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Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Gar-den Grove) discussed the eco-nomic impact of the war in Iraqand its influence on the domesticeconomy before Nasser Duellasmacroeconomics class Wednes-day morning at Cal State Fuller-ton.

Since 1996 Sanches has repre-sented Californias 47th district, which includes parts of GardenGrove, Santa Ana and Anaheim.

I am a politician. And I saythat with a great amount ofpride, Sanchez said. Most peo-ple who serve in the U.S. House

of Representatives or in the Sen-ate really hate the word politician.I personally really, really enjoy it being a politician is about thepeople.

Sanchez said the reason shecame to speak to the class was toexplain what goes on in Wash-ington because most p eople dontknow or dont care.

Sanchez said committees han-dle everything in Congress. Shesits on the Joint Economic Com-mittee, which has both senatorsand house members on it, deal-ing with the competitiveness ofthe U.S. economy in comparisonto the rest of the world.

Sanchez said the biggest con-cern of this country should becompetitiveness, not security.

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Cal State Fullerton is one of 34groups nationwide to receive moneyunder a memorial grant designed foryouth suicide prevention.

e federal government appoint-ed the university with a three-year,$75,000 grant under the GarrettLee Smith Memorial Act for youth

suicide prevention to help studentsand the community with issues ofsuicide, including mental healthproblems and identifying substanceabuse issues.

For far too long suicide preven-tion is an issue that was ignored.Now we are taking action and I havemade suicide prevention a priority,said Charles Curie, Administratorfor the Substance Abuse and MentalHealth Services Administration in a

press release.As a result of the Garrett Lee

Smith Memorial Act, the admin-istration is now working with stateand local governments and commu-nity providers to stem the number ofyouth suicides in our country. Eachof these new grantees will help filla significant need in their commu-nity, he said.

According to CSUF health educa-tor Brieana Roumeliotis, the funds

would be used to implement pro-grams that would help bring aware-ness to factors that bring about sui-cidal tendencies, such as depressionand anxiety disorders. e moneywould also be used to implement acampus suicide watch and a trackingsystem that would report student is-sues to various campus resources.

Any time you deal with a popu-

CSUF Gets $75,000 for Suicide Prevention

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Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton)spoke about citizen diplomacy andinternational communications in an

hour-long speech given in the TitanStudent Union Wednesday morn-ing.

Since 1993, Royce has represent-ed Californias 40th District, whichincludes parts of Cypress, Stanton,Buena Park, Fullerton, Placentia andOrange.

e dialogue, a part of the univer-sitys Citizen Diplomacy Summit,drew 150 attendees to the TSU, wholistened to the Titan-turned-senator-turned-representative emphasize theimportance of American-sponsoredradio broadcasts in countries such asAfghanistan, Africa and China.

Intercultural issues have been a re-curring theme throughout his career,which include a stint on the HouseCommittee on International Rela-tions, a committee that presides overissues pertaining to foreign affairs.

What Im suggesting here is anapproach to international diplo-macy that is far less combative andfar more constructive, Royce said.You look at what has changed theworld, exchanges, alternative visions you look at history and look atwhat works.

Audience members had split sen-timents on the topic.

CongressmanRoyce Speaksto Students

I like where hes going with theidea of the radio, said 18-year-oldpolitical science major Diana Coro-nado. Its smart to understand othercultures, not a lot of people do.

Political science Professor GloriaBadal had a skeptical take on Roycesvisions, questioning the true inten-tions of the influential radio waves,

intimating thatthe shows weremore intended

for subversivemobilization.Hes advo-

cating settingup the sendingof messages weare promotingto people in

other countries, Badal said. Oh itsso nice of us, were not going in, butsetting up these radio stations thatbroadcast the messages that erodetheir power systems.

Closer to home, Royce cited ashortage of housing and hotel ame-nities in hopes of recruiting morestudents and faculty. He strongly en-courages students to study abroad.

It will help establish credibilityon your resume, he said.

Royce reminisced on his days asa Cal State Fullerton student, cred-iting the education and networkingconnections he made here as thebuilding blocks of his political ca-reer. After serving as the chairmanfor the College Republicans, he usedhis CSUF alumni base to establishhimself as a politician. e univer-sity also provided him with a hum-

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Ask A Mexican? How about Ask aMexican-American Historian?

Gustavo Arellano, the OC Week-lys Ask A Mexican columnist,turned his visit to Cal State Ful-lerton on Tuesday into a Mexican-American history in Orange Countylecture, focusing on the 1948 rulingin the Mendez v. Westminster casethat desegregated schools in Cali-fornia six years before the landmarkBrown v. Board of Education case.

e event was scheduled to startat 4 p.m., and every seat in room321 of Langsdorf Hall had beentaken before it began. People werestill shuffling in as Arellano began totalk. Many of them stood up againstthe walls while some sat down in theaisles of the classroom.

