film together. I
do agree with the reporter that
the film lacked a satisfactory
ending, but I will not gripe. The
director, Michael Ryhmer, did
the best he could to put together
a decent film after the star of the
film died in the midst of film
ing.
Considering this adversity, I
think Rhymer thought on his feet
and put together a great work.
The breakdown of the story basi
cally tells of a queen in search
of a king to rule eternity with.
During her search, the immor
tal vamp she is seeking is out
and about seeking a career as a
rock star. The two vamps meet...
Akasha advances the relation
ship by taking her king Lestat
to a deserted location in Haiti,
where they passionately express
themselves - if you know what I
mean. That is all I can say with
out telling the whole story. You,
have to see the film for yourself.
We will miss you Aaliyah.
Ml see you at the movies . . . oh
yeah, .M.A., you ckn come too.
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In the response you say that
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In the original article / ‘Stop
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There are a couple of major
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Women's Leadership Conference