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Cal State Fullerton helps make scientific discovery

Academic Senate addresses CFA strike Faculty raises concern over withholding labor AMBER MASON Daily Titan

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Gravitational waves squeeze and stretch space and time, thus creating an effect that can be read using twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors.

Breakthrough announced in the field of physics GALEN PATTERSON Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton faculty and students have played a role in the confirmation of one of Albert Einstein’s

predictions regarding gravitational waves.

It was announced in a press conference Thursday that a team of scientists from around the world, including four CSUF faculty members and about 20 CSUF students, detected two colliding black holes that emitted the wave September 2015. Einstein proposed his theory of gravitational waves in 1915.

The faculty involved are Joshua Smith, associate professor of physics and director of CSUF Gravitational-Wave Physics and Astronomy Center; Jocelyn Read, assistant professor of physics; Geoffrey Lovelace, assistant professor of physics; and Alfonso Agnew, professor of mathematics.

The team was able to observe the phenomenon using two Laser Interferometer

Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors located in both Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington.

“We are very proud of the fact that scientists and students from Cal State Fullerton have played a key, leading role in this discovery,” said David Bowman, Ph.D., interim dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

By the time the waves reached Earth, they were difficult to detect, Lovelace said.

“What they do is they stretch and squeeze space and time back and forth as they travel, but by the time they get to Earth, they make mirrors in the LIGO detectors wiggle by less than the size of a proton,” he said.

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Titans excel in home tournament

CSUF wins four of five games at the Titan Classic HAYLEY M. SLYE Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton softball team kicked off its 2016 season with an overall dominant performance this weekend during the Titan Classic tournament at Anderson Family Field.

The tournament began Friday with a game apiece against UT San Antonio and San Diego State. The Titans crushed the Roadrunners in five innings, winning 13-1, and then took the second game 8-4 against the Aztecs.

The Titan offense shined in game one, which saw seniors Missy Taukeiaho and Courtney Rodriguez go 3-for-3.

Redshirt junior southpaw Desiree Ybarra earned the win for CSUF in game two with

a solid performance in the circle.

The second day did not play out as well for the Titans. They lost their first contest 10-1 against Weber State, who ended their 2015 campaign at 38-19 overall and broke several offensive team records. The Wildcats jumped on Fullerton’s pitching early, scoring all 10 runs in the first three innings.

“If we expect to go into post-season play, we’ve got to be able to bounce back,” said CSUF Head Coach Kelly Ford. “You have to have a short-term memory with this game.”

Cal State Fullerton indeed bounced back in the second Saturday game, winning 8-0 over Canisius University behind a complete game one-hitter by freshman righty Sydney Golden. She only allowed one hit in the five-inning victory, earning her second career Titan win. Canisius would go on to end the tournament 0-5.

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Graduate student success center opens

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The new center, located in the Pollak Library, offers graduate students study space, computers and ammen3 ties

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Junior catcher and infielder Alexis Gonzalez played in four out of five games of the tournament. She recorded a .333 batting average and drove in two runs and scored a run of her own.

Engineering team set to compete nationally

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CSUF students to build an eco-friendly and durable model wall in under an hour during the annual “Geo4 Wall” competition

The potential California Faculty Association (CFA) strike that is set to occur in mid-April was heavily discussed at the Academic Senate meeting Thursday.

Right after the Academic Senate gave a standing ovation for Cal State Fullerton scientists who detected gravitational waves predicted in Einstein’s theory of relativity, the focus of the meeting shifted to the potential negative effects that the strike would have on students.

Michele Barr, Ed.D., Fullerton chapter CFA president and CSUF professor, opened the floor of the meeting for questions and comments from her colleagues after announcing that the five-day strike had been set for April 13 to April 15 and April 18 to April 19.

Merri Lynn Casem, Ph.D., secretary of the Academic Senate and CSUF biology professor, voiced concerns about the impact of the strike on research and lab experiments in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Casem told the Senate that she spoke on behalf of her colleagues who shared her concerns.

“We just saw that amazing work in physics and you can imagine if they weren’t allowed to access computers that they used to detect those gravitational waves what impact that would’ve had,” Casem said.

Barr suggested that graduate students fill in for professors during the strike.

