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Faculty complain of worsening parking situation, and lots that can’t keep up with growth

FRANCISCO REYES Daily Titan Faculty at Cal State Fullerton are feeling the hurt from a parking shortage that has been an issue with students for years.

Faculty members spoke out to Provost Jose Cruz about the difficulty of finding parking on campus at an Academic Senate meeting on Thursday.

“It’s been very tough,” said Mahamood Hassan, Ph.D., accounting professor and president of the Fullerton Chapter of the California Faculty Association. “On three different occasions already this

semester, I had to go park at the Marriott Hotel and pay $7 each time.”

Hassan is one of many faculty members who have had to resort to inconvenient alternatives in order to get to work. He feels the problem lies in the lack of infrastructural growth at a university with a growing number of students, faculty members and staff.

“We’ve hired about 75 full-time people and another 50 part-time people, so there has been an increase in faculty,” he said. “The challenge is that the university is growing—they’re hiring more faculty, they’re hiring more staff, which is good. But the facilities are not keeping up … and

the university needs to do something about it.”

Academic senator Nancy Fitch, Ph.D., a history professor, also echoed the parking issue.

“I think the parking problem is really quite serious,” Fitch said at the meeting. “I wonder if it isn’t the large number of administrators and their staffs that we’re hiring that’s being put into the same parking spots that were available for faculty in the past.”

Hiring more full-time tenure track faculty, to reduce the number of parttime lecturers taking up spaces may alleviate the problem, Fitch said.

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‘Hearts Like Fists’ set to pack a punch

Int’l program sees big growth

Jazmin, who dress up as superheroes.

The three crime fighters have different personalities, which help them come together in order to stop the villain, Dr. X, from injecting lovers with a deadly serum.

Bailey Castle, 21-yearold fine arts major, is playing the role of Jazmin; a sassy, sexy and feisty crime fighter who enjoys beating up men.

Castle said she loves playing this role because she enjoys representing a strong and powerful woman.

“We can accept love and give love in return while also standing up for our beliefs, our morals, fighting crime and looking good while doing it,” Castle said.

Unlike other theater productions at CSUF, Hearts Like Fists called for a mandatory fitness program for the cast.

Applications from international students increased 40 percent last year, the most on record

Department of Theatre and Dance kicks off this season with a sexy superhero comedy

LAUREN GAMACHE Daily Titan With crime fighting scenes, superheroes, villains and of course a love story, Hearts Like Fists offers a creative twist to an anything but normal comedy.

Hearts Like Fists, written by playwright Adam Szymkowicz, is a fastpaced and exciting contemporary play that addresses the issues of love, courage, sacrifice and fear in innovative ways.

The play is directed by Oanh Nguyen, the founder of the Chance Theater in Anaheim.

Nguyen has been directing for about 20 years and is excited that Hearts Like Fists at CSUF is the first university cast he has directed.

The play focuses on three crime fighters known as Nina, Sally and

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Hearts Like Fists opens this Friday in the the Hallberg Theatre. The comic book-themed comedy deals with themes of love and courage and will feature choreographed fight scenes.

CESAR GAMBOA Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton had its largest enrollment of international students on record during the spring 2014 semester.

Last semester, 1,541 international students from 76 different countries attended CSUF. That number comes after a 40 percent increase in international student applications.

The largest group of students were from India, which was nearly 19 percent of the international student population. Over 17 percent of students were from China, and about 12.5 percent were from Vietnam.

Other countries with substantial presence on campus include South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Taiwan.

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It’s very hard to make a case for additional parking if, on Fridays, we have 90 percent of parking available.

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JOSE CRUZ Provost students is “pretty much the same,” Cruz said at the meeting.

He did suggest that some of the crowding in parking lots may be caused by how the campus community

schedules their work.

“That’s a conversation we need to have,” Cruz said. “It’s very hard to make a case for additional parking if, on Fridays, we have 90 percent of parking available.”

This semester, according to CSUF Parking and Transportation Services, the demand for faculty parking spaces at CSUF has been high between 9 a.m until 2 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.

Faculty members are advised to take advantage of the stack parking service in the student section of lots A, E and G. Hassan added that aside from the glaring lack of parking, faculty members still have to pay $13.50 a month in parking fees, something he feels is thoroughly unfair.

