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Volume 96 Issue 38

Men’s soccer playoff bound The Titans tied Cal State Northridge 1-1 to clinch a spot in the Big West Tournament

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JOSEPH ANDERSON & MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team headed to Northridge Wednesday to wrap up their regular season against the Matadors.

The match was a mustwin for both squads, with Cal State Northridge trailing the Titans by one point in the Big West South Division standings for the final spot in the conference tournament.

CSUF got the night started on a positive note as Mark Vasquez scored in the 38th minute to give the Titans an early edge.

Vasquez streaked down the center of the pitch and blew by multiple Matador defenders with his speed before slotting the ball low and left of CSUN goalkeeper Adam Hobbs. It was Vasquez’s first goal of the year, and it couldn’t have come at a better time as it seemingly energized the Titans after a lackadaisical start.

However, this lead was short-lived as Juan Samayoa fired back in the 42nd minute to even the score just before the half.

In the final minute of the first half, Matador forward Carlos Gonzalez collided with Titan goalkeeper Jeff Salt, but no foul was called; much to the displeasure of CSUF Head Coach George Kuntz.

Salt quite possibly saved the Titans’ season in the 58th minute by blocking a penalty kick from CSUN’s leading scorer Sagi Lev-Ari. The Titans almost saw their season end in the 68th minute when a Northridge shot got behind Salt but hit the post.

CSUN shot themselves in the foot in the final minutes of regulation. Midfielder

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The Matadors had to play with 10 men for the rest of the match.

Fullerton almost grabbed the win in the 90th minute.

Hobbs made two incredible saves to take the game to overtime and keep their playoff hopes alive.

Both teams were aggressive in the first overtime period.

Senior forward Marc Fenelus made a break for the net right after the opening whistle of the period. He broke through the Matador defense, but his shot sailed over the goal out of play.

Soon after, the Matadors had the ball on the Titans’ half of the pitch, but the defense held them off and the two teams headed to the second overtime.

The second overtime was fast-paced with CSUN frantically trying to win and continue their season.

Northridge got a shot on goal, but Salt dove to his right to make the save.

The Titan defense tightened up and preserved the 1-1 tie, which qualifies them for the Big West Conference Tournament. CSUF will be taking on UC Davis in a door-die match Saturday.

Fullerton lost their only matchup with the Aggies 3-1 in Davis on Oct. 2.

They will look to avenge their previous loss and keep their season alive against the second-best team in the Big West North Division.

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Kazumi DeVries and Seaon Stylist will lead a one hour block of dance lessons Saturday.

Dancing the night away Salsa club to host after dark dance event

DEANNA GOMEZ Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton Salsa Club will host its second event of the semester Saturday.

The event, Classic Salsa: Johnny Polanco y Su Conjunto Amistad, will open to the public and is free for CSUF students, faculty and staff with their Titan Cards and $10 for the general public. The event will be held from 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. in the Titan Student Union. The event will feature two hours of live music by Johnny Polanco y Su Conjunto Amistad, a one hour block of lessons from Kazumi DeVries and Seaon Stylist, and two hours of music by DJ Jimmy.

Food will be provided at no cost.

The Salsa Club is celebrating its four-year

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The CSUF Salsa Club has 150 members as well as their award-winning competitive dance team.

anniversary this semester.

Founders Joshua Mendoza and DeVries began the club in 2010 after another salsa club on campus diminished. The club now boasts over 150 members and an

award-winning competitive team.

Although membership for this semester is closed, anyone can join the club and no previous experience is required. Those who

are interested in getting involved with the club can still attend events. The club’s Friday Fall Salsa Academy is still open for sign-ups.

For more information, visit csufsalsaclub.com.

Paul Miller set to retire Head of Disabled Students Services will step down after 40 years in his position

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Congressman Ed Royce (R-CA), chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs delivered the keynote address at Monday’s event.

Fall of Berlin Wall celebrated Symposium commemorates 35th anniversary of event which reunified Germany

JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan Twenty-five years ago, people all over the world watched as German citizens from the east and the west sides of the Berlin Wall chiseled away at the barrier, which had divided them for nearly 30 years.

Cal State Fullerton’s European Studies Program

and The Division of Politics, Administration and Justice commemorated and discussed the legacy of the Berlin Wall as the physical manifestation of the Iron Curtain, and as a reference point for politics today during a Monday symposium.

