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ASI and Administration agree on budget despite longstanding disagreements Ani Nalbandian
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Rare giant corpse flower prepares to bloom
Associated Students Incorporated (ASI) was being forced by the administration to write a $125,000 check to the Anna Bing Arnold Children’s Center this year based on a referendum passed by the University 20 years ago that had never been enforced in previous years. Unfortunately for the administration, they were met with serious student resistance that spurred a conversation about legality of tactics and bureaucratic overreach. On May 4, ASI President Ejmin Hakobian, and Treasurer Antonio Canzona sat down with President Covino, University CFO Lisa Chavez and VP for Student Life Dr. Nancy Wada-McKee, in order to come to an agreement on ASI’s budget. The administration and ASI compromised to reduce the funding to EPIC, EOP and the Anna Bing Arnold Children’s Center in order to reallocate those funds to Dreamers students, Veterans, and Golden Eagle Radio. The uncooperative dynamic between ASI and the administration began this year over the issue of funding for the Anna Bing Arnold Children’s Center. The administration wanted to dedicate approximately ten percent of ASI’s operating income to the Children’s Center, which is owned and operated by University Auxiliary Ser-
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What’s big, colorful, and smells like rotting meat? If you guessed “flowers,” then you’re surprisingly right.
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vices (UAS). UAS has an income of over 25 times that of ASI’s budget, however, contributes no monetary resources to the center.
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According to the ASI University Support Budget Proposal for 2016/2017, “Upon Reviewing UAS’s total Contribution vs ASI’s total contribution to the
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Amorphophallus titanum, more commonly known as the “Corpse Flower,” is planted at the Cal State LA green house, located beside the Biological Sciences Building.
Center, there was the discovery that ASI had contributed a total of $1,141,533 since the 2006-2007
Primarily found in Sumatra, Indonesia, it is one of the largest and rarest flowers in the world.
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“It’s the world’s largest inflorescence, meaning the stalk it has there, it’s made of hundreds or probably thousands of little flowers clustered on it,” said Kirsten Fisher, an Associate Professor of Biological Science. “So it’s a collection of tiny flowers. The world’s largest cluster of flowers.”
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Admissions closed for spring 2017
CSU Board of Trustees ratifies multi-year agreement with CFA
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Due to the record breaking fall 2016 applications, the University has decided to limit admission for the spring 2017 semester. Undergraduate, graduate and credential programs will be closed during this restriction period. The limiting of spring 2017 applications is an attempt by the University to adjust with the growing enrollment and keep their focus on continuing students. Currently, Cal State LA is home to approximately 27,000 students. At the start of the 2015-2016 school year, 5,000 students alone were added to the Golden Eagle family. With the University’s first semester approaching, around 1,000 students will be admitted this upcoming fall. Previously, undergraduate
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admissions were closed winter and spring 2016 in order to prepare for the semester conversion. Undergraduate students that are looking to transfer to Cal State LA are encouraged to apply for the fall 2017 semester. Graduate students will not be allowed to apply unless the Dean of their college believes there are enough resources to support additional students. The University plans to announce what graduate and credential programs will be open for spring 2017 by mid-
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June. In an email from the Office of the Provost, Vice Provost of Enrollment Services Tom Enders stated the University “understands that some [students] will not be able to wait and will consider other campuses which are open.” The College of Professional and Global Education’s spring 2017 programs at the new Downtown L.A. campus will remain unchanged.
The long fight between the California State University (CSU) system and the California Faculty Association (CFA) finally ended Tuesday afternoon, when the CSU Board of Trustees met in an open session on collective bargaining to ratify the new collective bargaining agreement with CFA. While this ratification will not affect faculty in the current fiscal year, it results in a multi-year collective bargaining agreement that will give all faculty unit employees a 10.5 percent increase in general salary over three fiscal years and a 2.65 percent service salary increase for all eligible faculty in
the 2017-18 fiscal year.
“Over the last several months, we have talked many times about ongoing negotiations with the California Faculty Association,” Lori Lamb, Vice Chancellor for Human Resources at the CSU system, said as she presented the agreement for ratification, “I am very pleased that we were able to reach a tentative agreement and avoid a system-wide strike by our faculty. We strongly believe that coming to this resolution was very much in the best interests of the CSU, our students and our faculty.” In addition to these general salary increases, the CSU and CFA have negotiated to change percent
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Pan-African Studies Forum brings revolutionary Angela Davis Mimi Li
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Annual forum focuses on black liberation and movements. The Cal State LA Pan-African Studies Department held its 9th Annual Pan-African Studies Forum, featuring Dr. Angela Davis on “Abolition, Resistance, and the Black Radical Tradition,” last Thursday at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. The event was free and open to all. Tickets became sparse as hundreds filled the theatre, as not only Cal State LA students were in attendance, but local radical organizations as well, including Black Lives Matter, the Brown Berets, the American Indian Movement, and Critical Resistance, the last of which Davis co-founded in 1997. The forum highlighted the talents of the students, faculty, and alumni of the department. Professor Onochie Chukwurah led an African drumming group to open the night’s festivities, later followed by a children’s dance group, Rhythms of the Village. Professor Staci Mitchell, Pan-African Studies major Simeon Carson, Pan-African
ASI Continued from cover FY while UAS received a total of $40,970 (contributions minus amounts taken) from the Center.” Notwithstanding the fact that alumni, staff and faculty are the direct beneficiaries of over half of the center’s resources, according to the Anna Bing Arnold Children’s Center Proposal for Associated Students, Inc. Fiscal Year 2016/2017. Which begs the question, why is the administration forcing student fees to be dedicated to a center which faculty and staff benefit the most from? To induce the ASI into forking over the unwarranted cash, President Covino put a freeze on ASI’s budget, not once, but twice over the past year. As ASI struggled to provide funding to clubs and students with the freeze in place, both the administration and ASI lawyered up and prepared for battle. In the meantime, ASI had a vote of no confidence and called for the resignation of President Covino. In addition, the Associated Students raised the issue of administrative overreach multiple times to Chancellor White and his staff, but were turned away with no resolution or assistance. That is until ASI President Hakobian visited the CSU Trustee’s meeting last month in Long Beach, in order to address Chancellor White for not mediating the disagreements between stu-
