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NASA
Project
By: Steve Compian
Pride Staff Writer
A group of college students
hope to provide emergency medical aid in outer space.
CSUSM students Don
Bennet, Mike Garcia, and J.J.
Campbell believe they can help
astronauts train for respiratory
emergencies in reduced-gravity
conditions. T he/ want the
National Aeronautic and Space
Administration (NASA) to sponsor a project to determine if
their idea has merit. According
to Bennet "The project is a once
in a lifetime opportunity."
Along with students from
other area colleges, the team submitted a Letter of Intent to the
Texas Space Grant Consortium
(TSGC) for consideration. The
TSGC annually provides funding
for undergraduates to propose,
design, and evaluate reducedgravity experiments.
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California State University San Marcos
VolVIIINo. 10/Tuesday, October 31,2000
C SUSM Student Helps U SA
Bring Home the Gold
By: Melanie Addington •
Pride Editor
the other would tie it up and
leave the crowd in suspense and
hanging on to every move the
team made.
As the game neared the end,
the Americans had a one-point
lead, but managed to keep it
until the end of the fourth quarter. Then the Americans scored
again, giving them a cushiony
two-point lead.
With two minutes left to go,
the Aussies scored one last point
leaving them wit]i 27 points.
Luckily, the Americans scored
again and the game ended with
the unbelievably close score of
29 (US) to 27(AUS).
After the game, a Sydney
native and Rugby fan, Jim shouted over, the deafening crowd,
"Damn good game...one of the
best I've seen. These [the
Paralympics] are the real
Olympics. This is what it is
about."
Daniel Guillou, a current
CSUSM student, competed in
the Paralympic games in
Sydney last week.
As part of the USA
wheelchair rugby (WR) team,
Guillou helped his team win
against Sweden on October 25,
Australia on October 26, and
Australia again on October 29
for the gold medal. The WR
game was the final event for
Dan Guillou (far left) and USA teammates at the Australia
the 2000 Paralympic Games,
vs USA wheelchair rugby game.
The Americans easily beat
Photo by Melanie Addington
Sweden on Wednesday night
but Thursday's competition was American flags stood out in the
fierce. On Thursday, Guillou was crowd. Much to the American Aussies and Americans. When
excited at the chance of winning fans' chagrin, some Aussies the Americans first scored, an
a medal but wasn't sure his team yelled for the "Yanks!' to "go Australian fan leaned over to
the American fans and remarked,
would beat the "Aussies."
home," yet other Aussies cheered "Your team is not playing fair."
With a stadium full of Aussie the USA team and their supportWhen it was pointed out that
fans and a small group of ers on.
if the Aussies had made the same
American supporters, the fans
In the very beginning,
showed great enthusiasm for the Australia led by two to three move, however, the ecstatic fan
game. Although hundreds of flags points but then the score bounced shouted, "Yeah but it's a double- »Story continued on page 2
were waving, only three back and forth between the standard here!" One team would
lead for half a quarter, but then
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Pride Staff Writer
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Construction site for the new art and science buildings.
Photo by Brian Fisher:
tion drawing phase." The construction drawing plans are currently under review and should
be ready for contractors to bid in
April of 2001. The )new library
will cost approximately $33.8 million dollars and an additional $4
to 5 million dollars for moveable
equipment.
In addition to the new library
and the arts and science buildings, the field house is scheduled
to begin construction in July of
2001. "The field house will serve
as a recreational building for students," according to Dave Dennis
of CSUSM Planning and Construction. The building will house
a gymnasium with half Courts
for basketball and volleyball, men
and women's locker rooms, conference rooms, offices for student
government and a convenience
store. The field house will also
include a 24-Hour Fitness-style
weight room with bicycles and
other exercise equipment.
The construction site for the
field house will be on the corner of
Campus Way and Campus View
Drive, opposite the north parking
lot.
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CSUSM
Student
Brings
Home the
Gold
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2000 Paralympic United States
Team
The USA Wheelchair Rugby
team consists of twelve athletes:
Cliff Chunn and Bryan Kirkland
of Alabama, Wayne Romero and
Eddie Crouch of Tennessee, Norm
Lyduch of Texas, Bill Renje of
Colorado, and Dean Maccabe and
Steve Pate of California. SanDiegans include, Rick Draney, Daniel
Guillou, Troy McGuirk and Ralph
Shadowens.
Guillou broke his neck in
1986 when diving into the shal-
On Campus
low end of a public pool. He was
only sixteen years old when he
became a quadriplegic. Guillou,
a math major, took the semester
off to prepare for the games. This
is Guillou's first Paralympic competition.
According to the Olympic
Committee, Dan Guillou is one
of the founding members (1993)
of the Sharp Shadow WR Team
from Southern California, Guillou's Shadow team has never
placed lower than 5th at the
national championships. His
Shadow squad finished as the
USQRA National Champions
from 1996-98.
As stated in his Paralympic athlete profile, "since starting to play
rugby in 1991* Guillou has won
many all-tournament team awards
including his selection to the 1999,
'96 and '95 National Championship All-Tournament teams and
one Sportsmanship Award. Guillou was also on the 1993 USA
Wheelchair Rugby Team that
won a gold medal at The StokeMandeville International Wheelchair Games in England." •
After the game both teams congratulated each other for a great match.
Photo by Melanie Addington
How to Play Wheelchair Rugby
Commonly referred to as
"murder ball", rugby (and wheelchair rugby) consists of several
sports; basketball, volleyball and
ice hockey played on a basketball
court. The game is played in four
eight-minute quarters.
Wheelchair Rugby is for
quadriplegics, meaning all of the
athletes have some paralysis in
all four limbs. All of the athletes
use manual wheelchairs and full
Dan Guillou (number 11) helped defense for the USA team.
Photo by Melanie Addington
Students
Apply for
NASA
Project
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Students from more than 350
colleges and universities will
compete for the opportunity to
test their theories at the Johnson
Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Their project, A.M.I.S.
(Airway Management in Space),
passed the first hurdle of the competition when the TSGC approved
the plan for further consideration.
Now the group has to complete
their proposal for a November
6 deadline. Team member Mike
Garcia said, "Our goal is to prove
we can put a better apparatus in
place for dealing with respiratory
emergencies in space."
A.M.I.S. team members
believe that a device called a
COMBITUBE will work better
in a respiratory emergency than
the equipment astronauts use
T he Pride
now.
Currently, astronauts have
equipment that requires extensive training by the user. Due
to the effects of microgravity
in space, handling those devices
can be problematic.
The COMBITUBE has features that Team A.M.I.S. thinks
make it uniquely suited for space
missions. It reduces guesswork
by employing a marked air tube,
chair contact is legal. The Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association states, "as a sport specifically
created for quadriplegics, wheelchair rugby is truly an emerging
sport, rather than and adapted or
modified version of an already
existing able-bodied sport."
A volleyball is used and can
be carried, dribbled or passed,
but not kicked. The ball must be
bounced every ten seconds. The
offensive team has fifteen seconds to come out of its own half
of the court. Violation of the rules
results in a turnover 6f the ball.
According to the International
WR Federation, the most common
fouls are: interference, holding,
charging and spinning. The goal
is to carry the ball over the opponent's eight-meter long goal line,
which results in the scores.
The teams consist of four
players and eight substitutes. The
players are classified from 0.5
I (lowest) to 3.5 (highest) accordI ing to their abilities. Dan Guillou
ranks as a 0.5 and states that he is
i primarily on the court for defen1 sive strategy. He states that if the
1 ball gets into his hands, "some[ thing has gone terribly wrong."
Typically, the 3.5 ranked players
make most if not all of the
which lets the user estimate how
far the tube is inserted into the
mouth. A latex cuff holds the
device in place, while the tube is
directed through it, down the airway. Two syringes, at the oppo! site end of the tube, are used to
j inflate balloons that provide air
| to the patient.
SDSU's Michelle Inzunza initiated the idea while visiting
NASA last summer. Inzunza
invited Bennet, Garcia, and Lora
Elliott of San Diego City College
to join her in the proposal. Elliott
told how she became part of the
group, "Michele called me to ask
if I wanted to get involved and I
jumped at the idea." All four are
science majors and paramedics
who work together.
CSUSM Biology major J.J.
Campbell was added to the team
as an alternate. Campbell said,
"Fm excited to be part of the
team." According to Inzunza,
Campbell's role may be the most
important "Since the program is
open only to undergraduates, J. J.
(Campbell) will be the one to
pass knowledge of the process to
other groups." The team wants to
promote their experience so that
other students will apply for the
Back row (left to right): J.J. Campbell, Mike Garcia and Lor a Elliott.
grants.
Front: Don Bennett and Michelle Inzunza. Photo courtesy of Don Bennett.
If selected, Team A.M.I.S.
will go to Houston in March 2001
goals. Troy McGuirk is the highest ranked American with a 3.0.
He is the fastest and has the
most maneuverability of his teammates, but the level of their paralysis and not their skill is how all
athletes are ranked.
History
Wheelchair rugby was formed
in 1977 in Canada. In 1989, the
first International Competition
was held in Toronto. In 1990, the
World Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair Games held WR. Dan Guillou participated in the 1993 USA
team that won the gold medal in
those games.,The first of three
European Zone Championships
were held in Sweden in 1995.
In that same year, the International Paralympic Committee
granted WR a Paralympic Sport
status.
In the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, wheelchair rugby was a demonstration sport, meaning it was
a pre-game to grant the medal
sport status for the Sydney 2000
games. This was the first year
that medals were given for WR.
Along with the Paralympic gold
medal, U.S.A is currently ranked
the world champion of wheelchair
rugby.
to test their theory. Their experiment will be conducted while
flying in a specially equipped
aircraft (KC-135A) that NASA
uses primarily, in support of its
space missions.
Gerhardt Konig, a UCSD student who was successful in winning a grant last year, also advises the team. Besides advising
them on their proposal, Konig
wants to help them promote their
experience. "I think I can help
them make this into a more publishable research project," said
Konig.
The A.M.I.S. team has also
solicited the help of the California
Space Grant Consortium (CSGC)
which has initially earmarked
$3000
for
their
project.
Ultimately, the CSGC may fund
as much as $25000 toward the
A.M.I.S. project.
A.M.I.S. team members are
committed to participate in a
community outreach program
after conducting the experiment.
One idea they have is to use toys
in their experiment, so they can
use them in promoting the effects
of reduced-gravity conditions to
schoolchildren.
The team would also lecture
at venues like the Rueben H.
Fleet space museum in Balboa
Park.
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On Campus
CSUSM
Student
Government
CAPS R eaches Out to C ollege Students
By: Melanie Addington
When finished with the test, the Alive and Well
Pride Editor
student adds up the total score.
I s Alcohol a P roblem
i n Your Life?
Sunni Lampasso and Travis
Bradberry of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) set up
a table outside the Dome to provide information regarding students and alcohol as part of Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week,
October 16-20. Lampasso and
Bradberry also passed out key
chains, pens, and informational
brochures on drinking safely and
alcohol-problem
assessment
tests.
The first p art of the assessment test consisted of four questions: "Have you ever felt you
should cut down on your drinking? Have people annoyed you by
criticizing your drinking? Have
you ever felt bad or guilty about
your drinking? Have you ever had
an eye-opener (a drink first thing
in the morning to steady your
nerves)?"
The second section of the test
asked ten questions/Some of the
questions asked, "How do you
drink? How often do you feel
guilty, and have you ever harmed
someone through your drinking?'
"If the score is an eight or higher
it indicates a strong likelihood
of hazardous or harmful alcohol
consumption," according to Core
Concepts in Health, the source of
the tests.
Although the assessment test
was only given during the
Awareness campaign, Bradberry
explained that students are welcome to talk with them (CAPS) at
any time through the year. Counseling and assessment is always
available for anyone who is concerned about his/her drinking
behavior.
For further information contact CAPS at 750-4910. They are
open for appointments Monday
thru Friday from 8am to 4:30pm.
If CAPS is closed and you need
support on campus, contact
Campus Police at 750-3111. If you
are off-campus, you may call the
San Diego County Crisis Line
at (800) 479-3339 or Alcoholics
Anonymous at (760) 758-2514.
Individuals may also contact the
CAPS office to obtain an entire
listing of off-campus resources.
By: Steve Compian
Pride Staff Writer
Have you ever wondered who
your student government leaders
are or what they do? Try naming
the President of our student government or the name of the
government s/he leads. Where
does our government get its funding and how are monies spent?
Student representation at CSUSM
is alive and well, but you have to
look for the letters ASI.
The Associated Students, Inc.
(ASI) is the official name of student government at CSUSM. ASI
consists of eighteen board members; five executives, three student directors, and ten representatives Every April, the CSUSM
student body holds an election
to select its leaders to one-year
terms, and they are responsible
for protecting student rights at
CSUSM.
According to ASI President
Dean Manship, vacancies still
exist in five representative positions including Arts and Sciences,
College of Education, and Post
Baccalaureate, " the vacant positions are open to an application
process by the Board. It is important for the students to get
involved," said Manship.
