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North Hills couple first to wed after beating marriage ban

Salena Barcenas Allred said. “We believe their marriage
will continue to be valued, so no mat-

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wo North Hills women made
history in front of a courthouse
last week when they commemo-
rated their love for each other. State law
gave its blessing.
The Beverly Hills courthouse issued
Robin Tyler, 66, and Diane Olson,
55, who challenged the state’s ban on
same-sex marriage and won, a mar-
riage license on June 16.
People cheered as the two walked
out of the courthouse along with high-
profile lawyer Gloria Allred. All were
dressed in cream-colored suits. Rabbi
Eger officiated the wedding under a
white chuppah (canopy).
“By this ring, you are consecrated
to me,” Olson and Tyler repeated to
each other as they exchanged wed-
ding rings.
Eger said, “I now pronounce
you spouses for life,” and the crowd
cheered to congratulate the first same-
sex couple married in Los Angeles
County since the California Supreme
Court struck down a previous ban on
such nuptials a month ago.
Tyler and Olson broke glass together
with their feet, which in a Jewish wed-
ding signifies the end of the ceremony.
“My name is Robin Tyler and I’d
like to introduce you to my wife,”
Tyler said.
Beverly Hills Mayor Barry Brucker,
said, “We share his wonderful moment
Robin Tyler, 66, and Diane Olsen, 55, speak to media about their wedding outside of the Beverly
Hills Courthouse on June 16.
in our country and state. We want
to thank you for leading the way for
couples in the future.”
Debra Miller, a wedding guest who
knows the couple from the West Hol-
lywood-based Kol Ami synagogue,
said, “I think they are very brave and
pioneers.”
“I’m very proud of them,” Miller
said. “I’m quite certain, come Novem-
ber, with the help of the intelligent
youth of America, we will defeat the
anti-gay marriage amendment.”
Miller is referring to an initiative
Tina Helwajian / staff reporter
that was recently put on the November
4 ballot. If passed, it would amend
California’s state constitution to recog-
nize marriage as between a man and a
woman.
“They will still be legally married,
but they are going to have to fight it,”
ter what will happen in November …
it will not be retroactive to this mar-
riage.”
Protestors showed up at the wed-
ding to let the people in attendance
know that marriage is sacrosanct.
“There needs to be people to stand
up and oppose sin, and a lot of people
in L.A. don’t do that,” Don Stewart,
a Riverside resident, said. “We need
people to know the truth. God said he
created Adam and Eve.”
“When you deviate from God, then
you’re sinning,” Stewart said. “It’s
going to ruin the country.”
Rod Warner of Orange County, who
was also attendance, said, “It’s just
bringing more devastation on Amer-
ica.”
He linked Northridge’s pornography
industry to the 1994 earthquake. The
people of New Orleans worshipped the
Roman god of wine Bacchus, and that
is why Katrina happened, Warner said.
“I just ignore them. They’re wrong,”
Debra Miller said. “I’m hoping they
(the protestors) feel embarrassed and
shamed for putting this on.”
Aimee Grove, a student at Whittier
College who was at the wedding to
represent 93.1 JACK FM, said, “We’re
very much in support of them.”
“We came out here to show that
JACK FM supports (the couple),”
Grove said. “I’m totally in favor. It’s
not affecting anyone else.”

Student faces murder North Hills newlyweds

fell in love 35 years ago 
charges after car crash Tina Helwajian limo at the wedding and saw
all the media, I thought that

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Monica Duester trauma and were pronounced Paris Hilton got arrested
dead at the scene, the press limousine pulled up again,” Tyler said. “I couldn’t

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current student faces
two counts each of sec-
ond-degree murder and
gross vehicular manslaughter
while intoxicated after he alleg-
edly crashed into the rear end
of a car in Encino and killed
two people.
The Los Angeles County
District Attorney’s Office sus-
pects Sean Martin Mishlof, 24,
a construction and management
technology major, of colliding
his 1995 Mercury Mystique
into the back of a 1990 Nissan
Sentra that was stopped at the
intersection of Ventura Bou-
levard and Densmore Avenue
after 2 a.m. on June 7, a press
release from the DA’s office
shows.
The victims, who wore
seatbelts, suffered serious head
release shows.
Police Sgt. Larry Jones from
the Los Angeles Police Depart-
ment said the crash was so
severe that they had to request
a device called the Jaws of Life
from the heavy rescue team to
assist them.
The Los Angeles Fire
Department provided Mishlof,
who suffered minor injuries,
with medical assistance. Police
later booked Mishlof, and the
DA’s office charged him with
several felony counts including
murder, said Detective William
Bustos of the Valley Traffic
Division.
Though Mishlof was to
appear in court on June 10 for
an arraignment hearing, it was
rescheduled to July 3. Pros-
ecutors have requested that the
court set his bail at $2 million.
Sean Mishlof, 24, is in jail awaiting arraignment.
Andrew Flesuras, a CSUN
student and Phi Delta Theta
alumnus, said he was devas-
tated when he heard the news
about Mishlof, his fraternity
COURTESY OF SCOTT WATTERSON
brother.
“Sean was pledge president
back in 2003 when I joined
See mishlof, page 3
to the Beverly Hills
Courthouse on June
16 with two women inside
who have been in a relation-
ship for about 15 years.
Large crowds of media
surrounded the couple as
they made their way inside
to create a new chapter in the
history books.
“Who are you guys waiting
for?” asked Robin Tyler,
one of the women getting
married.
“You!” replied members
of the media.
When Tyler, 66, stepped
out of the limousine with her
partner, Diane Olson, 55, she
was overtaken by joy to see
the large number of friends,
family and media who came
to support their love and
marriage.
“When we got out of the
believe they were all here for
us.”
After one week of marriage,
the couple is pinching
themselves in disbelief.
“Every muscle in my face
hurt that day from smiling,”
Olson said. “It was so surreal.
This is really happening. It
was so emotional.”
Their love story began
35 years ago when Tyler
befriended Olson’s sister.
One day, Olson went to
pick up her sister from Tyler’s
house and astounded her, and
she said that Tyler astounded
her.
They quickly became
friends. When Olson broke
up with her then girlfriend,
she turned to Tyler for support
and the two became closer in
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news
Speed racers A.S. rethinks
ready to go veto of patrol
DESSIRAEE ELEBY staff Tuesday
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STAFF REPORTER
Dessiraee Eleby
ate nights and early mornings