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Fullerton was announced as one of 100 host cities for Special Olympics athletes. The dorms at CSUF will be used to house the participants and coaches.

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The city of Fullerton has been selected as a Host Town for the 2015 Los Angeles Special Olympics World Games. As one of the host communities, Fullerton will house 100 international athletes and their coaches for three days in the Cal State Fullerton dorms.

More than 7,000 athletes from 177 different countries will be arriving in Southern California, and will be staying at some of the 100 cities participating in the Host Town program.

Other host cities will include Long Beach, Thousand Oaks, La Mirada, Fountain Valley and Huntington Beach.

Over the course of the

three-day program, the mayor and city council will show the athletes and their coaches around town to introduce them to the city.

The Host Town program started in 1995 and allows the athletes to come to the country ahead of the games to adjust to the time difference and participate in cultural exchange. Steven Vanderpool, senior vice president for communications for the games, said the purpose of the Host Town program is for cities to connect to the games on a more local level.

“It allows communities, such as Fullerton, or Thousand Oaks or Santa Barbara to have the ability to connect with the World Games since the competitions are going to be held closer to downtown Los Angeles,” Vanderpool said.

To become an official Host Town for the World

Games, a city must be able to house the athletes and express a strong interest in the Special Olympics.

CSUF dorms will be used to house the athletes and coaches during their stay in Fullerton. The campus was chosen over a hotel in order to keep the experience equal for athletes in every city, Vanderpool said.

“We want every athlete that is coming here to have a like-experience,” he said.

“We are looking for a level playing field, for example the athletes in Long Beach will be staying at CSULB.” After their stay on campus, the athletes and coaches will relocate to the athlete villages at USC and UCLA. The 2015 Special Olympic World Games will take place from July 25 through Aug. 2 at 25 venues in Los Angeles.

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Among the most prominent majors chosen by international students, business administration represents the largest at 430 students. Other popular choices include computer science, electrical, civil and mechanical engineering.

The international programs department at CSUF collaborated with other campus divisions to accommodate the inflow of international students by providing additional workshops to help students secure internships and jobs.

“Because we have more demand for workshops, we do offer more,” said Cristina Garcia, student employee at the International Programs office. “Every semester, we’ve increased the number of workshops that we can present.”

The International Programs Office offers international students help with employment, health insurance, scholarships, maintaining visa statuses and more.

International students should be aware of the different international offices on campus, Garcia said.

CSUF currently offers assistance through the International Admissions

office, American Language program office, International Student Services office and the International Program office. Each office works together, albeit with their own specific focus.

In addition to the internship and employment workshops, additional résumé workshops help students compete in the job market by creating professional presentations of their experience.

The internship workshops are a collaborative effort between the Internship Center and the Office of International Programs.

Pre- and post- Completion Optional Practical Training workshops are offered for international students to help find employment. This is only offered to actively enrolled students and alumni within one year of graduation.

The workshops allow international students to optimize the resources available after they’ve earned their degree.

“We explain how they can obtain a work permit for one year after they graduate,” said Jessie Shin, international student advisor. “A lot of students come to that workshop because they do want to stay

Syrian state media confirmed that the U.S. warned the Syrian government of its intent to bomb Islamic State militant targets, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The attacks were not coordinated with the Syrian government.

There was also no notification at the military level, nor any indication of when certain targets would be struck.

Syria had previously warned that any unauthorized airstrikes would be viewed as an “act of aggression,” however there has yet to be any direct condemnation from Damascus regarding the U.S. bombardment.

Assad’s loyalists fear that these initial strikes could lead to a U.S. attempt to topple the current regime.

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No end to Ebola outbreak The Ebola outbreak may never leave humans due to its slow-mutating abilities, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Epidemiologists believe that because this illness is slow to mutate, it will continue to increase its length of life in humans. An estimated 64.3 percent of people who are stricken with Ebola and are admitted to a hospital will not survive.

The virus is now being considered an endemic to West Africa, with over 20,000 cases expected to occur by early November.

The speed of the Ebola outbreak is mostly blamed on the lack of control and restrictions placed on the ill victims, which causes the disease to spread.

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here for one year at least to do internships … ” International students are not allowed to work off-campus, and these tools are offered to assist them during school and post graduation.

In collaboration with the Career Center, the International Programs office is presenting the “Working in the U.S.” series for international students on Oct. 10 from 1-2:30 p.m. This job fair prep will be located in University Hall 244, and will focus on giving international students tips on creating an elevator pitch, dressing for success and interviewing techniques.

