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Volume 96 Issue 22

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

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Dana Loewy, Ph.D., a business communications professor, marches with other CFA members Wednesday. The rally saw students and faculty marching across campus to protest stagnant wages and difficult working conditions for CSU faculty.

Faculty rally for better pay Union wants 10 percent raise JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan “What do we want? A fair contract! When do we want it? Now!” Faculty members chanted and picketed Wednesday during a rally to engage the campus to their cause of remedying stagnant wages and increasing workloads. The collective bargaining agreement between the CSU Board of Trustees and the California Faculty Association for 2012 through 2014 expired on June 30, and after seven months of failed negotiations, the contract was extended. Last week, the contract again expired with little movement toward resolution. Current deliberations concern a contract that will span three years. The CSU has proposed a general salary increase of approximately 7 percent over three years, while CFA wants a 10 percent increase over the same period. The proposed 7 percent increase has not satisfied the CFA delegation. Since 2008, none of the collective bargaining agreements between the CSU and CFA has included an increase in wages, though University of California and CSU faculty members did receive a one-time $80 per month salary increase in 2013 as a result of the passing of Proposition 13. The CFA bargaining team argues that inflation, increased workload and class sizes, the cost of living and six years of stagnant salaries make a 10 percent raise viable. SEE FACULTY

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One of CFA’s complaints include the fact that faculty wage increases have not kept pace with inflation.

Students stand by CFA CESAR GAMBOA Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) got support from students yesterday when the CSUF chapter of Students for Quality Education (SQE) joined them during a protest of stagnant faculty wage. Faculty and students marched through the walkways between University Hall and McCarthy Hall chanting, urging CSU and CSUF leadership to correct an inequity in faculty wages. The contract in question is the collective bargaining agreement between CFA and the California State University. The current proposal from the CSU includes a 7 percent wage increase over three years. CFA is asking for 10 percent. The contract affects over 23,000 professors, librarians, counselors and coaches who work in the 23-campus CSU system. Negotiations on the contract have been drawn out over nine months. The most recent deadline for contract approval passed on Sept. 30 without agreement between the groups. SQE issued a letter stating their support for CFA, said Sean Washburn, a member of SQE and graduate student at CSUF. The group is using that letter with other materials to drum up student support for a largely faculty-focused issue. SEE STUDENTS

Student earns jiujitsu champion title Richard Arreola was the bluebelt victor at the World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship

RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan Inside the Student Recreation Center is the classroom of a jiujitsu instructor—an unlikely world champion. Richard Arreola, a kinesiology major at Cal State Fullerton, had to battle emotional and physical pain before earning the victory at the World Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship on Saturday. An amateur wrestler since age 14, Arreola stopped competing after high school. However, he maintained a connection with the wrestling community by training other high school wrestlers in his early 20s.

“At the time, I was working a dead-end job and I was coaching wrestling. And when I was coaching wrestling, I realized that that’s what I want to do with my life: I want to be a wrestling coach,” Arreola said. At 27 years old, Arreola enrolled at Santa Ana College and soon found himself competing on the wrestling mats once again. His college career, however, was cut short after a car struck Arreola when he was 29. The accident left him with a compound fracture. Then, the eight-year relationship with the woman whom he was going to marry came to an end. “I was dealing with the reality that I was never going to wrestle the same again, so

that added insult to injury,” he said. He spiraled into depression until a friend convinced him into giving jiujitsu a try. “When I did it, the love just grew from right there,” Arreola said. “It saved my life.” Success was not immediate, however. He got choked out twice in his first tournament, but he steadily improved, winning various white-belt tournaments en route to the 2013 Pan Jiu-Jitsu Championship. “When I walked in there, I thought, ‘Holy cow, what did I get myself into?’” Arreola said. “I probably had no business winning that tournament.” SEE JIUJITSU

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“We’re getting petitions signed from students and faculty, and we’re going to hand them over to (CSUF President Mildred) García to show that the students of this campus are concerned with the way their faculty are treated,” Washburn said. Washburn expects actions to be taken so CFA members can have improved working conditions and higher pay. The constant cuts and freeze on raises for faculty translate into poorer learning conditions for students, he said. “It’s a fact that our professors are overworked, and this translates into student learning conditions,” Washburn said. “If our faculty can’t give us more energy because they’re overworked, then we’re not going to learn as much as we could if they were not overworked.” The protest allows both