are spent in Jacaranda Hall
as CSUN Formula-SAE, also
known as Matador Motorsports, builds
their formula-one style race car to com-
pete in the Formula- SAE West compe-
tition from June 25-28.
“Its pretty demanding,” said Matt
Powell, 20-year-old junior majoring in
business, who is the project manager.
Powell has been apart of the team for
the last three years.
Twenty of the 22-member team
major in mechanical engineering. Two
members are the exceptions majoring
in electrical engineering and business.
Many of the members enroll in
ME486 A, B or C during the school
year to establish the design of the race
car during the fall semester and imple-
ment its design in the spring semester.
“It goes beyond (just) participating
in class ... ,” said Powell because the
race car is not completed until after the
end of spring semester. Eight or nine
members spend an average of 15 hours
a day working on the race car.
There are modifications made to the
race car each year. The focus for this
year’s race car is making it lighter in
weight. The race car will be built from
a carbon fiber, a thin high-strength
material.
“A key thing in designing a race car
is making it as light as possible,” said
Powell. With a lighter race car there
is a higher performance includes better
acceleration, handling and breaking.
This is the third year that the Mata-
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he Public Escort Service, also
known as Matador Patrol, may
lose two new positions if A.S.
eliminates their funding for the 2008-
09 academic year. A.S. senators will
meet to discuss the issue on Tuesday
at 2 p.m. in the Grand Salon.
The $15,000 budget account for
the salaries and benefits of a new plan
to station one Matador Patrol escort
in the University Student Union and
another Matador Patrol escort to drive
photos by mildred martin / photo editor a golf cart from the Oviatt Library
Mechanical engineering students work on their race car. They will have the formula car ready for with up to three students at a time to
their race in Fontana, which takes place this week. their cars, dorms and other areas on
campus.
“I don’t want to tell people I can’t
do this,” said Captain Scott VanScoy,
who oversees the Matador Patrol, a
student-run program.
The USU donated the office space
where the Matador Patrol escort would
be stationed, VanScoy said.
Matador Patrol escorts in the USU
have a newly renovated booth to the
left of the fitness center, said Jason
Wang, USU associate director of
operation and services. The booth
will be use to store additional equip-
ment and distribute safety material.
For approximately five nights a
week including Matador Nights the
Matador Patrol will patrol the USU,
said Wang.
Physical Plant Management donat-
ed a street legal, four-seat golf cart that
a Matador Patrol escort would use to

See race car, page 3 Justin O’Grady, the brake engineer for the race car, makes sure that all parts are tightly secure. See patrol, page 6

Koester asks A.S. to reconsider vetoes I’m walking on air ...

of budgets for nine campus programs
Dessiraee Eleby Involvement Center (MIC) “The reduction in funding
Volunteer Program. Koester will mean that athletes will

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enators of A.S. will
consider CSUN Presi-
dent Jolene Koester’s
recommendations to restore
funding for the budgets of nine
campus programs on Tuesday
at 2 p.m. in the Grand Salon.
Former A.S. president
Adam Haverstock vetoed
these funds in the proposed
2008-09 A.S. budget.
The degree and magnitude
of the programs affected more
students directly or indirectly
through student organizations,
Koester said as to why she
asked A.S. to restore certain
recommended that their bud-
gets be restored as well.
In addition, Koester rec-
ommended that A.S. restore
funding for MIC Programs
and for an SDIP Graduate
Assistant Organization Advis-
ing position. If restored, the
funding would equate to
$67,333.
Koester also advised that
the budget include $12,064
for am MIC board service
position to manage bulletin
boards across campus.
The individual in the posi-
tion would post fliers for stu-
dent organization and remove
not receive the scholarship
amount promised,” said Koes-
ter in a June 16 memorandum.
She lists lowered morale as
one justification for restor-
ing the athletics scholarship
budget to the 2007-08 budget
level, the memo shows.
Athletes may be forced
to work additional hours that
should be directed to academ-
ics and athletic practice and
competition. Koester’s memo
shows.
“My intention was to offer
suggestions for consideration
that allow A.S. to present
a balance budget,” Koester
mildred martin / photo editor

