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Course catalog goes digital Campus will begin rollout of Acalog, an interactive online course catalog in the spring

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Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García speak with attendees of the inaugural Titans Reach Higher Town Hall on Monday.

Community conversation García updates campus on Strategic Plan

ALEX GROVES Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García hosted hundreds of campus community members Monday for a discussion and update on the implementation of the five-year University Strategic Plan.

García used the platform of the inaugural Titans Reach Higher Town Hall as an opportunity to tout a number of accomplishments completed since the plan was unveiled in 2013, including the opening of the Titan Dreamers Resource Center and the hiring of more than 150 tenure-track faculty.

The university still has a long way to go toward achieving the goals listed in its strategic plan though, García said.

“We cannot and should not achieve all four of our goals at once, but rather adhere to the planned long-term vision over the five years where we laid out the building blocks for a brighter future,” García said.

“Those building blocks will help us at the end of our strategic plan to continue to measure our success.”

The plan includes goals to improve advising, student retention, student talent development and assessment. The plan also aims to create a “Titan Experience,” a goal that amounts to a branding effort to increase student pride and engagement.

Greg Saks, vice president for University Advancement, brought up a comprehensive study conducted by his department that looked into what CSUF’s stakeholders thought

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Greg Saks, vice president for University Advancement, explains stakeholders’ views of CSUF.

of the university.

Saks said that overall, stakeholders had positive feelings about CSUF as an institution, and saw it as a leader

among CSUs. However, the study didn’t yield the kind of glowing descriptions the university was hoping for from its stakeholders.

The phrase “convenient location” was one of those descriptions, Saks said.

Finding your niche Video Game Design Club

From inception to creation, three members of the club created their own video game

TROI MCADORY Daily Titan Sonic, Crash Bandicoot and other various characters from video games have shaped many childhoods and resulted in late nights and countless hours in front of a television.

Video game creators are constantly working on making their games to the best of their abilities to keep faithful players engaged and satisfied.

The beloved pastime has evolved over the years, and the console systems they are available on have grown in numbers as well; people no longer have to play their favorite games on one system. They have gotten more violent, interactive, fun and realistic.

Now, new generation games like the Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty series are some of the big brand games that cause long lines at GameStop.

The Video Game Design Club at Cal State Fullerton caters to people who are captivated by video games and their alternate worlds. Video games give players the opportunity to escape reality for a

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The Video Game Design Club teaches its members how to develop and design video games.

moment and absorb themselves into a place they find invigorating.

The club isn’t restricted only to people who wish to create and develop video games, it is tailored to be all-inclusive. It is open to graphic artists, students of all majors and people who simply love the art form.

Three very passionate and competitive members of the Video Game Design Club have begun following

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in the footsteps of video game designers before them, starting with the creation of their own game called Proteus Moon.

With support and help from other members and networking, Mark Martene, Ivan Espinosa and Daniel Root spent long nights and endless hours developing their game last semester.

“We were going for a PC game because we didn’t want to have any mobile

limitations,” Espinosa, computer science major, said.

Their decision to create a PC game instead of a game you could use on the latest Xbox, for example, gives them endless creative possibilities.

“You’re limited to how much data you can put in the program,” Martene, computer science major, said. “A PC can handle a lot more.”

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Both agreed they didn’t want to have restrictions from the beginning on how much they could and could not put into their first video game.

The program the three used to help make their process easier is called Unity.

“Unity is a game development tool which helps make games,” Espinosa said. “One great tool was called Mecanim that allows you to manipulate the animations however you want.”

This program function allows animations to appear more fluid and effortless with a continuous motion sequence.

Martene refers to it as “Photoshop for a game design” because of the tutorials and hands-on properties.

Basic beginner games that people tend to create are called platform games.

These are the types of games that are similar to the original Super Mario games where the characters can only move left, right or jump.

“There are physical platforms you jump on, you’re just going one way and it’s 2-D,” Martene said.

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CYNTHIA PLEITEZ Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton will soon leave behind the 700 page, phonebook-sized course catalog and its digital facsimile in favor of a more user-friendly, interactive online course catalog.

Acalog, the integrated online course catalog which rolls out at CSUF in the spring, will include all information previously listed in the catalog.

Information on the rollout of Acalog, and its course curriculum counterpart, Curriculog, will be introduced to the university and its students through meetings to be held by the Office of Academic Programs in months to come.

