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More than 20 students auditioned at University Student Union ballrooms yesterday for the 26th annual Campus Couture fashion show this coming May. Naomi Link, head coordinator of Campus Couture, said the tryout allowed students to give their information and measurements and show their
One Nation to host for Typhoon Haiyan relief The event will feature live music and prizes. By JuStine de lA roSA Contributing Writer
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Continued from Page 1 residents to keep building doors closed to prevent rats from entering the buildings. Junior photography major and P building resident Amanda Adams said she encounters the rats regularly. “They scare me every night when I come downstairs and hear the bins rustling,” she said. “They’re always in the trash cans.” Adams said she doesn’t have much hope for the problem to be resolved. “We have the [ASI] Recycling Center right next to the parking lot, and there’s and mice,” she said. “I don’t think there’s much they can do about it.” California law states that rodents can make any housing inhabitable, according to the California Department of
runway walk. Link said the event is looking for about 100 models to participate in the tions go, the tryouts are open to all applicants. “It’s not really about weight or height,” Link said. “We are looking for people who are poised, relaxed, graceture.” Mary MacIntyre, a senior drawing and painting major, tried out and said she thinks she has a good chance. “I’m pretty confident about it,”
MacIntyre said. “I did Campus Couture last year, and I believe the tryout went well.” First timers, like senior fashion merchandising major Michelle Finger, also tried out. “I was kind of shaky and nervous,” she said. “It was a last-minute thing, and it was a fun experience.” The students chosen will model designs created by seniors and juniors in the fashion merchandising and design program. “We have 20 senior designers, and each will put out their own line they’ve
Weeks have passed since Typhoon Haiyan hit the Phillipines, and Cal State Long Beach students continue to charge forward with relief efforts by hosting a
Both CSULB students and members sell parols — star-shaped lanterns used of the Long Beach community will per- for Christmas decorations — baked form at the event, which will include goods, knit beanies and Typhoon Haia step performance, live rap music, an yan relief buttons. acoust ic A t guitar tendees p e r forwill also mance be able to and a purchase We want this, along with future song and raffle dance t i c k fundraisers, to ... bring hope to our p e r forets for mance. families, friends and people across p r i z e s , “ W e including want this, T-shirts, a l o n g gift cards — Matthew Downey, w i t h and DisPAC president future neyland fundraisTicke t s , ers, to said Harhelp rebuild the Philippines and to bring lan Huynh, a One Nation member and hope to our families, friends and people junior communication studies major. Huynh said that One Nation is lookOne Nation organizations will also -
One Nation, a CSULB umbrella organization that includes the Pilipino American Coalition (PAC), PAC Modern, Zeta Phi Rho, Kappa Psi Epsilon and Chi Delta Theta, will host the Tythe University Student Union Beach Auditorium. PAC President Matthew Downey said he thinks the event is a great way to bring all One Nation organizations together to work toward an important cause. “The organizations [under] One Nation support one another throughout the year, especially at big events like Friendship Games, Christmas Fest and Pilipino Culture Night,” Downey said.
Health Services. Kevin Favro, vice president of the CSULB Law Society, said that while landlords are generally responsible for making sure buildings are clean, tenants are sometimes liable for attracting rodents and expelling the pests. “From experience, I’ve seen dorm rooms that are in terrible sanitary conditions, not because of the negligence of the maintenance crew, but because students don’t know how to clean up after themselves,” Favro said. Conversely, he said that maintenance could also be held responsible. “Common areas, if kept clean and undamaged by the tenants, need to be kept clean and sanitary by maintenance,” he said. rats will move on since construction work on the Parkside dining hall completed. “I’m going to guess that once there is
no more digging, there will be no more rodents,” she said. Until then, Roberts-Corb said the rodent bait stations will be serviced monthly. The stations will be checked for missing or consumed bait and necessary replacements. Roberts-Cord said the rats will not affect the opening of the new Parkside dining hall, which is scheduled to open for a “First Look” event for Parkside residents Tuesday and all residents Monday. Meiners said he will help in any way he can to address the rat issue. “I try really hard to make all residents’ experience here the best it can be,” he said. “I take great pride in calling [on-campus] housing my home and wish for the conveniences to always overpower the hiccups along the way.” Students are advised to avoid direct contact with the rats as well as their feces, urine and saliva.
