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Father-and-son team open three Which Wich stores VERONICA FELIPE Daily Titan Jeff Christensen was looking at a desk job with piles of tax forms in his future, but one Thanksgiving-dinner conversation with his father changed the course of his business career.

“We started talking about if I really liked Which Wich and what I wanted to do after college. It kind of came up that, you know, I was doing accounting at the time and figured I’d be a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) somewhere,” said the Cal State Fullerton accounting student, who graduated in 2015.

“We kind of got started talking about opening a Which Wich and if that was something I was interested in.”

Christensen’s journey began at the Which Wich sandwich shop near the Brea Mall in October 2011. He was a lineworker, handling everything from making sandwiches to cashiering.

“I just needed something to pay my bills through college, like most college kids do. I had never heard of Which Wich before, but I saw they were hiring, so I applied,” he said.

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Jessie Peissig, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Cal State Fullerton, along with a research team, seeks to address the questions surrounding the mysteries in makeup application, women’s spending habits and the way attractiveness affects opportunity.

Research team receives grant to study cosmetics GABE ESPIRITU Daily Titan Jessie Peissig, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Psychology at

Cal State Fullerton, alongside a research team, is currently researching the correlation between attractiveness and makeup.

The research team seeks to address the questions surrounding the mysteries in makeup application, women’s spending habits and the way attractiveness affects opportunity.

“When women put on

makeup, what is it that’s driving us to do that?” asked Peissig.

Conducting the study alongside Peissig is CSUF alumna and adjunct professor Amanda Killian, who said she has had an interest in the subject of attraction and realized that there was hardly any data on the subject.

Graduating seniors Hiba Khalil and Karen Clintsman

and undergraduate Maedeh Mousavi are involved in the research, as well.

The team received a $2,450 ASI Student Research Grant primarily for hormone kits and testing, Peissig said.

Women spent approximately $53.7 billion on cosmetic purchases in 2011, according to Statista, a statistical analysis company. Numbers in the next five years are projected to

climb, and 2016 is predicted to produce a revenue of approximately $62.46 billion from cosmetic sales.

There has been a lot of research that shows women will continue to buy beauty products even during a recession.

This phenomenon is referred to as the “Lipstick Effect,” Peissig said.

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Fullerton heads east for a four-game road trip Baseball to face Arizona Wildcats and Texas Tech RYAN WHITEHEAD Daily Titan Coming off a home-opening sweep of the Indiana Hoosiers, the Cal State Fullerton baseball team starts its road trip with a one-game matchup against the Arizona Wildcats on Wednesday.

Fullerton looks to continue its hot hitting and consistent pitching that was evident in the Indiana series. CSUF’s commanding pitching staff is set to counteract a powerful Wildcat offense.

The Wildcats enter Wednesday’s contest having scored a total of 28 runs in the Tony Gwynn Classic in San Diego. Arizona’s offense currently has six players with batting averages over .300.

The Wildcat offense is led by freshman outfielder Alfonso Rivas III, who has a .476 batting average, 10

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Freshman Colton Eastman got his second win of the season in the final game of the three-game series against the Indiana Hoosiers.

Eastman pitched 6.2 innings, giving up six hits and one run. He struck out six batters and walked one.

hits, four runs scored and seven RBIs. Other prominent Wildcat players include senior infielder Cody Ramer and senior outfielder Ryan Aguilar. Ramer comes into the game against Fullerton

with a .387 batting average, 12 hits and six runs.

Aguilar comes in batting .370 with a .593 slugging percentage.

As a team, Arizona’s bats have produced an exceptional .302 batting

average thus far in the young season.

Wildcat pitching has been mediocre to start the season with an earned run average of 6.20. Arizona has allowed 44 earned runs and struck out 41

opposing batters.

Arizona’s best arm is junior southpaw JC Cloney, who leads the team’s starters with a 3.95 ERA alongside 10 strikeouts and six earned runs.

Senior outfielder Josh

Vargas led Fullerton’s offense against the Hoosiers and comes into the matchup against the Wildcats batting .304 with seven hits and three RBIs. Another key contributor at the plate for the Titans is sophomore infielder Tristan Hildebrandt, who is batting a .300 batting average with six hits and three RBIs. Despite CSUF’s impressive series against Indiana, the team batting average remains at a bleak .212 to start the season. However, the pitching staff has been impressive on the mound with a dominant 1.89 ERA. Freshman Colton Eastman leads the pitching with a 2.25 ERA, 11 strikeouts and three earned runs on 12 innings pitched.