Studies alumna Funmilola Fagbamila, and Cross Cultural Centers staff member Thea Monyee livened up the room with heartfelt, passionate poetry. Fagbamila’s poem, “Woke Black Folk,” was inspired by the themes in her upcoming play, The Intersection, about the “black liberation ego.” She describes four black fictional characters who represent different liberation ideologies and the flaws of each – the one who sees only certain black folks as kings and queens, the inaccessible academic, the judgmental activist, and the respectable politics follower. “We are complex and conflicted, often stuck in our ways, but regardless of all that, we’re all absolutely here to stay,” says Fagbamila. “So let’s teach each other and be open to receive, because we really need each other. This is a fact, guaranteed.” Pan-African Studies chair and professor Dr. Melina Abdullah led the introductions, honoring students and faculty, as well as providing a brief history of the department. “We are the second oldest black Studies department in the country, and we were founded in 1969 out of a struggle that started in the streets and also connected with the campus,” says Abdullah. However,
dents and staff. During the meeting Hakobian explained, “We need to make a fundamental cultural and procedural change to ensure student leaders in the CSU have necessary tools and support systems.” He was met with promises from Chancellor White’s staff that they would be working on a solution to mediate issues between student governments and administration across all CSU’s. After months of uncomfortable back and forth and in the face of a publicity nightmare, the administration finally agreed to have a better look at ASI’s budget and became more cooperative and flexible. During the May 4 meeting, ASI’s Hakobian and Canzona presented their revised budget for the 2016/2017 year, with significantly reduced funding to the Children’s Center. They were met with concerns from the administrators and were subsequently asked to reduce other aspects of the budget in order to retain the same level of funding for the Center. ASI Treasurer Antonio Canzona explained to the administrators that “… [CSULA] ASI has, by far, the lowest fees of any other CSU campus; this coupled with the rising costs of staff, equipment, and other operating expenses prompted cuts to many other areas of the Student & University Support budget.” They finally agreed to a decrease
struggles have not ended for the department – “Even at a university that is one of the most diverse in the nation like Cal State LA, Pan African Studies is always under attack,” she says. The Pan-African Studies department is dubbed as “the intellectual arm of the [Black Lives Matter] movement.” Nearly all of the students majoring in Pan-African Studies graduate, Abdullah states. The keynote speaker for the night was Angela Davis, a scholar and activist for black liberation and feminism, specifically for abolition and against incarceration. Davis, formerly a professor at University of California, Santa Cruz and other universities, was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list and spent eighteen months in jail in relation to the 1970 Marin County courthouse incident, in which she was deemed not guilty. Davis praised the work of Black Lives Matter and other organizations such as the Black Youth Project 100. She states that current movements exist due to the movements of the past, and that movements are even better today due to the vast amount of knowledge available to young activists. Connecting her past activism with the activism of the Black Lives Matter movement, she recalls
of approximately $21,000 to the Anna Bing Arnold Children’s Center, EOP and EPIC and were able to reallocate that money throughout the campus. The 2016/2017 ASI budget will include $110,000 for the Children’s Center, $3,500 for EOP and $7,721 for EPIC. The Dreamers Resource Center will now be receiving $17,000 for students who do not qualify for AB540 and AB2000 and are forced to pay international fees. This new program will provide 50 students with $170 book vouchers per semester in order to assist them with the high cost of attending Cal State LA. President Hakobian met with Steve Teixeira, the Director of the Veterans Resource Center to organize a budget for student veterans to attend conferences that focus on veteran’s rights. They will be receiving $9,907 in order to cover the costs of travel and conference expenses. In addition, a much needed $5,000 will be allocated to Golden Eagle radio in order to keep the Cal State LA campus radio functioning. In an interview with the University Times, ASI Treasurer Canzona explained that “Compared to the funding we were able to allocate this school year, we reduced the funding to many areas such as Programming, Marketing, Club funding, Committee Vouchers, and completely eliminating funding
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the days when she protested the shooting of Gregory Clark by the Los Angeles police officer Warren B. Carlson. Without modern technology such as social media, they persisted in creating a Most Wanted poster with the name of the officer by taking a photograph of him when he appeared on the news and taping it to white cardboard. They were successful - Hundreds of people joined this protest. She led the audience in a chant for Wakiesha Wilson, a 36-year-old Black woman who was found dead in her jail cell in LAPD custody last Easter Sunday. Davis went off-script for a moment, deciding to voice her opinions on the upcoming presidential elections. Abhorred by the rise of Republican candidate Donald Trump and harboring a dislike for Democrat Hillary Clinton, she ends by speaking in support for Bernie Sanders. Shifting the focus was one of the themes in Davis’ speech. She urges
to the ASI scholarship.” The new compromised budget between the administration and ASI was unanimously approved by the ASI Board of Directors and recently approved and signed by Dr. Nancy Wada-McKee, CFO Lisa Chavez and President Covino.
attendees to keep focusing on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, for it is one of the largest human rights violations of a basic necessity. In addition, she tells us to look to trans women heroes such as CeCe McDonald and Miss Major, rather than Caitlyn Jenner. She ends by addressing the current decision of the U.S. Treasury to replace former president and slaveholder Andrew Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, stating that doing so is to ignore the role that capitalism had in upholding slavery. Dissatisfied by assimilationist stances, Davis says, “Why should we not imagine the possibility of abolishing the centrality of money? In other words, imagine a world, which is mostly needed by living means that cannot be easily transformed into a commodity, issuing free education, free health care, and an end to homelessness. That would just constitute the beginning of the democratic future that we all deserve.”
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It is Memorial Day, not Thank-A-Veteran Day. The SALUTE (Service Academics Leadership Unity Tribute Excellence) National Veterans Honor Society in conjunction with the Veterans Resource Center (VRC) on campus will be hosting the Memorial Day ceremony on Tuesday, May 31 from 12:15 P.M. to 1:15 P.M. in the University-Student Union Plaza to commemorate the men and women who serve to protect the lives others. This will be the last Memorial Day ceremony on campus due to the quarter to semester conversion, and will be open for all students, faculty and staff. Partaking in this event is not pro-military or war, but to acknowledge and pay respects for all those who have fallen. Memorial Day was first observed on May 30, 1868 by Gen. John A. Logan of the Grand Army
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Continued from cover It is popularly referred to as the corpse flower due to the horrible odor it produces when it is in full bloom. The smell, however, is an adaptation that is very useful in its natural environment. “When the flowers open up they emit a very nasty meat smell, because I think these guys in their native environment attract flies as their pollinators. They’ve evolved to utilize flies as their pollinators,” Fisher said.