Casem later said that she found the suggestion helpful, but thought there would be some instances where a professor’s role could not be replaced.

Casem said she thought that students would be negatively affected by the strike and that research would suffer.

“Research is the expression of our scholarly and creative activity and is key to the experiences we can bring to our students,” Casem said.

Casem hopes that an agreement between the two parties can be reached so that she will not have to make the decision to strike.

“I want to support my union, but I do feel very torn about this whole situation,” Casem said.

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Other faculty members in the Academic Senate asked questions about how the dates for the strike were chosen, whether or not pay would be docked, and how students would be affected.

Two faculty members spoke up to say planning for students would be counterproductive to the strike.

“We have a legal right to strike,” said Lynda Randall, Ph.D., professor in the College of Education. “We should not be required to make contingency plans for what our students will do and how we’ll help our students in our absence.”

Another commented that the strike would be pointless if professors do the same amount of work to go out on

strike while getting their pay docked.

Barr said her classes will not meet and she will be withholding all labor such as checking her email or completing any grade work via Titanium.

The California Faculty Association, which represents more than 26,000 faculty members across the Cal State system, is demanding a 5 percent General Salary Increase and a 2.65 percent Service Salary Increase.

Last fall, 94 percent of the union voted in favor of a strike if a deal between them and the CSU system could not be reached after the fact-finding stage of the collective bargaining process.

Though negotiations are still underway and CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White could

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Michele Barr, Fullerton chapter California Faculty Association president, said she will be withholding all labor such as checking emails and grading.

settle with the union at any time, the CFA is prepared to make a large demonstration, Barr said.

“We want it to be effective so it can be short,” Barr said.

A “strike school” is scheduled to begin this

Wednesday to address any questions faculty might have about the strike and to outline strategies.

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Scalia dies of natural causes U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, was found dead from natural causes Saturday, according to the New York Times.

Scalia, who sat on the Supreme Court for three decades, was known for his strong-willed conservative standing, his “original intent” approach to interpreting the Constitution and his critical stance against providing lower courts unclear guidance.

“He was an extraordinary individual and jurist, admired and treasured by his colleagues,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said.

With an ideologically split, eight-member Supreme Court left after Scalia’s death, there are concerns over difficulty passing important court decisions such as those on abortion and affirmative action. until he is replaced.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Career Center, “A Day in the Life” series gives students an inside look into potential jobs after college.

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Jamie Kostialik, certified genetic counselor for Counsyl, gave students tips on how to stand out for the competitive and limited-space programs across the country.

Students gain expert insight from genetic counselor Career Center gives students an inside look into jobs after college MONSE RODRIGUEZ Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton Career Center hosted “A Day in the Life of a Genetic Counselor” on Thursday, a lecture which taught students about the work of genetic counselors.

Jamie Kostialik, certified genetic counselor for Counsyl, a health technology company, spoke to students about what a genetic counselor specifically entails.

Counsyl checks DNA and offers screening tests for conditions that could impact offspring.

The talk was created by Michelle Levy, college career specialist for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

The series was created to further encourage students to talk to professionals about their career path, Levy said.

After a brief history of developments in science regarding genetics, Kostialik described the different fields and demand for jobs that could be attained with a master’s in genetic counseling.

Kostialik also gave students tips on how to stand out for the competitive and limited-space programs across the country, such as learning different languages and participating in different extracurricular activities and coursework that will impress employers.

Kostialik gave her students an idea of what to expect in terms of requirements for a license in genetic counseling and the resources out there to help students pass these exams by discussing her own experiences with the board exam and Graduate Record Examination.

Kostialik also discussed the challenges she faces as a genetic counselor.

Some of these challenges include helping a patient make a decision about an amniocentesis test, which allows doctors to see if a baby has down syndrome. However the test could potentially lead to a miscarriage, Kostialik said.

“On certain days, it is (sad) when you have to give bad news,” Kostialik said.

“But on the flip side, it’s also, ironically enough, the time you feel most useful.”

The session ended as students asked about the nearest program at UC Irvine, jobs after finishing their undergraduate requirements, programs across the

country, internships and the average salary of genetic counselors.

Because not everyone knows a professional in certain fields, the Career Center wanted to productively help students network by bringing professionals to CSUF, Levy said.