Sophomore southpaw John Gavin has been solid as well, posting a 3.38 ERA along with five strikeouts and four earned runs.

Following the Titans’ quick trip to Tuscon, Fullerton will travel to Lubbock to take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders for a three-game series starting Friday.

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Students at CAPS Health and Wellness workshop forum learn how to manage stress and 3 anxiety

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Vi Tran, 22, views makeup as somewhat of a necessity in today’s society and is not surprised that it is a billion dollar industry.

“I’m a business student, and so I guess first impressions mean a lot to me,” Tran said. “In our society, we shouldn’t judge someone by the way they look, but we do.”

The status quo seems to be a constant found not only in human society, but also in the animal kingdom, Peissig said.

Peissig, whose graduate dissertation focused on visual recognition in animals, has broken the bias that humans bear deeper intellectual abilities compared to animals.

“When you work with humans all the time, you tend to credit people with having deep cognitive thoughts about what they do,” Peissig said, “whereas when you work with pigeons … you assume that they’re basing their behaviors on stimulus response (and) very simple associations.”

It’s the same simple associations that lie as the motivator between humans’ desire to apply makeup to change their appearance and a male peacock spreading its large tail in an effort to attract potential mates, Peissig said.

The study also explores when makeup goes beyond attractiveness through overapplication.

John Bosch, 21, business major, prefers when women wear minimal makeup, since too much could make

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Jessie Peissig, Ph.D., CSUF associate professor, is conducting research on the correlation between attractiveness and makeup.

women look like “different people, trying to cover up flaws.”

Bosch feels that “the more attractive people definitely have it easier in some ways.”

Peissig said that people who are attractive, according to research, are perceived to be better people, quoting a study that discovered that more “attractive” people are more likely to receive bail.

This phenomenon is referred to as the “Halo Effect,” Peissig said.

18-year-old freshman Miriam Macias, however, attributes the idea to self-confidence.

“I view makeup as a form

of art sometimes. Sometimes I like to look one way, sometimes I like to look another way,” Macias said. “When you’re dressed up from head to toe, you just feel more confident.”

These different perspectives are what Peissig and her team aim to look closer into. Team members regroup weekly to review their studies and experiments, tackling perceived biases — while attempting to understand any negative connotations that might arise — in hopes of contributing to society.

“We’re hoping to have a positive social impact with as many of our studies as we can,” Peissig said.

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Byers fought Taliban insurgents to save the life of Dr. Dilip Joseph.

He exposed himself to enemy fire while protecting his teammates and used his body as a shield to protect Joseph as other enemy fighters appeared.

Byers also performed CPR for 40 minutes on the flight back to the air base in an attempt to save a SEAL who was fatally wounded.

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Last Thursday, a judge ruled that the government has the right to evict migrants living in the southern part of the camp, although some makeshift buildings such as a school and theater are to be left.

Thousands of migrants fleeing from the war in Afghanistan and Syria have concentrated in the northern port over the past year. The presence of refugees has led to tension and a permanent police deployment in the area.

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There are 83 value days left for the rest of the year, mostly Mondays through Thursdays, and 142 regular days. There are 83 peak days that land on spring break and summer weekends and includes almost all of December.

Attendance at U.S. Disney parks is up 10 percent in the last year, according to the company’s latest fiscal report.

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Forum helps manage stress

Positive thinking is reinforced as a means to cope with anxiety CINTHIA PASILLAS Daily Titan

Counseling and Psychological Services at Cal State Fullerton hosted the second wellness workshop on anxiety and stress management at the Titan Dreamers Resource Center on Monday.

The workshop focused on techniques on how to alleviate stress and provided handouts to help identify techniques and skills students might find helpful for stress management.

Students shared that feeling stressed during a test could make them forget what they have studied and make it difficult to concentrate.

“The goal of the session is to normalize the fact that we might worry at some point,” said Solomon Massin, licensed clinical social worker and facilitator of the workshop. “What we want to do is find a way to manage it so that it doesn’t get to the point where it is preventing us from meeting our responsibilities.”

Those responsibilities could be from school, work or personal relationships, he said.

When a person is worried, he or she can notice physiological changes or reactions like increased body temperature, sweating, increased heart rate, shaking or nausea, Massin said.

The good thing about worried thoughts is that they can be managed, he said.

“The reason we get anxious is how we perceive the situation,” Massin said.

“What we want to do is find ways to kind of have a healthy approach.”

