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Third finalist for VP of finance visits campus Danny C. Kim, is the last of three finalists to be interviewed this week MIA MCCORMICK Daily Titan

The third and final candidate for Cal State Fullerton’s vice president for administration and finance/chief financial offi-

cer position presented his qualifications to a room full of university administrators at Steven G. Mihaylo Hall on Wednesday.

Danny C. Kim, current associate vice chancellor and chief financial administrative officer at UC Riverside, identified his goals for the CSUF campus if appointed to the position based on peer research about the campus.

“I don’t want you to think that I know everything about the campus already,” Kim said in his opening statements.

Kim is new to CSU schools.

He described himself as “a product of the UC system,” having received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and system science from UCLA and his Master of Business Administration with a concentration in corpo-

rate finance from UC Irvine. He has also worked in UC campuses for the past 22 years.

However, Kim said his experience serving the role of a CFO for the past two decades has equipped him with in depth understanding of the technical aspects of financing and developing funding strategies, which are crucial to this position.

He argued that despite the

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major differences between the UC and CSU systems, the items that relate most to the position of chief operations officer bear more similarities than often perceived.

“Because we are both funded by the state of California—all the funding mechanisms, the general funds, state funds—we may call things differently, but the actual mechanics of those funds are very similar,” Kim said.

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Filipino students display painted masks in library to express emotions and culture ZEILA EDRIAL Daily Titan

Dynamically designed masks of many colors hang on a straw mat in the Pollak Library, representing the emotions of the students who created them.

Next to the masks, a bright golden sun adorns a blue, white and red wall representing the Philippines’ flag. An explanation of the symbolism in the flag accompanies a descriptive history of the nation.

On a brightly painted yellow and red mask, licks of red f lames engulf the cheeks and eyebrows. A drawn figure delivers a front kick to the chin of another atop a bright red nose—an algebra equation is written on the forehead.

A dollar bill and an open book are also illustrated upon the mask.

“People see me as a wealthy and generous individual who is smart but intim-

idating,” the mask description explains.

These masks were created by students in Professor Carol Ojeda-Kimbrough’s Asian American Creative Expressions class.

Ojeda-Kimbrough’s class focuses on Filipino American life as portrayed through novels, short stories, plays, poetry, film, music, painting, dance and other expressive forms.

She got the idea for the masks while attending a workshop sponsored by a group called the Center for Babaylan Studies in Sonoma.

“I met a woman who had previously done a similar workshop to deal with identity issues among Filipino Americans through the use of mask making,” Ojeda-Kimbrough said.

Before Ojeda-Kimbrough gave her students the assignment, she gave a lecture on the utility of masks in society in general, and in Filipino cultural context.

Students created masks that either reflected how they appear to the outside world or depicted their inside feelings and emotions that were being “masked.”

She provided her students with two

blank papier-mache masks, paint, markers and feathers. She gave them two weeks to complete the masks and told the students they could use anything else they wanted to include in their mask.

Once the masks were completed, Ojeda-Kimbrough worked with Pollak Library Exhibit Coordinator Trish Campbell to showcase them at the Pollak Library.

“It was like the blind leading the blind, but we managed to put (the exhibit) together. Trish Campbell was a tremendous resource for the students who actually did the layout,” OjedaKimbrough said.

“The mask exhibit is part of a series of high-impact learning practices focused on Filipino American cultural studies,” Eliza Noh, Ph.D., the Asian American studies program coordinator, said. “High-impact practices (HIPs) are teaching and learning tools that contribute to student success and engagement.”

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Friends and family mourn the loss of Kevin La, kinesiology major

A display in the Pollak Library is adorned with masks painted by students of Asian American Creative Expressions.

Kim also touched on his background in budget processes and methods on the state, systemwide and campus levels during the forum. He emphasized the importance of having a firm understanding of the inner workings of the these processes at every level in order to be an effective CFO.

His friends said Kevin La always had a smile on his face.

It didn’t matter how tired he was; he always had a positive attitude.

He was always friendly, and even if he didn’t know you, he always started a conversation.

Kevin La died Nov. 11, at the age of 19.

“He was that guy that always tried to be your friend no matter what,” said Arthur Loh, 20, La’s ‘big brother’ in the Association of Chinese Students. “Even if you had a bad history or maybe you are not liked by certain people, he always tried to put in the effort—no matter who you were.”

La was hiking near Hermit Falls in Angeles National Forest with 12 other students.

He died after jumping from rocks into a pool of water with friends, according to the Los Angeles Times. La was the sixth person to jump.

His friends pulled La out of the water after he appeared unconscious when he surfaced.

Born on Dec. 4, 1993, La grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, and attended Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra, Calif. He was an active member of Key Club International, a high school organiza-

tion dedicated to community service, sponsored by Kiwanis International.