• As its name infers, ASI is a
corporation, founded in 1991. The
organization is unique, because
ASI is solely operated and
maintained by its students. A
faculty member, the President's
Designee, maintains a liaison
Sunni Lampassoa and Travis Bradberry (far right) gave out informational between ASI and the President of
brochures and alcohol-problem assessment tests during Alcohol Awareness the University. Additionally, ASI
Week, October 16-20. Lampassoa and Bradberry are part of CSUSM's
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Photo by Victoria Segalt.
CSUSM S tudents D ecorate S kulls I n
C elebration of t he D ay of t he D ead
By: Adam Bailey
Pride Staff Writer
"That workshop was fun,'*
remarked Maria Cervantes. Cervantes was one of many CSUSM
students who attended a sugar
skull workshop, "Taller de Calaveras de azucar", on Thursday
evening* October 26. The workshop was hosted by the Spanish
Department and taught by Liz
Strahle, a Spanish major.
The workshop focused on
how to create sugar skulls, also
known as "calaveras de azucar."
The creation of the skulls is a
Mexican tradition that coincides
with "El Dia de los Muertos."
Students received Mexican fortune cookies during the beginning of the workshop and then
Strahle briefly discussed the history of the skulls in Spanish.
According to Strahle, sugar
skulls are made every year to
adorn home altars and cemetery
grave yards in hopes of welcoming back those unfortunate souls
that have passed on to the other
side. The skulls are made from
Tuesday, October 31,2000 3
An altar decorated by students for
the Day ofthe Dead. Students took
part in a Sugar Skull workshop on
Oct. 26 in celebration
of the holiday.
Photo courtesy ofMayra Besosa.
a mixture of sugar, meringue
powder and water, and lavishly
decorated with bright icing colors
and sparkling foil papers.
The sugar-skull tradition is
rich in history and takes its roots
from the Aztec practices of keep-
ing skulls around in hopes that
the dead will return.
After the students received
the history of the skulls, they
were finally able to get down to
business to make their own sugar
skulls;
The students were male and
female, young and old and from
various ethnic and social backgrounds. The group seated themselves around tables that contained already made skulls, decorative ornamentats and tools for
the job.
Some of the students decorated their skulls with flowers,
some with flashy colored paper,
and some skulls with swirls. The
chosen decorations gave on-lookers insight into the personality of
the creator of each skull.
Whether students chose to
attend the workshop to learn to
decorate sugar skulls, to learn the
history of where they came from,
or to just have f un, the experience proved to be both entertaining and enlightening for everyone.
employs an Executive Director
to help manage the day-to-day
operations.
Over the past three years, the
ASI budget has tripled to approximately $660,000. Students pay a
$50 fee every semester to ASI and
as enrollment increases, so does
ASI's income. ASI also receives
about $160,000 in income from
The Early Learning Center. The
childcare facility, located on Twin
Oaks Valley Road, was acquired
by ASI to benefit CSUSM students.
Manship wants students to
take full advantage of the subsidized childcare offered at the
center, "We need to get the word
out that child care at the center
only costs the student twenty dollars a day. The center is licensed
for forty-eight children, but most
days they are only at half-capacity."
The Board of Directors convenes regularly to discuss how
ASI should distribute funds. One
way the money is spent is by
awarding scholarships. ASI also
sponsors student activities such as
concerts, multicultural events and
Have you visited the
revamped ASI Student
Lounge yet?
It's located in
Commons 201.
at work. Besides those expenditures, ASI also hires students as
part-time workers to carry out the
daily chores of operating student
government on campus.
Manship, who meets regularly
with CSUSM President Gonzalez,
stressed that representing the student body is his primary concern.
"I have more of an opportunity to
make the students' voices heard
at the University," said Manship.
He also hopes more students will
become involved in campus government at CSUSM.
ASI strives to promote student awareness and create a focal
Some of the features of the stupoint for student activities at
dent lounge include tables for
CSUSM. Students are encourstudying, computers,
aged to stop by the ASI office,
comfortable
located in Commons 205. ASI
reclining sofas, arcade games
always needs volunteers to serve
and a
on a variety of committees and
television set.
programs. For more information,
intramural sports. The reopening checkout the ASI link found under
of the student lounge, discount "Information for Students" at the
tickets for movies and trips are CSUSM web site.
other examples of ASI money
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�Holiday Features
4 Tuesday, October 31, 2000
The Pride
El Dia de los Muertos
Por Jose Rodriguez
Escritor de Pride
Uno d elos eventos culturales
mexicanos mas conocidos aqui
en los Estados Unidos es "El Dia
de los Muertos". Esta festividad
se Ileva a cabo el primero de
noviembre y aunque hoy en dia
la manera de celebrarla de los
mexicanos se parece bastante
a Halloween, aun conserva sus
ingredientes originates que son
tipicos de esta celebration tales
como los altares, el pan de
muerto, los alfeniques; la flor de
cempasuchil (tambien conocida
como la flor de muerto), y la yisita
al cementerio a visitar la tumba
de sus familiares ya fallecidos.
Ademas, durante este tiempo Se
le dedican calaveras o satiras
a personalidades destacadas o
politicos.
Desde antes de la llegada
de los espanoles a Mexico, los
aztecas ya hacian ritosyofrendas
a sus muertos. Los aztecas tenian
lugares especiales donde ofrecian
comida a sus muertos dos veces
por ano por cuatro anos porque
creian que en ese tiempo llegaban
al lugar donde descansaban.
Despues de la conquista, los
mexicanos hacian estas ofrendas
en los altares que hacian en
sus casas. Desde entonces es
una tradition hacer altares. Estos
arreglos generalmente se hacen
encima de una mesa donde ponen
la fotografia de la persona
fallecida, una imagen de la Virgen
Maria o de su santo preferido,
veladoras, y flor de muerto o
cempasuchil. Ademas, se le
agrega al altar la comida preferida
de la persona cuando estaba viva.
Y es asi como la gente pojie sus
altares a sus familiares muertos
creyendo que ellos^yienen durante
la noche a comer.
Hay algo tambien muy tipico
en "El Dia de los Muertos" y esto
es el "pah dq muerto". Aunque
el nombre indique algo diferente
no es mas que un pan hecho con
ingredientes iguales a los panes
comunes. La diferencia es que el
pan de muerto tiene uiiO& treinta
centimetros de diametro y unos
cinco de espesor. En "El Dia de
los Muertos" los vendedores colocan sus puestos en las plazas del
centro de las ciudades o pueblos
donde venden sus panes.
Aparte del pan de muerto,
tambien se vende el alfenique. El
alfenique es una pasta de azucar
que se le da formas diferentes y
se cose en aceite de almendras.
Las figuras de alfenique qu£ se
pueden encontrar en esta fecha
son la tipica calavera, un cajon
de muerto con un esqueleto
adentro, una pareja de calavera?
besandose, y casas con calaveras
adentro.
Adem&s, se encuentran
calaveras vestidas de maestro, de
doctor, de futbolista, de boxeador,
y hasta de karateka. Alii mismo se
le imprime a la calavera el nombre
que el cliente guste. El tamano
de estas figuras varia desde
unos dos a treinta centimetros
aproximadamente.
En "El Dia de los Muertos"
no puede faltar la flor de
cempasuchil como la conocian
los aztecas, una flor amarilla que
ya usaban los aztecas en sus ritos
a sus muertos antes de la llegada
de los espanoles. Esta flor se
usa para ponerla en los altares y
llevarle flores a los muertos al
cementerio.
The
History
Of
Halloween
By: Adam Bailey
Pride Staff Writer
Year after year, Halloween is
observed and celebrated. Giving
us all a good excuse to let down
our guards a little and have some
fun. I myself remember many
sleepless nights spent imagining
the endless supply of candies I
would be receiving on Halloween
night. Or the countless armies of
illuminated pumpkin faces placed
behind drawn curtain windows
that would be greeting me on my
journeys to obtain such a candy
bounty.
Yet I never sat down and
thought about its origins, just
where did Halloween come from
and how long has it been
observed?
Halloween it seems has been
around in one form or another
since day one. From Egypt which
observed the Death of Osiris
to modern day Mexico which
observes El Dia de los Muertos,
the Day of the Dead, some sort
of Death Festival has taken place
and been celebrated. Traditions
of melancholy for being alive and
of reflection for those deceased
being passed down the millenniums and changed here in there to
fit the latest religions and social
beliefs.
The biggest link to how
Como decla mi amigo Pedro
cuando ibamos al cementerio y
veiamoS miles de gentes visitando
a sus muertos, "Parece que los
muertos no mueren. Splo cambian
de domicilio'V Y es que los
muertos no pierden su familia
porque es la costumbre que la
gente va al panteon y limpia la
tumfea del muerto, le lleva flores,
veladoras, ySalgunos hasta pintan
la tumba cada ano.
Tambien este dia los
periodicos dedican una seccion a
las calaveras o satiras que hacen
burla printipalmente a gefite
famosa o tambifen para enfatizar
algun error de u n; politico. La
siguiente es una satira para los
estudiantes de la universidad de
San Marcos:
—
^
An altar made by CSUSM students in remembrance oftheir deceased friends
andfamiliy members: Students are able to make their altars during
El Dia de los Muertos, November 2.
Photo courtesy ofMayra Besosa.
established before the Spaniards
conquered Mexico.; The Day of
the Dead is celebrated every
November 1, and has become a
popular tradition in the United
States as ;well. The Aztecs
Pobres de los Estudiantes
believed that the dead traveled for
de esta Universidad
fours before reaching their final
AUa los esta esperando
resting place, and, so, they used
la huesuda
to. take: food to their gravesites
Pues a medio semestre con
twice a year for four, years.
la Homework no pudieron
Nowadays, The Day of the
Y se los llevara
Dead serves as a remembrance
sin lugar a duda
of deceased family members and
Algunos se salvardn
friends. Mexicans traditionally
Leyen do el santoral
celebrate The Day of the Dead
Hay de aquellos
in a similar manner to the way
que se salven
people celebrate Halloween iifthe
Pues nadie sabe
United States. :
que es peor,
Although the way Mexicans
Acompahar a la huesuda
celebrate this tradition is changO estudiar pa9 los finales.
ing, some of the original aspects
still remain the sapie,
For
instance, people still make altars,
English Translation:
or "altares," to remember their
The Day of the Dead
families. La "flor de cenpasuchil,"
By: Jose Rodriguez
the flower of the dead, is used to
Pride Contributing Writer
adorn the altars and family members' graves. The families and
"The Day of the Dead" is friends also eat "pan de muerto,"
a Mexican holiday that was
bread of the dead and calaveras
(skulls). The calaveras are sugar
candy in the form of skeletons.
People usually take the time to
decorate the candied skulls. Moreover, the newspapers publish satirical poems dedicated especially
to politicians or famous people of
Mexico, The following is a "calavera" dedicated to CSUSM students:
Halloween has made its way here
to the United States can be found
in the Ancient Celtic traditions of
Ireland and Scotland. Halloween
as we now it in the United States
was first observed as the Druid
holiday of the new year, Samhain.
Samhain occurred on Nov 1 and
was said to be the time of the
year when the two worlds of the
living and the after life where
to be at their closest to each
other. Ghosts and Spirits of those
passed away were said to have
the capability of crossing over
that day back into the world of
the living;.
The festival would begin the
eve of Nov 1, Oct 31 called
Oidhche Shamhna before the
onset of dusk and Samhain (Dusk
to the Ancient Celts was the
beginning of the day not the ending, days ran from dusk of one
day to the dusk of the next day):
With dusk nearly arriving, the
different families of a particular
village would gather around one
immense fire that they would
burn sacrificed cattle in. This
practice lead to the term Bonfire,
or Bone Fire. From this bonfire
all patrons of the village would
return home and light their home
fires, signifying unity with in
that village.
Samhain arrived with the
dusk and the villagers returning
year on NovL
In 837 A.D. Shamhain was
adopted by the Christian Church
and forever transformed into All
Hallows Day or All Saints day,
Oidhche Shamhna was subsequently designated All Hallows
Eve and later Halloween. The
Church took up some of the practices of these days, but ultimately
deemed others as both demonic
and satanic. Thus they changed
some of the customs and lost
the original intent of the Celtic
culture.
In the early 1900's Irish immigrants brought with them to this
country many of their traditions
and customs. Customs and traditions that had been passed down
to them over the centuries by
their relatives and parents, and
that would make an impact upon
and take shape within their new
homeland of America. Perhaps
the most recognizable and most
important of these impacts was
influencing
and
shaping
Halloween into the holiday as we
know it today.
to their homes. Local villagers
now home would unlock gates,
and leave out food and drink
to appease happy wanted spirits.
They would conversely leave out
turnips or beats that had fierce or
angry faces carved in them to act
as guardians against angry spirits that were not wanted. Angry
spirits were said to be capable
of destroying or bringing bad
luck to farmers who hoped for
a prosperous growth of crops in
the coming spring.
These villagers would also
try and avoid nocturnal animals
such as bats, owls, or cats that
were said to have the power of
crossing between the world of life
and the world of death and often
times followed the dead around.