Behavior can impact thoughts and feelings, whereas thought can impact behaviors and feelings. It is all interconnected, Massin said.

Massin told students not to believe everything they think and to take a moment to analyze their thoughts and recognize if they are valid or not to their emotional being.

Cognitive distortions are irrational thoughts that can influence a person’s emotions. Everyone experiences these distortions and they can be harmful, he said.

“It is not necessarily a negative thing, but it can become unhealthy or unproductive when we kind of get to the extreme forms,” Massin said.

During the workshop, students were taught how to find ways to become aware of these thoughts in order to deal with them.

“If we are able to manage them, we’re able to manage our emotions and how we feel about things,” Massin said.

Massin advises students to engage in activities that are fun, because they will help manage stress.

“For every negative ‘if,’ rehearse a positive ‘if,’” Massin said.

Students participated in an activity where they were asked to select what things or events worry them in different areas like family, school or friends.

Students said the session was educational because

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Solomon Massin, licensed clinical social worker and facilitator of the workshop, teaches students methods to deal with stress that they may experience from work, school or personal life.

it taught effective ways to deal with stress management and anxiety.

Miriam Tellez, 19, CSUF student, said she learned different ways to manage worried thoughts and how it affects behavior.

“Everyone has worries and stress and everything, so whatever would be useful to kind of better yourself is always helpful,” said Nohemi Duran, 20, CSUF student.

For more information or help, students can look into Counseling and Psychological Services, located at the Student Health and Counseling Center.

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Having irrational thoughts and cognitive distortions is normal, explained Massin, but it can become unhealthy if these thoughts and distortions become too extreme.

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Within the next year, he was offered an assistant management position at the Which Wich near UC Irvine.

He didn’t consider a career in Which Wich until that fateful Thanksgiving.

Christensen and his father spent the next few months discussing the possible business endeavor. Buying into Which Wich would take large amounts of work, funds and a mandatory 10-year commitment to the company. However, Christensen believed in the company.

“The whole unique experience, you can’t really get at other restaurants. With our ordering system and environment, that especially sold it for me,” Christensen said.

By April 2013, Christensen and his father agreed to buy a Which Wich. Now, at only 24 years old, Christensen is preparing to open his third store location with the hope of acquiring eight stores within three to four years.

“I had no idea when I first started there that I would be an owner someday,” Christensen said.

Christensen comes from a business-oriented family.

His father has various investments around Southern California, his mother is an accountant and his sister works in business development. “(Business) is in my blood,” Christensen said.

Growing up, Christensen was heavily involved in sports.

“Ever since I can remember, I was either playing soccer, basketball, baseball or golf. As long as there’s a ball involved and some kind of competition, I was involved,” he said.

He was born and raised in Yorba Linda and attended Orange Lutheran High

School before enrolling at CSUF. Christensen said that his involvement in sports is one of the reasons that he has grown so much as a person, despite being only 24.

“This isn’t my first leadership position. Those (sport) experiences helped me become a good leader at Which Wich,” Christensen said.

Although business runs in his family, Christensen said his family was always supportive of anything he wanted to do.

“I wasn’t really told ‘You have to go be a business major in college.’ It was something I decided on. I mean, if your parents are business-oriented, then you’ll kind of be that way, but they didn’t force me to be in business at all,” Christensen said.

That support and strong family bond ultimately helped Christensen and his father decide whether or not to buy a Which Wich.

“He was trying to get our own family business going,” Christensen said. “My dad likes the food, but he knew nothing about the business.

He’s never been in the food business before, so it was a new experience for him.”

At first, working with his father proved to be a challenge. Christensen mainly handles store operations, so he travels from his Orange location to his Aliso Viejo store and, now, to his Lake Forest location, which is set to open within the next week.

He ensures that everything is running smoothly at every location.

Jose Reyes, Christensen’s Which Wich manager at the Orange location, has known Christensen for two years and has seen his work ethic firsthand.

“He’s very dedicated to the job,” Reyes said. “He’ll get customers that come in and

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Jeff Christensen’s employees carry him in celebration of Which Wich’s grand opening. Christensen’s part-time position set him up for a career in the company. Now, at only 24 years old, he is preparing to open a third Which Wich.

will know him by name.”

While Christensen and his father are partnered franchisee-owners, his father is his boss.

“He’s making sure that I’m doing my job and that I’m keeping everyone engaged and basically making sure everything is going well. He’s also the one that finds new locations,” Christensen said.