“You can read about what it’s like doing it, but you’re not going to know until you hear it from someone who’s doing it or actually engaging in it,” Levy said.

Maria Wrixon, CSUF psychology major, said this event gave her a more specific idea about what she really wants to do.

“This helps, and I’m definitely gonna get serious about it and apply to a genetics counseling program,” Wrixon said.

Although Wrixon would like to stay at Fullerton, she plans to look further into the genetics counseling program at UC Irvine, since CSUF does not offer a genetic counselor program, she said.

Levy wants to continue this series for fall 2016. An actuary and clinical lab scientist are some of the few professionals she hopes to bring to CSUF in the future.

More information about the different events at the career center can be found on the Titan Connection website.

Human traffickers arrested San Jose residents Ariel Guizar, 35, and Araceli Mendoza, 23, were arrested for human trafficking of a minor in Anaheim, according to the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force Sunday.

According to a news release, a 15-year-old girl who had been trafficked after running away from home was found Thursday in Bellflower after a threeday search. She identified at least two other victims who were trafficked and threatened with handguns.

Investigators found a handgun and the two 19-year-old victims during a raid on Guizar’s motel room Friday after the two were arrested the night before, according to the OC Register.

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Newborn abandoned in toilet Mary Trinidad, 38, was arrested Monday on “suspicion of attempted murder, child abandonment and child endangerment” after she gave birth in a West Covina Subway restaurant bathroom and left the baby in the toilet, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Customers at the Subway found the child after following Trinidad’s blood trail that led into the bathroom. She was found behind a Pep Boys about 15 minutes after the birth, where she was taken to a hospital and arrested.

The baby boy was taken to Queen of the Valley Hospital in critical condition with an extremely low core temperature from the water. Police have spoken with the Department of Children and Family Services about placing the boy into protective custody.

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Center aims to help grad students Pollak Library and SOAR open new success center SEAN KELLEY Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton Pollak Library held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new Graduate Student Success Center, located in the library, Wednesday.

CSUF President Mildred García joined faculty, staff advisers and graduate students in the grand opening of the new center. García began the ceremony by lauding the comprehensiveness of the university.

“The collaboration of all the student success teams is really a testament on how we need to work together,” García said.

The center is a collaborative partnership between the Office of Graduate Studies and the Pollak Library. It was funded by a five-year, $2.8 million dollar federal grant.

Peter Nwosu, Ph.D., associate vice president for Academic Programs, opened the ceremony by thanking the department for its support over the years.

“Over 20 percent of the nearly 5,500 graduate students at university now are Hispanic students, something we did not see just five years ago,” Nwosu said.

“The achievement gap has also been closed.”

The Latina/o Graduate Students: SOAR

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Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García joined faculty, staff advisers and graduate students in the grand opening of the Graduate Student Success Center located in the Pollak Library. The center will be open seven days a week and will be equipped with staff, computers and work stations.

(Strengthening Opportunities, Access and Resources) program works in conjunction with the graduate center to increase the number of Hispanic students in graduate programs.

Julián Jefferies, Ph.D., faculty coordinator who works with SOAR, underscored the

benefits of the program for underserved students.

“Every year we serve a cohort of about 40 to 50 students who not only get a $2,000 scholarship, but, most importantly, participate in three workshops in order to build community, to create support systems, to get

apprenticed into hidden curriculum, graduate schools, tests and beyond,” Jefferies said.

Jefferies found that some of the Latino students “didn’t feel like they belong; they felt isolated.”

CSUF graduate student José Arevalo said he will

enjoy the new space and use it to finish his thesis.

“This will be my last semester,” Arevalo said. “I will be defending my thesis and that just also means that I have to run a lot of statistics for my research.”

The 1,500-squarefoot center will be open

seven days a week and will be equipped with staff, computers, private work stations and other amenities such as a refrigerator and microwave.

The newly enhanced Graduate Student Success Center is located on the third floor of the library in PLS 365.

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“We punch above our weight in many ways at Fullerton,” Smith said.

Gravitational waves have been under study since the ‘60s, and CSUF joined the research six years ago, Lovelace said.

“The first detection is a bit surreal, but it’s also the fruition of years of anticipation,” Read said.