Students can also attend the International Coffee Break, a weekly gathering that meets 2:30-3:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Aloha Java coffee shop located between the Humanities and University Hall buildings. The gathering is designed for international students to meet on campus to exchange stories, ideas, establish new friendships and meet International Program advisors and Volunteer International Peers.

International students can seek more advisement at the International Programs office in University Hall 244.

American journalist released Somali pirates have finally freed American journalist Michael Scott Moore after holding him captive for over two years.

Elders of Somalia’s Mudug region were involved with negotiating Moore’s release, reported the region’s governor, Ahmed Muse.

Moore had been researching illegal European fishing’s possible effects on the increase in Somali piracy.

Moore’s web editor at Pacific Standard Magazine, Michael Todd, noted that the magazine wanted to write about Moore’s capture, but they were advised against it by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Department.

After his release, Moore boarded a plane at a Somalian airport, but Muse did not release his destination.

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Fracking takes center stage

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Mark Zeko, vice president and principal hydrologist for Environmental Engineering and Contracting, Inc., presents information to the audience at the Symposium on the Impact of Oil Extraction in North Orange County on how hydraulic fracturing, and other factors affect groundwater. Read full coverage of the fracking symposium in the Daily Titan on Thursday.

New AVP of Student Retention chosen Vijay Pendakur comes from DePaul University with new ideas for retention cluster

JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan The office of the Vice President for Student Affairs hired a new associate VP last week. Vijay Pendakur will be the new associate responsible for the Student Retention Cluster.

Pendakur will be replacing Roger W. Sorochty, Ph.D., who filled the position as interim VP since January.

“I felt like I was ready to take on a larger scope of responsibility and this job was just really compelling,” Pendakur said.

He finished his doctorate in 2013 and spent the last eight years working at DePaul University’s Office

of Multicultural Student Success (OMSS), 6 1/2 of which he served as the director.

Students from less privileged backgrounds, including first generation students, students from low-income families and students of color are the target demographics for DePaul’s multicultural office. First generation students made up 33 percent of DePaul’s freshman class in 2013. Students of color made up 39 percent, and transfer students made up 40 percent of DePaul’s new degree-seeking students.

Cal State Fullerton is considered a Hispanic, Asian-American and Pacific Islander serving institution. Only 27 percent of its student population

identifies as white or caucasian. Roughly half of the students enrolled at CSUF are first generation students.

These facts excited Pendakur.

“Those are the students I am passionate about serving,” Pendakur said. “I think that if we provide them with a robust education, a challenging education and support them so they can actually graduate immediately, they become difference makers, not just for themselves, but for their families and communities.”

Pendakur was instrumental in the development in faculty mentoring programs and peer assistance programs like the Marillac Fellows, a cohort program

for incoming students facing significant challenges, which may affect their ability to succeed, said Assistant Director Eric Mata, who is directly responsible for the Men of Color Initiative at DePaul. “(Pendakur) challenged me to create a program that was different … that is multi-tiered, multi-dimensional that meets students at different aspects of their careers,” Mata said.

Andrea Arzuaga, another assistant director at DePaul’s OMSS, is in charge of Empowerment and Student Success. She described Pendakur as supportive and engaged.

“He pushed me to try new experiences, new leadership opportunities, to be innovative with my

programs, or to really just strive to take my career to a whole new level,” Arzuaga said.

Privately, Pendakur is for hire as a consultant and speaker regarding topics of diversity and social justice.

He has presented at a number of universities including Dominican University, Oregon State University and Swarthmore College.

Pendakur holds two undergraduate degrees in American History and East Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his master’s in U.S. History from University of California, San Diego, and most recently his doctorate in Curriculum Studies from DePaul University.

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the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs David Forgues, Ph.D., explained that the student affair office began its search for a new AVP for student retention in January when the former AVP left for another position.

The search committee tasked with hiring a new AVP was made up of faculty appointed by the Academic Senate and the search was spearheaded by Interim Dean of Extended Education Kari Knutson Miller, Ph.D. The university employed the executive search firm Keeling & Associates to advertise and initiate the hiring process.

Vijay Pendakur will begin at CSUF the first week of October.

