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Students walk through the Humanities Quad during the rally Wednesday. Multiple student groups came together to protest the perpetuation of rape culture following a University Police alert that went out last week warning students of a man who reportedly grabbed the buttocks of two women near campus.

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Cal State Fullerton stu-dents from the Women and Gender Studies Student As-sociation and the Queer Peo-ple of Color Club came to-gether to rally against rape culture in front of the Hu-manities and Social Sciences building.

The rally was in response to a campus-wide email sent by CSUF police after reports of two separate incidents of an unidentified male who grabbed the buttocks of two women near campus.

The students wanted to address rape culture and the practice of victim blaming while also encouraging the idea that violators should be held accountable for their ac-tions, said Christina Prado, a human services major.

The email generated some controversy among student

groups on campus, with some saying it perpetuated rape culture and presum-ably blamed victims, while attempting to give advice on how to avoid instances of unwanted physical contact.

Prado began the rally in front of the Humanities and Social Sciences build-ing to explain why she thought the email was in-sulting to the community.

“We have been trying to avoid these kinds of things for thousands of years and on a day-to-day basis,” Prado said. “We ask that the campus police does not use victim blaming tactics in order to address their students of Cal State Fullerton.”

After the opening state-ment from Prado, rally participants chanted, de-manding justice, the stop of rape culture and the stop of victim blaming before starting to march.

The march, with partic-ipants chanting continu-ously, went throughout the CSUF campus—from the Quad to the Titan Walk, around the Pollak Library

and back through the Quad to the Humanities and So-cial Sciences stairs.

The area in front of

the Humanities building erupted in applause and cheers, and even more stu-dents began to join in on

the rally as they exited their classrooms.

University Police email alert sparks student protest

CECILY MARTINEZDaily Titan

Students participate in the protest against rape culture Wednesday. The groups that hosted the rally have plans to draft a letter to police and possibly hold workshops on the issue.

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Cal State Fullerton stu-dents and faculty will now have easy access to community engagement opportunities.

The Fullerton Collabora-tive, a nonprofit organiza-tion dedicated to “building and supporting a healthy cohesive community,” will be moving to its new of-fice space in room 106 of the Educational Classroom building.

The move gives the group a chance to connect CSUF students and faculty to the community outreach groups in Fullerton.

The collaborative’s new office is the product of months of negotiations be-tween Cal State Fuller-ton and the Fullerton Col-laborative, said Kathleen Costello, associate direc-tor for the CSUF Center for Internships and Communi-ty Engagement.

As a member of the col-laborative’s board, CSUF is required to make a pay-ment to the Fullerton Col-laborative. However, the office space serves as a gift in kind, in lieu of CSUF’s payment, Costello said.

“Cal State Fullerton is a member of the City of Fullerton, and we want to be good citizens,” Costel-lo said. “We want to have effective community rela-tions. We want to facilitate partnerships where our stu-dents can participate with other organizations … in activities that promote a healthy community for ev-eryone in Fullerton.”

At the collaborative’s open house Monday, Thomas Nixon, the orga-nization’s board president, outlined the group’s three main objectives: connect, train and collaborate.

Through its partnership with various nonprofit or-ganizations, the collabora-tive can connect students to different groups involved in community outreach.

“If we can get these stu-dents excited and then give them the tools and the wis-dom from the mistakes we’ve all made, you have a better society, whether it’s Fullerton or beyond,” Nix-on said.

Multiple CSUF students are already working with Future in Humanity, a non-profit dedicated to helping the homeless. Jacob Mize, community engagement manager for Future in Hu-manity, said he hopes to use Fullerton Collaborative to attract more CSUF in-terns to the nonprofit.

Other types of collabo-rations with CSUF are al-ready happening. Nixon, who is also the executive director for Solidarity, a faith-based nonprofit or-ganization, is currently re-ceiving market research help from CSUF marketing students for Solidarity’s coffee business.

Members of group hope to work with CSUF students

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Communications major Jillian Boyd sat outside of the College Park building on a fall day last semester chatting with a friend when a man approached her and asked one fateful question, “Are you Jill from Vine?”

Vine is a video sharing platform that keeps with the “brevity” of the popular so-cial networking site Twit-ter, which it is an offspring of. Vine gives users six sec-onds to create videos for followers to enjoy.

The answer to that ques-tion opened a door for Boyd, which led her to her

current position as a social media ambassador for Cal State Fullerton. That day in front of College Park, Boyd was approached by Mi-chael Mahi, CSUF’s assis-tant director of news-media services and social media engagement.

Before recognizing Boyd outside of College Park, Mahi stumbled upon Boyd’s Vine while brainstorming with an intern about making the school a Vine account. When he saw her outside of the building he already had an idea to work with her on Vine.