These animals were feared arid
left alone on this day just m case
that they might be following an
angry spirit.
This day however was not all
about fear because the Ancient
Celts believed this day to be a
day not only as a time of reflection upon those who were dead
but as a time of celebration as
well. Families held prayers and
eat mini feasts, children were
said to dress up like the dead and
play pranks upon the living, and
the community was strengthened
as a whole by the great bonfire
ceremony that took place every
Poor university students!
The Bony Lady
is waitingfor them.
They give up on
their homework
in the middle of the semester
and, without a doubt,
she is going to take them.
Some of them will pray...
Perhaps she will
forgive them?
But Ifeel sorry for them
because what is worse?
to leave this life
or to study forfinals?
Nobody knows.
[Sources: www.witchway.net/
halloween/lore.html and
www.chebuctons.ca/
heritage/FSCNS/Scots_NS/Clans/
Henderson/General/Celtic_NY.html]
�Vote 2000
The P ride
Tuesday, October 31,2000 5
The
A Look at Campus
Voters
Beat
Voter Turnout
By Victoria B.Segall
By: Nicole Moreno
Pride Staff Writer
According to "The Center for
Voting and Democracy," a nonprofit organization dedicated to
the study of voting systems, a
trend of declining voter turnout
has been occurring since 1992. In
the 1998 congressional elections,
a pathetic 36 .4% of the population
bothered to visit the poll. What
is worse is'that the 1998 turnout
was lower than the 38.8% of the
population that showed up in the
1994 off-year congressional election. Signs are pointing to an even
lower voter turnout in this upcoming November 2000 election. It
is frightening to think that our
voter turnout percentages are only
higher to that of Switzerland,
and they aren't exactly voting for
potentially the most politically
powerful man in the world.
We have all heard the reasons
why before, " My vote doesn't
really count. I don't really care.
Politics is boring." Whatever the
reason, any reason for neglecting
to vote is not good enough. We
; don't live in a pure democracy,
yet our ability to be involved in
free and fair elections is a fundamental element of our power as
I individual citizens.
As college s tu3Mts,"iFl^ of
the utmost importance for us to
develop good voting habits. We
are part of the educated future. If
you are far from home, that is still
no excuse. Steve Dwyer, a student at Minnesota State University
says, " I did something that I
hope all college students do; I
voted by absentee ballot. The act
of voting is a very simple act, yet
at the same time it produces an
immense effect." If freshmen in
Minnesota can vote, so can we.
Low voter turnout may not,
however, be the total result of
sloth. An article from the National
Council for Economic Education,
on November 2^ 1998, cites economics as a culprit for low voter
turnout. "The cost of obtaining
detailed information about candidates (e.g., attending meetings,
reading position papers) is so high
that voters tend to depend on
inexpensive forms of information
about candidates, such as using
the media and talking to friends."
- So, you think you don't have
time? Read your college newspaper, hopefully you are doing it
right now. The information will
be enough to get you interested
in finding out more. If you still
don't have time to read, MTV
has a" rock the vote" program
that infiltrates their daily mix of
music. The radio can also be utilized during that drive to school
to get your daily dose of political
information.
In a perfect world, we all vote
and we would all take an active
roll in our political future this
November. Hopefully, the statistics of American Voter Turnout
give lis pause and send a few
of us to the polls a little more
excited about our involvement in
our governmental process.
Who Votes Less?
-Youhg Voters (people aged 18-20)
have the lowest voter turnout of
all age groups.
-Nonwhites vote less than whites.
-People with less education vote
less than people with more education.
-Unemployed people vote less than
employed people.
-People living in cities vote less
than people in rural areas.
-People living in the North and
West vote more than people living
in the South.
Source:
www.economicsamerica.org/.
Across the
Globe
"Are you planning on
voting in the upcoming
general election? Why or
why not?"
Here is the turnout of voters to elect the main legislature,
of various democracies. The figures are from the latest
election as of early 1998. "PR" refers to a having a
form of proportional representation. "District" refers to
use of winner-take-all, single-seat districts electing one
representative. "Mixed" refers to a mix of systems.
Country
Iceland
Italy
Greece
Sweden
Denmark
New Zealand
Belgium
Australia
Austria
Portugal
Spain
Norway
Netherlands
Germany
Turkey
Finland
United Kingdom
Ireland
Luxembourg
France
Canada
Switzerland
United States
Voter Turnout
88% 1995
87% 1996
84% 1996
84% 1994
83% 1998
83% 1996
83% 1995
82% 1996
79% 1995
79% 1995
78% 1996
77% 1977
75% 1994
73% 1994
71% 1995
-74% 1995
69% 1997
67% 1997
61% 1994
60% 1997
56% 1997
36% 1995
38% 1994
System
PR
Mixed **
PR
PR
PR
P R*
Pj^ ***
R
p
PR
PR
PR
PR
PR
P R*
PR
PR
District #
p j^ ***
"I'm undecided still. I may or
may not. I just haven't really
followed it enough."
Joe Vento
"Oh yeah. I think that it's
important. It'll be my first
time voting."
Marcela Arroyo
PR
District $
District #
PR .
District #
* 50% by single-seat, plurality election** 75% by singleseat, plurality election*** Choice Voting# Single-seat
districts, elected by plurality$ Single-seat districts, with
majority provisionSources: The Almanac of European
Politics Congressional Quarterly.
"No. I don't want to vote on
something I don't
know about."
Michael Torres
M
San Diego County Campaign
Madness: Part III (Steinem)
By: Victor Mireles
Pride StaffWriter
On the campus of SDSU,
some students walked to their
dorms, some students sat on the
porch of Monty's Pub drinking
pitchers of beer, and some students came to watch the presidential debate on Tuesday, October
17.
Voters For Choice, a nonpartisan group founded by feminist
Gloria Steinem, held a debateviewing gathering in support of
SDSU's delegation. As the name
implies, the group supports abortion rights, gay and lesbian rights,
and other matters critical to this
pro-choice group. Unlike other
debate parties where either the
groups were extremely partisan or
extremely apathetic to the mainstream political process, Voters
for Choice did not celebrate
debate points or quips by either
candidate, but most of the thirty
people attending the event
watched in total concentration.
Executive Director of Voters
for Choice, Maureen Britell, views
the presidential race with nervousness. "I think we are all concerned," she said in response to
polls showing George W. Bush
with a small lead. "I don't think
they understand the stakes. The
Supreme Court, Roe vs. Wade are
all in jeopardy." Although the
group supports A1 Gore, Maureen
made a point of saying that the
group is bi-partisan. "We don't
care if they are Democrat or
Republican. It's about choice."
Gloria Steinem was scheduled to appear at the debate viewing, followed by a Q & A session
regarding the presidential race.
Maureen Britell reported that
Steinem had to leave with a family
emergency. Halfway through the
debate, a Women's Studies class
came to hear Steinem. When
the Women's Studies professor
learned that Gloria was not at the
debate viewing, she said, "It's disappointing,"
The Voters For Choice workers gave interviews to media vendors. They mostly repeated the
same line about protecting abor"Yes I am. It's important to voice
tion, Roe vs. Wade, and other
our opinions and
generalities/The debate was not
support our parties."
a time to party for this group, nor
Loudres Arenas-Lopez*
was it a time to shout out slogans
in hopes of being heard by a
few. Rather this was a dedicated
group concerned about maintaining personal choice. As A1 Gore
spoke about health care, guns, and
taxes, none of those things mattered to them. Before I left, I saw
a lone man watching the debate
among the crowd of women.
Lawrence Alexander said of the
debates, "I am not impressed with
either man."
T might. Mainly because I don't
have the time to research the
candidates."
NathanS.
�The Pride
Vote 2000: Presidential Candidates
6 Tuesday, October 31,2000
Harry Browne
Party
Affiliation:
Libertarian
Photo
courtesy of
www.
harry
browne.
com
By: Adam Bailey
Pride Staff Writer
In his second consecutive bid
for the position of President of
the United States, Harry Browne
enters this November's general
election as a third-party underdog. Browne ran f orjhe office of
the President in 1996 and received
485,759 votes, the second highest total ever for a Libertarian
since the party's formation in
1971. Yet, the average person has
never even heard of this man,
let alone understands his position
concerning taxes, social security, education, or any other key
issues that will affect or influence their decision in the polls
on November 7.
Harry Browne was born in
New York City on June 17, 1933.
He lived in Los Angeles for a good
deal of his childhood and now
resides in Franklin, Tennessee.
Browne was an investment advi-
sor for over 30 years before he Browne believes in getting rid
became a politician. He wrote of the program all together to
and published over 11 books, "unlock the door and let you out of
such as How I Found Freedom the fraudulent social security sysin an Unfree World, in which he tem" by eliminating social secuexpresses his Libertarian visions rity and allowing people to invest
of self-help and self-improvement their saved money in any way
without governmental aid or sup- they choose. For those already in
port.
the system and dependent upon
People who are somewhat it, Browne proposes selling off
familiar with the Libertarian "excessive" governmental assets.
Party may know about its more
publicized political beliefs. Some Education
of the proposed policies include
Browne believes that schools
the legalization of all drugs that should become completely priLibertarians say will eliminate vate. He believes that private
the great drug war as well as schools would give the instituthe bureaucracy and crime that tion of education back to the
come with any form of prohibi- community and encourage famtion. Other controversial propo- ily involvement in the developsitions include open immigration, ment of its children. Browne also
repealing all gun laws, downsiz- proposes eliminating the U.S.
ing the military budget and end- Department of Education altoing all social programs like social gether and dispersing the excess
security and the EPA. But how do money as tax credits to all citiLibertarians, like Browne, stand zens.
on the key issues?
Federal Government
Income tax
Finally, the federal governRegarding the issue of income ment is way too big for the
tax, Browne believes that taxes Libertarian Party and Harry
will not be necessary if there Browne.
Therefore,
the
is deregulation or a minimiza- Libertarian Party shapes their
tion of the federal government. political agenda along the belief
Browne says that a government that we would all be better off if
deregulated to its core functions we had complete control over our
can handle all of the constitu- own lives and our own destinies,
tional objectives with tariff and and didn't have to deal with a
excise tax money that has already "big brother" government.
been collected.
For more information visit
www.harrybrowne2000.org.
Social Security
In regards to social security,
George W. Bush:
Republican
By: Nicole Moreno
Pride Staff Writer
If you feel as if everyone is
talking about campaign issues,
from political news correspondents to soccer moms in the local
grocery store, you are correct.
The platforms of Gore and Bush
are the talk of the nation. Many
voters, however, remain confused
about which candidate to vote
for because they have not had a
chance to study all of the issues
in depth. Information regarding
the Republican Party and George
Bush's positions on the issues
follows:
Trade
Bush supports restoration of
"fast track" negotiating authority for the President, which is
a move toward the elimination
of trade barriers and tariffs. He
has called for strict enforcement
of anti-dumping and unfair trade
laws. Bush seeks the expansion
of NAFTA and China's admission into WTO.
Education
Bush believes that reform of
the nation's public schools is
overdue. Reform, according to
Bush, includes a necessary setting of high standards, promoting
character education, and ensuring school safety. States will be
offered freedom f rom federal regulation, but will be held accountable via mandatory yearly performance assessments. •
Taxes
Bush believes that one-quarter of the surplus should be
returned to the people through
broad tax cuts. These cuts include
fiigh marginal rates, doubling of
the child credit, elimination of
the death tax, reduction in the
marriage penalty, and expansion
of Education Savings Accounts
and charitable deductions. The
largest percentage of cuts will go
to the lowest income earners.
Abortion
Pro Life. Exceptions are to
be made in cases of rape and
incest. Bush places an emphasis
on parental notification and rights
and protection of unborn children.
This information is only the
tip of the presidential iceberg.
A decision on which candidate
is right for you can only be
the result of attention to details as
stated by the candidates and those
who represent them. An idea
of the scope of the candidates'
endeavors can be glimpsed by an
understanding of their views on
the major issues.
[Info by www.georgewbush.com
Photo from Nebuxi]
San Marcos City Council Candidates
Traffic congestion: I will make responsibly
manage future
traffic relief the city's top prior- growth.
ity while working with our State
Representatives and other region- Improve our quality of life
al Boards to bring San Marcos I'll continue the "new era" we
Community
Involvement: tax dollars back to San Marcos. started four years ago, creating a
Member of the North County
quality environment for families.
Republicans for the Restoration Business: As a Councilmember I've worked for final closure of
of the Constitution, Member of I will ensure that San Marcos is the San Marcos Landfill, crethe Young Republicans Federated a business friendly community ation of Jack's Pond and Mission
San Diego, Active in The Bridge where local businesses can count Road Park, Autumn Drive Park,
Christian Church.
on trust and cooperation from Upper Mesa Fields at Bradley
their local government and where Park, improvements at Las Posas
Occupation: Barton Services - San Marcos residents can shop Park, Edwards Theatre^ Kaiser
Supervisor
for their needs in a convenient Hospital and Home Depot.
manner and the city can gain
College:
much needed tax revenues.