SQE and CFA to show their displeasure with how the CSU administration is responding to faculty needs, said Elyse Rickard, sociology major and SQE member. “This is our way of getting the word out, saying ‘Hey, the administration isn’t doing a fair job. (Chancellor Timothy P. White) isn’t doing his fair job,” she said. Rickard said the current system leaves students unable to reach the few full-time professors available to them. “I have a lot of professors and almost all of them are adjunct. The ones who are full time usually teach about six to seven classes,” she said. “I usually don’t have time to go talk to them because they’re either at a different campus or they’re busy with other classes they have at that time.” Similar protests took place across multiple CSU campuses, with more scheduled to take place Thursday.

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The Fullerton Fire Department presented their plans to raise awarness and funds for breast cancer research at Tuesday’s city council meeting.

Firefighers step in to fight cancer Fullerton Fire Department rolls out bright pink fire truck for breast cancer awareness

HEATHER MYERS Daily Titan October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Fullerton Fire Department (FFD) is doing its part to help. At the Fullerton City Council meeting Tuesday, FFD presented Mayor Doug Chaffee and the council members with their plans to raise funds and awareness for cancer research this month. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women. The chances of a woman being diagnosed with breast cancer is 1 in 36, or about 3 percent, according to the American Cancer Society. Over the past three years, the department has raised over $25,000 for general cancer research, a trend the department plans to continue during “Pinktober.”

A fire engine wrapped in bright pink vinyl adorned with breast cancer awareness ribbons will help FFD to reach the community, Fire Capt. Pete Gray said. “We have an old, retired fire engine that the fire chief has allowed us to use our money, not the city’s money but our money, to wrap with vinyl,” he told the council. “Through this month, we are going to use it as a rolling tribute.” People can sign the truck with the names of people who have been affected by the disease, Gray said. The goal is to have signatures completely cover the engine by the end of the month, according to a City of Fullerton Press Release. Dorey Madrid, a teacher at Troy High School and breast cancer patient, was the inspiration behind the rolling tribute. The fire department will be hosting several events throughout the month, including events

at Troy High School football games and the farmers market every Thursday evening. The biggest event, the buzz-off, will consist of employees from five major Fullerton hair salons chopping off ponytails and shaving heads for Locks of Love. The salons include Salon Lujon, Salon Technique, Salon Amerige, Joshua Christopher and the Chop and Mop. Fullerton Police Department encourages people to go to Heroes Bar and Grill this Saturday from 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. for a meal. The restaurant will donate 10 percent of all proceeds made during that time to the cancer cause. People can also come to the makeshift barbershop behind the restaurant to participate in the buzz-off. FFD will give all of its raised donations to St. Jude Crosson Comprehensive Cancer Institute in Fullerton on behalf of Madrid.

Private donations to CSU spent on alcohol, dinners Investigative report shows administrators used funds to wine and dine donors

ALEX GROVES Daily Titan Cal State University (CSU) Administrators have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of university donations meant to improve student education on lavish parties and other diversions, according to an investigative report from CBS Los Angeles. Among the expenses, a $3,000 gift card that went to former Cal State Fullerton President Milton A. Gordon purchased by officials at Cal State Los Angeles as a retirement present for Gordon. Gifts of $9,000 went to other retirees, according to the report. The report chronicles a list of various expenditures CSU officials made using funds from various donors. While a portion of the millions the university system receives does directly benefit students, some donor funding was spent on other expenses that did not directly affect students. CSU administrators

spent some of those donations on alcohol, parties and sporting events. Donations also went to the purchase of $7,000 worth of tickets for the Hollywood Bowl and dinners at top Los Angeles-area restaurants. Some CSU officials, however, have defended the spending. CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White said the expenditures are necessary to foster good relations with wealthy donors. “It’s hard work,” White told CBS in an interview. “It’s hard work to build relationships over time.” Multiple students said they would like to see the money spent elsewhere. “I feel that there is a problem, and I think it’s unfair,” Diana Huynh, biology major said. “Because our future’s important and it’s useless spending that money rather than on students.” Vincent Su, a biochemistry major, said he would like to see privately donated funds given to the university go to issues on campus. Class availability and professor numbers were two issues he said should

