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December 9, 2010Vol. 88 Issue 52

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OPINIONControversial scanners: Better than a pat-down........................................4

DETOUR

SPORTSThe “King’s” return to his old stomping grounds........................................8

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A small-scale internship can pro-vide students with the job experience they need during this tough econom-ic time and scarce employment rate.

Associate director for Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Internships and Community Engagement, Dawn Macy, said 62 percent of the jobs lost during the current economy slump will never come back.

“The workforce is evolving,” Macy said. “Employers are looking for a whole new set of skills than what they have previously been looking for. They want flexibility, adaptabil-ity and creativity.”

Since the workforce is evolving, the types of internships students seek should also change. Oftentimes the internship opportunities that are not so heavily sought out and desired by students are the better choices.

Steven G. Mihaylo Hall, the Col-lege of Business and Economics, does not require an internship for graduation, but highly recommends one within specific departments for work experience.

Macy said a large-scale company like Dell might be a first choice for business majors, but a smaller-scale company like an independently- owned small business may have more to offer to someone who needs and wants to learn a broader range of skills. A small or up-and-coming business has fewer employees, thus, an intern would be able to take on more jobs. An intern could assist with the accounting duties one day and help out with administrative du-ties the next. When working for a corporation like Dell, for example, the intern would be assigned to only one task.

See INTERNSHIPS, page 2

Economy evolves internshipsExtracurricular opportunities in small, nonprofit organizationsKELSEY LANEYDaily Titan

Students were taken for a joyride down the coastline in the back-seat of Pilot Touhills’ beat machine Wednesday at the Becker Amphithe-ater.

Pilot Touhill echoed a fusion of everything from reggae, rock, soul, hip-hop, electronica and the blues to create a fresh original sound.

“I started off with hip-hop and I’ve always wanted to get away from that and do something like Sublime and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who I admire, so I wanted to branch off and make something of my own type of sound. When I had all mu-sic I just tossed it together and that’s See ANDERSON, page 8

Not just another statistic, athletic adviser tells all

This was the case for a young man, who was walking down the street one day and the next, would spend his life in a wheel chair, para-lyzed from the waist down.Where he is today:

Rodney Anderson, 29, is an ath-letic academic adviser at Cal State Fullerton and former member of the CSUF men’s basketball team. Upon receiving his degree in coun-seling, he knew he always wanted to work with kids and through his athletic background, acquired a soft spot for athletics.

“I received my graduate degree in counseling but didn’t know if I wanted to continue in this field or not,” Anderson said. “My athletes keep me young and excited and once an opportunity presented it-self (to work as an academic advis-er), it appealed to me and I jumped on the opportunity.”

“I was a graduate assistant un-der Meredith Basil (former head athletic academic adviser), who showed me that this is how I could make a difference. My goal is to get athletes to see the most important thing is to get a degree,” Anderson said.

Gail Kirkland, who is also an athletic academic adviser, said working with Anderson has been a

Former member of the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team, Rodney Anderson, serves his fellow Titans as academic adviser.

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privilege and he is someone who is always ready and willing to get the job done.

“Rodney is very dependable, easy to work with and someone you can always count on,” Kirkland said. “He has been accepting of his disability and goes on and takes it

as part of life, and I don’t know if many people could do that.”

Anderson expressed his passion for working with kids and how im-portant it is for him to show them there is a better way.

“I love my job, I come in ev-eryday smiling,” Anderson said.

“It doesn’t feel like a job to me. I still want to reach out to inner-city youth and work with an outreach program and I’m hoping to get the school involved here and get a pro-gram going.”

where it all kind of went,” said Mark Lowe, turntablelist.

The band met online through none other than CraigList.com, communicating and mixing tracks from opposite sides of the country out of Mark Lowes home studio.

Although the concert was de-layed a few minutes by their MIA bassist, in no time the engine to the El Camino was fired up and Pilot Touhill started coasting.

The set consisted of songs that painted vivid pictures of stories im-bedded in the lyrics, taking the au-dience on a trip. Each of the songs delivered catchy hooks, soulful mel-odies and infectious rhythms pack-aged in effortless talent.

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More than a thousand World of Warcraft fans waited in line at Fry’s Electronics parking lot in Fountain Valley to purchase the new expan-sion pack, Cataclysm, at midnight Dec. 6.

Cataclysm is the third expan-sion in the game series that first launched in 2004. WOW is a mas-sive multiplayer role-playing game.

With many official launch par-ties worldwide, Blizzard, the com-pany who creates WOW, held only one in the United States and dedi-cated fans camped outside Fry’s Electronics to get their hands on the game.

Computer science student Curtis McHenry, 18, who goes by a Fury Warrior named Belarr on WOW, waited 82 hours come midnight to be the very first in line to get a copy of the new WOW expansion.

“My feet are killing me from waiting in line,” McHenry said.

McHenry was the first in line and received a free copy of the col-lector’s edition, which is retailed at about $80.

McHenry waited in line with four other friends who rotated 30 minutes to have breaks, go home, shower and make food runs. Al-though the rain came down on them Sunday, they were dedicated to stick through it and stay in line.

“Our tent got flooded,” McHen-ry said.

They had to buy a new one.Bliz-zard entertained the fans while waiting for the countdown until midnight with Cataclysm cinematic trailers, top three fan videos, music by the David Arkenstone and Tav-ern Band and a heavy metal band.

Creators of World of Warcraft hold the only launch party in the U.S.LUCIO VILLADaily Titan

Fans flock to midnight release of game series

See WOW, page 2

He sits comfortably on the green felt steps lead-ing up to his mobile-home porch, a gentle breeze blows on what is an otherwise warm fall day. He takes off his sunglasses and pulls out a cigarette. He lights up and inhales, takes another lengthy drag from his cigarette and flicks it toward the curb.

