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Prosecutors in the trial of two former Fullerton police officers who are accused of causing homeless resident Kelly Thomas’ death in 2011 rested their case Wednesday, according to radio station KPCC. The prosecution, led by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, called on numerous experts and others involved in Thomas’ violent altercation with six officers at the Fullerton Transportation Center on July 5, 2011.

“The people rested their case in the Ramos and Cicinelli trial for the murder of Kelly Thomas,” Rackauckas announced on his Twitter account.

Former officer Manuel Ramos has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, and former Cpl. Jay Cicinelli faces charges of involuntary manslaughter and use of excessive force.

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Cutting ethnic studies Despite the cut of ethnic studies across the CSU, CSUF remains positive MAGDALENA GUILLEN Daily Titan

In August, the California Faculty Association’s (CFA) Council for Affirmative Action and Board of Directors sent out a letter to all California State University presidents urging them to support ethnic studies in the CSU. This letter was in response to the increasing concern across some CSU campuses and their attempts in becoming a more “efficient” campus budget-wise by consolidating or cutting ethnic studies programs or departments.

At San Jose State, Cal State Bakersfield and Cal State Long Beach, initiatives of dismantling or merging of ethnic studies programs and departments into larger ones have either started or are being considered.

In an interview with President Mildred García in October, her reaction to the letter was one of surprise.

“I was surprised by the letter, quite frankly, because we are supporting our ethnic studies programs here,” García said. “We’re very strong supporters; there’s no discussion at all regarding anything that was mentioned in the letter.”

While García is a strong supporter of ethnic studies, she champions being allaround culturally competent.

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Emails show editorial influence from CSUF on OC Register special sections ANDRES GARCIA Daily Titan

In February, Cal State Fullerton paid the Orange County Register $275,000 to publish a weekly, six-page “feature-oriented editorial package.”

The purpose of the CSUF section is to tell “the story of impact and importance of CSUF in the greater Orange County market,” according to the contract between CSUF and the Register.

Each issue of the print edition carries a disclosure in the masthead of the paper reading: “The Cal State Fullerton

community section is conceived and produced by the news staff of the Orange County Register for the benefit of its subscribers. While the university is the section’s primary advertising sponsor, all editorial decisions are independent of the university’s control.”

However, emails obtained by the Daily Titan have revealed that the university section may not be as free of inf luence from CSUF as the disclosure leads readers to believe.

“Cal State Fullerton is paying for ads that appear in the section—nothing more,” said Cal State Fullerton’s Senior Communications Officer, Paula Selleck.

SPORTS | MEN’S BASKETBALL

Titans looking to maul Tigers Men’s basketball seek momentum going into their Big West schedule ABRAHAM JAUREGUI Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team will take on Texas Southern University Sunday at 2 p.m. in Titan Gym. It’s time for the Titans to regroup and reestablish their identity with defense, toughness and determination through what Head Coach Dedrique Taylor calls “Titan City.”

The Titans (3-7) are looking to change their struggling ways at home. They lost three in a row at Titan Gym, most recently a 74-65 defeat against Seattle University, where Tay-

lor was displeased with the Titans’ effort.

The 2013-14 season has been up and down for the Titans as they approach the final games of non-conference play.

Senior guard Michael Williams has stepped up and taken over scoring for the Titans ever since junior guard Alex Harris missed four games with an ankle injury. Williams is leading the Titans with 14.6 points per game and playing a team-high 32.4 minutes per game. Williams flourishes with his ball handling skills and is great at finding the lanes with dribble penetration. Williams will need to get to the basket and provide easier scoring for the Titans and improve his 40.3 total field-goal percentage.

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Selleck said the university is not dictating the content of the section, but “if we were dictating the content of that section we would indeed be paying for coverage,” Selleck said.

But according to an email obtained by the Daily Titan, Selleck has attempted, on behalf of CSUF, to exercise some editorial control over what gets published in the university section.

In an email she sent to Diane Witmer, Ph.D., chair of the Communications Department, Selleck was assisting a Register reporter on a then-developing story “in a way that won’t adversely affect the university.”

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EDITORIAL Campuswide smoking ban a smoldering mess Passing a campuswide smoking ban and eliminating smoking on campus are two entirely different things. While one is an aspiration, the other is a challenge in which its execution can define the success and credibility of administrators, and the university they seek to represent, for years.

Interviews with administration insiders suggest that the policy has generally resulted in a decrease in smoking. Comments from faculty, students and staff point to a picture less rosy, one in which perpetrators understand that their flagrant violations of policy will be rewarded with nothing less than getting away with it.

A closer examination of Presidential Directive 18 is needed to understand how a policy which made Cal State Fullerton the first school among California State University institutions to ban smoking on campus became another example of bureaucratic obfuscation and waste.

Three semesters ago, before the Academic Senate had voted on the smoking ban resolution, former interim President Willie Hagan said “enforcement will be a critical part of this action in the future.” And Hagan meant it.

On June 6, 2012, Hagan signed Directive 18, which among other things had an accountability clause that read: “faculty, staff and students violating this policy are subject to disciplinary action pursuant to the applicable collective bargaining agreement and/or administrative policies or procedures.”

Though the original directive does not elaborate on what “administrative policies or procedures” meant, the revised accountability clause signed by President Mildred García a week before the campuswide ban went into effect ap-

The team huddles around coach Dedrique Taylor during a timeout.

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pears to be even more toothless.

“The success of this policy depends on the thoughtfulness, civility and cooperation of all members of the campus community, including visitors, the clause says.

Compliance is grounded in an informed and educated campus community. Incidents related to this policy will be addressed through applicable administrative policies.”

Not mentioned in either version of the presidential directive is the smoking ban task force, a committee created by the Academic Senate resolution to educate and support students and faculty in the process of transitioning to a total ban on campus.