An Anaheim man was arrested Tuesday for the suspected murder of transgender and immigrant rights activist Zoraida Reyes, CBS reported. Randy Lee Parkerson, 38, was arrested for the murder of Reyes, 29, who was found dead behind an Anaheim Dairy Queen in June. Reyes was a leader in the LGBTQ community, and was a member of the transgender Latina support group in Orange County, according to the Orange County Register. Police have not released whether or not Parkerson knew Reyes, but they have not ruled the murder to be a hate crime. Parkerson is being held on $1 million bail. - CYNTHIA WASHICKO

Airports begin Ebola screening The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will increase measures at five of the busiest airports in the U.S. to help prevent the spread of the Ebola outbreak, according to CNN. The selected airports receive 94 percent of all travelers from West Africa into the U.S. The measures will only affect travelers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, countries which have been hit particularly hard by the outbreak of the virus. The measures will include taking travelers’ temperatures and asking whether or not they’ve been in contact with an Ebola patient. CDC Director Tom Frieden estimates about 150 people per day will be affected by the measure. - CYNTHIA WASHICKO

receive attention. Health science major Zack Dumond said he would also like the funds used for bolstering student educational opportunities. He said class size is an issue, but that he’d also like to see parking addressed. That’s something he said funds from private donors could easily go to. “You have to get here early to find a good spot,” Dumond said. “Especially for me. Because of my schedule, I come in later and it’s just (me) constantly waiting for people to leave just so I can get in. Computer Engineering major Vija Duggicola said it’s not necessarily bad to wine and dine donors, but the money should have been spent more wisely. “I wouldn’t say that it’s a bad thing to have all those things, but they’re using the funds in a wrong way; that’s what I believe,” Duggicola said. “Private funds that should be used for educational quality should be used for what they’re meant to be.” The way the money was spent could scare away future donors, he said.

ISIS shoots down helicopter The militant group ISIS shot down an Iraqi military helicopter yesterday, according to the New York Times. The insurgents reportedly used a shoulder-fired missile to shoot down the craft while it was on a surveillance mission. Both the pilot and co-pilot were killed. This is the second instance of ISIS shooting down an Iraqi helicopter in less than a week. On the same day, Iraqi Army and police forced ISIS fighters from three towns in the Anbar province. Taking back the cities cuts off an important route for the insurgent group to transport supplies and arms between strongholds. - CYNTHIA WASHICKO

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Top: Mahamood Hassan, Ph.D., president of the Cal State Fullerton Chapter of the California Faculty Association delivers 400 signed copies of a CFA petition to Ann Camp, chief of staff for President Mildred García. Bottom: Hassan leads a rally Wednesday.

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“I still have sizeable student loans,” said Criminal Justice Professor Jarret Lovell, Ph.D. “Our current salaries simply have not kept up with the cost of living in Orange County.” Lovell warned that larger class sizes means more reliance on standardized tests and less use of individualized and creative assessment tools. All of that hurts students, he said. “It means more students slip by and fail to receive the more individualized attention from faculty they deserve,” he said. Salaries that don’t keep pace with cost of living and other expenses has left some professors searching for alternative income sources. “I’ve had to look for other employment in addition to my teaching job,” said Business Communications Professor Dana Loewy, Ph.D. She often takes jobs as an interpreter and translator to make ends meet. The Wednesday demonstrations culminated in the delivery of more than 400 signed copies of a CFA petition to CSUF President Mildred García’s office. In an email to CSUF faculty, Mahamood Hassan, Ph.D., president and faculty rights chair for the CSUF CFA chapter, called on García to use the authority given to her through the