Approximately 100 people attended the event, which was held in the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, where some of Nixon’s presidential papers regarding the Cold War and

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a segment of the Berlin Wall are housed.

“It was a nice way to connect (students) to tangible history,” said Cora Granata, a professor whose research focuses on culture and nationalism in the former German Democratic Republic.

She and Alexi Shevchenko, who teaches U.S. Foreign Relations, had their afternoon classes bused over from campus.

Granata and Stephen Stambough, chair of the division, started planning this

event with the help of various student organizations last spring. The pair wanted to marry the study of applied world politics and academic study of world events, Stambough said.

As such, they chose Congressman Ed Royce (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and former chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade, as the keynote speaker.

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After nearly four decades at Cal State Fullerton, Director of Disability Support Services Paul Miller will retire later this year.

Miller’s experience extends from his work with the support services to touch the sphere of the Student Athlete Assistance Program and also includes work as a governor-appointed member of the California Governor’s Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities.

Miller got his start at CSUF after a pilot program for disabled students at Cal State Long Beach spurred CSUF to develop its own version to serve students.

After hearing from a contact that CSUF was looking for someone to develop the program, Miller jumped on the idea despite the low pay.

“They were just amazed that a guy with five years of teaching experience and

a master’s degree would be willing to work for $2.50 an hour for a twenty-hour-aweek student assistant position,” Miller said.

The position provided a chance to both begin working at CSUF and to start developing a new skill set, Miller said.

“I saw it as an opportunity to develop some new skills and to get a foot in the door essentially,” Miller said.

“It’s just being at the right place at the right time and be willing to take a chance on something. That often pays off.”

Miller had his work cut out for him in establishing himself as a candidate worthy of promotion in a new position. During his first year he worked up to 40 hours a week while being paid for just 20 hours, he said.

“I saw this as an opportunity to see if I could develop support for a program that would would be funded at a full-time level that would allow me to decide to stay,” Miller said.

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Putting their heart into art Five CSUF students partner with local arts organization to promote art education

LAUREN GAMACHE Daily Titan Five Cal State Fullerton public relations students will help usher the arts into Fullerton classrooms through their work with All the Arts for All the Kids.

Richa Anand, Victoria Sanchez, Linda Hoang, Alex Koyl and Amanda Nogaki, all senior public relations majors, have partnered with All the Arts to boost the organization’s reach and further its goals. The project comes as a part of the students’ capstone course for their major.

The course requires students to choose a non-profit organization and devise a plan aimed at helping it grow. The process includes developing a business plan to execute over the course of the semester.

This Saturday, the group

will work for the organization at its annual art auction.

The fundraiser will auction off over 200 works of art donated by local artists.

The students will be working during the fundraiser as part of their efforts to promote the organization and its goal of increasing funding for arts education.

Lauralyn Eschner, president of All the Arts for All the Kids, said the organization’s goals give it the opportunity to fill in the gaps in arts education that often affects students in less affluent schools.

“We started a foundation to make sure that every single child no matter what their socioeconomic background could get art, music, dance and theater lessons,” Eschner said.

The foundation will put $25 toward art, dance and theater lessons for every student. The students get six lessons that are taught by specially selected professionals.

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The CSUF group chose to make social media a key component of their plan to help All the Arts, said Nogaki, one of the students helping the organization.

“We’ve helped them increase their social media activity, we’ve gotten the word out to (CSUF) art students to get the local colleges more involved in the organization,” Nogaki said.

The students created an Instagram account for the organization, updated its Facebook and continued developing its Twitter.

As executive director of the team, Nogaki is responsible for keeping up with the client and ensuring that every task gets completed.

Part of the group’s efforts have included recruiting CSUF art students to help their cause by asking students to donate their art to the auction in return for tickets to the event.

The fundraiser will start Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Fullerton Museum Plaza.

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Heart statues like the one pictured will be auctioned off at the Arts Auction Saturday, with proceeds supporting arts classes.

Fight breaks out after soccer game Police have closed a case involving a fight between a CSUF and UCR players

ALEXANDER DOMINGUEZ Daily Titan A Cal State Fullerton soccer player got into a fight with a UC Riverside soccer player at Titan Stadium

following their very physical match that ended in a tie Saturday.