He walks on a 6-foot-2-inches, 260-pound frame; his arms don several tattoos depicting logos of old-school punk rock bands and his face shows signs of acne scars.

Robert Oleson, 28, is suffering the consequences of his bad choices, but is determined to turn his life around in hopes of being able to enlist in the Navy; he exhales and begins to recount an incident that occurred the night of Oct. 25, 2010.

On that Monday, Oleson got behind the wheel of his 1998 green Honda Civic after leaving a bar he frequents in Garden Grove. Leaving earlier than typical nights, he pulled out of the parking lot and was caught off guard by those red and blue lights glaring through his rear-view mirror. Oleson had been drinking, and at that mo-ment, déjà vu struck as the officer forcefully cuffed him and took him to jail for his second time

driving under the influence of alcohol. “The moment I saw the lights flash, I knew I was

screwed,” Oleson said. “I knew I had too much to drink and knew they would give me a field test.”

Robert Oleson has hit a roadblock in his life. He is facing up to a year of jail time for a second DUI offense that could keep him from enlisting in the Navy.

JC VERA / Convergence Contest Winner

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SHIFTING GEARS

- Prof. Genelle BelmasConvergence Contest Judge

The integration between the written text and the video made it a compelling story to read.

One man’s struggle through multiple DUI offenses and his hope, dedication and commitment to change his life

LINA NORENAConvergence Contest Winner

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“The Boss” revamps Dark-ness on the Edge of Town........................................5

The third installment of the game may be easy for players to miss, but it’s sure not to disappoint when played.See VIDEO GAME, page 6

I Am Number Four promisesa unique new Sci-Fi experienceDisney teams up with Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg to bring the Sci-Fi novel to the big screen early next year. See ALIENS, page 6

Assassin’s Creed:players flock for familiarity

Becker offers eclectic mix

See BECKER, page 5

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Pilot Touhill performs a mix of reggae, rock and other genres at the Becker Amphitheater.

There was also a dance competi-tion where 12 fans were allowed to go onstage and perform a dance from the game. The top three winners were awarded a wireless headset and an EVGA graphics card.

Riverside resident Amber Gregory, 22, came dressed up as a WOW gob-lin engineer wearing green makeup that covered her full body.

Gregory participated in the dance competition and danced to Poker Face by Lady Gaga as a “Wargan Female.” She took second place.

Adult film star Sasha Sweet, 21, braved the cold and came in a gold bikini, gold elf ears and a gold finish all over her skin.

“I’m a huge WOW player,” Sweet said.

Sweet has been playing the game for three-and-a-half years and was in line for five hours. She said that the first thing she is going to do once she plays the game is fly over Old World Azarath and see everything.

The night was hosted by Blizzard licensing project manager Kat Hunter and senior producers Kim Phan. At midnight, the fans that were in line were finally let inside Fry’s Electronics for their chance to purchase the highly anticipated game.

Nhan Huynh, a Cal State Fullerton alumnus had a friend save a place for him in line at the launch party and was finally let in to purchase three copies of the Cataclysm game.

“It’s going to be a Christmas pres-ent for my brother and his girlfriend,” Huynh said. “I remember playing back at Cal State Fullerton instead of studying.”

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INTERNATIONALMullen rebukes China for failing to curb North Korea

Arrest made in plot to blow up military center

Graduation and dropout rates rise in CaliforniaLOS ANGELES – California’s high school graduation and dropout rates

rose in the past academic year, according to a report released Tuesday, but some East Bay districts saw vast fluctuations in their data, which could indicate er-rors.

The Dublin School District, for example, showed a 99.9 percent dropout rate in 2008-09, up from 10.8 percent the previous year.

“We do not have a 99.9 percent dropout rate,” said trustee Dan Cunning-ham.

He said district officials were looking into the error, which was a mathemat-ically impossibility, since its graduation rate was 93.3 percent during the same time period, according to reports also released by the State Tuesday.

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SEOUL AND BEIJING – The most senior U.S. military official de-livered a sharp rebuke to China Wednesday, blaming Asia’s top power for failing to rein in its North Korean ally in the escalating dispute over the fate of the Korean peninsula.

Administrator Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, blasted China for refusing to condemn North Korea over the Nov. 23 artillery bar-rage that killed four people on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. He spoke in Seoul, where he met with his South Korean counterpart in a public display of resolve to deter any North Korean aggression.

BALTIMORE – A 21-year-old Baltimore man has been arrested for at-tempting to blow up a military recruitment center in Catonsville, Md., with a fake bomb, supplied by federal agents.

Federal authorities say Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hus-sain, attempted to detonate what he thought to be a vehicle bomb Wednesday morning at the Armed Forces Career Center.

Court records paint Martinez as obsessed with jihad and intent on punish-ing the military. He praised Nidal Hassan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and discussed obtaining weapons and shooting up military installations, records show.

IN OTHER NEWS DTSHORTHAND

Finals are just around the cor-ner and the time for coffee, energy drinks and cramming is here. The Titan Student Union will be open 24-hours for its All Night Study.

From Dec. 11 through Dec. 17 the main level of the TSU will be open to give students a place to study for finals.

Other parts of the TSU such as Titan Bowl and Billiards and the Food Court have extended their hours to accommodate any breaks students need from staring at text-books.

Study areas, the computer lounge, and meeting rooms for group projects will be accessible to checkout also. For more informa-tion about room checkout go to Asi.Fullerton.edu/AllNightStudy.

Activities and giveaways will also be available to help get stu-dents through the night and help alleviate stress.

All Night Study during finals

Brief by Jenna West

Mihaylo College was recently ranked among the Princeton Re-view’s “Best 300 Business Schools” for 2011.

Among the 11 categories, Mi-haylo ranked among the best busi-ness schools on the West Coast. Other CSUs to make West Coast rankings included San Bernardi-no, Long Beach, Fresno, East Bay, Chico, Pomona and San Luis Obispo. Chapman was also among the rankings in the West.

