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Showing off new fashion

University Police of-ficers are seeking more information on van-dalism that caused $1,000 in damage to the Gastronome.

Gray graffiti on bench-es, an electric utility box and a door was reported Friday and was cleaned up by Monday afternoon. The graffiti appears to have been applied at some point during the day Friday, because em-ployees said the graffi-ti was not there Friday morning.

Police are currently re-viewing security footage and seeking witnesses who may have seen the perpetrators in the act or have seen people carry-ing spray paint.

“If any of the residents have seen anyone in those areas spray painting or with spray paint, we are looking for any informa-tion that can assist us in identifying and appre-hending the responsible party,” said Capt. John Brockie, the public infor-mation officer for Univer-sity Police.

The tagging consisted of letters and numbers, and investigators are try-ing to determine wheth-er or not the graffiti was gang-related.

“A lot of times, that’s somebody’s specific sig-nature, but we haven’t been able to link it to any-thing yet,” Brockie said.

There was no signifi-cant damage to the elec-trical systems or other property as a result of the graffiti.

In 2013, there were 51 cases of vandalism, ac-cording to University Police crime statistics. Of these, 10 were in the dorms area, which in-cludes the Gastronome. The area had more van-dalism incidents than any other section of campus.

To report a crime, or to provide information which may aid an investigation, contact University Police at (657) 278-2515. Crimes can also be reported in person at the University Police Station on the west side of campus.

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Police investigating vandalism incident near Gastronome

Top: Sophomore Brittany Wiltz walks the runway in a neon top and flower pattern shorts for the CSUF Fashion Club event Monday, which is part of Arts Week.Left: Models wait backstage before entering the runway to show off garments from designers. Right: Sophomore Maggie Fly shows off her black-and-white garments on the runway.

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Life presents a wide array of ob-stacles and challenges that shapes who a person becomes. A person’s true character can shine through during some of the darkest mo-ments in his or her life.

For Harpreet Bath, the Associ-ated Students Inc. president-elect, his strongest values are honor, re-spect and passion; all traits he will share with Cal State Fullerton as he takes his spot as the new pres-ident next fall.

Bath, 21, grew up in Bombay, In-dia before moving to the United States at 11 years old. He graduat-ed from Alhambra High School and started attending CSUF as a com-muter student. However, growing up and adjusting to a new culture was not always easy.

As with many individuals who come from a different culture, a transitional period takes place. This

was no different for Bath. He went through difficulties, such as bul-lying in middle school and being someone who kept to himself at a young age.

“It was a bully incident and it hap-pened in front of other kids,” Bath said. “At that time, I was a very quiet kid. A kid who just did his own thing and activities that were just on a in-dividual basis.”

After the incident, Bath said he realized how little people knew about his Sikh-American culture and how being socially awkward was impacting his life. From that point on, he made sure to change how he took on challenges.

“I am going to put myself into situations that completely take me out of my comfort zone, challenge me and eventually educate others of who I am,” Bath said. “I am not talking about preaching, but gain-ing that respect through ‘this is who I am so don’t misjudge me or take for somebody else.’”

Since his freshman year as a Ti-tan, Bath has been heavily involved with the school and the communi-ty. He held numerous positions, such as president of the CSUF Finance

Association and representing the College of Engineering and Comput-er Science on the ASI Board of Direc-tors. This semester, he served as the chief governmental officer for ASI.

While getting involved is a big part of who Bath is now, it was not always that way. His development as an individual from the time he stepped onto the CSUF cam-pus up until present day has been monumental.

“Huge, huge change,” said Bath, a first-generation college student.

Bath was not content with just at-tending classes, he said he wanted to experience what other opportuni-ties CSUF had to offer.

“I was going to classes and all of that was fine, but coming from high school and being involved in the sports and other activities, I just felt a lack of belonging,” Bath said. “I just felt like I come and go and it just didn’t seem right.”

In order to enhance his experi-ence at school, Bath got involved with the speech and debate team, and then got a job on campus.

“I picked up a student assistant job at the library and started talking to students,” he said.

Fast forward to the present day. Bath is making his mark at CSUF, not only by continuing to build re-lationships, but also becoming the person he wants to be. This is why he has such a deep affection for the school and community.