No information was given as to why the event occurred, or which party initiated the fight. No serious injuries were reported. The CSUF athlete filed a report with University Police, but has declined to press charges

and the case has been closed, said University Police Capt.

John Brockie.

Both teams played their first games since the tie Wednesday and it does not appear that any players from either team have been suspended.

Michael Huntley contributed to this report.

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Pres. asks for Ebola funding To help secure the U.S. against a spread of Ebola, President Barack Obama requested $6.2 billion in emergency funds from congress to fight the disease at its source in West Africa, according to the Associated Press.

Administration officials said about $2 billion of those funds would go to the United States Agency for International Development and another $2.4 billion would go to the Department of Health and Human Services.

About $1.5 billion would go to a contingency fund in case of a “flare up” in West Africa.

The White House is asking for prompt action for the disbursement of funds during the lame duck session, while Democrats still have control over the senate.

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Military campaign sought President Obama said he will seek congressional approval for a strategic military campaign against ISIS, according to the New York Times.

Obama made the announcement Wednesday during a post-election news conference, saying it was time to ask congress for their specific approval following midterm elections.

The announcement marks a shift in the president’s position. Prior to the midterms he said he would welcome the backing of congress, but that he had the authority to use military force without them.

Obama said it was too soon to say whether the United States forces and their allies were winning against ISIS, and that it could take time for Iraqi forces to gain ground against the organization.

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Monday’s event was held at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda. A piece of the wall that divided East and West Germany for more than 30 years was on display.

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Royce, a CSUF alumnus, was elected to congress in 1992–not long after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Berlin Wall. He shared with the audience some insights regarding the reunification of Germany and applied history to current political tensions in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Royce shared anecdotes about witnessing an arm wrestling match between two former agents of rival international intelligence agencies. At a bar in the early ‘90s, a show of bravado between Jack Wheeler, a friend of Royce, and future Russian President

Vladimir Putin became much more when Wheeler and Putin sniffed each other out as members of the Central Intelligence Agency and the KGB, the Russian intelligence agency.

Royce described Putin as aggressive and suggested his foreign policy was a reflection of his nature.

The collapse of the Soviet Union lulled the world into believing that Europe was finally at peace, Royce said. He claimed that Putin’s aggression in Ukraine was proof that Europeans and the U.S. should be be more concerned about defense.

Russell Dalton, a political science professor at UCI who has written

extensively on German politics, reiterated Royce’s assertion that Cold War politics still affects politics today.

After reunification, former East Germans were frustrated and disappointed with their new democratic government, Dalton explained. Those east of the wall had been idealistic, expecting an open and honest government and were surprised by the West German sense of cynicism, Dalton said.

Today, 80 percent of Germans who live in the east still believe socialist ideals. This is sometimes reflected in European Union social policies, Dalton said.

Officer commits lewd acts Los Angeles Police Department officer Ryan Eric Galliher was arrested Tuesday night at his residence in Huntington Beach for indecent exposure, and other charges.

He was charged with one felony count of contacting a minor with lewd intent and one felony count of attempting a lewd act with a minor.

He was also charged five misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure and one misdemeanor count of engaging in lewd conduct.

Galliher, 33, is accused of being a serial offender having allegedly exposed himself on six separate occasions. The offenses range from flashing to public masturbation.

Galliher has been released on $100,000 bail and will be arraigned on Jan. 5.

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Bringing poetry to Pollak

Saturday event will host former National Endowment for the arts chair in Pollak Library

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Dana Gioia, professor at USC and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, will speak at Pollak Library Saturday. Patrons of the Library at Cal State Fullerton are providing funds to sponsor his presentation.

for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1991 for Can Poetry Matter?

Currently a professor at USC, Gioia was chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts until 2009.

During his tenure at the endowment, he increased awareness of the potential community benefits that stem from writing.

One of the endowment initiatives under his leadership was titled “Operation

Homecoming,” which gave returning soldiers and their spouses the opportunity to

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top ten non-fiction books by the Washington Post.

Howard Seller, chair of

He, for a long time, has said that he does not believe poetry should just belong to a subculture ...

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Thanks to the sponsorship of the Patrons of the Library at Cal State Fullerton, Dana Gioia, award-winning poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will speak at CSUF on Saturday.

