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Student commute and parking to get more difficult

Metro plans to hold several Public Hearings to discuss the new changes taking effect in June 2016.

Pablo De La Hoya Web Editor

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority released a statement discussing future plans for routes in the greater Los Angeles Area.

Amongst those proposed changes is the cancellation of bus line 485. This line runs from Downtown Los Angeles to Cal State LA and further north to Altadena. According to the statement, the plan is to discontinue the line and provide an extension to Altadena.

With the new Cal State LA downtown campus set to open this month the cancellation of this line can negatively affect students.

With no word on transportation being provided from Cal State LA to take students to and from the new campus, it leaves those that rely on the bus with less options.

The 485 line is a direct route from Downtown LA’s Union Station to Cal State LA. “The 485 bus drops me off at Patsaouras Transit Plaza, which is a direct shot to my train platform,”

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said Danielle Soibelman, a third year double major in Communications and Geography.

“The other busses drop off across the street from Union Station.

The 485 is also one of the less expensive buses; for many, this makes the difference between catching a bus and waiting 40 minutes for one.”

The first hearing will take place in the Metro Headquarters Building on Saturday, Feb. 6th

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beginning at 10:00 a.m. If the plan is accepted the bus line will cease to operate in June leaving students time to find alternatives.

However, the City of Alhambra is not going to wait that long to enact new parking regulations.

those who park for more than one hour. The streets affected by the new regulations include those used by students off of Hellman.

Both the north of Westmont and South have the new regulation alongside Orange Grove.

In a statement from Cal State LA Parking and Transportation, they confirmed the new stricter regulations. The new regulation includes the use of a special residential parking permit for

For students who do park on residential streets north of campus in Alhambra, it is recommended you use the new off-site parking lot. With that in mind, Parking and Transportation

is offering a 50 percent discount on a limited number of parking permits for students who use the off-site lot. The off-site parking location is on 801 Date Avenue and runs a shuttle beginning at 7:15 a.m. with the last shuttle leaving campus at 7 p.m. The discounted pass can be used on campus Monday – Thursday after 7 p.m. and all day Friday.

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U-SU meeting highlights student and administration differences in campus policy.

Gerardo Amezquita Editor-in-Chief

The University Student Union had their monthly Board of Directors meeting with representatives from the U-SU, Associated Students Inc. (ASI), President William Covino, faculty, advisors and administration and finance on Dec. 11th on the 3rd floor of the U-SU. While it began with a formal introduction of each individual sitting on the Board there was some extra time reserved for the welcoming of President Covino, himself, and the new Executive

Director of the U-SU Stephen Fleischer, who is replacing acting Executive Director Rowena Tran.

During Fleischer’s introduction it was made markedly obvious that ASI President Ejmin Hakobian did not like his selection, on no part because of Fleischer’s merit, but for what he describes as a negligent consideration of his input by Covino and the complete abuse of the selection process as the bylaws describe.

“I feel like I’m just a requirement here so as to look good on paper,” says ASI President Ejmin Hakobian, “My input is not being taken seriously and they are just choosing to ignore me. It is discouraging students to provide input and so they should expect even lesser student engagement and input.”

Hakobian says that during the selection of the U-SU Executive

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Director position it was down to three applicants, but regrettably one dropped out. Next, far later after the application process was over he was handed down by the Office of Covino to choose from those two applicants and an unexpectedly new applicant—Stephen Fleischer—even though the bylaws would have reasonably directed them to the formation of an ad-hoc committee to address the issue.

In a previous U-SU Board of Directors meeting, talk of Stephen Fleischer was not new. Student rep Nicholas Carrillo voiced his opposition with many of the reported problems the Housing Services had, which needed to be handled accordingly by Housing Director Stephen Fleischer, but it was ultimately ignored by the rest of the board that were not student appointees. This turned many student representatives on the Board against the appointment

of Fleischer as the Executive Director, says a close source of the U-SU who wishes to remain anonymous.

But Hakobian says that what happened in this case with the employment of Fleischer is a constant occurrence, quickly referencing a similar situation with the selection process of the Dean of Students.

“I am not questioning these people because they’ve been selected and I work with them, but I am questioning the way President Covino makes his selections," said ASI President Hakobian.

