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Improvement project widened lanes, added ramps and bridges to decrease congestion on the 57

AUBREY SAULS Daily Titan A nearly four-year project expanding a 4.5 mile stretch of the 57 freeway from Lambert Road in Brea

to Orangethorpe Avenue in Placentia has been completed.

The $104 million improvement project added a northbound lane and standardized the width of lanes.

The project also added continuous carpool lanes, 13 ramps and bridges and 36 new retaining and sound walls.

The result of this transformation is a reduction in traffic congestion and an increase in traffic safety, said Fernando Chavarria, community relations manager for Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA).

The two major sources of funding for the project are Proposition 1B and a renewed Measure M, measure

M2. Proposition 1B, approved by voters in 2006, authorized the state of California to sell bonds in order to fund transportation projects. Measure M2 added a half cent sales tax through 2041 to fund projects meant to decrease traffic congestion.

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‘Gotham’ shown in TSU Underground Students keep up with Gotham with Monday night screenings in Titan Bowl and Billards

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Funds from the new grant to the Cooper Center will go to storing and organizing fossils in the center’s collection.

New grant funds fossil center The Cooper Center recieves a $500,000 from the National Science Foundation

KATHERINE PICAZO Daily Titan The John D. Cooper Center for Archeology and Paleontology is working to upgrade from a warehouse full of boxes to museum cabinets that will display fossils dating back to 180 million years ago.

The Cooper Center is the result of a partnership between Orange County and CSUF to help outside researchers and students gain access to and study fossils. The center helps preserve and protect fossils found in construction sites that have undergone Cultural Resource Management studies.

Jere H. Lipps, director of the Cooper Center, and James Parham, assistant professor of geological sciences and curator of paleontology for

the center, were awarded a $500,000 three-year continuing grant from the National Science Foundation to improve and protect fossils that have been collected throughout Orange County.

The grant will provide funding for new equipment to store the fossils and make them readily available, Parham said.

“We will be able to organize and store our fossils in the best possible way,” he said. “The grant is primarily for the fossil stuff and not for the artifacts, but by improving that part of the collection we create space for the artifacts.”

The grant will also be used to hire six new Cal State Fullerton students to help inventory and catalog the fossils. They will help the center prepare the fossils for research, said associate curator of paleontology, Meredith Rivin.

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Detective James Gordon is on the trail of the perpetrators of a child trafficking ring in Gotham City’s seediest area as Fish Mooney plans her ascent to the top of the crime world.

That was the set up for Monday night’s episode of Gotham , one of television’s newest shows.

The program chronicles the lives of characters from the Batman comic books, and establishes how they came to be heroes or villains.

Nearly a dozen Cal State Fullerton students gathered around the flat screen TV in the Titan Student Union basement.

They plopped onto couches and chairs, chatting casually until the lights dimmed.

Then they started to watch the second episode of the Batman-inspired series.

The weekly showings of Gotham are sponsored by Associated Students, Inc. and happen at Titan Bowl and Billiards.

For the past couple weeks, students have gathered together and celebrated their mutual fandom of the DC comic universe.

One of those students is RTVF student Andie Kerr.

Kerr said she’s been a big

fan of anything Batman, and that he’s her favorite superhero.

But Kerr said she’s been somewhat disappointed with some of the more recent TV and movie releases from DC comics.

She said that’s why she has yet to make an assessment about Gotham.

“I’m still testing it out,” Kerr said. “The first episode was OK, but it hasn’t yet caught my attention completely, so I’m still testing it and I’m hoping that it gets really good.”

The event also had a social aspect, as students bonded over their shared love of Batman characters and the mythologies that surround them.

Biochemistry major Cynthia Rodriguez and child development major Krystal Vu are both fans of the show so far.

The two watched the pilot episode last week and decided to head to Titan Bowl and Billiards to see it with a larger group of people.

Vu said she enjoyed the show because the structure of it hooked her right away.

“Pretty much it jumped into the whole action thing and intensity,” Vu said. “I like how they get into the characters’ stories, and I’m looking forward to finding out more about them. You know, it’s Batman’s story and every villain’s story, and that’s pretty cool.”

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“Rather than doing my own research project, I would rather do something where students can be involved,” Parham said. “So I have students working on (fossilized) birds, walruses, land mammals, even some dinosaurs.”

Rivin manages the collections day-by-day, assuring that the fossils are being put into a database that will increase their accessibility by researchers and students.