At Cal State Fullerton he was a member of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity as well as the Association of Chinese Students.

Dede Do, 21, La’s motherly figure in ACS, remembers that even though she was his “mom,” it was La who would check up on her to make sure she was doing okay. Do felt helpless the day La died.

“I think I was really hurt, just because I couldn’t protect him,” she said. “It was something out of my control, I felt like maybe if I called him that day, maybe he wouldn’t decide to just go diving.”

Loh and Do were eating dinner with their closest friends—a dinner that La had been invited to—when Loh found out what had happened to La through a phone call from a close friend.

“Initially … it’s like you heard news that you don’t want to believe,” Loh said.

His Alpha Phi Omega family also remembers the amount of energy he channeled every day. In a candlelight vigil held on Monday, many recalled the inf luence La had on their lives.

“We would pick on each other, but then he would be protective of me,” said Heidi Ann Ignacio, 23, a friend of La and member of Alpha Phi Omega. “We had like a brother and sister relationship.”

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Danes prove to be too great for Titans CSUF women’s basketball hold first lead, but suffers biggest loss of the season ABRAHAM JAUREGUI Daily Titan

In a different time zone, the Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team finished with the same result. The Titans continued their winless 201314 season, losing to the University of Albany 71-49 and dropping their overall record to 0-3.

With the win, the Great Danes are still undefeated on

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the season as they improve to 4-0.

The Titans were competitive early on with the back-toback America East Conference champions, tying the game 10-10 after six minutes into the first half. But after that point, the tough Great Danes took control of the game and never looked back as they won the game by 22 points. The 22-point loss marked the largest margin of defeat for the Titans this season.

The Titans continued to struggle on the offensive end, shooting a dreadful 29.5 per-

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cent from the field. After trailing the Great Danes for most of the game, the Titans tried to catch up. They shot 30 threes, over twice as many threepointers as their opponent, but only made six of them, or 20 percent.

Turnovers didn’t really factor into this loss as they have in the first pair of matches for the Titans, as they matched the Great Danes with 11 for the game.

It was tough interior offense that really hurt the Titans in the game. The Great Danes dominated the Titans inside

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the paint, scoring at an efficient 52.8 field-goal percentage. With their high-percentage shooting strategy working, the Great Danes didn’t focus on the three-pointer, shooting 30.8 percent from beyond the arc.

For the Great Danes, starting forward Shereesha Richards continued her stellar season, where she is leading her team in scoring, rebounds and total field goal percentage with 22 points, 12 rebounds and 67 percent from the field.

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HIPs include collaborative projects, community-based learning, diversity/global learning experiences and cocurricular activities.

Since the exhibit is run entirely by students, it was initially funded by students.

A few students were selected to be the marketing team. The team then created a donation page online to encourage people to help them put together the exhibit financially.

The class decided the remainder of the funds would go toward a charity to benefit the Philippines, which was recently hit by Typhoon Haiyan.

One mask on display was pale blue f lowing into red with intricate white, lace-like designs.

The description under it read, “I do not depict myself as solely Asian, Filipino or

American; I practice different aspects of each culture.

My melding of cultures is simply my foundation: I am free to branch out, to absorb new ideas, to create my own personalized culture.”

Abigail Yarcia, 21, a communicative disorders major, is one of the students in the Asian American Creative Expressions class who made a mask for display in the exhibit.

“Although the description below the mask doesn’t appropriately explain the mask, it represents my ‘outer mask’ or what everyone sees and what I let them see,” Yarcia said.

She said not everyone in the class is Filipino-American, so it was “nice to share this experience with them and learn Filipino history and culture together.”

The mask exhibit is on display until Dec. 31, and can be viewed during regular library hours.

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Red flames engulf the cheekbones of the mask, with the description “People see me as a wealthy and generous individual who is smart but intimidating,” to express the depiction others have of the student artist.

Professor recognized for health research Sora Park Tanjasiri honored with Outstanding Professor Award BRIAN CHESTER Daily Titan DEANNA TROMBLEY / Daily Titan A photo of Kevin La was posted on the wall of Titan Stadium.

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Ignacio wants people to remember La’s trademark smile, remembering him in the best way possible.

“Kevin is an amazing guy, I am still in denial, but it’s crazy,” she said.

His “big sister” in the fraternity, Janny Yoon, 24, recollected on how selfless of an individual La was.

“I want him to be remembered as he is a very confident guy, always smiles, always takes care of others before himself,” she said. “He always (wanted) to make sure everyone’s okay before himself, he always (made) sure everyone’s doing well, he (was) always making everyone smile.”

La is memorialized by his friends and family, including his mother Soe Yu, the beneficiary of a fundraiser used to help cover funeral expenses on GiveItForward.com.