The Fullerton staff is involved in leadership positions within the collaboration and sees the college as a source for undergraduate students with training in this newly discovered branch of science, Smith said.

“We did this work. We didn’t think it would amount to such a discovery,” said Adrian Avila, physics major.

Avila and the team work in the scatter lab with Smith.

Their job is to sort through all the data being collected and separate the gravitational waves from anything that might interfere. This process gives the team more refined data.

“I honestly thought that gravitational waves were going to be detected after I graduated,” said Nousha Afshari, CSUF physics major.

Afshari makes sure CSUF’s supercomputer is running properly so that simulations like those

used in the press conference are accurate, in addition to running simulations herself as a research assistant.

Bowman believes that the students involved in this project will be the minds behind understanding how black holes work and possibly understanding the origin of the universe.

“What this really signifies is the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy,” he said.

“Being able to help LIGO understand what they saw was really rewarding and I’m really proud that CSUF has provided my students this opportunity,” Lovelace said.

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Jocelyn Read, assistant professor of physics, was one of the four faculty members involved in the discovery of gravitational waves.

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FEATURES Students build toward third national title PAGE 4 FEBRUARY 16, 2016 TUESDAY

Civil engineering team seeks to win “GeoWall” competition DAISY ORTIZ Daily Titan They may be last to present, but all eyes will be on Cal State Fullerton’s civil engineering students as they prepare to come out on top as three-time national champions at the annual “Geo-Wall” design competition.

The objective is to design and construct a mechanically stabilized, earth-retaining wall — like walls along the highway that hold back soil — that is not only economical and lightweight, but can also withstand a horizontal force of 700 pounds and support a 60-pound vertical weight.

The competition is presented as part of the annual Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Congress from Feb. 14 to Feb. 17 in Phoenix, Arizona.

There is a catch: the model must be constructed out of craft paper and poster board.

And to up the ante, teams have less than an hour to complete their project.

“They’re coming up with the properties of this paper, they’re coming up with the properties of the soil that is being used to contruct this wall, and they have to come up with the design of the paper that lets them hold up the wall,” said Beena Ajmera, CSUF assistant professor and the team’s adviser.

This year’s group of civil engineers include team captain and graduate student John Thurlo and undergraduate teammates Shelley Rodriguez, Rosalie Chavez and John Stapleton.

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CSUF’s civil engineering team (from left) Binod Tiwari (adviser), Rachel Lagenfeld (back row), Yuliana Carrillo, John Thurlo, John Stapleton, Rosalie Chavez and Beena Ajmera (adviser) is competing in the “Geo-Wall” design competition, hoping to bring home its third consecutive first-place title.

CSUF has been among the top 20 schools selected nationwide to participate in the event over the last six years and has won first place every year since 2014. But the road to victory hasn’t always been a smooth ride.

Ajmera is also a CSUF alumna who was part of the engineering team in 2010 during her undergraduate studies at the university. “(The team) was a group of three students: me and two of my other classmates,” Ajmera said. “We worked hard, but we couldn’t make it to nationals.”

The following years were peppered with ups and downs for the civil engineering team

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as it climbed its way to the top.

The team would go on to win first place for its design report the following year in 2011, and place second at the regional level. But after qualifying to participate in the national competition, its wall was not strong enough to withstand the weight and ultimately collapsed.

The trend continued in 2012 through 2013, but in 2014, CSUF emerged victorious, winning first place not just for its design report, but for having the winning model as well.

“You’re competing against the top schools. To be invited to nationals is a huge honor,

and then coming back with that trophy is just, you know, you’re riding on that high for months,” Ajmera said.

Some might discount the team’s impressive consecutive wins as a lucky streak, but according to Binod Tiwari, CSUF professor and graduate adviser, who, along with Ajmera, serves as one of the team’s advisers, the secret to the team’s continued success has nothing to do with luck and instead has everything to do with its extensive knowledge and understanding of what is on the line.

“I think the important thing for them to know is that these types of competitions are not club activities,” Tiwari said.

“This is professional practice.

And immediately after they return from the competition, they assemble their new team and start working.”

In addition to the pressure of maintaining its title and returning to Fullerton with the grand prize, the team faces another challenge: teams with the lightest design are set to have their models tested toward the end of the competition. Since CSUF had the lightest model design last year, it will be the last school to present and test its design.