May Wong, chair of the smoking ban task force, and Curtis Plotkin, director of Environmental Health and Safety, maintain that the smoking ban policy had come “in tact,” and said it was not possible for the task force to suggest changes.

However, a representative from Associated Students Inc. said repeatedly there were “constant amendments” to the policy and the committee had gone through “several drafts” of the smoking ban.

The conflicting accounts of the discussions taking place at task force meetings underscores the lack of clarity and understanding among the people most responsible for implementing the policy itself.

More concerning is the disputed role unions played in the implementation and revision of Directive 18.

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Defense attorneys are scheduled to begin making their case Thursday that although the officers did beat Thomas, they did so because Thomas was being overly combative and aggressive, and their actions were not the primary cause of his death.

Dr. Michael Lekawa, trauma chief at UC Irvine Medical Center, treated Thomas on the night of the incident. He said Thomas was in a comatose state by the time he reached the hospital for treatment.

“Seemingly a reasonably young, healthy guy was being restrained and said he couldn’t breathe,” Lekawa said. “He is speaking in sentences, then single words, then garbled speech.

Ultimately, he’s not speaking at all.”

Dr. Aruna Singhania, a pathologist from the Orange County Coroner’s Office, performed Thomas’ autopsy. She told the court that Thomas died due to a lack of oxygen reaching

his brain. The insufficient oxygen resulted from the wounds that the officers inflicted upon his head, neck and chest, Singhania said.

Surveillance footage from cameras at the Fullerton Transportation Center, as well as routine police audio recordings of the incident, complicated matters for defense attorneys.

Ramos, who was the first to respond to the complaint that Thomas was trying to break into cars at the center, can be heard saying “See my fists?

They’re getting ready to f*** you up.”

Former FBI agent John Wilson, called by the prosecution, told Rackauckas that Ramos was “antagonistic and mocking” in the way that he approached Thomas, and that made it less likely that he would have been able to calm him down and end the conflict peacefully.

“It would significantly increase the danger for the next move and increased the hostile environment,” Wilson said regarding Ramos’ remarks.

Rackauckas then asked Wil-

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son what he thought about how law enforcement should handle homeless individuals and people with mental health problems, but defense attorney John Barnett, representing Ramos, objected.

Barnett said Wilson was not called upon as an expert regarding the homeless. Judge William Froeberg sustained that objection.

Cicinelli’s attorney, Michael Schwartz, stressed during his cross examination of Wilson that the FBI veteran had only testified specifically as an expert on use of force in one previous case about three years ago.

Rackauckas later responded by pointing out that Wilson had a long history of training others in the proper use of force, even if he was not specifically an expert on the subject in previous legal cases.

Defense attorneys focused on Thomas’ health problems prior to his altercation with police, saying his death was primarily the result of an enlarged heart brought on by past drug abuse.

During a cross examination

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The reporter sent a mass email to professors asking for “funny and creative excuses” that students have told their professors about why they did not complete assignments. The reporter asked for examples of students trying to get “sympathy, remorse or a free pass.”

“Our strategy is to help collect examples that tell the story in the way we’d like to see it told, if the feature or package is to move forward,” Selleck said. “As you can imagine, we’re not interested in forwarding examples that portray students as lazy or liars or worse … ” Selleck also asked Witmer if she could approach “friendlies” on behalf of media relations who might be willing to work on it.

“Rather than referring the reporter to selected faculty members, we’d prefer the examples be sent to our office, so we can screen them and/or work with faculty members to craft a few lines of description to do the deed,” Selleck said.

The story, titled “Cal State Fullerton professors share common excuses,” was ultimately published.

A report by Jeff Sonderman and Millie Tran of the American Press Institute—a Virginiabased nonprofit—defines sponsored content to be “content that takes the same form and qualities of a publisher’s original content” and “usually serves useful or entertaining information as a way of favorably influencing the perception of the sponsor brand.”

According to a March 12 news release from the Register, “The university sections will mirror the design, graphics and storytelling style seen in the Register’s community newspaper portfolio.”

Sonderman sees two main issues that sponsored content must face regarding credibility.

The first is to make sure it is clear to the readers the extent of the university’s involvement in the sponsored section.

“I believe sponsored content disclosures should tell readers not only that the content is sponsored, but should also be specific about what that means,” Sonderman said. “Exactly what influence and involvement does the sponsor have in shaping the content?”

Sonderman raised concerns about whether or not the Register would hold sponsored content to the same standards as its normal content.

“Is it produced by the same news staff, or a different one?

All those levels of detail help a reader truly understand what they’re getting here,” he said.

The second credibility factor Sonderman sees is whether the

DECEMBER 12, 2013

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Courtesy of Orange County Register The courtroom reviews evidence images of a bloodstained Taser Fullerton police officers used on Kelly Thomas.

session with Lekawa Tuesday, Barnett made note of Thomas’ ability to breathe while officers restrained him. Lekawa agreed that Thomas could breathe enough to speak, but said the amount of air he was inhaling

Register’s “news coverage of the university could be restrained or prejudiced by the fact that the university is now a business partner.”

This is a general point of concern with any advertiser who is also a news subject or source.

“But in this case, it’s worth noting especially,” Sonderman said.

Sonderman questioned whether Register reporters or editors will feel differently now about covering a potential frontpage hard news story about the university “while other staffers are being paid to write positive stories in a special section inside the paper.”

“One would hope not, but the potential for that must be acknowledged and dealt with,” Sonderman said.

The service order specifies that CSUF agrees to be the main sponsor for the half-page broadsheet advertisement in every weekly section.

According to the contract between the Register and CSUF, the $275,000 paid for 12 months of a “weekly 6-page Broadsheet Insertion for county-wide distribution.”

The Register also launched university sections at UC Irvine and Chapman University.