“We applied for a few different grants, this is the one I was the most excited about as a collection manager because it is giving us a huge jump on improving the way that collections are stored here,” Rivin said.

Some of the collections have been stored, unopened, since being excavated in 1976. This grant will allow fossils in those collections to be viewable for the first time, Rivin said.

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to get to a lot more material more quickly,” Rivin said. “With all the student help, we are going to be able to process collections a lot more quickly than we have in the past.”

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JAMES PARHAM Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences Currently the Cooper Center remains closed to the public. Rivin said they would love to be open to the public, but it all depends on funding and support.

Starting in October, the Pollak Library will display an exhibit featuring fossils and artifacts preserved in the Cooper Center.

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A $500,000 grant will allow artifacts at the Cooper Center, like the shells and fossils pictured above, to be stored and curated in a better way, as well as increasing accessibility by researchers.

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Brown approves bag ban California became the first state in the United States to ban single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.

Plastic bags will be phased out by 2016, but bags used for meats, fruits and vegetables at grocery stores and those used by non-grocery retailers will be allowed to stay.

Banning plastic bags has gained momentum after more than 100 cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco banned bags.

Plastic bag manufacturers have pushed back against the ban and plan a referendum to repeal the bill.

Proponents of the bill said the ban will reduce pollution and litter on roads, in parks and on beaches.

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The library will hold two open house events in October, which will include behind the scenes tours of the archives and exhibits.

Library to host two open house events

Faculty and staff will have the chance to learn about library services available to them

ROSELYNNE REYES Daily Titan Pollak Library will hold its first open house in two weeks to give faculty, administration and staff an opportunity to discover resources the library has to offer.

The goal of the Oct. 13 and 14 open houses is to keep faculty aware of the services available to them, and to provide a peek behind-the-scenes, said Open House Planning Committee Chair Colleen Greene.

“We have a large number of professors who regularly bring in their classes for research instruction sessions,” Greene said. “Most of them are very aware of that service, maybe not quite as aware of other ways that we could partner with them.”

For future open houses, the committee hopes to include presentations from library employees, but for the first year of

open houses, they decided to stick to the basics.

These topics will be covered in 10-minute lightning sessions.

“It’s really just to give them a flavor for these particular tools,” Greene said.

“It’s not an in-depth learning opportunity, but it’s to briefly introduce our colleagues to that particular topic or tool and then be able to direct them to where they could learn more.”

During the brainstorming process, the committee considered similar events put on for staff by the Information Technology and Faculty Development Center. Those events proved problematic as they required a full day commitment, a difficult arrangement for many potential attendees.

“It gets really hard, especially for faculty, to break away for an entire day,” Greene said.

The solution is a conference that lasts just over two hours and is held on two days at different times to

accommodate faculty with busy schedules.

In addition to the main event, there will be a behind-the-scenes tour before and after each conference.

The first is a glimpse at the Exhibits program. This will take guests through the process of putting on an exhibit and includes a walkthrough of the exhibit spaces and staff-only exhibit staging area.

The second is a tour of the many artifacts kept on our campus. This includes visits to the Center for Public and Oral History, the University Archives and Special Collections’ archives room and the library’s new digitization studio, all of which have limited public access.

The first open house will be Oct. 13 from 2:45-5 p.m.

The second will be Oct. 14 from 9-11:15 a.m. Both will start in the Pollak Library North Room 130.

Registration is open to all faculty, administration and staff on the Pollak Library website, Library.Fullerton.edu.

A hospital in Texas confirmed the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States on Tuesday, U.S. health officials said.

The patient was diagnosed after flying from Liberia to Texas and spent six days in the state before seeking treatment. Two days later, he was admitted to an isolation room.

A handful of people may have been exposed to the virus, mostly family members of the man.

West Africa is currently faced with the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola. More than 3,000 have died from the virus.

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Turkey offers U.S. support After the near-capture of another town in Syria, Turkey is considering taking up arms against the terrorist group ISIS, according to CNN. ISIS was two miles east of the Syrian town Kobani, which borders Turkey, when American airstrikes were led near the town. Thousands of Syrian citizens have recently escaped to Turkey to avoid the dangers of this group.

While tanks and soldiers of Turkey have lined up along the Syria/Turkey border to protect their country, they have not yet deployed troops into Syria, despite over 40 countries being involved with this opposition.

Turkey has offered support to the United States-led coalition.