Keep public safety our top priBachelors Degree in History with
ority
Minor in Political Science from Public
Safety:
As
a I successfully worked to rebuild
CSU.San Marcos.
Councilmember I will foster com- Fire Station #1, add a new engine
plete cooperation with our school company, nine firefighters and
Statement of candidacy: My districts and local law enforce- two additional motorcycle offimotivation for seeking office ment agencies to ensure that our cers, provide paramedic certifistems from my desire to build children are safe and that our cation for all firefighting units,
a healthy community in San neighborhoods and streets are and spearhead a new Police &
Marcos while addressing impor- protected.
Fire Safety Center set to open in
tant issues such as traffic congesJanuary of 2001
tion, business needs, and community growth. Qualifications,
Protect mobile home residents
attributes, or perspectives: I will
I helped to provide funding to
bring needed leadership, integput Valle Verde Mobile Home
rity, and courage to the San Manage growth, reduce traffic Park into non-profit ownership to
Marcos City Council while congestion
protect renters from unwarrantworking with the community, fel- As our city's representative on ed rent increases. I strongly suplow Councilmembers, and State the regional planning agency port the city's Rent Stabilization
Representatives, to bring about (SANDAG,) I'm fighting to get Ordinance and will fight to
positive changes in the city that our fair share of needed freeway enforce it.
will improve the quality of life and road improvements-includfor all in San Marcos.
ing the San Marcos Boulevar3/78 Achievements
exchange, Twin Oaks Valley Road Elected by the voters in 1996
Three most important issues:
and Vallecitos Boulevard-and to to the San Marcos City Council;
Michael
Sannella
Hal Martin
served Two years as Council
appointed representative to the
League of Cities; served on environmental sub-committee; served
past two years as Council
representative to San Diego
Association of Governments
(SANDAG); appointed in 1998
by the SANDAG board to
represent North Inland County
on the Transportation SubCommittee; Appointed in 1999
by the SANDAG board to Joint
Agency Negotiation Team on
Consolidation (JANTOC); and
served as a planning commissioner for three years and as an
alternate for two years.
Personal
Resident of San Marcos for 17
years; Business owner for 10
years.
T.
JlM
McAuley
During the past 19 months on
the City Council, Jim McAuley
has demonstrated that he thoroughly investigate the facts, he
pays attention to details, and he is
committed to making fair, honest
and thoughtful decisions.
Jim McAuley has always supported the City's General Plan the guiding document for development of San Marcos.
Jim McAuley believes city
government should be open, honest, and respectful.
Jim McAuley has encouraged
everyone to get involved and participate in city government.
Jim McAuley believes city government should be an integral
part of the community and the
purpose of government is to serve
the people.
Independent
Technical
Consultant for 22 years; San
Marcos resident and small business owner since; 1980; Active
in the community and city government since 1984; Member
of the San Marcos Chamber
of Commerce; San Marcos
Economic
Development
Corporation Member; Supporter
of Palomar College President's
Associates
and
CSUSM
Foundation; Volunteer on the
Boys and Girls Club .Auction
Committee
Appointed to the San Marcos
City Council in February 1999;
Additional City Council appointments include: League of
California Cities Environmental
Quality. Committee Board of
Directors, San Marcos Economic
Development Corporation, San
Marcos Environmental Review
Board
Attended
Long
Beach
Community College and the
UCLA School of Engineering,
Proudly Served in the U.S. Army
Reserve, Army Security Agency,
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Socialist
Socialist Party of USA's presidential platform, McReynolds wants
to "abolish every form of domination and exploitation, whether
based on social class, gender,
race/ethnicity, sexual ori
Arrested a dozen times for
participation in peace, civil rights
and labor demonstrations, David
McReynolds has incessantly
fought for the betterment of
the United States of America.
Self described as "a badly read
Marxist and Ghandhian pacifist"
McReynolds, the Socialist Party
of USA's presidential nominee,
may not win the election, but
he offers a different ideology for
voters.
Changing the "oppressive
American government" becomes
the main tenet of McReynold's
campaign. According to the
entation, or other characteristics."
Unlike most candidates,
McReynolds proposes a complete
overhaul of the democratic system to create a non-oppressive
society, stating, "We are committed to the transformation of
capitalism through the creation
of a democratic socialist society.
The focus of socialism is the
establishment of a new social and
economic order in which workers
and consumers will take responsibility for and control of production, and residents will take
Ralph Nader:
Green
against and with the government.
While he has never held a public
office, this is the second time
Ralph Nader has run for president.
David McReynolds:
By: Christopher Orman
Pride Staff Writer
By: Kathleen Hash
Pride Staff Writer
Finance Reform & Healthcare
As president, Nader would
like to lead the way in campaign
finance reform; he does not
believe in corporate sponsorship
of politics. He would like to
raise the minimum wage to what
he calls a "working wage" and
expand trade union rights. Nader
wants to end corporate subsidies
and bailouts and provide universal health care for Americans.
"The only thing that's ever
going to clean-up politics is an
aroused, informed and dynamic
p ublic" Citizen and consumer
advocate, Ralph Nader, is adjusting his strategy for creating
change in government; he's running for President of the United
States. The Green Party nominated Nader for his political
platform, which is founded on
over thirty years of working for, Regarding Abortion &
Al Gore:
Democrat
By: Victor Mireles
Pride Staff Writer
Teachers support him.
responsibility for and control of rights of all women to birth contheir homes, schools, and local trol information and supplies* and
to all reproductive health sergovernment."
vices including abortion."
Womens' Rights
On issues of social importance, such as women rights, Health Care
The two main candidates,
McReynolds elegantly iterates
G.W. Bush and Al Gore have
feminist philosophies.
McReynolds writes, "The argued back and forth about
Socialist Party recognizes that health care.
a struggle against habitual male
McReynolds seemingly takes
dominance and patriarchy must Gore's stance and becomes more
go hand in hand with any strug- impassioned, arguing, "I stand
gle against capitalism. Therefore, for socialized medicine: a health
we pledge our opposition to all care system based on universal
forms of sexism, and demand coverage, salaried doctors and
equality for women in all aspects health care workers, and reveof life."
nues derived from a graduated
Concerning the controversial income tax."
issue of abortion, McReynolds
Reynolds continues, "[I want]
never deviates from feminist rhet- a health care system that emphaoric, iterating, "We support the sizes preventive care, respects
death penalty.
Nader is running with vice
presidential candidate Winona La
Duke, also a Harvard graduate,
who founded the White Earth
Land and Indigenous Women's
Network. La Duke has also written several books and advocates
the idea of the "7th Generation,"
which would dictate that laws
and government decisions consider the effects of their actions
in seven generations, like burying nuclear waste and not labelRalph Nader
ing genetically modified foods.
Photo by Nebuxi
A magna cum laude graduate
Death Penalty
from Princeton in 1955, Ralph
Nader is pro-choice and is the
Nader went on to finish law
only candidate who is against the
school at Harvard three years
new city center with no local
taxpayer funding.
Now I want to solve the
current traffic woes. Help San
Marcos learn to exploit its assets
such as the university, community college and geographic advantages to demand higher quality,
»Continued from pg 6
lower density growth. Develop
1970 - 1976; Married for 26 years a partnership with the university
to Pam, a Clinical Laboratory and community college neighScientist
borhood to bring about housing
and high quality clean industry
where our students and
families can live and work.
San Marcos
City Council
Profiles
Social Security
Al Gore supports diverting
all Social Security surpluses to
shoring up the system and paying
down the national debt. His proposal will ensure that it remains
solvent until the year 2054. He
opposes raising the minimum age
or cutting benefits. For people
entering the workforce, he proposes Voluntary Retiring Savings
Accounts. The investor would put
money in a government-run program that would remain in the
Social Security trust fund, but Occupation
the funding would be voluntary, Director of Marketing
with the government matching
any money put into the system GOALS
We moved to San Marcos to
up to $2,000 a year.
raise our family in 1974. My
two daughters went to school
Women's Issues
He is in favor of a woman's and church in San Marcos. My
right to an abortion. He opposes oldest daughter then became one
laws that would limit access to of the first graduates of Cal
abortion, and he would appoint State University, San Marcos.
Supreme Court justices that Concerned about public safety
would uphold Roe vs. Wade. He and my community, I became a
is also in favor of equal access Reserve Deputy Sheriff in 1975
and equal pay for women. He and was elected to the San Marcos
supports maternity leave and bet- City Council in 1980 until elected
ter access to medical care for Mayor in 1986 where I served
women. Al Gore supports provid- until January 1995.
As an Elected Representative
ing health insurance to children,
I worked to resolve the traffic
and more funding for the WIC and
the Head Start programs. Finally, problems of thel980's, bringing
Al Gore supports strengthening the funding to widen Twin Oaks
laws protecting women from sex- Bridge, San Marcos Boulevard
ual harassment, domestic vio- and the freeway ramps. I was
also successful in acquiring fedlence, and discrimination.
For more information visit eral and state funding to widen
www.algore.com.
Remember, highway 78 to six lanes. As counElection Day is only a week away, cilmembers, Corky Smith and I
and as the rock group Rush once successfully fought to bring the
said, "If you choose not to decide, new Cal State University to San
Marcos and worked to build our
you still have made a choice."
Lee Thibadeau
Al Gore
Photo by Nebuxi
With only a few days left
before the election, the race for
the Presidency is very close. For
months, Al Gore has laid out his
agenda in great detail.
Education
Al Gore's plan to improve
education has three parts: he will
require testing of all new teachers to ensure that they are knowledgeable in the subjects that
they teach. He will also phase-in
national testing of students in
phases, and will give more money
to schools that show improvement in testing and academic
scores. Finally, he will support
measures to raise teacher's salaries. Al Gore is opposed to school
vouchers and merit pay. Both the
National Education Association
and the American Federation of
Dr. Cynthia
Skovgard
"I will work to change policies and political coalitions that
are driving endless growth," stated Skovgard. "Status quo, mediocre elected representatives are
duplicating the reckless mistakes
of Orange and Los Angeles
Counties. We need to protect our
priceless rural community from
such destruction. Growth is not
inevitable; shortsighted leaders
create it."
Up her sleeve lies the proverbial "ace in the hole," an initiative
currently referred to as "The San
Marcos Growth Management and
Neighborhood Protection Act."
Authored by Skovgard and the
San Marcos Chamber of Citizens,
the ballot measure promises to
curtail growth to "acceptable levels" by leaving the ultimate decision up to the people.
The measure, which will be
voted on in November, accomplishes this feat by requiring
Tuesday, October 31,2000 7
patients' privacy, gives special
attention to the needs of the physically and mentally disabled, and
conducts treatment and research
unimpaired by sexism, racism, or
homophobia."
Even with his arrests and
zealous attitude, McReynolds
realizes the necessary steps for
bringing about widespread political change.
"I am more moderate than
many in my party and I hope
to unify forward thinkers nation
wide that is the only really way
to bring about change, through
unification," says Reynolds.
For McReynolds, the goal of a
freethinking, liberal society will
not end with the 2000 election,
as America's change will come
slowly; McReynolds understands
the battle.
later. He began a career as a
lawyer in Washington, DC, and
became well known in 1965 for
his book Unsafe at Any Speed,
which exposed dangerous defects
in cars.
He has founded and organized consumer rights' agencies,
like the Environment Protection
Agency
(EPA),
Consumer
Product Safety Administration
and Public Interest Research
Group (PIRG), and is responsible
for several federal laws that deal
with the protection of consumers.
The Clean Air Act, Freedom of
Information Act and OSHA are
among Nader's projects.
voter approval for any development project that alters the City
of San Marcos' General Plan
and Zoning Ordinance. "The San
Marcos Growth Management and
Neighborhood Protection Act of
2000" would specifically call
for voter approval for anything
that increases the intensity or
density of the General Plan. This
voter approval would be gathered through either special or
general elections, depending on
the timeliness of the matter.
"Growth is not inevitable," added
Skovgard.. "People didn't move
here to become part of LA; they
moved here to get away from it."
The current General Plan, as
approved by the City Council,
already provides specific areas for
agriculture, housing, soft retail
and industrial sites, called zones.
Furthermore, the plan calls for
the city to essentially "build out"
at the 100,000-population mark
in twenty years.
So why do we need another
law to make the City Council
abide by a plan that they initiated? As Dr. . Skovgard puts it,
they seem to have no interest in
sticking to their original plan.
The proposition Skovgard states
was drafted in response to 68.3
percent of the community who
stated in 1993 that they would
like to see San Marcos stay about
the same, population wise, as it
was then. The figures come from
a council-commissioned study
called "Imagine! San Marcos."
"They say they have this
open door policy for information," added Skovgard, "they say
they want the public's input but
then they don't use it."
�8 Tuesday, October 31,2000
Prop. 932:
Veterans Bond
By: Jared E. Young
Pride Staff Writer
Proposition 32, the Veterans'
Bond Act of 2000, provides for
a bond issue of $500 million to
provide farm and home aid for
California veterans at no cost to
the taxpayer.
