Don't assume that because Deep Arora won a top prize at a math competition that women wouldn't find him irresistible. On February 16, 2006, Emily, whom he'd met online that evening, invited Arora to drive from Placentia (where he lived with his parents) to her Laguna Beach apartment. The 19-year-old college student aiming for a degree in engineering at Fullerton College couldn't wait for the rendezvous. As he drove down Interstate 5 and then Laguna Canyon Road towards the Pacific Ocean, he shar
Wildcat Duo, 7:30 p.m.Not one, but two wildcats. Wow. Renaissance Dana Point, 24701 Del Prado Ave., Dana Point, CA; 949-661-6003Playwright Festival, 7 p.m.Learn to write plays and listen to live readings.Fullerton College, 321 E. Chapman Ave., Fullerton, CA; 714-992-7433TNT Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m.A dynamite night at this country club.In Cahoots/Club Rio, 1401 S. Lemon, Fullerton, CA; 714-525-9700
I have a tortured relationship with most of my alma maters. I speak at high schools across Southern California before assemblies and classes, yet have spoken at Anaheim High but once since I graduated in 1997--and when I did, my former biology teacher ridiculed my decision to work for the Weekly. Earlier this year, I visited Orange Coast College for the first time since leaving in 1999. I got banned from a press conference at Chapman University (B.A., Film Studies, 2001) for daring to write that
The nation's first interactive Museum of Teaching and Learning (MOTAL) is in desperate need of space, and operators are looking to Orange County to provide it.Conceived in 2002 by former teacher and principal Greta Nagel, who is the nonprofit museum's curator and professor emeriti with the Department of Teacher Education at Cal State Long Beach, MOTAL presented "traveling exhibits" at the university in 2006 and 2007.
The first, "Horace Mann: Uncommon Visionary for the Common
American," honored t
Ken Bane describes himself as a "serial entrepreneur and a long-time Fullerton resident." His online bio for Bane Media, Inc.--which specializes in "creating and executing online media plans that drive traffic, sales and customers to our clients"--notes that he was formerly the director of sales for Carsey-Werner Television's online media division. However you want to characterize Bane, you can add that he's pissed off at Fullerton College. "Is it just me, or is the Fullerton College screwing it
In another edition of what this writer's going to call "Free Things
to Do This Weekend" (it's unofficial!), So-Cal's own barbershop quartet, The
Alley Cats, comes home Friday night with a free concert at Chapman University. Formed in 1987 at Fullerton College, the group is
considered as "America's Premiere Doo-Wop Group" --you may have
even seen them perform at Disneyland or in Las Vegas with Jay Leno.
There's just something about a bunch of
guys in matching suits and top hats, sing