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Volume 96 Issue 29

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Dancing in the Little

TSU to present expansion options Three design options for the $20 million project will be available for student input

ALEX GROVES Daily Titan Students at Cal State Fullerton will soon have the opportunity to provide input on possible designs for the $20 million expansion of the Titan Student Union. Three completed designs for the renovation will be available for viewing during “drop-in” opportunities beginning at the end of this month. Participants will be provided feedback forms to indicate which of the three designs was their favorite. The feedback forms also provide students with the opportunity to indicate if there’s something specific they like or dislike about a design concept, said Kurt Borsting, director of Titan Student Centers. The remodel of the 38-year-old TSU was approved in 2013 by the Titan Student Centers Governing Board. It will use $20 million of revenue collected through student fees to expand the building by up to 25,000 additional square feet and replace outdated heating and ventilation MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN

Cal State Fullerton’s Fall Dance Theatre returns Thursday. Auditions were held at the beginning of the semester to decide which dancers would participate in the show. Professor of Dance Gladys Kares is the coordinator of the show and feels that it is a great opportunity for CSUF’s dance students. The show runs through Nov. 2 in the Little Theatre. SEE A&E

systems. Part of the funds will go toward renovating existing office space on the building’s second floor. “The university has a delivery method that’s called Design-Build, and that’s the way this building will get created,” Borsting said. “Teams of general contractors and architects compete for the opportunity of the project and that’s the process that we’re in currently.” He said there are three teams of contractors and architects, each with their own design concept for the final version of the renovation. These contractors will display their designs and technical proposals for the university for the first time on Wednesday, Oct. 29. There will be multiple viewing opportunities in the week that follows. Borsting said that each of the three finalist design teams must incorporate the design features decided on at the time of the expansion’s approval in 2013. These include the replacement of the ventilation systems and renovation of the second floor. SEE TSU

CFA agreement draft reached

Agreement awaits ratification before presentation to CSU Board of Trustees

JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan The California Faculty Association (CFA) bargaining team and California State University (CSU) management negotiators have agreed to a tentative draft of their 2014-2017 collective bargaining agreement. In total, the first-year budget for faculty pay would be increased by 3 percent. That number reflects the original CSU offer, but is 1 percent lower than what the CFA initially asked for.

CFA members can vote whether or not to ratify the contract before Nov. 7 in order to prepare the draft for presentation to the CSU Board of Trustees Nov. 12. If the tentative agreements can be ratified by both parties before the Board of Trustees meeting, faculty will begin to see pay raises before the end of the year. The new contract spans three years and includes a 1.6 percent general salary increase in the first year. This pay increase would be implemented retroactively beginning July 1 of this year. SEE CFA

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Despite CSUF’s inconsistent play throughout the year, they are in position to qualify for the Big West Conference Tournament again.

Men’s soccer enters crucial stretch The Titans have two Big West matches before taking on UC Irvine in a key rematch

JOSEPH ANDERSON Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer will return to Titan Stadium Wednesday night as they will host Big West South Division rival Cal State Northridge at 7 p.m. Despite being favored to win the South Division of the Big West Conference in the preseason, CSUN has

gotten off to an extremely slow start to this point in the season. The Matadors enter play with a 5-7-2 mark, which saw them lose four consecutive matches before tying UC Davis 0-0 and defeating UC Riverside 2-1 their last two times in action. Offense has been a clear weakness for CSUN this year, as they have been shut out five times and have failed to score more than two goals in any match.

Despite the inconsistency on the offensive end for the Matadors, they do feature the Big West’s leading goal scorer in Sagi Lev-Ari. The senior forward out of Israel is clearly the main threat for the Titan defenders, as his eight goals this year have kept an often stagnant Matadors offense afloat. CSUN does feature a dominant goalie in junior Adam Hobbs, which could spell trouble for the inconcistent Titan offense.