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If she wins the election in November, Lorri Galloway would become the first woman and person of color to hold the office of mayor in Anaheim. If elected, she plans to celebrate the numerous cultures in the city.

Galloway runs to make history DEANNA GOMEZ Daily Titan Imagine being one of two children of color at an entire elementary school. Now imagine the same scenario during a time when prejudice ran rampant.

For Cal State Fullerton alumna and mayoral candidate of Anaheim Lorri Galloway, that was her childhood. She and a Chinese girl were the only persons of color at her elementary school.

Galloway’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines. Her father was a

merchant marine of Spanish heritage. He met Galloway’s mother at the Philippine Port. The two married and decided to make the move to America. They worked on the farms of Salinas, California, where Galloway was raised.

Today, Galloway has overcome the prejudices she faced in the past and is using her experiences in an attempt to make history.

If elected mayor of Anaheim, she would be the first woman and person of color to hold office in the city’s history.

Both Galloway and her husband attended Fullerton College before transferring to CSUF. Galloway received

her bachelor’s in liberal arts in 1986.

Galloway said her time at CSUF was an essential part of her past. “(Going to CSUF) totally opened my eyes to critical

and different thoughts.”

Galloway considers being introduced to these different thoughts and ideas among the most important things she experienced at CSUF. Galloway opened the Eli

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I had certain prejudices, but then the biggest thing I got was I got to meet different people, differnet cultures ...

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Mayoral candidate would be the first woman and person of color to be Anaheim’s mayor

LORRI GALLOWAY Anaheim Mayoral Candidate thinking. Critical thinking is so very important to have balance,” Galloway said. “I had certain prejudices, but then the biggest thing I got was I got to meet different people, different cultures

Home for Abused Children after volunteering at a county shelter for abused children and realising that not much was being done to help the parents and those responsible for these children.

With the help of other social work professionals, the Eli Home for Abused Children opened in 1983.

Galloway is still the director for Eli Home, which now has three different locations–two in Orange and and a headquarters in Anaheim.

Galloway chose to get her degree in liberal arts because she was still unsure of what she wanted to do in life.

However, she believes that everything happens for a reason, and that no matter what, we are all capable of being successful.

“Don’t sell yourself short.

There are enough problems in life and there are few

guarantees in life,” Galloway said. “You will always have crosses to bear but those crosses to bear should not be stumbling blocks for success in your life.”

If elected mayor, Galloway plans to celebrate the diversity of Anaheim, and use it to make the city a better place.

The city of Anaheim is one of the most diverse cities in the county, but its current leadership does not show this, Galloway said.

Galloway feels that recognizing who lives in Anaheim and empowering the cultures that do live there will help people invest in the city, and build a stronger city overall.

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The 57 is a vital freeway because it connects to other major thoroughfares and trucks taking products from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Chavarria said.

“These freeways help to take products from ships to store shelves,” Chavarria said. “People’s businesses depend on the freeway.”

This stretch of the 57 from Orangethorpe to Lambert alone is estimated to see between 144,000 and 158,000 vehicles a day, many of which are Cal State Fullerton students.

About 94 percent of CSUF’s 38,000 students commute, according to OCTA and U.S. News and World Report.

OCTA has been utilizing social media to keep the public up to date with the improvements and make sure the public knows exactly what the organization is

doing with their tax dollars.

This 57 freeway facelift is part of the technology revolution with the integration of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).

The ITS project integrates communication technology with roadways and other infrastructure to improve safety and mobility. Similar technology is used in campus parking structures to tell how many spaces are available, or on roadways to inform drivers how long it will take them to get to another freeway.

The next major steps for the 57 are the improvements south of campus. Construction on the three-mile stretch between Katella Avenue and Lincoln Avenue began January 2012.

The shoulders lanes will be wider, including the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane. This should reduce congestion and delays.

Construction for this is expected to be completed later this year or early 2015.

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The fact that the 57 connects to other major thoroughfares makes it an essential freeway, said Fernando Chavarria, community relations manager for Orange County Transportation Authority.

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The University Wind Symphony consists of 47 music students, some presently pursuing music careers. The performers are hand-chosen by Professor Mitchell Fennell, director and conductor.

Meng to host classical concert CSUF Wind Symphony to perform orchestra favorites Sunday

The University Wind Symphony will be playing on Sunday in the Meng Concert Hall at Clayes Performing Arts Center at 4 p.m. Their music will consist of notable pieces such as Fantasia in G

by Timothy Marr, Passacaglia in C Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach and Musica Boema by Zdenek Lukas.