Voters have approved about
$8 billion of general obligation
bond sales since 1921, all of
which finance the veterans' farm
and home purchase (Cal-Vet) pro-
Prop. 33:
Public
Employee's
Retirement
System
By: Jayne Braman
Pride Graduate Intern
If passed, Prop 33 would
amend the State Constitution and
allow legislators to participate in
the State-based retirement system. In 1990, voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 140,
which specified term limits and
other reforms to eliminate career
politicians.
Presently, state legislators are
only eligible to participate in
the federal Social Security system. Prop 33 seeks to include
legislators in the state's Public
Employee's Retirement System
(PERS) based on the fact that
when many legislators quit their
jobs in the private to serve in
office, they lose retirement ben-
Prop. 35:
Public Works
Projects
By: Bryan Clark
Pride Staff Writer
Prop 35 complements the
manner in which California handles construction of public works
projects. If passed, the proposition
would allow private construction
companies to be contracted by
the state and local agencies for
building highways, schools, and
bridges. Public employees, such
those affiliated with CalTrans,
currently perform the majority
of these tasks. The spirit of the
proposition maintains to improve
the current methods, "through
a fair, competitive selection process, free of undue political influence, to obtain the best quality
and value for California taxpayers."
Opposing sides of this prop- '
osition advocate differences in
the area of competing measures.
Those against Prop 35 maintain
that allowing the private sector to
Vote 2000: The Propositions
The Pride
gram. As of July 2000, there were
about $270 million of those funds
remaining. Proposition 32 would
add another $500 million to that
fund, allowing about 2,500 more
veterans to receive loans.
The Cal-Vet program has not
yet cost the taxpayer a penny
because participating veterans
pay
into
the
program.
Consequently, Proposition 32
would not cost the taxpayer anything, unless the payments of
the participating veterans did not
fully cover the costs of the program (which will be $858 million
dollars after interest, to be paid
back over 25 years at $34 million
per year).
efits and employer-matched contributions.
Current state employees can
contribute up to 5 percent of their
salary to the plan while the state's
contribution is determined annually by PERS and is dispersed
according to percentages of the
employee's salary.
Supporters of Prop 33 ask
for the same benefits for legislators as any other state employee.
They believe that by denying our
elected officials access to a retirement plan, then the only people
who will be able to afford to
run for office would be people
who are rich enough not to need
pension plans. Supporters state
that Prop 33 "will require no
additional state spending."
Opponents to Prop 33 state,
"the cost for maintaining this benefit would be under $1 million
each year," depending on how
.many legislators enroll in the program. Further, opponents say
that legislators receive a salary
of $99,000 and are reimbursed
for some living expenses; they do
not want to encourage people to
run for office with the promises
of luxury benefits at taxpayer
expense.
A snapshot of Vietnam Soldiers Photo by Lionel Burns
Prop. 34:
Campaign Contributions
and Spending
By: Christopher Orman
Pride Staff Writer
On Tuesday November 7,
Californians will congregate to
various polling stations, certainly confused on Prop 34. Claiming
to bring about campaign finance
reform, both liberals and conservatives can be heard arguing in
favor of or against the proposition.
The major argument about
Prop 34 concerns the status of
Prop 208, a campaign finance
reform law passed in 1996. In
January of 1998, a lawsuit challenging Prop 208 blocked the
enforcement of the law's provisions. With Prop 208 dead,
the California State legislature
felt campaign finance reform
remained
necessary
for
California's elections. However
according to opponents of Prop
34, such as John McCain, the
proposition has fewer restrictions
than Prop 208.
compete with the public services
could lead to dangerous cost cutting, which may lead to a loss of
quality in city roads, schools, and
bridges. Those in favor of Prop 35
insist that allowing competition
would lead to faster development
of necessary highways, schools,
and bridges, in turn, increasing
state productivity and improving By: Nathan Fields
necessary public works.
Pride Staff Writer
Prop. 36:
Rehabilitation
for Drug Users
Organizations in opposition of
Prop 35:
-California Tax Reform
Association
-Congress of California Seniors
-Consumer Federation of
California
-California Seniors Coalition
-http ://www.noon35.com
Organizations in favor of
Prop 35:
-CaliforniaTaxpayers'
Association
-San Diego County Taxpayers
Association
-United Californians for Tax
Reform
-Responsible Voters for Lower
Taxes
-http ://www.veson35.com
Proposition 36 will ask Californians on Nov. 7 to decide
whether illegal drug-users should
undergo rehabilitation in privately
run programs or be sent to prison.
If passed, the proposition would
affect more than 24,000 nonviolent, personal-use drug offenders
a year. Supporters of Proposition
36 say it would cut serious crimes
that accompany addiction and
relieve crowded prisons, saving
the state an estimated $250. million a year.
Under Proposition 36, those
sent to rehabilitation would be
forced to pay their own fees if the
courts determine they can manage
the costs. Offenders could be put
behind bars if they fail or refuse
the program. In most cases, successful completion o r rehabilitation would qualify offenders to
have their charges dropped and
Prop 34, according to the
California Voter's Information
guide, proposes to limit individual campaign contributions per
election: $3,000 for state legislature, $5,000 for statewide elective office and $20,000 for governor races. Not only would limits be placed, but also contributions or expenditures of $1,000 or
more would be disclosed on-line
to the public in twenty-four hours.
Proponents of Prop 34 comment
on the lack of donation size limits
under the current laws.
On the construction of Prop
34, Gray Davis, who has continually worked for campaign finance
reform, commented to the LA
Times, "This bill was devised
largely in secret, without the
input from public or knowledgeable sources making the proposition imperfect."
Concurring with. Davis' sentiments, the fairly liberal San
Francisco Chronicle about Prop
34 wrote in a September 24th
editorial, "The major parties are
handed vast loopholes in 34 that
will enable them to become big
benefactors to candidates who
are otherwise constrained in fund
arrest record erased.
According to the California
Department of Corrections, drug
offenders in prison jumped from
1,778 in 1980 to 45,455 last year.
California spent more than $1 billion to imprison offenders in 1999
alone. In addition to potential
savings for not housing offenders
in existing prisons, the state might
also save $500 million that would
be spent on new prisons, according to the State Legislative Analyst's Office. The state estimates
the measure would also free up
some 12,000 county jail beds
statewide.
"I hope we can finally understand that get-tough' drug laws
are wasting money and getting
poor results," said Assemblyman
Tony Cardenas, D-Van Nuys, an
outspoken advocate of prevention legislation to the L.A. Times.
Cardenas said drug dealers should
continue to get stiff sentences, but
users - about half of California's
drug offenders - should be given
a chance at rehabilitation.
Opponents of Prop. 36 claim
that it over-estimates private rehabilitation programs, and believe
that more money should be spent
on in-prison rehabilitation programs instead. But addicts would
raising.
Providing an example of Prop
34's loopholes, the San Francisco
Chronicle explains, "For example,
an Assembly candidate would be
forced to raise most of his or her
money under a $3,000-per-donation limit, but the party could
directly contribute any amount
of money it wished to the candidate."
"Parties would become a
major source of backdoor contributions to candidates, as has
occurred at the federal level with
the proliferation of "soft money,"
would happen with the passage
of Prop 34, the San Francisco
Chronicle wrote.
Some voters remain concerned about the status of Prop
208. If litigation against Prop
208 finds the proposition unconstitutional, and voters vote "no"
on Prop 34, California would
have no campaign finance reform
laws. Voters will have to decide
between an imperfect proposition created hastily and secretively or face the prospect of,
no campaign finance reform for
California. [For more information: http://www.calvoter.org.
have to be criminalized to take
advantage of prison programs.
Opponents point out that no standards for private clinics have been
set.
The measure would heavily
affect clinics and detoxification
rehabilitation centers, where the
state aims to spend $120 million
over five years, or $4,000 per drug
offender, as opposed to $20,000
spent on each prison inmate. It
is clear, however, that legislation
is needed to set strict standards to
prevent unqualified centers from
winning contracts.
While opponents of the measure think the stated numbers
of state savings are overly optimistic, Proposition 36 supporters
have a sharp advantage, having
raised a $3 million in funding
compared to just $215,000 raised
by opponents.
Proposition 36 would initiate
the largest program of its kind
in the nation by far. Arizona
voters passed a similar measure in
1996, with the Arizona Supreme
Court reporting in 1999 that 75
percent of program participants
were shown to stay off drugs.
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Vote 2000: The Propositions
Prop: 37
Fees, Vote
Requirements,
Taxes
By: Benjamin Wayne
Pride Staff Writer
• Requires a two-thirds vote of the
State Legislature or local electorate in order to impose or increase
a fee that imposes no regulatory
obligation.
• Redefines these fees as taxes.
• Excludes certain real property
fees, assessments and development fees.
• Excludes damages and penalties or expenses recoverable from
a single event (e.g., hazardous
waste spills.)
• Does not apply to fees enacted
before July 1, 1999.
Background
Governments impose taxes
and fees to collect revenue for
public projects. Taxes are generally used to pay for public services like education or transportation. Fees are used to pay for
a particular service that does not
benefit the entire citizenry. Fees
come in two major categories.
General user fees, such as park
entrance fees and garbage collec-
Tuesday, October 31,2000 9
tion fees are imposed to directly
pay the cost of running a public
business. Regulatory fees are
imposed to place rules on individuals and businesses to achieve
a particular public goal, such as
environmental impact fees, hazardous waste disposal fees and
smog certification fees.
Fees are imposed by a simple
majority vote from either the state
legislature of the local governing
bodies. Taxes, however, require
a two-thirds vote. Thus taxes are
much more difficult to impose
than fees. Proposition 37 would
require a vast majority of fees
to be approved by a two-thirds
majority vote.
Impact
Elementary school sstudents talk with a DARE police officer. Photo courtesy of www.dare.com
Approval of Proposition 37
would make it difficult for the govupdate dilapidated facilities. In
ernment to impose fees (mostly
March, voters in the Vista Unified
regulatory fees) by. requiring a
School District failed to reach the
two-thirds majority vote. Envi2/3 majority by about two-perronmental, social, and economic
cent. With restrictions t o prevent
goals would become harder to By: Darcy Walker
wasteful spending and mismanobtain and revenue loss could be Pride Staff Writer
By: Darcy Walker
agement, Prop. 39 has won the
significant.
Pride Staff Writer
bipartisan backing of Governor
According to the official
One of two education-related Gray Davis as well as republican
Supporters of Proposition 37
California Voter Information
former Governor Pete Wilson.
guide, which is distributed by the propositions on next week's balThose who oppose Prop. 39
California Taxpayers Association Secretary of State, Proposition 38 lot, Proposition 39 would reduce
the majority vote needed to pass say there is no limit to potential
& California Chamber of Com- is an initiative to amend the state
property tax increases. Save Our
merce
constitution. It allows for taxpay- school bonds from 2/3 to 55 percent. The measure includes per- Homes Committee, a project of
er funding of religious and priGroups against Proposition 37 vate education through a $4000 formance and financial audits as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association, is the measure's most
per student voucher payable to accountability requirements, and
California League of Conserva- the K-12 private school of par- specifies that bond money may outspoken opponent. Chairman
not be used toward salaries or Jon Coupal argues that good
tion Voters
ents' choice.
school bonds pass with the 2/3
^California Democratic Party
Proponents of the measure administrative costs.
requirement.
According
to
Supporters of Prop. 39,
League of Women Voters
say that public schools have been
Coupal, 62 percent of school
including the California State
Sierra Club
failing to provide safe and
PTA, argue that this change is bonds have -passed since 1996,
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Health Care
Under Feinstein's health care
agenda, patients' rights are primary over insurance companies and
HMO bureaucrats. She strives to
put the decisions about treatment
into the hands of the patients and
wants to expand research to lifeEducation
Lifting the quality of our pub- threatening illnesses.
lic schools tops the agenda for
Feinstein's 2000 reelection plat- Income & Minimum Wage
form. She believes that smaller
The ever-widening income
schools, and smaller classes will gap is one of the economy's
allow students to receive a higher largest crises. With the poorest
standard of education. Feinstein Americans falling behind while
many are getting ahead, Feinstein
believes the working class must be
compensated. By raising the minimum wage here in California and
nationally, workers could improve
their working skills through continuing education and job training. This increase in minimum
wage would help close the gap in
incomes and help families with
the rising inflation and high costs
of living.
Senator Feinstein strongly
believes that enabling all
Americans to become economically upward by improving education, increasing the minimum
wage, and producing new jobs is
critical for California.
As a California Senator,
Feinstein had many accomplishments that included being the first
woman to serve on the Senate
Judiciary Committee in 1994. It
was during her service on the
Senate Judiciary Committee that
she won the most challenging
battle of her career with the passage of a ban on the manufacturing, sales and possession of
19 types of military-style assault
weapons.
Feinstein received a B.A. in
History from Stanford University
in 1955 and was appointed by
California Governor Pat Brown to
the women's parole board in 1960
at 27 years of age. She became
the Mayor of San Francisco in
1978 following the assassination
of Mayor George Moscone and
Supervisor Harvey Milk. As San
Francisco's Mayor, she demonstrated a sense of command, managed the city's finances, balanced
nine budgets in a row and was
chosen "Most Effective Mayor,"
according to City and State
Magazine. Information from
www.senate.gov/~feinstein.