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of the Republic and sitting Ohio Congressman James Garfield to honor the soldiers who passed during the Civil War. Logan and Garfield were part of a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery where 5,000 supporters helped decorate the tombs of more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers. The last Monday of May was first known as Decoration Day to honor the fallen, but it became an official federal holiday when Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971 that proclaimed that day as Memorial Day. SALUTE and the VRC will pay homage to all men and women service members whose names will be immortalized from heroic and patriotic acts. The organizations have the Valley Veterans Memorial team playing reveille—a bugle, trumpet, or pipes call used to wake military personnel at sunrise; the Presentation of Colors— a ceremony that formally introduces, and later retires the flag; 21-gun salute—a tradition where an Honor Guard team What makes this flower particularly special is the duration in which it takes to fully mature. “It usually takes about 10 to 20 years to fully bloom, and I have read that it can live 90 or 100 years,” said John Harris, Cal State LA alumni and Greenhouse lab technician. “While it takes years for the corpse flower to bloom, it only stays in bloom for 1-2 days, at most 3.” Donny Hua, Senior Director of Business Operations and Finance at Cal State LA loaned the flower to the College of Natural and Social Sciences. Hua was the former resource manager for NSS, and
fires three volleys from rifles, which symbolizes the clearing of the dead bodies from the battlefield; and TAPS—a song played at burial and memorial services along with the lowering of the flag to symbolize the command “lights out” at the end of the day. Last years’ ceremony was the first time the University allowed the 21-gun salute to take place on campus. Guests of this years’ Memorial Day ceremony will be President Covino, Dean of Students Jennifer Miller, among other special guests that will be revealed that day. One thing to remember on this day is do not thank a veteran. This day is not about veterans, nor the three-day weekends, a day off from responsibilities, and it’s not about barbeques and pool time. It’s about all of those who have done the ultimate sacrifice for the love of our nation. Let’s not reflect on the way they died but on the way they lived, defending the right for every American citizen to be able to live free in the home of the brave. Fisher expressed her gratitude towards him. “They’re relatively hard to find and cultivate, so there’s not too many around, and we are lucky enough to have one lent to us by Donny Hua.” The corpse flower is set to bloom sometime between Monday, May 30, and Friday, June 3. Those who wish to catch a glimpse of the flower along with other unique plant oddities can email John Harris at jharris18@ cslanet.calstatela.edu, or simply show up to the greenhouse located besides the Biological Science building.
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A look at various professors and their work as export testifiers. On Wednesday, May 25, the Criminal Justice Department hosted a panel of four expert court testifiers in the University-Student Union to enlighten students on the details of their positions as faculty and experts in their line of work. The panel featured Dr. Bill Sanders, an expert on gangs and criminal motive in the Greater Los Angeles area. Often times Dr. Sanders is called upon to determine the motive for a particular crime. Drawing to one case where he was contacted to determine if a murder was a hate crime or revenge killing. “I didn’t agree with the reason for the murder, and hate crime also opens up the possibility of the death penalty.” According to Dr. Sanders some people just get caught up in something that they aren’t fully aware of. He pointed to one precise case involving a Chilean immigrant working in Los Angeles sending money back to his children. “He wanted to get into a night club but couldn’t because it was the home of the gang MS13.” Not knowing what he was getting himself into, he joined the gang and one night he was in a vehicle among these ‘new’ friends that did a drive by shooting. Now he faces charges as an accessory to murder.
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salary increases for promotion from assistant to associate professor or associate to full professor from a minimum of 7.5 percent to a minimum of 9 percent. The CSU will also be working with various units who have “fairness” clauses in their own collective bargaining agreements, as the change in CFA negotiations will trigger salary changes for these groups as well. While all of these aspects are still coming together, Lamb expressed pride in a job completed and hope for future negotiations with CFA. Chancellor Timothy White expressed his approval in a media statement released by the CSU, saying “investing in our faculty is an investment in our students’ learning and discovery environment, enabling student achievement and degree completion.” Members of the CFA, including CFA president Jennifer Eagan, spoke in the public forum to express both appreciation for the agreement that had been reached and a warning that this should not be lain to rest with satisfaction of a job well done. “While last year’s campaign had the effect of uniting and galvanizing the faculty behind a common purpose, it was rough on all of us, due to an extraordinary amount of work for the faculty, the stress of uncertainty for our students, and I’m sure it wasn’t very fun for you either,” Eagan said to the board. “It could have been so much easier. I hope that we are charting a new course moving forward, knowing that we all want
Along with Dr. Sanders, there was Dr. David Raymond, who specializes in physical trauma on cases mostly involving car accidents. “My work involves reconstructing a crash from the real world for the engineers to analyze.” Dr. Raymond explained that during expert witnessing he has to answer: Why it happened? How was the person injured? And finally answering a lot of hypothetical questions if the situation was different or if one part of the situation could have caused a different result. Dr. Raymond has over 700 cases under his belt since 2002. There was one particular case that he pointed to as being memorable. Although reluctant on getting into every detail given the severity of the situation, he explained a SUV that rolled over in Michigan. The passenger of the vehicle was ejected from the car and sliced in half. “It was our job to find out why she was split in half and how she was eject over 300 feet away,” according to Dr. Raymond. The family went on to file a lawsuit against the tire and and automobile company for the tire failure and the door opening. After investigating the case, Dr. Raymond concluded that although the door did open, what caused the passenger to be ejected was improper seat belt use.
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for the jury,” said Dr. Eisen.
Dr. Miller recalled the I-5 tunnel fire as a situation to remember due to the level of decomposition of the bodies. From the I-5 to the 14 freeways there was a truck tunnel spanning about 200 yards and a semi-truck crashed inside. That caused a chain reaction with multiple vehicles involved.
Meaning that there are multiple reasons for the eyewitnesses to pick out a suspect from a pool if pushed in that direction.
Once the vehicles in that tunnel caught fire it turned into a furnace that caused everything to be burned down. The bodies recovered from the incident were burned down to a degree that made it very difficult to identify. Lastly, there was Dr. Mitchell Eisen who specializes in memory recollection to help get the victim’s story straight. He explains how sometimes a victim and their memory of a suspect can be changed based on several factors.
Dr. Beth Miller added to the experiences, as a Forensic Anthropologist and what she does is focus on facial reconstruction of cadavers after serious accidents. Dr. Miller works with a Los Angeles Coroner office to help identify someone after their body is beyond identification. Also working on bones to determine damage to soft tissue. They see roughly 10,000 deaths a year and about 50 of those need some kind of
Dr. Eisen states that his most important cases involve an innocent suspect although he considers all cases important. There was one case in particular which involved a fight at a party resulting in someone being stabbed and killed. He recalls that the investigators used strategic methods to pinpoint a suspect without enough evidence.
the best for the CSU and for our students. I hope that, in the future, we can keep the lines of communication open. Clearly the faculty union managers and the board will not always agree, but I would hope that we will engage in discussion before coming again to the brink.”
said. “Often, most of the money or all the money that we make goes back into paying our tuition and paying back the university in fees. Then, we have to take out loans in order to live and sometimes those loans are combined with outside work we have to do in order to lessen the debt.”