existing contract to supplement faculty wages. CSUF CFA asks that García allocate 0.34 percent of CSUF’s operating budget to faculty salaries in order to bridge the gap between the CSU and CFA proposals. Hassan filed a grievance against García earlier this year, which states that the president “failed to act in good faith in implementing Article 31.14 of the CBA.” In 2013, Hassan met with Jennifer Faust, former associate vice president for Academic Affairs, and other administrators to begin analysis on implementation of equity awards, he said. The 2012 contract grants each CSU president the power to implement such awards, which are meant to balance wage disparities between old and new employees. Other CSU presidents, however, pressured García not to agree to the award implementation. James Busalacchi, Jr., director of faculty and staff labor relations, wrote to Hassan on Dec. 19, 2013 that “García has been encouraged by the chancellor’s office to hold off.” A section of the 2012 collective bargaining agreement says García has the power to institute equity awards, but is not required to do so. As such, the CSU claims García has not violated the contract.

FEATURES Pop-art gallery comes to Fullerton

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Multi-background artist, Zox, will end his pop-up art tour at Burger Records store

HEAVEN OCAMPO For the Daily Titan Trans-American artist, Zox, has seen firsthand the power of his art, and Fullerton will get a chance to share it with him. The tour showcases his newest collection titled Idol Icon Avatar. The pop-up shows will feature his paintings inspired by the historic journey of the art of making portraits, also known as Portraiture. Zox started touring his popup art on Sept. 13. He showcased his 40 original works, oils, acrylics and watercolors, in cities with significant art communities including SoHo, Nashville and New Orleans. The final stop of the art tour will be at Fullerton’s very own Burger Records store on Tuesday, Oct. 15 from 4-8 p.m. The LA-based artist was born and raised in Hollywood. He first realized his work had an impact on his audience while he worked at a record store. He would create album covers on vinyl sized pieces of cardboard, placing them around the store and people began to notice his work. The owner of the store eventually asked Zox to create a sign for him. The record store later hired him to make a mural with cartoon characters of music artists such as Neil Young, which was paid for by Warner Brothers. Job offers for advertisements started coming in from every direction. Such opportunities lead him to start creating album artwork for an array of musicians such as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ambrosia and Dwight Twilley. Zox also made airbrushed painted t-shirts that he would take with him to meetings with art directors at record labels. Soon,

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The art gallery will showcase Zox’s newest collection of 40 orginal oil, acrylics and watercolor works titled Idol Icon Avatar.

he was taking orders for his shirts and spending more time with the different labels. Zox studied at San Diego State University where he designed his own creativity major that included art, photography, film and writing. While there, he met world renowned artist Andy Warhol on campus, who was presenting a film with director, Paul Morrissey. Although this meeting

was brief, it would not be his last encounter with Warhol. Some years later, Warhol invited Zox to his factory in New York to show some of his work. The inspiration he would gain from Warhol’s advice would be reflected in his paintings. “He was wearing a tweed jacket, and came out to meet me holding a couple of brushes,” Zox said. “You could see a few flecks of paint on his jacket where he had missed.”

In 1987, Zox traveled to Germany. While there, he worked on a world peace series and wanted to place one composition on the Berlin Wall. He and a friend prepped six-foot German letter cutouts to be a template for the mural and ventured to the wall. As they began setting up, they were interrupted. “I started hearing gunshots ... and all of a sudden lights

started flashing,” Zox said. “Then it starts pouring rain ... it was thunder and lightning that was going on before. ” The wet paint began to drip down the wall just as Berlin police arrived on the scene. In a panic, Zox planned to abandon the mural and run into a nearby forest to hide. However, because of government boundaries, the police had no jurisdiction where they had placed the mural. They were able to complete

the mural in hopes that it would be destroyed along with the wall. The mural remained there for two years until it was demolished, fulfilling the pieces’ purpose. “If they destroyed my art, they would have to destroy the wall too,” Zox said. Zox is turning his Pop Up Tour into a film which is expected be out next year. He hopes to take the show to universities across the country.

Reflecting over six years worth of life lessons ELIZABETH MUNOZ Daily Titan I have repeatedly heard that I look like I’m 16 far too many times—more than I care to admit. This has offended me on almost every occasion, but it has also caused me to reflect on how much I have changed and learned. I am 22 years old and the past six years have ushered in an enormous amount of sobering life lessons that I wish I had known sooner, along with invaluable blessings that I wish I would’ve appreciated more.