The money to fund the CSUF section came from revenue derived from special funds “such as parking and housing, as well as revenue from the university’s auxiliaries, which are pooled into an account used for university administrative costs,” Cal State Fullerton Chief Communications Officer Jeffrey D. Cook said.

A stipulation in the service order states that the university is to “actively collaborate with OCR (the Register) on story ideas, student and college departmental relationship facilitation and public information office cooperation.”

“So however they might parse the words of what they think they’re paying for, they are basically writing a check that results in a weekly special section of news that they are involved in shaping and that exists only because of this agreement,” Sonderman said.

“That’s clearly different than just buying a half-page ad in the normal newspaper sections.”

While the Register is supposed to maintain editorial control, university section editor Thomas Martinez has sometimes asked Selleck to decide which column to run.

In one email exchange, Martinez asked Selleck to rewrite a sentence in President Mildred García’s first “Titan Voices” column.

“Could you rewrite the first part of this sentence to make it easier to understand?” Martinez asked.

The sentence Selleck suggest-

was insufficient.

Michael Schwartz, who represents Cicinelli, planned to bring in medical experts to make the case that Thomas died as a result of past injuries and not his confrontation with

officers, according to KPCC. A third officer involved in the incident, Joseph Wolfe, will be tried for involuntary manslaughter at a later date.

Nereida Moreno contributed to this report.

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The distributor picks up leftover copies of the CSUF section and other affiliated newspapers to return to the Orange County Register.

ed was ultimately published.

The collaboration between the university and the Register includes Register writers pitching story ideas to the university, the university pitching story ideas and column ideas to the writers and coordinating on when certain content, such as columns, is published.

“I think any arrangement where a university or other entity pays the paper to create a special about the university and influences the story selection and perhaps even the wording is a breach of editorial integrity and independence,” said Thomas Clanin, a communications professor who teaches Media Ethics.

Clanin said he was unsure of the benefits the university would gain from the special section, other than increasing their brand awareness.

“The Daily Titan this week had a good story on the ‘D’ rating at the Gastronome, do you

really think that would be appearing in the Register’s Cal State Fullerton’s section?” he said. “I don’t think so.”

The contract between CSUF and the Register outlines eight points that the Register agrees to and two that CSUF agrees to.

The agreements include, in addition to those previously mentioned, that the university sections employ a dedicated editorial staff to produce the weekly sections and work with student journalists “where appropriate.”

The Register did contact the Daily Titan during the spring 2013 semester regarding collaboration. The Daily Titan responded, but the Register has not contacted the staff further.

However, students who are not affiliated with the Daily Titan have had stories published.

Samuel Mountjoy and Nereida Moreno contributed to this report.

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DTBRIEFS Cooler fails on space station BRITTANY CURRIE NASA discovered a cooling problem on the International Space Station on Wednesday, prompting them to scale back on operations, according to CNN. One of two external cooling pumps failed after hitting a temperature limit that caused the malfunction.

NASA said they tried to get the cooling loop working again and said the station and crew were never in danger.

NASA spokesman Josh Byerly said the loop was producing too much ammonia which resulted in the team shutting down non-critical systems on the space station.

The space station’s current mission called Expedition 38 plans to fly until March 2014.

Interpreter upsets deaf viewers BRIAN CHESTER A “fake” sign language interpreter administered false gestures to deaf viewers during the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, according to NBC News.

Several advocacy groups and charities representing deaf individuals confirmed that the gestures did not match what was being said during the service.

The South African government said it was “looking into this matter but has not been able to conclude this inquiry due to the demanding schedule” organizing the state funeral.

African National Congress communications manager Keith Khoza said was hired by the African government to interpret Mandela’s memorial.

Jobless benefits may end VINCENT LA ROSA Over 220,000 longterm unemployed individuals in California could lose their jobless benefits by the end of the year if an extension is not approved this week, according to the Orange County Register.

Even with Orange County having one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state, federal jobless insurance provides assistance to 14,171 people in Orange County. Under the current federal budget, federal benefits are set to come to an end on Dec. 28, leaving California’s unemployed with only state options for assistance.

Congress has until the end of the week to extend the deadline for unemployment benefits.

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Teach For America uncovered Short training period may leave educators unprepared for teaching ERICA MAHONEY Daily Titan

Teach For America (TFA), a nonprofit teaching program, has been the subject of heavy criticism for the past few years, by both former members and outside educators alike.

Three states have named TFA the top teacher preparatory program for multiple years running and TFA is seeing improvements in student performance, like in the greater New Orleans area, where basic or above-average results on statewide tests increased from 30 percent to 53 percent between 2000 and 2010.

However, not everyone is singing TFA’s praises. Much debate has arisen over TFA’s training system and whether or not recruits are really in the program to become teachers.

TFA sends young, ambitious recruits to urban schools as full-time teachers for two year terms. Some recruits elect to continue teaching in the TFA program beyond the two year minimum, while others do not.

The issue of training has become a hot topic amongst former members who feel their weeks of preparation were insufficient for the required job.

Gary Rubinstein is a former TFA member speaking out against the organization, urging others to be cautious of joining it in his blog entry and YouTube video, “Why it’s a bad time to be in Teach For America.”

Rubinstein served for TFA in 1991, but is unhappy with where the organization is today.

“Over the years I’ve focused much of my criticism of Teach For America on the need to improve training for incoming corps members,” Rubinstein said in the article.

Indeed, training does seem to be quite brief in comparison to the required service term.

TFA recruits undergo just five weeks of training before being sent off to struggling inner-city schools for two years.

Catherine Michna, who was also part of TFA, spoke out against the organization recently. Michna is a long-time instructor who has declared that she will not provide letters of recommendation for students applying for TFA, but will instead encourage them to apply for graduate programs in education.

Recalling her own experience, she said TFA seriously under-prepares aspiring teachers for the real classroom.

Morgan L. Donaldson and Susan Moore Johnson analyzed retention rates within TFA in

an extensive article written on behalf of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional association for educators. The article was published in Education Week.