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Hobbs allows less than one goal per game on average, and has four shutouts so far in 2014. His play against Titans goalie Jeff Salt will be one of the key determining factors as to how this game plays out. The Matadors enter the match just two points behind Fullerton for second place in the Big West, so this conference clash has postseason implications. SEE M SOCCER

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Shooting for entrepreneurship Entrepreneur Society Nerf War aims to bring more students to second annual Fast Pitch

KATHERINE PICAZO Daily Titan Nerf darts whizzed through the Quad Tuesday as teams of students competed against each other to bring attention to a less physical competition—Titan Fast Pitch. The Entrepreneur Society, with the help of the Business Interclub Council (BICC), hosted the Nerf War event in efforts to inform all students of the Titan Fast Pitch competition. The Titan Fast Pitch gives high school and college students the chance to pitch their business ideas in a competition for scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,500. CSUF’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Center for Economic Education will host the event for the second time with support from various sponsors

including CSUF physics alumnus Dan Black. Students from local high schools and universities will present their ideas in an initial 60-second fast pitch round. From there the top three finalists will advance to a secondary lightning round consisting of a Q-and-A session with competition judges. The inaugural competition last year saw 25 participants in both the the high school and college competitions, and over 150 people in the audience, said John Jackson, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship. The event is expected to attract a larger group of both competitors and audience members this year. The ideas brought to the competition vary widely, from stem cell therapy to a better makeup brush, Jackson said. The winners from last year were a custom bra website and a machine which cleans makeup brushes. “That’s what a fast pitch is, an opportunity to practice selling an idea to someone who

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Students participated in a Nerf War in the Quad Tuesday as part of an effort by the Entrepreneur Society to raise awareness for the group’s upcoming Fast Pitch competition.

might support you, hire you, buy from you,” Jackson said. Cristian Sanchez, BICC representative for the Entrepreneur Society and previous Fast Pitch participant, said the event serves as an important opportunity for business students to practice pitching and expressing their ideas. “Being in front of an

audience, delivering a message and having the audience engage upon that is incredibly enlightening because the more you do it, the more you are comfortable doing it,” Sanchez said. The event prepares students for life itself because eventually students will be faced with having to present new ideas in

their future jobs. “A lot of things in life require you to present an idea and to sell yourself in the idea,” Jackson said. The Fast Pitch event will take place Nov. 8 at the Landmark Special Events Center in Anaheim. For more information or to register, go to CSUFFastPitch.com.

Biologist to lecture on evolution hypothesis Professor will present findings to support theory that natural rafts played a role in evolution

AMBER UDDIN Daily Titan Biology is full of ideas that seem hard to believe. Puppy-sized spiders? Glow-in-the-dark fish? How about the hypothesis of monkeys jumping on a raft built by nature and braving the Atlantic Ocean to get to the other side? That’s a new one. Evolutionary biologist and University of Nevada scholar Alan de Queiroz is the author of the new book, The Monkey’s Voyage: How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life. He will be lecturing on this hypothesis and more in Steven G. Mihaylo Hall Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. De Queiroz studies historical biogeography and the dispersal of species, or how one type of plant or animal ended up in different geographical locations. De Queiroz rejects the thought that the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift is the only means by which to explain

this dispersal. Instead, he suggests ancient species used other means of transport. In the lecture, titled “A World Shaped by Miracles: Rafting Monkeys and the Nature of Evolutionary History,” de Queiroz will present his findings on the possibility that plants and animals during the Eocene Epoch, about 40 million years ago, drifted on different types of rafts and sailed the Atlantic to other land masses. “These things are really unlikely, and they don’t happen very often, but there has been a lot of time for things like this to happen and actually a lot of things like this have happened,” de Queiroz said. He explains that this, along with other improbable-at-best theories, could be possible given millions of years. If true, these monkeys could have had a significant impact on evolutionary history throughout the globe. That impact could extend into the evolution of humans as well, a possibly controversial statement, de Queiroz said.