Up until I was 20, I refused to pull my hair back in a ponytail because I was ashamed to show my forehead and ears. My level of self-confidence was almost non-existent, and I eventually gave myself a complex. I was convinced that they were abnormally large and would do anything to hide them. I’m really not sure how I came to the realization that this was absurd, but I wish I knew that although my forehead is the size of a highway billboard, most people tend to ignore them anyway. My parents tried convincing me that covering my forehead with heavy bangs to the point

where half of my face was concealed by a wall of black hair was ridiculous. I wish I knew that what they were saying, for the most part, was right. They were my real best

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would become strangers one day, fading into faceless memories. By the time I started college, my friendships were quickly unraveling. After some time, I couldn’t tell why we were friends in the

I wish I knew to cherish car rides with my parents and not sulk in the back seat with earphones blasting music to drown out their lectures.

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Student discusses the difficulties that come with being a teenager and adult

friends, even though I certainly didn’t treat them like they were. They were my constant support and moral compass, but I never went due North. I wish I knew that 90 percent of my high school friends

first place. What held us together for four years were common classrooms and lunch seats. But I held on to them for so long because I was afraid. I wish I would’ve known that it

was okay to let them go and be alone in a new school. Diving into the unfamiliar was terrifying. I had to learn to be okay with myself, by myself. College presented me with the harsh reality of adulthood. Paying for my own bills and cooking my own dinner is emotionally draining. Things that used to send me down an emotional spiral at 16 pale in comparison to what has been hurled at me since then. I wish I wasn’t in such a rush to grow up—to get my driver’s license. It certainly isn’t all that it was cracked up to be, glamorized by my teenage mind.

Driving in traffic and paying for gas soon made me hate it. I wish I knew to cherish car rides with my parents and not sulk in the back seat with earphones blasting music to drown out their lectures. Learning to stretch my limbs out and absorb all the details that life presented me with was harder than discovering who I was or coping with my parents’ divorce. At 16, I was stumbling and now at 22, I still am. However, knowing what I know now six years ago would have made the topography of life a little easier to navigate.

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Searching... for Mr. Right | Dealing with male friends as a single girl A student shares her struggles with trying to keep platonic friendships with the opposite sex

KALEY WILLIAMS Daily Titan When I was in sixth grade, my seat partner’s name was Sam. He wore ripped jeans, pinned the names of obscure rock bands to his jacket and was infinitely cooler than me.

I recently ended a 2-year-long relationship with a man who was initially just a friend.

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Meaning, we don’t really talk to anyone but each other. So when I became single, I became one of the only single women that they interact with. The point that I’m trying to make is that I don’t want to date my friends, and when I talked to some of my girlfriends about it, they shared that sentiment. Yet, the date invitations kept coming in.

We used to pass each other notes when our teacher wasn’t looking, and I thought we were best friends. He, on the other hand, thought we were characters in a captivating romance novel. That pretty much sets the scene for the majority of my opposite-sex friendships throughout my life. I recently ended a 2-yearlong relationship with a man who was initially just a friend. After we broke up, it became abundantly clear to me that by dating him I gave the rest of my male friends an “in.” Apparently, by dating one male friend, I had invited them all to some kind of caveman-esque battle to date me. Let me assure you, this isn’t my ego talking. My group of friends are pretty close to each other.

I once made the mistake of accepting one, but it was before that 2-year-long relationship. We went to dinner and a movie, and then we went to hang out with all of our friends which was incredibly awkward, since we didn’t tell anybody we were going on a date. The same guy asked if he could take me out again post 2-year-relationship break-up. I declined and said I didn’t think that dating another friend was a good idea. I also told him that two years is far outside of the appropriate time frame to ask for a second date. Men and women are completely different. We think differently, we look different, we have different mannerisms and apparently, we have completely different views on dating a friend. Men and women see similar benefits to having

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Men see relationship potential with a platonic friend as a positive, while women see it as a negative, according to Jeremy Nicholson, Ph.D.

same-sex friendships, but men see relationship potential with a platonic friend as a positive, while women see it as a negative, according to Jeremy Nicholson, Ph.D. I’d like to speculate that this is probably because men

sometimes put a sexual agenda before logical concerns about potentially ruining a friendship with a woman. Women, on the other hand, are natural worriers and constantly analyze their decisions.