been creating all year, while juniors enter one piece,” Link said. to eight pieces. The winner of Campus Couture will have his or her fashion designs featured in Project Ethos at LA Fashion Week. Project Ethos is an outlet for emerging fashion, music and art, according to its website. “It is a good way to advertise the school and the designer,” Link said. For the event, the fashion merchandising and design program aims to raise roughly $30,000, she said.
tional Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON). He said the organization has already donated proceeds from an open mic night at Hiccups Tea House to NAFCON. torium and raise at least a few hundred dollars Wednesday, but the success of the event will be measured through more than donations. “The success of the event is not solely in the total amount that we raise, but in the sense of community and awareness that we can help build,” he said. entrance fee, and Downey said the event will present a number of opportunities for attendees to donate to the cause. show will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday in the USU Beach Auditorium.
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“We do a lot of fundraising,” she said. “We’ve done a couple bar fundraisers, yard sales, candy sales and ad and sponsor donations.” In addition to fundraising, some of the funding will come from a grant through Associated Students Inc. and students in the fashion promotion class, according to Link. “There’s about 40 in the class, and they each have to raise $150 in the class,” Link said. The next two model tryouts for Campus Couture will be held in the spring, but dates have not been set yet. The Campus Couture fashion show will be in the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. May 9.
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M aggots Continued from Page 1 dissolve and consume. “That naturally occurring infestation is called myiasis, and maggot therapy is just a therapeutic control of myiasis,” Sherman said. He said that maggots thrive off of microbial chemical that can disinfect and accelerate healing when placed on seriously infected wounds, such as rotting foot ulcers in patients with severe cases of diabetes. Although the procedure has been used for centuries, Sherman said surgical advancements made during World War II and the development of antibiotics led to its falling out of favor in the 1940s. It took until the 1990s for MDT to
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A student inspects a leech used for healing infections at a lecture on biotherapy during a medical anthropology class Monday.
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and that Americans planned to spend an average of $258 throughout the weekend, an increase of 18 percent from last year. Even with a record turnout, though, Thanksgiving weekend sales were the lowest since 2006, according to the Los Angeles Times. Cyber Monday, however, is booming, according to USA Today, which reported that overall sales were up by
17.5 percent as of 6 p.m. ET. In addition, Amazon sales were up 44.3 percent from last year, and eBay saw sales rise by 32.1 percent, USA Today reported. Nearly 30 percent of online is a 60 percent increase from 2012. Many students, like junior Asian American studies major Lance Nguyen, said that Black Friday shopping is too much of a hassle. “I only do Cyber Monday shopping,” he said. “I’m not going to wait in an ob-
where many doctors opt for amputation, Sherman said he has seen promising results after just a couple of MDT sessions.
scenely long line where, literally, if you just go to work for that amount of time you are waiting in line, you can make the money to buy it whole price anyways.” Junior Japanese studies major Christarith Meas said that only a good deal would justify waiting in a long line on Thanksgiving. “I went, and my friend and I couldn’t said. “[The deal] has to be really good, like worth my time waiting in a long line.” Meas also said that Cyber Monday
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 According to Sherman, people scheduled for amputations often get maggot therapy as a last resort. Of those people, he claimed, 50 percent heal and avoid amputation. Sherman said that 100,000 amputations occur in the U.S. each year and that maggots from the U.K. could soon help Americans. “The largest commercial laboratory producing maggots is in the U.K. They distribute 20,000 a year,” he said. “They have plans to come to the U.S. because this is where the big need is.” In 2003, the FDA began regulating the use of maggots for clinical purposes. However, multiple other forms of biotherapy are not FDA approved, such as leech therapy and apitherapy, the use of bee venom to lessen pain from multiple ailments. Sherman said leech therapy, which takes advantage of local anesthetics and anticoagulants that leeches release, may be the oldest form of biotherapy. Leeches were, and still are, used in
limb-replacement surgeries to drain old blood to make way for new, oxygenated blood from a healthy limb, Sherman said. “When the leech bites, it does feel like a pin,” he said. While the public is familiar with seeing-eye and alert dogs as forms of biotherapy, Sherman said most people, as well as the FDA, are irked by treatments such as ichthyotherapy, which
sees better deals than Black Friday. “Cyber Monday is a little more understandable … it’s something you can do in the comfort in your own home, in a leisurely pace,” he said. “The time you could spend with your family is spent just sitting in line and waiting with strangers and sweaty people.” But for some students, like senior biochemistry major Alex To, Black Friday is less about the deals and more about being with friends. “[My friends and I] waited in line for
six hours for fun,” To said. “We don’t rush to the [PlayStations] and tackle everybody. We hung out with friends in the cold, freezing to death.” Freshman computer engineering major Marvin Hidalgo, who went shopping on Black Friday, said he plans to go again next year. “There were lines, but it wasn’t crazy,” Hidalgo said. “I’m still doing it next year. I just have to be careful on where to go. Make sure to stay with the group you know. Never go alone.”