"Meanwhile, he is completely ignoring student’s voice through students representatives, who have been elected, how can you expect for him to empower students if they are always ignored?

President Covino needs to respect students voice.”

Moving uphill with Cal State LA television/web series cia freaks out when Ariana’s necklace reminds him of a woman in his past. GEP was quick to remind the audience of that undisclosed memory he has of Ariana with the line “You remind me of someone I used to be close with.”

Where is this memory going to lead to by the end of the season? The University Times spoke with executive producer Aubrey Magalang for some insight.

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Mid-season review of Golden Eagle Productions’ The Hill.

Nico Triunfante Copy Editor

In the start of winter break, Golden Eagle Productions (GEP) premiered episode five of their dramatic emotional rollercoaster, a college student-based series of The Hill.

The fifth installment titled “One Day” was the episode that is drawing ties between charac-

ters. It saw two characters with personal family problems, Chris Young and Emily Ford, engaging in the same scene where the two spark up an argument. Similarly, it wasn’t until this episode where lead actress Ariana Hernandez and Andres De La Rosa reunite since the pilot “The First Day.” Talk about mise en scène.

Golden Eagle Productions cleverly placed these titles with the mutual word ‘day’, which seems to bring the audience back to the beginning and allow them to recall certain connections that particular characters have with one another.

From the pilot episode, the centerpiece character Tony Gar-

“Well they’re obviously friends, but you just don’t know what kind of friends they are,” Magalang said.

“You’ll just have to find out!”

Although the previous relationships in the series are finally meshing together, GEP introduces new characters on the campus, one being R. Sean, who has a love-business interest in the aspiring singer Keisha Taylor. Ariana on the other hand meets Adam, a dancer from campus who showed his utmost determination to know The Hills’ top-notch freshman dancer.

With the series finally forming bonds between characters and new ones coming into play, it’ll be interesting to see what GEP has in store for the upcoming episodes.

“You can expect a lot of drama,” Magalang said.

“Serious issues are being brought up. It’s going to be juicier.”

Cal State LA can expect the second half of the season to premiere on Jan. 12th.

Other items voted on were the removal of student appointee Nicholas Carrillo for outstanding unexcused absences, an amendment and restatement of the bylaws allowing two ASI members to sit on the Board and for a due-paying alumni representative to sit in, and a local agency investment fund resolution. All listed items of action were approved.

While there was little attendance by students there was a fair amount of bystanders of noticeable individuals involved in U-SU facility services like the Center for Student Involvement, Cross Cultural Center, Operations and the Xtreme Fitness Center.

Students are encouraged to attend these and future meetings as a way to understand and be aware of significant policy changes. To find out more, including future meeting times visit calstatelausu. org.

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Meet Li-Fi: A Faster and Greener Wireless System An introduction into an exciting new technology that will make internet 100 times faster while reducing our carbon footprint.

Hannah Jacobsen Staff Reporter

Wi-Fi was a fairly magical invention when it was first introduced into the world, and anyone besides the tech savvy would understand how it somehow lets us look at Instagram or watch Netflix for hours on end when we really should be studying.

If you think Wi-Fi is mind blowing, just wait until you hear what’s next: A company called Velmenni recently conducted a test of a new version of wireless internet connection called Li-Fi. It attained internet connection speeds that were 100 times faster than the standard Wi-Fi speeds. In laboratory conditions, Li-Fi can theoretically reach speeds of up to 224 Gbps (gigabits per second) that is 22,400 times faster than the standard Wi-Fi. How can this be true? Wi-Fi runs on radio waves and it’s actually an inconvenient way to transmit data. Harald Hass, the innovator behind this new potential technology, has given multiple Ted Talks on the subject. He explains that the problem with transmitting wireless data using radio waves includes capacity and efficiency.

Radio waves are a limited resource, making them expensive to maintain as the world increasingly relies on wireless data for their cell phones, computers, and all the other technology that we use.

This increase in demand cannot be met by the limited spectrum that radio wave powered Wi-Fi has to offer.

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In addition, the efficiency of this wireless data transmission is horrendous. Just in 2011, there were 1.4 million cellular radio masts buckling under the weight.

“These 1.4 million cellular radio masts, or base stations, consumed a lot of energy,” Haas explained in his 2011 Ted Talk.