This production will be one of the six on-campus performances by the symphony for the school year.

The numbers being played are hand-chosen by the

director and conductor, Professor Mitchell Fennell, with input from the students as well.

Fennell has been a part of the Cal State Fullerton faculty since 1986. Being able to watch his students grow as performers is a benefit of teaching for so many years.

“All of us who teach, we teach because we enjoy assisting and watching and observing people grow and improve their life and careers,” Fennell said. “So it’s the most fulfilling part of teaching.”

The band of 47 students contains several members who are presently pursuing

their musical career while attending CSUF. Miles McCallister, the principal trumpet player, is currently a member of the Santa Barbara Symphony.

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for the Orange County Youth Symphony for three years.

Kleinhans takes great pride in being given the opportunity to work with the University Wind Sympho-

The feeling that you get when playing with such a high caliber group ... it’s just a phenomenal experience.

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Another successful student is Cody Kleinhans; a tuba and bass trombone major who was previously a tubist

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ny, which includes being instructed by Fennell.

“Just the feeling that you get when playing with such

a high caliber group, with all these musicians coming together from all their different backgrounds to being able to work together to make their sounds combine and gel so efficiently to be able to put on this kind of concert … it’s just a phenomenal experience,” Kleinhans said.

Kleinhans, who has played as principal tubist in the Orange County Wind Symphony and the Orange County Symphony, has declared CSUF’s Wind Symphony as “one of the best” that he has been a part of.

The University Wind Symphony has achieved great

success over the years, having the chance to perform for the College Band Directors National Association Regional Conference and the California Band Directors Annual Convention. Their travel experiences include a summer in Portugal in 2011, the Jeju International Band Festival in South Korea and the Japan Band Director’s Association annual clinic.

Tickets are on sale for $8 through advance purchasing for students, staff and senior citizens at pabo-web.fullerton.edu. Regular priced tickets prior to the start of the performance will be $10.

Horror and sci-fi unite for Shriekfest Horror film festival and screenwriting competition returns for its 14th year.

DEANNA GOMEZ Daily Titan With Halloween right around the corner, the abundance of Halloween movies and horror films in the media will come as no surprise.

There will undoubtedly be movies with blood and guts galore, as well as sweet, teeny-bop movies like Disney’s Halloweentown.

However, for true horror fans who want to discover new films and enjoy a truly terrifying event, they should look no further than the 14th Annual Shriekfest.

Shriekfest is the premier horror and sci-fi film festival and screenplay competition in Los Angeles.

It all started 13 years ago when founder Denise Gossett starred in the film Chain of Souls.

She wanted to find a place to get the film some recognition, but she discovered that there was no festival specifically for the horror film genre.

She decided to take matters into her own hands.

Gossett pitched her idea to her sister-in-law and the two ran with it.

“I always say naïveté will take you far and we are proof,” Gossett said on the festival’s website.

The team’s naïveté paid off, and 14 years later the

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Shriekfest embodies the spritis of horror and Halloween in its 14th annual festival. The three-day event goes from Oct. 2-5 and will be showing films at Raleigh Studios Hollywood. In addition to the festival, Shriekfest also hosts a horror-themed radio show.

festival is a hit.

It’s been called “LA’s most successful and entertaining film festival”

by LA Weekly, and MovieMaker Magazine said it was “worth the entry fee.”

Horror lovers can also get an extra dose of horror with Shriekfest Radio.

Listeners can listen as Gossett interviews different special guests.

Past Shriekfest Radio guests include directors

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Barry Caldwell and Scott Caswell.

Shriekfest 2014 will run from Thursday to Sunday at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood.

Tickets can be purchased through the Shriekfest website, which offers festival-goers multiple ticket options ranging in price.

A full festival pass is $100. A weekend pass for films being shown Saturday to Sunday is $75.

Friday passes are $20 and day passes for Saturday and Sunday are $40.

An opening night party will take place Tursday at 8 p.m. Passes for the party can be purchased for $10.

The party pass includes one screening of your choice of one of the films shown that night.

Party passes are also included with the purchase of a full festival pass.

Single movie tickets are

also available for a few movie screenings.

These tickets cost $10 and can also be purchased online.