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Harpreet Bath starts his presidential duties this coming fall semester

Harpreet Bath grew up in Bombay, India and moved to the U.S. when he was 11.

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Ukrainian government under siege

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Pro-Russian mil-itants in Eastern Ukraine have expand-ed their occupation of government buildings, and the country is on the brink of war or dis-solution, according to the Washington Post.

Acting Ukrainian president Oleksandr Turchynov had made an ultimatum to mili-tants to surrender their weapons and stop their occupation; later, he called for a referendum to vote on the future of the country.

After Turchynov’s failed attempts to make progress, he pro-posed a peacekeep-ing intervention by the United Nations.

Pro-Russian forces have not responded fa-vorably. They have con-tinued to take more territory, recently seiz-ing a police station in the city of Horlivka.

A bomb that explod-ed at a bus station in Nigeria on Monday killed at least 72 peo-ple and wounded 164 others, according to the Associated Press.

The blast took place in Abuja, the nation’s capital, at about 6:45 a.m., destroying at least 40 vehicles.

The bomb is sus-pected to have been planted by Boko Ha-ram, a militant Islamic terrorist network.

The group has been responsible for other attacks in Nigeria, in-cluding an incident in March when Boko Ha-ram raided a military barracks, killing more than 600 people.

The official death toll has not been con-firmed, because vic-tims whose bodies were dismembered by the blast have yet to be identified.

A Utah woman ad-mitted to police that she killed six of her own babies just after they were born, according to the Associated Press.

Megan Huntsman was arrested Sunday after her estranged husband, Darren West, discovered the bodies of the newborns pack-aged in boxes within the garage.

Huntsman said she strangled or suffocated the babies immediate-ly after being born and wrapped their bodies in a shirt or towel before packing them away. A seventh stillborn child was also found.

The killings report-edly took place be-tween 1996 and 2006, according to a police statement released Monday. Huntsman is currently being held on $6 million bail and fac-es six murder charges.

Free pizza is almost always a cause for a crowd on cam-pus, but when it’s for a good cause, the excitement is even greater.

A public relations senior capstone marketing group is putting together a red-carpet event as part of Titan Lifesav-ers to encourage people to donate blood.

The event will be held Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Quad on campus.

“The Titan Lifesavers Event celebrates the gift of life and opportunity to inspire CSUF students and staff to donate blood and register as an or-gan/tissue donor and bone marrow donor,” said Guine-vere Endter, senior account manager for Red Cross.

The Red Cross started par-ticipating in Titan Lifesavers five years ago, Endter said. Donate Life, an organ and tissue recovery organization, started this college-based campaign five years ago and invited them to participate.

After a couple of years of organizing the event, Do-nate Life could not contin-ue spearheading the event, so Endter decided to contin-ue the event with the help of the Volunteer and Service Center.

“It’s such a great event and we have the potential to save so many lives if we can reach out to the student body and urge them to take action,” Endter said.

The student group chose American Red Cross because they knew that they were ac-tive on campus, which ap-pealed to them.

Endter said her desired outcome is to save more lives than last year, when they collected 192 units of blood in four days. For each per-son who donates one unit of blood, up to 576 lives could be saved.

Endter said she hopes to have at least 1 percent of the student body participate, which would be about 350 people. This could save 1,050 lives.

“Using the knowledge and experience we have gained from our communication classes, we created several strategies and tactics to put this project together,” said group member Domonique Isabeau, 24.

They sent out pitch letters, contacted sponsors, blast-ed social media, researched where the client lacked vis-ibility on campus, created and passed out flyers and came up with the red-carpet theme.

“We also knew that they are always looking for vol-unteers, and it just so hap-pened that they had their big life-saving event during the course of our class,” said member Kelly Riek, 23.

As a group, they hope to get 100 people to sign up for blood donations and/or reg-ister as organ donors.

They also hope for the same number to partici-pate in their Instagram pho-to contest, in which partici-pants will take a photo with Buddy the Blood Drop on the red carpet.

To participate in the

contest, participants use the hashtag #redcarpet4redcross to join a random drawing to win prizes, in addition to re-ceiving a free T-shirt and a slice of pizza while supplies last.