“I just went and kind of approached her and told her I liked her Vine and I was wondering if she would be interested in doing more of that for the university,” Mahi said.

Boyd had been mak-ing videos on her person-al Vine account before

working with the school, which boasted around 1,000 followers. Boyd would make vines for mostly her-self, friends and family to enjoy.

The presence of social media is embedded into ev-eryday life and culture to-day. Titans all over cam-pus are seen with phones in hand, laptop bags strapped across their chests and headphones plugged in.

The University of Mary-land’s International Cen-ter for Media and the Pub-lic Agenda did a study in 2010, which examined stu-dents going “24-Hours Un-plugged,” as the title of the study was aptly named. The study observed 200 students for 24 hours as they re-mained unconnected to any kind of socializing on the internet.

Student personality boosts social media presence

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Cal State Fullerton’s social media ambassador, Jillian Boyd, updates her Vine account with comedic anecdotes on campus.

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Police arrest two subjects

Rabid bat found in Fullerton

Jordan executes terrorists

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Two subjects ar-rested Tuesday af-ternoon near campus were in possession of stolen property, ac-cording to a CSUF Po-lice Department infor-mational bulletin.

CSUF informed stu-dents, staff and fac-ulty that stolen items had been recovered. The items found in-cluded camera equip-ment, a laptop com-puter, guitar, wallet and knife.

The University Po-lice Investigation De-partment is asking that anyone with in-formation regarding this case, or anyone missing similar items, contact their inves-tigation unit at (657) 278-2902, or (657) 278-2903.

A live, rabid bat was found on the Fullerton College campus last week, according to the OC Register.

The bat was found on a step outside one of the campus build-ings. It was caught by animal control and the agency now has the animal.

An alert was sent out to students, facul-ty and staff at Fuller-ton College to prevent contact with the bat.

The Orange Coun-ty Health Agency said in their alert that most instances in recent years in which a hu-man is infected with rabies, the type of the disease the individu-al contracts is a bat strain of rabies.

The Jordanian gov-ernment executed two terrorists linked to ISIS Wednesday in response to a video depicting the killing of Jordanian Pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh, ac-cording to a USA Today report.

Sajida al-Rishawi, who was convicted by the Jordanian gov-ernment in connection with a suicide bombing, and Ziad al-Karbouli, a former Al Qaeda Lieu-tenant, were both killed after ISIS released a video showing al-Ka-sasbeh being burnt alive inside a cage.

Originally the Jordani-an government stated it would release al-Risha-wi if ISIS could provide proof that al-Kasasbeh was alive. The release of the video, however, broke that agreement and Jordanian officials pledged swift and harsh actions against ISIS.

Meanwhile, tensions began to heighten within Jordan, as cit-izens rallied together in Amman— al-Kasas-beh’s home city—and chanted against Jor-dan’s King Abdullah II.

This type of collaboration is a good way to encourage stu-dents to get involved in their community, Mize said.

“I think it’s about finding what the students are already gifted in and what skills they already have, and then prop-erly allocating them to some of the things that they could be doing in the community,” Mize said.

The collaborative is also in-terested in working with pro-fessors to make part of their curriculum connect in some way to the nonprofits, said Executive Director of the Fullerton Collaborative Pam

Keller. She also stressed, however,

that students who are looking to participate in the Fullerton community should feel free to pitch their own ideas to the collaborative.

The collaborative can pro-vide students with the resourc-es they need to carry out their own ideas, Keller said.

“If you want to effect change and you want to know what’s going on, the collabora-tive is the place to be,” Nixon said.

The Fullerton Collaborative meets every second Tuesday each month at the Fullerton Main Branch Library.

CSUF health center urges vaccination

Students search for Titan pride

Students walked around campus today, gathering items including t-shirts, a rally towel and stickers in preperation for Saturday’s homecoming game.

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Students scoured the campus Wednesday during the Orange Out Scaven-ger Hunt, an event put on by the Titan Tusk Force as part of preparation for Saturday’s Homecoming game.

Students started in the Quad, where they received a Titan tote bag to car-ry items they would find throughout the course of the event.

The scavenger hunt was divided into stations, and each station had a new piece of Titan Pride gear for students as well as a quick snack, while supplies lasted.

Over the course of the event, students were given

a rally towel, Tuffy stickers and temporary tattoos.

At the final station, near the Student Recreation Center, students received a free t-shirt to wear to Sat-urday’s game.

“Our goal is to get as many people as we can into that gym wearing or-ange and supporting our boys,” Director of Titan Tusk Force Lauren Vivan-co said.

Homecoming festivities will continue throughout the week.

After a performance in the Becker Amphitheater by Captain Nomad, Pres-ident Mildred Garciá will speak to students, followed by an introduction of the men’s basketball team in the Quad.