I have a tendency to make mental pros and cons lists prior to making any big decision. I don’t want to make it sound like my guy friends being interested in me isn’t flattering, but I am also not

willing to jeopardize a friendship unless I’m 110 percent sure it’s worth it. In the meantime, you can find me watching rom coms in sweatpants, and you’ll find my male friends safely in the friendzone.

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Richard Arreola engages in a practice jiujitsu battle during one of his classes.

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But he did and he also earned his blue belt on the podium. Arreola used his bluebelt status this past Saturday at the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championship. The tournament final itself was an opportunity for vindication. Arreola’s opponent had previously beaten him at the International Open. The

story went differently on Saturday. In what was the pinnacle of his jiujitsu career thus far, Arreola went into overtime against his foe, scoring a takedown to earn a point. After being told to stop by the referee in Portuguese, which Arreola doesn’t understand, he grabbed their hands and raised his hand, announcing his victory. “When they announce, ‘In first place, your 2014

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world champion, Richard Arreola,’ oh my goodness, it does something to you. It does,” he said. Arreola hopes to inspire others with his victory. “We have a choice. We can either take our weakness and make it our strength, or allow it to beat us. Let your weakness be your strength … don’t let anything stop you. Don’t let anything stand in the way of you becoming the best at what you do,” he said. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN

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Cable merger is an unholy union Comcast and Time Warner deal would create a monopoly CYNTHIA PLEITEZ Daily Titan The $45.2 billion merger between Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. is on hold after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) extended time for responses and oppositions to the merger for filing and review. Comcast’s acquisition of Time Warner would create a monopoly, giving the company too much control over how the public uses the Internet. Comcast announced yesterday that its shareholders had signed off approval for the proposed merger with Time Warner. One step closer to an acquisition that can create a dangerous communications juggernaut. The shareholders meeting held at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia resulted in 99 percent voter support to issue 2.875 shares of Comcast stock for every one share of Time Warner stock, according to Business Wire. It is safe to expect a similar result when Time Warner shareholders vote on the merger Tursday. On Friday, the FCC released a public notice the deadline for replies and responses to oppositions of the merger had been extended until Oct. 29, 2014. Inadequate responses of both cable companies to disclose information of its merger to the FCC caused a “stop on the clock” to the normal 180-day review period. What details and operational plans are Comcast and Time Warner hiding from the public?

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The FCC has placed a hold on Comcast and Time Warner’s mega-merger, two of the most powerful cable companies with the two lowest customer service rankings.

Comcast already owns Comcast Cable, NBC Universal and all its subsidiaries. This past February, Comcast posted an announcement about the merger on its website stating “This transaction will create a leading technology and innovation company, differentiated by its ability to deliver ground-breaking products on a superior network while leveraging a national platform to create operating efficiencies and

economies of scale.” It sounds like a far stretch because for the past two years, Comcast and Time Warner have consistently failed to deliver exceptional service to its customers. The American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a cross-industry measure of customer service in the United States, surveys thousands of customers each year regarding the products and services they use. In 2013 and 2014, Comcast and Time Warner came

in the two lowest spots on ACSI’s Internet Service Provider’s (ISP) customer service rankings report. The two companies, along with AT&T, came in the last three spots of the ACSI’s Subscription Television Service report. With the customer service history of both of these companies, it is difficult to see a giant “leading technology and innovation company” resulting. A big concern is whether one giant cable entity

reaching 30 million subscribers would reduce market competition and service options for consumers. Comcast penetrates major northeast markets like Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago. Time Warner has a strong reach in Los Angeles, New York, Dallas and Milwaukee. There is the possibility that too much control will be in the hands of unsatisfactory ISPs—pushing out smaller, more effective companies. For those who forgot,