Mihaylo currently serves more than 850 graduate students. These students participate in business programs such as master’s in eco-nomics, accountancy, taxation and information systems.

According to Princeton Review, 19,000 students who attend uni-versities offering MBA programs were surveyed to determined the rankings. Rankings were also based on certain statistical infor-mation about the universities such as admissions requirements, phys-ical environment and programs.

Schools ranked nationally in-cluded UCLA, which ranked first in the Best Campus Environment category. Stanford was ranked as the toughest business school to get into in the country. UC Berkeley ranked sixth in Best Administered Programming.

Business College in high ranks

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“Larger companies have specific jobs they need completed,” Macy said. “With smaller-scale companies, you can do big things that you might not be able to do at larger companies. Small marketing companies allow stu-dents to use their creativity, which is what the employers are looking for.”

The College of Education requires students to shadow teachers as well as complete hours at all three school-ing levels: elementary, middle and high school. While those hours pro-vide great experience for students, an internship adds more knowledge and skills.

“I work at Kid’s Club; this helps me by just becoming part of the system. You gain familiarity with the teachers and principals that way,” said Mo-nique San, 21, a liberal studies major.

“It’s a great transition from sitting in a classroom to actually working with the kids.”

Kathryn Bartle-Angus, coordinator of Undergraduate Programs and pro-fessor for the reading department, said nonprofit organizations like the Boys and Girls Club of America and the YMCA are great places for education majors. These nonprofit organizations provide firsthand experience toward working with children.

“Nonprofit organizations (that work with children) provide lots of opportunities; anything where you are working with children in a leadership position is a good head start into the professional world,” Bartle-Angus said. “Education majors can also consider camp counseling opportunities like Camp Titan, as well as working and/or volunteering at their local schools. This can be done during the regular school

day or in the after-school programs of-fered at many elementary and middle neighborhood schools.”

In the College of Communica-tions an internship is a graduation re-quirement for all students. Nonprofit institutions like the American Heart Association or Casa Teresa, a homeless shelter for pregnant women, are ben-eficial places to exercise skills as well as pick up new ones. In some cases, these institutions hire interns as full-time employees.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has an array of majors that may not need an internship, but other departments stress the benefits of internships.

Political science professor Scott Spitzer said a government agency is a great place to intern, and students have a large variety of agencies to choose from. Students can choose something

they are passionate about from places like the Administration for Children and Families or the Department of Labor.

Interest groups and nonprofit orga-nizations are also great internship op-portunities for students who are more interested in law making and imple-mentation of public policy.

“Politics is a living, breathing, social reality. You can learn a lot from read-ing and studying, but you also need to have the experience of being involved in it,” Spitzer said. “Interest groups and nonprofits are great ways to see what you are or are not interested in.”

With today’s employers seeking flexibility, adaptability and creativity, an internship has potential to help stu-dents develop those qualities.

Stop by the Center for Internships and Community Engagement in Langsdorf Hall for more information.

Thousands wait outside Fry’s Electronics in Fountain Valley to get their hands on the new expansion of World of Warcraft. WOW is made by the Blizzard Entertainment Company. Music was provided for attendees while counting down to midnight.

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Amber Gregory from Riverside dances to “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga in a dance competition held at the launch party for WOW. Gregory took second place.

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The Garden Grove Police gave him a sobriety test, which he failed. This resulted in his second DUI offense in less than four years and resulted in the possibility of having to serve time in prison.

Oleson is still hesitant to admit he may have a drinking problem although he realizes his habitual drinking has created aggravation in his life. His record is tainted and there are holes left in his pockets because of this bad habit.

“Yes, there have been times where I might have blacked out because of drinking, but it isn’t a common thing,” Oleson said. “I do remember waking up in the hospital after apparently get-ting hit in the head with a brick because of a night of drinking. But I don’t think I have a problem, I don’t drink the moment I wake up and I’m a night person I only drink at night.”

Oleson grew up in Whittier, Calif. and lived there until the age of 13. His family moved to Pon-derosa Mobile Park in Anaheim, where he still resides.

He attended Katella High School but never attained a high

school diploma. After dropping out, he picked up drinking around the age of 17.

The repercussions of his drink-ing habit have begun to dawn on Oleson; the hospital bills and DUI offenses represent only a few. Time missed from work, and money spent at bars also add up.

He acknowledged that he spends the majority of his earn-ings at bars, but when asked if he would ever consider giving up drinking for good, a smirk, fol-

lowed by a sheepish chuckle made it clear that his attempt to change will be gradual.

“I have been late to work, but not just because of drinking, there are other reasons,” Oleson said. “The company I work at has been

understanding, but I am not too sure if that will be the case this second time around with me hav-ing to miss work if I get a sentence of 30 days or more.”

After Oct. 25 it would be the third time Oleson has been in-carcerated over alcohol abuse and admits it has been a wake-up call. If he were to return, he remains optimistic and claims that jail can be a foundation for change since it gives him time to self-reflect and plan for the future as well as keep

in shape. “One good thing about be-

ing in jail is that you’re able to lose weight because there isn’t much to do but workout,” Ole-son said. He is taking respon-sibility for his actions and will agree to the sentence.

However, he is hoping for a lenient judge.

Oleson’s court date is slated for early December, and he is hoping to persuade the judge into letting him enlist in the

Navy in lieu of jail time. In his attempt to make a change

for the better, Oleson counts on the support of his family and new girlfriend and hopes this is just a minor speed bump in his path to a better future.

Oleson’s court date is scheduled for early December and he is hoping to persuade the judge into letting him enlist in the Navy instead of jail.