Additionally, Eagan warned that these raises would not be enough to fix the deep problems in faculty morale and salary structures.
As a former graduate teaching assistant, Guy said that this took away from time spent helping their undergraduate students.
“It remains the case that the faculty feel that they can no longer afford to teach in the CSU. This is a good settlement with significant gains in faculty salaries, but the hole was very deep to begin with and this has not fixed all the problems. Deep problems remain in our salary structure that are demoralizing to the faculty.” However, while Eagan warns that faculty problems are still persisting, the public comments following the presentation of CFA’s collective bargaining agreement represented a substantial shift from faculty concerns to the financial concerns of student workers. Multiple student workers stepped up to the podium to call for the end of student worker exploitation that balanced low wages and hours with piling student debt. Geoffrey Guy, a recent graduate from Cal State Fullerton’s masters program, told the pain that resulted from this imbalance. “We are not just students. We are employees. We are adults with financial responsibilities, living in some of the most expensive housing markets, paying some of the highest prices in the nation,” Guy
“These cases often require a law of teaching
“This takes away our time and resources that we should dedicate to our students. We are students because we want to dedicate our lives to the pursuit of excellence, and we study to further the boundaries of knowledge and help others do the same,”
Furthermore, the four panelists discussed the ethics behind their expertise for any given case. They all agreed with their personal views of each case as almost an obligation to help prove the innocence or guilt of someone. The four panelists further examined their involvement with any given case and avoiding being persuaded to give a deliberation outside of what they believe. For Dr. Raymond, he prefers looking at the science behind getting the information for a case. “The science is the fun part.” Further explaining how some lawyers will ask questions to get an answer in their favor. “We have to remember that it is our reputation on the line, and it is the prosecutor or defendants job to prove us wrong,” said Dr. Raymond. This points to how most started doing this in the first place. For Dr. Sanders it went from “I’ll just do this,” to “it’s a service.” Each with their own unique story as to how they get started to where they are today.
Guy said. “But the ability to do those things is mediated by our ability to feed and clothe ourselves and our dependents.” Multiple other student workers came to give their own testimony or the written testimony of their friends and coworkers. They spoke of continually building debts, the stress of dealing with such insurmountable financial insecurity, and the feelings of being exploited as both a student and a worker. As the CFA and CSU sign off on an agreement for fair faculty wages, these public testimonies predict that a rising student collective will be stepping up to demand the same.
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Historic name change for Chicano Studies Department er as familia is the importance for further studies in making their research in classrooms and universities.
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Chicano Studies to become Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies for fall semester. The Chicano Studies Department is now changing their name to Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies starting in the fall semester. So why the change? Valerie Talavera Bustillos, Acting Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Chicano Studies, feels a new name marks a new era. “We debated all variations and decided that the new name, Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies reflects the important socio-cultural-historical perspectives along with national and local diversity. We strive to educate our students about the full and often erased history of Chicanas(os) and Latinas(os) struggles and accomplishments in the United States.”
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The Chicano Studies Department at Cal State LA has the special reputation of being the first in the nation in evaluating Latino communities, starting with offering classes in 1968. With demands for the creation of curriculum in Chicano Studies at high schools and college campuses, which included the 1968 East L.A. Walkouts where several students from surrounding high schools in the L.A. County area, Cal State LA protested discrimination within the school system.
It gained Departmental status in 1969, in which another Cal State Northridge, also began offering courses around at the time as well, which made a friendly controversy of who really was the first established department. However, the question of who was first is not important at all, as both departments have an unspoken agreement of thriving as a community that focuses on the Chicano histories and struggles for social justice. Coming togeth-
Stepping into the Box City circle
“Here at Cal State LA our department was first called Mexican-American Studies (MAS), it then became Chicano Studies (CHS), and now will be Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies (CLS),” says Dr. Michael Soldatenko, Department Chair and Professor. “Each change reflected political, social and intellectual changes in the U.S. With this new name, the department hopes to explore the racial, gender, and class heterogeneity of Latinos(as) in the U.S.” According to Bustillos, the department and faculty has grown from three to seven between 1999-2003 and the department began to see the growing demographic changes in our community and it was reflected in social issues, research and access to and participation in higher education. The new change of name will provide improvement within the program and it’s directions for the fall semester conversion. by many was that most of those affected by homelessness are simply lazy and choose not to work. The ASSW aimed to break this misconception with information on how people really end up sleeping on the streets. Amongst the make shift homes were various signs with statistics on the sub-populations of homeless. According to Los Angeles Homeless Services Authorities, over 44,000 are affected by homelessness; 12,000 are mentally ill, 10,000 are victims of substance abuse, and 8,000 are affected by physical disabilities. These are just a few of the many factors that plague those in the homeless community.
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Students sleep in boxes to raise awareness. Last Wednesday, Cal State LA’s Association of Student Social Workers (ASSW), as well as other volunteers, were tasked with a challenge: Stay one night in homeless conditions. They gathered at the University – Student Union Plaza and erected
Box City. Citizens of Box City were instructed to use cardboard boxes, tents, and tarps to create makeshift shelter to sleep in overnight. These students were raising money and awareness to the “scarcity housing, mental health services, and substance abuse treatments in Los Angeles.” The event also included various performances, speakers, as well as the screening of “On The Streets”, a web series that focuses on various people who are dealing with the homeless epidemic of
Los Angeles firsthand. However, the focal point of the event was Box City and its inhabitants. The idea behind Box City was for volunteers to sleep in boxes and tents, like most victims of homelessness, in order to build an empathetic connection between the participants and the cause they are supporting. It also allowed for promotion to educate students about the facts and statistics behind homelessness. A long held misconception
The event also brought attention to the plight of fellow students. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) estimates that over 58,000 college students across the country identify as homeless. With the rising cost of tuition and other resources needed for an education, it is not surprising that many have found themselves on the streets. Although many schools across the country do their own version of Box City, the issue has been especially problematic here in Los Angeles. Often described as the “homeless capital of the world,” Los Angeles has dealt with overwhelming homeless problem for the past several years.