Senate believes that Proposition
38 will undermine our state's
efforts to financially and academically enhance our public
schools." The CSU Board of
Trustees and Student Association
also oppose Prop. 38, according
to a Chancellor's office report.
Milwaukee mayor John
Norquist has signed on as a
supporter of Prop. 38 because
a voucher program in his city
is working very well. The
Milwaukee voucher program,
however, only applied to lowincome students in targeted illperforming school districts.
Prop. 38 sets up a $4,000
state payments for students who
already attend private schools.
These payments would be phased
in over a four-year period.
With
650,000
students
already in private schools, the
only guaranteed outcome is a
cost of $2.6 billion dollars to pay
for their education.
Additional costs or potential
savings to the state are difficult
to estimate, since they depend
entirely on how many students opt
for the vouchers. While the legislative analyst admits the number
of participants is "impossible to
predict," it does give some numbers based on various assumptions. First, the average cost per
public schools student is placed
at $7000. Therefore, each transfer to private school would result
in a $3000 savings for the state.
If five-percent, or 300,000 students move to private schools, the
state will lose $2 billion eve?ry
year. A 15-percent exodus would
result in a savings of $700 million. If 1.5 million students
transferred, that's 25 percent of
all public school kids, California
would save $3.4 billion. These
numbers do not include expected
administrative costs of about $10
million per year to run the voucher program.
In addition to vouchers, the
state legal analyst for the voter
guide indicates that Prop. 38
"imposes significant new restrictions on the ability of government to adopt new laws and regulations affecting private schools."
There are no minimum educational requirements for teachers
in private schools. If money is
any indication, the most important initiative voters will decide
on is Proposition 38, the school
voucher initiative.
The number one supporter of
Prop. 38 is the creator, Timothy
Draper, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has spent over 18
million dollars of his own money
on Prop. 38. Other proponents
in the website's top ten are private investors except one—Parents for CA Future. The voucher
initiative's biggest opponent is the
California Teachers Association,
followed y several other teacher's unions and the California
Professional Firefighters.
Dianne
Feinstein:
Democrat
By: Jennifer Miller
Pride Staff Writer
has proposed legislation that
would provide $1 billion each
year in school grants to be used
in construction to repair existing
campuses, ending social promotion, funding remedial education
and supporting merit pay for
teachers.
Courtesy of California Senate Web Site
With the most votes cast for
a Senator in American history,
Dianne Feinstein was elected in
1992 and re-elected in 1994 to
her first six-year term as Senator
of California.
Prop 37
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adequate learning, and it is
time to give parents a choice
in education. With open enrollment, magnet and charter schools,
as well as home schooling as
options, many would argue that
public schools offer plenty of
choices for parents seeking alternatives.
To qualify as voucher schools,
Prop. 38 requires the release of
test scores to track the voucher
students* progress. Furthermore,
the private schools may not advocate any illegal behavior or discriminate based on race, ethnicity or nationality. Restricting
admission based on other characteristics, however, such as gender, religion, and disability are
allowed under the proposition,
according to the state voter's
guide.
The state legislative analyst
concluded that this ability to
discriminately admit only lower-cost students may cause the
proportion of students with special needs to increase in public
schools, resulting in higher average per-student costs. For this and
several other reasons, the CSUSM
Academic Senate opposes Prop.
38. In a recent press release,
Gerardo Gonzalez, the Senate
Chair stated, "The CSUSM
The P ride
Vote 2000: The Senatorial Candidates
(GMO) foods that pose potential
risks to our health and environment. We should ban GMO foods
and have an agricultural policy
that supports family farms and
organic agriculture."
Medea Benjamin is Founding
Director of the San Franciscobased human rights organization
Global Exchange. Her voluminous books, reports, articles, and
By: Nathan Fields
film productions have examined
Pride Staff Writer
global and national issues of labor
Medea Benjamin, human rights conditions, sustainable agriculadvocate, economist, nutritionist, ture, hunger, and poverty.
Medea has supported human
and mother, has worked for the
rights and social justice struglast 25 years to help "build a
world where no child goes hun- gles around the world. She
gry and where air, water, and has most recently worked to supland are protected for future gen- port democracy and human rights
movements in Indonesia, East
erations."
The key issues she addresses as a Timor, and Chiapas, fighting to
lift the embargoes against Cuba
senatorial candidate are:
and Iraq, and cutting US military aid to repressive regimes in
Living Wage
"The gross inequality in the Central America. She has been
distribution of our nation's an election observer in Haiti,
wealth—with the richest 1 percent Mexico, El Salvador, Namibia,
owning more than the poorest 80 and Indonesia, and led fact-findpercent—is disgraceful. We must ing delegations to East Timor,
raise the minimum wage to a Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba,
"living wage," and guarantee all Mexico, South Africa, Brazil,
our people the right to a healthy, Guatemala, and China.
dignified standard of living."
Medea's most recent work
focuses on improving the labor
and environmental practices of
Schools Not Prisons
"California spends $2.2 bil- US multinational corporations,
lion a year processing youth and the policies of international
through the criminal justice sys- institutions such as the World
Organization,
the
tem while our spending on public Trade
schools ranks 41st in the nation. International Monetary Fund and
We must reaffirm our commit- % the World Bank. She has become
ment to free public education, rec- a leading national figure in the
ognize teachers as cherished pro- effort to pressure US companies
fessionals, and invest in schools, to include a living wage provinot jails."
sion in their corporate Codes of
Conduct.
Electoral Reform
Medea spearheaded Global
"We need to get money out Exchange's campaigns against
of politics through public financ- Nike, the GAP, and 17 other US
ing of political campaigns, free companies profiting from inhumedia access, and put an end mane third-world cheap labor
to PACs and soft money dona- conditions and lack of foreign
tions. We must give voters better environmental policy.
These
representation by changing our efforts prompted the Washington
electoral system from "winner- Post to credit Global Exchange
take-all" to proportional repre- as the group that has "put labor
sentation—a system used by most rights on the human rights agenof the world's established democ- da."
racies."
Medea received a Masters
degree in Public ^Health from
Universal Health Care
Columbia University and a
"Over 40 million Americans Masters degree in Economics
have no health care and millions from the New School for Social
more go without basic health ser- Research.
vices due to inadequate insur"I am more convinced than
ance coverage. We need a public- ever that the majority of
ly funded, universal health care Americans—and certainly the
system that guarantees quality majority of Californians agree
care for all."
that we need a society that puts
human needs before corporate
Safe Food and Family Farms
profits."
"Agribusiness plays a danger- Her website may be found at
ous game with Mother Nature by http ://www.medeaforsenate.org.
introducing genetically-modified
Medea
Susan
Benjamin:
Green
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Tom Campbell:
Republican
By: Christopher Orman
Pride Staff Writer
Tom Campbell has an uphill
battle in his senatorial campaign
as he attempts to unseat incumbent Diane Feinstein. Campbell,
an ex-Stanford law professor,
believes voters will find comfort
in his moderate, compassionate
conservative approach.
"I am known as a maverick
because I don't go along with
the crowd," Campbell wrote in
his campaign platform/Listed by
Congress as a fairly moderate
individual, who cares about health
reform and the environment,
Campbell campaigns on the same
compassionate conservative philosophy as G.W. Bush.
Campbell on his compassionate conservative style, states, "I
believe in conservative fiscal policies and in compassionate social
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Vote 2000: The Senatorial Candidates
policies."
Based on his voting record,
Campbell has not deviated from
his comments. According to the
1999-2000 voting record guide
supplied by the U.S. Government,
Campbell has voted for tax cuts,
the balanced budget amendment
and impeachment. The report
does reveal Campbell's "maverick" character when discussing
the
McCain/Feingold
Bill.
Campbell, according to the report,
was one of two Republican senators who supported the McCain/
Feingold Bill; a bill created to
place harsher restrictions upon
campaign fundraising.
Abortion
On the heated issue of abortion, Campbell reveals a truly
compassionate approach, as he
writes, "I have opposed any
effort, whether through legislation or constitutional amendment,
to eliminate the abortion rights
guaranteed by Roe vs. Wade."
Campbell believes the abortion
issue remains a religious con-
cern, not a governmental concern, yet insists, "the government
provides medical help for men
who are poor, Medicaid must
also support funding for the medical conditions of poor women,
including their right to choose."
Campbell's abortion comments relate primarily to firsttrimester abortions; thus avoiding any partial-birth abortion
debates. Campbell's record, however, shows he voted against a
bill outlawing partial-birth abortions.
Concerning the bill outlawing
partial-birth abortions, Campbell
writes, "when congressional legislation forbidding partial-birth
abortion refused to allow for
exceptional circumstances, I had
no choice but to oppose it."
Campbell voted "no" because he,
"raised the question in debate as
to why proponents of the bill,
normally states' rights advocates,
were advocating a federal law to
pre-empt different states' reaching their own resolutions on this
difficult issue."
plans on putting a few initiatives programs and increase the number of required subjects in high
into effect.
school.
Education
Rees plans include fully fund- Taxes
Rees plans to implement
ing the head start program, proBy; Tiaca Carter
vide financial support for every across-the-board tax cuts through
Pride Staff Writer
student that wants to go to college a low flat tax by offering "a
Natural Law Party candidate and increase nutritional value of strong fiscal stimulus to economfor the U.S. senate is Brian M. school lunches. Rees also plans ic growth while keeping inflaRees. If elected as senator, Rees to create national apprenticeship tion in check with appropriate
Brian M Rees:
Natural Law
The f ollowing is a paid advertisement:
Education
Similar to conservative
candidate
G.W.
Bush,
Campbell hopes to fix education by reducing class sizes,
hiring more teachers, and
improve the safety of schools.
Regarding improvements to
the public school system,
Campbell states, "The most
effective improvement in public schools is to lower class
size. That means paying for
more teachers and more classrooms, starting at the lower
grades if we can't afford
it throughout the system at
Courtesy of Tom Campbell for Senate
once."
Whether or not Campbell can
With the reduction of class
sizes, Campbell recommends beat Feinstein remains uncertain.
more local, school-based deci- As Campbell believes, "I recogsions. As Campbell comments, nize that to solve some of our
"I recommend that we step back, toughest problems we must be
turn most K-12 decisions back bold, and I believe that California
over to the states, and let them deserves an independent leader
decide how best to spend their who will promote responsible
funds in order to teach the basics- government and be willing to
dreading, writing and arithme- stand strong in the face of political pressure."
tic."
monetary policy, thereby ensur- tion for governmental administration-one based upon the most
ing price stability".
modern and comprehensive scientific understanding of how nature
Foreign Policy
His stance on foreign policy functions." There is a strong
is one based on the exploration of emphasis on education because
knowledge instead of military it is through education that we
can appreciate "life's essential
aide.
Rees is a physician and a unity". With this experience indicolonel in the Army Reserves viduals will behave according to
and is a part of the Natural Law their best interest, thus promoting societies best interest also
Party.
The Natural Law Party "action fully aligned with natural
believes in "a fresh new founda- law."
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12 Tuesday, October 31,2000
Fourth
Party
Politics?
By: Steve Kerrin
Pride Staff Writer
Openly hostile to both the
political left and right, the
Popular Sentiment Party refuses
to take a defined stance in national politics. Party Chair, Betty
Lou Rawten-Krotch, states, "We
usually take the most popular
stance on tough issues. That way,
in theory, we'll always win the
elections." When asked why her
party has never even held a seat
in a local government, RawtenKrotch replied, "Damned if I
know. It works for everyone
else."
The biggest obstacle facing
the Popular Sentiment Party is
that it has yet to be acknowledged by the media as more
than a collective of disgruntled,
boozed-up, would-be politicians.
A Democratic senator who spoke
on condition of anonymity stated, "They're just another cult,
only with politics instead of religion. They're really just a bunch
of whackos."
Most
Republicans and
Democrats share her sentiments.
Most often cited as the source of
this derisive attitude is the party's Thursday, October 26, St. John
radical agenda, which includes: would only comment on two of
the above issues. In regard to the
§ Mandating loincloths as congressional loincloth mandate
standard attire for all mem- and the Jimmy Buffett issue,
he said, "Now we'll see what
bers of Congress.
§ More creative forms of capi- those [expletive deleted] are realtal punishment. (Two exam- ly hiding," and "well, that makes
ples the party proposes are about as much sense as Waltzing
the use of DUI offenders as Matilda, doesn't it?" respectivecrash-test dummies for auto- ly. Such reticence is typical of St.
mobile companies and the John, who has repeatedly stated,
use of convicted sex offend- "I don't like broken promises so I
won't make no promises to break
ers as prison concubines.)