The group will set up a red carpet in front of the Red Cross bus, where par-ticipants will be able to walk down and take a photo with Buddy the Blood Drop.

Additionally, those who found images of Buddy around campus Monday will receive a slice of pizza.

After the event, the group will evaluate their success of the campaign by measuring how many people signed up to donate, how many partic-ipated in the photo contest and how much more aware-ness American Red Cross re-ceived as a result.

“We all have done several public relations campaigns throughout our communi-cation classes, but with this project, we actually got to use our ideas and see them come to life,” Isabeau said.

For those who can’t donate blood because they aren’t el-igible or for religious or per-sonal reasons, there are oth-er ways to save a life, such as registering to be a bone mar-row, tissue or organ donor.

“I believe strongly in blood donation and do it whenev-er I can, so to be helping the American Red Cross in any way feels good but actual-ly using my public relations knowledge to gain them awareness is amazing,” Isa-beau said.

Endter, a CSUF alumna, is proud to be part of this event every year. “I want to show other colleges that Titans are lifesavers,” Endter said.

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CSUF models leave it all on the runway

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Student marketers hope to draw attention to drive

The Red Cross will host a week-long blood drive next week. A group of public relations students has partnered with the charity to raise additional awareness before it begins.

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Left: Sophomore Maggie Fly has her make-up touched by artist Tatiana De Blase in-between runways walks for a CSUF Fashion Club event.Right: Piano player from the band Athntc PPle plays a cover of Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights” for crowds in-between fashion show changes.

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“Think Global, Act Local” is the topic of this year’s So-cial Justice Summit to be held Saturday at Cal State Fullerton.

The summit will feature over 25 workshops that will address pressing global so-cial justice issues such and will host civil rights advo-cate Rev. James Lawson and spoken-word artist Abraham Medina.

“We don’t just want people to think ... we wanted people to act,” said Eloisa Amador, 24, project director of work-shops. “The little things that you do, might change the whole world.”

Workshop topics were se-lected based on student feed-back concerning what they felt are the most pressing so-cial justice issues today. “We talked to many students on campus to see what they wanted to see at the sum-mit,” Amador said.

She explained that many times, students go to confer-ences or workshops, receive the information but, “then what do you do with the in-formation?” The summit will not only provide information about the issues, but will pro-vide a method of how to take action.

It’s important to know that students can make an im-pact on any of these issues, Amador said.

Once the topic of the sum-mit was selected in Septem-ber, a team of student volun-teers started to plan logistics. The summit is completely student-run and is funded through donations and fund-raisers held throughout the semester.

Carlos Amescua, proj-ect director of fundraising, said this year, the summit will cost about $15,000 to $20,000.

An important aspect of factoring in cost is the price of desirable speakers. Law-son said he liked what Stu-dents ACT was doing with the summit and decided to speak free of charge.

Influenced by the nonvi-olent resistance techniques developed by Mohandas Gandhi, Lawson used these types of practices to moti-vate civil rights movement leaders in the 1960s.

While studying at Oberlin College, Lawson met Mar-tin Luther King, Jr., and King encouraged Lawson to pur-sue an active role in the civ-il rights movement. Lawson took his words to heart.

He helped organize the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville and was involved with the Freedom Riders, a group that demonstrated against segregation on pub-lic transportation systems.

Lawson has remained ac-tive in several immigrant

and human rights cam-paigns and has remained a distinguished visiting profes-sor at Vanderbilt University.

The second speaker, spo-ken-word artist Abraham Medina, is an advocate for human rights, targeting is-sues such as immigration. He became involved in the sum-mit as a high school student and later became a speaker.

Medina helped start a youth group called Un Mun-do En Resistencia (UMER), and he also works with nu-merous advocacy groups, including El Centro Cultur-al de Mexico en Santa Ana,

the Orange County Dream Team, Cop Watch and the Orange County May Day Coalition.

Medina encourages stu-dents everywhere to work collectively, especially in the community, in order to make a difference. He said simply making a call or attending a workshop can make a signifi-cant difference.

“We have to be mind-ful that those actions we do take—or we do not take—will impact those who come after us,” Medina said.