Gioia’s speaking engagement is meant primarily to raise funds for the library to use to purchase books and sponsor lectures, said Carolyn Eckert, a member and event planner for the Patrons, which serves as a support group for the library.

The poet earned his undergraduate degree in business from Stanford University before moving to Harvard University where he earned his master’s degree in comparative literature.

Gioia’s professional experience extends past his poetry and into the realm of both marketing and international delegation. He was marketing executive for General Foods for 15 years and chief of the United States’ cultural delegation to UNESCO, the United Nations agency which promotes peace, security and international collaboration in education, science and culture.

Outside of his other experiences, Gioia’s has received multiple awards for his work, including the American Book Award in 2002 for Interrogations at Noon, and a finalist nomination

write about their experiences.

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the activities committee for the patrons, said one of the strengths of Gioia’s poetry

lies in the fact that it appeals to a wide audience.

“He, for a long time, has said that he does not believe poetry should just belong to a subculture, his feeling is that poetry really ought to be for the general public,” Seller said.

That feeling, Seller said, is an intentional move on Gioia’s part to make his work accessible to a wide range of readers.

“His poems are very

accessible,” Seller said.

“They’re poems that you can listen to and usually follow fairly clearly, without having to sit and ponder them, and try and figure out what they mean so he’s a very accessible poet, and I think that’s his intention.”

Gioia’s lecture is free and open to the public. It will take place Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Rotary Club of Fullerton, Pollak Library North Room 130.

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In the following years, with the aid of the president of Associated Students, Inc. and support programs for students returning from Vietnam, a full-time position was funded and Miller officially became director of Handicap Services, now known as Disability Support Services.

From there, Miller’s service has been focused in the Disability Support Services office, a position he appreciates for its direct impact on students, he said.

“It’s been really gratifying for me to see the kind of impact that this kind of program has made and thousands and thousands of very capable and talented students with disabilities who should have that opportunity and that encouragement,” Miller said.

The new director is

expected to start sometime in January, but his colleagues already know what they are looking for in the office of Disability Support Services’ next leader.

“I’d probably like a clone (of Miller),” said Doug Liverpool, Counseling and Learning Disabilities coordinator.

“I really appreciate (Miller’s) management style and his willingness to really fight for students, so I’m hoping we find somebody like that.”

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DSS • Certifies student disabilities • Provides accomodations for students with mobile, learning, hearing, visual or other disabilities

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Paul Miller will retire this year from his position as head of Disabled Students Services. Miller has been a part of the services since its inception decades ago.

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Searching... for Mr. Right | Positive lessons learned from past relationships Student discuses what her past relationships have taught her

KALEY WILLIAMS Daily Titan I don’t know how to love in pieces. I don’t know how to give only a fraction of myself to someone.

I’ll admit this has led me to make many of the mistakes I’ve written about in past weeks, but it also allowed me to love without fear or regret. Rather than documenting my mishaps this week, I want to share some of the positive lessons that

I suppose that’s where the lessons are; for me, they were more so in hindsight than in the time I spent within the relationships.

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making my future my priority, I made my boyfriend my priority.

I put in as little effort as possible into finishing my own work so that I could proofread his homework and help him prepare for future exams. Soon, I began to resent him for it.

When he started to plan our future I realized I no longer had an individual future, but only one as his other half, and that wasn’t his fault. He never asked me to make him my world.

He became a firefighter near the end of our rela-

I’ve learned through my experience in relationships.

When I was 17 years old, I found myself in love for the first time.

My boyfriend and I began dating when we were both seniors in high school and our relationship lasted about a year. We were attending the same junior college at the time, and while I studied journalism, he spent his time in fire safety classes.

He knew he wanted to become a firefighter ever since he was a child, although I always loved to write, I was still trying to decide if I could devote my life to it. So, rather than

tionship and we quickly fell apart. We discussed trying again a few times over the following year, but I felt that I needed to establish my own career first before trying to make us work again.

I completed my associates degree at my junior college and then transferred to Cal State Fullerton where I fell in love with a man who pushed me to be better.

We spent two years together. During that time he challenged me to view school as an experience worth embracing rather than a means to an end, and I loved him for giving me

that angle of perception.

This time we were both planning our future together, and since we both had a deep desire to travel, we decided to spend two weeks backpacking through Europe together.

I saved for a year to pay for my half of the trip, but as it approached our relationship deteriorated.

