Ron Kamaka

The day remains so vivid, locked away in his mind's eye. Ron Kamaka had worked out, done a few things in the elementary school classroom where he was teaching in Hawaii, had lunch with his sister, and then went with a girlfriend to a beach to enjoy one of the last few days of summer vacation. The sun was warm and bright, the water a dazzling blue. A wonderful day to be young, healthy and so full of fun.

The day remains so vivid, locked away in his mind's eye. Ron Kamaka had worked out, done a few things in the elementary school classroom where he was teaching in Hawaii, had lunch with his sister, and then went with a girlfriend to a beach to enjoy one of the last few days of summer vacation. The sun was warm and bright, the water a dazzling blue. A wonderful day to be young, healthy and so full of fun.

Competing in the decathlon came naturally for Cal State Fullerton's Steve Reh. "I like the challenge of doing so many different things," Reh said. "That's what makes the decathlon fun." Reh will compete in the Big West Conference track and field championships this week at Long Beach State. The two-day decathlon competition starts today. . Reh finished sixth in the event last season. His strongest events are the high jump, pole vault, long jump and high hurdles.

Brandon Campbell's friends and family in St. Louis can relax. "They were a little worried about whether I could come out here to California and be successful,' said Campbell. But Campbell, a freshman on the Cal State Fullerton track team, said he thought he might have put to rest some of that concern Friday when he won the long jump in the Big West Conference meet at Fullerton. "I wanted to show them I could do it," Campbell said.

It didn't take long for freshman Adam Johnson to establish himself as Cal State Fullerton's top relief pitcher this season. Through his first eight appearances, he struck out 32 in 16 2/3 innings and gave up only two runs for a 1.08 earned-run average. But Johnson, like some of the Titans' other pitchers, had a difficult time last weekend against Long Beach State in the first of two three-game series between the teams this season.

When the Cal State Fullerton men's basketball team takes the floor for its "Midnight Basketball" session to open practice Friday night, spectators shouldn't have trouble spotting newcomer Brandon Campbell. He'll be the one with the 41 1/2-inch vertical jump--the best on the team. That's more than three inches better than the jump of junior Ike Harmon, who also spends a lot of time above the rim. Campbell also has sprinter's speed and can clear seven feet in the high jump.

Dolores Browning is determined to make her final season of soccer at Cal State Fullerton as good as she can make it. "As a senior, it really means a lot to me," Browning said. Let her start counting the ways. "For one thing, I want to prove to myself that I'm a much better player than I showed last year," Browning said. As a freshman, Browning burst on the scene with 24 goals--third highest in the nation in college women's soccer.

The first things you notice are all those blue lines in the parking lot. What can the people who built the Mariposa Villa apartments in Irvine have been thinking? Handicapped parking spaces everywhere. What are the residents going to do with them? For starters, park there.

Aaron Blumenthal couldn't sleep the night before. Neither could Rodney Anderson. The circumstances of this Wednesday night meeting between a 6-year-old second-grader from Cypress and a 19-year-old paralyzed former basketball player for Cal State Fullerton were marked by tragedy.

The bullets brought pain and anguish to a family and a neighborhood. The bullets ripped into the neck and arms of an 18-year-old college basketball player who must now work harder to make a wheelchair roll than he ever worked to make his jump shot swish. The bullets also brought together a 6-year-old boy who had never known anything but the safety of the suburbs and the basketball player's grief-stricken mother, helping her to believe that goodness still exists. When Cal State Fullerton opens its basketball season at home on Wednesday, the basketball player, Rodney Anderson, will be at the game.

The bullets brought pain and anguish to a family and a neighborhood. The bullets ripped into the neck and arms of an 18-year-old college basketball player who must now work harder to make a wheelchair roll than he ever worked to make his jump shot swish. The bullets also brought together a 6-year-old boy who had never known anything but the safety of the suburbs and the basketball player's grief-stricken mother, helping her to believe that goodness still exists.