Arellano, 27, said he was surprisedto see such a large turnout, even if alot of them were told to show up by

their teachers. A lot of people in attendance

probably expected an elongated, liveversion of Arellanos column, but in-stead got a lecture on the absence ofMexican-American history from Or-ange County history books.

e Mexican-American history of

the county is not something that isconvenient to the story of OrangeCounty, which is stereotypicallyrich and white, Arellano said.

It was an alternative to evil, ur-ban Los Angeles, he said.

Arellano, whose family migratedfrom Zacatecas, Mexico, said hisfamily came to Orange County towork in the grove fields. His grand-father, he said, is one of the peoplethat made this county what it is.

And nobody is telling his story,he added.

At the start of the lecture, Arellanoasked those in attendance if theydheard about the Mendez v. West-minster case. Around five peopleraised their hand. Almost everyoneraised his or her hand when askedabout Brown v. Board of Education.

In a documentary about the case

Ask A Mexican About O.C. History

HISTORY-Gustavo Arellano,

author of OCWeeklys Ask a

Mexican column,tells students on

Tuesday about theHispanic heritageof Orange County

that historianshave brushed

aside.BY DAVID OSBORNE/Daily Titan SEE HISTORY - PAGE 5

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OC Weekly columnistGustavo Arellano packsroom at Langsdorf Hall

Macroeconomics classhosts CongresswomanLoretta Sanchez

CSUF alumnus discussesintercultural issues at theTitan Student Union

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A weeklong voter registrationdrive concludes tomorrow.

So far, over 950 students at CalState Fullerton have registered tovote through this drive.

I have been meaning to do it, butI just found it easier to do it here,said Joe Ortega, a history major whohad just registered at the TSU table.I am a strong believer that you needto register to vote, it is not only aprivilege of being a citizen of this

country, it is a responsibility. All week students have had the

chance to register to vote for theNov. 7 elections during the voterregistration drive.

Associated Students Inc., Califor-nia Student Public Interest ResearchGroup and the California State Stu-dent Association are holding thisevent through Friday.

e research group is one of hun-

dreds of chapters that work for gov-ernment accountability.

We make sure that our electedofficials stay accountable to the pub-lics demands as opposed to the de-mands of the special interest group,the groups campus organizer Na-than Rose said.

eir goal for this drive is to get1,500 registered students, Rose said.

Curtis Schlaufman, ASI executivedirector of Government Relations,said that this drive has gone to all23 CSU schools and that CSUF hashad the most registered voters of anyof them.

To advertise, they hang posters,pass out easy voter guides, do classpresentations and send volunteers allover campus to register students.

By registering to vote, studentswill get the opportunity to vote forseveral issues. It will include votingfor governor, house and senate po-sitions, California Supreme Courtjudges and finally propositions.

is elections propositions cover

issues including roads, schools, wa-ter, the environment, transportation,sex crimes and oil taxes.

Volunteers are getting mixed mes-sages about how students feel aboutthis drive.

Most people are saying that theyhave already registered, said stu-dent volunteer Pei-pei Chu. Whensomeone is not interested, there isnot much you can do about it.

While some students are uninter-ested and do not approach the tableor the volunteers, others who wantto register do, said student volunteerUrmi Rahman.

is semester is better than lastsemester - weve also had a lot morevolunteers and more people encour-aging it, Rahman said.

Ortega said he gets annoyed atpeople who do not vote and com-plain about the policies of the State.

e last day to register for thiselection is Friday.

If you dont vote, you dont havea voice, Ortega said.

else will be dictating to us whatour day looks like.

Sanchez said Americansshould be mindful of their eco-nomic independence becausethe national deficit is $700 to$800 billion per year.

She said part of the U.S. defi-

cit is a result of skyrocketing op-erating costs of the war in Iraq.e government spends $2 bil-lion dollars per week in operat-ing costs for the war.

How many $2 billion dol-lars can we spend? Bush doesnot have a plan with respect toIraq, she said.

She said that constitutionallyany spending or tax bills muststart in the U.S. House, whichcontrols the purse strings of thegovernment.

Scott Spitzer, a professor ofpolitical science at CSUF, did

not agree that the U.S. Housecompletely controlled the pursestrings. e U.S. House can passa bill, but it still has to go to theSenate where it can be stopped,or the President can veto it.

Shes not entirely correct,Spitzer said.

Sanchez said money allocated

for combat could be going to-wards education, transportationand communication. Sanchezsaid Republican control hasallowed Bush to overstep hisboundaries in dealing with Iraq.

Duella agreed with her asser-tion that money spent on theIraq war could be invested in theeconomy.

Its all about choices, Duellasaid. Society has to choose be-tween using our scarce resourcesto fight international terrorismor to improve the education andthe U.S. i nfrastructure.