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Convergence ContestFall 2010 Winners

F i r s t A n n u A l C o m p e t i t i o n

Nyree Knox, Blanca Canales and Jeanette Castaneda with “Driving Under the Influence”

Third place overall winner:

Julissa Rivera, William Camargo and Serena Whitecotton with “A day in the life of: An undocu-mented student”

Second place overall winner:

Lina Norena and JC Vera with “A DUI Tale”

First place overall winner:

- Prof. Jason ShepardConvergence Contest Judge

This story is a personal and important look at the effects of a drunk-driving arrest on a man’s life and work. This story is tightly written and a compelling read.

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Getting intimate with body scanners

Exactly 21 days from now, I will embark on an adventure to Iceland. The adventure lies not only in the destination itself, but also at the Los Angeles International Airport with the full-body scanners the Transportation Security Administration has rolled out in the last few months.

According to a recent poll by Zog-by International 61 percent of travel-ers recently surveyed oppose the new full-body scans and modified TSA pat downs.

I’m of the minority who is willing to try out the full-body scan.

The people who oppose these new security methods, such as the followers of the organized “National Opt-Out Day” Nov. 24 who opted out of the full-body scans, seem like nothing but complainers to me.

The new TSA procedures are yet an-other example of the costs we Ameri-cans must pay to protect ourselves and one another. each other.

With transportation security and airplane terrorists battling head-on, one of them had to increase their tech-nology and efficiency.

I don’t know about you 61 percent, but I would rather my security in-crease, thank you.

Whenever these types of procedures change, there will always be a backlash.

The thing is, the amount of air trav-elers per year has gone down steadily since 2007, the lowest it has been in years, according to the United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

“The backlash to the latest proce-dures may be partly a result of the pub-lic not seeing an immediate need for them,” said Stephen Flynn, homeland security analyst, to USA Today.

That makes sense, because the school life expectancy for the average American is only until 16 years old, according to the CIA World Factbook.

They can’t help it; they probably just never learned better.

According to the TSA, the scan-

ner does not reveal a person’s face, only what they look like beneath their clothing. Anonymity remains as the image is shown on a screen in a back room where security ensures that there are no concealed weapons.

The image cannot be stored or trans-ferred and is immediately deleted after the person is deemed safe. With long and coiling airport security lines, it is highly unlikely that the security officer is a pervert who enjoys sitting in a dark, dank room by himself, aroused but the sight of your naked body.

Don’t flatter your-self. He or she is doing his or her job.

Why some people prefer the in-depth pat down where, as The Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg phrases it, the secu-rity officers pat down people all the way up their thighs until they reach “resistance,” or one’s crotch, is be-yond me.

Why they claim that this method is less intrusive, I will never understand.

This contrasts the full-body scan which, according to the TSA, is “advanced imaging technology (which) safely screens pas-sengers for metallic and nonmetallic threats including weapons, explosives and other objects concealed under lay-ers of clothing without physical con-tact to help the TSA keep the traveling public safe.”

In addition, the TSA offers many workarounds for those who are ex-tremely uncomfortable with either of these methods for reasons including religion, pregnancy, etc.

Security officers are willing to do pat downs in private rooms or with witnesses to ensure that no one is being violated.

As a whole, the people who com-plain about the new restrictions likely do not consider the efficiency these new full-body scanners provide.

They are safe. They are fast. They are anonymous (unless there is a discrep-ancy).

Transportation Security Admin-istrator John Pistole even told USA Today that the scanners and new pat-downs already had found “dozens and dozens of artfully concealed items.” Not only are these procedures fast, safe, and anonymous, but they are also

extremely effective. The short attention spans of the av-

erage modern American citizen may be to blame for those complaining about the procedures. Perhaps they have for-gotten all of the terrorist attacks within our borders and out, through air travel.

Not just Sept. 11, but also a four-year span from 1985-89 where many overseas occurred, as was artfully ex-plained by Salon writer Patrick Smith.

Regardless, less than four weeks from now, I will confidently make my way through LAX, carry-on in hand, ready to test out new technology for the sake of my country’s security, and for the sake of my own time saved.

Sure, full-body scanners, let’s go to second base together.

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Let’s face it: the workload that col-lege - and even high school - students are responsible for today is not what it was when mom and pop roamed the campus jungle.

The standards for high school stu-dents to graduate, let alone get into a good university, have raised significant-ly in just about every aspect. Whether it’s scoring well on the SAT or fulfilling community service hours, students to-day face a lot of pressures to succeed.

Once these students get to college, they are met with syllabi, heavy with reading assignments, essays and the ex-pectation that they will come to class everyday, well-read and ready to jump at any opportunity to raise their hand, say something (hopefully intelligent) and and fulfill that 20 percent of their grade that participation goes toward.

Sounds doable, right? Sure. If you’re taking one class.

Many of us are feeling these pres-sures right at this very moment, with finals looming in the air.

As this is my final fall semester of my collegiate career, I tell you from a full-circle experience that the process of preparing for finals is like having two periods in one month.

It sucks, it’s upsetting, and all you

want do is sleep through it. I’m sure many people on the outside of this situation can easily blame it on the in-dividual student: you can’t manage your time well, you study and go on Facebook simultaneously, you rely on google for all of your think-ing, etc...

Well, those people can go kick rocks, because such generalizations don’t apply to all of us.

Some of us have outside commitments like work, or commut-ing back and forth between campus and home (which can be SO draining), or helping care for family members, or participation in on-campus organiza-tions (because what scholarship or grad school panel wants someone who never leaves the library?).

For those of us who have a load to juggle, sometimes we can do noth-ing more than adapt to our academic jungle, where only the strongest gradu-ate with distinction, because no serious student goes to college with the mantra of “Cs get degrees.”

Sometimes, these adaptations can go to extremes.

Take the use of Adderall for exam-ple. That’s right mom, little Johnny is not just using Adderall to calm down anymore. He is using it to graduate from NYU, too.