Hopefully, students and other attendees will heed

speakers’ calls to action after attending the summit, Ama-dor said.

“I think the summit is a great experience for students to come and learn about dif-ferent issues. I know that sometimes we have a very busy schedule and we think that those issues do not af-fect us but sometimes they do and they affect us more than we think,” she said.

The event is organized by Students Advocating Civic Transformation. For more in-formation on the Social Jus-tice Summit, visit Fullerton.edu/Volunteer/Summit.

“Don’t give cancer pow-er, make a face that’s sour!” is the rallying cry for the first ever Titan Lemonaid Week, a week-long public relations cam-paign, put forward by a team of Cal State Ful-lerton students, to raise funds and awareness for children fighting the deadly disease.

The students are en-rolled in a 400-level com-munications course that requires students to pair up with a nonprofit orga-nization to create a spe-cific platform for that giv-en organization’s goals as part of the curriculum.

“It’s really close to our heart knowing that some-one has sacrificed or suf-fered through cancer and given their life up due to less research provided and they couldn’t be cured be-cause they didn’t have the funds for it,” said team member Priya Gohel.

Cancer is the sec-ond-leading cause of death in children, and about

10,450 children in the United States under the age of 15 will be diagnosed with cancer this year, ac-cording to the American Cancer Society.

“(Childhood funding) is really needed out there,” Gohel said. “Not many funds go to childhood cancer research; it main-ly goes to adult cancer research.”

To combat this prob-lem, Gohel and other col-leagues have teamed up with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), a philanthropic organiza-tion that has contributed over $75 million to over 375 pediatric organiza-tions, to help provide fur-ther funding specifically for children.

The foundation emerged from the front yard of 4-year-old cancer patient Alexandra Scott in 2000. Scott decided that to raise money for her treatments and the treatments of oth-er children, she would open a lemonade stand.

The team hopes to raise $3,000 for the foundation from the sale of lemonade and other baked goods in-corporating lemons, as well as through online do-nations, which already to-tal $100, said team mem-ber Danielle Tallungan.

“I am always inspired to see the enthusiasm of college students and their philanthropic efforts as they make a difference for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and pediatric cancer research,” said Tish Hearne, ALSF’s South-ern California communi-ty outreach specialist, in a press release.

For the public relations team, making a difference does not stop at raising money. The team is also actively raising awareness through several different avenues, including social media services Facebook and Instagram.

“Cal State Fullerton has a huge social media net-work, so we decided to do that and to connect with people,” Tallungan said.

The social media strate-gies employed by the team include taking picture of individuals’ sour faces to show their disapproval of cancer and using several different hashtags.

“It takes us really show-casing that (lack of fund-ing is) a problem,” Tallun-gan said.

For more information on Titan Lemonaid Week and to donate, visit Face-book.com/titanlemonaid-week and AlexsLemonade.org/mypage/1112959.

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The Social Justice Summit at Cal State Fullerton will feature multiple speakers. Keynote speaker Rev. James Lawson (left), a former Freedom Rider, was inspired to join the civil rights movement in the 1960s by Martin Luther King Jr. Abraham Medina, a spoken-word artist and UC Irvine alumnus with a degree in sociology, has advocated for greater rights for immigrants.

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Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation raises money for research of cancer in children. Cal State Fullerton public relations students have partnered with the charity to bring it to CSUF for the first time.

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People should be able to enter the bathroom they more identify with

NICOLE WEAVER

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Equality for transgendered

California’s “co-ed bath-room” bill will likely find itself on the ballot later this year.

The Pacific Justice Institute is attempting to put Gov. Jer-ry Brown’s transgender bill back on the ballot in fall.

While oppo-nents are ea-gerly trying to flush this seemingly c o n t r o -versia l m e a -

su re , is it r e a l -ly such a bad thing?

In August of last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a historic transgender students bill into law, giving sup-porters and transgender students who had yet to feel in-cluded at school a sigh of relief, while prompting opponents to hastily begin work on repeal-ing the measure.

If the coalition is successful in gaining enough signatures, that current law allowing students to choose the bath-room of their choice, as well

as athletic facilities, could be overturned.