We spent the majority of our nights bickering over inconsequential matters because we didn’t know how to deal with our real problems. However we decided that despite our issues, we would enjoy the vacation together.

The day we were leaving for Europe I found out that my first love got engaged, and it forced me to realize that my current boyfriend and I were clearly not heading in that direction.

We still took our trip, but from an outsider’s point of view we must have looked like best friends rather than lovers because that’s what we had become.

We traveled to Paris, the city of love and slept in separate beds.

When we returned to the routine of daily life, neither of us had the energyto pretend anymore, so we walked away. We did so content with the knowledge that we both devoted everything we had to our relationship.

I don’t know that I could say the same about my first relationship, because although he never asked me to revolve my life around

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This student learns more about love and relationships by reflecting on previous relationships.

him, he never asked me not to either.

I suppose that’s where the lessons are; for me, they were more so in hindsight than in the time I spent within the relationships.

In leaving my first love I began to want dreams of my own, but I held onto the idea of finding someone willing to give as much as I was thinking things would inevitably work, but

my second love proved me wrong.

I don’t think that there’s a perfect science, but I do believe there are only so many times I can get it wrong before I finally get it right.

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Delving into immigration laws

Transnational panel on immigration offered different cultural perspectives

ALEX GROVES Daily Titan Ju Hong had one dream throughout his high school career—going to college.

He was actively involved in clubs and activities, took pride in his grades and dreamed of the day he could step on the campus of a four-year university. However, things came to a crashing halt when he was a senior in high school and learned about his legal status in the United States. He was undocumented.

Hong had to reconsider many of the things he once took for granted.

“At first, I didn’t know what it meant to be undocumented until I realized I’m unable to get a job, or obtain a driver’s license, or receive any kind of financial aid,” Hong said. “Once I found out the many obstacles and challenges ahead of me, I was devastated.”

Hong was one of three speakers at the Transnational Perspectives on Immigration panel discussion that was held Wednesday at the Titan Student Union Theater.

The presentation sought to examine factors that affect immigration from other countries to the United States.

It also attempted to examine how current immigration laws impact undocumented individuals.

Hong discussed his own

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Ju Hong, research assistant at Harvard University’s National UnDACAmented Research Project, talks about his experience as an undocumented person in the United States.

experiences as a person from Korea without paperwork.

Also participating in the panel was Gilbert Gonzalez, UC Irvine professor emeritus, who discussed how U.S. imperialist interests in Mexico spurred a system of immigration in the early 1900s that still exists today.

Hong and Gonzalez were joined by Leisy Abrego, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Chicano and Chicana

studies at UCLA. Abrego also discussed the U.S. imperialist behavior, but talked about how it impacted countries like Panama, Salvador and Guatemala.

Gonzalez took his audience through America’s relationship with Mexico leading up to the Mexican revolution in the early 1900s.

He said American companies saw the rich amount of natural resources and land

in Mexico as a possible economic investment.

Those companies then moved in with the construction of railroads and mines.

This displaced poor landowners in the north of the country and forced them to become migrants.

“The roots of Mexican migration is really this economic policy by the United States operating within Mexico,” Gonzalez said.

Abrego said U.S. investment in other Latin American countries led to similar political climates in those places.

He suggested that true immigration reform doesn’t come from figuring out how to keep people out, but rather how to fix the conditions which require them to migrate in the first place.

“When we think about this and we think about how

to solve it, most of the conversation in the U.S. is about what happens here,” Abrego said. “How do we send them the message that they’re not welcome here, but we don’t think about the policies that are forcing people out and we don’t think about solutions outside of our borders.”

While many undocumented students continue to struggle, Hong’s immigrant story ended happily as he was able to attend UC Berkeley through the efforts of scholarships and grants from multiple foundations.

He became the first undocumented student senator at Berkeley, where he worked toward campus legislation that would benefit undocumented students and help them procure scholarships and other necessary resources to fund their college careers.

Still, he thinks about how much easier things could be for his mother and sister if the immigration process were more streamlined. He said he also thinks about other immigrants.

In November 2013, Hong heckled President Barack Obama over his immigration policy during a speech on immigration reform in San Francisco’s Chinatown.

“What got me to interrupt President Obama was when I really thought about all the young adults that stood up and shared their stories, taking charge, despite facing deportation,” Hong said.