A full list of movies for which people can purchase individual tickets, and the full schedule of all the films to be shown at Shriekfest this year are available on the Shriekfest website.

A few Q&A sessions will also be taking place

for some of the films being shown, including House of Purgatory and Time Lapse.

The Shriekfest awards show will announce the festival winners Sunday night at 10 p.m.

Shriekfest looks like a perfect way to spend the weekend for both devoted horror/sci-fi fans and all film lovers.

For more information, visit shriekfest.com.

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The show focuses on a young Bruce Wayne following the death of his parents.

Wayne is now navigating life without them while

being cared for by a lively, and often angry, rendition of British butler Alfred Pennyworth (Sean Pertwee).

Meanwhile, Gotham City’s criminals are in a mad scramble for the top.

The conniving and

odious Mooney (Jada Pinkett-Smith) wants to be Gotham’s top criminal She plans on eliminating Gotham’s lead Mafiosi “Don Falcone,” but she needs to figure out just how to do that.

As Mooney plans her next attack on Falcone, Oswald Cobblepot—who Mooney tried to kill—is holding a man for ransom as he plans his inevitable return to Gotham.

In the last episode,

audiences learned that Cobblepot will become a key Batman villain: The Penguin.

Gotham isn’t the only DC comic-based TV show to come to The Underground.

Starting Oct. 7,

screenings of the anticipated CW show Flash will be shown at 8 p.m.

For more information on the screenings, visit ASI’s website at asi.fullerton.edu or call Titan Bowl and Billiards at (657) 278-8194.

SoCal Film Fest plans to celebrate its 10th year Huntington Beach hosts fiveday event showing nearly a hundred independent films

JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan The SoCal Film Fest (SCFF) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year with five days of feature films, short films and horror films.

The SCFF will be hosted by the City of Huntington Beach. Starting Wednesday, theatrical screenings will take place in the theater at Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center through Sunday.

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Each program will be preceded by a red carpet event and followed by a Q&A segment which will allow audience members to interact with the filmmakers.

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Over the course of five days, the SCFF will screen 48 films of varying forms: feature films, documentary films, short films, documentary shorts, micro shorts, youth movements, music videos and mobile media movies.

The official theatrical selections have been organized by subject matter and length into

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The SoCal Film Fest will be showing independent films of different styles at the Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center from Friday to Sunday. Another set of films can be viewed online from Oct. 5-12.

nine programs. Each program will be preceded by a red carpet event and followed by a Q&A segment which will allow audience members to interact with the filmmakers.

Program themes range from more serious dramas to films about local life. For those seeking to convoke the spirit of Halloween, a program of horror shorts will screen on Friday.

An additional 45 films have

been selected to appear in the SCFF’s Online Private Festival Screening Room, Oct. 5-12, for which an online viewing subscription must be purchased.

Though nearly a hundred movies have been selected for screening at the SCFF, only 15 have been nominated for awards across the four award categories: directing, cinematography and achievements in acting for males and for

females.

Mecca II, Bryan Johnson’s surf sequel, will be headlining the SCFF kick-off on Wednesday. The selection comes as no surprise considering Huntington Beach’s branded moniker, Surf City.

The feature film Seahorses by Jason Kartalian is the dominant contender, nominated in all categories. The Toy Soldiers by Erik Peter Carlson has three nominations.

Trailers for both indie feature films can be found on Influx Magazine’s YouTube page.

In addition to film awards, the SCFF will be considering 18 screenplays for both shortform and long-form awards.

Awards will be announced at the SCFF party, which will be held at the Marriott Courtyard Fountain Valley Hotel on Friday.

The SCFF weekend will close on Sunday with a

discussion on festivals and filmmakers and a forum for screenwriters.

Event tickets for programs are $8 each. Discussion and forum tickets cost $10.

All-fest passes are $40 and weekend passes for Friday and Saturday screenings are $20.

The Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center is located at 7111 Talbert Ave.

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UC’s rape guidelines need to be implemented now BRITTANEY CARPENTER Daily Titan The University of California’s task force has enacted a new set of rules and guidelines regarding campus violence and sexual abuse. The rules include mandatory sexual misconduct training, an office of confidentiality for the victims of sexual abuse and stalking, publicizing the problem, a website creation for reporting and responding to the violence and collecting more data regarding this matter.

Even though these methods should have been enacted long ago, the UC system should be commended for their initiative. The life-altering act of sexual abuse should never be understated.