This dynamic led to the two bumping heads in the beginning. “We were fighting over little things, but we figured out that we wouldn’t be successful

doing that, so we forced ourselves to work around that,” Christensen said.

Now, the father-and-son duo have learned to separate work from home.

“It’s a good team that we have. We back each other up and help each other out,” Christensen said.

With their third location opening soon, Reyes reflected on the emotion in the room during the Orange location’s grand opening, which was also Christensen’s first Which Wich.

“Everybody here at the time was very excited to open up the store; everybody was filled with joy,” Reyes said.

He recalls how, right before the store opened, the store received a call from corporate headquarters.

The call was put on speaker so that the corporate office could ring a bell as the store opened, welcoming them to the restaurant business.

Christensen said his time at CSUF helped him in his business pursuits. “I made a lot of friendship and business

connections that are useful now,” he said. “I would definitely send my kids there if they wanted to (attend).”

He hopes to show students that age does not matter and there is no set path to success.

“You don’t have to follow step-by-step ways to become successful in the business world,” Christensen said. “Anything is possible … if anyone wants to set their mind to anything, just keep going for it and don’t give up.”

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Obama deserves more praise

The president has his faults, but has largely improved the the U.S. BRANDON ROSS Daily Titan

By the end of his term, President Barack Obama could go down as one of the most underappreciated and undervalued presidents in history.

While it will take longer than eight years to fix the countless mistakes that Obama inherited from former President George W. Bush, such as the Great Recession and the Iraq War, he has done a good job getting this country back on track.

A recent Gallup poll shows the president’s approval rating at 49 percent, while Bush had a dismal approval rating of 25 percent in October 2008.

According to CNN Money, an estimated 2.6 million Americans lost their jobs in 2008, the highest since the end of World War II.

By February 2010, the end of the Great Recession, 8.8 million people lost their jobs.

Since Obama took office, over 11 million people and counting have been hired in private sector jobs, according to Whitehouse.gov.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the current unemployment rate is at 4.9 percent as of January 2016, the lowest it has been since February 2008. When Bush left office in January 2009, the unemployment rate was at a staggering 7.8 percent and rising.

The Obama administration bailed out the automotive industry, and as a result more than 500,000 jobs have been added in that industry, with millions more saved.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, millions of

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President Barack Obama has accomplished many progressive feats, such as implementing Obamacare, restoring basic protections for women’s pay with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and launching an anti-fraud tracking system under the Recovery Act, making his opponents wrong to dismiss him so quickly.

Americans have seen significant improvements in their health care coverage.

Some benefits of the Affordable Care Act include an individual staying on a parent’s health plan until he or she is 26 years old, which is important for college students.

It also keeps people from losing or being denied coverage due to a pre-existing condition, gaining access to a marketplace that provides

a more affordable health plan option and patients not being charged equally because of their sex.

For the past five years, the House-led GOP has attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. There is no clear Republican plan on health care and health insurance besides repealing Obamacare, which doesn’t bring any productive alternatives.

While the Affordable Care Act has brought America

Police union wrong to call for Beyoncé boycott Proposed action against the singer’s tour is unfounded IMAN LATHAN Daily Titan Beyoncé has recently been the center of controversy for her “Formation” music video and her Super Bowl halftime performance, which contained containing imagery referencing the Black Lives Matter movement and the Black Panther Party.

As a result, the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, a Miami law enforcement union, is proposing a nationwide boycott of Beyoncé’s stadium world tour beginning in April. The union cited anti-law enforcement sentiments in Beyoncé’s latest projects.

The references have spurred some heated conversation, but the Miami police union should cut the superstar some slack, as it seems to be misinterpreting Beyoncé’s intent. She isn’t trying to send a mutinous message; she is addressing social issues.

“Formation” is a song about black empowerment, celebrating African-American phenotypes with lyrics like, “I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros, I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils.”

The song’s video features African-American

women with natural hair and a powerful scene of a black boy wearing a black hoodie in front of a line of police officers in riot gear.

The boy dances in front of a wall that reads, “Stop Shooting Us.” Beyoncé is not the first artist to mix social issues and race into her art, but “she is one of the stars of color who, until now, has been beyond race for the mainstream audience,” said Lisa Respers France, CNN writer.

It is wrong for a woman of Beyoncé’s influence to remain silent on issues that impact the black community simply because she is an artist who crosses cultural barriers. And quite frankly, it’s about time that someone of her prominence stands up against recent injustices.