They said TFA can sometimes be simply a short-term activity for young college graduates, which is especially unfair to the students at these low income schools, where consistency is so important.

“I don’t know about you, but I would love if my politicians —who make policy about education— had experience teaching,” Andres Perez

TFA Campus Representative TFA may build leaders that go on to become lifelong teachers, but for some it may be used as an impressive line on recruits’ resumes that they use to get into completely different professions while leaving their students in the dust, Donaldson and Johnson said.

The data they found from a 2007 survey that looked at where recruits were five years later. The survey of more than

2,000 recruits from the years 2000 to 2002 showed 60.5 percent of recruits teach beyond the two-year requirement, and 35.5 percent taught more than four years. About 28 percent were still teaching in their fifth year.

As far as the recruits’ intentions, about 57 percent indicated that they had planned on only fulfilling the two year requirement, while about 43 percent said they knew from the beginning that they wanted to exceed the two year requirement.

A significant figure is that of the recruits who were education majors, 71 percent taught longer than four years for TFA. “This seems to suggest that new teachers benefit from having more preservice preparation than fast-track programs usually provide,” Donaldson and Johnson concluded.

Ultimately, their study found that TFA recruits are not “exclusively short-term in their intentions or actions” as most critics would presume.

More recently, TFA calculated that 7,000 out of 24,000 members (or nearly 30 percent) are still teaching as of 2011.

Andres Perez, a TFA campus representative for Cal State Fullerton, said some recruits do go on to other careers, but points out that that’s not always a bad thing.

“I don’t know about you, but

I would love if my politicians— who make policy about education—had experience teaching,” Perez said.

One other issue against TFA is the fact that many recruits are white, or come from very different (usually higher income) backgrounds compared to the demographics of the schools they’ll be working in.

According to a 2009 USA Today article, 70 percent of TFA members are white. TFA member Chris Turk said there should be a special course during training specific to the cultures of the regions that members will be working in.

Heather Harding, senior vice president for community engagement for TFA, reached out in defense of the organization in an interview with NPR. She addressed diversity concerns and said it was one of their biggest priorities, to get a more diverse core of teachers.

According to Harding, the core is one-third people of color. She said while this is a great representation based on recent college graduates, she would love for that number to be higher and more representative and is working to see it change.

“Anybody can be a great teacher, (but) there’s added benefit if that teacher looks like you, particularly for kids of color in this country, and kids from poverty circumstances,” Harding said.

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“(What is) important for me is that we are culturally competent across … ethnic studies is very important for those people that come for those groups, because you learn your history and you learn your culture, but it’s also extremely important that you learn about others,” García said. “And so ethnic studies is important for all students to learn across all cultures.”

Unlike CSULB, where the Department of Africana Studies is in danger, CSUF has hired two African-American faculty members to ensure CSUF’s cultural centers receive proper attention.

CSULB asked Chancellor Timothy P. White for a twoyear moratorium—delaying further action until an assessment can be done.

Students and staff statewide have staged protests, talks and even mock funerals mourning the loss of these studies.

According to the Spartan Daily, San Jose State’s student newspaper, students set up a coffin with tombstones to represent the lack of ethnic studies courses at San Jose State during an event celebration.

“Everything is fine over here (CSUF), not a problem at the moment,” said Mahamood Hassan, president of CSUF’s CFA chapter.

Eliza Noh, Ph.D., associate professor of Asian American studies, disagrees with cutting ethnic studies in the CSU. “I think it is a very bad idea.

We are (a) state school and state schools should serve the student population,” she said.

“The state is racially and ethnically diverse. We are moving into a more globalized society.

It is a very short sighted move in the way of saving money or cutting the budget. (It is) not going to save (money) in the long term.”

CFA also said ethnic departments supplement academic support services in the CSU by providing models, advisers and also fulfilling the general educational requirements.

CFA said these departments provide vital links to the diverse communities the CSU serves.

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MIKE TRUJILLO / Daily Titan In accordance to the university’s strategic plan, Noh said ethnic studies help attain those high-impact practice goals.

High-impact practices is student engagement, where student learning goes beyond the classroom, applying to their personal, work and academic lives.

“One of the strategic goals of the university is to incorporate high impact practices into student learning. That is exactly what ethnic studies does,” Noh said. “Things like experiential learning, student research, collaborative work, and community engagement have always been part of the ethnic studies curriculum.”

But due to budget cuts from 2008, ethnic studies departments have faced many obstacles.

“2008 has been very difficult. It has taken quite a toll on our program in terms of the pressure to cutback. Also, we have to reach target in terms of enrollment,” Noh said. “So, because of the pressure to reach (the) target we have to offer courses that enroll high.”

She said it is difficult to devel-

op new types of courses because when a program or department first offers a new course, enrollment tends to be low.

“So it is difficult during that period to offer new classes because the pressure is to offer courses that enroll high so that we can reach target,” Noh said.

Retention among students and staff is also another issue ethnic studies faces.

“In ethnic studies we do have problems with retention. In terms of retaining high quality faculty, I think one of ... the consequences of the budgetary issues was people would go to other campuses which would offer them more resources,” Noh said.

But García remains positive.

“There are no conversations at all. First of all, let me begin by saying a president does not get involved in those conversations. Those are faculty issues.

But there are no discussions at all that I know of, because we see our ethnic studies departments as very critical to the learning of all students, and I think we have to underscore all

students.”

Noh said she thinks García understands the value of study in multiculturalism, race, and ethnicity to a global society.

“The president has been vocal about her support for ethnic studies. So, I assume that

because she is vocal and that she is committed to supporting ethnic studies on campus—I think she does understand the value of the study of multiculturalism, race and ethnicity to a global society. I’m optimistic,” Noh said.