While all UC campuses already have sexual misconduct policies, the UC system hopes to further crack down on the issue by making the repercussions of this criminal act well-known.

Unfortunately, there is no definite timeline for when these policies will take effect since the initiative will require funding.

The costs are still being discussed for student and faculty training, as well as for a confidentiality office, according to the Los Angeles Times.

This serious issue isn’t limited to just UC campuses, but to colleges across the nation.

At Columbia University, a female student, as a piece of performance art, is dragging her mattress around campus until her rapist is expelled from

school. The mattress that this student was raped on is a symbol of the weight that these victims must carry for the rest of their lives.

She is only one of 23 Columbia and Barnard College students who filed a federal Title IX complaint in April alleging that the

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presidents have overlooked having an investigation conducted into the sexual assaults reported on campus in the last five years, according to a survey released by Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. These university officials who are supposedly responsible for

How many more unpunished crimes have to be committed against innocent students before any real action is taken?

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Swift action needs to be taken to combat the serious issue of rape on college campuses

university mishandled sexual-assault cases, according to Time.

If the school had taken affirmative action to punish the rapist as soon as the report was verified, this unabashed act of protest would have never occurred.

Forty percent of private and public college

the well-being of their students fail to delve deeper into how scarred certain students have become at the hands of others. By not taking action, these schools show that they are more willing to protect and cover up the attacker and their actions over the victims.

How many more unpunished crimes have to be

committed against innocent students before any real action is taken?

A possibility for this lack of concern stems from college administrators own fears that any media publicized reports will create a bad reputation for their campus.

These fears are apparently stronger than the desire to remove this form of violence from colleges, with most rapes going unreported, according to GlobalResearch.org.

If colleges are concerned about their reputation regarding the amount of rapes that occur on campus, they should be addressing these matters as quickly and decisively as possible to avoid more attacks transpiring.

While training for faculty and students against forms of aggression is commendable and much needed, harsher penalties must

be enacted against the perpetrators.

It is not enough to suspend or expel a student for their crime.

They must face legal action to ensure their victims will feel a sense of security. Stricter punishments is one way to hopefully strike enough fear into the people who contemplate committing this heinous act.

The UC’s choice in publicizing their abuse activity deserves recognition.

While they’re doing right by taking greater lengths in guaranteeing their students’ safety, this is not an area that can afford time or indecision.

The longer amount of time that UC educators take in deciding how to prevent violence and abuse on campus, the greater chance more crimes are likely to occur.

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Fullerton will look for their first win ever against the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine this weekend

MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team will travel to the aloha state to play the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine Friday at the Stan Sherriff Center.

Hawaii enters play with a 10-3 record and is 2-0 in Big West Conference matches.

The Rainbow Wahine have won seven of their last nine games and are ranked No. 24 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association Poll.

The Titans and Rainbow Wahine have two common opponents thus far in 2014.

The Titans lost to both San Diego State and UCLA, while Hawaii beat the Aztecs in four sets and suffered a 3-0 loss to the Bruins.

Hawaii beat CSUF convincingly when the two teams met in Honolulu last season.

They swept the Titans in three sets, including a dominant second set in which the Titans scored just five points.

The five points were the lowest total in a set in the rally-scoring era in school history.

CSUF holds an 0-32 alltime record against Hawaii. The Rainbow Wahine lead the Big West with 3.17 blocks per set.

That could be troubling for the Titan offense, considering they struggled to find holes in the defense against Long Beach State in their last match.

The 49ers had nine

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CSUF is looking to earn their first Big West Conference victory of the season when they travel to Hawaii on Friday. The Titans have never beaten the Rainbow Wahine.

blocks and forced the Titans into 21 errors.

Junior Olivia Magill leads Hawaii in blocks with 71 and a Big West leading 1.58 blocks per set.

Magill also leads the conference in hitting percentage with .409.

Senior Kalei Adolpho also is atop the conference leaderboards with 1.11 blocks per set.

The Titans are not the biggest team in the conference, and are not known

for their blocking ability.

Their 1.65 blocks per set is third to last in the Big West, only ahead of UC Irvine and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

The 6-foot-1-inch freshman Stephanie Buss leads the Titans with 0.82 blocks per set.

Buss also contributes offensively with 83 kills, which puts her fourth on the team.

Hawaii makes the least amount of errors in the Big

West with 220.

Their ability to limit routine mistakes is a reason why they are atop the Big West standings yet again this season.