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Brilliant pianist and CSUF professor Eduardo Delgado to perform in Meng Concert Hall

KRISTINA HILLIARD Daily Titan Acclaimed pianist Eduardo Delgado will be performing at Cal State Fullerton at the Clayes Performing Arts Center (CPAC) in the Meng Concert Hall.

The recital will take place on Sunday, Sundayfrom 4-6 p.m.

Advance tickets are on sale for $13. Same day tickets are $15 at the box office located on the south corner of CPAC. Delgado was born in Rosario, Argentina and began playing at a young age with his mother.

According to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association website, he continued training with Sergio Lorenzi in Venice, Vicente Scaramuzza in Buenos Aires, Dora Zaslavsky of the Manhattan School of Music and Rosina Lhevinne of the Juilliard School.

He has received many awards including the Vladimir Horowitz Award, and

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Award-winning piano player and CSUF Professor of Music, Eduardo Delgado, will be performing in the Meng Concert Hall. In addition to being an acclaimed pianist, Delgado is the founder of The Castle Green Historic and Cultural Society in Pasadena.

grants from the Mozarteum Argentino, Martha Baird Rockefeller and Concert Artists Guild.

He was also awarded the UNESCO medal for his

musical contributions.

Delgado has done his part in paying his talents forward by founding The Castle Green Historic and Cultural Society in

Pasadena as well as establishing the Alicia de Larrocha scholarship fund for talented pianists in tribute to renowned pianist Alicia de Larrocha.

“To help endow the scholarship, he performed an inaugural recital with Madame de Larrocha at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda,” according

to Delgado’s website.

The New York Times called Delgado “a talent to reckon with.”

In addition to his many musical contributions, Delgado also contributes a great deal to Cal State Fullerton. Not only is he a musical genius, he uses that genius as a professor of music at CSUF, passing down his knowledge and expertise to students.

Delgado is well traveled and has brought the sounds of his music to the major music capitals over four continents including Europe, South America, North America and Asia.

He has a knack, brilliance and contagious sensitivity in pianism.

“Through the wide span of Delgado’s repertoire from Bach to modern composers, audiences immediately feel and hear that music affects him very deeply and that he shares these profound and personal emotions freely with every listener,” according to Delgado’s website.

Delgado is in constant demand and will once again be setting the stage on CSUF’s home turf.

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The Los Angeles Podcast Festival will be held at the Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills. The three-day event is presented by Graham Elwood, Chris Mancini, Dave Anthony and Andy Wood. The festival will feature a stand up show, meet and greets and podcast labs for recording.

LA Podcast Festival returns for its third year KRISTINA HILLIARD Daily Titan The Los Angeles Podcast Festival is returning with its third year of fan fun.

This year, the fest will be held at a new location at the Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills for a three-day podcast extravaganza.

The event will take place Sept. 26-28.

Tickets are now available at $99 for the entire weekend, $29 for Friday, $59 for Saturday and $49 for Sunday.

An online service fee

will be charged to all tickets.

If those prices are too steep, or you just can’t make it to the event, it will be broadcasted live on the LA podcast website for $25.

If that’s not enough, the weekend will also be available to view online for three weeks after the festivities.

The podcast festival brings the broadcaster and the audience together in an event that is sure to leave your cheeks sore from laughing.

In addition to possible meet and greets that will take place, there will also

be a huge stand up show on Saturday called “The Standup Podsmash.”

The lineup for the night is still to be announced, but comedians from the past years include Marc

live internet broadcast.

The festival’s website promises “no filter, no gatekeepers and no rules,” with live podcasts, parties, panels and special events.

Attendees could meet

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Maron, Wil Anderson, Jake Johannsen, Dana Gould, Greg Fitzsimmons and Kumail Nanjiani.

“The Standup Podsmash” show is the only event that cannot be viewed from home with the

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Podcast lovers to gathering for the three-day event to be held at a new location

their favorite podcaster in the Squarespace lounge.

Podcasters can also go and record their own podcasts right from the festival in the Squarespace Podcast Lab. The podcast festival this

year is presented by Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini of Comedy Film Nerds as well as Dave Anthony and Andy Wood.

Some of the special guests include Horatio Sanz, Tim Miinchin, Whitney Cumminings and Hal Sparks.

Also on the agenda are live podcasts from WTF with Marc Maron, Guy on Girl with Aisha Taylor, Who Charted? with Howard Kremer and Kulap Vilaysack and This Week with Larry Miller.