The interactivity of the Acalog system is a response to students neglecting to use the print version of the catalog, said Gail Matsunaga, editor of the catalog.

“Over the last five years, we’ve had conversations with people who are most active users and the one thing we found was that the students didn’t use the print version. So that’s when we decided to look into the online version,” Matsunaga said.

The new catalog will be more user-friendly than its print predecessor, allowing users to search and browse for information.

In addition to Acalog, the university will implement Curriculog, a system to manage current and future courses.

Starting in January, all college deans and department chairs will review and correct their information and submit forms for approval to catalog inclusion.

“Everyone’s really looking forward to the way in which this catalog will be so useful to the students as well as to the faculty,” said Alison Wryn, director of undergraduate studies and general education. “(Faculty) are very excited about that because it will do a great job of keeping track of where the proposals are, and it provides a great deal of transparency.”

One of Curriculog’s strengths stems from the fact that it will streamline the proposal process for courses, Wrynn said. The new system will facilitate proposals as they move from one system to another by automatically revising the catalog as changes are made and proposals approved.

Time saved by faculty submitting proposals for courses is particularly important for newly-hired faculty looking to innovate with new courses or educational methods.

“Because we are in a period where we’re hiring a lot of new faculty, a lot of them are really excited about creating new courses for students to bring in cutting-edge, stateof-the-art knowledge. And so having this kind of system is something that the new faculty are excited about,” Wrynn said.

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Hacking disaster preparedness Two students win Hackathon with app to create lost and found person database

JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan Two Cal State Fullerton students whose iOS app won the Disaster Response Challenge at the International Women’s Hackathon earlier this month will have the opportunity to submit their project to Microsoft Research this December.

Maira Ahmad and Noemi Quezada, both seniors studying computer science, developed Missing You, an app that allows users to submit lost and found persons alerts to create a missing persons database.

The challenge at the Hackathon, held at Cal State San Marcos, was to produce an educational game that helps organizations and communities respond to natural disasters.

Sponsored by Direct Relief, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing and providing medical

services during emergencies, the competition was intended to improve disaster preparedness.

Despite the fact that the team deviated from the challenge guidelines, Ahmad said she and Quezada thought their idea would be more useful than a game, and, after some debate, decided it was worth the risk.

Only 25 percent of the computing workforce in the U.S. are women, according to a 2011 report by the National Center For Women in Technology. The International Women’s Hackathon seeks to empower young women to become leaders in computer science.

Hackathon participants were allowed to plan and storyboard their projects, but may not program until the day of the competition.

There, the teams are assigned mentors and are expected to finish by the end of the day.

Judges choose winners based on four criteria: appropriateness to theme,

functionality and user effectiveness, impact and originality and technical difficulty.

Quezada and Ahmad eventually beat out more than 67 participants from five other universities and 32 participants from 15 high schools.

The judges complimented the complexity of their project and were impressed that they incorporated technologies that went beyond the scope of the challenge, Quezada said.

The winners of hackathons around the country, from both the Disaster Response and a separate Nature Conservancy Challenge, are invited to submit their winning projects to Microsoft Research where it will be considered for further development.

Should the pair’s app win, Quezada and Ahmad would have to rework the app for Microsoft products. Quezada and Ahmad, however, have not yet decided if they will be submitting the app

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Maira Ahmad and Noemi Quezada worked with a team from Google at the SoCal Women in Computing Conference.

for the final round. The time constraints of balancing school and work will leave them with little time to add the features they proposed during the Hackathon, they said.

“We definitely want to present them, but it’s a time issue right now,” Ahmad said.

Contestants have until Dec. 15 to submit their finalized projects to Microsoft.

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A man was convicted of first-degree murder Monday for the 2012 shooting deaths of two USC students, according to NBC Los Angeles.

Javier Bolden, 22, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for the April 11, 2012 shooting of Ying Wu and Ming Qu, graduate students from China.

L.A. Deputy District Attorney Dan Akemon described the killings as “ambush style,” as Bolden and his friend Bryan Barnes approached the car which Wu and Qu were sitting in from behind before Bolden fired two rounds into the vehicle.

Barnes was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in February.

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At the first Titan Town Hall, President Mildred García presented the accomplishments fueled by the university Strategic Plan implemented in 2013.