“Everyone is praying for that wall to fail,” Tiwari said.

Chavez, a 22-year-old

fourth-year civil engineering major and first-year member of the team, said she isn’t nervous about the event and is instead most excited to set up the design for everyone to see.

“We’ve been spending so many hours on this,” Chavez said. “All the free time that we have when we’re all available is when we work on the project. We’ve been working on this project since last semester.”

Despite outside pressures, the team is ready to embrace the competition.

“It’s going to be nerve-wracking, stressful and exciting all at the same time,” Ajmera said.

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OPINION Google can build better drivers

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Self-driving vehicles will pave the way to a better commute EMILY DIECKMAN Daily Titan Earlier this month, Google’s self-driving vehicle (SDV) was officially recognized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as a driver. Under federal law, the artificial intelligence system that directs Google’s self-driving cars can be a suitable substitute for a motorist.

This is a step toward the development and commercialization of self-controlled vehicles that are partially or completely autonomous. Some people are wary about the shift from a style of driving that humans have grown accustomed to over the course of over 100 years, but self-driving vehicles are simply the next logical step in an age of technological advancement.

A future where SDVs are in widespread use is coming sooner than many people think. In fact, according to Business Insider, fully autonomous cars could make their debut as early as 2019.

The move toward SDVs seems like an inarguably good one. According to a 2015 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study, the driver was the critical reason for a car crash in 94 percent of cases. Widespread use of SDVs would thus, theoretically, almost eliminate car accidents.

For a generation of people who are bombarded with constant distractions — from cell phones,

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The artificial intelligence system that operates Google’s self-driving vehicles have been recognized as an appropriate form of a driver. The decision could improve the lives of many people, ranging from daily commuters to the handicapped.

music and GPS navigation — sometimes the act of keeping one’s eyes on the road is treated like a minor annoyance that is more of a suggestion than a real obligation. If motorists don’t pay attention to their driving already, why not make it safer by reducing, and eventually completely eliminating human responsibility?

As Steve Adler, mayor of Austin, Texas, said to The New York Times: “A driverless car doesn’t break very many traffic laws, doesn’t drink while it drives, doesn’t

get distracted, really pays attention.”

The last thing humans need is another invention that enables them to be lazy. However, when the responsibility of driving is transferred to the car itself, it could create more time for the human passenger to use. While some people will inevitably end up spending their automated commutes watching movies or playing video games, others could use long commutes to tend to their work.

By providing commuters with a personal space

in which to work, during time that was previously spent focused on the road and surrounding vehicles, SDVs may lead to a new level of hyper efficiency for humans.

The benefits extend to demographics far beyond negligent drivers and the dedicated worker bees.

Disabled individuals who do not have the ability to operate a manual vehicle could benefit tremendously from SDVs. “(SDVs) hold great potential to advance social inclusion by offering people with disabilities

independent mobility to get to school, jobs and all places that Americans go each day,” according to a report from November 2015 by the National Council on Disability. Autonomous vehicles can revolutionize mobility for an entire demographic.

Potential arguments against self-driving vehicles range from the dangers of a vehicle relying on GPS that can be hacked and the loss of jobs in sectors that rely on dedicated drivers, like public transportation and driving-education programs.

People all over the world use computers with increasing frequency, and many have grown dependent on technology for their jobs, relationships and day-to-day life. But fear of job loss has not stopped the progress of technology.

Considering the benefits that SDVs could offer, these arguments do not make a strong enough case against the future of autonomous vehicles. While jobs may be lost in some sectors, they will also be created in areas such as engineering and design.

Sci-Hub should be free from indictment The online sharing database has been wrongly persecuted RISHU BHARDWAJ Daily Titan Sci-Hub is an online domain where scientists and students can freely access academic articles and journals that are otherwise priced around $30 per paper.

Although this sounds like a great alternative, Sci-Hub has been affiliated with the dark web, an unofficial section of the Internet that harbors illegal activity like the Pirate Bay and Silk Road.

If people are having to essentially steal articles to

learn, then something needs to be done about the pricing issues of these journals.

Publishing companies are operating under the guise that their articles are priced as such because they are all peer-reviewed and specially sorted. But are they really doing the work?