Ignacio said La wouldn’t want his family and friends to be sad. She said she believes he is looking down on them.

“I think if you knew him then you were blessed to know a soul like his, and if you didn’t I wish you would be blessed enough to know someone who is kind and generous and passionate and loving like him,” she said.

Sora Park Tanjasiri, professor of health science, delivered the Outstanding Professor Lecture on Wednesday as this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Professor Award.

Tanjasiri spoke on “achieving health equity through community-based participatory research.”

“Her students consistently rate her as one of the best teachers in their college experience,” Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García said. “Through her mentoring and guidance, she helps students reach their dreams.”

Tanjasiri focused on three main goals: collaboration, community-based participatory research (CBPR) and achieving health equity.

After beginning her studies as a biochemistry undergraduate, Tanjasiri realized that medicine was not for her, and she directed her studies toward public health.

“Public health was my opportunity to combine a love of scientific discovery with a passion for impasse in populations,” Tanjasiri said.

After getting her master’s in public health, Tanjasiri started working in a nonprofit clinic in the Koreatown neighborhood in Los Angeles. There, she began to implement public health practices like tobacco education and cessation, prenatal

education and sexual disease prevention.

She witnessed the collaboration of three small clinics, which worked together to form a new clinic that served the health care needs of Asian and Pacific Islanders.

Tanjasiri witnessed thousands of Korean businesses being closed, vandalized and burned during the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

“I had a hard lesson about the invisibility of our population,” Tanjasiri said. “I saw first hand how Asian Pacific Islanders can get easily forgotten.”

Tanjasiri now focuses her research on cancer, particularly in the Asian and Pacific Islander community.

She said the California Department of Health Services shows a low rate of lung cancer in Asians and Pacific Islanders compared to other ethnic minorities.

As a result, Tanjasiri said this particular race of people is underserved and disadvantaged.

“Part of the reason why we’re invisible is because this data is difficult,” Tanjasiri said.

Health disparities continue to persist because of a breakdown in cancer research. The way to bridge the gap and eliminate health disparities is through collaboration, Tanjasiri said.

“We need the people who come from the (invisible) populations to come and tell us what we are missing,” Tanjasiri said.

Tanjasiri serves as multiple principal investigator for Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness Research and Training (WIN-

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Sora Park Tanjasiri, CSUF professor of health science, is honored with this year’s Outstanding Professor Award, for her hard work in collaboration, community based participatory research, and achievement in health equity.

CART)—an organization that aims to promote healthy Pacific Islander communities and reduce cancer health disparities.

The organization serves the Pacific Islander population in Southern California in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego counties.

In 2010, WINCART collaborated with St. Joseph’s Medical Center, hiring the first Asian Pacific Islander health navigator at the hospital.

To promote health and physical activity among Pacific Islanders, WINCART created a 10-minute DVD called Let’s

Move! The video promotes dancing and exercising at the same time.

“We’ve done a small pilot test that has some encouraging results regarding a trend towards increased physical activity frequency and duration,” Tanjasiri said.

Although Tanjasiri is making progress in the area of research, more still needs to be done, she said.

“We need to be ensuring that people are actually benefiting,” Tanjasiri said. “And the benefits are a long and healthy life.”

Tanjasiri said it is impor-

tant to find the communities that are most disadvantaged and engage in those collaborations.

Mohammed Aftab, vice president of Student Health Professions Association, said Tanjasiri is his favorite professor of his academic career.

“She’s very humble, very welcoming,” Aftab, 22, said. “No other class would have made me a better doctor.”

As part of the Outstanding Professor Award, Tanjasiri will receive a cash award, will be recognized at the Honors Convocation, and will lead the faculty during commencement ceremonies.

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Campus restaurants take action to reduce food waste CSUF focuses on donation and calculation to improve efficiency KAILEY DEMARET Daily Titan

In the United States, 40 percent of food made or purchased goes uneaten. That is equivalent to $165 billion each year, according to the National Resource Defense Council. That amounts to 20 pounds of food per person per month.

The Cal State Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC), which manages campus dining, donates food from the Nutwood Café, Langsdorf Hall Express and the Titan Student Union food court to a local women’s shelter in an effort to help mitigate the growing issue of uneaten food.

Donated food can help feed many families that are less fortunate, and during the holiday season it is especially helpful.

Food donated from campus restaurants feeds about three to four families per week, said Chris Quintana, office administrator of the women’s shelter.

In April 2009, the food donation program was started through ASC to donate leftovers to a local women’s shelter.

The shelter then comes to pick up food every Friday.

The amount and type of food varies from extra lettuce, tomatoes and onions for dressing hamburgers to complete, hot meals from the TSU food court. There is usually plenty of bread, which helps to feed the 50 women and children that live in the shelter.