These casts and all others are subject to change.

Comics, podcasters and fans from all over will be

in attendance to enjoy everything the LA Podcast Festival has to offer.

“It’s a celebration of podcasts, podcasters and most importantly, of the fan. Especially the fan who likes to spend money,” according to the LA Podcast Festival website.

“We wanted to start the LA Podcast Festival to shove podcasters and fans together in a small enclosed space. To meet. To mingle.

To love.”

The schedule for each day as well as any other information regarding the threeday event can be found on the LA Podcast Festival website, lapodfest.com.

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Local bar to host reading series Tongue and Groove will make its Orange County debut at The Continental Room in Fullerton

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Tongue and Groove comes to downtown Fullerton’s Continental Room on Sunday at 7 p.m.

The Los Angeles based show will host notable authors and beginner writers such as Ron Carlson, Samantha Dunn, Lisa Alvarez and Shawnacy Kiker.

These professionals will be reading segments from their own writings during the show, which will consist of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and slam poetry.

Musician Jimmy Camp will perform at the event.

Tongue and Groove has thrived in LA for 11 years, hosted by Conrad Romo who initially thought of this idea after hearing a story on Minnesota Public Radio about a reading series at a bar in New York called the KGB bar.

The way the reporter on air described this series made Romo want to discover a similar program in LA. While several places in LA hosted reading series, Romo was not able to find a program with the same energy as the New York series; and so began Tongue and Groove.

Romo was fortunate enough to host a reading at the KGB bar.

He was happy to read at

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Tongue and Groove reading series will be held at The Continental Room in downtown Fullerton this Sunday. The Los Angeles based series is hosted by Conrad Rono and is making its Orange County debut.

the bar that first inspired Tongue and Groove.

His role in Tongue and Groove is what he considers “a good waiter,” because of his facilitating duties.

Romo prefers to keep the spotlight off of himself while restricting his on-thestage job to only introducing each reader.

Romo works with professional writers, and also solicits and receives requests

from publicists, which is how he can guarantee always having readers for his show.

“Sometimes I’ll just look in the paper, or I’ll just see what writers ... are coming to town,” Romo said. “I’ll take the initiative sometimes to contact writers, or maybe I’ll read a review about an author and it sounds like a book that I would like to read …

maybe I’ll find something of theirs online so I could see what they sound like.

So I use a little bit of my salesmanship.”

Romo’s co-producer, Cynthia Romanowski, met Romo two years ago when she did a reading for him at the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival in Silver Lake.

Fullerton’s show will be the first Orange County production for Tongue and

Groove.

Their traditional LA location is called the Hotel Cafe, which was chosen for its mellow vibe.

Finding an Orange County venue with the same feel was not an easy task.

“We looked at a lot of places and it took us a while to find the Continental (Room), but I think it has the same vibe, kind of like a classic lounge type place.

They have a booth with the vinyl red seats and a big stage with a red curtain and all the little things like the Hotel Cafe, so we’re excited about doing it there,” Romanowski said.

Tongue and Groove is a free event at Continental Room in downtown Fullerton, and goes from 7-8:30 p.m.

Potential attendees can RSVP at conradromo.com.

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The program was created in order to prepare the cast members and “ninjas” (the crew members dressed in all black who lift cast members) for the fight scenes. Part of the program focused on healthy eating habits and strength training.

Christopher Yu, 21-yearold fine arts major plays the role of Peter, a doctor who tries to construct an artificial heart to help those who have been hurt before.

Yu thinks this play is different because there is a lot of stage combat, interesting lighting and the whole play is unexpected.

He hopes people walk away with hope that love can truly exist.

Hearts Like Fists opens Friday and runs through Oct. 19. Tickets are $11 at the door and $10 with an advance Titan discount.

For more information, contact the Clayes Performing Arts Center at (657)-278-3371 or visit fullerton.edu/arts.

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The cast and crew of Hearts Like Fists put on the finishing touches before opening night on Friday. Tickets can be purchesed at the Clayes Performing Art Center Boxoffice.

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New research explains violent monkey business Humans and chimpanzees have been around for centuries. The debate on how much we truly have in common with them feels even older.

It appears that chimp-onchimp violence comes as a natural behavior for them, according to a study published in Nature.