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Ethnic studies too valuable to be cut Several CSUs are cutting ethnic studies programs at the expense of students ANDRES MARTINEZ Daily Titan

Students of color are subject to increasing discrimination, as many ethnic studies programs are being cut across the state across all levels of education.

In 2012, the Tucson Unified School District banned K-12 ethnic studies classes because the administration said they felt it promoted hatred and division among their students.

Now, some California State University campuses are following suit and drastically cutting the ethnic studies departments or merging them into larger departments.

Despite what organizations like the Tucson Unified School District believes ethnic studies promote, these departments educate students in the cultural literacies needed to be effective leaders. It helps students learn to address the complicated social and cultural issues that are part of an increasingly diverse United States, according to the California Faculty Association (CFA).

Professors aren’t being replaced, classes are being reduced and majors could be

eliminated or subsumed into other liberal arts programs, said Carla Rivera from the Los Angeles Times.

By cutting classes, not only are professors losing money, but students are also losing out because less courses are being offered which may delay graduation for some students.

The CFA, which has expressed deep concern regarding this issue in a letter to the CSU campus presidents, said that San Jose State, Cal State Bakersfield and Cal State Long Beach are considering either cutting the ethnic studies majors or merging them together; some of these schools have already started doing so.

Many opponents, including the Tucson Unified School District, believe that ethnic studies courses, such as Chicana and Chicano studies courses, are designed to promote hate or rebellion against other ethnic groups.

Individuals of other races may become wary of these courses, and can develop a sense of alienation from their classmates. The mindset that courses in African-American studies are solely for African-American students is a misconception engraved in many students’ minds.

At Cal State Fullerton, the ethnic studies department consists of Chicana and Chicano Studies, African-American

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Ethnic studies programs promote diversity among students on campus.

Studies and Asian-American Studies.

Alexandro José Gradilla, dual chair of the Chicana and Chicano Studies and the AfricanAmerican Studies department, said ethnic studies is critical to higher education and university knowledge because it gives students the tools needed to question the stigma of the societal role of minorities. He said it’s rewarding knowing he works not only with students of color, but also non-students of color who are committed to issues of social justice, racial equality or social transformation.

Gradilla said he loves the way in which research and knowl-

edge can be beneficial to the social progress of communities.

As an undergraduate, he saw the power and impact that ethnic studies can have on students and their respective communities.

“We actually look at the world from a different standpoint so that the knowledge and the knowledge perspective that we bring, especially the good type of research and good type of knowledge, is always critical and from our standpoint as being people who have been excluded, people who have been ignored, people who have been made invisible,” Gradilla said.

Society is greatly changing

and many departments don’t have the time to cover cultural diversity, Gradilla said.

“We give training in terms of thorough cultural diversity, cultural competency, cultural awareness. Students will learn how to use that and blend it with their future professional goals,” Gradilla said.

Carlos Beltran, 21, a political science and Chicana and Chicano studies double major, said the cuts and changes are devastating because they limit the expression and development of diverse ethnic groups.

“These ethnic departments do not only teach history of different ethnic groups, but also teach critical perspectives, histories, backgrounds, etc, about ethnic groups,” Beltran said.

“These components are usually ignored in other Western departments, causing our history to get lost in tradition.”

People need to understand that ethnic studies goes beyond the color of the skin of the individual or its ancestry.

Ethnic studies brings to light what many try to hide.

The lessons taught are beneficial not only to people of color, but also to others, because it emphasizes unity among the masses while encouraging students to take their knowledge and apply it to their career and community.

The importance of understanding various cultures are less evident in writing, but rather in action, where individuals can promote individual as well as collective change.

“We call on each campus president, the Chancellor and Board of Trustees of this great system to view these programs (and others) not as impediments to efficiency, but rather as opportunities to help us all live up to the best in ourselves and in our history,” reads the CFA letter.

The ethnic studies department at CSUF is not in any danger of being cut because the dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the president of the campus and other administrators on campus see the relevance and importance of it, Gradilla said.

“I think it’s a big challenge for us especially being ethnic studies at a majority minority serving institution such as CSUF,” Gradilla said. “Many students are not aware what ethnic studies is. Many students are only aware of either stereotypes or are unsure of what we do.”

Although many students are truly unaware of the deeper meaning of ethnic studies and are only exposed to various stereotypes, the department is necessary to encourage positive development among all students.

June 6, 2012

Former interim President Willie Hagan approves Presidential Directive 18 with an accountability clause which read:

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“faculty, staff, and students violating this policy are subject to disciplinary action pursuant to the applicable collective bargaining agreement and/or administrative policies or procedures.”

Smoking ban task force still waiting to hear back from unions on whether or not they have approved the revised presidential directive.

August 1, 2013

SMOKING BAN GOES INTO EFFECT February 23, 2012

Summer 2012

Unions meet with administration on accountability measures included in Presidential Directive 18.

Speaking on the proposal for a campus-wide ban on smoking, interim President Willie Hagan announced his support for the measure, after having received resolutions from ASI and the Academic Senate. He said “Enforcement will be a critical part of this action in the future.”

Academic Senate Chair John Bedell announces a unanimous vote in favor of a smoke free campus.

January 2013

Associate Vice President for Administration and Finance Bill Barrett asks May Wong to chair the smoking ban task force. Barrett gives Wong a list of university divisions to invite to the meetings.

The task force meets for the first time on Jan 26.

The list included representatives of labor relations and strategic communications.

July 23, 2013

President Mildred García amends Presidential Directive 18. There is no mention of disciplinary action or collective bargaining agreements.

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force were concerned the committee was “going too fast.”