patient’s feet. Ichthyotherapy as well as leech therapy have a potential risk for disease transmission because blood from diseased patients can easily be passed onto others that are nibbled by the same fish or sucked by the same leech. While skeptics may scoff at the eftherapy is still popular overseas. Bacteria is gradually becoming resistant to antibiotics and the medical field is changing, but Sherman said he sees a window for the re-emergence of these various biotherapies.
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Religion should not affect contraceptive coverage The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a case on whether be exempt from a key portion of the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court will decide whether companies like arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby should be required to offer employee insurance coverage for contraceptives without a co-pay, according to CNN. Companies like Hobby Lobby have protested the Affordable Care Act Hobby Lobby is one of approximately 50 companies that have recently sued the government over the contraceptive coverage mandate. Hobby Lobby’s ur iew owners, David Green and his family, believe that some drugs they may be required to cover for employees could prevent a human embryo from forming. Green deems this a form of abortion, according to CNN. Although offering coverage for contraceptives may not be popular
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we think all companies should be required to offer coverage, regardless It’s an outdated belief of companies like Hobby Lobby to assume that their insurance plans should not offer access to contraceptives. Allowing employees access to contraceptives is reasonable. Not all Hobby Lobby employees have the same religious views as their employer. These employees may accept and need contraceptives but lack access to them. Of course, employees have the option to quit their jobs and look for employment with a company that offers contraceptive coverage. But in today’s tight economy, is that really an option? Put simply, the needs of the employee outweigh the needs of the
employer. And besides, companies’ covering contraceptives through insurance plans does not mean that all employees will take advantage of the coverage. Employees who share Green’s point of view would most likely deny contraceptive coverage for themselves. companies be punished? Hobby Lobby and other companies’ arguments hinge on the belief
that corporations enjoy the same First Amendment rights as individuals. They hope it will give them the right to not offer such coverage. This argument may seem valid, but it falls short. Hobby Lobby could have a right to deny coverage. At the same time, however, companies like Hobby Lobby would be denying their employees the same right to receive such coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Contraceptives give individuals the pleasure of enjoying life in all of its glory. Why deny them that pleasure?
Jelly Bean-inspired video should encourage young people to live The average American will live approximately 28,835 days, according to a viral video. Imagine these days being represented by a pile This is what one YouTube user, ZeFrank, did for his online video, “The Time You Have (In Jellybeans)” in June. ZeFrank is the executive vice president of video at BuzzFeed and a pioneer in “vlogging.” ZeFrank opens the video by piling Jelly Beans represent the average American’s lifespan. The roughly two-minute video shows how quickly the Jelly Beans diminish from the pile, age 8,477 days we will spend sleeping. The thousands of days that the average American spends watching television, eating and sleeping is
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caring for our family and friends. As the video nears its end, 2,740 Jelly Beans remain unaccounted for. These Jelly Beans remain after all necessary
days aside and stressing about an unknown future, students should try to make every Jelly Bean count. The biggest tragedy in our 20s would be throwing our Jelly Beans away by worrying about external variables outside of our control. These external variables change from person to person but can include
Many students are nearing graduation next spring and are just about to enter the 3,202 Jelly Beans jellybean days that they will spend working in the Oann Ow professional world. having a job. The graduating students ZeFrank’s video shows who have yet to find a job are placed in a new that Jelly Beans should not be wasted. The days pile of Jelly Beans, whether it be the Jelly full of inactive, unproductive thoughts result in Bean pile of sleeping and errands or a pile of wasted Jelly Beans. community obligations. These are the days when we feel sad, overAs winter break looms, those of us still whelmed and stressed. These days are not unemployed and not attending winter session included in the video and for good reason. could put our free 2,740 Jelly Bean days into The Jelly Beans that are left over at the end use. of the day, outside of the everyday obligations Rather than tossing the 2,740 Jelly Bean that erode the time we have left, can become
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