iFly, an indoor skydiving attraction, opened eight months ago at Universal

programs’ funding.
Koester recommended that
full funding be restored for
the Aquatic Center, Center
of Achievement, Discover,
Inquire, Grow in LA, Public
Safety Escort Service, Sci-
ence and Math Retention,
Science and Math Retention
Tutors, Student Development
and International Program
(SDIP), and Student Panels
for an International Curricu-
lum and Education.
Haverstock also vetoed
partial amounts of the bud-
gets of the SDIP Leadership
Institute and SDPI Matador
improper posted materials
from 15 bulletin boards and
displays throughout campus,
Crandall said.
Koester also advocated that
A.S. not decrease the fund-
ing of athletic scholarships by
$63,600, but later agreed to
recommend partial funding of
$27,601 to allow for a bal-
anced budget presentation.
The $36,000 required to
restore the athletic scholarships
budget to its 2007-08 budget
level will be allocated from
funds for unbudgeted items
that become available during
the 2008-09 academic year.
said.
Koester’s recommenda-
tions, however, leaves $924 in
the unallocated reserves fund.
“Both, I and President
Segura, wanted to make sure
student voices are heard,”
said Koester on their collab-
orative effort to approve the
A.S. budget.
Nareen Manoukian, 21-
year-old English graduate
student, agreed that the new
A.S. is making a step in the
right direction.
“It is ideal for everyone’s
voice to be heard, but that is
inefficient to hear all 30,000
City Walk. Matt Abshire, an ifly instructor, shows some moves to a tourist
on June 17.
people’s voices,” Manoukian
said. “This is a step in the
right direction for more peo-
ple voices to be heard.”
“It doesn’t make sense to
keep everyone dissatisfied
in an effort to avoid keep-
ing only a few satisfied,”
Manoukian said.
Juan Pastor, a 26 year-old
senior who is double major-
ing in religious studies and
liberal studies, said he is torn
because the budgets of some
of which he is a part are being
cut while other club budgets
are not cut.
“I think it’s sad all of this
is happening when no one is
on campus,” Pastor said.
If the A.S. budget is not
approved by July 1, the start
of the new fiscal year, A.S.
will operate on the 2007-08
A.S. budget until the new
budget is approved, Crandall
said.
No funding will be
approved for any student
club, campus department,
or A.S. department that has
questionable allocations of
their funds.
Miguel Segura, the new
A.S. president was not avail-
able for comment. Nicole
Umali, the new A.S. vice
president, did not wish to
comment on the A.S. bud-
get recommendations until
after the June 24 Senate
meeting.
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mishlof
Continued from page 1
the fraternity, and from then
on we’ve been good friends,”
Flesuras said. “It’s just hard to
think that one of your buddies is
in a predicament like this.”
Phi Delta Theta President
Scott Watterson, a civil engineer-
ing major, said he met Mishlof at
the clubs and activities portion
of freshman orientation three
years ago.
Watterson said he would
only answer questions if they
were sent to him via e-mail.
“He was the first member of
Phi Delta Theta that I met,” Wat-
terson’s e-mail response shows.
“It is because of his friendliness
and interest in me as a freshman
that I considered being a part of
the fraternity.”
Mishlof was the fraternity
president during the fall 2005
semester when Watterson
pledged.
“I try to model my own lead-
ership, as hard as that is, by the
way he led,” Watterson’s e-mail
response shows.
Flesuras said Mishlof is as a
well-liked and respected person
throughout the Greek system.
He participated in intramural
sports, Flesuras said.
In 2005, the Hollywood
Knights Celebrity basketball
team played against the Asso-
ciated Students Recreational
(ASREC) All-Stars intramural
fraternity team in which Mishlof
was a star player.
Watterson’s e-mail response
indicates Mishlof became a
CSUN student in the Fall 2002
semester and an alumnus of the
Phi Delta Theta in 2006.
“It is because of his leader-
ship skills that he is able to come
to these events and teach active
members about how to run a
fraternity,” Watterson’s e-mail
response shows.
Mishlof grew up in San
Mateo where his parents contin-
ue to reside. His sister recently
had a baby, and friends say he
loved being an uncle.
Flesuras said Mishlof was
less active in the fraternity after
a few years because he was con-
centrating more on his studies.
“He was excelling in his
classes, and his professors really
liked him,” Flesuras said.
Mishlof also earned a sum-
mer internship with Clark Con-
struction Group, building the
second phase of L.A. Live in
downtown Los Angeles, Wat-
terson’s e-mail response shows.
When completed, it is suppose
to be the west coast version of
Times Square.
Friends that have been able
to speak with Mishlof say he is
remorseful and that his bright
spirit is gone.
news
“We feel for the families of
the men who died because that
could have been anyone of us
sitting at the light,” Watterson’s
e-mail response shows.
“Initially, I was concerned
about the health of Sean and
then of the others in the car
with him,” Watterson’s e-mail
response shows. “It felt unreal
at first. But when I saw the
picture of the car, it confirmed
everything.”
Friends say Mishlof, no mat-
ter the ultimate outcome of his
case, plans to give back to the
community by sharing his story
with youngsters to prevent simi-
lar tragedies from happening.
“Knowing Sean, he will take
responsibility for the actions to
which he may be guilty of,”
Watterson’s e-mail response
shows.
Detective Bustos said this is
an open and ongoing investiga-
tion.
“I have assigned collision
investigators to the case but can-
not comment on anything,” Bus-
tos said. “Everything will come
out in court.”
Flesuras said Mishlof’s par-
ents have sought representation
from DUI-specialist Richard
Hutton, who represented Paris
Hilton in her DUI case a year
ago. Hutton works for the South-
ern California-based firm, Hut-
ton & Wilson.

race car into two categories: static and

Continued from page 2
dor Motorsports will be attend-
ing Formula-SAE West in Fon-
tana, Calif. although it gives the
team no real advantage.
“The course is changed every
year so you really never know
what to expect,” said Powell.
CSUN Formula-SAE prac-
tices in parking lots, which
gives them the biggest chal-
lenge when the team races on
the race course at higher speeds,
said Powell.
The four-day event will hold
a total of seven competitions.
The competitions are divided
dynamic events.
The static events include a
sales pitch, cost presentation
and design presentation. Pow-
ell will be making the sale pitch
to the judges. Five people will
be assigned to perform the cost
presentation that will account
for every nut and bolt used on
the car. All the team members
will be present for the design
presentation, said Powell.
The dynamic events are
when the actual driving takes
place, said Powell. There are
four basic driving competition;
acceleration, skid pad, auto
cross and endurance test.
Weight reduction is impor-
tant to get a fast time, said
Tadaoki Matsudaira, 25, CSUN
alumnus. As one of the four
drivers for this year’s competi-
tion, he does nothing special
except tries not gain any more
weight.
Matador Motorsports
chose four drivers at the
beginning of the school year.
Each team member is allowed
to drive the previous year race
car. The drivers with the fast-
est and most consistent times
are chosen to drive in the
competition.
“Especially driving accelera-
tion (race), a lighter weight car
can gain a faster time,” said
Matsudaira is a potential driver
in the acceleration race portion
of the competition.
“A lot more (money was
raised this year) than in previ-
ous years,” said Powell. Fifty
thousand dollars was the grand
total of funding raised.
Associated Students, IRA
and University Corporation
donated most of the budget,
said Powell. Two members of
CSUN F-SAE: Chris Rabadi
and Kenyon Whetsell brought
in additional outside funding
from local businesses Dynamo
Aviation and Centric Parts.
Whetsell the 23-year-old
mechanical engineering senior
met Dino Crescentini, the owner
that will be use to gather infor-
mation while someone drives
of Centric Parts as a Tri-Point the race car. “The data acquisi-
Engineering employee. tion for improving the car and
Crescentini was very gen- for next year’s team is so invalu-
erous and very approachable, able,” said Whetsell.
according to Whetsell for whom “We educate drivers as well
the task of asking for cold hard as the engineers working on the
cash is difficult. “(It was a) car,” said Whetsell. “The more
huge help for him give,” said information we can acquire
Whetsell. while driving, the more informa-
The funding partially paid tion we have and can improve
for the data acquisition system the car and the driver.”
correction
Information in an article in last week’s issue describing
the arrest of a campus chef on theft charges should have
been attributed to a CSUN Police Department report.