Many schools already have unisex bathrooms, including Cal State Fullerton. The cur-rent law allows students K-12 to access co-ed bathrooms, as well as engage in the prop-er physical education class or sport teams that fits their par-ticular gender identity.

This law is meant to reduce bully-ing against t r a n s -

gender s t u d e n t s , and it also aims to help these specific students assimilate into the student body without judgment or fear. Yet opponents of this bill say

that allowing students to use the bathroom of their choice will invade other students’ privacy.

Among organizations fight-ing to dismantle the ballot measure, Pacific Justice In-stitute has set itself apart by making a “valiant” effort in expressing their specific opin-

ions on the subject at hand.“We stand ready and will-

ing to defend anyone who will

be victimized as a result of this new law,” said Brad Da-cus, president of the Pacif-ic Justice Institute. “That in-cludes someone whose privacy rights are violated in the bath-room, in the locker room, in the showers, or someone who is prevented from playing on a sports team because someone from the opposite gender took

their place.”But how

m a n y p e o -

p l e would be

victimized be-cause of the ability to

choose which bathroom to go into?

It is likely more than the amount of transgender

students who have felt dis-criminated against for not having access to the same type of programs their non-trans-gender peers have.

Everyone has the right to express themselves as they seem fit, especially if they feel trapped within their own body. America is a country that prides itself on giving ab-solute liberty to its residences, yet the same people who deem themselves “constitutional-ists” are fighting to limit cer-tain freedoms.

Why are others so obsessed with someone else’s bathroom

procedures? What right do people have to control

an individual’s right to expression?

What makes America so

unique is that it is

a l w a y s e v o l v -ing. In-s t e a d

o f

fight-i n g

t h i s c h a n g e

with bigot-ry and judge-

ment, people should continue

to pave the way for new ideals. Society, like life, is not

black and white.Not everyone is going to fit

the mold of what is “normal,” nor is there an instruction manu-al that dictates these particular rules. People seem to forget this country was created due to rad-ical notions of free thinking and expression.

After all, these notions of free-dom are what made this country unique to begin with.

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“I love Cal State Fuller-ton,” he said. “Not only be-cause it has a huge hand in shaping the person I am and will be in my fu-ture, but you can come in however you are and be-come whatever you want to become.”

Over the past year, Bath has worked alongside cur-rent ASI President Rohu-llah Latif and Executive Vice President Jonathan Leggett, who selected him as their chief governmen-tal officer.

Being ASI president, Latif said, comes with its share of criticism and neg-ativity, so it is important to accept that as a challenge to improve oneself, which Bath does.

“I’ve challenged him multiple times and at the end of the day he comes back and he becomes bet-ter than he was,” he said. “It’s great to have a leader like that, who understands that they’re not perfect and they are open to listening to anyone.”

Both Latif and Leg-gett praised Bath’s ap-proachability and knack

for making people feel comfortable.

“He’s got that big, fun-ny smile,” Leggett said. “Once you break it down, he is really relatable and he just has that type of character.“

Although some stu-dents feel the need to al-ways please others, Bath remains true to himself and what he believes in, such as being involved and respectful.

Bath takes on his presi-dential duties this coming fall and will become the main voice of the students, for the students.

Starting a new termHarpreet Bath was involved on campus by representing the College of Engineering and Computer Science on the ASI Board of Directors. He was also the president of the CSUF Finance Association.

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From car engines to air-planes, mechanical engi-neers study all aspects of physics and material sci-ences in order to design and produce tools and machines.

With careful precision, students in the mechan-ical engineering major go on to develop the saf-est and most efficient machines that can be produced.

Mechanical engineer-ing is a field of study that many students find daunting and can be over-whelmed by the workload. As intimidating as the study sounds, the work en-gineers do impact people in their everyday lives.

Eliot Horner, a fourth year mechanical engineer-ing student, is actively en-gaged in the Society of Au-tomotive Engineers, which takes what he learns in engineering classes at Cal State Fullerton and ap-plies them to his automo-tive build on campus.

“We all work together in here and (work) to build a race car,” Horner said. “We build it not only to learn, but we go to a de-sign competition in Lin-coln, Nebraska.”

The project car, called the Titan VII, is under production by the handful of mechanical engineers

on campus. The students intend to submit the race car to Formula SAE.

