Volume 94, Issue 26
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013
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NEWS | IMMIGRATION
Deferred action law demystified CSUF alumnus clarifies details of program that can provide work permits ABRAHAM JAUREGUI Daily Titan
In an effort to help students understand current immigration laws, Cal State Fullerton held a lecture Wednesday on the facts of deferred action policies. Carlos Reyes, a CSUF alumnus who is attending USC for a master’s degree in social work, hosted “The Myths and Realities for Undocumented College Students,” an event that explained how some people who come to the United States illegally as children can avoid deportation and become eligible for work permits. In June 2012, President Barack Obama and former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals memorandum, deferring action for immigrants. “It gives an identity to students who were in shadows before,” said Reyes, who graduated CSUF with a degree in human services in 2012. Some of the people that the program may benefit could be wary of government programs and scared to give their location and information to the government, Reyes said. He explained that the best way forward for these people is to get educated and make a decision from there. “The most important thing is to get informed in order to avoid people taking advantage of them,” Reyes said. He warned that people applying for DACA should be sure to avoid services that charge expensive fees to process applications. SEE DACA, 2
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Cadet Javier Alferez, pictured here at a field training exercise, is one of the many cadets on contract whose pay day remains uncertain.
ROTC feels shutdown
Uncertainty caused by government shutdown still looms for CSUF ROTC ETHAN HAWKES Daily Titan
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Carlos Reyes explains some of the misconceptions of deferred action.
Even with the government reopened, Cal State Fullerton’s ROTC program is still feeling the hurt of the federal government shutdown. Contracted cadets who are supposed to receive a monthly stipend will not receive it until the 2014 fiscal year budget is approved, Professor of Military Science, Lt. Col. Kelley Donham, said. It has also stalled the contracting process of some cadets. The cadets will receive their
backlogged stipend after the government reopens, but a few cadets could be in trouble. The last of the stipends went out Oct. 9, but there is no certain date for when cadets will be getting their next payment, Ivan Chicas, Army ROTC human resources technician, said. Even though Congress came to an agreement, it is unknown when cadets will receive stipends and scholarships, Chicas said. Contracted cadets usually have their college admission fees paid, but under current circumstances they are frozen. This is not a problem for CSUF students, because of the understanding between the program and the school. However, for cadets who come from elsewhere,
like Vanguard University, Chapman University and Biola University, it can be a challenge, Donham said. “At the other universities, it’s much more difficult because we’re not able to make their tuition payments; because even though they were awarded, the money is frozen,” Donham said. The cadets understand that this is a part of the process of military service, that there will be good times and bad times, Donham said. Many in ROTC do not have jobs because they get paid through the program, Dakota Wagaman, a 19-year-old psychology major, said. Wagaman said though the current sounds bad, it is not yet to the point where people are
preparing for the worst. Some off-site programs have also been put on hold. The operations and maintenance funding was frozen and government vehicles are not available. It has not been possible to secure off-campus space for training exercises, Donham said. “It’s not a tremendously large amount of funding that we get for this, but basically when we get no funding for it, it ties us down to only training on campus,” Donham said. “There’s not a lot here, there’s a limited amount of space.” Once a semester, ROTC travels to Camp Pendleton to test their skills with live ammunition and field training. SEE ROTC, 2
FEATURES | VIDEO GAMES
Students participate in Video Game Jam event Animators and programers spent three days in a lab to create video games ROBERT REYES Daily Titan
On a quiet Sunday morning in a computer lab on the third floor of the Computer Science building, a dozen or so sleep-deprived students are toiling away, programming their video games. The lab was taken over last weekend by the Video Game Design Club and Pencil Mileage Club for a Game Jam, where students designed and created their own video games before the weekend finished. Animation student, David Terry, enters the computer lab lugging around a laundry basket filled with his computer monitor, external hard drive and tablet before leaving again to retrieve his computer’s tower. As a first-time Game Jam participant, Terry finally settles back down at a table with his
team members, who have spent the last day and a half working on Allenbert, an isometric homage to classic video game Q*bert. Terry, 24, has an associates degree in computer graphics studying 3-D modeling and animation. During the game jam he’s been designing 2-D character sprites for the game’s title character, Allenbert, and the game’s enemy monsters. “Getting into a team and making a finished project is my ultimate goal here,” Terry said. Ivan Espinosa, Video Game Design Club vice president, said the event is a great learning experience for game designers. It helps them understand the mechanics of games and it also gives experienced programmers like him the opportunity to help out newcomers. Espinosa said the Game Jam gives people a more realistic understanding of the goals they should be setting for themselves. SEE GAME JAM, 6
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Former educator advocates for student involvement OPINION 4
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The Mihaylo Career Services organized a guided tour for students through the Quiksilver factory in Huntington Beach on Wednesday.
NEWS | BUSINESS
Students tour Quiksilver HQ
Business students get career advice from executives at headquarters BRITTANY CURRIE Daily Titan
Quiksilver, Inc. opened the doors of its global headquarters to Cal State Fullerton business students Wednesday, giving them a look at “reallife” work experiences at the surfwear manufacturer.
The trip was organized by the Mihaylo Career Services which provides resources to undergraduate and graduate business students including one-on-one career advising, workshops and programming, and employer relations. Hema Paliwal, employer relations associate for the center led students to Quiksilver. Paliwal builds partnerships with employers, brings them to campus and connects them to the students.
He said the center makes an effort to organize visits to companies such as Quiksilver to give students an idea of what it is like to work there. Students went behind the scenes to talk to professionals at Quiksilver about their roles at the company, as well as what they look for in applicants and interns. “Hearing about retail marketing and internships is really big for me because that’s what I want to get into; I defi-
nitely want to get an internship to set myself up for graduation,” Baileey Kernaghan, a business major, said. The group of 25 business students talked with Mysun Dean, the director of application development and marketing systems expert. A typical day at work for Dean starts with a team meeting to discuss what everyone is working on. SEE QUIKSILVER, 2
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