This homicidal tendency is hypothesized to originate from a competitive evolutionary standpoint.

By killing a foreign chimp, it provides the survivors a reduced risk to their own lives, as well as greater access to food and mates.

It sounds like we’re not that different after all.

The study also aims to disprove the notion that such violent behavior in chimpanzees stems from certain human activity like removing the chimpanzees’ natural habitats or disturbing their natural order.

“It’s a natural behavior– it’s not something we’ve induced by disturbance or intervention,” said University of Manchester evolutionary biologist Susanne Shultz, Ph.D., in an interview with BBC. I sure don’t think chimpanzees were holding hands and singing songs before we became the disruptive neighbors.

That is a nice thought, however.

It’s amazing to see such familiar behaviors in non-human species.

Besides a love for violence, chimpanzees live in tight-knit communities in which male chimpanzees act as security and patrol the perimeter of their location.

We as humans hold up in cities and urban areas, and have strict regulations about where and when borders end and so on.

The results of this study also brought up questions about the origin of human violence, and whether or not we

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can learn from chimpanzees.

The lethally violent interactions recorded in the study are believed to happen the most when each chimp in the attacking group had the most to gain, and the least to lose.

This motivation is one of the main drivers behind natural selection.

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Joan Silk, Ph.D., from Arizona State University hopes that this study gets rid of the notion that violence in these animals is due to human interference.

“Humans are not destined to be warlike because chimpanzees sometimes kill their neighbors,” Silk said in an interview with BBC. I completely agree with

We are humans and not chimpanzees.

We have the ability to shape and alter our behavior in ways that they can’t.

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JOHN MITANI Behavioral ecologist at University of Michigan chimpanzees to kill their competitors so that their own community has more access to resources such as food and territory.

While this sounds eerily similar to the logic behind how humans approach war, politics and even economics, this still isn’t any reason to look toward chimpanzees to understand our own follies.

that statement. It’s an unfair assumption to think of modern day chimpanzees as good indicators of our own behaviors.

The old saying that what separates us from animals is our civility, holds true.

John Mitani, Ph.D., a behavioral ecologist at the University of Michigan and one of the study’s authors, also has

an opinion on the matter.

“There is considerable variation in rates of killing by chimpanzees living in different populations, so even in chimpanzees killing is not inevitable,” Mitani said in an interview with BBC. So it’s also not fair to single out chimpanzees as inherently violent creatures as well, seeing as how they too have their ups and downs.

“And, of course, we are humans and not chimpanzees. We have the ability to shape and alter our behavior in ways that they can’t,” Mitani said.

However, others such as Robert Sussman, Ph.D., an anthropologist at Washington University, is dismissive of the study and still feels human activity is something to consider.

He claims the statistics don’t say anything, and that the authors of the study did not establish a lack of human interference.

The idea that by studying behavior in chimpanzees, we will be able to get some insight about our own behavior is a far-fetched one.

Michael L. Wilson, Ph.D., the study’s primary author, said that people have long been interested in chimpanzees as a way to better understand the evolution of our behavior.

Of course this is true, many people look at the way nature expresses itself and use that as a sort of measure for self reflection.

I think such reflection is healthy and appropriate, however, I wouldn’t read too far into it.

The debate on whether the violent behaviors in animals are similar to our own acts of violence shouldn’t be a debate at all.

We aren’t subject to such hard and primitive lifestyles the way most animals are.

We have culture that is founded on more than just violence and male dominance.

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The Titans have struggled against top competition this season, and they will need to find more consistent play as the Big West season starts. CSUF faces Northridge and Long Beach State this weekend.

Titans gear up for Big West play CSUF has a tough schedule ahead of them with Big West foes headed to Titan Gym

MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team opens Big West Conference play this weekend with matches against Cal State Northridge and Long Beach State at Titan Gym. The Titans (6-7) are coming off a roller-coaster performance at the Fullerton Classic last weekend, where they endured a disappointing loss to Yale, a gritty win against Georgetown and a respectable performance against the No. 20 UCLA Bruins.

Unfortunately for Head Coach Carolyn Zimmerman’s team, the schedule does not get any easier.

CSUN is 9-3 this season and are the defending tri-champions of the Big West.

The Matadors finished 2-1 at the competitive University of San Diego Invitational last weekend.

They swept Eastern

Washington and then earned an upset win over the No. 19 ranked USD Toreros in four sets.