Time Warner was already involved in a disastrous merger. In 2001, when communication companies were thirsty to take advantage of a converging Internet, America Online (AOL) acquired Time Warner in a $165 billion merger. After the famous dot-com bubble burst, AOL was left with a loss of $99 billion, and in 2003 Time Warner removed AOL from its name. It is highly unlikely that another dot-com bubble will burst, but the murky waters of another large Time Warner merger failure is not. With a reach of over 30 million customers, Comcast and Time Warner would have too much control over what market prices will be (think hiked up prices), while providing the public with less consumer diversity. The FCC should take this “stopped clock” very seriously and use it to consider whether or not this merger has the consumer’s best interest, or just the shareholders. It is certainly possible for a merger to overhaul its services to create more satisfied customers, but what I have yet to see is either of these companies acknowledge their failures in recent announcements to the press and public. Before customers can believe that this merger is in the best interest of the public, the FCC should push for more details of their corporate responsibility. Until there is more visibility by Comcast and Time Warner leading up to their merger, two wrongs will not make a right.

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Two Titans tie school record in New Mexico JOSEPH ANDERSON Daily Titan Sophomore Martina Edberg was the star performer for the Titans yesterday, leading the Cal State Fullerton women’s golf team to a fourth-place finish at the New Mexico State Invitational in Las Cruces, New Mexico with a three-under par 69 overall. Edberg tied the school record for the best individual round after her impressive end to the tournament yesterday, the second time she’s recorded that score in her career and second straight season the sophomore has shot a 69 at the course. The Swedish import also recorded a three-under par

69 in the third round of the Give ‘Em Five Intercollegiate last year hosted by New Mexico State; a tournament in which CSUF finished in third place. Her performance helped her finish in a tie for fifth place yesterday, recording a four-under par 212 for the tournament. She recorded five birdies in the final round and finished the tournament with nine total. Senior Tisha Alyn Abrea, who also tied the school record in the second round, finished off the three-day event with a two-under par 70 in the third round to also finish tied for fifth place with a four-under par 212. The Titans posted a collective seven-over par 871 at the 54-hole event. The team posted a twoover par 290 in round three,

the fourth best single team round in program history. The Titans finished fourth overall, falling one spot short of the third-place finish they recorded last year.

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The Titans finished fourth overall, falling one spot short of the third-place finish they recorded last year.

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The women’s golf team shot a 69 overall and finished in fourth place in Las Cruces

CSUF was three strokes behind the host Aggies for third place. Idaho won the tournament with a 14-under par 850, and finished 10 strokes ahead of runner-up Boise State. Senior Makayla Mier scored her second

consecutive top-20 finish and seventh of her career after finishing the tournament in a tie for 15th place with a two-over par 218. Mier shot a three-over par 75 in round three with two more birdies to give her 11 for the tournament, which tied for sixth in the field. Dakota Brown rounded out the tournament for the Titans, scoring a four-over par 76 in round three, her best score of the tournament. Junior Nadine Rivera recorded a 10-over par 82 to finish in a tie for 77th place with a score of 246 overall. The Titans return to action on Oct. 21 for the final tournament of the fall 2014-15 schedule when they travel to Wahiawa, Hawaii for the Rainbow Wahine Invitational.

Titans hope to strike gold against 49ers CSUF hopes to win their big rivalry game against Long Beach State at Titan Stadium

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The women’s soccer team sits in second place in the Big West and hopes to stay hot Thursday.

MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team hopes to continue their successful start to Big West Conference play against Long Beach State Thursday at Titan Stadium. The Titans (3-7-3, 1-0-1 Big West) are coming off a successful weekend. They opened up conference play with a road win against the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine and a 1-1 tie against the UC Davis Aggies. Forward Rebecca Wilson was unstoppable over the weekend. She scored all three of the Titans goals and increased her season total to seven. Wilson is the only Titan player to score multiple goals on the season. She has compiled six goals in CSUF’s last five matches. Her dominance was impressive enough for her to earn Big West Offensive Player of the Week for the first time this season. The Titans have a balanced offensive attack. Nine different players have scored their 15 goals this season. Head Coach Demian Brown’s squad loves coming