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“While I prefer that to an inconvenient location, it doesn’t pop as much as some of the other ideas that came up,” Saks said. “For example, ‘quality education’ and ‘prepared graduates for jobs and careers.’”

Saks said the university’s challenge now is building upon positive perceptions and making sure stakeholders stay happy.

“Really what we need to do is take all of these items that our stakeholders spoke positively about and be able to explain to all the audiences and speak to all the audiences on why these items are important, why we are unique in those ways,” he said.

Saks said that one of the ways CSUF is seeking to make sure that happens is through the creation of an “aspiration market position statement,” a communication tool that will allow CSUF to talk to its stakeholders using the information gathered from the university advancement

study.

Following Saks’ presentation, the meeting shifted back toward the discussion of the strategic plan and how it could best be implemented.

The town hall set aside a 45-minute period of discussion when faculty, staff and students had moderated round-table group discussions on the various goals of the strategic plan and how they might be able to facilitate them in their own departments or groups.

When discussion was done, audience members asked questions and shared their opinions on the strategic plan and its goals. Some said they saw positive benefits to the strategic plan while others said they weren’t sure how, specifically, the university intended to positively impact students and achieve its goals for becoming a better university.

“I believe Cal State Fullerton can be a global leader in a million different ways and I’m ready for that, and I believe my peers are as well,” sophomore Rachel Herzog said. “It’s just that we’re unsure about

what the university wants for us as well.”

John Spiak of Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana said he would like to see greater student engagement and interpersonal connections on campus increase in a world where people are often absorbed by social media.

“How do we get them out of that technology base into that real world base? And I think we need to ask (current students) or a generation younger than them before they even arrive at this university,” Spiak said.

García agreed that accomplishing goals listed within the strategic plan will be dependent on communication between different groups on campus and that the voices of students are important.

“We need to listen to the younger voices, we also need to listen to the older voices and the in-between voices; all the voices,” García said. “So that we can come together as a community to listen and become the model comprehensive university.”

Two women report suspicious following Suspect describes as white or Hispanic in late 40s or early 50s, tall and heavyset

ALEXANDER DOMINGUEZ Daily Titan University Police is seeking information on two separate incidents of suspicious following that occurred near the Cal State Fullerton campus involving a similarly described suspect.

On Oct. 21 at 4:10 p.m., a woman was reportedly followed in the area of Associated Road north of Bastanchury Road by a man driving what was described

as an older white van, according to a statement issued to the campus by University Police.

The second incident occurred a day later at 8:50 p.m. when a different woman was followed in the south alley of the 2600 block of Milton Avenue.

The vehicle involved was described as an older fourdoor vehicle with hazy tail lights, gold in color, possibly a Toyota Camry.

The driver in each incident was described as a white or Hispanic male in his late 40s or early 50s, tall and heavyset. One of

the women described the subject as having a mustache, and the other said she saw a man with brown facial hair. A dark-colored baseball cap and reading glasses were also indicated in one of the descriptions.

The incidents are currently being investigated by the Fullerton Police Department.

Anyone with information about the described subject are asked to contact FPD Detective Matt Malone at (714) 738-6534 or University Police Detective Paul McClain at (657) 278-2902.

A former Santa Ana teacher has been charged with traveling to the Philippines to have sex with an underage girl and recording the encounter on video, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Robert Ruben Ornelas, 63, who is already facing charges in Orange County of lewd acts with a minor, was arrested Friday after he was accused by federal prosecutors of engaging in sexual conduct in a foreign place and producing and possessing child pornography.

The charges date to March 2012 where he is accused of having sex with a girl of about 14.

Ornelas also served as a softball coach.

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Ebola guidelines announced The federal government announced guidelines that fell between the strict measures put in place by New York and New Jersey, but are devised as to not be detrimental to medical workers returning from West Africa.

The new guidelines will require those who have had contact with Ebola patients to be checked by a doctor in-person and through a phone call from a local public health authority, according to the New York Times.

The restrictions are not as heavy as those implemented by the governors of New York and New Jersey, which automatically quarantined people who had come in contact with infected individuals to their homes.

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From left to right, Adrián Tió, Nan Goggin and Noel Zahler will speak at open forums in their pursuit of becoming the new dean for the College of the Arts.