The Orange Madness rally will take place Friday at 6 p.m..

The rally will include the conclusion to the Battle of the DJ’s competition and a perfor-mance by Ty Dolla $ign.

Scavenger hunt prepares attendees for homecoming

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During what has become the worst outbreak of mea-sles in California in 15 years, Cal State Fullerton students and faculty are being en-couraged to take necessary precautions.

A Jan. 31 email from the CSUF Human Resources De-partment to employees cit-ed the need for extra precau-tion due to the recent measles outbreak.

No cases have been con-firmed on campus, but the email referenced a health ad-visory from Southern Cali-fornia public health agencies and encouraged faculty to ed-ucate themselves on measles prevention.

Two Cal State Universi-ty students—one from Cal State Long Beach and the oth-er from Cal State Channel Is-lands—are believed to have measles, according to Inside Higher Ed, an online publi-cation with a focus on higher education.

The site also reported that there has been a proposal that would require students enter-ing the University of Califor-nia system to be vaccinated.

Chief Staff Physician of the CSUF Student Health and Counseling Center, Richard D. Boucher, reinforced the coun-ty’s message to seek vaccina-tion and confirm one’s vacci-nation status.

“The Student Health Cen-ter does offer MMR,” Bouch-er said. “The vaccine status of the student can be found in the student’s medical record at the health center, but only if they have given us said information or have received the immuni-zation at the health center.”

The Health and Counsel-ing Center offers the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine, more commonly referred to as the MMR vaccine, for $63.05 per injection. The Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion recommends that unvac-cinated adults born after 1956 get at least one injection of the vaccine, unless certain health conditions prevent them from doing so.

Boucher also listed basic hygiene practices as an addi-tional line of defense to aid in illness prevention. Stu-dents and employees should remember that regular hand washing, covering a cough or sneeze, getting adequate rest and drinking fluids could help maintain a virus-free campus.

In Orange County, the tal-ly of confirmed measles cas-es has surpassed the county’s 2014 record total of 22.

The Orange County Health Care Agency has confirmed at least 28 cases in Orange County, according to the agen-cy’s website. The agency ex-pects that number to change.

The California Department of Public Health confirmed 99 cases of measles in Califor-nia. Of the confirmed cases 39 people are thought to have been infected after visiting Disneyland or Disney Califor-nia Adventure Park, according

to the department’s website.Tricia Landquist, the

spokesperson for the Orange County Health Care Agency, said Orange County’s annu-al total of measles cases can range from zero to one, but due to the recent outbreak at Disneyland, the communi-ty became exposed to a high-ly contagious virus, which spread quickly.

People should be aware of the heightened risk of expo-sure due to the nine unlinked cases within the communi-ty and should also be aware of vaccination options, she said.

“With the nine cases in the community right now, pret-ty much measles is out there in the community, people are acquiring it,” Landquist said. “So we’re encouraging people to know their vaccination sta-tus, go get vaccinated and just encouraging vaccination at this point.”

Officials promote vaccines to help stop measles outbreak

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Donna Nicol, associate pro-fessor of Women and Gender Studies, said she hopes for an open dialogue on what rape culture and victim blaming is, recalculating masculini-ty and educating the campus community.

Mary Becerra, Director of the Women’s Center, said she was pleasantly surprised at the student support and the quick turnaround Prado had when putting this together.

“This is just a great oppor-tunity to bring student voic-es to the forefront,” Becerra said. “I think it would be great to capitalize on that momen-tum and that energy and try to do something positive for the campus.”

The university responded to the rally in a statement.

“As long as sexism and mi-sogyny remain a dominant thread in the fabric of Amer-ican culture, sexual assault will remain a priority issue not only for college students, but for society as a whole,” said Christopher Bugbee, media re-lations officer in an email. “We are proud of our students’ pas-sionate commitment and their

efforts to engage the campus on this issue. By their witness, they challenge all members of the Titan community to reach higher in the culture we aspire to create on campus.”

Jessica Gavilanes, a Child and Adolescent ma-jor, was on her way to class when she heard the voices and joined the rally with chanting.

Gavilanes said she felt strongly about this issue and said parties responsi-ble for inappropriate situa-tions should take account-ability for their actions.

“I ended up kind of tearing up a little, kind of being taken back by seeing how many sup-porters there were,” Gavilanes said. “It was really an invigo-rating feeling to stand up for something you believe in.”

Prado said future plans include drafting a letter to send to campus police ad-dressing the incident and include workshops to edu-cate the community.

The Women and Gender Studies Student Associa-tion will be holding meet-ings on Mondays from 4-5 p.m. in H-212 on this and other issues on campus.