“Most of the energy is not used to transmit the radio waves, it is used to cool the base stations. Then the efficiency of such a base station is only about five percent.”

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Five percent efficiency for stations that are meant to give the internet to an entire world, sounds bad?. Stations that are contributing to the already detrimental effects of global warming, where the effects of our inefficient waste already led to a very serious climate meeting among world leaders in November 2015.

So what is the solution to this inefficient and limited transmission problem?

“We have 14 billion light bulbs, light,” Haas said. “And light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light has been around for many millions of years. And in fact, it has created all the stuff of life. So it’s inherently safe to use. And wouldn’t it be great to use that for wireless communications?”

Compare the radio wave spectrum with the visible light spectrum, which we have 10,000 times more of. Compare the inefficient radio cellular base stations with the 14 billion light bulbs that already twinkle brightly above our heads as we go through our days.

“The one thing we need to do is we have to replace these inefficient incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent lights, with this new technology of LED, LED light bulbs,” Haas said. “An LED is a semiconductor.”

These LED light bulbs, with a small microchip inserted, can redefine our entire concept of wireless data through subtle changes in the amplitude of the light bulb that go unseen by the human eye, that can operate even when light is so dim that it appears to be off.

In most recent developments, the creators and testers of Li-Fi have even discovered how to turn solar cells, such as those which we use to charge our cell phones, into receivers for high-speed wireless

signals encoded in light while still functioning as an energy harvester.

Imagine how much energy could be saved if everyone’s light bulbs were switched to the more energy-efficient LED, if the 1.4 million high energy base stations no longer needed to operate. An energy neutral source of wireless internet. Imagine a world where we receive both our energy and our wireless data from planet-friendly solar cells integrated into windows, into street devices such as stop lights, into phones, and laptops. The possibilities are limitless.

To make this discovery even more exciting, this is not just a theory. Li-fi was actually tested at Velmenni, a start-up company which is implementing Li-Fi technology into their new range of LED bulbs. This company has designed a Vehicle Tracking System that track and monitor your car. They’ve developed a lighting system which works through a mobile app, allowing you to control all your home devices. All through the power of light.

“For me, the applications of it are beyond imagination at the moment,” Haas said. “You only have to notice, where we have light, there is a potential way to transmit data. In the future, you would not only have 14 billion light bulbs, you may have 14 billion Li-Fis deployed worldwide—for a cleaner, a greener, and even a brighter future.”

As we face a future full of many scary question marks— with a terrifying rise in global temperature, increasingly high rates of extinctions, and many island nations fearing a loss of their homes due to rising sea levels— Li-Fi and other technological innovations like it are a brilliant source of hope in creating a better tomorrow.

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LA Unified Schools Close Because of “Hoax”

committee, Adam Schiff of Los Angeles, stated in a preliminary report that the email threat was a “hoax or something designed to disrupt schools in large cities.”

Schools across Los Angeles closed for the day due to a possible threat.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was joined by LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck to defend the school board’s decision to shut down the schools, saying that law enforcement was not sure at the time of the decision whether the threat was legitimate or not.

Ani Nalbandian Contributor

On Dec. 15th, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest district in the country, closed its doors due to a bomb threat that had been emailed in to a school board member.

Ramon Cortines, LAUSD Superintendent confirmed the possibility of an electronic threat during a press conference held immediately after the shutdown.

He defended his actions stating, “I think it is important that I take the precaution based on what has happened recently and what has happened in the past.” Referring of course to the recent mass shooting that took place in San Bernardino killing 14 people.

Bus drivers were told to go back to their hub early Tuesday morning, and parents were notified through calls and text messages that schools had been closed for the day. The last time a shutdown of this scale occurred was in 1994 during the Northridge earthquake.

Students were advised to keep away from campuses until the threat had been cleared. Shortly after the shutdown, 17 year-old Andres Perez, a student at Los Angeles International Charter

been inspected and cleared by the FBI, thus officially discrediting the threat. In a press conference announcing the findings, school board President Steve Zimmer said “We believe that our schools are safe and we can reopen schools in Los Angeles Unified School District tomorrow morning.”

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High School, was killed after being hit by a city service truck while crossing the street near campus.