Dean candidates to come to campus Three finalists vying for College of the Arts position will speak at open forums this week DARRELL KING Daily Titan Adrián Tió, Nan Goggin and Noel Zahler, the three finalists to become the dean of the College of the Arts will be introduced to the campus this week at three open forum events.

Adrián Tió Tió, an Indiana native whose parents emigrated from Puerto Rico, received

his fine arts training from Temple University, the Tyler School of Art in Rome and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati.

He serves as dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is a member of the College of the Art Association, the International Council of Fine Arts Deans and the National Council of Arts Administrators.

His work in drawing, painting and printmaking has been exhibited nationally.

Tió will present at an open forum Tuesday from 10:15-11:15 a.m. in Pollak Library North Room 130.

Nan Goggin Goggin currently serves as the director of the School of Art Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

She also serves as the art editor of Ninth Letter, the arts and literary project produced by the School of Art and Design’s Graduate Creative Writing Program.

Her background includes design, virtual reality narratives and book projects.

She received degrees from Michigan State University and the University of Florida in printmaking.

Goggin will be speaking Wednesday from

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Other universities have already incorporated Acalog, but CSUF is still one of a few Cal State University campuses to make the transition.

Cal State Los Angeles, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Stanislaus and Cal State Channel Islands are also currently using the Acalog system.

CSUF’s decision to implement both systems

ultimately comes down to what best serves student needs, Matsunaga said.

“So that’s the main reason, it’s for the students, because they’re going to benefit. If they’re not using the print version, then why have

one?” Matsunaga said. “It’s going to be cheaper and you won’t be paying for it.”

The Acalog and Curriculog systems will be implemented this semester and will be fully in place by spring 2015.

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Noel Zahler Zahler has experience as a composer, researcher and professor, and currently holds the position of dean of the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Long Island University.

He’s earned degrees from a number of universities, including a doctorate of musical arts from

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The awards Zahler has earned include the National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commission.

Zahler has collaborated with artists, scientists and mathematicians, co-authoring three computer software programs.

He will be speaking Thursday from 10:15-11:15 a.m. at the Titan Shops conference room.

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Taking on a mature role in college Student balances her academic life with her responsibilities as the chief administration officer

DEANNA GOMEZ Daily Titan Imagine standing on stage giving a presentation to dozens of incoming Cal State Fullerton freshmen and half of the room is asleep.

The current Associated Students, Inc. Chief Administrative Officer Olivia Green was in this position when she was a sophomore.

However, instead of giving up, Green continued her presentation, and from that experience and others that followed, she has become the persevering person she is today.

Green, a political science student minoring in American studies, has lived on her own since her freshman year, and although there were times when she had to ask her parents for help to pay rent, she quickly began to learn how to be independent and self-sufficient.

Green spent her first year working and going to school, but she yearned to find a place of her own on campus and jump start her social life.

That’s when she came across the student Orientation Leaders program.

“It was kind of the only

thing familiar to me at that point because everybody goes through orientation … I had just less than a year ago gone through orientation, whereas I had not been exposed to the other leadership opportunities, this was familiar,” Green said.

It was an intense and rigorous process, but in the end Green got the job and made friends, some of which are still her best friends today.

Being an orientation leader led to Green furthering her involvement on campus, and she took advantage of all of the opportunities she presented to freshmen at orientation.

After being an orientation leader, the next thing Green wanted to do was become a resident advisor. She had lived off campus her first two years, and as an RA for the next two years, she would be able to live on campus while also gaining the experience she wanted.

Although Green learned a lot as an RA, she decided it was time to get involved in something related to her career goals during her fourth year.

Green plans on studying law in the future.

Her second year as an RA was also the year she became University Affairs Committee

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As chief administration officer, Olivia Green meets with students regularly to discuss campus issues.

vice chair for ASI. She decided she would shoot for the best position possible for her last year and she landed her position as chief administration officer.

Green has gone above and beyond what many people do in their college careers, and gained friends along the way who have acted as a surrogate family.

One of her close friends, Johnny Saldivar, met Green as an RA last year. The two connected right away, and

Green has become a big sister figure and motivator in Saldivar’s eyes.

“I think we connected because at least from my perspective, I saw what type of person she was and I realized I like to surround myself around people who are motivated in school,” Saldivar said.

Kelsey Brewer, ASI chief governmental officer and student trustee, met Green when they sat on the directors cabinet in housing. It was last

year that the two really got to know each other.