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4 • Summer Sundial • CSUN • June 23-27, 2008
A match made in Beverly Hills
Robin Tyler and Diane Olson got married on June 16 after 5 p.m. in front of the Beverly Hills Courthouse, where
they were initially denied a marriage license on Valentine’s Day in 2004. Along with other couples, Tyler and Olson
filed lawsuits against the state of California because of its statewide ban on same-sex marriage. In 2000, voters
passed Proposition 22, which initially imposed this ban. Last month, a majority of justices on the California Supreme
Court, 4-3, ruled to strike down this ban and allow couples such as Tyler and Olson to legally tie the knot.
Tyler and Olson met by a chance occurrence 35 years ago. Though they are happy that they are now married, Tyler
and Olson said they intend to continue to fight for the same equal rights under the law as heterosexual couples.
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Photo Essay by Tina Helwaijian
1. Cake and Art, a West Hollywood bakery, donated this “Eden” wedding cake.
2. Diane Olson stands amid the media frenzy at her traditional Jewish wedding.
3. Several sign-bearing protestors show their discontent with the couple’s marriage.
4. Robin Tyler (left) and Diane Olson (right) give thanks to supporters in attendance.
5. A protestor holds up a sign questioning gay marriage.
6. Rabbi Denise Eger officiates the ceremony.
7. Sugar cookies are served in the shape of two blushing brides.
8. Friends and family gather to support Tyler and Olson’s marriage.
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features
Filmmaker said after Van Ness’ wife gave him a
box of slides, he “knew that he wanted

tells tale of
the story to revolve around photos/
slides/photography.” As for the music,
Larson said he wanted it to “flow

growing up between dialogue and music.”

A lot of the songs in the short film are
original pieces, but there was one song,
Susannah Reynolds “The Mistress Witch from McClure”
(or, The Mind That Knows Itself) by

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Sufjan Stevens, that he attained permis-
rying to figure out what is sion to use, Larson said.
next after graduating from col- The short was one of the cheapest
lege is something many people of the five other student projects to film
have to deal with. with a budget of $15,000, Larson said.
Ben Litton, the main character in The idea of making a movie that was
“Finding Bigfoot,” finds himself in the “doable” is what Larson had in mind.
same predicament after college. He This Hollywood Foreign Press
has to decide whether to follow in his awarded the production $7,000, and
father’s footsteps and run a hardware they generated the rest of the money by
store or pursue a career in photography. organizing bake sales and getting their
“Finding Bigfoot” was one of five families to donate money, Larson said.
student projects selected during the Pantoja said she was also able to
Spring 2007 semester for the final get a lot of donations from compa-
senior project in the film production nies such as Modern Videofilm, TM
program. Motion Picture, Equipment Rentals,
courtesy of robert larson

CSUN alumnus Robert Larson, 24,
wrote and directed the short film,
which received its funding from the
Hollywood Foreign Press.
“I was determined to be picked,”
Larson said. “I went to the meeting the
year before to see how to get picked.”
Larson noticed that students who were
a part of the short script writing class
were the ones receiving funding. Lar-
son said he was unable to add the class
in the Fall 2006 semester, but he nev-
ertheless showed up to every class ses-
sion. He said he befriended professor
Jon Stahl during his time in class, who
commented on drafts of his script.
Once Larson had a viable script, he
put a crew together for the production of
the film. He asked Liz Pantoja, 26, to be
producer of the short film.
Pantoja said once she read the film’s
Ben (Jarret Worley) and Clifford (Jerry Bornstein) head out on a road trip in  “Finding Bigfoot,”
a short film written and directed by CSUN alumnus Robert Larson.
script, she was on board. She said the
characters were warm and she knew
that anyone who saw the film would
like it. Pantoja said the script was some-
thing they “could nail on the head.”
Every student film project had to
start with a proposal. The proposal for
“Finding Bigfoot” included a portfolio,
a letter of intent, a biography of the
crew, photos of what the wardrobe
would look like and music that profes-
sors could listen to while reading the
proposal. Pantoja said , music was a big
aspect of the movie.
Nate Thomas, head of the film
production program, said the com-
mittee looks for “something creative
and not the typical script” when con-
sidering whether to approve produc-
tion of short student films such as
“Finding Bigfoot.”
Thomas said the proposal for
“Finding Bigfoot” was “quirky” and
had a good feel to it. The character
of Ben was interesting, as well as the
relationship between a grandson and
grandfather, Thomas said.
The idea for the short film came to
Larson while he was driving with his
wife Vanessa, 25, to the Los Angeles
County Fair. They ended up getting lost,
and it was during this drive that the idea
of “Finding Bigfoot” entered his mind.
Another inspiration for the movie
was Clifford Van Ness, 85, the grand-
father of Larson’s wife. The character
Clifford, Ben’s grandfather, is named
after him. Larson said he knew he
wanted to use Van Ness’ home as the
location of Ben’s family. But he had
to get help from his wife and mother-
in-law to convince Van Ness to let
Larson film his house.
Everything in the movie, includ-
ing the yellow truck the character
Clifford drives in the short film, is
Van Ness’ property.
Larson said Van Ness drove the
truck to the shooting location on days
they used the truck in the film.
Van Ness passed away toward the
end of May. He was able to see the
final cut of the movie, and he “laughed
and said that’s my stuff” when he did,
Larson said.
A driving force behind the movie
was music and photography. Larson
Inc. and Kodak Motion Picture Film.
The financial donations helped pay
for the more expensive tools used
during the filming process, such as
the film that was used, Pantoja said.
Pantoja said the crew aims to turn
“Finding Bigfoot” into a feature length
film, as some people have expressed
an interest in doing so. In the mean-
time, the crew is entering the short
film in festivals.
Entering in festivals is what helps
gain the interests of Hollywood execu-
tives, and winning awards is what really
catches their eyes, Thomas said.
Where “Finding Bigfoot” will go
in terms of further distribution remains
to be known. Pantoja said she and Lar-
son started a production company and
that she hopes they continue to work
together on productions.