§ The establishment of and people won't get mad. Read
National Mediocrity Day to* my lips: No promises."
celebrate those who are not
Another issue under critigood enough to be reward- cism is his party's lack of opened for anything but are too ness about its foreign policy. St.
good to qualify for special John was initially reluctant to
assistance in anything.
discuss his plans for dealing
§ Appointing George Carlin with the Israeli-Palestinian crisis,
as the permanent Speaker but relented and vaguely gave
of the House and National the situation lip service in sayPress Secretary.
ing, "Well, I don't know about
§ Making Jimmy Buffett's y'all but / learnt something from
"Why Don't we Get Drunk George Custer."
and Screw?" the National
Considered an extreme long
Anthem for all sporting shot to. receive more than 100
events.
write-in votes (there are 107
§ Making "F*** 'em if they members of the party), St. John
can't take a joke" the is nonetheless optimistic about
putting on a good showing. "I
National Motto.
think there's lotsa people what
When asked if she saw the feel that maybe this is a good
party's radical political agenda time to do something for their
as a threat to the nation, the country that they maybe ordinaranonymous senator replied, "As ily wouldn't do 'cause it wouldn't
a voter, I wouldn't trust them any be the time to. So yeah, I figure
more than a chicken would trust I'll get some votes and maybe
a drooling coyote, but they'll it'll mudball into something bignever get enough support to win ger. Woulda been nice if those
an election so I'm not worried. fellers woulda invited me to their
TV party but they hog the spotThe country will survive this."
The Popular \ Sentiment light, like a blue-ribbpn sow £t a
Party's candidate for President, butcher convention." .
No other presidential candiBubba St. John of Mississippi,
date has responded to repeated
has borne the brunt of media
haranguing over his party's agen- requests for comment on the
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da. In a press conference on issue.
Blinders
thing—from the promotion of
children to soldiers in war-torn
I have spent every day for countries to the latest club trend
the past three weeks perusing of passing out Viagra to ensure
newspapers, magazines, and bro- not just a good time, but a better
chures, watching the headline time—was fair game.
news and attempting to decipher
As I contemplated my curthe language of science journals. rent position on matters of social
What was I looking for so oncern, I began to feel uneasy.
c
intently? My assignment for Dr. My pile of interesting articles was
Keehn's Literature and Writing quickly disappearing before my
305 class was to write a letter eyes. My "I don't really care"
to the editor based either on an pile, on the other hand, was growarticle or an issue I felt strongly ing to monstrous proportions. If
about.
this is how I, a college student
I assumed I would create a who holds the future, contemplate
stack of articles and notes from problems facing the world, I fear
a variety of sources and be able the imminent doom awaiting us.
to simply choose which article Where does this apathy originate?
inspired me the most to write How long has it been holding me
a stunning letter to the editor. in its grip, keeping me unaware
Reality got a good laugh out that I will fail when called upon
of that assumption. I picked to write a simple letter to the
through three or four magazines, editor? One word sums up the
tearing out anything that looked whole problem—education.
even remotely interesting. EveryIronic, I know. Higher eduBy: Jennifer Silverwood
cation has become a set of blinders that have narrowed my view
of life to one set goal, namely
obtaining a degree in English.
My whole being revolves around
which paper will consume my
time next, which test I should feel
anxious about, whether my outline contains enough detail to satisfy my professor, not to mention
what I will eat, drink, and how I
can find five minutes to at least
make an attempt at merriness . . .
for tomorrow I shall die.
Colleges aim to produce intelligent citizens who feel concerned
about society and who endeavor
to improve the lives of others. I
rarely read a newspaper (I do not
consider reading the headlines
as I look for the advertisements
on Sunday "reading the newspaper"). I still find myself utterly
confused when I overhear discussions on the evening news about
the latest political race or the
turmoil in , . . where was that
again?
Where have I been? I'll tell
you: in the various classrooms
and lecture halls of CSUSM,
being enlightened with the knowl-
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edge of the great philosophers of
the past (read: dead white men).
I've been clapping and singing songs of Africa, learning
about the structure of DNA, contributing to group discussions
about "our racial world view"
and finally, writing papers using
different forms of discourse: This
is all not to mention interviewing for Orientation Team, attending writing workshops, and making frequent trips to the library.
That's just what goes on while
I'm physically at campus.
In reality, everything I do
revolves around my goal to teach.
I coach volleyball part time and
substitute in the school district to
gain experience. I wake up and
go either to school or to work
all day. Throw in my religious
responsibilities and family, and I
find myself scrambling for time
to pursue personal enrichment
and keep up with current events.
So what gets pushed aside?
Left with little choice, I opt for
the "A" in my courses, with the
reward of a degree and a promise
of more years wondering where
the time went.
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So as I sit feeling sorry for
mySo many subjects are storming through my head, plowing
into each other until ultimately I
can't decipher one opinion from
another.
Am I getting so caught up
in the monotonies of school that
I have lost sight of the bigger
picture? I enjoy going to school
and I love all my classes, but will
it ever end? Do we ever get a
chance to remove the blinders?
Maybe our professors can help us
out a little.
I remember a high school
teacher who discussed current
events for about five minutes at
the beginning of class. I know
we're not in high school anymore, but five minutes, that's not
so hard. When I'm stuck in a
classroom, I don't have a choice
but to listen. Does anyone else
feel this way, or am I alone?
Regardless, I am vowing to get
my butt off the psychoanalyst's
couch and make a conscious
effort to keep up to date on current events. Maybe in the process
I'll feel more inclined to address
the editor.
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Legislature passed the Master
Plan for Higher Education, which
promised, among other things, "
a space for every undergraduate
student would be available; no
tuition would be charged California residents; and students should
be charged low fees, only for
' auxiliary services'." There is
really no need, in a student newspaper, to observe that these goals
have not been met. The question
that arises is why this vision has
not been realized and what, if any,
budget priorities have taken precedent over higher education.
An article from the Justice
Policy Institute, entitled "From
Classrooms to Cell Blocks: How
Prison Building Affects Higher
Education and African American
Enrollment in California October 1996," provides a disturbing
answer and some interesting and
pertinent data.
Using figures gathered by the
Center on Juvenile and Criminal
Justice, the article points out
that California's prison budget
has increased ten-fold since 1980.
From 1984 to 1994 California
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host of legislation that lengthened ties of crime nor by public opinprison sentences, implemented ion. What fuels the growth of the
mandatory prison sentences for prison building industry?
The Justice Policy Institute
various offences, and tightened
article begins with a quote from
up parole requirements.
Legislators often claim that the minutes of the California Corthese tougher approaches to sen- rectional Peace Officers Associbuilt 19 prisons and only one
ation Meeting the Challenge of
state university. Curing that same tencing are a necessary response
to increases in violent crime. Affordable Prisons, 1995: ,
period, the Department of CorAn argument over which is
Yet the majority of prisoners, as
rections grew by 25,864 employmuch as 60%, are non-violent more important—schools or prisees, while the number of employdrug offenders. Furthermore, vio- ons—is one which the proponents
ees devoted to higher education
lent crime has been decreasing of prisons cannot win in the curdecreased by 8,082: In 1984, Calsteadily over the past ten years rent political environment m California's budget for higher eduand is now down to early 1970's ifornia. Public sentiment in favor
cation was 2 54 times that of
of schools is simply too overlevels.
the Department of Corrections.
An ABC News article enti- whelming on this topic. The
As of 1994, higher education and
tled "Prison Funding Explodes in only way to build a consensus for
corrections were receiving equal
Growth" provides some interest- prison is to do so in a way that
funding. As of 1996/1997, spendingfigures. The cost of a four-year will not be seen as coming at the
ing on corrections actually overdegree in a public college in the expense of the taxpayers.
took spending on higher educaThis quote reveals the cynical
United States ranges from $2,986
tion. The shares of the General
to $7,331. The cost of keeping if not sinister attitude of the proFund were 9.6% to 8.7% respec- an inmate in prison for one ponents of prison growth. Unfortively.
year ranges from $20,000 to tunately, there are those who
A Rand Corporation study $25,000. Economically, the fig-make a living, and a good living
forecasted that spending on cor- ures of education versus impris- at that, by imprisoning others.
rections in California would rise onment speak for themselves. In Prison guards in California are
to 18% of the General Fund over addition, the aforementioned Jus- paid more than teachers. The Calthe next 7 years. Rand research- tice Policy Institute article cited ifornia Correctional Peace Offiers further forecasted that since a poll conducted by the Califor- cers Association is perhaps the
this level of growth in correc- nia Correctional Peace Officers most powerful union in Calitions is more than the expected Association indicating that when fornia, holding tremendous sway
increase in state revenues, further given a choice between building with all three branches of Califorcuts in higher education would schools or prisons, Californians nia's government. Building conlikely be required to take up the chose schools 78% to 15%.
tractors can amass huge fortunes
slack.
In light of the data, spending through prison construction. The
Much of this growth is in on higher education in California news and entertainment media
response to a tripling of prison is clearly losing out to spending cooperate, either deliberately or
populations over the past 20 years. on prisons. It is equally clear that inadvertently, by exaggerating
This increase in the prison popu- skyrocketing spending on pris- public fears of crime, even though
lation can in turn be traced to a ons is neither justified by reali- crime rates are currently in
Prison Funding vs.
Educational Funding
By: Jeff Brownlee
Pride Staff Writer
purposes:
decline.
Conveniently f or the prison
industry, money drawn from
higher education deprives more
and more citizens of the facts
and critical thinking skills that
would enable them to see through
the ruse the proponents of prison
building have constructed.
Confining large numbers of
citizens serves perhaps an even
darker purpose. In Brazil and
Colombia, death squads summarily kill individuals who through
poverty, mental illness, or drug
addiction have become unable to
function adequately in society.
The prison industry has developed a somewhat less draconian
and more economically expedient method of dealing with such
people. The poor, the mentally ill,
and drug addicts are warehoused
in prisons where they serve as
a source of revenue for correctional employees and contractors.
Providing such individuals with
treatment and employment opportunities would eliminate a lucrative income for many powerful
interests.
This article presumes to provide some of the education that
the proponents of prison construction would seek to deprive
from the" citizens of California.
Hopefully, attitudes and spending
can be changed before the prison
industrial complex gobbles up all
further forums for dissent.
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Arts & Entertainment
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The infamous symbol of the Blair Witch
Photo courtesy of www. blairwitch. com
that has just been released from
a mental institution. (Why people would go on a tour led by a
former mental patient is beyond
me). Jeff takes the five people
into the woods to see the place
where the original Blair Witch
Project was filmed and where
the tapes were found.
Whatever it is the group is
trying to do is, again, beyond
me. They are out in the woods
where they drink and smoke
and are merry, until they wake
up. When the group wakes up,
they find their camera gear is
broken and their records are
destroyed. Everything is gone
except the tapes, conveniently
placed in the same location as
the original Blair Witch Project
tapes were discovered.
The group goes back to
the mental patient's home (an
abandoned warehouse with lots
of stolen goods) to examine
the tapes. T-shirts, sweatshirts,
cups, rocks, and even sticks are
many of the items that Jeff sells
to his tourists. They find some
very disturbing things on the
tapes, to say the least. While
they're reviewing the tapes,
Tristen and Stephen hear voices and hallucinate. They all
seem to be going out of their
minds. Is it the work of the
BlairWitch?
Book of Shadows, Blair
Witch 2 is directed by Joe
Berlinger, who has succeeded in
doing one thing, adding another
reel to the pile of crap that
Hollywood has put out this
year.
Blair Witch 2
Do Not Go Back Into the Woods
By: J. Ryan Sandahl
Pride Staff Writer
Whoever said, "sequels
suck" was correct. A sequel is
rarely better than the original
and the newest film release,
Blair Witch 2, is no exception.
The film opens with various
news clips about the success of
the BlairWitch Project. Tourists
have flocked to Burketsville,
Maryland, in search of the Blair
Witch and to see the location
where the film was shot.
The sheriff is seen shouting over a loud speaker, "There
is no #@*&$*% Blair .Witch!
Get out of these woods!" He is
absolutely right. Forget all the
preconceived notions you may
have about this film. There is
no book of shadows, there is no
Blair Witch, there is nothing.
This is exactly what this film
amounts to, absolutely nothing.
The basic premise of the
film is about five people who
go into the woods on a tour
called the Blair Witch Hunt . The
characters are Stephen, Tristen,
Erica, Kim, and Jeff (played by
Stephen Turner, Tristen Skyler,
Erica Leerhsen, Kim Director,
and Jeff Donovan). The tour
guide, Jeff, is a young man
The Pride
CD Review:
Radiohead's
KID A
^ music. Though the album may not ,
have the same feel as the guitar
driven aggression of Creep or the
After three years away from folkie privacy of Fake Plastic Trees,
the musical scene, Radiohead rees- KID A still delivers the pure emotablishes itself as England's finest tional rawness of traditional rock.
musical export by releasing its
The single, The National
fourth album, KID A. Produced Anthem, infuses the listener with
in the shadow of its commercially energy from the beginning bass
successful and critically acclaimed grooves to its emotional orchestraalbum, OK Computer, this album tion of jazz horns at its climax.
is perhaps Radiohead's greatest tri- This album, however, is no one-hit
umph to_ date.
wonder as the band lends complexThe music flows from begin- ity and interest in every song that it
ning to end and continues with delivers. With the single Optimistic
the band's theme of industrial iso- already making its way into the
lationism. This album not only pro- rotation of some radio stations, it
vides the listener with music to is not inconceivable that the rest of
listen to but to think about as well. the songs on this album will get
The music sounds as if it were radio playtime.
written to accompany some futurIn a year that appears, for the
istic movie because Radiohead bor- most part, to be stuck with stagnatrows elements of jazz, rock, classi- ed, prepackaged, overly produced,
cal, technotronic, hip hop and folk. mindless, commercially-successful
With a configuration of many dif- waste, Radiohead continues to proferent musical styles fused together vide the public with innovative,
in a complex, textured flow, this socially conscious, and evolutionalbum is original and innovative.
ary music. With KID A, Radiohead
Radiohead trades in some of continues to further remove itself
its traditional rock instruments for from the realm of just another rock
electronic ones in KID A, but does band and into the company of the
not appear to have lost any of the truly great bands of anytime and of
explosiveness that fueled its earlier any category.