The threat was received and overviewed by school and law enforcement officials from 10 p.m. on Monday night. School Board members were notified of the threat at 3 a.m., and Contines was notified as late as 5 a.m., less than two hours before he made the announcement of the shutdown.

The email was sent to six cities across the country – New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Dallas, and Clark County in Nevada – and all threats were directed at schools and students. It was quickly deemed a hoax by New York City officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, who chimed in saying the threat was

“so generic, so outlandish” that it couldn’t be taken seriously. De Blasio continued to be critical saying “It would be a huge disservice to our nation to close down our school system.”

The letter was written by a self-proclaimed “devout Muslim”, although the electronic message had basic spelling errors that convinced NYPD of the contrary – Allah being spelled with a lowercase ‘a.’ The writer claimed to be a student in the district suffering from “bullying,” “loneliness” and “rejection.” The letter went on to say that every school in each county would be targeted with bomb assaults and rifles “and there is nothing you can do to stop it.”

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The threats were all routed through a server in Germany run by a 21-year-old Maine resident. The college dropout, Vincent Canfield, is currently living in Romania and was served with subpoenas in connection to the emails from the city of New York as well as Clark County.

The NYPD contacted Canfield on a recorded line regarding the subpoena, explaining “the reason you got three days to respond is because of the severity of it.”

Canfield responded, “I do understand the severity of it. There’s some stuff I don’t understand on the subpoena and I’d like to understand it before I follow through.”

By Tuesday evening, LAUSD officials said all campuses had

A senior member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, Representative Brad Sherman of Los Angeles, said the email lacked “the feel of the way jihadists usually write.” He mentioned the letter did not cite any Koranic verses and made unlikely threats including a nerve gas attack that would involve 32 students. Sherman said, “There isn’t a person on the street who couldn’t have written this,” with a basic level of knowledge of Islam.

While dropping off their children at schools on Wednesday, reporters asked parents how they felt about the shutdown and the handling of the situation by the school board and law enforcement. Most parents did not feel inconvenienced by the shutdown and commended the officials for taking action in the face of a threat.

The threat may have cost the district $29 million with over 900 schools, the Los Angeles Unified has a total of 640,000 students.

OP-ED

The Art of Networking The one letter difference between ‘networking’ and ‘not’ working.

Alexis Thrower Contributor

A wise man once told me, “Networking is the one letter difference between not working.”

That statement couldn’t be any more true. As future graduates and working professionals, now is the time to present your face and name to the world to make yourself marketable and a cutting edge in the workforce to land your dream job. Let’s be realistic.

Having that degree is just not

enough anymore. It is not a matter of what you know, or who you know, but who knows you! To help you out, here are the need to knows of networking!

Have business cards—Just because you are not “established” yet does not mean you’re lacking a need for business cards.

Your business cards should contain your name, school of attendance, major, anticipated graduation date (if applicable), and contact information. As what should be an obvious side note, make sure that all your contact information is appropriate. No hotmama2020vision@yahoo. com please. Act as if you already have your career, which consists of professional business cards.

When networking opportunities

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present themselves, having business cards is critical in marketing yourself and setting yourself up for people to think of you for potential opportunities within your field.

Create an elevator speech/ pitch—An elevator speech is a description of who you are in a 30 seconds or less nutshell. It should include your name, year, major and career goals. The purpose of this speech is to prepare you for when the opportunity arises to network or meet someone

conducive to your success. For example, if you are film student and Steven Spielberg walks into the elevator, you should be bold and concise as to your plans for your life and use that small window of time to create a lasting connection. Without this personal mission statement, you may find yourself tongue tied or rambling when networking opportunities occur.

Keep contact with your connections—Sending a mere thank you email or card a day or

two after meeting someone can leave a lasting impression, which is the goal when it comes to upcoming job openings that you can be considered for. Further your initial meeting by extending the invitation for coffee or lunch, so that you create a bond that makes you a shoe-in for jobs.

Lastly, don’t merely network with people in your field—Never underestimate who someone else may know. That person just may have a contact with someone within your field.

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The Alumni Report: Queeny Lapeña Queeny’s Journey from an unhappy nutritional science major to a Ph.D. student studying archaeology at UCLA. Hannah Jacobsen Staff Reporter

Queeny Lapeña began her first year as a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) this fall, after receiving her B.A. and M.A. from Cal State LA in anthropology with a specialization in archaeology. However, Queeny did not discover her love for archaeology until her senior year of college at Cal State LA, showing that it is never too late to pursue your passion.