“If you think about it, there’s this fluky case of something crossing the ocean on a raft from Asia to Africa is actually the reason humans exist. It’s like saying our entire existence is based on this fluke.” The theory may be built on a fluke, but that doesn’t make it impossible, said Jim Hofmann, the director of the Center for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine. “If you’ve got millions of years, not just thousands, but millions of years, then improbable events over time become more probable,” Hofmann said. The lecture is one in a series of symposiums hosted by the Biology Department along with various departments in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Center for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine’s website at CHPSTM.

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Driver charged in cyclist death A man was charged with murder Tuesday after allegedly hitting and killing a bicyclist on Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach while driving drunk, according to the Orange County Register. Neil Storm Stephany, 23, was arrested Sunday after he hit Sean Eagleson from behind with his truck as he was riding in the cycling lane. Eagleson, a 30-yearold Fountain Valley resident, later died in Mission Hospital. Stephany faces three felony counts, including murder, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and hit-and-run with permanent and serious injury. Records show he was previously convicted of DUI, assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and the intent to sell.

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The Islamic State (ISIS) released a video in which fighters brag about intercepting United States weapons intended for Kurdish fighters in Kobani Tuesday, according to the Washington Post. Pentagon analysts are still trying to determine how the weapons were intercepted, but the weapons shown are of the kind being dropped to Kurdish fighters, said Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. The weapons were part of a supply bundle that the U.S. airdropped in Kobani on Sunday in an attempt to aid Kurdish forces. U.S. military officials admitted launching an airstrike near Kobani to destroy a shipment intended for Kurdish fighters in order to prevent the shipment from falling into enemy hands.

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Faculty rallied early October after the CFA and CSU system were unable to reach a contract agreement that satisfied both parties. A tentative agreement has now been reached.

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The 1.6 percent increase amounts to a raise in the pay cap, said Mahamood Hassan, Ph.D., president and faculty rights chair for the CSUF CFA chapter. Faculty members whose pay was short of the cap would receive a pay increase of up to 3 percent, but their increased pay will not exceed the new cap, Hassan said. The CSU will set aside $2 million for salary inversion

to help faculty members who have been at the university longer but whose starting salaries were significantly less than more recent hires. The 2 percent increase in the subsequent two years was another point of contention for the CFA, which had proposed 3 percent increases. Both parties have agreed to continued negotiations following the first year of implementation of the

contract to discuss pay increases for the second and third years. Setting a future time to continue discussing pay issues may mean a more financially hospitable setting, Hassan said. “Hopefully by then more money will be coming from the state and we will be in a better place to negotiate,” Hassan said. The contract also includes setting aside $12 million over three years to hire new lecturers.

A Downey high school teacher was charged Tuesday after participating in unlawful sexual acts with a female student in the classroom, according to the Los Angeles Times. Brandon Hitchcock, 30, was arrested Friday for having a sexual relationship with the student during her junior and senior year. He was charged with 10 counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and five counts of oral copulation of the minor. Hitchcock, who is also the Downey High School girl’s soccer coach, is being held on a $1 million bail. Investigators are still determining if there was more than one victim involved. Hitchcock was scheduled for arraignment in court Tuesday afternoon. - KATHERINE PICAZO

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Early site-massing drawings of the proposed expansion show concepts for the TSU expansion. Students will have the chance to provide input on actual proposed designs in coming weeks.

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“That’s the project in a nutshell, those three elements,” Borsting said. “And what we’ll find out is how these teams have approached solving those three design opportunities. It should be real exciting to see what

they’ve come up with.” The feedback forms that students fill out will not be equivalent to a vote. However, they will be taken into consideration when a group of select students and university administrators vote on the final design for the TSU. Those individuals will

decide on a design and team sometime this semester, Borsting said. Construction on the TSU is slated to begin in summer 2015 pending final approval from the CSU Board of Trustees, and construction is expected to be completed by spring 2017.

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The Chamber Winds is made up of 55 Cal State Fullerton upperclass and graduate students. Chamber Winds is divided into three different groups who had four rehersals in three different areas.

Chamber Winds returns to CSUF Student symphony to play concert in the Meng featuring contrasting music styles

LAUREN GAMACHE Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton Chamber Winds perform Wednesday in the Meng Concert Hall at the Clayes Performing Arts Center. The show will include different sounds from all over the world. The Chamber Winds is not like other symphonies.