An article featured on Washing-tonian.com exposes how the real-life academic pressures felt by students lead

to Adder-all con-sumption and sub-s e q u e n t academic s u c c e s s . One stu-dent at D u k e turned to

Adderall when his grades, which would ultimately determine if he would get into medical school, just weren’t cut-ting it. While the Adderall helped him get awesome grades (and party all night), the magic wore off when he found himself in the ER one morn-ing. Even after all that, he still decided he would use Adderall for his MCAT exam.

The article also talks about a girl who took Adderall to score an 1150 (when the perfect score was still 1600) on the SAT and got into George Wash-ington University.

One student writer at Georgetown even cited her campus to be an “Adder-all drug den” come finals week.

While I guess I’m not hip enough to risk an Adderall addiction, at the same time, I don’t blame these students for taking Adderall either.

In the academic jungle, being faced with midterms and finals can be brutal, and as the standards for education de-mand more and more from students, it really is a matter of fight or flight.

Using Adderall is simply one strat-egy employed by students to avoid be-ing eaten alive.

No doubt it’s a jungle out there, folks.

While it is scarier than it used to be, be wise on how you chose to survive.

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Pilot Touhill offers a unique compilation of sounds for listeners. The band met through CraigsList.com, making music together while living on opposite coasts.JC VERA / Daily Titan

The band presented soulful melodies that had audience members tapping their toes.

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A constant breeze of rock, reggae and hip-hop elements with melodic guitar riffs and percussion enhanced beats filled the amphitheater.

“They have a really mellow sound to them, very relaxing. They sound like they know what they are doing,” said Scott Jackson, 23 of La Habra.

They were a pleasant surprise to the audience, due to their unique sound and tight, effective perfor-mance.

With songs ranging from relaxing jams celebrating a particular green leafy substance, to hip-hop influ-enced tracks, such as “The Perfect Size,” the result was a delicious hy-brid of reggae and hip hop that was a set highlight.

“C’mon now and twist and roll/Grab that lighter, we’ll burn one slow/We’ll chase our troubles away/C’mon now and twist and roll/Free your mind, free your soul/We’ll chase our troubles away because ev-ery day is a good, good morning.”

Although the amphitheater was engulfed by the shade and the weather dropped in temperature the audience seemed to enjoy the perfor-mance, getting their warmth from uncontrollable toe tapping.

“I’ve always liked these shows be-cause the are a wide variety in mu-sic. This one in particular I liked the sound because it had a reggae – hip-hop feel which made it really nice to just kick back and do some reading,” said Emily Robles 20, English major, who stopped to enjoy the band.

Reggae is naturally a type of mu-sic that brings people together and makes everyone have a good time.

Pilot Touhill took that and com-bined it with a sweet tight sound, and their songs carried out not leafy green themes, but the always needed love song, “Good Morning.”

“And you’re good one, what a beauty. I’m so happy to be lying in this bed with you. Senorita, you’re my weakness but I just gotta say, I’m crazy about the things that you do.”

Pilot Touhill proved that they be-long in the same league as The Black Seeds, Sublime, Slightly Stoopid and other bands in the emerging and popular reggae-rock movement infecting fans in California.

At the end of the concert, the band gave audience members free copies of their latest independently recorded album, Rich As A King. If you missed the joyride, the album is also available online at PilotTouhill.BandCamp.com.

Album: Springsteen two box set

For those growing up in the mid-to-late ‘70s, the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen’s songs reflected a care-free yet dramatic blue-collar life filled with muscle cars, love and es-caping the day-to-day boredom of life.

If only for a few moments, one could sit back and put “The Boss” on the turntable and issues, such as the fuel shortage or the Vietnamese conflict, would fade away.

His third album, Born to Run was released in August 1975, and proved to be the breakthrough that launched his climb to one of the most well-known rock musicians.

The album’s title song and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” were released as singles and climbed to the top of the charts. Some of the lesser-known tracks were popular with his grow-ing fan base, including “Thunder Road.” Springsteen famously hoped he would sound like “Roy Orbison singing Bob Dylan produced by Spector,” according to Rolling Stone magazine’s David Fricke.

But less than a year after the al-bum’s release, Springsteen’s life was turned upside down and put on hold when he entered a bitter legal battle with his manager.

That gave The Boss time to write and record Darkness On the Edge of Town, re-leased in 1978 after the lawsuits were settled.

To tell a visual tale of that gloomy period, Columbia Records released a two-CD boxed set, The Promise (The Lost Session: Darkness On the Edge of Town) and The Promise: The Darkness On the Edge of Town Story, Nov. 16.

The title song, “The Promise,” foreshadows the essence of the entire package and doesn’t leave anyone feeling deceived. It is filled with acoustic piano ballads to rockabilly blues and rock, true to The Boss, complete with his trademarked gritty tenor voice with slurred vo-cals and though he’s trying to sing through closed lips.

The first contains 21 tracks never previously released from the “Dark-ness” recording sessions. All the

tracks were recorded with his E Street Band.

These include his own versions of tunes he wrote for others, including “Because the Night” (Patti Smith), “Talk to Me” (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes) and “Fire” (Point-er Sisters).

The six-disc deluxe box set in-cludes the two CDs as well as a bonus CD and three DVDs. Also includ-ed is the celebrated documentary shown on HBO, The Promise: The

Making of Darkness of the Edge of Town. It’s filled with a glo-rious eight-and-a-half hours of video and audio to satiate any Springsteen connoisseur.

Music lovers will cherish the 80-page

spiral notebook containing facsimi-les of Springsteen’s original and al-ternative lyrics, recording notes and never-before-seen photographs.

Other extras include:-A live performance of “Darkness

on the Edge of Town” by Springs-teen and the E Street Band, filmed Dec.13, 2009, in Asbury Park, N.J. and recorded specifically for the boxed set.

-Previously unreleased live video of rehearsal and stage performances from 1976-78.