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bling experience that would ring ironic whenlooking further down the timeline.

I ran for student government and I lost,he said. Since then, Ive had better luck.

e 1977 graduate also recounted one ofthe universitys darker moments. He was en-rolled during the summer of 1976 when the

infamous shooting in the library occurred.Paul Paulson was a friend of mine and hissister was shot that was so traumatic for thestudent body and the families involved, andstill is, he said.

Criminal justice major Sarah Tupo, 20,said she was turned on to many new con-cepts and ideas from Royces presentation.

It was very insightful and enlighteningabout the radio, said Tupo. Im excited hesa Titan.

Royces return to his alma mater was a stepon the campaign trail for the Fullerton-na-tive.

Royce is up for re-election Nov. 7 for hiseighth consecutive congressional term.

shown during the lecture, the young-est living Mendez, Sandra, said shedidnt find out about the case untilshe was in college at UC Riverside,even though she graduated from aHigh School in Orange County.

Its voices that are left out, andthey shouldnt be left out, said Val-erie Alley, an American studies ma-jor who hadnt heard about the caseuntil Arellanos lecture.

Arellano said Mexicans in OrangeCounty dont have a historical iden-tity.

History isnt being told, hesaid. ey dont want you to knowthe clashes. ey dont want you toknow the struggles.

e lecture was titled e Plightof Mexicans in Orange C ounty andArellano started by reading an e-mailhe received the night before from aperson asking what plight?

e e-mailer said cultures makechoices and they should live by thechoices they make.

is idea of Mexicans being be-low, or beneath, is still prevalent inOrange County, said Arellano.

Chicana and Chicano studiesProfessor Alexandro Gradilla saidduring the lecture that Latinos havealways been a nonwhite group.

ey dont fit, he said. eyare perceived as a threat a culturalthreat language, race and reli-gion.

Arellano said Orange County isat the forefront of the immigrationdebate

He is currently working on twobooks - one is a part memoir, parthistory of Orange County and theother is a compilation of his bestAsk A Mexican columns.

He said people need to learn abouttheir history to change the present.

I think youll see a lot of reactionand comments being influenced bythe past, Arellano said. Knowingthe past allows us to better react.

After the documentary, Arellanoopened the floor to questions and

comments. Only one person hada question related to his column.Arellano answered it, but remindedthose in attendance I want to stickto the history of Mexicans in OrangeCounty.

Arellano said he was sure some inattendance came to hear the Ask AMexican Columnist and not a his-tory lecture.

However, Im always delightedto throw a curveball, Arellano saidwith a small laugh. eres a seriousside to me and thats where my col-umn comes from.

ats also where his passion toseek out stories that havent been toldcomes from too, he said. Stories likethe absence of Mexican-Americansin Orange County history books.

I came here to hear about his-tory and thats what I got, saidRyan Louder, an American studiesgrad major, who was one of the fewstudents who know about the Men-dez v. Westminster case. It was verypleasantly interesting.

lation the size of ours, suicide willalways be an issue. We deal with ahigh risk population simply becauseof the levels of stress and family is-sues going on, Roumeliotis said.

ough the grant money was onlyreceived in September, the universityhas already started the initial stagesof a youth suicide prevention pro-gram. Roumeliotis said the campuswould start to see the actual physical

products in the next six months asthe grant money is allocated to thedifferent programs.

We have three years to completethe different areas that were includ-ed in the scope of work, Roumeli-otis said.

e universitys Auxiliary ServiceCorp. will monitor the spending asthe grant money is placed in the dif-ferent budget categories.

Blake Eudy, coordinator of theCSUF Auxiliary Service Corp. saidthough the terms and conditions setby the federal agency are extensive,the main concern is to make sure thecosts are allowable and can be allo-cated to the grant.

e terms and conditions were

really just a matter of making surethat we are meeting all the objectivesthat we have set for ourselves in thetimeline we had established, Rou-meliotis said. e terms and condi-tions are really just doing what wehad set out to do.

Nationally, an estimated 712,000 Americans under the age of 21planned to end their lives during ep-isodes of major depression, accord-ing to the administration Web site.

In all, the Substance Abuse andMental Health Services Administra-tion issued 46 grants worth $25.7

million. Last year, the grant totalwas almost $3.2 million.

Every dollar that helps heal thosebattling life-threatening depression

brings us closer to saving our chil-dren and families, Sen. GordonSmith said in a press release. Youngpeople can be lost in the deep dark-ness of mental illness and these pro-grams will help find sufferers and getthem life saving help.

HISTORY: TELLING AN UNTOLD STORY

GRANT: MONEY WOULD CREATE SUICIDE WATCHSANCHEZ: COMPETITIVENESS MOREIMPORTANT THAN U.S. SECURITY

ROYCE: RADIOINSTEAD OF WAR

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