“I realized I needed to do the same.”

Students take a plunge into the water HEATHER MYERS Daily Titan Many students take advantage of the equipment and classes offered at the Student Recreation Center on campus as a way to exercise and achieve overall health and wellness. The pool, which some might use purely for relaxation purposes, is a peaceful oasis that is also being utilized for exercise.

The Recreation Center kicked off its annual 100mile swim challenge in September, and 46 students have already jumped into the pool to prove they have what it takes.

The swim challenge, previously known as “Swim to Catalina” and “Swim the Big West,” was created to bring awareness to swimming as a form of physical activity.

The Swim to Catalina challenge was 26 miles, but people would finish it. The

Big West event required people to work too many miles and they failed to finish it, said Alison Wittwer, safety and aquatics coordinator at the Recreation Center.

“So we compromised on the 100-mile swim challenge, and you have both semesters to complete it,” Wittwer said.

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We have people out here doing rehab and they can’t swim because of their shoulder, but they will run up and down the pool.

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The Student Recreation Center is challenging students to swim 100 miles

ALISON WITTWER SRC Coordinator The challenge starts during the fall semester and continues on throughout intersession and into the spring semester. Students can sign up with the lifeguard and tally their total laps each day on their swim sheets, which are kept in an

alphabetized folder near the pool.

Wittwer said the challenge is based on the honor system. The only person keeping track of the number of laps is the student. “You just report (to the lifeguard) how many laps you swam or walked or whatever, and we keep a running tally,” Wittwer said. “We log all your miles … and tally it weekly so you can see where you are.”

The pool at the Recreation Center is 25 yards long, which equates to 70 one-way laps for one mile.

Prizes will be given away for every 25, 50, 75 and 100 miles completed. Students will receive a swim cap for the first 25 miles and goggles for the next 25 miles.

The other prizes will remain a surprise.

“People have to come swim and find out what they are,” Wittwer said.

Water-based exercise, such as swimming, is beneficial to physical and mental health, even though it is usually viewed as a leisure activity. Swimming and

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Prizes will be given for every 25, 50, 75 and 100 miles swimmed.

other aerobic exercise can decrease the risk of chronic illnesses and help improve the health of people with diabetes and heart disease, according to the Center for Disease Control. Swimming can also improve mood and decrease anxiety and depression.

For people wanting to switch up their workout

routines, swimming can be a great change of pace because it is a full-body exercise. On average, it can burn about 400 calories per hour.

Wittwer said students can also run or walk the laps in the pool. The challenge is not strictly for swimming.

The overall goal of the challenge is simply to get people

into the pool to get moving.

“You can walk the laps.

We have people out here doing rehab and they can’t swim because of their shoulder, but they will run up and down the pool,” she said.

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Child-proof batteries bring up larger safety concerns The days of traditional toys like action figures and playsets are numbered. The kids today are more interested in electronics and battery-powered objects. While children’s taste in toys may have changed, their love for putting absolutely anything into their mouths has not. This has created the very dangerous and potentially lethal problem of kids swallowing small button-shaped batteries at an alarming rate.

The amount of kids that have been seriously hurt or killed has been on the rise. In fact, it has quadrupled in five years (2006-2010) compared to the five years prior (20012005), according to battery swallowing awareness group The Battery Controlled.

Luckily, a team of engineers and scientists have created a new technology

to protect children from injuring or killing themselves when they swallow the batteries. Before, children could be badly injured or even killed as a result of battery ingestion.

There’s no doubt that this is beneficial, but it also begs the question why we haven’t done anything like this sooner.

The process of making button-sized batteries safer didn’t require any ground breaking research. The new batteries are insulated with a special coating that will prevent them from causing any harm if ingested.

The special coating is nothing more than an off-the-shelf material commonly used in computer keyboards and touch screens, call quantum tunneling composite. QTC is a rubberlike material, usually made of silicone, embedded with metal particles.

“We are all very pleased that our studies have shown that these new batteries we

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created have the potential to greatly improve safety due to accidental ingestion for the thousands of patients every year who inadvertently swallow electric components in toys or other entities,” said Robert Langer, professor at MIT and senior author of the paper describing the new battery coatings, in an MIT News interview.

In normal conditions the

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“off” and safe; even if they somehow end up in your stomach, which hopefully doesn’t happen often.