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The Fullerton City Coun-cil rejected an amended fiscal midyear budget and also approved the sale of safe and sane fireworks by Fullerton-based nonprofit groups during its meeting Tuesday.

Councilman Bruce Whitaker pulled a budget item off the consent cal-endar to express his con-cern over the $1.32 million increase in appropriated funds in the city’s operating budget.

“Even though we’re see-ing year-to-year increases in revenue, the imbalance persists,” Whitaker said. “This is authorizing in-creased appropriations and for that reason, I would like to register my ‘no’ vote on this.”

He also expressed con-cerns over not knowing if employee contributions would increase to help off-set the pension liability in the future.

The biggest increase in appropriations would have been for the legal fees of $450,000.

The Human Resource budget in the general fund is 91.5 percent, expend-ed due to legal cases in-volving city employees,

according to documents submitted to the council by the Administrative Services Department.

Mayor Greg Sebourn and Mayor Pro Tem Jennifer Fitzgerald joined Whita-ker’s opposition to the

adjusted budget, which re-sulted in a 2-3 vote that re-jected the proposed amend-ed midyear budget.

Sebourn also wanted the budget review workshop to be tied into next month’s city council meeting to

allow for a bigger audience within the council cham-bers and receive input from the public.

Though they rejected the midyear budget, the coun-cil unanimously approved the sale of safe and sane

fireworks for this year’s Fourth of July festivities. This marks the third con-secutive year the program has operated since voters re-instated safe and sane fire-works sales and use when they approved Measure X

in November 2012.Only Fullerton-based

nonprofit organizations may run the fireworks stands. Last year, the big-gest fundraising amount was raised by Sunny Hills High School’s men’s soc-cer program, which took in $22,336 in profit, according to the 2014 fireworks lottery report.

An unidentified Fuller-ton resident expressed her concerns over the costs of having increased patrols during the Fourth of July festivities during public comment on the item. She said the money spent having officers patrol the streets to help regulate the discharge of fireworks was not a wise use of taxpayer money.

Whitaker said that even if the city stopped safe and sane fireworks sales, money would still have to be spent on officers to patrol the streets in order to help curb the use of illegal fireworks. He added that the option of safe and sane helps en-courage citizens to make the choice to not use illegal fireworks.

Councilwoman Jan Flory said that the cost of the ad-ditional police patrol units is covered through fees charged to the nonprofit groups who are running the fireworks stands. City clerk Lucinda Williams con-firmed that the city charged as many fees as they could to the nonprofit groups in order to fund the three extra patrol units.

Council addresses budget, fireworks Fullerton City Council rejects budgetary plan at meeting

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CSUF student Sean Washburn arrives to the rally with signage in hand as students rally against victim blaming and rape culture. MATT CORKILL / DAILY TITAN

Attendees obvserve a previous city council meeting. During Tuesday’s meeting, the council approved a timeline for the sale of safe and sane fireworks and addressed a budget item regarding a $1.32 million increase in appropriated funds.

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Life is ultimately a pro-cess of choices. Simple de-cisions have the ability to create and end life. The foundation of modern soci-ety is built upon the ability to make choices, individu-ally and collectively.

For college students, the pressure is on to make the right choices.

From the essential to the mundane, it may be hard to process the multitude of decisions that need to be made on a consistent basis. But is it possible to quan-tify each decision in order to understand if some deci-sions are made more logi-cally than others?

For the psychology be-hind what truly dictates the decision-making process, Cal State Fullerton profes-sor and decision guru, Mi-chael Birnbaum, Ph.D., is the person to talk to.

While “decision guru” is his unofficial title, Birn-baum, a UCLA graduate, has plenty of experience in making decisions since his arrival to CSUF in 1986.

Birnbaum assembled

over $600,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation for his deci-sion-based psychology re-search, according to the CSUF News Service.

Now in his 18th year, Birnbaum continues his work as professor of psy-chology. Birnbaum is also the founder and director of the Decision Research Center at CSUF, a depart-ment of study dedicated to research specializing in the fields of judgment and decision making, psycho-physical and social judg-ment and mathematical models of behavior.

With the help of psy-chology students and pro-fessional colleagues from around the world, Birn-baum has published more than 130 scientific arti-cles based on his find-ings in decision research at CSUF. His most recent work is set for publication in “Decision,” a scientif-ic journal published by The American Psychology Association.

Birnbaum has gained some credible notori-ety during his tenure at CSUF. In April 2014, he was awarded the L. Don-ald Shields Excellence in Scholarship and Creativ-ity Award for his contin-ued efforts in psychology research.

Birnbaum focuses on the aspects of logical de-cision making, through the process of analysis and us-ing multiple psychological theories.