“The department will continue providing classes about the Mexican American experience in the U.S. We will also be teaching about the experiences of Latin Americans who have migrated to the U.S.,” says Dr. Soldatenko. “For this reason we added the term ‘Latina(o)’ to the department name. While we recognize the limitations to the term ‘Latina(o)’ we believe we have an opportunity to redefine the term.” The department’s goal in this change is to have students understand the cultural struggles and accomplishments within their backgrounds and histories. Chicanas(os) and Latinas(os) are connected through a variety of cultural practices as well as the experiences of marginalization and deportations. “Many diverse students enroll in our classes and major ranging from multiethnic/racial to those who are non-Hispanic. The beauty of our new name change is that is illustrates how much we all need to know and understand about diversity, in our homes, community and at Cal State LA,” Bustillos said. One of the city’s most infamous landmarks is “Skid Row,” an area known for its shocking volume of homeless population. This past April, the L.A. City Council unanimously approved mayor Eric Garcetti’s yearly budget plan proposal, which included spending $138 million on efforts to curb the city’s growing crisis. Mayor Garcetti’s proposal included spending on rehabilitation services as well as providing housing for the homeless. The funding from this proposal would come from current tax funds and revenue from a real estate development fee, which would be seen in the coming fiscal year. The plan is set to go into effect July 1st, the beginning of the fiscal year. Although many critics were underwhelmed by Mayor Garcetti and the city council’s empty promise on a state of emergency of homelessness last September, this budget plan is the first step in many that is needed to successfully aid in the fight against homelessness. “People want this problem solved,” Mayor Garcetti said in a recent interview. “I am optimistic that we are on the right road.” With homelessness awareness effortlessly being raised in Los Angeles, Box City may have the potential to solve the problem one step at a time.
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NEWS
A night of animation and digital diversity
films. Phantom Christ decides Earth needs a superhero and as he goes about his day he must face his worst enemy yet, Rush Limbaugh.
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Contributors Gravitas Animation Society holds 7th Annual Senior Animation Showcase. As seniors are wrapping up their last quarter with their capstone projects, the Gravitas Animation Society presented their Seventh Annual Senior Animation Showcase, which included short animation clips created by graduating students as their capstone projects. Students lined up at the University Student-Union to grab a seat for the event while the professors set up for the show on Tuesday, May 24. Once started, Jim Ovelmen, one of the faculty members gave a speech on how hard the graduates worked on their projects. He mentioned how some had even entered in the Golden Eagle Film Festival this month and had even won 1st and 2nd place awards. The showcase featured 12 Short films all together, and started off with a short film named “Keao” by Lillian Tsui, which was about a man who lives on a remote island. The man uses a torch as a way to be able to
Animation majors are emerging at increasing rates and Gravitas holds the animation showcase with many goals in mind for the future. “What we want to do is eventually build a bridge from school to the industry to make it easier for the students to get [start their career],” said Gravitas Officer John Tuscher.
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see and highlights technology is not always dependable. “Roy & Choi” was created by Liliana Sanchez that followed Roy, a male ball that lived his life of mishaps and unluckiness. The comedic film that used many polygons caused much laugh to arise from the audience with the ridiculously unfortunate life of Roy. "Star Your Engines" by Dan Brian Baldonado put you in the car seat of a driver in a race with point-of-view shots and unique art. “I wanted my film to capture the exciting
sighs and sounds of an automotive race,” said Baldonado, “to show how they look like through my perspective.” Other animations screened throughout the night included Golden Eagle Film Fest Award winner “The Old Man and the Pear” by Sun Jing, “Godtax” by James Dayandante, “Flor De Muerte” by Carla Marcelo, and “Let Me Play” by Batool Al-Ahmed. The show ended with a short film that had familiar characteristics to many Adult Swim shows such as Family Guy and Robot Chicken. The film was called "Phantom Christ" by John Tuscher, which was more on the comical side than any of the other
All of the short films were available for purchase on a flash drive at the end of the show during the reception where all the guests could interact with the creative minds behind the animated features. “I loved it. Some of the creators of the films are my friends so i know how much effort they put into their project to make it look perfect,” said Aileen Shu, junior Art major and audience member. “I’m glad many people showed up and gave their support.” The 7th Annual Senior Animation Showcase was described as one of the most diverse and impressing showcases from many members and attendees. The Gravitas Animation Society intends to hold the showcase every year to commemorate the hard work and effort of animation students of Cal State LA.
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Designing today’s solution for immediate usage
Baghoomian pointed out she “would like to have an extra quarter to work on calibrating the gadget” so it will stabilize its performance. However, she was okay with the team’s effort this quarter and would like to see what the next team would do on it.
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Seniors from Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology showcase their projects to meet today’s challenges.
Inside one of the ballrooms, however, was an opportunity for each team to hold a 15 minute formal panel discussion on their project’s challenges, its progress toward solving the challenges, and the overall results found at the project’s end.
This year’s Senior Design Expo event was held on Friday, May 27 at the 3rd floor of the Golden Eagle Building’s Ballrooms, in the U-SU Theater and Alhambra room. Over forty teams of seniors from the college of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology gathered and had the opportunity to showcase their projects to professors, students and guests. Tables lined up parallel along the walls outside the Golden Eagle ballroom, had all the gadgets and products, information summary posters, and members ready to answer questions for the passerby on the showcase floor. Each gadget or product made with the
use of electrical wires and metal parts, glass parts or plastic parts, or other raw materials had a purpose in its range of respected fields. Some of the gadgets, like the CubeSat Propulsion System was designed for outer space usage. Some of the members of the team, Hershel Peters and Travis Rohde, explained the team designed the gadget to move freely in outer space and that the object can attached itself with another object using a velcro strip. And the team had also figured a way
to keep the cost of the gadget low making it possible to mass produce the product. In the field of aerodynamics on earth, one of the members, Joshua Tovar, a senior Mechanical Engineer major in the Eagle Transformer UAV team, shared his team’s project on how they decided to use styrofoam material to create their transformer, which made the object easier to take off in flight to head toward its destination while using less energy. And
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Tovar and his team also solved the problem of landing their air craft efficiently straight down so to reduce its landing time. In the field of metal 3D printing, the team members of Arpi Baghoomian, Joel Castro and Jessica Guzman, were excited to finally break through with the discovery of learning how their gadget was able to produce constant strings of metal beads without burning through the metal plates.