Tony Lynch, the director of campus dining, said restaurants on campus do not typically overproduce and there are not many leftovers, but he decides where the food is distributed and what organizations will receive the donated food.

“We have something for them to eat, not just canned goods or

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dry food that we have here,” Quintana said. “They can take some of the stuff that they bring and heat it up.”

The quantity of food donated to the shelter is usually consistent, and occasionally, when there are catered events, the shelter receives more food.

“Each week varies on the donation,” said Crystal Wooldridge, marketing manager of campus dining for ASC. The university does not place any restrictions on the donated food. However, there are state codes and federal regulations in place to protect the companies and organizations that donate extra food from being sued or having any liability.

The California Health and Safety Code states “any food facility may donate food to a food bank or to any other nonprofit charitable organization for distribution to persons free of charge,” but some companies in California are worried that they can still be held liable for donated food that may get someone sick.

There are gray areas in the law regarding food donation.

But this usually does not deter charitable groups and organizations from donating muchneeded food to food banks and women’s shelters.

Almost six million tons of food is thrown away each year in California, which would fill the Staples Center 35 times over, according to California Watch.

As technology advances, there are new methods being used to track how much food is wasted and how much food to produce each day.

Overproducing is one of the key causes that leads to leftover food, and without a method to curb it in place, it contributes to the nearly 22 million tons of food wasted in the United States each year, according to

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He adapted his skills in this area while working in his first higher education position as a senior budget analyst in the Office of Academic Planning and Budget at UCLA. This position required him to create planning models to support campus budget reduction and allocation strategies.

“I’ve always believed as a CFO you have to stay ahead of the curve,” Kim said.

He considers his knowledge in this area to be an important aspect of his background.

Kim outlined his expertise and related them to the responsibilities that he currently takes on in his position at UCR. The first of these, Kim said, is undergraduate expertise, which is characterized by admissions and student experience and success.

Institutional effectiveness was a point that he especially stressed in this category of expertise.

Kim defined institutional

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Nutwood Café is one CSUF restaurant that participates in food donations that feed up to four families per week.

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To avoid overproduction, the Gastronome uses food production software to approximate how many students will eat at the Gastronome that day.

With food production software that can predict how much food to make, the Gastronome only throws away five to 10 pounds of food each day, said Samantha Meneses, the events coordinator of the Gastronome.

The Gastronome does not donate any of their food to shelters because they have a small amount of leftovers. However, they do repurpose some of the leftovers for the next day’s menu.

They also allow some of their staff to eat what is left over and then donate what is not suitable for human consumption to the Arboretum for composting.

“If we didn’t have such tight controls on food production and significant amounts of leftover food were available, we

would look into a local hunger relief agency,” Meneses said.

Some local school districts have been working to get approval for the school cafeterias to donate the extra food after lunch has been served.

The Los Angeles Unified School District has approved a program that allows their schools to donate leftover cafeteria food to needy families.

School districts that do not participate in a charitable feeding program throw all leftovers in the trash or into a garbage disposal.

Food donation programs can keep usable food out of the waste stream, reduce disposal costs and feed hungry families in the community, according to Cal Recycle.

ASC also started a program called “loose change.” The program involved students donating their leftover change, which was then donated equally among OC Food Bank, Second

Harvest Food Bank and the women’s shelter in Fullerton.

From April 2009 to April 2011, the program raised over $5,800. When it ended, ASC continued the food donation program at the women’s shelter.

effectiveness as processes for documenting institutional performance, including graduation rates, student success and learning outcomes. These are all areas that have been outlined in the university’s strategic plan.

If appointed to this role, he hopes to implement institutional effectiveness as a bottom-line goal for every administrator.

He also hopes to clarify what exactly institutional effectiveness means and understand how it connects to institutional performance.

“It is really important that universities continue to make progress in improving institutional performance,” Kim said.

In his current position at UCR, Kim focuses on undergraduate students through managing the Student Affairs Institutional Research office, which looks at student demographics and student success.

The institute conducts institutional studies to better understand student needs.

“Students are one of our primary customers,” Kim said.

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“I don’t know how you can really be an effective leader of an organization if you don’t fully understand your customers.”

Kim’s emphasis on student success springs from his background as a full-time high school teacher and part-time community college instructor, which is where his career began after his graduation from UCLA. The second area of expertise he highlighted was his experience in the realm of administration.

Kim referenced his leadership experience in developing models that would show how the university would expand the campus during a time of major budget reduction at UCR. During this time, UCR saw its most rigorous plan of action to increase enrollment among all UCs at the time.

His final point of expertise mentioned was his background as a CFO, dealing with fund management and budget development.