Black belt bruiser shows opponents the thunda’

with taekwondo fighting, dreams of Olympic gold
Dessiraee Eleby of Team Jiro, a 15-member team body language and voice when said. Her biggest struggle in a
Staff Reporter that competes locally, nationally she competes. match is staying in control of her

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occer or taekwondo?
The answer for six-
year-old Markie Keelan
was simple. Whatever Jodi, her
older sister, chose was what she
wanted to do.
Thirteen years later, Keelan,
a 19-year-old CSUN psychol-
ogy major, has a third-degree
black belt in taekwondo.
Keelan won five gold med-
als, three silver medals and
three bronze medals since 2003,
the USA Taekwondo Web site
shows.
“I like to fight, but I don’t
like to get hurt,” Keelan said. A
broken nose, jaw, and multiple
rolled ankles are injuries that
Keelan sustained from partici-
pating in taekwondo.
Keelan said the broken nose
was “a silly little thing,” but
the broken jaw was “embarrass-
ing.”
In practice, Keelan held a
paddle for another teammate,
and when the teammate attempt-
ed to kick the paddle, the team-
mate missed and connected with
Keelan’s jaw. “Now, looking
back it is kind of funny,” Keelan
said.
Keelan practices Olympic-
style taekwondo at Progression
Sports Performance, a private
gym in Chatsworth. She is a part
and internationally.
“In training, it’s a team
aspect, but for competition we
go out there and compete indi-
vidually,” said Simona Hradil,
Keelan’s 32-year-old teammate.
Keelan was admitted to the
National Collegiate Team in
May 2008. Her membership
allows her to compete at the
national and international levels
as an adult.
In July, Keelan competes at
the U.S. National Taekwondo
Championship in Detroit, Mich.
and at the 10 World University
Taekwondo Championship in
Belgrade, Serbia.
Teammates Hradil and
Naomi Sta. Maria, 28, describe
Keelan as “ruthless” and “relent-
less” in a match.
“Big things come in small
packages,” Hradil said about
Keelan’s 5-foot-4-inch stature.
She competes as a fin weight
-103.6 lbs. When Keelan fights,
“I just see red,” Hraldi said.
“It’s a combative sport,” Sta.
Maria said. “You have to hit
someone to win.”
Keelan never backs down
from anyone, Sta. Maria said.
“She motivates me,” said Sta.
Maria, who has only been prac-
ticing taekwondo for five years.
It is her attitude, Sta. Maria said.
Sta. Maria sees it in Keelan’s
Dressed in a dobok, white
pants, white long sleeve top
with a black v-neck and her
black belt, Keelan prepares to
fight three two-minute rounds.
She also wears proper protec-
tion gear consisting of headgear,
chest guard, shin guards, fore-
arm guards and a mouthpiece.
Five judges monitor each
match based on a point system.
Though there are several ways
to win a tournament, Keelan
listed five ways, and she prefers
a knockout or seven-point-gap
win.
“It’s an easy win because you
know you won,” Keelan said.
She scored a knockout win
at a Lancaster tournament when
she was 16.
A seven-point-gap win
“makes me feel good,” said
Keelan, as it lets her know she
is significantly better than her
opponent.
“Mental state hinders us from
performing,” Keelan said. “I do
a lot of visualizations when I
fight to get my nerves down and
be successful.”
When Keelan is met with
physical contact, her initial reac-
tion is to get upset, and it causes
her to get riled up, thwarting her
focus.
“Staying calm puts every-
thing in perspective,” Keelan
mind, Keelan said.
Everyone’s strategy in tae-
kwondo is different, Keelan
said. Her strategy is to try to
remain calm, but sometimes she
diverts from it.
“If it gets down to when I’m
losing, I just try to bring the fire
out.”
Diane Keelan, her mother, a
second-degree black belt, said,
“We’re all black belts here,”
with the exception of her hus-
band. “He just pays for it.”
“She takes a lot of initiative,”
said Diane Keelan.
It is wrong for parents to
bribe their child to win, Diane
Keelan said. “They have to push
themselves.”
“It’s brutal,” said Keelan’s
mother about many kids who
quit when they lose or get hurt.
But this is not Keelan. “Mar-
kie was one of those kids who
took it for what it was and never
took it personally,” Diane Kee-
lan said.
“I’m the one who tells every-
one,” said Diane Keelan, who
describes her daughter as hum-
ble. “As a parent, it’s something
I’m really proud of.”
“She has a passion for tae-
kwondo,” Diane Keelan said.
“Markie is exceptionally well
at it.”
In 2005, Keelan was ranked
From left to right: Mandy Li, Naomi Sta. Maria, Mar-
kie Keelan, Simona Hadril.
as No. 1 in junior taekwondo
league in the Western hemi-
sphere after participating in the
Junior Pan Am Tournament in
Aruba.
After making the USA
Junior National Team, a team
for 14 to 17 year-olds, and now
the National Collegiate Team,
a team for competitors 17 and
older, Keelan’s future plans con-
sist of making the U.S. National
Team and the U.S. Olympic
Team.
Keelan said her ultimate goal
is to compete in the Olympics.
Taekwondo has only been an
official Olympic sport for the
last eight years.
It is the highest honor one can
courtesy of markie keelan
achieve, Keelan said about being
apart of the Olympic team. Only
four people from each coun-
try can compete at the Olympic
Games, and it only occurs every
four years.
“Taekwondo, as a whole, has
taught me to be a better student
because it has taught me how to
focus,” Keelan said.
At 16, Keelan and her USA
Junior National Team went to
an Olympic training center, and
she saw the interaction between
the athletes.
“Pressure in any sport is just
enormous,” Keelan said.
“There needs to be a change
in focus from just focusing on
the sport,” Keelan said.
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Clinton’s supporters see ‘cracks’ in glass ceiling
Theresa Wray Center for American Woman in major at CSUN. “It’s ridiculous an America that respects and ated as a marketing gimmick Party nomination. Two preachers
Politics. “She jumped over that to see a candidate as black or embraces the potential of every and was widely advertised. The from Obama’s former church,