“I started Cal State LA in 2007 and floated around for two years before choosing nutritional science as my major,” Queeny said. “I come from a first generation migrant Filipino family, and my parents always pushed me into pursuing financially secure jobs, such as those in health.

But I was hugely unhappy with my

major, I was just going from class to class and it was so impacted that I was always worried about the financial cost of not finishing in time.”

All of these factors built up as Queeny entered her first anthropology class with Dr. Helen Wells and found an enthusiasm for anthropology that did not exist when it came to her nutritional science major.

“Dr. Helen Wells introduced me to this new world of California archaeology,” Queeny said. “I did her field school, which was every other weekend in the desert setting of the China Lake naval air weapons station. We excavated a rock shelter there, and I really enjoyed it.”

Though she was still reluctant to give up a financially secure job path to pursue anthropology, she met with Dr. René Vellanoweth, an anthropology professor who runs the California Coastal Archaeology Lab at Cal State LA. “Dr. Vellanoweth persistently asked me to come into lab, and when he told me they did a lot of studies with food that went well with my interest in nutrition, I decided to try it out,” Queeny said. “I found myself surrounded by a lot of enthusiastic graduate students and I was just stoked, it was something I’d never experienced in my previous major.

I found a sense of belonging and an

extended family in the lab.”

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Though she only officially switched to anthropology in her senior year, Queeny applied to and was accepted into the Cal State LA master’s program for archaeology, finding herself in a world that was far different from what she’d ever imagined for herself.

“Coming from a first generation migrant family, I couldn’t imagine myself ever getting into a Ph.D. or a master’s program,” Queeny said.

“Fields within the philosophies and humanities especially seem to be dominated by white males, and I still feel that stigma. But that’s changing now, and I found myself enjoying the academically and physically challenging work. I felt like I was in a National Geographic show.”

While the grad program was difficult, and Queeny’s first quarter was extremely intense and stressful, she found herself in her final year, finalizing her thesis and applying to Ph.D. programs.

“Dr. Vellanoweth’s lab had this generation of successful Ph.D. appliers and that made me believe in myself, but applying to programs is a lot of money,” Queeny said.

“Applications are expensive and it’s difficult to get in if you don’t visit the campus and meet the professors who you want to work with, so I was thinking: I’m barely able to pay for rent and food; how can I afford this?”

To pay for the application process, Queeny succeeded in earning

Queeny Lapeña (right) at Barn Owl Cave on Santa Barbara Island Photo Courtesy | Queeny’s Facebook

the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship, which provides students with a free application to every California state school, GRE prep, and $3,000 to attend conferences and visit prospective programs. It also gives winners the option of a paid summer internship, which can pay up to $9,000. With the award in hand, Queeny embarked upon her Ph.D. search.

“When applying, you have to start all of this way in advance, like 4-6 months,” Queeny said. “You have to email professors to schedule meetings, read their articles so that you sound knowledgeable when talking to them, and make visits work around your school schedule.

I met potential professors through conferences, Skype interviews, and campus visits to three universities.”

Though Queeny ended up applying to three universities, she found herself immediately clicking with Dr. Stephen Acabado at UCLA, after walking into his office to hear Bob Marley playing before he stood

up and offered a trip out for coffee.

As soon as she realized how comfortable she felt discussing her interests and archaeology with him, Queeny knew that UCLA was where she was meant to be.

“It all clicks when you find yourself on the right career path. If you end up with an idea of what you want to do, you suddenly have this sense of purpose and you know what you want to do for the next ten years,” Queeny said. “When trying to figure all this out in college, follow your heart, do what you like to do and don’t limit yourself.”

Today, Queeny is finishing up the first quarter of her Ph.D. program at UCLA, living a life that is amazing in its sense of discovery. She spent her entire summer doing archaeology in the Philippines to restore a history that was distorted and made to disappear through colonialism and will continue this research in her upcoming years to give an individual history back to the country that she emigrated from as a child.