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US should allow Iran to become nuclear Iran’s nuclear program should be considered, but with caution PATRICK RYAN

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For over a decade, the United States has gone to great lengths to prevent Iran from developing its own nuclear power infrastructure, fearing they may use such a program to develop nuclear weapons.

The current negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program is a positive and productive step forward. Iran should be allowed to have a peaceful nuclear energy program.

At the same time, the United States should tread with caution and ensure that any agreement is in the best interest to the security of the nation.

The issue of a nuclear Iran has been a controversial and hot-button issue in American foreign policy circles for years.

During the past few recent presidential elections, candidates faced questions on this topic.

There are those that wish to stop Iran from developing a nuclear program, even a peaceful one, through economic sanctions. However, others seek to accomplish the same ends through military intervention and conflict.

Obviously, negotiations and peaceful talks are much more productive and less costly than an armed conflict. However, these negotiations have not yielded results in the past, primarily because any concessions made would draw scrutiny and

criticism from hard-liners in both the United States and Iran.

As a result, Iran continues to pursue a nuclear power program.

We should allow Iran to develop a peaceful nuclear program for this reason. Iran will continue to pursue it regardless of what we do. Military intervention to thwart Iran’s nuclear program would be the fastest and easiest solution, but the consequences of such a move should outweigh any interest one might have. An American war with Iran should be avoided at all costs and should not even be considered an option. If another country chooses such a route, our involvement should be minimal at best.

It makes sense that letting Iran develop and maintain a peaceful nuclear program will cost us a lot less in terms of human lives and financial resources. With that being said, it is a good idea for the international community to consistently monitor the program to ensure it is actually being used for peaceful purposes. During the current talks, the United States should be pushing for the inclusion of these conditions in any deal that would ease sanctions on Iran.

Logically, it makes sense to monitor Iran and play ball with them on this issue because they are going to move forward anyway. It is better for us to be there, have a voice and be part of the process.

Many would argue that this decision would hurt Israel and its interests. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

With the monitoring of nuclear facilities, Israel will be given greater opportunity to gather more information on the inner workings on Iran’s nuclear program. It is well known that Israel has been conducting clandestine operations in Iran; in some cases they have gone as far as assassinating top nuclear scientists, according to Time magazine.

A reasonable agreement on Iran’s nuclear program should allow the Israelis to devote more of their resources toward avenues outside of security.

Israel is working out a contingency plan with Saudi Arabia if an agreement fails to curtail Iran’s nuclear capabilities, according to the Times of London. With extra insight given towards its intelligence capabilities, the Israelis would be one of the first to know if Iran’s nuclear program is being used for non-peaceful purposes.

In such a scenario, Israel would be within its right to attack Iran whenever it wants.

The United States would not be in a position to direct the Israelis to do otherwise. Israel is a sovereign nation, not a state of the United States. We do not have the moral authority, or any authority, for that matter, to dictate what any other country does.

The United States remains the preeminent superpower of the 21st century.

However, yielding power is not always a reason or excuse to use it. If the worst-case scenario were to happen, our nation must exercise restraint as much as it does caution.

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Thanksgiving is on the verge of being replaced by Black Friday Stores are opening earlier, reducing the importance of family in Thanksgiving ADRIAN GARCIA Daily Titan

With Black Friday arriving closer and closer to Thanksgiving dinner each year, the holiday has taken a back seat to the latenight sales.

The holiday, created to express gratitude, is being replaced by a consumerist mosh pit of individuals looking to buy unnecessary items for a discounted price.

In 2012, a record $59.1 million was spent during the weekend of Black Friday, according to CNN. The National Retail Federation reported that the number was a 13 percent increase from the $52.4 billion spent the year before.

Black Friday is usually seen as the beginning of the winter holiday season, with many customers looking to get a head start on their holiday shopping.

As the trend grows, more and more stores want their piece of the pie.

With a larger number of stores opening up Thanksgiving night, corporations are putting an increased emphasis on the consumer-generated profit as opposed to the employees that are forced to leave their families for work.

Macy’s is opening on Thanksgiving Day for the first time, according to a press release by the retailer. The store had remained closed on the holiday for the past 155 years, according to the Huffington Post.

Walmart’s sales will start at 6 p.m., two hours earlier than the year before.

Kmart, however, decided to open its doors at 6 a.m. Thanksgiving Day and remain open until 11 p.m. the following night.

It was common for stores to open early the morning after Thanksgiving. Beginning in the late 2000s, stores began opening earlier and earlier to avoid competition from other retailers. As the greed grew and corporations saw higher profit margins when stores opened earlier, Black Friday began intruding more and more on Thanksgiving dinner.

The importance of a family reunion during the holiday is nothing but an afterthought for these retailers.