They are 10-0 in games where they have a higher hitting percentage than their opponents.

CSUF has a .187 hitting percentage as a team and their opponents are hitting .237 against them.

Junior Holland Crenshaw leads the Titans in

that category, hitting .325 in 372 attempts.

Setter Mackenzie Olsen is hitting .409, but only has 93 attempts, which does not qualify her to be on the conference leaderboard.

Olsen is fourth in the Big West in assists with 519.

The Villa Park High School alumna is fifth in the conference in assists per set with 9.61.

Hawaii setter Tayler Higgins ranks second in that category with a 10.8

mark.

Two of the Big West’s top freshmen will take the court against each other for the first time Friday, Niki Withers of the Titans and Kalei Greeley of Hawaii.

Withers has been elected as Big West Freshman of the Week three times, and Greeley was selected for that same honor last week following her first double-double of the season against the UC Riverside Highlanders.

Abrea wins for CSUF Fullerton used a great showing from their star senior to win the Rose City Collegiate

AUBREY SAULS & MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s golf team topped the leaderboard to win the Rose City Collegiate hosted by Portland State, defeating 12 other schools in contention.

Senior Tisha Alyn Abrea earned her first career victory with a collective score of 215, good for one-under-par. She had 10 birdies in the tournament and three on the final day. She finished as the only player who was under par in the tournament.

Alyn Abrea was tied at

one-under-par with Samantha Chen of UC Irvine with just three holes remaining in the tournament. She sank a birdie on the 18th hole to seal the win.

The outstanding play of Alyn Abrea helped the Titans win the event by just three strokes over San Francisco.

The tournament field featured four programs who finished in the top 100 in the GolfStat NCAA Head-to-Head rankings in 2013-2014, including the No. 90 Titans.

Sophomore Martina Edberg was four-over-par entering the final day, but she struggled mightily, scoring 10-over-par Tuesday and finishing tied for 24th with a score of 230.

Brittany Farrell had her first round of par or better for her career, shooting a 72 on Tuesday. She began the day with three birdies in the first seven holes, but bogeys later on brought her back to par. The freshman had 58 pars, which was sixth in the tournament field.

Senior Makayla Mier finished 19th with a score of 228. The performance was her best for a 54-hole event this season. She played particularly well on par-five holes, averaging a score of 4.92.

The Titans will continue their season next week, when they will play at the Price’s New Mexico State Invitational in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Men’s golf falls in Colorado Titans struggle to get going in Colorado, finishing last in the competitive tournament

JOSEPH ANDERSON Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton men’s golf team finished in 17th place at the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational on Tuesday.

Due to lightning and incessant rainfall during Monday’s second round, teams were forced to complete that round when they arrived at the Colorado National Golf Club on Tuesday.

Since the tournament had already been pushed back so much, the tournament results were deemed final after just 36 holes.

The Titans finished with a final score of 600 (24-over-par) after a rough final round on Tuesday.

Tournament host Colorado easily ran away from the competition, recording an impressive score of 556 (20-under-par) over the

two-day tournament. The Buffaloes were the only team to finish under par by double digits, ending 12 strokes ahead of their next closest competitor.

San Diego and the University of Denver rounded out the top three finishers of the event, finishing with scores of an eight-under-par 568 and a seven-under-par 569, respectively.

The individual title belonged to Colorado’s David Oraee, who rode a solid final round to victory with an overall score of 13-under-par 131.

Cal State Fullerton’s best performance belonged to sophomore Kyle De Silva, who finished the tournament in 15th place with a one-under-par 143 score.

De Silva was the highest finisher for the Titans for the second consecutive event.

Senior Ryan Tetrault tied for 39th place after posting an overall score of four-over-par 148 for the

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Titans. Tetrault has struggled to maintain his high level of play from last season, where he was a more consistent finisher for Head Coach Jason Drotter’s team.

Fullerton’s Josh Park added a score of 154 (10-over-par) to finish in a tie for 74th place on the leaderboard.

Michael Choe and Mark Jensma both tied for 85th place overall.

The Titans return to action on Oct. 19 when they visit Simi Valley for the Bill Cullum Invitational.

CSUF will look to defend their crown after winning the team title last season.

While the 2014 team has struggled early on, they have shown some resilience with strong finishes in the Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational. They will need to build off of those performances going forward if they are going to compete for another Big West Conference title this year.

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