“We faculty do the research, write the papers, referee papers by other researchers, serve on editorial boards, all of it for free … and then we buy back the results of our labor at outrageous prices,” Robert Darnton, director of Harvard Library, told The Guardian.

Harvard University paid journal publishers upwards of $3.5 million a year, according to The Guardian.

Publishing companies like Elsevier, the largest publisher of scholarly articles, are being pointed out because of the exorbitant prices they charge for their papers.

An open letter to Elsevier by free software advocates explains the impact the company has had on the public and how its actions are akin to the power-hungry star collector from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s tale, “The Little Prince.”

Their plea is for people to have access to Elsevier’s databases free of charge. There is no justice in capitalizing on knowledge that should be available to everyone.

The letter refers to the recent lawsuit filed against

Sci-Hub for millions in reparations for damages toward Elsevier, but that isn’t going to stop the site.

What Elsevier doesn’t get is that taking Sci-Hub’s money won’t stop it.

After being shut down, Sci-Hub reappeared under a differently titled domain. Its fight for free access won’t stop and it shouldn’t.

This is where the deep underbelly of the internet, the dark web, comes in.

People are familiar with the everyday World Wide Web, but the dark web is a different wave that isn’t seen by the untrained surfer, hence, dark.

Most people do not and cannot access the dark

web, simply because they don’t have a need for it.

The only reason to go on the dark web is to remain anonymous. The tools used to get onto the dark web render a person’s search history difficult to trace.

Beyond a simple username generator, IP addresses are not known and there are no packets of data sent from server to browser to identify the user, or cookies.

The reason for this anonymity is so that people can access illegal content like pirated movies, venues to purchase drugs and various other activities. But in Sci-Hub’s case, the dark web is used to give everyone access to articles and journals, a more noble cause.

The debate will rekindle now that Elsevier has launched a new open-access database called Transplantation Reports, a very niche database that does not cater to nearly as many people as Sci-Hub has.

As useful as the Transplantation Report could be, Elsevier is still taking action against Sci-Hub, who at one time had “nearly every scientific paper ever published,” according to scientific publication Big Think.

As the lawsuit goes on, Sci-Hub is not giving up and is sure to be active in disseminating their articles for anyone and everyone who may need them, the right way: free of charge.

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SPORTS CSUF extends its historic losing streak

PAGE 8 FEBRUARY 16, 2016 TUESDAY

Women’s basketball remains winless in the Big West Conference AARON VALDEZ Daily Titan

PATRICK DO / DAILY TITAN STOCK PHOTO

Having lost the last nine of 10 games, the Fullerton men’s basketball team remains in last place in the Big West Conference. With five games left in conference play, and one game behind eighth place Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the Titans look to move up in the standings.

Titans swept on the road CSUF gets blown out by first-place Rainbow Warriors BRANDON ROSS Daily Titan In the final game of a three-game road swing, the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team dropped a pivotal Big West Conference game 76-59 to the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors on Saturday.

With the loss, the Titans (9-15 overall, 2-9 Big West) have dropped three games in a row, as well as nine out of their last 10, keeping them in last place in the Big West. With the win, the Rainbow Warriors (20-3 overall, 9-1

Big West) remain atop the conference.

Just eight minutes into the game, the Titans trailed Hawaii 20-3 due to a 13-0 run from the Rainbow Warriors. The Titans, however, would strike back with a run of their own, outscoring Hawaii 24-9 to cut the deficit to 29-27.

Fullerton’s redshirt junior guard Tre’ Coggins managed to knock down a huge shot from behind the arc, cutting the early deficit to two with almost five minutes to play in the first half. Coggins would end the half with eight points.

CSUF redshirt senior guard Malcolm Brooks also contributed with eight points of his own in the first half off the bench.

The momentum the

Titans had built would take a turn for the worse as they entered halftime trailing the Rainbow Warriors 40-31.

Early in the second half, the Titans’ offense was able to keep pace with Hawaii.

However, the Rainbow Warriors eventually pulled away, leading the Titans by a score of 59-43 with eight minutes and 45 seconds left to go in the game.

Hawaii prevented Fullerton from responding as the lead was too large to overcome, resulting in a threegame road sweep.