At the cost of valuable family time, employees are forced to leave their homes at either really late or really early hours, depending on the store’s opening, to clock in and assist the swarms of shoppers.

Fortunately, retailers such as Nordstrom announced its stores will remained closed in observance of Thanksgiving Day. “We won’t be decking our halls until Friday, November 29. Why? We just like the idea of celebrating one holiday at a time,” read the sign posted on stores nationwide.

With Thanksgiving and Christmas being only a month away, the transition period between the two holidays is short.

Even before Thanksgiving arrives, stores nationwide are already laying out their Christmas decorations and music, undercutting the importance of Thanksgiving.

The fact that Christmas and other winter holidays are now highlighted by gift-giving exposes today’s materialistic society.

Thanksgiving is meant to bring families and friends together to reflect upon the meanings of the little things they value more than material possessions.

However, the cultural idea that “want” is more important than “need” is reflected in the differences between these two holidays.

Families cannot fathom living with bare necessities anymore, unless they are unwillingly forced into such a circumstance.

Instead, individuals have been morphed into gluttonous, selfabsorbed human beings who believe that the Xbox One bundle sold at a highly discounted price of $499 will make them any more important than their neighbor.

Discounted electronics and clothes will always be more important to Americans than valuing the importance of family. Quality family time has morphed from its traditional conversation oriented dinners to running around in a crowded mall, pushing and shoving through the clusters of people getting their hands on a 32-inch television to replace the model they bought last year.

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Photo courtesy of Cal State Fullerton FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Kenton Koch and Elliott Skeer, mechanical engineering majors, are two Cal State Fullerton freshmen who began racing go-karts at the ages of 6 and 8 years old.

Freshmen in the fast lane Two CSUF freshmen spend their weekends racing cars at 140 mph VINCENT LA ROSA Daily Titan

At speeds exceeding 100 mph, the human body experiences certain challenges.

Increased gravitational forces during acceleration force blood from the brain to the lower extremities, causing decreased motor function and vision.

A person’s heart rate rises sharply, while the amount of oxygen being taken in by the body decreases as breaths become shorter and more rapid.

Despite all this, two Cal State Fullerton freshmen do some of their best work at 100 mph and greater.

During the week, Elliott Skeer and Kenton Koch are the typical, unassuming first-year college students. Like many students at CSUF, they commute to campus from their homes and get from class to class by foot, or riding a Razor scooter in Skeer’s case.

“Some of my good friends still don’t know I race cars,” Skeer said. “I’m just a normal college kid to a lot of people.”

Driving at speeds reaching 140 mph, Skeer and Koch stretch the boundaries of being normal college kids by competing in the grassroots racing circuits on the weekends while pursuing their mechanical engineering degrees.

They also participate in CSUF’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) project.

Skeer and Koch cut their

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teeth in racing by driving gokarts at the young ages of 6 and 8, respectively.

The two made the transition to cars in 2011. Skeer made waves by taking home the Mazda MX-5 Shootout Cup in his rookie season. Koch finished second in the Skip Barber Championships Shootout, earn-

“I’ve put 12 years of my life into this right now, I’m going to do whatever I can to make it work with the racing.

Elliott Skeer

Mechanical Engineering Major ing a $30,000 racing scholarship for 2012.

This past racing season, as both drivers began their academic careers at CSUF, they continued to progress in their racing careers while competing in the Mazda MX-5 Cup. Racing in similar Mazda MX-5 cars, Skeer took second place in the Playboy division missing out on first place in the final lap of the season’s final race, while Koch led the Skip

Barber division from start to finish winning the title.

Prize money from the two racers’ victories immediately goes back into the cars and team of each driver. For this reason, both Skeer and Koch still consider themselves to be semi-professional.

However, each racer said a day may come when they’ll have to choose to make the leap to the professional ranks.

“I’ve put 12 years of my life into this right now, I’m going to do whatever I can to make it work with the racing,” Skeer said. “School, I’m the same as Kenton, I’m going to get a degree however long it takes, whatever route it takes. But then again, I’m also looking at it as, if I don’t, what can I get out of it.”

As CSUF freshmen, putting aside their racing commitments for even a moment can be difficult.

But Skeer and Koch are well aware of the demands of mechanical engineering.

“People who don’t have a life finish in five years,” Koch said of the mechanical engineering course load, while admitting racing itself is a full-time job.

Both students agree selecting the engineering field was both a natural progression and useful in their driving careers.

This is something Dean Case, communications officer for Mazda Motorsports, thinks will allow both drivers to prolong

their careers in motorsports, whether they would be professional drivers or work elsewhere in the field.

“I think the fact that they are pursuing engineering degrees is fantastic,” Case said. “Whether they have a long-term driving career, we can’t speculate. But I could easily see that both of them have great prospects within the automotive world by having the driving skill.”