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TECNOLOGÍA

Cómo cumplir los propósitos de Año Nuevo

NOTICIAS DE LATINOAMÉRICA

El chikungunya arrasa con México El virus sigue esparciéndose con rapidez Por Jessica Magaña En noviembre del 2014 se descubrieron algunos casos del virus chikungunya. Esta enfermedad apareció en el sur de México al reportarse 14 personas afectadas en el estado de Chiapas. Sin embargo, este virus tiene su origen en África donde se documentaron los primeros casos en 1952. Desde que se identificó este padecimiento, no se ha podido encontrar una vacuna que lo prevenga o lo cure.

La plaga es muy contagiosa ya que se transmite fácilmente por medio de picaduras de los mosquitos llamados Aedes aegypty y Aedes albopictus. Algunos de los síntomas más comunes son severos dolores musculares, fiebre elevada, dolor de cabeza y constantes

náuseas.

Esta peste se sigue extendiendo en casi todo México perjudicando a 28 de los 32 estados de la nación. Las zonas más afectadas son los territorios más pobres que se encuentran en el sur del país. Se ha registrado la mayoría de casos del virus en Veracruz, Guerrero, Michoacán y Yucatán.

Estos sectores son propensos a las altas temperaturas y humedad que facilitan la existencia de dichos insectos pestilentes.

De acuerdo a la Secretaría de Salud de México (SSA), la suma de los infectados en la actualidad es de 11,394 personas. El número de víctimas se ha multiplicado por diez en los últimos siete meses. La SSA también reportó que estos mosquitos no sólo transmiten el chikungunya sino otros virus como el dengue y el zika. Estas enfermedades también se han extendido con rapidez en otros países tales como Brasil y Colombia.

Algunas metas comunes para el comienzo del año.

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La tecnología nos ayuda a cumplir nuestras metas Por Graciela López Al inicio del 2016, muchas personas se proponen nuevas metas personales y laborales.

Aunque todo va bien y acorde a lo planeado los primeros días de enero, en los siguientes meses se hace todo más difícil de realizar y por lo regular posponen esas metas para el siguiente año.

El sitio web LATIN POST publicó algunas de las aplicaciones para celulares que pueden ayudar a todas aquellas personas que deseen alcanzar

sus objetivos.

Si el propósito es perder peso, la aplicación Lose It! permite a los usuarios estar al tanto de las calorías que deben consumir cada día además de las porciones de comida y el ejercicio realizado.

Para las personas que se proponen ser más organizadas y productivas, la aplicación Wunderlist es esencial para sus vidas diarias. Ésta contiene la opción de crear listas para cada área que deseen organizar y se puede tener acceso desde cualquier dispositivo ya que toda la información se guarda en la “nube”.

Lo que otros individuos buscan es cómo ahorrar más. Estos podrían usar Mint, la aplicación

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Una rutina fácil y rápida

5 minutos de ejercicio intenso equivalen a correr 20 minutos

Por Xanni Valentín Chavira El pasado lunes, 28 de diciembre, Laura Méndez Magdaleno, estudiante de la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, declaró que un entrenamiento intenso de cinco minutos tiene el mismo efecto que correr veinte minutos. Esta alumna de la Facultad de Ciencias, diseñó una rutina que permite a las personas tener una buena salud cardiopulmonar.

“México ocupa el segundo sitio mundial en obesidad, donde el principal pretexto para hacer ejercicio es la falta de tiempo.

Así tienes una opción de hacerlo en tu casa por sólo cinco minutos diarios y te da el mismo beneficio cardiovascular que correr veinte minutos”, señaló Méndez Magdaleno.

De acuerdo con el portal informativo Aristegui Noticias, la asesora del proyecto, Dra. Guadalupe Dorantes Méndez, sostuvo que “la idea de evaluar un entrenamiento físico en personas principalmente sedentarias tenía el propósito de ver si es bueno hacer ejercicio con más intensidad durante poco tiempo; entonces propusimos protocolos de diferentes intensidades de ejercicio calculando varios índices”.

Laura Méndez Magdaleno recibiendo el reconocimiento por su investigación.

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El proceso de la investigación se basó en la recopilación de información de individuos que trotaban veinte minutos al día y el comportamiento de personas sedentarias que sólo realizaban cinco minutos diarios de ejercicio intenso.

La comparación se efectuó frente a una prueba estándar.