“She is my sanity,” Brewer said.

Brewer admits she can be high strung at times, but Green can calm her down.

She believes their friendship has helped her change for the better.

“She has fostered a lot of change in me … I think Olivia has always been very true to herself. She knows who she is and I think she’s proud of who she is and she should be

because she’s a fantastic person,” Brewer said.

Green doesn’t quite know what area of law she wants to go into, however, she is determined to turn her dreams into a reality.

Although she has always known what she’s wanted, and has always been motivated, she has come a long way from when she was an orientation leader. She has gone from a girl who overestimates her bank account to the independent leader she is today.

Student travels the world with her cello and music Emily Balderrama has played her cello abroad in multiple European countries

BRITTANEY CARPENTER Daily Titan A popular choice for college students to celebrate the completion of school is to travel around the world.

For cello performer Emily Balderrama, traveling and seeking employment opportunities is a significant part of earning her degree.

Balderrama, 20, is currently a junior earning her bachelor’s degree in music with an emphasis on cello performance.

She has had the opportunity to share her music with various parts of the world.

Most recently, she traveled to Italy prior to a tour through Germany, Spain, Luxembourg and France in the summer of 2013 to perform with her cello.

She is also set to revisit Paris soon with the Cal State Fullerton Orchestra, led by Associate Professor of Music Kimo Furumoto.

The University Orchestra is preparing throughout the semester for their tour through Paris by playing

ensembles with French themes. Recent performances by the orchestra were planned by Furumoto to prepare the students for their international performances.

“We’re doing a bunch of French music as kind of a lead-off into what we’re going to be doing next summer,” Furmomoto said.

Balderrama was 10 years old when she began playing cello in school, following her sister’s love of the instrument.

She developed a great admiration for the ability to play in extremely low and high registers with the cello.

“It’s very much like the human voice … I really like that lyricalness of the instrument,” Balderrama said.

Balderrama serves as both the cellist and librarian for the University Orchestra, and also runs the EMB Music Studio in San Diego. She has been teaching since she was 12 years old. She currently has 15 students at her studio. The age of her students vary from 4 year olds to adults in their 60s.

Balderrama, who has a

full-ride scholarship, was deciding between CSUF and UCLA when she recognized the opportunities that CSUF had to offer.

“I was probably in the end choosing between UCLA and CSUF when I was narrowing down my choices, and I really liked the environment here that we have, it’s really supportive and there are a lot more opportunities than, let’s say, at UCLA, as far as music goes,” Balderrama said.

Cello Professor Bongshin Ko has taught Balderrama for just over two years, but had met her prior during one of the summer cello programs that Ko runs.

“She is progressing because she’s so academically and musically very disciplined and hard-working.

She is steadily growing up as a person overall, and she’s on the right track,” Ko said.

Her world travels have also allowed her to meet with renowned musicians all over. This past summer, she had the opportunity to play for Latvian cellist Mischa Maisky after meeting Nathaniel Rosen

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Emily Balderrama has been playing the cello since the age of 10 and began teaching at age 12.

in New York several summers ago, who was the first American to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Balderrama recalls many unforeseen cello adventures among these travels, involving delayed flights, missing baggage and hotel difficulties.

One memory she recalls fondly among her international quests is attending a Flamenco house party in Barcelona.

“It’s such a great environment because we hear about it here and we get to study Flamenco music all the time,” Balderrama said.

“But to actually get to go to

a backyard Flamenco party and hear the live music and dancers, it was such a cool experience.”

Balderrama’s European adventures and performing career has provided her with a detailed resume to continue in her trek of becoming a world-renowned musician.

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Root is the head artist behind the game’s artwork. He approached the characters and the development behind them as if they were real people with

backgrounds.

“It’s a little bit tricky, but luckily they told me they wanted these six characters … like a scout, a mage, or an archer,” Root said. “After that, once I find out what’s been done,

I figure out how to make it different.”

He tries to find these differences through the functionality and visuals.

Root cares about each of the characters he’s developed. He not only takes

an original idea from his head and brings it to life, he spends large amounts of time on each character and their own personal story within the game.

“When we were making this game and Daniel

joined our group, I felt like we struggled,” Espinosa said. “He really pushed us to an extreme level in our programming skills.”