There is a lot more organization, planning and logistical work involved in order to get everything just right for the performance. This is the reason the performance is not held every year. Mitchell Fennell, Ph.D., the director of bands and conductor, has been thinking and preparing for this one-night event since summer. The symphony consists of 55 of the best woodwind, brass and percussion

players Cal State Fullerton has to offer, all of which are upperclassmen and graduate students. The 55 performers are broken into many small groups in order to create greater diversity, while featuring students in more solos. Fennell believes that this concert has a wide variety of music that explores different sounds and styles, making it more engaging. Unlike the other symphonies, students in the

Chamber Winds only had four rehearsals in three separate locations and had six types of music to practice. Because of this, most of the students have spent time practicing individually. The night will begin with a piece by Toru Takemitsu called Night Signals, which is a mysterious, double brass choir piece. Next will be a concerto by Francis Poulenc, which is a more modern piece and features Ronald Watson. It will include 18

wind instruments as well as a piano and six string instruments. After the concerto, the saxophone quartet An American Tapestry by Daniel Kallman, which is an important piece in history, will be played by 11 players. The symphony concludes with Patricia Cornett Ph.D. conducting Sinfonia III by Timothy Broege. The piece will tie the night together with a dramatic ending. This symphony is just one of many music events

that participates in $5 funday, where students, faculty and community members can enjoy music on Wednesdays. This is the first year $5 Wednesdays have been offered. The Chamber Winds show starts Wednesday and runs from 8-10 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door. For more information, contact the Clayes Performing Arts Center at (657) 278-3371 or visit fullerton.edu/arts.

Titans to celebrate Earle Voorhies Late CSUF music professor to be honored in memorial concert by former students

BRITTANEY CARPENTER Daily Titan Former students of the late professor Earle Voorhies will be performing a piano memorial concert in honor of his legacy Saturday. The memorial will take place from 8-10 p.m. in Meng Concert Hall at Clayes Performing Arts Center. Voorhies was a piano faculty member at Cal State Fullerton from the ‘70s to the ‘90s. However, teaching was only one of his many accomplishments. Voorhies was also a writer and performer, having completed his last performance at 79 years old. Voorhies was a student of piano legends Alexander Siloti (a student of Franz Liszt), Olga Samaroff-Stokowski, Rosina Lhevinne, Egon Petri and Abby De Avirett. He obtained high-quality instruction that developed his musical skills.

He remained an active teacher until three weeks before his passing in 2006. Voorhies constantly provided piano lessons from his home for several years, even though he suffered from health issues. He was 93 when he died of respiratory and cardiac arrest. Several of his students, including CSUF alumni, will be performing in the concert. The performers include Carol Leone, Nelson Ojeda, Regan Smith and Alison Edwards. Edwards, an alumna, is now an assistant professor of music at Cal State Fullerton. She teaches piano pedagogy, the study of piano playing. Other performers include New York pianist Michael Fennelly, Keiko Sato, Professor of Music at Curtis Institute Susan Svrcek, Paul Romero and Vatche Mankerian, who are all pianists based in Los Angeles. Composer and pianist Russell Steinberg will also be present. This will be the second tribute for Voorhies this year. The first concert was held

Jan. 31. Edwards was the pianist for that program. She played three pieces by Beethoven, 32 variations in C minor, Bagatelles, Opus 126 and Sonta in C minor, Opus 90. She also played Meloncholy by Poulenc, Selected Preludes by Debussy, Scherzo No. 4 in E major by Chopin and Mephisto Waltz No. 1 by Liszt. In honor of Voorhies, a scholarship in his name will be initiated at the concert for future piano students at CSUF. Donations for the scholarship will be collected at the pre-concert reception. The reception before the performance will include wine, admission to the performance and a donation to the Earle Voorhies Memorial Scholarship that is tax deductible. Tickets for the concert are $15, or $13 with advance purchase for students, faculty and senior citizens. Tickets can be purchased at the Clayes Performing Arts Center box office.