En dicho examen, los sujetos en prueba subieron y bajaron una grada de 50 centímetros durante cinco minutos una vez por semana. Los resultados indicaron que las diferencias entre los dos tipos de entrenamiento no fueron significativas.

Según miembros de la agencia informativa Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), “se observó una tendencia de aumento en la activación parasimpática después de las cinco semanas de entrenamiento, lo que sugiere que los dos tipos de entrenamiento benefician la condición cardiovascular”.

Un reflejo de América Un recorrido por América a través de la literatura del 2015

ciudades del continente y que se desplaza al pasado por medio del recuerdo y la memoria.

Por Cecilia Lara

Juan Álvarez, escritor colombiano de 37 años, narra una historia de los comienzos de la Independencia. El autor da voz a José María Caballero Llanos, un personaje de la vida real quien quedó mudo por accidente y que escribe los hechos ocurridos en Santa Fe de Bogotá en 1808.

Entre los recuentos publicados en El País de los diversos eventos del 2015, se encuentran las veintitrés lecturas de autores americanos que han enriquecido la literatura española. Dichos textos presentan una forma para conocer lo que es América y su cultura desde la perspectiva de estos autores contemporáneos.

Los siguientes seis textos son parte de esa lista.

Nuevos juguetes de la guerra fría Juan Manuel Robles, escritor peruano, escribe una historia sobre espías donde hace un recorrido por varias

La ruidosa marcha de los mudos

Patria o muerte Alberto Barrera, autor venezolano, hace en su novela una descripción de los eventos de cada día en su patria a partir del padecimiento de Hugo Chávez, algo que ocasionó gran tensión en el país.

Las tierras arrasadas Emiliano Monge (Ciudad de

que mantiene una historia de todas las transacciones bancarias.

El app tiene la habilidad de crear un presupuesto de acuerdo a los hábitos de compras de cada usuario.

Dejar de fumar o de beber alcohol es más fácil con las nuevas aplicaciones Smoke Free y Drink Control que ayudan con el control de consumo de estas sustancias nocivas.

Una aplicación más es Sleep Genius. Ésta ofrece ayudar a conciliar el sueño más rápido y más profundo a los que sufren de insomnio. Con este servicio se pueden documentar las horas que duerme la persona y saber si éstas son suficientes para mantenerse saludable.

LITERATURA México, 1978) narra en su novela el dramatismo de la inmigración centroamericana donde el tráfico de personas se convierte en negocio y la violencia predomina.

Dos veces única Elena Poniatowska escribe la última parte de la trilogía, México tras Tinísima y Leonora.

En la última parte ella expone su investigación sobre “Lupe Marín, la primer mujer de Diego Rivera”.

Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates escribe una carta a su hijo tratando de explicarle la razón de la violencia entre razas en los Estados Unidos.

Killing and dying Adrian Tomine presenta un comic que muestra los suburbios estadounidenses, los barrios, los centros comerciales, los restaurantes de comida rápida y en general la vida y sus complicaciones en estos lugares.

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How to Apply to Law School for Free Outsmarting Law School Admissions costs.

Ani Nalbandian Contributor

It’s January and if you haven’t started already, it’s time to start thinking about testing. Depending on what you would like to do after graduating, you may be looking to take the GMAT, GRE, LSAT or MCAT. If the costs associated with taking the tests or applying to schools are intimidating, it may be comforting for you to know that you are not alone in feeling this way.

Fortunately there are several ways around spending those hundreds of thousands of dollars.

For example, one of the biggest costs are the tests themselves, the Law School Admissions Test, is coming soon and priced at $170 apiece. Not to mention related services, like the Credential Assembly Service for the LSAT, to assist you in reporting your scores to schools, also end up costing in the hundreds of dollars.

To avoid those and other associated costs, you can apply for a Law School Admissions Council fee waiver at LSAC.org.

After qualifying you will receive credit for two free LSATs, free access to Credential Assembly Services, four free law school reports, and a copy of the LSAT SuperPrep book.

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You can prepare for the exam by checking out recently published LSAT preparation books from your local library and keep them for up to two months at a time. After qualifying for the Law School Admissions Council fee waiver, they will send you a copy of the SuperPrep as well, which includes practice tests and thorough explanations on each section of the test.