Adding to their workload off the track, both racers are helping with this year’s Formula SAE. In this event, student-run teams from over 80 schools put an Indianapolis 500-style race car together from top to bottom, including designing the vehicle and raising funds.

Last year, CSUF’s car placed 31st in the event, but the team has never had drivers of Skeer and Koch’s caliber as team members before.

“If I drive a car and I feel something weird, I don’t really know what’s wrong with it,” Carlos Gibson, CSUF Formula SAE

team member and mechanical engineering major, said. “But (Skeer and Koch) have so much experience driving cars that they are like ‘oh, it’s doing this’ or ‘it’s oversteering because of this or that.’ So they know little aspects that we don’t know.”

Although the student racers have been working on the project for just a short time, so far their feedback has been invaluable.

Gibson said he just hopes they don’t turn pro before then.

As of right now, Skeer and Koch are slated to drive CSUF’s entrant at the June competition in Nebraska.

Balancing school with their burgeoning racing careers, both Skeer and Koch are acutely aware of the experience CSUF and the Formula SAE project have given them.

“We’re getting more out of it than I think we are putting into it, to be honest,” Koch said.

“Coming into this school I obviously knew that I was going to learn a lot from it. I’ve learned more from Formula SAE in this

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Skeer and Koch both race a Mazda MX-5s in competition.

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Koch won the Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge winning nine of 11 races and setting five track records in 2013.

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In last season’s Playboy MX-5 Cup, Skeer captured second place after narrowly missing the top spot on the last lap of the last race.

semester than racing the past two years.”

With the 2013 racing season now behind them, Skeer and Koch will likely have a moment to relax and assume the role of normal college freshmen once more until the next semester begins.

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How to Deal

Students look for stress relief RILEY TANNER Daily Titan

Photos courtesy of Alex Fairbanks To relieve stress and take a break from school and work, Alex Fairbanks, 21, spends time outdoors in his tree house and swings in the trees.

When he worked up to 40 hours a week at Disneyland and shouldered a 15-unit class schedule, Carlos Alvarez found himself overwhelmed and with no free time.

With a lack of sleep Alvarez, 19, a psychology major, said he felt angry all the time, and had thought about quitting his job because of the stress.

“I was dying, I was getting no sleep, I was angry all the time, I was going to quit, but they finally listened to my complaints,” Alvarez said.

“I’m not getting paid more, but they’re not overworking me like they used to.”

After butting heads with his managers numerous times, Alvarez was able to get his hours reduced and is now satisfied with working 15-20 hours a week.

“I’d rather get less money and be comfortable than make a ton of money and hate life,” Alvarez said.

Every college student has their own method of dealing with everyday pressures including school, work, social interactions and the small events that make up daily life. Some students, like Alvarez, have to request time off or less hours at work in order to enjoy some free time, while others escape to the gym, hobby or nature.

Away from the city, campus and his uncle’s remodeling business, Alex Fairbanks, 21, takes a break from school and work to spend time in his treehouse.

In Fairbanks’ backyard sits a massive treehouse that stands over two stories tall and has over seven rope-swings arrayed in a trapezelike ensemble. Splayed on his back with legs dangling from a hammock, Fairbanks’ troubles seem to diminish.

An outdoor experience is also the remedy for Alana Danielle, 21. She often disconnects from her phone and drives over to Newport or Huntington Beach for a jog when she feels like life is closing in.

Danielle usually goes jogging for about an hour to help clear her head. It allows her to place her problems in a correct and positive perspective.

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nent, even though it may seem like the end of the world is near,” Danielle said.

The endorphins that are released from participating in physical activity also provide an opportunity for students like Andrew Davila, a 19-year-old civil engineering major, to shrug off unwanted baggage and exorcise emotional demons through exercise.

Davila’s work at the ELS Outlet, a state liquidation service, has him working directly under the owner, who runs his emporium at a fairly rapid pace.

“It’s not like working under a general manager, you work directly for someone who directly makes their livelihood off of what you’re doing,” Davila said. “Plus, the owner works at a fast pace. So, work at a fast pace or get out.”

Lifting weights allows students like Davila to use their unwanted negative energy to fuel a productive activity with an undoubtedly desirable result.

In order to relax and deal with the pressures of working and going to school, Scott Casciotta, 21, an entertainment studies major, has dedicated his time here at Cal State Fullerton to developing his ability to produce and exhibit music effectively.

Casciotta works at the Titan Student Union as a maintenance technician and the everyday replacing, repairing and painting are tolerated in order to move toward his true passion: DJing.

Casciotta, also known as DJ Cascio, performs regularly on his show “Cascio on the Air” on Titan Radio on Wednesdays from 5 to 6 p.m.