Highlighting some of many diversified range of discussions in the panel included improving on energy usage in commercial buildings, condensing gas furnace, sampling chemicals in soil to adding assistance driving program for drivers on the road. The discussion also allowed audience members to interact with the team by asking questions in regards to the aspect of the project. The day’s event gave audience members an opportunity to view today’s project designs and research sources to meet today’s challenges.
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INTERNACIONAL Estudiante inducumentada pasa a la historia La Ciencia No Tiene Fronteras Como Nosotros.
CULTURA
El origen del chicle
los que se puede extraer la resina (goma) que tiene el tronco.
Parte de la cultura latinoamericana.
Por Yeraldín Estrada Masticar chicle o goma de mascar en nuestros días es una costumbre. Es algo que hacemos prácticamente todo el tiempo cuando estamos nerviosos o simplemente cuando se nos antoja algo dulce. Se dice que el masticar tiene diferentes aspectos positivos para las personas, sea cierto o no. No solo la goma de mascar ha llegado a ser muy importante en la cultura indígena sino también en el mercado de golosinas. En la actualidad, la podemos disfrutar en sus diferentes formas, tamaños y colores. El origen del chicle es extraordinario ya que viene de costumbres indígenas. Los antiguos Mayas lo masticaban con frecuencia. Esta goma de mascar se extrae del árbol Manilkara Zapota pero también existen otros árboles de
Su comercialización llegó en el siglo XIX, cuando el estadounidense Thomas Adams lo fabricó exitosamente con la ayuda del general Antonio López Santa Ana quien le proporcionó la resina. En un principio, este masticable era insípido pero años más tarde el estadounidense William J. White fabricó el chicle de menta. Hoy en día existe al menos un lugar en México donde se venden chicles artesanales. Este lugar se encuentra en Allende, Jalisco. Aquí se pueden encontrar chicles en diferentes figuras como sombreros, flores o canastas. La artesanía de estos chicles ha hecho de Allende, Jalisco, un lugar turístico. Los chicles que se venden son verdaderamente una obra de arte. El masticarlos es un poco difícil ya tienen una textura dura pero en ellos se puede apreciar toda la belleza indígena que continua en nuestros tiempos.
Por Sarely Perez Cuando Yuriana Aguilar entró a la universidad en el 2007, jamás se imaginó que una década después hiciera historia al convertirse en la primera mujer indocumentada en obtener un doctorado en Electrofisiología. La joven de 26 años que llegó de Michoacán, México a los Estados Unidos cuando apenas era una niña junto a sus padres, se graduó el pasado domingo, 15 de mayo, convirtiéndose en la primera mujer indocumentada en graduarse con un doctorado de la Universidad de California en Merced (UC Merced). Yuriana, quien dice estar sumamente agradecida con Dios y con sus padres expresó su felicidad al decir: “gracias a la oportunidad de DACA y a mis padres que me apoyaron cien por ciento siempre, pude llegar tan lejos. Me da una inmensa alegría devolverles ese esfuerzo y sacrificio”. El camino de esta estudiante fue largo y lleno de obstáculos. Uno de los más grandes obstáculos que tuvo que en-
Yuriana Aguilar, estudiante indocumentada que hizo historia. Fotografía | Crédito: www.ucmerced.edu
frentar, como otros estudiantes, fue el hecho de ser indocumentada, lo cual le impedía obtener ayuda financiera. Cuando Yuriana empezó su carrera universitaria no contaba con la ayuda de la Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia (DACA) y le fue un poco más difícil obtener dinero para sus estudios. También recurrió a varias becas privadas pero no recibió ninguna de estas ya que su estatus migratorio no era legal en este país. A pesar de no recibir ayuda financiera ni becas que la ayudaran, el dinero nunca fue un impedimento para que ella siguiera estudiando. En una entrevista con Univisión, Yuriana cuenta que a través de los años, ella y su familia han vendido desde birria hasta pozole para fiestas como quinceañeras. También comentó que su madre llegó a vender enchiladas para sacarla a ella y a sus cu-
atro hermanos adelante.
Cuando finalmente entro en vigor el Dream Act para ayudar a estudiantes indocumentados, Yuriana expresó que estaba contenta y pensó que era bueno que el gobierno estuviera apoyando a los dreamers, pero los que ya se habían graduado como ella y querían seguir no les ayudó. También expresó su gratitud hacia sus padres y dice que aunque a veces no tenían recursos económicos ni si quiera para comer, sus padres nunca le exigieron ni a ella ni a sus hermanos que dejaran de estudiar. La recién graduada dice estar muy orgullosa de todos sus logros y que siempre le estará agradecida a sus padres por haber hecho tantos sacrificios para que su familia tuviera una mejor vida. Ella también espera en un futuro poder ser dueña de su propio laboratorio.
SALUD Anillo vaginal que protege contra el sida
Saldrá al mercado hasta el 2018.
Por Lissette Flores La Asociación Internacional para los Microbicidas (IPM) presentó en la conferencia de Women Deliver, en Dinamarca, un anillo vaginal que promete prevenir la transmisión del virus del sida.
Paquete común de chicles en la vida moderna. Fotografía | Crédito: www.nutricionsaludybelleza.biz
INVITACIÓN
La Onda hace una cordial invitación a todos los estudiantes de español que deseen publicar artículos, noticias, anuncios o cualquier otro escrito sobre temas relevantes para la comunidad estudiantil.
Nuestro objetivo es mantener informados a los alumnos de esta universidad y nuestra misión es conservar el legado de nuestra pá-
gina periodística en español con la participación de ustedes. Nota: tener trabajos publicados no sólo les ayudará a reforzar su español, sino también a construir un currículo más fuerte. Además, si están trabajando en su licenciatura, pueden agregar sus publicaciones al portafolio para que sea más convincente.
El anillo de silicona, libera poco a poco un fármaco antirretroviral. Es similar al anillo vaginal anticonceptivo, se coloca adentro de la vagina y debe ser sustituido cada cuatro semanas. Con este nuevo método, las mujeres podrán tomar control sobre su salud sin necesidad de negociar con su pareja. Incluso, esto ayudaría a mujeres que viven con alto riesgo de contagio, especialmente en los países más pobres. Después de realizar varios
experimentos en África Subshariana para demostrar su efectividad, el anillo ahora está bajo un nuevo estudio como paso previo a conseguir la aprobación de su comercialización y los resultados se darán a conocer en junio. “El siguiente paso es que las mujeres que lo necesiten tengan el anillo vaginal en sus manos. Si todo va perfectamente, lo podremos tenerlo en el mercado a fina-
Muestra del anillo vaginal.historia. Fotografía | Crédito: www.primerahora.com
les del 2018”, explicó Rosenberg, directora ejecutiva de IPM. Los activistas y expertos de derechos humanos sudafricanos que participaron en la conferencia Women Deliver recibieron con entusiasmo este avance científico. Se espera que este nuevo método de protección esté disponible para el 2018 con un precio debajo de los cinco dólares.