The campuswide smoking ban raises the question of whether public policy should continue to exist if it does not achieve its inBoth representatives from ASI noted that by July, the task force tended goals. was still waiting to hear feedback from organized labor groups on Directive 18, in its adulterated form, only serves as fuel for adcampus. vocates of limited government, who will argue that the policy has “There was a big waiting game because at that moment the pro- done nothing but create an unnecessary bureaucracy that wastes posal for the smoking ban was with the union … we were waiting time and money and is ultimately ineffective. Removing the ashon if the union did indeed agree with the conditions of the smoking trays from their previous locations did not discourage people from ban,” Carlos Navarro, ASI chief administrative officer said. smoking. It simply gave them no designated place to throw their Two union leaders contest that account, and three union leaders used cigarettes. do not recall ever having been in negotiations with the administraUsing a “peer pressure” model to implement the smoking ban tion in summer 2013. asks students, faculty and staff to forget what decades of anti-drug According to one union leader, organized labor groups last con- policy has taught them. vened with administration officials in 2012 after Instead, they must distinguish between good the original draft of Directive 18 had included peer pressure and bad peer pressure, a task made disciplinary action provisions. Adding additional even more arbitrary in the environment created by disciplinary consequences to employee contracts the administration. would have triggered a collective bargaining proThe conundrum posed by community-based cess known as a “meet and confer.” enforcement can best be explained in the words of The absence of disciplinary provisions in the history professor David Freeman: “I refuse to be current directive may have been a way for the associated with any policy that effectively encouradministration to avoid the drawn-out process a ages students, faculty, staff and visitors to campus meet and confer would have caused, keeping their to snitch on one another.”

Aug. 1 launch date on schedule.

If the administration really cares about the adCSUF Media Relations Director Christopher verse health effects of secondhand smoke, they Bugbee would not say on the record why Presishould be more concerned about the efficacy of their dent García had removed the disciplinary provipolicy instead of making history. sions of Directive 18, nor would he point out if any Being “the first” to do anything is only remarkindividual group had played a key role in making able if the achievement itself has merit. It is clear those specific changes, saying “changes to Directhat the administration did not consider this notion tive 18 likely reflect input from (the task force, inin the process of creating, revising and implementdividual university departments and unions).” ing the smoking ban.

Repeatedly pressed for answers, Bugbee said Moving forward, the administration should con“the University doesn’t typically spend much time David Freeman Ph.D. duct an actual survey of students who continue to reconstructing the processes by which decisions Department of History violate the smoking ban each month. are reached and policies formulated, nor does it Only after seeing a measurable decrease can the typically report out minutes of meetings, etc.” The university begin to boast of the success of their pollack of transparency the administration has provided in the policy- icy. If studies show community enforcement and peer pressure do making process is as reprehensible as it is disconcerting. not work, the administration should think about what will more efBoth drafts of Directive 18 stress the need for “adequate time” to fectively reduce the likelihood of secondhand smoke. plan for the rollout of the smoking ban.

Given a reasonable number of designated smoking areas, smokThe time between June 6, 2012 and Aug. 1 would have been al- ers may be more inclined to smoke there than next to buildings. most 14 months, but the smoking ban task force did not convene Administrators should also be clear as to the consequences faculty, until the end of January 2013. staff and students may face for violating the ban. If faculty and staff With only six months to plan for the implementation of a campus- are exempt from disciplinary action, but students are still subject to wide smoking ban, it was no surprise then that members of the task punishment, the university should say so.

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Titan travels far and dreams big for success CSUF student Trihn Pham traveled from Vietnam and New Zealand to CSUF DANIEL OSTRIN Daily Titan

At the age of 14, Trihn “Sky” Pham left his home to become an international student of finance, management and altruism.

Pham, now 21, traveled alone across the Pacific Ocean twice to ultimately find himself studying at Cal State Fullerton.

“I promised myself everywhere I go, I’m going to contribute to that country,” Pham said.

Having lived in the United States for only three years, Pham has already set an impressive track record by organizing events, such as restoration days at Orange County parks and canned food trick-or-treating drives.

Originating from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, Pham was born in the region’s rainy season, fall. With rainfall inundating through a leaf-sheltered ceiling and flooding floors, a newborn may have seemed like an overwhelming addition to an already stressful situation.

Pham’s mother, a wool farmer, and his father, a freight cyclist, taught him early in his life the business ethics he employs today.

“The philosophy of our family is we share what we have,” Pham said. “If we earn $10, we share $5, we hold $3 for investment and we keep $2 to save.”

Over the next 14 years of his life, the Pham family would undergo upward mobility—from lower to middle to eventually upper class—through entrepreneurship, expansion and ethics.

From the beginning, Pham, well-mannered and genuine, spoke of the appreciation he holds for his parents. Their hard work and dedication gave him the opportunity to travel across the sea to carve out his path.

He understands that his parents are the catalyst to the change he wants to bring.

Pham attended secondary school at Wellington College in New Zealand. Through this institution, Pham organized projects with the Blue Dragon Foundation, a grassroots charity that delivers aid to children in Vietnam.

His most notable fundraiser during his school years at Wellington College was an international week where multicultural dishes were crafted and sold with all of the profits going to the Blue Dragon Foundation.

While he studied, Pham joined the working world by obtaining a series of tough dishwashing jobs at local restaurants in Wellington, the nation’s capital. The last dishwashing job he held eventually evolved into a serving position that helped him develop fluency in the English language.

After finishing high school, Pham set his sights on continuing his education at a university.

Ever since his childhood, Pham dreamed of becoming a doctor.

However, that aspiration was suddenly disturbed when he received a rejection letter from his

dream school, the University of Otago Dunedin School of Medicine in North Dunedin, New Zealand.

One of Pham’s professors understood the crushing awakening that rejection can bring and turned a heartbreak into constructive criticism. She told Pham that although his natural talent may not be in medicine, his artistry is clearly vested in business.

It was a fitting judgment for Pham; after all, he had been studying Mandarin Chinese.

After receiving that insight, an idea was born: build a hospital and create a center for doctors.

After that, Pham took a year off after high school and went back to Vietnam to explore a bold business venture with his father. He actualized coffee.