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Cal State Fullerton alumni and faculty are among the renowned musicians that will pay tribute to pianist Earle Voorhies. Donations for a scholarship in his name will be collected at the event.

ASI to host event to promote enironmental awareness Environmental Sustainability Committee to hold its annual Seeds for Change event

CIARA GUTIERREZ Daily Titan With environmental issues like California’s current drought at hand, the Associated Students, Inc. Environmental Sustainability Committee invites students to its second annual Seeds for Change event to learn how people can do their part in protecting the planet. The event celebrates the halfway point to Earth Day, and will consist of different workshops and demonstrations that will provide tips on how one can become more sustainable. The educational tips will be in regards to reusable bottles, water conservation, energy conservation, reusable totes and shopping locally. In order to paint a picture for students of the harmful effects of plastic water bottles, the committee will present a taste testing station where students will

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Students will learn about reusable bottles, water conservation, energy conservation, reusable totes and shopping locally at the Seeds for Change event which, will be held on Wednesday on the Titan Walk Lawn.

taste water from different filters and learn about the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. The committee will also educate students on the detrimental effects of using plastic bags by displaying

maps of the counties that already banned them in 2013, and by advocating new signed legislation for the ban on plastic bags for 2015. Finally, the committee will bring Angelo’s Farms to

campus to explain the benefits of shopping locally. CSUF’s PowerSave Campus organization will also hold a workshop. The station will demonstrate the many ways people are consuming energy without

realizing it, and provide tips on how to better conserve. Zama Tea, Sola Foods, Fullerton Arboretum and Java City will join the committee in selling goodies and educating students about how their companies

do their part in protecting the environment. Vice Chair for Environmental Sustainability Emerolina Cantu’s personal dream for this event is simple. “Get some people that have no idea what sustainability is. Just to get them in there and maybe change their minds about some things … Maybe they can do just one thing different, and that would make me incredibly happy,” Cantu said. After CSUF students have completed all five stations, they will receive a free tote and some locally grown fruits and vegetables. “I think it will have a good impact on students … I feel like the best way for change, at least in environmental sustainability, is definitely education,” said Theary Monh, chair for the Environmental Sustainability Committee. The event will take place on the Titan Walk Lawn South Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM/AE

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This year’s Fall Dance Theatre show promises a wider vareity of dances than in years past. Statement pieces as well as traditional ballets will be featured in the eight-dance performance.

Fall Dance Theatre promises variety Eight conceptual dances will make up CSUF’s returning fall dance performance

DEANNA GOMEZ Daily Titan As the semester continues, the Cal State Fullerton Department of Theatre and Dance will continue to entertain audiences with the 2014 Fall Dance Theatre which includes ballet, jazz and modern dance. There is no theme to the show this year, instead choreographers just choreographed whatever was on their mind, said Gladys Kares, coordinator of the Fall Dance Theatre. Kares has coordinated both the fall and spring dance theatre concerts before, but said this show is different. “It’s very strange because usually students go away for the summer and they split

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apart and they come back with … all of them thinking the same thing, but this time it’s not that way, everybody’s thinking something different,” Kares said. In total, there will be eight dances in the shows split between intermission. Two of the dances featured include a ballet about watching birds fly along with an anti-war statement piece choreographed by faculty member Macarena Gandarillas. Other choreographers include seniors Rachel Ruhe and Crystal Ann Wachs. Ruhe’s piece, To Break the Darkness, is about bringing light into others’ lives. Dancers share a handheld light to show which dancers in the piece have found light and joy. Dancers who do not hold the light represent those who are still battling the darkness within themselves.