Martene said that Root brought a lot to the table in terms of creativity and assisting with

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For the future of video games, Espinosa, Root and Martene would like to see them transform to an outlet where they are a cross between reality and the virtual world.

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CSUN pledge ban is justified The university is right in applying a zero tolerance policy on pledging activities

BRITTANEY CARPENTER Daily Titan The death of Cal State Northridge’s fraternity pledge Armando Villa caused a series of reprimands and bans for the fraternity, and stronger restrictions on other Greek life on campus.

However, Northridge’s zero tolerance for hazing was tested again when a new pledge came forward demonstrating concern regarding the pledging activities constructed by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

Greek life hazing has caused too many injuries and deaths over the years to be allowed on any university.

Villa’s death on July 1 was caused by an intense hike in extremely hot weather, mandated by the fraternity brothers. After the fatal hike in the Angeles National Forest, Pi Kappa Phi was shut down.

Three in 5 college students are hazed, with 47 percent of students experiencing hazing before even entering college, according to stophazing.org.

While most activity goes unreported to school officials, 25 percent of advisers for school organizations are aware of the hazing activities transpiring.

Despite the many universities that don’t allow hazing, clubs still choose to secretly enforce physically and emotionally demanding tasks on new pledges.

CSUN’s response to the latest report of this crime

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Cal State Northridge’s most recent hazing incident is proof the institution should temporarily ban pledging activities until it can find an effective way of preventing additional injuries and fatalities.

in banning all pledge activities for the time being for their 54 fraternity and sororities is desperately needed. An act this strict may

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be the only way to guarantee that hazing and dangerous pledging comes to a halt for good.

A 2008 report, involving

gathering information from 53 United States colleges, over 300 interviews and over 11,000 survey responses, found that 74 percent of

students involved with varsity athletics and 73 percent of social fraternity and sorority members experienced hazing at least

once, according to stophazing.org.

Normal hazing activities can be anything from being forced to lose sleep, to excessive drinking, public humiliation and acts of a sexual nature.

Being involved in a school organization should never result in any form of afflictions.

University clubs are available to enhance each student’s learning experience, not terrorize them in order to feel accepted.

CSUN’s actions need to be followed by all universities who have zero tolerance for hazing.

Students who partake in this, especially after the death of a student, show a lack of respect and care for their peers and the rules of school authorities.

Northridge is currently allowing their Greek life to still recruit new members.

Pledging-related hazing incidents occur throughout the nation.

The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity existing in over 200 universities all over America has decided to ban pledging, due to nine deaths occurring since 2006 in their fraternities, according to the New York Times.

While hazing should never be an option for any club on a college campus, pledging pushes the limits as well. Pledging has become the ultimate precursor to hazing.

Some groups use their freedom to pledge as an excuse to terrorize incoming members. Colleges need to distinguish the difference between these two methods to avoid any further injuries or fatalities among students.

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OPINION

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Devil’s Advocate

Vaccines can saves lives and should be federally mandated HEATHER MYERS Daily Titan Since the discovery of the modern vaccine 200 years ago, over 9 million lives a year have been saved worldwide. That number could increase to 25 million a year if we begin to use vaccines against all potentially vaccine-preventable diseases, according to UNICEF. For this reason, vaccinations should be federally mandated to prevent the spread of all curable infectious and fatal viruses.

The benefits of vaccinations are undeniable. The more people vaccinated in a population not only reduces the number of people susceptible to a disease but the total number of potential carriers.

Through vaccinations alone, smallpox has been completely eliminated from the world. Some diseases that have been almost completely erased in the U.S., such as polio and measles, have only found their way back into the country via foreign lands such as Asia, Africa and Europe.

In 2011, 350,000 cases of measles were reported around the world. Ninety percent of the 222 cases reported in the U.S. were due to the importation of the disease from other countries, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).

The reason why the U.S. has few homegrown cases is because most Americans are vaccinated against measles, which prevents a small group of cases from becoming epidemics.

The main debate in recent years over

Should vaccines be optional or federally mandated?

vaccinations is their potential link to causing autism in young children. The fear of giving children autism has made more and more parents choose to opt out of vaccinating their kids.

While the onset of autism typically occurs around the same time that infants and toddlers receive vaccinations, it is purely coincidence.

Multiple groups of individuals have linked autism to thimerosal, a preservative that was once prevalent in many vaccines.