“We are studying re-search on decision making, both empirical and nor-mative,” Birnbaum said. “We want to distinguish two kinds of theories of

decision making, the nor-mative theory, tells you what you should do—what’s the optimal decision given your situation? And the descriptive [empirical] theory is what people actu-ally do, when they are con-fronted with a situation.”

Associate Professor of Psychology Jessie Peissig explained that everyone

can make questionable choices, but to understand the psychological process-es behind decision mak-ing will enable students to make wiser decisions.

“We all make bad deci-sions, or decisions that are not based in logic. Part of it may be emotional,” Peis-sig said. “There is research showing that we are more

likely to pay off a bill that is lower in amount—even though the interest is high-er, because we like that psychological feeling of paying something off. But, logically that is the incor-rect decision … because you should really pay off the largest interest first.”

In order for students to fully grasp the concept of logical decision making, Birnbaum explained that students should careful-ly consider why they make the decisions they make to compare self interest against logic.

Birnbaum said that if all people think the same way, majority rule would favor self-disinterest.

Birnbaum said he would like to see more education on decision making avail-able to students on cam-pus. But, until that be-comes a reality, he shared some advice that students should consider when fac-ing pressing decisions.

“The first thing is, you need to get information,” Birnbaum said. “The sec-ond thing you need to un-derstand is the principles of logic, reasoning and mathematics—and that’s why I think we need this course on judgement deci-sion making to help people do that, because that’s what education is all about.”

Kabira’s light brown eyes flicked from left to right as he watched stu-dents pouring out of nearby classrooms within Mihay-lo Hall. The few students who noticed him lying on the ground would smile at him, and some even waved

hello.He didn’t wave back-

or smile at them, but in-stead continued to hold a tranquil expression on his face. The moment Jenni-fer Vincent, 26, Cal State Fullerton graduate student, stroked his short, black fur, he quickly turned to face her and examined her to make sure she was fine.

This seven-year-old ca-nine is Vincent’s person-al service animal, who ac-companies and assists her throughout her day.

Vincent was only three months old when she was diagnosed as legally blind. Growing up with this vi-sual impairment evident-ly proved to be difficult for Vincent, but her moth-er was always there to

remind her that she could do the same things that any non-disabled individual could do.

It wasn’t until Vincent was 21 years old that she received 19-month-old Kabira as her service an-imal from Guide Dogs for the Blind, a guide dog school located in San Ra-fael, CA. Kabira was es-timated to be worth over $50,000 due to his pro-fessional training and breeding, but was grant-ed to Vincent at no ex-pense because of her visual

disability.Kabira has proven to

Vincent that he not only assists her with physical activities she’s unable to complete independently, but also assists her emo-tionally by helping her be-come more social.

“I wouldn’t have done this interview five years ago. I wouldn’t have talked to people about my vision five years ago, but Kabi-ra has allowed me to be a bit more open about it and to accept myself,” Vincent said.

The Disability Support Services office, located in University Hall, assists disabled students by ac-commodating them appro-priately in and out of the classroom based on their

disability. They offer spe-cial resources to disabled students including a spa-cious computer lab with computers that have move-able monitors, and Zoom-Text software that is de-signed for the visually impaired to highlight text and read the words aloud—moving the screen along without having to use a mouse or keyboard. They also supply test-taking ac-commodations, disabled person parking arrange-ments and water bowls for service animals.

Many students with ser-vice animals are constant-ly dealing with people un-necessarily petting their service animals without their permission, accord-ing to Disability Support Services Teaching Coordi-nator David Guzman. He recommends students to be courteous enough to first introduce themselves to the owner and then ask if it’s okay to pet their service animal.

“Respect that the service dog is first and foremost there to serve the person that they’re guiding,” Guz-man said.

Vincent received her bachelor’s degree in child and adolescent studies in 2012 from CSUF, and is currently enrolled in the special education creden-tial program. She aspires to attain her master’s de-gree in special educa-tion with an emphasis in moderate to severe dis-abilities at CSUF in the near future. With that she hopes to work as an

early elementary school teacher.

Vincent plans on bring-ing Kabira to work when she begins her career as an instructor. She men-tioned that Kabira is excel-lent with children and that children love having him around.

She’s never let her dis-ability keep her from ac-complishing exception-al things, said Vincent’s younger brother and CSUF alumni Kevin Vincent. Kevin has also had the opportunity to befriend Kabira over the years, and gave the inside scoop

on Kabira’s conduct when he’s off the clock.

“When he has the har-ness on, he’s working very hard and is very profes-sional. When you take the harness off, he’s going to be playing around just like a normal dog,” Kevin said.

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Service dog unleashes confidence in graduate student

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Jennifer Vincent poses with her service dog, Kabira, who guides her around campus and throughout her day-to-day activities.