Horner takes many of the mechanical engineer-ing theories he learns in class and applies them to the process of building the race car; taking his classroom learning to an-other level as he is insert-ing his knowledge of me-chanical engineering in real-world applications.

“There’s tons of real-ly cool engineering jobs so I’m interested in a lot of fields … I think that if I had the opportuni-ty to work pretty much anywhere in engineering where I can get hands on experience, that would be fun,” Horner said.

However, the field of mechanical engineering is not all fun and games.

Matias Araya, Horner’s

teammate and a mechan-ical engineering student, said he understands the workload that comes with becoming an engineer. While putting togeth-er the race car project, Araya actively recalls ev-erything he learns in class and applies that knowl-edge to the structure of the car such as forces and torques, which engineers call “moments.”

“The class that I took last semester, was stat-ics. By using statics, I was able to see what kind of braking torque the car has and then translating (it) to part design, which is using the forces over the area, called stress,” Araya said. “Using the stresses from your accel-eration and your brak-ing, then you can design a part that will be able

to reach a good factor of safety, which means how many times that part will be able to withstand that force.”

Many mechanical engi-neers develop safe prod-ucts for people to use. The next time someone goes on a plane or drives a car, he or she might consider the work that a mechani-cal engineer put into mak-ing them safe.

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Left: Carlos Gibson, a CSUF student majoring in mechanical engineering, is machining a part for the differential unit of the car. Right: Michael Crull and Bryan Humburg are laying carbon fiber on a foam mold that will go on the project car, called Titan VII. The students will submit the race car to Forumula SAE when it is complete.

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Trying to stay fit and eat healthy is difficult to jug-gle with being a part-time student and having a job. And with summer slowly approaching, getting that dream beach body almost seems impossible.

Insanity, the popular workout program, can help students achieve that goal if they make the time to dedicate consistency and patience to its workout regimen.

Insanity came about from fitness trainer Shaun Thompson, bet-ter known as Shaun T, in 2009. Thompson formed a partnership with Beach-body, a marketing compa-ny geared toward selling fitness, to launch his new program.

Thompson came from an active background. He did track-and-field at Rowan University where he grad-uated with a degree in sports science. From there, his love for health and fit-ness followed him as his career began to bloom.

He started out in 2007 with a dance fitness pro-gram called Hip Hop Abs followed by Rockin’ Body in 2008. He also launched a program for children na-tionwide to help reduce the chances of obesity called Shaun T’s Fit Kids Club.

Thompson did not limit himself only to sports, be-cause he minored in the-ater. This led to appear-ances on Ellen DeGeneres, Six Feet Under and The Jay Leno Show.

He has also been known to work with several

renowned companies such as Nike, RadioShack and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Even though Thompson’s program took off after the highly talked about P90x workout, he has still man-aged to hold a faithful and secure audience.

Mayra Flores, a Cal State Fullerton student, said she has been consistently using Insanity for four months. The senior criminal jus-tice and chicano studies double major enjoys using the workout program be-cause it “pushes her to her limits,” which she finds challenging.

Despite this, she has been patient with her workouts and has been going about it in a healthy way.

“I’ve noticed an increase in energy throughout my days,” Flores said. “I also lost six pounds in the first four weeks.”

Like many who have probably thought of using the program, she was skep-tical. She didn’t think she would be cut out for some-thing as intense as Insan-ity because she wasn’t as fit as people portrayed on television.

Flores has loved her re-sults so far. For those think-ing of trying the program, she does believe nutrition plays a large factor in mus-cle gain and weight loss.

“I stopped consuming soda and started eating a lot more vegetables,” Flores said.

She also said she drinks more water than she did prior to starting the Insani-ty workout and that the diet plan included in the pro-gram doesn’t necessarily work for everyone because everybody is different.

Derek Luther, head train-er at True Fitness in Ful-lerton, is an avid supporter of high intensity interval training. He also agreed

with using the Paleo-lithic or Paleo Diet as an example.

“I do find benefit in the Paleo Diet because it is high in proteins and uses low fat carbs,” Luther said. “But carbs are not the only source of energy but fats.”