-A three-hour bootleg video per-formance from the Darkness ’78 tour, filmed in Houston.

-The first digitally remastered ver-sion of “Darkness.”

MARYANNE SCHULTSDaily Titan

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Thirty years ago outside a Man-hattan apartment in the Upper West Side of New York city, Mark David Chapman gunned down music legend John Lennon at the age of 40.

From Lennon’s Hollywood star in Los Angeles to the Strawberry Fields in New York City, fans gath-ered to remember Lennon’s endur-ing message of music and peace.

In his final interview for Roll-ing Stone magazine’s Lennon said, “I’m not interested in being a dead fucking hero…. So forget’em, forget’em.”

America Online contributor Steve Hoffer adds, “Lennon, of course, would never live to see how ironic those words have become.”

Rolling Stone magazine released the Lennon’s entire final interview with journalist Jonathan Cott to The Associated Press Dec. 8

In a 1980 cover story of the leg-endary musician, only segments of his interview were released.

Yoko Ono released a statement to The AP on Tuesday, Nov. 7 in tribute to Lennon Death Anniver-sary.

“On this tragic anniversary please join me in remembering John with deep love and respect,” Ono said. “In his short-lived life of 40 years, he has given so much to the world. The world was lucky to have known him. We still learn so much from him today. John, I love you!”

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Springsteen’s two-box set, released Nov. 16, contains never-before-heard tracks.

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Aliens land on Earth disguised as humans with extraterrestrial powers in Dreamworks’ I Am Number Four, which debuts Feb. 18.Courtesy of Walt Disney Motion Pictures

Aliens take the big screenDreamworks is teaming up with

producer Michael Bay (Transform-ers), executive producer Steven Spielberg (Avatar) and director D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye) to bring the ac-claimed sci-fi novel I Am Number Four to the big screen.

The action-packed film centers around nine aliens who’ve escaped the destruction of their planet and have landed on Earth, but are now on the run from those who destroyed their planet, the Mogadorian. The nine aliens scatter themselves on Earth disguised as ordinary teenag-ers with paranormal skills.

Number One in Malaysia, Num-ber Two in England and Number Three in Kenya are all killed.

Alex Pettyfer plays John Smith, refugee Number Four. Smith finds his hiding spot in the small town of Paradise, Ohio, with his guardian Henri played by Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies, Hitman). When Smith receives word of the deaths of One, Two and Three, he prepares for the fight for his life. As Smith encoun-

ters his enemies, he gains extraordi-nary abilities that help him stay fast on his feet.

“(John Smith is) this guy who comes to a point in his life where he is faced with choice like any of us are, and he has two roads. He can either pick to go down the road that he wants, which is normalcy in his life or he has to go down another road where, you know, he essentially becomes this warrior that he’s des-tined to be,” Pettyfer said.

While living a double life and try-ing to hide his alien origin, let alone the Mogadorian hunt for his life, he meets his love at first sight, Sarah (Dianna Agron of Glee).

“(Sarah is) fascinated with study-ing people and things around her – not so much as being the studied, and she meets this character, John, who is so fascinating to her because he’s open and real and different than any of the boys that she’s met at school and they form this very strong bond and this journey together and she realizes how strong she really is,” Agron said.

The film also includes stars Te-resa Palmer (Sorcerer’s Apprentice) as Number Six and Callan McAuliffe

(Flipped) as Smith’s best friend Sam.“It was quite an honor (to work

on the film) because you have two really different types of filmmakers, but both who are very successful and very, very astute in the craft,” Caruso said. “It was really, really helpful for me on one aspect to have sort of the traditional strong, storytelling element of Steven Spielberg and his use of sort of blending and special effects with real human stories and Michael’s expertise and really how to execute this sort of the vision, and sort of how to blend physical effects with visual effects and really kinetic sort of elements of the story where the action sequences take place.”

Although the movie is filled with aliens, it illustrates real-life elements.

“What makes this movie so great is that it’s such a real situation where he doesn’t want to be the warrior. He doesn’t want his destiny. All he wants is normal life, but he realizes that he has to go down that road to get everything that he wants,” Pet-tyfer said.

I Am Number Four hits the big screen Feb. 18, of next year.

MIMI CASTELLANOSFor the Daily Titan

Perry siblings gain country stardom

The Oct. 12 release of The Band Perry’s self-titled debut album is keeping them busy on tour with shows from North Carolina to Ari-zona.

The Band Perry arrived to main-stream media with a bang, already boasting a gold certification for their single, “If I Die Young,” from the Recording Industry Association of America. The band also was nomi-nated for Vocal Group of the Year at the Country Music Awards Nov. 10.

The band is composed of siblings Kimberly Perry (lead vocals and gui-tar), Neil Perry (mandolin) and Reid Perry (bass). Siblings are known to be both rivals as well as best friends and the Perry’s are no exception.

“Working with the family is great because we agree,” Reid said.” You

know, growing up with the same ideals and ideas, we agree on a lot of the same creative and business deci-sions, so I don’t feel like there are too many decisions where we come out disagreeing. Most of the time we’ll be able to find common ground.”

There are more benefits that come from being a family than simply agreeing on things.

“Another thing is if one of us is having a bad day, since we are sib-lings, we can cheer them up and encourage them,” Reid said. “We know each other like the back of our hands, and sometimes we have to use the back of our hands, which is always great to do and we end up loving each other even after that.”

Top singles “Hip to my Heart” and “If I Die Young” are both on the new album.

“Kim was really the one who started ‘If I Die Young,’” Reid said. “She had just read the poem by Ten-

nyson, so I bet that was in the back of her mind somewhere. But ‘If I Die Young’ was inspired out of a place of contentment for us.”

Currently on tour, the brothers share the band’s pre-show routine.