back from a deficit, considering that they have only scored the first goal of the game twice this season and 11 of the team’s 15 goals have come in the second half. The rivalry between the Titans and 49ers has been evenly matched thus far. CSUF has a slight edge over Long Beach in the alltime series with a 8-7-1 record. However, the Titans are just 2-5-0 against the 49ers at Titan Stadium. The two teams played to a 1-1 draw in 2013 at George Allen Field. The Titans enter play ranked second in the Big West standings behind Cal State Northridge. Long Beach State is tied for third place in the conference with Hawaii and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. They had a roller coaster weekend, suffering a 3-0 loss to Cal Poly SLO but rebounding with a 2-0 victory over UC Santa Barbara. Ashley Gonzales leads the 49ers in scoring with six goals on the season, the third most in the Big West. The freshman has a .450 shot on goal percentage on 40 shots this season. Much of Gonzales’ offensive production comes with the help of sophomore

midfielder Mimi Rangel. Rangel was the Big West Freshman of the Year last season and has played well in 2014. She has also taken 40 shots this season and 22 of them have been on goal. She has only scored two goals this season but has five assists which puts her second in the Big West. Gonzales has been Big West Offensive Player of the Week twice this season, most recently on Sept. 8, after scoring two goals in a game against Cal State Bakersfield. Two of the Big West’s top goalies will square off today. Sophomore Ashton McKeown will likely be in goal for Long Beach. She is second in the conference in saves with 49 and allows just 1.02 goals per game. Jennifer Stuart will be in goal for the Titans. All three of the Titans wins have come with Stuart in goal. She has only allowed eight goals this season and allows just 0.82 goals per game, both are the second best in the Big West behind Jovani McCaskill of CSUN. Thursday’s contest will be the last home game for the Titans until Oct. 23 when they take on the UC Irvine Anteaters.

Men’s soccer hopes to pick up offense The Titans seek their first Big West win of the season this weekend at Titan Stadium

BRYAN CIFUENTES Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team is looking to get back on track in conference play Thursday night at home, but it won’t come easy as they will face their biggest challenge yet in first place UC Santa Barbara. The Gauchos (6-3-1, 2-0 Big West) come in full of momentum after upsetting Big West Conference favorite UC Irvine with a stunning 35-yard shot in the 90th minute. Not only did they devastate the Anteaters in thrilling fashion, they extended their conference winning streak to 12 games. The Titans (4-5-2, 0-2 Big West) might have peaked too soon in the season; they are coming off back-toback losses against Sacramento State and UC Davis. The Aggies are tied with UCSB for first place in the Big West. Before their two sub-par

performances in conference play, the Titans had put together an impressive four-game winning streak with statement wins against powerful teams like No. 14 ranked University of Maryland-Baltimore County. The Titans are 22-29-3 all-time against UC Santa Barbara, and are looking to rebound from a dismal 3-0 loss to the Gauchos in the Big West Conference opener last year. Fullerton is more than capable of pulling off an upset, but will need to regain their pre-conference form when they scored 13 goals in nine games compared to just one goal in two conference games thus far. The lack of scoring is a little deceiving when taking a deeper look at the Titans’ statistics. Fullerton is actually having more success taking shots as their shots per game have increased from 14.1 to 16.5 in conference play. With nearly two more shots per game, their shot on goal percentage also bumped up from .413 to .455.

The story within the story has to be the lack of assists. Obviously, without a score there cannot be an assist, but having zero in two games is still very telling. The Titans need to revert back to a more team-based approach that allows them to set each other up for easier scoring opportunities. Senior Garrett Losee has been one of the few bright spots for the Titans offense this year, scoring a team-high three goals in 11 games to this point. Four CSUF players have two goals apiece, showing the relative balance of the Titan offense. It is also worth noting that conference play has brought out the best of their opponents because these are the games that matter the most in the season. Defensive intensity has definitely stepped up and the Titans are feeling their rival’s wrath, but it is not too late to turn things around. The Titans have eight conference matches

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Marc Fenelus (7) is one of five Titan players to score multiple goals this season. The Titans hope to see more points on the board this weekend after only scoring one goal in their past two games.

remaining, so it would be premature to lose hope just yet, but it would also be naive to think their schedule

will get easier as the season progresses. The Titans’ next game is Saturday at home versus

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo who is undefeated in conference play thus far with a 1-0-1 record.

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