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The ‘Hart’ of Educational Opportunity Programs Marina Andalon Contributor
Margaret Hart opens forum for EOP during book signing. Margaret Hart conducted a book signing for her new book “Educating the Excluded: What Led to the Mandate for Educational Opportunity at Cal State LA University” on Monday, May 23. Though labeled as a book signing, the event focused primarily on the history and significance of Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) with Cal State LA. The event was set up into two parts; Hall read excerpts of her book, talked about it and where she received her research. Next, there was an open forum for students and faculty, which saw an overwhelming amount of faculty. A quote was on the wall behind Hall for the entire event and read “EOP recognized students had all kinds of potential; they just needed a big of a nudge and assistance. Before EOP, there was no one to give them a nudge to reach their potential.” Educational Opportunity Program is an admission and support
services program designed to assist student who meet specific income criteria and demonstrate the potential to obtain a degree. The civil rights movements of the 1960’s inspired students to have a more effective role that created an economic and social barrier that lead to poverty and discrimination. Poverty, discrimination, and other socio-economic barriers began to be linked to the lack of higher education opportunities for many minority and socially disadvantaged students.
By 1967 the Mexican and the African American communities in Cal State LA formed their own organizations: the United Mexican American Student Association (UMAS) and the Black Student Association (BSA). In 1967, through the educational committee of UMAS and BSA, the concept of Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) was founded utilizing the two percent rule for minority students who would otherwise be denied entrance to the university. By June 17, 1968, Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) at Cal State LA voted to give BSA and UMAS, $40,000 to run Minority Student Program. In addition, state funds were allocated to help fund for administrative support and supplies. Under the direction of Monte Perez and Ralph Dawson, as well as the
BSA and UMAS advisors, potential admits were interviewed for the program.
After learning about the history of EOP at the event, the Q&A began and soon led to a discussion about the students at Cal State LA. Regarding their previous education to the future plans of graduates, the need for perseverance and motivation. A few mentionable names and great men showed up to the event, Henry Parks, David Sandoval and Ralph Dawson. This is when the history of EOP began. Adrian Gonzalez, freshman majoring in Communication is not part of the EOP program. “I wish I was part of the program, it seems I fit the qualifications. Especially being here and learning about the history is eye opening and how passionate people are about this program.” Ralph Dawson and David Sandoval were more than happy to attend the event. Both encouraged students at Cal State LA to make contributions to the community, the University, and to the future. “Education is the key to liberation, and liberation is the key to freedom,” Dawson said. “We would still be in slavery if we didn’t find a way to fight our ways to freedom.”
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Many of the mentors sitting at the event began to talk about the previous education Cal State LA students had received before arriving on campus. Ralph Dawson blames the L.A. Unified School District for the poor teaching skills, and students coming in with low math and English skills. “I have been working here for 20 years and it’s amazing the desire the kids here at Cal State LA want to learn,” said English Professor Debra Davis. “What strikes me is the fact of how behind these students are. The problem is straight and simple, it is money.”
Janice Camarillo, sophomore and an EOP student was at the event and feels a bit embarrassed. “I know I am somewhat behind but so far EOP has been providing me with direction and guidance which is good. I will say I don’t know a lot of EOP students, half of the people here probably don’t even know what it is.” EOP takes pride in helping their students, providing them with workshops and instruction groups, as well as advisors. Dawson supports this by saying “We need winners here at Cal State LA.”
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Golden Eagle Radio hosts first talent show Elven Bagpiper was one of the participants that played melodic tunes with his bagpipes. His Scottish inspired attire complimented his act as he captured those in attendance with harmonious music. Following Elven was Michelle Vanega with a rendition of “Someone Like You” by Adele, and the dynamic duo of Smoke and Magadon.
Joseph Delgado Contributor
City Rabbits take the gold with T-Pain rendition. Golden Eagle Radio (GER), Cal State LA’s online radio sta-
tion, invited students to participate in the station’s first talent show. On May 24 students were invited to view the 2-hour show in the University-Student Union Plaza, where some of their peers performed on stage to show off their talents. Nico Blitz from Golden Eagle Radio’s “The Lunch Table”, hosted the talent show to life by introducing all the participants while DJ Estradation
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was spinning music in between acts. The first act was performed by Marrian Zhou, the show host of “The Millennial View”, and guitarist Ben Ede. Their version of the classic jazz tune Autumn Leaves added a little spice to the song. The vocal and the guitar blended together as the melody drove forward to climax.
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Thom Weatherfell played some original music of his at the talent show with his acoustic guitar. His soothing vocals had coincided with his peaceful, but complex guitar work creating one unique sound and song. Weatherfell is also one of the hosts of GER’s Selectronica show that explores some of the best electronic music. Weatherfell is also part of a punk band named Generally Speaking that rocked the crowd with their loud and grunge sounding music. Their bass guitar player really rocked out by jumping off the stage and running around the student union plaza while playing.
“Damn,” said Nico Blitz after Generally Speaking concluded their act as he felt the energy from their performance. The last performance was by City Rabbits, a duo acoustic band that performed their acoustic inspired music with 2 covers of recognized songs and 1 original song that they wrote. Their performance put the audience in a relaxing mood with the combination of melodious vocals that served as their distinct sound and the acoustics of the guitar. City Rabbits had also won the talent show receiving the votes of the audience and winning the Keyboard awarded by GER. Members of GER also partook in the Running Man challenge in front of the audience between the show. The talent show emphasized all of the hidden talents that the students of Cal State LA had and offered them the opportunity for students to recognize these talents at the show. At the end of the day, everyone was a winner by showcasing their unique abilities.
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Know the roots of your foods
Marcela Valdivia Contributor
The Asian Pacific Islander Student Resource Center and PETA2 illuminated the importance to decolonize your diet. The Asian Pacific Islander Student Resource Center and PETA2 hosted the last workshop for the Food For Thought series on how to “Decolonizing Your Diet” on Monday, May 23rd. Minh-Triet Dao, organizer of the event and program coordinator for the Asian Pacific Islander Student Research Center, planned a workshop for students to maintain their Asian culture. He invited Victoria Hong, Asian American outreach coordinator and PETA2 community activist, to talk about organic Asian vegan food. PETA2 is an animal rights group against animal cruelty that believes it is wrong to hurt animals for eating, clothing, or any other purposes. The goal of the group is for others to take action and bring awareness about how animals suffer just as human beings do. Victoria Hong is a proud member of PETA2 who has done a lot of work in the community by talking to college students about healthy plant-based eating and sharing her experiences of becoming vegan. She has been vegan for eight years and it has helped her improve her health by lowering her cholesterol significantly and exercising better.