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Staff Reporter
ew York Sen. Hillary
Clinton, who visited
campus in January, said
in the final speech of her bid for
the presidency that her support-
ers put “18 million cracks in the
glass ceiling.”
But her unsuccessful run for
the White House calls into ques-
tion whether the ceiling is far
from broken.
“She made inroads, but
we’re not through it yet,” said
Debbie Walsh, director at the
bar that showed she was tough
enough for that office. But the
media couldn’t handle it. That’s
where the sexism and gender
slurs came in.”
Clinton delivered her final
speech earlier this month and
endorsed Sen. Barack Obama as
the Democratic Party nominee
for U.S. president.
“I think it’s great to have
a women go as far as she has,
but I choose not to look at it as
breaking the glass ceiling,” said
Moreen Rubin, a psychology
white, male or female. We need
to look at just the issues.”
Clinton insisted that she
was not running as a woman
throughout her campaign, but
as the best candidate for presi-
dent. In her final speech, she
acknowledged the sexism that
women confront as they climb
to leadership roles.
“I am a woman, and like
millions of women, I know
there are still barriers and biases
out there, often unconscious,”
Clinton said. “I want to build
last one of us.” nutcracker stemmed from sex-
During the 16 months and 22
on-stage debates with Obama,
Clinton’s campaign was smeared
with sexist remarks.
During the New Hamp-
shire primary, Clinton’s speech
was interrupted when two men
screamed, “Iron my shirt!” sug-
gesting that a woman’s place
is in the laundry room, not the
Oval Office.
A nutcracker resembling
Clinton, only with shark-like
teeth between her legs, was cre-
ist remarks by MSNBC News
Anchor, Tucker Carlson, who
said he involuntarily crosses his
legs when he sees Clinton on
TV.
At a South Carolina event,
another sexist remark was levied
against Clinton when a support-
er of Sen. John McCain asked,
“How do we beat the bitch?”
McCain laughed and said,
“That’s an excellent question.”
Racism was also a factor
in the fight for the Democratic
the Chicago-based Trinity Unit-
ed Church of Christ, delivered
racist and sexist remarks.
Video clips of Obama’s
former Rev. Jeremiah Wright
delivering comments like “God
Damn America” were widely
distributed and stirred up discus-
sions about racism in America.
Michael Pfleger, a guest
minister for the church, recently
mocked Clinton for getting teary-
eyed during the New Hampshire
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patrol VanScoy employs approxi-

Continued from page 2
drive students to their on-cam-
pus destinations at night.
The USU and the library are
highly populated areas at night,
VanScoy said. The general poli-
cy is to have 10 Matador Patrol
escorts that monitor and patrol
different parts of campus, he
said.
The library and student
housing hire additional Mata-
dor Patrol escorts to patrol those
areas.
“Ten isn’t a lot, but with
bikes and carts the response time
improves the efficiency of the
unit,” VanScoy said.
mately 35 Matador Patrol escorts
each year.
Matador Patrol escorts
peaked at 120 after the earth-
quake, VanScoy said. The num-
ber of escorts decreased in 1999
when the campus increased the
numbers of buildings, changing
the previous orange grove land-
scape and established the blue
light system.
Matador escorts have not
performed security since 2001
when the policy changed, but
they support the CSUN PD as its
eyes and ears, VanScoy said.
“We (campus police) can’t
be everywhere,” VanScoy said.
The escorts are trained to
identify suspicious activity and
report it to the campus police
department, VanScoy said. Mat-
ador Patrol’s uniforms do not
resemble police officer uniforms,
so alleged suspects tend to not
leave the scene as quickly.
Each Matador Patrol escort
goes through an interview pro-
cess, a background check that
includes Livescan, VanScoy
said. They fill out a question-
naire, their references are called
and they complete training
before they are deployed into
the field, he said.
Boyoon Kang, 22-year-old
senior liberal studies major, said
a golf cart that would take stu-
dents to their cars and other on-
campus destination is a good
idea.
“I hate walking to my car
from the library because the
parking lots are really far,” Kang
said. “It does get scary.”
Kang regularly uses the Mat-
ador Patrol escorts, particularly
during the winter months when
it gets dark earlier.
Tara Aminfar, an anthropolo-
gy graduate student, said escorts
are a useful service. As an alum-
na of the University of Arkansas,
Aminfar used their escorts when
she stayed late at the library.
Aminfar plans to use
CSUN’s Matador Patrol if her
work schedule allows her stay
late at the library to study. It is
safer sometimes to be escorted
to parking lots that are further
away, VanScoy said.
“It’s faster and more con-
venient if you drive,” Aminfar
said.
A.S. funding is used exclu-
sively for students’ salary and
benefits, said VanScoy.
“The past seven years, A.S.
has been a great help to us,” said
VanScoy, who discussed several
advertising campaigns that A.S.
helped fund in past years when
he has asked for additional fund-
ing for Matador Patrol.
The uniform and equipment
costs are taken from the $36,000
annual campus funding, VanS-
coy said.
Additional funds from Park-
ing Services are obtained through
a Memorandum of Understand-
ing (MOU).
MOU provides about
$36,000 that can vary year to
year because their funding is
based on statistical research of
how many students are escorted
to the parking structures.
“It is kind of pricey,” said
VanScoy about the overhead of
the program often seeking out-
side sources for funding.
“We will survive through this
bad budget time, but we won’t
be able to necessarily provide or
improve the number of services
we typically offer in the campus
community,” VanScoy said.