It was an all-around struggle for CSUF, being outshot 39.3 percent (2461) to 31.7 percent (19-60).

CSUF was outrebounded 48-42 and struggled to share the basketball,

resulting in only four assists the entire game, compared to 15 for the Rainbow Warriors.

Sloppy play continued to be the downfall of the Titans, who had a difficult time holding onto the ball, committing a costly total of 13 turnovers.

Coggins finished the game with a team-high 18 points (7-15 from the field) and five rebounds, while Brooks added 13 points off the bench in 21 minutes of playing time. Junior guard Lionheart Leslie also finished with 10 points and four rebounds.

The Titans face a huge test on Wednesday night as they host their Big West rival, the UC Irvine Anteaters. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Titan Gym.

The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team remains winless as it suffered an 80-56 loss to the UC Davis Aggies in a Big West Conference contest on Saturday.

The Titans (2-23 overall, 0-11 Big West) went into Saturday’s matchup hoping to salvage at least one conference win before the end of the season.

Coming into the game against the Aggies, Fullerton was still recovering from its 90-43 loss Thursday to the UC Riverside Highlanders. This was the highest point total the Titans have allowed their opponents to score against them in a game.

The first quarter of Saturday’s game saw the Titans come out completely flat and lack a sense of urgency.

After freshman forward Michelle Berry netted the first four points for Fullerton, the Titans remained scoreless the next five minutes until junior guard Samantha Logan broke the drought with a 3-pointer.

UC Davis, on the other hand, was off to a great start as it finished the first quarter with 20 points while holding the Titans to a bleak nine points.

During the second quarter, however, Fullerton sprang to life as it went on a 19-9 run, eventually taking a 28-26 lead over UC Davis. It seemed as if the

tables had turned in favor of the Titans, albeit the Aggies still managed to go into halftime with a 35-30 lead.

Despite CSUF’s strong performance before heading into the locker room, the Titans were unable to follow up in the second half, accumulating an even lower point total than in the previous half, with 26.

The Aggies continued to prove they are still in contention for the Big West Conference title, cruising to a dominant 24-point win, even after their second-quarter struggles.

In terms of shooting, the Titans were above par as compared to their overall season averages, as they shot 37.7 percent from the field, 31.8 percent from beyond the arc and 64.3 percent from behind the charity stripe.

Alas, the Aggies were far superior across the statistics sheet, shooting an overall 46.7 percent from the field.

Once again, Berry proved to be Fullerton’s most consistent player, recording another double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds.

Freshman guard Jade Vega was also a bright spot for the Titans, as she logged a team-high 20 points off the bench to go along with two boards, eight assists and two steals.

CSUF has now extended its historic losing streak to 23 games, giving it a conference record of 0-11 and an overall record of 2-23.

The Titans head back home to host a rematch against the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mustangs (1113 overall, 4-7 Big West) this Thursday at 7 p.m. in Titan Gym.

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“She (Golden) is just very gifted,” Ford said. “She stays calm, she does her job and doesn’t let a moment get too big. (She) handles pressure very well for a freshman so it’s super impressive. I’m very proud of her.”

CSUF’s final game of the tournament was a rematch against Weber State, who had already won its first contest of the day 10-5 against Canisius. Looking for redemption, the Titans sent Golden to the circle again.

Fullerton scored nine runs in the first inning but Weber State would cut the Titans’ lead from 9-0 to 9-7 in the middle innings.

CSUF senior Jasmine Antunez would enter in the top

of the sixth inning to record the save.

“That girl, she’s worked for that,” said pitching coach Tori Tyson. “She earned that moment today.

That’s not going to be the last you’ll see of Jasmine coming to save the game.”

Antunez recorded four strikeouts in two innings pitched, earning her first save of the season.

“I think Desiree Ybarra set the tone on that win against San Diego State as a senior, and this staff needed that. They needed a weekend like this,” Tyson said.

The Titans will look to take the momentum from their success in the Titan Classic and secure their fifth win of the season against Santa Clara in the Santa Clara Bronco Classic on Friday, Feb. 19.

PATRICK DO / DAILY TITAN

CSUF finished the Titan Classic with 39 runs off of 40 hits in five games. As a result, the team recorded a noteworthy .333 batting average with a .421 on base percentage.

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