Hong shared that she grew up in a half-white community where her mother packed her lunch every day for school. She would take fried rice most of the time and grew up being very embarrassed of her culture. She did not get the typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich or Lunchables as her peers and she felt very different from many of her friends. “As a kid, food was one of the aspects of my identity that led me to questioning and coming to understand my own background, my family, and myself, so that became a very important part of me and my culture,” Hong said. “Food is what got me started into the world of talking about health and how that helps me find my community history and culture through meals that we eat every day.” Many of the foods that her immigrant parents and grandparents from China and Vietnam ate were predominantly traditional plant-based. As a result, these foods protected them from of diseases that are commonly known in the United States, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. These wellknown diseases occur due to processed foods and red meats that are not tied to the traditional diet of back in the day. Food as medicine plays an important role in any culture because people are eating real whole foods from the earth and that is an effective form of healing. With food and culture you can reclaim food and that goes back to the roots of eating healthy and whole. “I don’t eat red meat and I don’t follow a vegan diet, but I feel that the effort to promote more plant-based food is a great thing to incorporate for everyday diets so I stay in solitary with vegans even though I do eat meat,” John Araujo, Kinesiology major said.
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The first step to decolonize a diet is primarily to understand the history of colonization. It is essential to know where certain foods actually come from and understand how our food has become the way it is today. “Decolonizing your diet is a simple and slow start because it is not saying that you should simply cut out all bad foods immediately, but it means to take it as a slow
transition and a way to teach your body how to have healthier foods and reclaim your health by taking small steps,” Hong said. After the workshop, many students were intrigued and inspired to slowly become vegan. The workshop gave students insight about where our food comes from. “The presentation inspired me
more to become vegan because it gave me that social justice lens to looking at our food system and the way that we eat,” Jose Trinidad Castaneda, Anthropology major said. For more information visit peta2.com to find countless resources about becoming vegan or text AAPI to 73822 for recipes and tips.
NAMM 2016: Best Tools for Schools Jim Munson Contributor
Winner for Best Teaching Tool for Advanced Students. Earlier this year at the NAMM Show 2016, the website Noteflight Learn was the winner of the Best Teaching Tool for Advanced Students award. This website was designed for music education giving all students/teachers performance and assessment tools. Every user
can access their Notefight account from any computer or device, including Chromebooks, iPads, and smartphones. All digital scores are interactive, customizable,
and easily accessible, and sharing and collaboration are built directly into every aspect of Notefight Learn. Notefight Learn features:
• Noteflight Premium accounts for every user, accessible on any device • Unlimited groups for organizing classes and ensembles • Activity templates for assignments • Perform mode for listening to and performing along with selected parts of a score • Discussion and assignment forums for communication and assessment • A private community for secure collaboration Noteflight is an online music learning community for teachers
and students owned by Hal Leonard Corp. It seamlessly integrates with many Learning Management Systems via the Basic LTI standard, such as MusicFirst, Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Charms, Desire2Learn, or Haiku.noteflight.com. For more information and pricing go to https://www. noteflight.com/
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EVENT CALENDAR
MONDAY 30
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THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS
TUESDAY 31st
Memorial Day (University Closed)
Memorial Day Ceremony 12:15 p.m. U-SU Plaza
California In 2016: Discussion on the Election and Other Topics 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Music Hall
Group Therapy at CAPS: Mindfulness & Relaxation 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. U-SU Reflection Room
Choir Concert 7:30 p.m. State Playhouse Moonlight Breakfast 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. U-SU Los Angeles Room
University Bands Concert 7:30 p.m. State Playhouse
THURSDAY 2nd
WEDNESDAY 1st
D-SRESS 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Main Walkway & Salazar Hall Quad
CCC Finals Week, Study Hours, and Study Assistance 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. U-SU Cross Cultural Centers Mariachi Concert 10:30 a.m. & 12:15 p.m. State Playhouse
FRIDAY 3rd
Jazz Orchestra – 1st Annual Tribute to the Stan Kenton Music Collection 7:30 p.m. State Playhouse
Commercial Music Ensemble 7:30 p.m. State Playhouse
SPORTS
Mission Hills prospect looks to add range for women’s basketball Cal State LA Athletics welcomes Madison Adams.
me my first offer.”
Daniel Esparza
“Finding out that Cheryl Miller was going to be my new coach made me excited to be playing at Cal State LA. I looked up to Cheryl Miller growing up and being able to play for her is like a dream.”
However, Adams is excited by the hiring of basketball legend Cheryl Miller as the new head coach.
Contributor
Cal State LA continues its journey of building the Athletics Department with its latest recruit. Mission Hills High School senior Madison Adams has been recruited by Cal State LA’s women’s basketball team. Adams looks to add deep range to the Golden Eagles, thanks to her strength in shooting and motto of living by the threepoint shot. Growing up, her four brothers influenced her to play basketball. Eventually, she fell in love with the basketball court and the game accompanying it. While she was being recruited, the 5 feet 10 inch forward weighed opportunities from Cal State LA, Cal Poly Pomona, and Concordia University. Ultimately, former head coach Carter Shaw and Coach Renno swayed Adams to choose Los Angeles as the location to further her academic and athletic growth.
Adams hopes to take her game to the next level, which for her is to gain a basketball IQ as high as Cheryl Miller’s. “I want to improve to match the college ball intensity and become stronger and faster, especially defensively, and being able to create more off the dribble.”
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“Out of my options, I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to be in L.A.,” Adams said. “I just connected with the coaches and players when I took my visit.” The recent restructuring of the basketball team has placed Shaw in a new manage-
ment position, which initially disappointed Adams. “I was really bummed out at first because he was a huge reason why I committed to Cal State LA. He was the first coach to believe in me and loved my game and gave
The Cal State LA women’s basketball team ended the 2015-16 year with an overall record of 10-17. Adams contributed 14.7 points per game in previous years, which sees her ranked as 28th in California and 144th in the nation. Though her accolades seem promising, only time will tell if Cal State LA can flourish with what she has to bring to the court.