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Professor looks into how people make logical choices

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Michael Birnbaum, Ph.D., is in his 18th year at Cal State Fullerton as a psychology professor. He is highly regarded for his research in decision making.

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More importantly, the University of Mary-land’s study found that students saw a need for social media for “estab-lishing and cementing social connections.” Through these connec-tions, the study noted the importance of the flow of information that social media and technology provides college students on an instantaneous basis.

The University of Maryland study noted that social media in its basic form is meant to connect others.

CSUF photography students in the Cam-era Absurda club use sites like Tumblr and Facebook to connect with each other and

those interested, James Doyle, the club’s presi-

dent said.In the fall semester

Doyle had a solo ex-hibition as an artist on campus. Doyle used pictures of sunsets sent in from friends and others from all over the world that he gath-ered through connec-tions made on social media. These connec-tions were garnered on an Instagram and Face-book account titled, “Send Me a Sunset.”

“It ended up reaching five continents, except for Australia and Ant-arctica,” Doyle said.

It is important when someone online stum-bles upon an artist’s so-cial media site, to know exactly what they are producing right away

and what they are pre-senting is specific to their own brand, Doyle said.

Dustin Abnet, Ph.D. assistant professor of American Studies at CSUF, investigates popular culture and technology and has seen a relation to social media and branding.

“It makes us more conscious of the fact that people are brands,” Abnet said.

At the same time, Abnet sees the factor of authenticity being shown or hidden in the presentation of oneself on social media.

“It gives unfiltered ac-cess to another human being’s thoughts, but you always have to remember they’re being filtered as well,” Abnet said.

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Skating a thin line between ban and bliss

Cal State Fullerton offers a litany of de-partments and centers to help further students knowledge and prepare them for their careers as professionals, but it’s not only enrolled stu-dents who use CSUF’s campus to help further their careers.

Skateboarding on campus is banned through Presiden-tial Directive No. 16 and the California Ve-hicle Code Section 21113(a).

Despite the ban, many students and avid skateboarders take their chances transport-ing themselves to class, or trying to accom-plish a never been done maneuver on CSUF’s many skate spots.

Many of the obsta-cles on campus exploit-ed by professional and amateur skateboarders go unnoticed by the av-erage person, but skate-boarders travel from different parts of Cal-ifornia to get a chance to skate the CSUF campus, just as Jack McNulty did.

McNulty, 18, has traveled from his hometown of Torrance, four times specifically to skate at CSUF. Each time he left campus, he accomplished a maneu-ver on film to help fur-ther his skateboarding career.

McNulty’s skate-boarding is sponsored by a number of com-panies including HUF shoes, Spitfire Wheels,

Thunder Trucks and Vanguard Surf & Skate shop.

McNulty’s favorite spot to skate on cam-pus is what’s known as the shootout ledge, referring to the tile ledge in front of Titan

Gym. It was there that

McNulty accomplished a backside smith grind—the most diffi-cult basic grind trick. The move was featured in the skateboard video Goosenectar, released in 2014.

The shootout ledge in front of Titan Gym has been used by many professional skaters, in-cluding Theotis Bea-sley, who captured a kickflip backside tailslide featured in “Nike SB Chronicles Vol. 2,” a skating vid-eo series sponsered by Nike.

Pat Pasquale, profes-sional skateboarder and co-owner of skateboard brand Life Extention, also accomplished an innovative maneuver on CSUF’s campus when he executed a switch kickflip backside 50-50 on the shootout ledge. That trick was featured in Life Extention’s The-atrix video, released in 2014.

Many skateboard-ers come to CSUF on the weekend looking to further their career by successfully landing impressive tricks on the campuses many sought after skate spots. Some feel there will be less presence of authority at that time.

In McNulty’s four visits to CSUF, he has yet to be cited for skating on campus, or kicked off campus by police.

“We always just

leave when we want or when it’s time to go,” McNulty said.

Zane Foley, 23-year-old philosophy major, has not been as lucky. Foley received a cita-tion for skateboarding when he was stopped by a motorcycle cop for skateboarding from parking lot A to class.

Foley commutes from Studio City, California to CSUF twice a week, and feels the time gained on a skateboard in comparison to walk-ing is vital to reaching class on time.

“I commute 50 miles and sometimes it’s make it or break it for me to get to class on time,” Foley said. “It can take 20 minutes to walk from Yorba Lin-da to Mihaylo hall. It’s imperative, especially around finals.”

Foley was placed on academic probation for his violation, which has since been rescind-ed. The citation didn’t discourage Foley from transporting himself to class by skateboard for long.

“For the rest of the day, I did not skate to class, but everyday since I have, along with thou-sands of other students, disagree with this re-pressive, ostracizing and discriminating rule,” Fo-ley said.