They wrapped up the weekend with a loss to No. 1 Stanford, but that did not spoil the Matadors’ successful tournament run.

CSUN is on the verge of cracking the American Volleyball Coaches Association Top-25 Poll.

They received two votes after their performance in the USD Invitational, and have received votes in the poll every week of the season besides one.

Senior Casey Hinger is one of the leaders of the Matadors.

In the opening match last weekend, she became the 11th player in school history to reach 1,000 career kills.

Her teammate Natalie Allen is also in the history books with 1,123 career kills, which is seventh in school history.

Junior setter Steffi Miller sets the table for the dynamic Matador offense.

Her 10.44 assists per set rank third in the Big West. Northridge is a

well-rounded team offensively, with five players tallying over 80 kills.

The Titans were swept in both matches against Northridge in 2013.

The Matadors dominated both games and only one Titan recorded double-digit kills against them last season.

The Fullerton offense is much different from the one they put out in 2013.

Freshman Niki Withers leads the team with 194 kills and is second in the Big West with 3.96 kills per set.

Junior Holland Crenshaw is also in the top 10 in the conference with 145 kills.

The Titans as a team are third in the conference in kills.

After a tough matchup against CSUN, the Titans will play Long Beach State.

The 49ers enter the weekend with a 10-4 record.

It is the first time they have won 10 non-conference games since 2010.

Jenelle Hudson is the setter for the 49ers and leads the Big West in assists with 502.

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Freshman Niki Withers has been a bright spot for the Titans, leading the team in kills with 194.

The Iowa State transfer was 34th in the nation in assists and had five 50-assist matches last season.

The 49ers have three players with over 100 kills with junior outside hitter Alex Reid leading the way with 138.

Reid also contributes defensively, where she is third

on the team with 126 digs.

In order for the Titans to be successful in Big West play, they will have to cut down on their errors.

Fullerton has the second most errors in the conference, with only UC Riverside making more mistakes.

They had a glaring 35

errors against Yale in the Fullerton Classic and it caused them to lose a winnable match.

The Titans won just four Big West games in 2013.

They hope to steal a tough win this weekend and kick off the Big West Conference season on a positive note.

CSUF cross-country hits the road again The Titans look to have runners qualify for the NCAA West Regionals this season

JOSEPH ANDERSON Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton’s cross-country team will look to build off of their success last weekend as they head to the Coyote Classic this Saturday in San Bernardino.

The men’s team was impressive in last week’s Mustang Challenge, finishing second out of 19 teams who

competed.

The CSUF women’s squad placed fourth in the same competition held in Santa Clarita.

Sophomores Danny Ramirez and Jose Penaloza finished second and third, respectively, coming in with times of 26:00 and 26:02.

Senior Brandon Perry was the next best Titan, finishing in 24th place with a time of 26:37.

The Fullerton men’s team had six of the top 30 runners in the event.

The fourth-place women’s

team was led by Emily Taylor, who finished in 13th place with a time of 18:52.

Senior Katie Bathgate was next in line for the Titans, coming in with a time of 19:02, good for 20th place.

Coachella native Ana Valdovinos rounded out the top three Titans by finishing the event in 21st place with a time of 19:03, just one second after her teammate.

The Coyote Classic in San Bernardino will be another tough test for the

Titans, who are looking to build off of their impressive finishes early in the season before heading to Lawrence, Kansas for the Rim Rock Farm Classic on Oct. 4.

Fullerton will also have a tall task at the Highlander Invitational just two weeks later, where their Big West Rival, UC Riverside, will host the highly-competitive event.

CSUF will once again host the Titan Invitational on Oct. 24 at the Titan Track Complex.

Following the Titan Invitational is the Big West Championships in Riverside, where runners have the opportunity to qualify for NCAA West Regional spots as well as potential NCAA Championship appearances.

Fullerton has performed extremely well in the early-going, but they are hoping to place better in both the Big West Championships and NCAA West Regionals.

Last season, the CSUF men’s team came in sixth in

the Big West and 24th in the NCAA West Regionals.

The women placed fifth in the Big West and 29th in the NCAA West Regionals.

If the team is going to have more success against top competition this season, they will need to continue to develop continuity between the runners and perform at a consistent level.

With the NCAA Championships just two months away, those improvements will need to come quickly if any CSUF runners are going to qualify.

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