“We do have a pre-show dance party, which unfortunately is pretty embarrassing, I will have to say,” Reid said. “A lot of times, it’s to either Lady Gaga, which Neil likes to put on, or Kimberly is a big Eric Church fan, so she may stick on one of his songs. I will say, we were not meant to be dancers, but it still does get us in the right mindset for the live show.”

The band has strived for honesty in songwriting and makes sure to tell real-life stories.

“I think that’s something we’ve tried to do with our album,” Neil said. “There are many layers on our album. You’ve got songs with spit-fire and songs that have hopeless romance, and some talk about in-dependence and finding your feet in this world. So there are many differ-ent layers that I think people will be able to relate to on this album.”

What is in store for the country music trio?

“We just hope to be doing the same thing we’re doing right now in five, 10 to 20 years, which is play-ing every single night the songs that we love, and continue to hopefully write songs that will mean some-thing to people and give them an escape for a moment or two in their lives,” Reid said.

The Band Perry focuses on the live aspects of their music.

“Everything we do is toward the live end, and so in years to come, we just hope to become a better live band, but also with becoming better musicians, becoming better people and just to make the most of the opportunity the listeners have given us,” Neil said. “We just want to be so humble and so grateful for that, and we just want to make the most of what they’ve given us.”

STEPHANIE GOMEZDaily Titan

The Band Perry performed “If I Die Young” Nov. 10 at the Country Music Awards.

Courtesy of The Band Perry

Video game: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

Not even officially titled as the third installment of Assassin’s Creed, the newest game that hit shelves Nov. 16, is easy to overlook. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood directly follows the events of its predecessor Assassin’s Creed II. The main character, Etzio, returns right where the second entry in the series ended.

The main setting for the game is futuristic Italy. The protagonist is Desmond Miles, a man whose an-cestors have been aligned with the assassins. He revisits their memo-ries, as he has done in the previous games through a machine called the animus. Desmond goes into his an-

cestor Etzio’s memories taking place in Rome during the Renaissance pe-riod. The game was marketed at E3, which is a popular industry show for all things involving video games as an exhilarating, fast experience. The game calls players to lead a brotherhood of assassins in the new multi-play-er feature. One minute you’re the hunter, chasing a target through a city, and the next you are the hunted.

The multi-player is underwhelm-ing with few customizable options available compared to other recently

released games, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops. The options with how your character looks are extremely limited – special abilities, otherwise known as “perks,” are mostly inef-

fective and not needed to excel in the game.

Where the m u l t i - p l a y e r fails, the single-player campaign doesn’t disap-point. It brings the same great story that was

present in Assassin’s Creed I and II. Brotherhood adds new features with more variances in the combat system – a much bigger playable city that is larger than anything that has been in

the series before.Though the single player will be

sure to excite existing fans, it fails to bring in a new audience. The lack of a tutorial and explanation for any-thing that is going on will take away potential new fans, but avid players are able to jump in.

The presentation is good with great graphics, physics and voice act-ing. The official soundtrack is also top notch, Ubisoft Montreal and the game’s director Jayde Raymond once again have made a great game, not enough to be called the final entry to this series, but a worthy expansion. This isn’t a complete game, as it’s just a direct sequel, adding in the lack-luster multi-player. It is expected, like all things Assassin’s Creed, that the multi-player will be better the

second time around, with a larger, more expanded environment.

Game play overall is an eight out of 10. At the core, it’s still a fantastic game, and if you enjoyed the other two entries in the series, you’ll also enjoy this new outing.

Replay value is moderate, as you have the ability to replay “memo-ries” and earn higher scores. The multi-player should keep devoted fans coming back, but will alienate fans not so into the series. Individual memories can be replayed to earn higher score and achievement points with lots of mini quests to complete adding flair to Brotherhood.

A worthy entry in the Assassin’s Creed series, it’s still easy to see why Brotherhood didn’t earn its stripes.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Others add opinions to your situation. Listen, and then research the facts before you decide what to do. That way you have confidence in the choice.

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Free agent left hander Cliff Lee is garnering a lot of attention at the Major League Baseball Win-ter Meetings.

Lee is said to have an offer from the New York Yankees in the range of $140 to $150 mil-lion over seven years.

His former club, the Texas Rangers are also still in the run-ning for his services, and are said to be a leader with the Yankees.

Lee Sweepstakesheating up fast

Brief by Elliot Cook

The most prestigious single- player award will be given out Saturday night at the Nokia The-atre in New York City.

This year’s finalist for the award are Cameron Newton of Auburn University, LaMichael James of Oregon University, Kellen Moore of Boise State and Andrew Luck of Stanford University. The front runner seems to be Newton.

Heisman Trophy to be awarded

Brief by Elliot Cook

Rodney Anderson, Cal State Fullerton athletic academic adviser enjoys working with athletes.JOHNNY LE / Daily Titan

Armageddon. The end of the world, the end of the NBA, the end of Cleveland. Arguably the biggest free agent in all of sports history, let alone the National Basketball Association, was LeBron James this past summer.

Teams like the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets began preparing to bring James in through the free-agent market more than two years ago.

Teams were dumping salary left and right in order to clear enough space in their salary cap to give James the maximum salary. Everyone want-ed the talent of King James. Every-one wanted to turn their franchise around with the jaw-dropping ability of James. Then came his decision to leave his hometown for the beaches of Miami, Fla.

ESPN and James came to an agree-ment to air James’ decision during a one-hour special on the night of July 8. The money that was made from the one-hour special was to be awarded to the children of The Boys and Girls Club of America but many people questioned the motives behind James’ choice to air his free-agency decision.

Charles Bark-ley, who is a part of TNT’s cover-age of NBA games and an NBA Hall of Famer him-self, was perhaps James’ biggest foe. Barkley called The Decision “a punk move” and a “dumb idea.”