In 2013 there were 586 skateboard violations through Directive No. 16, with only one cita-tion being given out, said in statistics reported by University Police.

Cal State Fullerton’s unique skate spots have proven to be a favorite among professional and amatuer skateboarders, as long as they can es-cape the consequences of the ban.

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With almost two decades dedicated to professional basketball, Kobe Bryant’s mind and body have start-ed to disintegrate.

First the knee, then the Achilles and now a torn ro-tator cuff. Is it time for the Black Mamba to retire his jersey?

Despite his injuries, Bryant should return and

end his career the way he chooses.

The league veteran has arguably one of the most admired work ethics of any athlete known in men’s professional sports, yet his aging body seems to hold him back from his full potential.

After hearing that Bry-ant would be on the injury reserve yet again, the ques-tion of Bryant’s return to the game has resurfaced. Bryant has two choices: retire now and spare his body from further injury or recover and get back on the court for another season.

The last thing Laker fans

want is a fourth injury for the superstar if he were to return next season, yet it’s difficult to imagine Laker Nation without him.

As a Laker fan, it’s dif-ficult to consider the idea of saying farewell to a bas-ketball icon and under-standing the physical toll of professional sports.

The NBA legend is one of the most influential bas-ketball players of all time.

Whether you rep the pur-ple and gold or choose an-other NBA team to sup-port, basketball spectators can admit that the third all-time leading scorer has made a significant mark in

the world of sports. He is a franchise player, a fearless leader and oftentimes runs the show.

The Lakers have strug-gled the past few seasons due to new management, new coaches and a dramat-ic roster change. Bryant has been the consistency the Lakers rely on. Bryant leaving prematurely might be the end of the Laker organization.

Although Bryant is per-ceived as a selfish player who won’t pass the ball, it might do more harm than good not having him on the court. When a player has had as much success

as Bryant, it’s assumed that he wants to be in control of the game, and rightful-ly so.

The Lakers are hardly successful right now due to the current lackluster lineup, but it could be di-sastrous without Bryant’s leadership.

Growing up watching Bryant make game-win-ning shots, winning cham-pionships and breaking records created a sense of belief that he would always be around. Determining if he can return is ultimately up to Bryant himself.

He knows what his body can or cannot do and from

past experience, it seems the Mamba has at least one more year left in him. It’s plainly uncharacteristic for Bryant to leave so abruptly.

Rewind to the game when Bryant shot free throws af-ter blowing out his Achilles. Unlike other players, Bry-ant didn’t get carried off the court in tears, but stepped up to the free throw line, sank two shots and hobbled off the court.

Bryant won’t let an injury determine whether can suc-ceed. Bryant’s injury isn’t the end of him and if he chooses so, it won’t stand the slightest chance of tak-ing him off the court.

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Erasmus aces Azusa Pacific

Softball to co-host prestigous tourney

A three-match losing streak that had turned a winning squad into a sub-.500 club is over for the Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team.

The Titans started strong and hung on for a 4-3 non-conference victory over visiting Azusa Pacif-ic University Wednesday afternoon.

The victory not only snapped the Titans’ three-loss slide that had extended back to Jan. 24, but the win also evened the squad’s re-cord at 3-3.

“Our goal is to just keep improving every day and use each match to get better so that by the time the Big West Tournament comes, that’s when we’re peaking,” Head Coach Dianne Matias said. “Today was nice be-cause we got ourselves in a situation where we played a tough team and we had to play for it today. They didn’t give it to us, we had to earn every single match.”

Fullerton freshman Mi-chelle Erasmus delivered the victory.

Erasmus defeated Cou-gars sophomore Lindsey Yeom, 6-4, 7-6 (6-3) for the fourth and deciding point in the No. 5 singles match.

The native of Johannes-burg showed off her closing power by securing the final two points of the opening set while overcoming a 6-5 deficit in the second set.

Even in the tiebreakers, Erasmus fell behind before

scoring four straight points in taking a 6-2 lead.

“I think I managed to just keep my head steady; I didn’t let the nerves affect me,” Erasmus said. “And then I think my opponent maybe did let her nerves af-fect her. I feel like that was my advantage.”

Fullerton had an advan-tage versus the Division II Cougars, who were making their season debut.

The Titans won two of their first three singles sets and coupled with a point from doubles play, led 3-1.

After Azusa Pacific soph-omore, Natalie Johnson, topped Fullerton sopho-more Camille De Leon in the No. 1 singles match, 6-1, 6-1, the Titans re-sponded with back-to-back wins.

Senior Megan Sandford bested Azusa Pacific’s Da-nae Ingwaldson, 6-1, 6-2, before freshman Danielle Pham beat Cougars sopho-more Sierra Troxel, 6-2, 7-6 (6-3).

