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Contract reveals Spring Concert rappers’ requests
Documentary focuses on ‘TRAP’ bills in the South KATE JOLGREN Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton’s Moot Court Club, in association with the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice, screened the film “Trapped,” which highlights modern issues facing women’s reproductive health freedom in the United States on Wednesday. “Trapped” is a documentary that follows one of the latest landmark abortion cases, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which presented arguments to the Supreme Court in March. The Center for Reproductive Health represents the abortion clinics in the case, and a ruling is expected from the Supreme Court in June. Over the past six years, several states in the South have faced such legislation. These laws are what the Center for Reproductive Rights calls “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers,” or TRAP. Many clinics in the South have been forced to close due to their inability to uphold these rulings, according to the film. The film focused on the repercussions of the passage of House Bill 2, a bill that Texas legislators passed in 2013 that creating multiple restrictions for abortion services. “Trapped” also highlights the struggles women face in states like Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, where bills similar to House Bill 2 are pending and are designed to shutter abortion providers. House Bill 2, for example, requires doctors who provide abortion services to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital no farther than 30 miles away from the clinic in which they practice. It also requires that each health care facility that offers abortion services must meet particular building specifications to essentially serve as mini-hospitals, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. “They just zoom in on doctors who provide abortion services,” said Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup, in the film. “They’re designed to make it harder for them to provide those services.” SEE TRAPPED
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In the contract between Associated Students, Inc., and Spring Concert headliners Rae Sremmurd, the hip-hop duo requested various food products and toys be delivered to their dressing room.
Spring Concert to cost nearly $400,000, including main act’s various contract stipulations. RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan What does it take to book an artist for Cal State Fullerton’s Spring Concert? In the case of Spring Concert 2016 co-headliners Rae Sremmurd, it takes $70,000,
“almost dangerous” levels of music, plus an assortment of food, drinks and trinkets. Through a California public records request, the Daily Titan was able to obtain a copy of the contract between Rae Sremmurd’s representatives and Associated Students, Inc. The
contract revealed, among other things, that the hiphop group is set to play 60 minutes of preferably non-explicit music in order to receive payment. The total cost for this year’s Spring Concert will be $389,000, the same cost as 2015. And while Rae
Sremmurd will be paid $70,000, co-headliner Porter Robinson will be paid $75,000, according to current ASI Spring Concert Coordinator Brian Miles Garibay. Originally, ASI was allocated $216,000 to host the 2016 concert, said Dave
Edwards, E.D., executive director of ASI. However, that figure was based on the money allocated for the 2014 iteration of Spring Concert, said Laura Romine, ASI’s vice president of finance. SEE CONCERT
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Professor’s outstanding work praised Award commends math enthusiast’s dedication AMBER MASON Daily Titan In the whitewashed basement of McCarthy Hall, math students must navigate a maze of offices to find Scott Annin, Cal State Fullerton math professor, when they’re stumped by their course work. When they approach the whiteboard inside Annin’s office, they write and erase and then write and erase again until they have reached what Annin calls a “mountaintop moment.” “Every time I have one of these experiences (with a student), I reinforce the idea that, ‘Yeah, I’m really glad I decided to become a professor,’” Annin said. One day, while Annin was giving his students a test, he saw the faces of people approaching his classroom through the window on the door. The faces were that of President Mildred Garcìa and some members of the Outstanding Professor committee. They
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Scott Annin, Ph.D., math professor, received the “Outstanding Professor of the Year” award for 2015 from CSUF.
greeted him with balloons and exciting news: he was being recognized with the “Outstanding Professor of the Year” award for 2015. Annin’s colleague,
assistant math professor Adam Glesser, said he could not imagine anyone more worthy of the award. “Everything he does is
around making the students and the university better,” Glesser said. Annin completed his undergraduate math and physics degrees at the
University of Nebraska before going on to complete his Ph.D. in mathematics at UC Berkeley in 2002. SEE AWARD
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