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the process.
“I went there to heal,” Olson said.
“I was worried that I might just be
dating on the rebound, so I didn’t
want to start dating, but we couldn’t
help it.”
A couple of months into the
relationship, Olson was about to
celebrate her fortieth birthday.
She planned a beach day with
some of her friends, but Tyler
insisted that she would take her out
to dinner instead, the couple said.
While at dinner, Tyler asked Olson
to be her wife, and the latter said she
would think about it. A month later,
Olson accepted the proposal and
their love story began to unravel
because of a state ban. In 2001,
the couple applied for a marriage
license, but they were denied.
In 2004, Tyler said she grew
frustrated when she discovered that
she could not include Olson in her
insurance plan because it did not
cover domestic partners. When the
American Federation of Television
and Radio Artists (AFTRA) denied
their claim, Tyler said she turned to
longtime friend and discrimination
attorney Gloria Allred for help.
“She did it as my friend first, then
(as) my attorney,” Tyler said.
After four years of fighting for the
right to get married, Tyler and Olson
were finally able to do so. They
chose the Beverly Hills Courthouse
as their venue, which previously
denied them a marriage license.
“We had to get married at the
Beverly Hills Courthouse,” Olson
said. “It’s like ground zero for us.”
Upon arriving, the couple was
faced with harsh judgment from
protestors.
“They don’t exist to us,” Tyler
said. “We are talking about love, and
they are talking about hate and Hell.”
“To hide behind the Bible is
outrageous,” Tyler said. “We’re not
anti-religion, but they use religion to
try and exclude us.”
Olson said, “Let them do it.
It makes them look more mean-
spirited.”
Once they got through the crowd,
Tyler and Olsen made their way
into the courthouse and got their
marriage license. At exactly 5:02
p.m., they came outside and met
with friends and family.
“We had hearts coming out of our
heads,” Olson said.
The couple was taken aback by
the beautiful ceremony that their
friends and family had put together
for them.
A bakery called Cake and Art
donated the cake and everyone had
chipped in for flowers and drinks.
Rabbi Denise Eger officiated the
ceremony free of charge.
With the wedding over, Tyler and
Olson say they continue their fight
as activists.
“We just want total equal rights,”
Tyler said. “The marriage thing is great,
Two women adorn a wedding cake for Tyler and Olson on June
16.
but we want equality in every way.”
The couple has high hopes that
society will be more accepting of
homosexuality in the near future.
“It’s a generation away,” Tyler
said. “I want to see it in my lifetime,
but either way in the next generation
homosexuality will not be an issue.”
Tyler’s advice to young activists
news
Tina Helwajian / staff reporter
is “to have the courage to go out and
just do it.”
When thinking back to their
wedding, Tyler said, “California
needed a little healing. It is going
through tough times with the
economy, and we needed to light
it up with love. Who doesn’t like a
good love story?” Tyler said.
sexism
Continued from page 6
primary in January.
“When Hillary was crying, I really
believe that she just always thought,
‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m
white,’” Pfleger said.
Obama repeatedly apologized, but
he insisted that the comments did not
come from him directly and he could
not be held responsible for other peo-
ple’s remarks.
“Racism is seen as taboo in terms
of the media saying it, but it is still out
there,” Walsh said. “Both are unaccept-
able. Hillary was directly attacked with
gender slurs that were seen as humor-
ous … they were degrading.”
To date, women occupy 87 of the
535 seats in the U.S. Congress. Women
also occupy 71 of the 435 seats in the
House of Representatives.
“You can be so proud that, from now
on, it will be unremarkable to think that
a woman can be the president of the
U.S.,” Clinton told her supporters at
the historic National Building Museum
in Washington D.C., which was built
in the late 1800s when the women’s
movement was on the rise. “And that is
truly remarkable, my friends.”
Clinton encouraged her audience to
support Obama and reiterated his cam-
paign slogan, “Yes We Can.”
Erin McCaslin, a former CSUN
student who saw Clinton’s speech on
CNN, said she was not convinced that a
woman could ever be president.
“Can we really?” McCaslin said.

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8 • Summer Sundial • CSUN • June 23-27, 2008

arts & entertainment

Cubicle rat targets leaves the audience in awe.
Gibson’s ultimate test to see if he

takes action
is ready to fight involves a gun, a
bullet and a very sexy Fox. Gibson

thriller ride
must curve the bullet, avoid shoot-
ing Fox and hit his target. Success!
The audience in the theater cheers as
they realize that Gibson is no longer
TIna Helwajian the under dog.
staff reporter “Kill one, save a thousand” is one