For Sandford, the vic-tory was her second of the day as she also paired with De Leon for a 6-4 doubles victory over Johnson and Ingwaldson.

“They were both pretty good,” Sandford said of her wins. “In doubles, we just had to stay aggressive and we had to keep poaching. In singles, I had to keep com-ing up, being aggressive

and playing my game.”Down 3-1, Azusa Pacif-

ic rallied when sophomore Valeriia Kashina defeat-ed Fullerton sophomore Emilia Borkowski, 6-2, 7-6 (6-4).

However, Borkowski did not roll over after a tough first set and rallied from a 5-2 hole in the second set to

force tie-breakers.The Cougars also

claimed the day’s final set when freshman Jackie Resler knocked off senior Jessica Pepa, 6-3, 7-5.

Perhaps the best omen for Fullerton’s success came in doubles play, where the Titans won two of three sets in taking the crucial

doubles point.In all three victories this

season, the Titans have won the doubles point.

Besides Sandford and De Leon’s victory, the com-bo of Pham and Alexis Valenzuela also won, 6-1.

The victory was cost-ly for Fullerton, though, as Valenzuela was injured

and did not play in singles action.

The Cougars duo of Kashina and Resler also knocked off Kalika Slev-cove and Borkowski, 6-4.

The Titans will have a 10-day break before re-turning to Big West Con-ference action against UC Davis on Feb. 14.

CSUF earns key 4-3 win, but loses Valenzuela to injury

DREW CAMPADaily Titan

Sophomore Emelia Borkowski smashes an overhead shot in her match against Azuza Pacific’s Valeriia Kashina on Wednesday at the Titan Tennis Courts. CSUF evened up their record at 3-3 and snapped a two-match losing streak with the non-conference victory.

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Three ranked teams, four host schools and 12 overall softball programs, including a hungry Cal State Fullerton squad, will kick off the 2015 season in the upcoming So Cal Collegiate Classic.

The Titans, along with UCLA, Long Beach State and Loyola Marymount will welcome eight squads to the Southland.

The first game is at Fuller-ton’s Anderson Family Field taking place Friday.

USA Today/National Fast-pitch Coaches Association No. 7-ranked UCLA enters as the marquee program with No. 22 Notre Dame and No. 24 Texas A&M not far off.

Even though CSUF, which received votes but was not ranked, has an opportuni-ty to impress, Head Coach Kelly Ford declined to label the tournament as a proving ground.

“I don’t think hosting or running the tournament has anything to do with us feel-ing like we have to show our fans or our softball com-munity how well we’re do-ing,” Ford said. “You know what, I think we’re in the place and we owe it to our-selves ... I guess we’re ready, we’re ready. The last couple of seasons falling short of NCAA (playoffs) has left us very hungry.”

Fullerton, who finished 33-21-1 last season, will play five games over three days, with two of the matches against Notre Dame.

The Titans first face the

Fighting Irish Saturday at 1:30 p.m. before closing out the tournament play versus Notre Dame Sunday at 10 a.m.

The Fighting Irish were picked to finish second in the Atlantic Coast Confer-ence coaches’ preseason poll, and have a local feel.

Notre Dame’s 17-play-er roster has four members from Orange County, just one less than Fullerton’s total.

One such area standout is Huntington Beach native Micaela Arizmendi. The in-fielder batted .382 last sea-son with 15 homers, 61 RBIs and 17 doubles en route to being named a 2014 NFCA All-American.

“It’s really exciting to open the season in front of both my family and friends,” Arizmendi said in a phone interview Monday. “But I know that more than half our team is from Southern California, so it’s a really exciting time to play some good teams in front of all of our family.”

Fullerton opens against Purdue at 4:30 p.m. Friday

before closing out the eve-ning at 6:30 p.m. against two-time Big Sky Con-ference champion Idaho State.

After the Titans square off with Notre Dame Saturday, they will meet Southland Conference Tournament champion Northwestern State at 4 p.m. The Titans then finish off Sunday with their second game against Notre Dame.

Aside from playing qual-ity competition, there is an overall buzz in just getting back on the diamond.

“Oh my gosh, we are just waiting for these next three days to go by,” said Ful-lerton third baseman Mis-sy Taukeiaho, who was re-cently named to the USA Softball Top 50 Watch List. “We actually just talked about it yesterday too. It’s just like coach said, ‘I’m sick of practice.’ I’m sick of practice and I’m ready to start playing and we’re all that point where it’s just like, okay, we’ve prepared enough and now it’s just at that point where, just get us to Friday.”

The Titans will face No. 22 Notre Dame twice this weekend

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Cal State Fullerton softball will open its season this weekend against elite teams, including two games against Notre Dame.

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