The stories of bullying and suicide Ruhe has encountered and has been affected by are what inspired her to create the dance. “It is not until after the tragedy that people realize that it could have been avoided by reaching out to them and being a friend,” Ruhe said. While Ruhe’s dance deals with tragedy and finding happiness, Wachs’ dance deals with new life. Her dance is a biblical depiction of how Earth was created in seven days. Wachs was inspired by her religion as well as her love for nature and the elements. “My piece creates an inspiration for what the future is to hold, just like how God predicted when he was creating Earth. It is an uplifting piece to watch and is visually pleasing to the eye,” Wachs said. All of the dancers in the show had to audition at the

beginning of the semester. Performing in the show is not part of their curriculum, but can be a great experience for them, Kares said. “They change. They grow in their roles. They have a feeling of what it is to be a professional, I can’t tell you the difference in maturity from one week to the next,” Kares said. The dances themselves were chosen based on whether or not they were theatrical to watch, if the point of the dance was clear and if the overall choreography made sense. Both dances have different costumes, sets and dancing styles. “It’s not at all cookie cutter,” Kares said. All aspects of the show are student run, including production which includes lighting, costumes and sound. However, each area includes a faculty

mentor. The shows will run Oct. 2325, 30-31 and Nov. 1 at 8 p.m., and Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 at 2 p.m. in the Little Theatre. Single tickets are $11 or

$10 with the Titan student discount. They can be purchased online at the Clayes Performing Arts Center website, or in person at the CPAC box office.

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Devil’s Advocate

Companies offering egg freezing overstep their boundaries ROSELYNNE REYES Daily Titan There is nothing wrong with women choosing to focus on career over family, especially when women make up 47 percent of the workforce. However, the decision for a woman to freeze her eggs should remain the woman’s choice alone. Apple and Facebook recently announced that they would add benefits allowing their female employees to freeze their eggs on the company’s dime. Supporters praise these companies for empowering their female employees by allowing them to focus on their careers. Critics, however, are accusing the company of providing an incentive to women who give away their childbearing years in favor of their career. If female employees were asking for the benefit to freeze their eggs, this would be a completely different issue. However, the company’s decision to make it an unsolicited option sends the message that choosing motherhood while working will absolutely hinder their success. In turn, the choice to freeze your eggs becomes a necessity for those who want to excel. Freezing eggs was originally developed for women

with cancer who wanted the ability to freeze their eggs before undergoing chemotherapy, but it soon took on a secondary purpose for women hoping to further their careers and delay parenthood until they’ve established a living for themselves. The option of freezing eggs has become more viable of an option since the experimental label was removed from this procedure by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in 2013. Companies have even begun hosting egg freezing parties, where professional women gather over wine and are persuaded to freeze their eggs to further their careers, according to Slate. This doesn’t mean the procedure is recommended. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ASRM) both maintain that freezing eggs as a lifestyle choice is not recommended because there still isn’t enough data to support the practice. They believe that freezing eggs should be considered as a last resort option. Freezing eggs is an expensive process. USC Fertility in Los Angeles charges $10,000 for testing, monitoring, medications and egg freezing, according to their website.

That’s not all, that price tag only includes storage for the first year. Afterwards, storage will cost $500 per year. And once the woman is ready, the embryo transfer process costs about $5,000. Apple and Facebook both cover up to $20,000 for this benefit, which means 10 years of storage at these prices. The U.S. has one of the highest rates of women aged 40 to 44 with no children at 19 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. Out of 118 countries, we rank seventh. Yet, a recent Gallup poll states that the majority of Americans still believe that 25 or younger is the ideal age for a woman to have her first child. Promising the option of parenthood later than expected is an attractive option, but considering the procedure is still somewhat new and not completely reliable, these companies may instill a false hope in their employees. For companies looking to follow Apple and Facebook’s lead, they should consider the other generous benefits offered by the company first. Instead of promoting the idea that family and career are incompatible, companies should increase the resources available for working parents.