By: Adam Bailey
Pride Staff Writer
The Ladies Man The Contender:
Comes to the Big Screen
By: Victoria B. Segall
Pride Editor
'
*
"His approach is straightforward, it's honest," comments
Tim Meadows about his most
recent character, Leon Phelps,
The Ladies Man. With the success of past films like Wayne's
World and A Night at the
Roxbury inspired by Saturday
Night Live characters, The
Ladies Man is SNL creator
Lorne Michael's most recent
production.
In The Ladies Man, Tim
Meadows plays Leon Phelps, a
deejay on late night radio talk
show. Phelps is charming and
goodhearted, but a Casanova.
Leon's countless affairs get
him into trouble when a group
of angry husbands, calling
themselves the VSA (Victims
of the Smiling A**, named after
a tattoo found on Leon's right
buttock), seek revenge. The Tim Meadows plays Leon Phelps
VSA is led by Lance (played
in The Ladies Man.
by Will Ferrell of SNL) whose Photo courtesy of www.imdb.com.
wife, Honey DeLune (played
Tiffani Thiessen of Saved By Leon's sweet and innocent cothe Bell), is one of Leon's many worker Julie), and, Billy Dee
Williams who plays* Lester the
mistresses.
The cast also includes Bartender and who serves as
Karyn Parsons (who plays the film's narrator and voice of
reason.
With the film's bedroom
scenes and Leon's on-air radio
dirty talk, Leon Phelps is vulgar in this film, just as he
is in his infamous SNL sketches. This movie also consists of
dumb humor, and if you aren't
a fan of SNL or The Ladies
Man character, then this film is
definitely not for you.
On the other hand, those of
you who are fans may enjoy
the film. The Ladies Man can
be categorized as a gross film,
but never dull. With clieesy
musical numbers—yes musical
numbers—and surprise cameos,
the audience is kept in suspense as to what to expect next.
Meadows, (who co-wrote the
screenplay), has some funny
lines, however the end of the
film is weak and predictable.
The funk and soul-filled
soundtrack is excellent; featured tracks include A1 Green's
Let's Stay Together, the Isley
Brothers' That Lady, and other
tracks from artists such as
Roberta Flacky Johnny Gill and
Chaka Khan.
The Ladies Man is rated-R
and is now playing in theatres.
A weii-Timed
Political Thriller
By: J. Ryan Sandahl
Pride Staff Writer
nominated.
What does Runyon do? He
digs up a bunch of dirt on Hanson,
With the presidential elections namely an alleged "sex show" that
only a week away, a good film she put on when she was in college,
about politics may be just what the complete with a detailed report and
people need. In the movie, The photographs. Of course, we cannot
Contender; the Vice President has see the woman's face in the photojust passed away and it is up to the graphs, so there is no way to know
President (played by Jeff Bridges) if it is Senator Hanson or not.
to nominate a new VP. The film
Senator Hanson is then quesopens with a red car driving off a tioned by a large senatorial combridge and Senator Jack Hathoway mittee. Ronald Webster (played by
(played by William Petersen) jump- Christian Slater) is among them, and
ing in the river to save the driver. he works with Runyon to take down
The Senator Hathoway believes his Senator Hanson. No matter how
heroic efforts will help him become much they question Senator Hanson
nominated for VP.
about her alleged "sex show," howHathoway is actually the ever, she does not admit or deny it.
President's second choice. His first Her reasoning is that it is nobody's
choice is Senator Lane Hanson business what happened that night.
(played by Joan Allen). When we
In the end, the audience finds
first see Senator Hanson, she is out what happened that night.
just starting to make love to her
This is a good political film that
husband. In order for her to become asks several questions: How much
the Vice President, her husband, should we know about a potential
Senator Shelly Runyon (played political figure? Do we have the
by Gary Oldman), must give his right to know about someone's
consent. Runyon does not want past, and if we do know, should it
Senator Hanson—or rather, a wom- really effect our judgment of them?
an—to be Vice President. He would The Contender is rated R by the
prefer that Senator Hathoway be MPAA.
�The Pride
Arts & Entertainment
CD Review:
Mike Keneally
and Beer for
Dolphins
Newest Release
"Dancing"
Medeski Martin and Wood, are a becomes so startling; while turntrio, consisting of John Medeski tabilists everywhere are runon keyboards, Billy Martin on ning out of vinyl records to samdrums and Chris Wood on bass. ple, Medeski Martin and Wood
As a trio, the band creates lay- has become a full band creating
ers, upon layers of sound due original "samples."
When the band adds Marc
to each member's virtuosity. On
The Dropper, a track like "Big Ribot, unquestionably one of
Time" sounds like a five-piece the greatest guitarists alive, to
band, as John Medeski plays their sound on The Dropper the
clavinet and organ simultane- results are noteworthy. Probably
ously and Chris Wood adds bass the most monumental track on
solos along with the standard The Dropper, "Bone Digger"
sounds like a perfect mix of
bass progressions.
A deeply funky track like hip-hop and atonal jazz. From
"Big Time" rivals Parliament/ beginning to end, Billy Martin
Funkadelic's ten-piece band plays a heavy hip-hop beat
By: Christopher Orman
sound as all three musicians fill that allows John Medeski the
Pride Staff Writer
the gaps occurring within each necessary foundation for adding extraterrestrial sounds.
measure of music.
No question the fall of 2000
Over the last ten years, Complementing Medeski and
will be musically remembered
Medeski Martin and Wood have Martin's layers, Marc Ribot's
for the release of Radiohead's
made a habit of creating intel- simple, yet strange guitar and
Kid A. Music fans, however,
lectually stimulating albums, Chris Wood's incessant bowing
may look back on the fall
from 1990's acoustic-free-jazz of his bass, results in a sound
of 2000 and wonder why
Notes from Underground to remarkably similar to a genius
Medeski Martin and Wood's The
1996's funky Shack-man, listen- turntabilist beat juggling two
Dropper, released October 24
ers often need some time to com- entirely different records.
on BlueNote Records, slipped
Similar to "Bone Digger,"
prehend the mixture of sounds.
by without detection.
Even 1998's Combustication, the title track The Dropper
The album takes music, spe- featuring DJ Logic, remains sounds so neoteric the song
cifically jazz, hip-hop and trance difficult for some listeners to becomes completely ineffable.
to new undiscovered territories. digest, as the band attempted Throughout The Dropper, as celThe Dropper,; contains thirteen to fuse atonal jazz, hip-hop and los, violins, congas and saxstunning tracks, each song wor- Latin rhythms, into a potent, ophones are added, any adethy of commentary. Fans of mind-bending concoction.
quate musical analysis becomes
jazz, hip-hop or music capable
Unlike Combustication, The implausible. The inability to
of changing an individual's
Dropper reveals Medeski Martin describe the album makes
intellectual perspective should
and Wood's final musical syn- Medeski Martin and Wood's latstrongly consider purchasing
thesis, a perfectly blended hybrid est work of art brilliant and
The Dropper:
of dissonant jazz and hip-hop. purely postmodern. A revoluWhere Kid A seems interImagine mixing Lauryn Hill's tion has happened in music, but
esting but not mind-expanding,
beats and melodies with John a few years might pass before
The Dropper becomes challengColtrane's improvisational spir- society fully evaluates and coming and stimulating, similar to
it; The Dropper becomes such prehends the change.
deciphering the brush strokes of
a feasible blend. The synthesis
a Willem de Kooning painting.
Medeski
Martin a nd
Wood's
"The
Dropper" a
Must Buy
By: Benjamin Wayne
Pride Staff Writer
Frank Zappa is reported to
have once said that Mike Keneally
(a fellow guitar virtuoso) "was
the best new guy he ever had in
the band." Being an admirer of
all things Zappa (especially Moon
Unit), I jumped at the opportunity
to listen to Keneally's latest CD.
The CD titled "Dancing,"
released off Keneally's own label,
Exowax, is a two-CD set containing 35-songs, all of which are
worth checking out. Likened to
Neil Young or Dave Matthews,
Mike Keneally and his eight-piece
band Beer for Dolphins have an
awesome sound that is acoustically mellow, trancy, in your face
electric and raw.
The first disc contains studio
versions of "Live in Japan" and
"Ankle Bracelet" (tracks one and
two), which are all being pushed
on local radio. I wasn't a big fan
of either of those songs, but luckily enough the album took a turn
and the next 18 songs were offthe-hook.
My favorite song on the first
disc is track 5, "We'll Be Right
Back," which through its acoustic
Tuesday, October 31,2000 1 5
Guitar virtuoso Mike Keneally and his
band, Beer for Dolphins, released
their newest CD entitled "Dancing:"
Photo by Mike Martin. ~
rhythm and intelligent lyrics
reminded me of heady music from
bands like Folk Implosion and
Buffalo Springfield.
The second disc is 15 tracks
of live and acoustic renditions of
many of Keneally and Beer for
Dolphins' new songs as well as bar
chat and ad-lib. My favorite piece
on the B-side disc has no title (to
my knowledge) but I will refer to
it as "The Bee Sting Song." It's
a funny little ditty that made me
laugh and reminded me of tracks
from performers like Beck (preMellow Gold) and Basehead.
All in all, this CD is a must
buy. Don't burn it from a friend
because Mike is a local guy and
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Calendar
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Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Tuesday, October 31
Breast Cancer Awareness
Location: ACD 319
Time: 12pm-lpm
Alpha Kappa Delta and
Sociology Club Meeting
Location: The Power Surge Cafe
Time: 4pm-6pm
Presentation by Professor Andrea
Liss, Art Historian/ Cultural
Theorist in the Visual and
Performing Arts Dept, who has
lived through breast cancer surgery and experimental chemotherapy treatments.
The Pride
Guest speakers Kevin Kilpatrick
and Carol McGrath. "Life After
a Sociology Degree: Community
College Teaching, Research, and
Social Services."
Renowned author of books of
poetry will read and perform
from his internationally acclaimed
works.
First CSUSM College Bowl
Location: Academic Hall 102
Time: 10am-6pm
Come and cheer for your favorite
team. Contact the A.S.I. Office for
more information 750-4990.
Ralph Nader to Speak
at Long Beach Arena
Friday evening.
Dr. Michelle Carpenter, breast surgeon, will be available to answer
questions regarding prevention and
early detection of breast cancer.
Fall Job Fair
Location: California Center for
the Arts, Escondido
Time: 4pm-7pm
Wednesday, November 1
Thursday, November 2
Desktop Theater Now
Location: Academic Hall 211
Time: Discussion begins 1pm
Interactive Workshop at 3pm
Day of the Dead Celebration
Location: Palm Court
Time: 12pm-2pm
Media arts educator Adriene Jenik
and digital media producer Lisa
Brenneis will look at the internet
as a new community gathering
place. The talk is part of the
forum, "Under the Grid:
Perspectives on Public Space,"
which explores how public space
is defined and utilized.
For time, location and directions
please go to wWw.votenader.com
Revising Your Writing
Location: Academic Hall 418
Time: 12pm-lpm
Learn how to revise your writing.
Meditation Group
Location: PPHS Building
Time: 12pm-12:30pm
This Meditation Group meets
Jenik's and Brenneis use humor,
weekly on Fridays in Dr. Fritz
pop iconography and direct
engagement to explore the internet Kreisler's office.
as a live, shared public play space.
Leadership Through the Lens
of Diversity: Part I
Advising Unit
Location: Commons 206
Registration Workshops
Time: lpm-3pm
Location: Craven Hall 4201
Time: lpm-2pm
Here you have to opportunity to assess your level understanding
Study Abroad Information
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Time: 2pm-3pm
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Includes financial aid advisor.
It is customary on Dia de los Muertos
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Individuals are encouraged to bring
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There will be traditional music and sharing from those who want to say a few
words about their departed friends and
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Germany: 10 Years After
Unification
Location: University Hall 101
Time: 5pm
A discussion about the current
political, cultural, and economic
climate in Germany ten years
after the wall opening and
unification. Presentation followed
by a discussion. Guest speaker
Dr. Michael Wolff, Consul for
Press Affairs, German Consulate
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