Although Credential Assembly Services will give you free and easy access to law school applications, they will not cover the costs of the applications themselves which can be very expensive. If you decide to apply to four law schools, you’re looking at fees of upwards of $400.

In order to avoid those exuberant costs you must apply for waivers for each individual school, although most schools will automatically waive the application fee for those who have already qualified for the LSAC waiver. Other schools who are more stringent about fees, like Yale or Stanford, are still very likely to award waivers if the student had already qualified with the Law School Admissions Council.

If you desperately want to attend law school but are not financially stable enough to apply, a little diligence can go a long way. Although it may add a couple extra “To-Do’s” to your overcrowded list, sending in a few extra applications can and will save you thousands of dollars in the long run.

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A case for joining a Greek house on campus Five reasons why the Greek life is for you.

Emma Marie Gomez Contributor

Majority of the time people assume that fraternities and sororities are all about the party rather than their studies, but this is not true. There are many benefits to the Greek life that can benefit college students in the present and future. So why choose Greek life?

It provides opportunities to meet people around campus that have the same goal or priorities as you. A lot of college students just go to school and go home without getting the full experience of college, but the Greek life opens opportunities to meet people that share Greek letters.

Your networking opportunities boom like you never thought they would. Joining the Greek life connects you to many different connections that could help benefit your own personal life. Also, many alumnae love to help out college students that are going through the same Greek life process as they have. A lot of them are successful in their own lives so they have connections in jobs as well as other aspects in life. Not only do alumnae help, but also the current college students that are going through the same process understand the struggles and help each other out with jobs as well.

You develop friendships that will last a lifetime. Many people would think it is only college, you eventually go your separate ways just like high school, but that won’t happen. Many times the friends you meet in Greek eventually become so special to you

that eventually will be your bridesmaids/ grooms and become your best friends that last you lifetime. The friendship that is developed in the Greek life is a strong bond because you understand the sacrifices that had to be made in order to be a part of something bigger than yourself.

You always have someone. Literally you always have someone within the Greek community that is down to go out and do activities with you. Whether it’s studying, going out to eat, or helping you get over a breakup. Within the Greek community there are many members that are always open for a new adventure or some company.

You’re pressured to keep your academic grades high. Being in the Greek life consist of responsibilities and one of the most important one is having the proper academics to continue being able to wear those Greek letters.

Greek life is not paying for friends, it is paying for the experience that a person can only get once in their lifetime while experiencing the best college has to offer.

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me, you can arrange a trip to a place closer to a place where you reside. Last year, I took a really fun and inexpensive trip to San Diego. Luckily, the weather was awesome and the city’s party spirit was in full gear. I got a hotel in the downtown area that only cost $100 a night. I split the cost with 3 other people so the amount in the end wasn’t too bad. We stayed and partied at the Gaslamp Quarter at night and we hit the beach during the day. The best place to eat is in little Italy. Mission Beach is the place to go to if you want to hang out with the spring breakers.

While only two hours away, San Diego is a great place for a last minute getaway.

Albert Reyes Contributor

The craziness of the holidays are over and the New Year has begun. Being a Cal State LA student, we all know the things that get kicked up in full gear once the quarter begins. People say that the early bird gets the worm and this rings true to those who plan ahead. However, the quarter system is such a speedy process, and most students forget the fact that spring break awaits at the end of the quarter. They become forgetful of the situation they end up doing nothing and missing out in a crucial moment of the college experience.

According to studentcity.com, a spring break planning site, Panama City Beach is nominated as the best place to be for spring break. This place is located by the Gulf of Mexico stretching

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over 28 miles of non-stop partying. With the help of the planning tools found on the website you can find a package that works for anyone.

If planning seems a bit overwhelming for you, you can also

try all-inclusive packages. Most are pretty affordable starting at $699. This includes flight, a hotel stay, meal coupons, and entrance to all the hottest clubs depending on the destination. There are also smaller packages that are more affordable as little as $324 for

another hotspot called South Padre Island. This doesn’t include flights but it does include everything else. For more information log on to www.statravel.com/ book-spring-break.

Personally, if you end up like

You have many choices, but it’s best to start planning now because things get more expensive as the day approaches. Consider if a flight and a getaway is what you’re looking for. Maybe a road trip works for you. Or if the energy of a nearby city is what you prefer is best. So, get to planning now!