Providing free egg freezing is the first step in addressing larger issue JAMES SMITH Daily Titan It’s undeniable that there is an extreme amount of misogyny and sexism in both Silicon Valley and the tech industry as a whole, which makes Apple and Facebook’s recent move to make the workplace more welcoming and accommodating for women all the more shocking. Facebook said it will pay up to $20,000 for its female employees to freeze their eggs in a recent company e-mail. They additionally offer adoption and surrogacy assistance and wide variety of other fertility services for male and female employees. Apple is providing a similar bundle of benefits including egg freezing and storage, extended maternity leave, adoption assistance and infertility treatments, according to USA Today. This is quite a step forward for an industry whose attitude towards women in the workplace has been nothing short of abysmal. The new benefits might be a little intrusive and capitalistic, but the fact that any tech company is even willing to address female concerns should be hailed as progress, even if it’s in the form of golden handcuffs. As to why these options were made, representatives

from Apple said in a statement that they want to empower women at Apple to do the best work of their lives as they care for loved ones and raise their families. Allowing women to freeze their eggs and put off having a child in their early 20s, at no cost, could potentially reduce the influence that the lingering but unspoken glass ceiling still has on the industry—or at least allow women to not have to make the difficult decision of choosing between a successful career or a family. Freezing eggs is no longer a pseudoscience either. In 2013, American Society for Reproductive Medicine officially removed the experimental label on the procedure. The new benefit could not only allow women currently working in the field to have children at some point, but could also bring new women into a field where they are extremely underrepresented. In 2013, women only made up 26 percent of the computing workforce, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. By comparison, women compose 50.8 percent of the U.S. population in 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Silicon Valley fares even worse than the national average, which in 2010 had only

3 percent of venture-backed companies with all-female teams, compared to the 89 percent all-male teams, according to the Silicon Valley Index. With giants like Apple and Facebook taking initiative in trying to level the playing field, hopefully more tech companies will do the same by providing even more comprehensive benefits. However, their efforts should not stop here. In 2013 alone, the tech industry had a media company’s chief tech officer fired for hateful sexist musing over Twitter and multiple misogynistic apps received stage time at TechCrunch Disrupt, one of the largest startup showcases in the nation, according to NPR. One of the apps is titled “titshare,” which takes photos of the user staring at breasts. It’s clear that the misogyny in technology is not just going to go away all on its own. There has to be a concerted effort by the entire industry to make any real change. Facebook and Apple are just the companies to start this effort. Even if these reproductive health benefits were only inspired from the soulless calculations of a worker productivity chart, the fact that a dialogue is being created might be the greatest benefit.

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You need to stretch yourself a little and see if you can get things back on track. Your energy is just right for volunteer work or just for doing random good deeds. Rack up some karma!

TAURUS

(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

Your emotional side is out in force today, and it may be easier than usual for you to deal with someone or something that’s been troubling you. In fact, you should go out of your way to get closure.

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LIBRA

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Something needs a bit of cleaning today -- and you are just the person to take care of it. This isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, but your energy can make the future a lot brighter.

LEO

Money may not exactly be a problem for you, but you still need to devote some time and energy to managing it. Now is a great time to deal with debt or other pressing matters.

For once you’re the one who needs to quiet down the group and try to get everyone focused (or at least on the same page). It’s not as easy as it looks, but you can get enough people going to get the ball.

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You’ve got too many details to juggle today -- but don’t let that get you down! You need to make sure that you’re on track to tackle the big opportunity that is coming your way soon.

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You’ve got to help a friend in need today -- if you say no the odds are that the karmic backlash will be excessive. Don’t grumble! It’s sure to end well for everyone involved if you do what’s right.

SAGITTARIUS

You need to use some of your great energy to help other people with their needs -- otherwise, it’s sure to backfire on you. Noble selflessness is actually the right thing to do for yourself.

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Try not to get too far ahead of yourself today -- things are actually better ordered than you realize. If you skip a step, you are sure to have to back track and lose ground while playing catch-up.

CAPRICORN

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Details are all-important today, so make sure that you’re really paying attention. Your mental energy is as sharp as can be, so it’s easy for you to tease out what’s really vital from everything else.

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Work and business are harder for you than usual -- maybe because you can’t take it seriously or because others are acting like sharks. Things should start to settle down soon, though.

PISCES

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Your rational mind is sure to be aching for explanations by the end of the day -- but they’re coming later. You’ve got to make sure that you’re dealing with life minute by minute.

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