U
niversal Pictures and Spy-
glass Entertainment presents
“Wanted,” a high suspense,
action drama that combines humor and
pure adrenaline that keeps the audience
entertained from start to finish.
“Wanted” follows 25-year-old
Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy),
who suffers from uncontrollable
anxiety attacks, on a journey from
a dissatisfied accountant in a cubicle
to the ultimate assassin.
Gibson is unhappy with his life
because he has a boss who constant-
ly nags him and a girlfriend who is
cheating on him with Barry (Chris
Pratt), his co-worker and supposed
best friend.
The Fraternity of Assassins are
a centuries-old league of trained
assassins who carry out fate’s death
orders. Fellow assassins include Fox
(Angelina Jolie) and ringleader Sloan
(Morgan Freeman). The two try to
recruit Gibson after his estranged
father, the greatest assassin in the
Fraternity, is killed.
Gibson is terrified by the whole
situation and asks Fox to leave him
alone. One day at work he has had
enough of his crappy life and he
goes off on his boss and takes a
computer keyboard to Barry’s head
and walks out. He is met outside
by Fox and his wild ride begins.
Fox and Sloan have successful-
ly convinced Gibson to follow in
his father’s footsteps and avenge
his death by killing Cross (Thomas
Fox (Angelina Jolie) shoots from the driver’s side of her Viper in the action-thriller “Wanted,”
which tells the tale of one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer.
Fox (Angelina Jolie) informs Wesley (James Mcavoy) she knew his father.
Kretschmann), his father’s killer.
“Wanted” keeps you on the edge
of your seat with its mind-blowing
car chases involving Fox, Gibson
and a red hot Corvette. In an early
photos courtesy of Universal Pictures
scene, Cross takes Fox and Gibson straddles the car in an attempt to
on a high-speed car chase. Fox is overtake Cross.
driving and shooting at Cross while Unbelievable gun shooting scenes
Gibson holds on for dear life. Fox where the assassins are able to curve
orders him to take the wheel as she bullets around corners to reach their
of the main focuses of the movie.
This motto is used to justify kill-
ing the targets on the hit list. In the
movie the “Loom of Fate” weaves
a fabric pattern that reveals secret
codes that need to be deciphered.
These codes translate into the names
of the next victims. According to
Sloan, a flaw in the fabric signals a
flaw in the world and that flaw needs
to be removed so that the world can
carry on in a balanced way.
Throughout the movie Gibson
survives numerous beatings by fel-
low assassins and evolves into a
badass assassin himself. He begins to
kill his targets one by one until he is
finally given the order to kill Cross.
The movie takes an unsuspected
turn when the plot reveals premedi-
tated acts of betrayal, dishonesty and
corrupt behavior by Sloan and other
Fraternity members.
The acting by all of the characters
is believable and allows the audi-
ence to really dive into the plot and
become emotionally invested in the
characters. “Wanted” director Timur
Bekmambetov successfully executes
a thrilling film that will leave the
audience wanting more.
The movie ends with an intrigu-
ing question that leaves the audience
pondering the answer.
Two thumbs up for “Wanted.”
This movie will satisfy any movie-
goer who is in the mood for a bone-
chilling Friday night.
“Wanted” comes out in theaters
on June 27.

To be or not to be crazy enough

to make Hamlet sequel is funny
Monica Duester
Staff Writer of one man’s life, whose an epiphany with writing
dreams of being an actor a sequel to Hamlet, called

S
teve Coogan stars as
Dan Marschz, in an
eccentrically clever
comedy as a washed-up
actor turned high school
drama teacher. He launches
his most ambitious project
yet - a sequel to Shake-
speare’s “Hamlet” - all the
while dealing with budget
cuts, unruly students and
a crazy wife, played by
Catherine Keener, two-time
Academy Award nominee.
are crushed when it is clear
he has no talent. His film
credits amount to a Jack
LaLanne Juicer infomer-
cial, a Herpricol (herpes)
commercial and a short
stint on “Xena: Warrior
Princess.”
Marschz’s career is
reduced to teaching drama
at a local high school, in
the desert town of Tucson,
Ariz. The setting has a sur-
real flatness with a sense
of things fading and it is
Hamlet 2. A musical extrav-
aganza where Hamlet uses a
time machine to travel back
to meet up with Jesus Christ
to reverse the outcome of
the first Hamlet to save
his family’s life. Littered
with controversial acts like
the performance from the
Gay Men’s Choir of Tucson
singing “I’ve Been Raped
in the Face,” it is hilarious
and quite clever.
At times the over the
top antics seemed to be a photos courtesy of FOCUS FEATURES

Not to mention Elizabeth
Shue stars as herself in the
movie.
“Hamlet 2,” the com-
edy smash hit of the 2008
Sundance Film Festival,
directed by Andrew Flem-
ing, who wrote “Dick” and
“Threesome;” from an orig-
inal screenplay he wrote
with Pam Brady, creator of
“South Park” and “Team
America: World Police;”
had the room erupting with
laughter two minutes into
the show.
This unorthodox, but
inspirational film takes
the audience on a journey
an interesting metaphor
for what Marschz life has
become.
Marschz stages poorly
reviewed plays based on
Hollywood hits with his
drama class of two, played
by flamboyantly confused
student Rand (Skylar Astin)
and his fellow over enthu-
siastic racist classmate
Epiphany (Phoebe Strole).
The school newspaper
critic, played by Shea Pepe,
savagely rips his biannual
school plays apart.
He decides to write an
original piece for his next
production and comes to
bit distracting. They were
so repulsive and exagger-
ated that at times it took
away from the rhythm of
the movie
Halfway through
rehearsals, Marschz is
informed; that the drama
program will be cut next
semester and the principal
demands him to cease all
production of his upcom-
ing play.
This catches the atten-
tion of the American Civil
Liberties Union who feels
there is first amendment
violation. no matter what.
While at the doctor
Steve Coogan (center) and Skylar Astin (right) star in Andy Fleming’s “Hamlet
2,” a Focus Features release due in theater on August 22.
he cannot help but notice buzz building around town thing year olds who will
that his nurse looks eeri- there is nothing left but be able to appreciate the
ly similar to one of his to perform their asses off! humor. The film is rated
favorite actress, Elizabeth The ridiculously incredible R for good reason, it is
Shue, from “Cocktails” and performance will take you plagued with foul language
“Adventures in Babysit- on a roller coaster ride that and questionable taste so it
ting.” Turns out it is Shue will capture your attention is not one to see with the
and she quit the business while asking yourself, what family.
to pursue her real passion crazy messed up mind does The Focus Features
– caring for people. This Andrew Fleming have? release opens on Friday,
gives Marschz hope and it It is definitely a movie Aug. 22, so mark your
reinforces the overly opti- worth seeing, and it has calendars because you do
mistic drama teacher, to the potential for a cult fol- not want to miss this train
move forward with the play lowing. It will definitely wreck of a movie that will
be a summer hit with 20- take you to the moon and
With the stage set and the something and 30-some- back – literally.