According to MSNBC Sports, James thought that race was a major factor in the backlash that ensued af-ter he turned his back on Cleveland. With Barkley being his comedic self, he said, “I want that hour back in my life. Like I say, and I joke around, all white people and black people think that ‘Decision’ thing was silly.” Bark-ley responded about LeBron’s act of community service by donating the money to the BGCA by saying, “That

was a nice try, but it was bullshit.”In the end, the event raised $3 mil-

lion that was desperately needed but in my eyes James uses $3 million as pocket change. James has endorse-ments from Sprite, Upper Deck, McDonald’s, Bubblicious and Nike. In 2007, LeBron was ranked No.1 in the Forbes Top 20 Earners Under 25 with earnings of over $27 mil-lion. The money that he makes from endorsements is only supplementary to the checks that he cashed from the Cavaliers which totaled just over $75.5 million.

In my opinion, it wasn’t about the money; it was about everyone want-ing him and how he was getting all the attention. Since James did not go to college, he never really got a chance to be fully recruited by the top col-leges of college basketball. They all knew he was going to the pros after high school.

Blake Coden of Cal State Fullerton, a first year business major said, “It was a really bad choice for him to do that. (It) made him look really bad.”

Many people around the country feel the same way. Tyler Buffington of Mt. San Antonio College, a third year sociology major said, “It was like

breaking up with someone on na-tional television. LeBron could have handled the situation a lot bet-ter and if he did, there might not be as much ha-tred between the Cleveland fans and LeBron.”

The only posi-tive quote that I

found while researching this story was said from Curt B., a CSUF kinesiol-ogy major said, “I found the way that he announced his choice was selfish but I feel that he handled himself nicely during his return to Cleveland. He seemed to mature after changing teams.”

In the end, James is an athlete. Athletes want to win and they want to win a lot.

He returned to the city of Cleve-land Dec. 2 and walked away with the “W” after scoring 38 points after

playing only three quarters. James made the decision that he had the best chance to win multiple champi-onships as a member of the Miami Heat with teammates Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh.

They can win championships if they play like they did on the 2008 Olympic team.

They need to realize that they all can’t be the superstar player every night. If they play like their 9-8 season opening record indicated, they will be looked upon as perhaps the biggest flop in NBA history.

In my eyes, the Los Angeles Lakers the two-time defending NBA cham-pions, are the team to beat this year.

Are you going to forgive LeBron James? What should you do? It’s your decision.

ANDERSON: ONCE A TITAN ALWAYS A TITAN Welcome back “King” JamesGARRETT FISCHFor the Daily Titan

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Track and field athlete Deandra’e Woods has the opportunity to work with Anderson through student ath-letic advisement. Woods said that Anderson has had a significant im-pact on his academic achievements.

“Rodney has encouraged me to stay focused on not just taking class-es but focusing on learning some-thing and making a relationship with my instructor,” Woods said. “I believe that it has helped me realize that there are things after athletics and getting my education is impor-tant.”

The accident: Prior to his work as an athletic

academic adviser, Anderson spent his time with the rigorous schedule of a student-athlete. He had weight training, practice and class. Upon returning from a road trip with the CSUF basketball team, Ander-son headed home to Los Angeles to spend some time with his fam-ily and friends from his childhood neighborhood.

“The accident happened in March after getting back from a road trip,” Anderson said. “We had gotten the day off so I went home to see my family and friends from my neighborhood.”

“On March 2, I went home to

talk to a friend to try and get him to go back to school. We met up at our old high school, played some ball and worked out. I went home to my parents house to say bye to my family,” Anderson said. “I grew up in the same neighborhood and had the same group of friends all my life so going away (to college) was a big change.”

Before the Accident:Anderson had always been an ath-

lete and could not see himself doing anything else.

“Playing basketball for the rest of my life was the only thing I thought about doing,” Anderson said. “I al-ways wanted to work with kids with-in my neighborhood to help them understand what else is out there.”

Growing up in an inner-city neighborhood all his life, Ander-son said he lived in a closed circle. It wasn’t until he went away to col-

lege that he realized what else was out there. He discovered a whole new world.

“Athletics had always been a part of my life and I knew that was what was going to lead me to college,” An-derson said. “I didn’t want to be a sta-tistic. Everything I was around and everything I knew was surrounded in a circle. I grew up in the same neigh-borhood and lived there my whole life. I wanted to open up a door and I knew college would be the road to take to become successful.”

“College was a complete change, everything was different and there was so much more out there that I didn’t know until I got (to CSUF),” Ander-son said.

“Growing up, there were 12 kids in my neighborhood and only two of us went to college. The neighborhood consisted of pit falls of drugs and vio-lence and I want the inner-city youth to see this new world,” Anderson said. “I want kids in my neighborhood to see and experience what I did and what else is out there. I want to reach kids and get them to see that new world.”

How things changed: With a new outlook on life, An-

derson has come to appreciate each and every day. He has a new under-standing and appreciation for the little

things he once took for granted. “I learned to enjoy simple things

in life,” Anderson said. “Days used to be overlooked and I learned to enjoy everyday.”

“You never know what can change and I learned to be appreciative of ev-erything,” Anderson said, “I definitely became more humble and learned to maximize each day.”

Anderson attributes his success and achievements to his family and the support they have always provided for him.

“My family is my backbone, they are the reason I get up in the morn-ing,” Anderson said. “I am the baby of five and when the accident occurred, everyone rallied around and supported me. My wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, stood by me since day one.”

“They push me on the days when I feel like giving up and are always there, keeping me going,” Anderson said. “Without my family, I don’t know where I would be.”

Through his journey, Anderson took a situation that changed his life and did not let this tragedy hold him back from his goals and purpose. He dedicates his life to reaching out and helping others. Anderson has risen above the statistics and through his work, wants to help other kids do the same.

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- Blake CodenFreshman business major

I found the way that he announced his choice was selfish but I feel that he handled himself nicely during his return to Cleveland...

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