However, since 2003, nearly all vaccines in the United States only have trace amounts of the preservative. Some do not contain it at all, according to a report from the CDC and a report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

The IOM report states that there is no credible correlation between vaccines containing thimerosal and autism.

It is understandable that parents have these reservations about vaccines, but research has proven that the vaccines do not cause autism.

However, activists and high-profile celebrities are all over social media and the Internet making parents worry about their children. Health policy needs to be guided by science, not by personal experience or a celebrity’s misguided knowledge.

If this trend continues, and more parents choose to not have their children vaccinated, it is not only a threat to that child’s life, but a threat to every person that child will come in contact with.

If one or two cases of disease are introduced into

a community where most people are not vaccinated, outbreaks will occur.

Just last year, several measles outbreaks occurred in places like New York City and Texas where vaccination rates were low.If vaccination rates dropped to low levels nationally, diseases could become as common as they were before vaccines, according to the CDC. Vaccinations need to be federally mandated to protect Americans from the fatal diseases that struck our country many years ago. The diseases that spread like wildfire back then are still alive today, just not in the U.S. We need to stop being vulnerable to other people’s personal experiences and start doing what is best for our country and our children.

To many in the medical community, the issue of vaccines causing autism is now closed. If we do not do something about vaccinations a case that could touch off an outbreak of some disease that is currently under control is just a plane ride away, according to the CDC. By federally mandating vaccinations, not only will we protect our children and grandchildren, we will protect our nation. Smallpox has been completely eliminated from the world. Children don’t even receive the smallpox vaccination anymore because it no longer exists or poses a threat to society, due to the invention of the vaccine. If we can eliminate smallpox from the world, we can do so with other fatal diseases as well with the required implementation of vaccines.

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AUBREY SAULS Daily Titan Parents should have every right not to vaccinate themselves or their children if they don’t want to; such a decision should not be mandated by the government. It should be up to the individual if they want to take on the potential or hypothetical risks that come with vaccines.

Vaccinations have been a part of humanity’s history since the 15th century. Even in early America, President Thomas Jefferson stood by vaccinations in 1806, and in 1813, Congress passed The Act to Encourage Vaccination to promote vaccinations.

They are a part of our history. However, vaccines should remain only an optional benefit of living in this country.

In recent years, the fear of vaccines causing autism has increased the number of parents refusing to get their child vaccinated. About 1 in 5 parents (21 percent) who take their children to be vaccinated are concerned about the recommended vaccinations on several fronts, according to a Gallup Poll survey.

Currently, some influenza vaccines contain thimerosal, a preservative which contains mercury.

Consumers are warned about mercury exposure in fish and the environment.

If it’s dangerous to Earth and our bodies, it shouldn’t be injected into babies’ veins.

Some scientists believe there may be a connection between mercury and autism.

Board of Directors of Autism Speaks member and Harvard graduate Sallie Bernard has testified before Congress on the connections between mercury and autism. In 2000, she and her colleagues found 79 similarities between autism and mercury intoxication. The study found the two conditions had similar symptoms.

Admittedly, similarities and correlations do not prove causation, but if it’s the lives of children, parents should be more wary and cautious about vaccinating their kids.

Exposure to mercury can cause immune, sensory, neurological, motor and behavioral dysfunctions similar to traits defining or associated with autism, according to Bernard’s research article.

Currently, there is no federal law mandating vaccinations for children; however, all 50 states require children to be vaccinated before entering public school. There are

religious and medical exemptions in most states, and some states allow philosophical exemptions as well.

Forced vaccinations on people of religions against vaccines trumps their personal and religious rights.

America is different from other countries, partly because we allow the freedom of thought and ideas into our society. This includes religion.

Vaccination should be optional because it is prohibited by certain religious beliefs. We live in a country that values separation of church and state.

Derived from the First Amendment, the American ideology of separation of church and state means the federal government cannot force itself on organized religion, and vice versa.

Since all religions have a right to freely practice without government intervention, taking this freedom away would be a direct infringement on those groups’ rights.

Overall, mandating vaccines would mean the government is taking parenting into its own hands.

This country is unique because it allows religious practices and freedom of individual choice; people shouldn’t promote the voluntary disappearances of these freedoms.

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You’re going through some pretty intense emotional business today -- but it’s all for the best.

You may find that you need to spend some quiet time just processing this new way of feeling.

