Thursday, October 3, 2013

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Volume 94, Issue 18

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2013

NEWS | TITAN STUDENT UNION

FEATURES | CAMPUS

New billboard approved for TSU

Program provides suicide prevention

New board and policies will expand ability to display messages at TSU

Seventeen percent of CSUF students have purposely self-harmed

MIA MCCORMICK

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Suicide is the most preventable cause of death among college students. The Cal State Fullerton Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) program has teamed up with Active Minds to create a safe environment for students who are feeling depressed or overwhelmed to visit. These two programs make up the CSUF counseling center. CAPS is a state-funded program that was created in 2004 when Proposition 63 was passed by California voters. Proposition 63 is the state mental services act, that gives university campuses the funds to create mental health programs for students. Active Minds, which started two years ago, is a national organization that offers peer-topeer counseling, suicide prevention and staff training. The goal of the program is to refer students to the mental health center and to help students remove the stigma on campus about receiving assistance for mental issues. CSUF received the largest grant out of all of the 23 CSU campuses for their mental health programs. The CSUF campus has the most suicides among CSU schools. “We know that suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students in the country,” Ordan Murray, assistant project coordinator of Active Minds, said. All students can receive free and confidential help for up to 10 sessions per academic year through the health and counseling center. Most students attend three to five sessions, which are usually 50 minutes in length. If students need long-term or more intensive treatment help, the counselor will recommend them to a low-cost community counseling center. Students can participate in group or individual counseling or individual to feel more comfortable. Some group sessions are specify for different types of people, such as military veterans or gay and lesbian students. The sessions also has couples counseling for all students on campus dealing with unresolved issues in their relationship. “We really make sure that there are services are available for students,” Murray said. “Students have access to an unlimited amount of meetings with psychiatrists.” In a national survey conducted by the counseling center director’s national survey in 2011, directors reported 87 student suicides in 2010-2011. SEE SUICIDE, 5

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Students exercised their free speech by writing on a white board yesterday while passing through the Quad.

Speech rights put on display

Young Americans for Liberty hosts day-long celebration of free speech ETHAN HAWKES Daily Titan

A student asked if he was allowed to write on the colorful board situated in the Quad, a member of the Young Americans for Liberty nodded yes and the student proceeded to write “Sometimes dudes marry other dudes. Get over it.” The free speech board was set up in the Quad yesterday by the Cal State Fullerton chapter of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) to advocate and bring light to the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Students were allowed to write whatever and wherever they choose to on the large panel. YAL is a student organization that endorses and educates students about their proliberty ideals.

The founding member of YAL, Patrick Ryan, said that the turnout was great. “I was here when we got started at 10 a.m. and within two hours (the board) was completely full, it seemed,” the 21-year-old business major said. “So we’ve seen at least a couple hundred students.” The board wasn’t erected on a whim. The exercise in free speech came to fruition on the tail end of Constitution Week, which took place two weeks ago. Jacob Winter, who is in charge of community outreach for YAL, said students on campus have a forum to write on to express their issues. “One guy wrote ‘screw Obama,’ so there are people who are obviously angry and they want to express their issues,” Winter said. “Here are also people who want to write positive things so one guy wrote us that it was his birthday.”

After the entire board has been covered in comments, Ryan has a few ideas about what to do with the board after it is taken down. “Normally we would have a campout and kind of get rid of it in a bonfire, but we’ve actually been thinking about writing down what people care about most and maybe trying to have a discussion with the school about what people are concerned about,” Ryan said. “For example, people concerned about how the president of CSUF makes more dollar money than the president of the United States or people are concerned about how much the smoking ban costs.” Regardless of what happens to the board, it drew the attention of students passing by, Winter said. “It creates interaction, it creates community and it also creates awareness of issues on campus,” Winter said.

A new, more capable electronic message board was approved Wednesday to replace the aged message board that is now displayed at the entrance of the Titan Student Union. The Titan Student Centers Governing Board (TSCGB) also reviewed the updated operating policies that will take effect once the new message board is installed. The primary function of the message board will be to display announcements pertaining to campus functions and organizations, such as upcoming events and club meetings, Kurt Borsting, Titan Student Centers director, said. Implementation of different policies for the new message board will also allow for personal messages to be featured. “If you wanted to use the electronic board to congratulate someone for a really special contribution, through this layer of approval you can do so,” Borsting said. People and organizations are allowed to submit messages to be displayed on the electronic message board as long as they are a student or a university-based program. “The rule of thumb really has been, informally, that

anything that is going to be relevant and important to the campus community we try to get up (on the board),” Associated Students Inc. Marketing Manager Katie Meyers, said. There will be a formal submission process through the ASI marketing department that students or faculty must complete in order to have a personal message appear on the message board. “If there is approval from ASI marketing or the governing board we will allow personal messages to be displayed,“ Aaron Globerson, 20, marketing major and TSCGB vice chair of services, said. With the implementation of this new service for students and organizations, the ASI marketing department reserves the right to screen all message submissions before deciding to run the advertisement. “It’s also mentioned multiple times throughout the document that we have the right to edit or adjust any ad that we receive to make sure that it’s appropriate and what we want to be advertising,” Meyers said. The space available for personal messages will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. The new message board has more updated features than the previous message board, providing a wide range of options for font colors and styles. SEE BILLBOARD, 2

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Aaron Globerson, vice chair of services, explains new electirc message board above the TSU entrance at the TSC govering board meeting.

FEATURES | HEALTH

It takes two to produce juice Couple looks to expand organic juice bar with fresh take on service RILEY TANNER Daily Titan

A power lifter since his days playing high school football, Justin Carnegie, 29, was elated when his local gym’s juice bar opened for rental in May of 2012. He rushed to fulfill the idea of renting out the space and opening his own juice bar with

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his wife Ivy Carnegie, 26, and soon after Drinkbar Juicery opened on July 30, 2012. Together, the pair now provides raw juice blends, various berry bowls and smoothies from wholly organic ingredients. Every item used in their products is hand-washed and prepared specifically to order. The juice cleanses are the juicery’s primary source of income. Pressed from pure, quality ingredients, ranging from the fat-reducing cayenne pepper to the immunity-boosting ginseng, these products act as a meal replacement system for a set number of days depending on the program length. “The body does have a natural detoxing system,” Ivy said. “But just like any motor, it needs a tune up from time to time.” These easily soluble blends give the body time to purge itself of toxins and unwanted substances, while simultane-

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Ivy Carnegie, co-owner of Drinkbar Juicery, holds custom made smoothies.

ously providing the exact nutrients the body needs to function. This allows one’s system to concentrate its effort on cleansing itself, rather than breaking down and absorbing additional, less nutrient-dense food. “What’s healthy to the American public isn’t healthy. It’s all processed, pasteurized junk,” Carnegie said. “Ours is fresh,

organic, ready to go and made right in front of you.” Attention to detail and the willingness of the staff to cater their products to each client’s specifications has won the business a great deal of loyalty. Ivy is famous for tweaking her creations to suit special orders. Anita Golden, who has been

coming to the juicery every week for over five months, enjoys the benefits juicing has to offer, specifically weight loss and more energy. “I like to do (cleansing) on Mondays because I eat garbage on the weekends and it helps reset the system,” Golden said. SEE JUICE, 5

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