Inspired by the climate change initiative in Copenhagen, the creation of a company selling naturally grown coffee and packaging it with recycled materials was born. Pham said Copen Coffee, a Vietnam-based firm, is now expanding and testing the foreign markets.

Through witnessing circumstantial steps needed to start a business, Pham reassured himself in his natural aptitude for business and began the search for a university revered for its management and finance colleges.

He nearly accepted admission to Pasadena City College, but at the last minute he impulsively decided to head to Orange County.

Pham went to CSUF as blindly as he was unprepared. At 18 years old, it was the second time in his life that he knew absolutely no one in a foreign land, like leaving Vietnam for New Zealand.

He had no friends, no family and no SIM card.

After buying a new SIM card at the airport, he picked up the local newspaper, took a look at the classified section for a room to rent and hailed a taxi to take him to his new home.

With hardly any downtime after settling into his new place, Pham joined the CSUF Students Recycle Club within the first couple weeks and has only added to his extracurricular activities since. He also joined the CSUF Entrepreneur Society, where he eventually become the vice president of Marketing and Finance.

Within two semesters with Students Recycle, Pham introduced a 2,900 percent increase to the organization’s annual budget. From recycling bottles, fundraising and the Inter-club Council subsidizing money into a gas budget when the club travels to soup kitchens to volunteer, the club’s budget rose from $50 to $1,500.

This past summer, Pham held two internships, one at TDL International Law Office and the other at Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce, which led to a promotion into the chamber’s social business director position.

Pham will be graduating in the next two years. His long-term goal after graduation is to explore more eco-friendly ventures and ultimately create a multi-disciplinary hospital and school back in Vietnam with his father.

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Each morning, Cpl. Iris Cortes arrives at the headquarters of the University Police where she checks in and loads her vehicle with a Taser, shotgun and other sanctioned materials.

She then begins the 20-mile commute to the Cal State Fullerton Irvine Campus to start her 10-hour shift at CSUF’s rapidly growing location in Southern Orange County.

Cortes has served in University Police for 15 years, and she has been the primary officer at the Irvine Campus for two years.

Cortes majored in public relations at CSUF, but recalls her desire to become an officer beginning before her undergraduate years.

“It was something I wanted to do long before I wanted to do anything else,” Cortes said. “I’ve just always felt passionate about helping people; I know it sounds corny but it really is the truth.”

Cortes was drawn to the Irvine Campus largely for the same reason many students are drawn to it: the unique sense of community offered by the small campus. She can often be seen walking the halls of the twostory, office-building-like structure, taking time to say hello to students and to greet staff and faculty by name.

Unlike the main campus, where University Police headquarters is in a standalone building, Cortes’ office is located inside the Irvine Campus building and is adjacent to its main lobby.

Her office door is usually open or displays a sign saying, “Will return shortly.”

Students know Cortes’ office to be a place they can go to get any type of help.

Many students enter Cortes’ office in hopes of retrieving an item that has been lost or misplaced. Found items like cell phones, sunglasses, laptops and textbooks are often placed under Cortes’ care.

“Our turn around for lost and found is very, very good,” Cortes said. “And I’m proud to say that.”

Cortes attributes this return rate and the fact that no major thefts have occurred at the Irvine Campus to the small, community feel that campus offers; something that is not entirely possible at the much larger main campus in Fullerton.

In addition to her work at the Irvine Campus, Cortes helps to serve Fullerton’s students and community through her work with the Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) program. The RAD program is a three-day course conducted on the main campus each semester that seeks to equip women to better protect themselves.

Cortes said she has been touched by many of the people who have attended the RAD classes. They have been conducted on the campus for almost a decade.

Typically, at least one of the participants in the class per semester has been the victim of an assault, Cortes said. Because of this, it is important that the class is conducted in a manner that is both informative and thorough as well as sensitive and compassionate.

“She has a knack of connecting with the public,” said Eva Mazzeo, community service specialist and former Irvine police officer who has worked with Cortes at varying capacities for over 10 years and has assisted in conducting the RAD program. “I think she has a real, natural gift for that.”

Cortes attributes her ability to connect with people in part to her role as a mother of two. She said being a mother has helped

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Cpl. Iris Cortes trains CSUF students in a Rape Agression Defense course as head of the RAD program.

her to “deal with people on a more real basis,” recalling an incident where a student confided in her that he felt he could never please his father.

Cortes had been called to assist the student who was suffering from probable alcohol poisoning. She went beyond the call of duty by reaching out to the student’s father. She offered advice on how he could help his son and how he could improve their relationship.

She also said her approach to leadership and work differs from others in law enforcement, which remains a male-dominated field.

“We do law enforcement a little different than men do, because we are more detail-oriented and we are more verbal,” Cortes said.

Although these differences have proved to be beneficial in many respects, Cortes said she has faced some challenges as a

woman in law enforcement. This is a sentiment which Mazzeo, a fellow female officer, echoes.

“They require you to prove yourself a little bit more,” Mazzeo said. “Just to make sure that you can handle the more assertive type of roles.”

Cortes responded to this pressure, which was created by those within law enforcement and in the general public, by doing her job with exceptional fervor.

“I didn’t want anybody thinking I was weak,” Cortes said. “So I did … a lot of work to prove myself. I felt I had to prove myself.”

Cortes recalled an incident where she felt she needed to prove herself more than a male officer might need to when she was greeted as a “cute little female officer” while responding to a call in Fullerton regarding domestic violence.

Still, Cortes is quick to note

that the vast majority of her experiences with both her fellow officers and the public have been positive and that both welcome her in the field.

“We need women in law enforcement,” Cpl. Jose Rosales, 29, said.

Rosales said he feels the field is “changing for the better” in this respect. He also said he personally does not feel there is any difference between his relationship with female officers like Cortes and male officers.