“With the combination of school and work, the stress level does increase and impacts my life,” Casciotta said.

He also plays music gigs at the Titian Student Union and has done some sorority philanthropy work.

While there is no single, all-encompassing stress reliever that is guaranteed to help everyone, finding a hobby or a passion unrelated to school or work is a great way for overworked students to deal with the pressures college and working often produce.

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She dominated the Titans inside the paint, scoring 22 points on 9-for-16 shooting, grabbing six rebounds and picking off three steals.

Starting Albany guard Margarita Rosario didn’t shoot much and only scored four points, but she was effective against the Titans controlling the game and setting up her teammates with a game-high eight assists.

The other starting Great Danes guard, Sarah Royals, filled up the stat sheet scoring 12 points, five rebounds and seven assists.

Royals shared game-high honors for steals with her teammate Richards, with three each.

The leading scorer for the Titans in the game was junior guard Chante Miles, as she dropped 20 points. However, she finished with 42 percent fieldgoal shooting, making six of her 14 shots.

Miles, the Titans’ leading scorer this season, was also successful finding and setting up her teammates with a team-high five assists.

Off the bench, junior forward Kathleen Iwuoha gave the Titans some help as she has all year, scoring seven points on 3-for-8 shooting and led the team in rebounds with six.

Senior starting guard Alex Thomas added five points and four assists for the Titans in 29 minutes of play.

The match marked the first in history between CSUF and Albany and the first time the Titans have faced an America East Conference opponent.

The Titans will look to get Head Coach Daron Park his first win at CSUF in New York City when they take on Columbia University on Friday.

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Titans to play final road games of 2013 Volleyball closes out their road schedule against UCSB and Cal Poly SLO ASHLEY BINION Daily Titan

After two consecutive losses, the Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team looks to notch two victories this weekend against Big West Conference foes UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

The Titans will be looking for a rematch against the two teams after losing to UCSB 3-0 and Cal Poly SLO 3-1 earlier in the season.

In their first game against UCSB this season, Gaucho Ali Barbeau had 18 kills and a 45 hitting percentage, while Titan Alyse Hensley had 16 kills.

On Oct. 25, the Titans fell to Cal Poly SLO. The Titans were led by Alyse Hensley with 22 kills, while the team had a hitting percentage of 18, blocked six shots, had 90 digs and two aces. On the other side of the court, the Mustangs had a .227 hitting percentage, 10 blocks, 84 digs and six aces, while Anna Gorman led the team with 15 kills.

Overall, CSUF had a hitting percentage of .196, two blocks, 59 digs and five aces. On the other side of the court, UCSB had a .341 hitting percentage with 73 digs and 13 blocks.

This season has been a disappointment for the women’s volleyball team with a 3-10 conference record and 10-15 overall.

The only win the Titans had in the past five weeks was against UC Riverside, the last-place team in the conference.

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Senior outside hitter Abbie Miraldi goes down for a dig. Miraldi and the Titans have a weekend road doubleheader against UCSB and Cal Poly SLO.

a row, senior outside hitter Bre Moreland achieved a doubledouble with 20 kills and 19 digs.

UCSB sits in second place in the Big West standings with a 10-2 record, their only losses coming against Hawai’i and Long Beach State. Overall, they have a record of 15-9.

The Gauchos have improved from their 2012 season where they went 9-9 in conference and 16-17 overall. UCSB could attribute their success to new Head Coach Nicole Lantagne Welch.

She took the helm from Kathy Gregory, who had 882 victories

in her 38 years of coaching.

In the Gauchos’ last contest, they beat conference leading Cal State Northridge in a tense 3-2 match.

Freshman outside hitter Ali Spindt led the Gauchos with a game high of 18 kills and 10 digs.

At the net, freshman middle blockers Phoebe Grunt and Allie Sullberg combined for 14 kills.

The Gauchos have a commanding 58-8 series lead over the Titans. Over the last 11 meetings, the Titans have fallen to UCSB five times. Currently, the women’s volleyball team are

on a two-game losing streak to the Gauchos.

On Saturday, the Titans continue their road trip and travel to Cal Poly SLO. So far this season, the Mustangs have a 5-7 Big West record and an overall record of 11-14.

In their last match, the Mustangs swept the UC Davis Aggies. Senior outside hitter Megan McConnell paced the Mustangs with 15 kills, while senior outside hitter Chelsea Hardin had 13 kills and freshman middle blocker Taylor Gruenewald had 10 kills.

Cal Poly SLO had a 23 percent hitting percentage with five aces and 70 digs.

The Mustangs have a 46-9 series lead over the Titans. Over the last 11 meetings, the Titans have lost to Cal Poly SLO five times.

The first serve against UCSB is scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m., and the game against Cal Poly SLO is scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m.

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