Halftime at the Super Bowl was the last straw. In her performance with Bruno Mars and Coldplay, Beyonce came onto the field brandishing black leather clothing and a style that some believe hearkened back to the Black Panther Movement (BPP).

Considering the historical context behind the Black Panther Party and its relationship with police officers, police unions have taken offense to Beyoncé’s tribute to the group of revolutionaries.

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it comes to police officers, and we’re just going to sit and take it,’” Sgt. Danny Hale, president of the Nashville Fraternal Order of Police, Andrew Jackson Lodge No. 5, told The Tennessean.

The Black Panther Party carries a stigma of being an anti-police organization. In the FBI’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Library, it describes the Black Panthers as a group that “advocated the use of violence and guerrilla tactics to overthrow the U.S. government.”

There had been a number of altercations between the group and law enforcement, most notably a fourhour shootout at the Black Panther Party’s Southern California headquarters in 1969.

However, the group identified as an organization that put an emphasis on providing self-defense, freedom, employment, education and housing for African-Americans during a time when the government would not.

Despite the BPP’s altercations with police officers, Beyoncé celebrated a collection of individuals who fought for a cause that is still relevant today.

If she wanted to open eyes and turn heads, she did it. Her intentions are not to divide ethnic groups or further perpetuate distrust toward law enforcement, but to spark change and celebrate a rich African-American culture.

progress toward universal health care, the United States, with the exception of Mexico, still remains the only developed country in the world that does not guarantee universal coverage to all, according to a 2014 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development study that the Sanders campaign referenced.

Obama has also taken a strong stance on gun violence, signing executive

orders that expand background checks and increased spending on mental health.

Furthering his approval, a poll conducted by CNN in January 2016 showed that 67 percent of Americans supported the president’s ruling on gun control.

Sen. Marco Rubio promised to “reverse the president’s executive action on gun control.” Clueless remarks like this illustrate the general stance that people take on any

of Obama’s decisions.

Speaking without knowing all the facts leads to easy go-to assaults without any questioning from the audience.

While Obama is not perfect, the GOP and millions of Americans’ treatment of him is unjust, which is why he may very well go down as an underappreciated leader of the free world. His legacy should, and eventually will, be seen as a positive one.

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SPORTS

PAGE 8 MARCH 1, 2016 TUESDAY

CSUF to honor seniors in home finale

Men’s basketball looks to upset its archrival Long Beach ANDREW SALMI Daily Titan

With only one game left in the regular season, the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team will try to finish on a high note Wednesday night when it hosts the Cal State Long Beach 49ers.

The Titans (10-18 overall, 3-12 Big West) currently sit at the bottom of the Big West Conference and will attempt to upset the third-place

49ers (16-13 overall, 10-4 Big West).

Although the Big West Tournament only has eight spots and CSUF is currently in ninth place, the Cal State Northridge Matadors self-imposed a postseason ban for alleged academic fraud within its men’s basketball program, allowing Fullerton to qualify.

Coming off an 80-62 loss to the UCSB Gauchos at home Saturday night, CSUF has the golden opportunity to knock off rival CSULB on Senior Night.

In their last meeting against Long Beach, the Titans led the 49ers 29-28 at halftime, but

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were unable to maintain their lead during the second half.

Ultimately, Long Beach pulled away toward the end of the game en route to a 7057 victory over CSUF. The Titans committed a whopping 17 turnovers on the night, compared to only five by the 49ers.

In addition, the Titans shot a reasonable 40 percent from the field, but only dished out seven assists. CSUF did, however, run the boards, as it grabbed 43 rebounds, compared to Long Beach’s 36.

Long Beach senior guard Nick Faust, who played for three years at the University of Maryland, is currently tied

for second in points per game in the Big West Conference with a 16.6 points-per-game average.

CSUF junior guard Tre’ Coggins, who also averages 16.6 points per game, will have to outplay Faust down the stretch in order for Fullerton to win. With a win over Long Beach, the Titans could enter Big West postseason play with more confidence.

Fellow Fullerton guard Khalil Ahmad is having a solid first season for the Titans, averaging 14.5 points per game to place him seventh in the Big West in scoring.

Senior guard Malcolm Brooks, forward Malcolm

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Lionheart Leslie (center) came off the bench to record five points and four rebounds in the previous game against Long Beach.

Henderson and senior center Kennedy Esume are set to be honored prior to the game.

The contest against Long

Beach is scheduled to tip off at 7 p.m. Wednesday night at Titan Gym. The game will be broadcasted on ESPN3.

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