“I always like to have women being my partners as well,” Rosales said. “If you’re a good person, then I like you. Not necessarily if you’re a man or a woman.”

Cortes plans to retire within the coming years, but hopes to continue pursuing her passion for serving the community through the RAD program.

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How to get through finals Finals week can be stressful; here are some tips to get through it MAGDALENA GUILLEN Daily Titan

After 15 long, tedious weeks of lectures, assignments and group projects, everything comes down to the 16th week of the semester: finals week.

You immediately start to freak out about all the classes you skipped and lectures you slept through. You tell yourself it is time to get to work.

You go home and start to mentally prepare yourself. For the work you accomplisehd, you reward yourself by watching a show on Netflix.

Then you suddenly decide to reward yourself for all of your hard work this semester by watching an entire season of How I Met Your Mother.

After watching an entire season, you feel guilty for all the time you wasted so you really decide to sit down and get to work.

But your brain seems groggy and a little unfocused and it needs that extra boost.

And suddenly, Starbucks

sounds like a great idea, but you weigh the option because you have transformed into some sort of cave person draped in sweatpants. Mascara is all over your eyes and your hair became a tangled mess, not to mention you are wearing fuzzy socks with Uggs.

Yet the urge for coffee is so tremendous that you Google the location of the nearest Starbucks that has a drive-thru window so you do not embarrass yourself.

You finally head home and start to glance at study guides and begin to open books you haven’t opened all semester.

You write down definitions, make flashcards and make your final exam schedule.

Before you know it, your first final is in 48 hours. After screaming internally for about a minute, you cannot handle yourself and just walk away from your desk.

The anxiety mounts and you cannot handle it. You realize you are kissing your social life goodbye for the next week and that today is the last day of true freedom before you pull extensive allnighters.

You call up your best friend and the next thing you know you are downing whiskey shots. You

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Magdalena Guillen, Communications major, plans to graduate next May.

dance all night and by the time you walk into your home, it is four in the morning.

You go to sleep with the intention of waking up early to study.

The next morning you hit snooze at least three times and before you know it, it is past three in the afternoon and you jump out of your bed quicker than a ninja.

Between stuffing a croissant in your mouth and chugging an energy drink, you lay all study guides, flash cards and books on the table.

After hours of intensive studying, you realize you are still wearing last night’s outfit and decide to change.

Then you get started on the massive final research paper you’ve been putting off that you just realized is also due tomorrow—all 12 pages of it.

You curse the world with such

fury and anger that you fling yourself on to your bed and scream into your pillow.

You pull another all-nighter and hurriedly leave your house in the morning only to be stuck in traffic.

Not to mention parking at Cal State Fullerton seems to be worse during finals. You finally find a spot in Lot G. You practically run to class only to make it approximately .10 seconds before you start your final.

This is how not to deal with finals.

During my first couple of years of college I did exactly this. I was the worst at pulling all-nighters, running on only coffee and taking on too much that I ended up working on assignments the day before they are due.

Five years later and now holding super senior status, I learned

DYLAN LUJANO / Daily Titan a few things.

Although I still pull extensive all-nighters, I learned that taking a 20-minute nap when I feel like giving up is a life saver. Drinking coffee and energy drinks for breakfast will destroy and burn the inside of your stomach. Having a real breakfast will actually help you think and keep your energy level high.

Learning to say ‘no’ to going out is also huge. With maturity comes priority, and thank goodness I learned to prioritize. While it is great to “work hard, play hard,” you must be able to prioritize education—especially during finals.

While I still commit some underclassmen sins, I learned how to deal with finals in baby steps. I still freak out and I still stress out.

However, nothing feels better than checking your grades and doing better than you thought—that makes all the stress worth it.

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Harris started the season as the scoring leader of this new Titan squad, but he has struggled to find his rhythm following his injury.

Harris is the second-highest scorer on the Titans, averaging 12 points per game and shooting a 40.9 overall field-goal percentage.

Harris admitted he’s in a slump, but he said he needs to keep shooting to find his scoring groove again.

The scoring inefficiency of Williams and Harris reflects the Titans’ struggles on offense, shooting a low 43.2 total fieldgoal percentage as a team, and an even worse 31.3 percentage from three-point land.

The Titans are most successful when they play off their defense and run on their opponents before they can set their defenses.

Opponents playing zone defense have especially hurt the Titans this season, often having them scrambling against the shot clock and looking for an open shot.

On defense, the Titans will have their hands full trying to stop the high-scoring Tigers (36), who are averaging 76 points per game.

In comparison, the Titans are averaging 66 points per game.

The Tigers are led by their big frontcourt players, center Aaric Murray and forward Jose Rodriguez.

Murray will look to create havoc for the CSUF interior de-

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fenders as he has all year.

Murray leads the team in scoring and blocks with 22.3 points per game and 2.7 blocks per game.

The 6-foot-10-inch senior is second on the team with rebounding, grabbing 6.3 a game.

Rodriguez is second on the team in scoring with 15.7 a game, and grabbing a teamleading 6.4 rebounds a game.

Not only does the big duo lead the Tigers in scoring and rebounding, but they also lead in free-throw attempts and will most certainly look to disrupt the Titans’ interior defense by attempting to force them into foul trouble.

Another key player for the Tigers will be Ray Penn, a small and quick guard, who will be looking to exploit the inside-out

game with his speed and the size of his teammates.

Penn leads the team in assists with five per game, and is third on the team in scoring with 12.7 points per game.

The Tigers look strong on paper, but they have also struggled on defense, allowing a high 81 points per game.

If the Titans can hone into that “Titan City” identity Taylor has been preaching, they can spark a turnaround and gain momentum.

Gaining momentum and establishing an identity will be key for the Titans before approaching Big West Conference action.

For more information on the CSUF men’s basketball team and all Titan Athletics, go to FullertonTitans.com.

DECEMBER 12, 2013

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