Like any diet, it works for some but not all.

When Luther recom-mends fats for energy, he’s referring to healthy fats such as avocados and al-monds. He said to success-fully lose weight people need to lower their carbs and not be compulsive eaters.

“Eat when your body is hungry and what is the right percentage for your body,” Luther said.

Eating carbs to fill the space of hunger is what causes us to gain weight and not get the proper re-sults we seek. Luther also said up to 80 percent of a healthy and rewarding workout is all based on food intake.

As much as Luther pre-fers using personal trainers for motivation rather than video programs influenced by infomercials, he said skipping a day won’t drasti-cally hinder results.

“Over time, a woman tries to lose 40 pounds, loses 10 and has a cheat day,” Luther said. “She goes out and returns with five pound weight gain. It’s all water weight.”

Luther said he sees this all the time and explains it’s the sodium in foods that make the body retain water.

Overall, Insanity is a tool used to aid Americans into healthier lifestyles. If students are to start now while they’re young, they can potentially increase their lifespan and avoid long-term diseases such as diabetes.

For people trying to change their bodies and im-prove their overall health, P90X might be the answer.

P90X is an intense home fitness workout program that consists of 12 intense workouts. The workout has gained popularity recent-ly due to many users or the program seeing noticeable results.

The program was first de-veloped by elite American fitness trainer Tony Horton Jr., who spent 20 years of fit-ness training before put-ting together P90X. His boot camp like style commands absolute dedication and re-quires the most out of indi-viduals who are looking to slim down.

P90X costs $119.95 and comes with 12 DVDs, a 100-page fitness guide and a 113-day nutritional plan. Also included is a 90-day calen-dar to track your individual progress.

The title of the program stays true, as it’s designed to get participants “ripped” in 90 days.

Michael Esco is a pro-fessor at Auburn Universi-ty of Montgomery who re-ceived a Ph.D. in exercise physiology.

“These challenging workouts require lots of

dedication to complete,” Esco said.

For those considering it, there are some requirements that are essential to factor in. P90X requires up to two hours for six to seven days a week which can be hard for those who work and have busy lifestyles. The workout is not easy and requires a lot of energy and effort.

Additionally, to use P90X one must have space in their apartment or home to work out in. The exercises need space, so a cramped living room probably wouldn’t be the best option. For those who are serious about fit-ness, turning their garage or a separate room into a work-out area would be ideal.

However, P90X can get a little pricy besides the cost of the DVDs.

The program requires the purchasing of resistance bands, a yoga mat, dumb-bells and a pull up bar.

Justin C. Lin, a physi-cal therapist, said he feels that they are designed for those used to being in shape and going through similar training.

“Don’t be fooled by these insane and inane programs. They may only work for a short time but the price you pay later may be high. I’m go-ing to leave these workouts for the athletes who are al-ready training in this explo-sive manner and the military personnel,” Lin said in an ar-ticle for The Notice.

On the other hand, one of the ways the program has

been so effective is the mix of different workouts. Some of the benefits are that P90X isn’t intended to just drop weight but also transform the body by toning, shaping and building muscularity. The program involves resis-tance, body-weight, martial arts, ab workouts, yoga and cardio workouts.

The broad spectrum of ex-ercises hits all parts of the body. For example, one of the 12 workouts is the “Chest and Back” workout. It hits shoul-ders, chest and multiple ar-eas of the back with three different push-up styles, pull downs with resistance bands and rowing involving dumb-bells and resistance bands.

The nutritional plan that goes along with it is just as important as the work-outs. P90X’s plan has three phases, starting out with a fat shredder that implements high protein and low carbo-hydrate intake.

Phase two helps to propel people through the midday slump with an energy-boost-ing diet that has a balance of protein and carbs while staying low on fat. Phase three serves as the endur-ance booster with a tier sys-tem of high complex carbs dropping down to a medi-um amount of protein and a small amount of fat.

P90X has a great repu-tation of getting people in shape. Before choosing, fac-tor in the time, energy and requirements for the train-ing regimen to see if it’s right for you.

Insanity creates a quick, well-balanced workout that can be done from practically anywhere. Although it is extremely difficult initially, dedicated athletes have noticed the results quickly.

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