LEO

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Try to let go, or at least allow more freedom than you have been. It should all work out.

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(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

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LIBRA

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You may have to do things your way today -- consensus is just too hard to find. Things may not be all that great at first, but you start to enjoy the freedom pretty quickly. Have fun!

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Finally, a little respect comes your way and helps you to make it past a minor obstacle. Your energy builds throughout the day -- so much so that you may find yourself with a new opportunity tonight.

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What’s really going on around here? You need to think through everything you can’t see or otherwise figure out, as the mysteries are more important than the obvious facts today.

(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

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SPORTS

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Dedrique Taylor has brought in several new faces to the Titan program in an attempt to change the team culture and propel CSUF to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2007-2008 season.

Taylor prepared for year two CSUF’s head coach will have to navigate the Titans through a brutal early schedule

JOSEPH ANDERSON Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team was faced with a dilemma during summer 2013 when their head coach of nine years Bob Burton resigned after leading the program to a 155-122 record.

Athletics Director Jim Donovan knew it would be difficult to replace a coach that had mentored professional athletes and taken the Titans to the NCAA Tournament during his tenure.

One coach clearly stuck out to him during interviews as the man to not only build upon Burton’s success, but to take the Titans to a whole new level.

Dedrique Taylor, 39, was hired after multiple assistant coaching roles, most

prominently for an Arizona State team that featured perennial NBA all-star James Harden.

The Titans finished 1120 last season, but began showing improvements in the latter part of the year despite having a young squad.

In Taylor’s second year as the head coach for CSUF, he has high expectations now that his first complete recruiting class has joined the program.

“It almost feels like the first year all over again because we have so many new faces, but we also have a nice nucleus of guys who played a lot of minutes for us last year,” Taylor said.

“It’s a nice blend of new and old that we have going into the season.”

While the players have clearly bought into Taylor’s system, he is also hoping to spread the support throughout the community as well as the university to get

people excited about Titans basketball once again.

“The biggest challenge so far has been trying to change our brand and build our culture such that it’s highlighted with some of the good things we’ve been able to accomplish in short order and some of the things we need to try and get accomplished,” he said.

“We want the community, our alumni and obviously the fan base to see what we’re trying to build, and get on board now.”

While the 2013 squad was largely young and untested, it does not appear that is the case this time around.

Only one true freshman is on the roster coming into 2014, as a majority of the players that joined the Titans this season were more experienced transfers.

While the leading scorer from last year, Michael Williams, has graduated and moved on from the

program, CSUF returns another talented scoring guard in senior Alex Harris.

The transfer from Northeastern was named to the preseason All-Big West First Team and looks poised to end his Titan career on a high note.

“I’m expecting Alex to play like a fifth-year senior and with that comes a different level of maturity and experience, which he has had a great deal of both,” Taylor said. “He’s got a chance to graduate here and he’s an unbelievable player and such a huge part of what we’re building. His energy and effort are contagious, so we expect him to continue to do those things because it really touches the other guys.”

While the talent level is certainly high for the Titans this season, they do have a difficult early-season gauntlet to navigate right out of the gate.

CSUF opens up with

seven of their first eight games away from Titan Gym, including trips to national powers New Mexico, USC and UCLA. Despite the tough early stretch for the Titans, Taylor feels confident that the group will not only manage the first quarter of the season, but grow from the experience as the year progresses.

“We’ll get battle-tested early, but quite frankly the only thing I know how to do is throw ourselves in the fire and gain that experience while trying to get better,” Taylor said. “Just playing the caliber of teams we’re playing early will benefit us because we’ll see a lot of different style teams before we head into conference play.”

The Titans open their season on Nov. 14 when they head to Santa Clara University one year after beating the Broncos 86-73 on their home court.

CSUF has not made the NCAA Tournament since the 2007-2008 season, but Taylor feels the program is on the right path to making an appearance in the “Big Dance.”

“That is something our guys are very well aware of, and they are hungry to try and prove that they are good enough to play at that level,” he said. “That is literally the goal that we talk about day in and day out, how hard it is and what we have to do preparation-wise just to be in the conversation. It can’t just be a conversation, it’s got to be an action night in and night out.”

Taylor has started to implement his culture at CSUF, and it appears a new era of Titan basketball is upon us.

With a confident and poised head coach at the helm of the program, the future of Fullerton hoops looks brighter than ever.

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