Currently, if a regular battery ends up in your stomach, you will have a belly full of hydroxide, which equals serious tissue damage. In some cases, this can be fatal.

The coating that insulates the batteries is what matters because the injuries re-

The world is full of great advancements both big and small, however, safety is rarely anything but an afterthought with these advancements.

particles cannot hold a current, until its squeezed. Once pressure is applied the particle in the QTC become close enough to hold a current.This property of QTC allows it to switch from an insulator to a conductor.

When the batteries are not under pressure they’re turned

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sult from when the batteries get wet and then release a current.

“Current is released and this breaks down the water, producing hydroxide ions which are caustic,” said Jeff Karp, a biomedical engineer at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, in a BBC

interview.

It’s good that someone thought to find a solution to a problem that most people probably solve by simply not allowing their young to swallow up small items. Realistically, accidents do happen to even the super-parents. One of Karp’s colleagues was the one who first noticed the statistics for this problem two years ago and thought they should look into finding a solution for it.

They noticed that there are over 3,000 ingestions per year in the U.S. The only other ideas that they had noticed were things like making the batteries taste bad or having them dyed so that it can be noticed when swallowed by children. More ideas should have been thrown around throughout the years. The design is simple enough and yet, with all the technological advancements we’ve seen in a variety of areas over the

years, it’s easy to forget about the little things. Something like this should have come a lot sooner.

We are more informed on things than we were a decade ago and we should really work on eliminating easy to solve problems that could help prevent injuries of thousands of people.

In 2014, we are able to order food, edit videos and pay the bills from our phones. The world is full of great advancements both big and small, however, safety is rarely anything but an afterthought with these advancements.

The innovation of safer batteries is just one part of a larger issue. This small technological advancement may seem irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. But even the smallest advancement can be important and impactful. If lives can be saved and damage prevented, it is never a trivial pursuit.

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Lauren Stupin is a member of a successful senior class at CSUF. They have won three consecutive Big West Conference Championships, including regular season titles in 2012 and 2014, They also Big West Tournament title in 2013.

Titans aim for another title The women’s soccer team is playing a Cal State Northridge team they beat in October

MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team will play in the Big West Conference Tournament this weekend at Alex G. Spanos Stadium in San Luis Obispo.

Cal State Fullerton is making its ninth Big West Tournament appearance in program history. The Titans enter as the top seed in the field after winning the seventh regular season title in school history.

Head Coach Demian Brown’s squad has a 6-0-2 conference record and was the only unbeaten team in the Big West. Their eight match unbeaten streak is the longest since the team had an 11-game winning streak in 2005.

The Titans have won five consecutive matches, which is their longest winning streak since 2007. They are coming off a 1-0 victory over the preseason favorites to win the Big West, Cal Poly

San Luis Obispo.

Cal State Northridge has stumbled into the tournament. They are 0-3-1 in their last four games, including a 1-0 loss to the Titans on Oct. 19 at Matador Soccer Field.

Rebecca Wilson scored on a penalty kick in the 57th minute and backup goalkeeper Morgan Bertsch shutout the Matador offense.

Prior to their recent winless streak, the Matadors opened Big West play with four consecutive wins by a total score of 8-1. The defense has been a strength all season for Keith West’s squad. They are third in the Big West in goals allowed average with just 0.82 goals per game.

Northridge goalkeeper Jovani McCaskill is one of the top keepers in the Big West.

She has a 0.78 goals against average, which is the second best in the conference behind Titan goalkeeper Jennifer Stuart.

McCaskill has five shutouts, four of which were in Big West play.

The Titan defense has been excellent this season.

They have only allowed five goals in their eight Big West games, which is tied for the best in the conference. The dominant defensive play did not go unnoticed.

Defender Morgan Batcheller was named to the Big West Conference First Team and fellow defenders Colleen Ortega and Jazzmin Mancilla were named to the Big West honorable mention team.

The Titans’ success is largely dependent upon their defensive play. When allowing one goal or less, they have a 7-3-4 record but just a 1-4 record when they allow two goals or more.

Cal State Fullerton is also a team that thrives from momentum. They are 7-0-0 when they score first and just 1-7-2 when their opponent scores first.

These two teams are far from strangers in the Big West Tournament. The Titans played the Matadors in the 2012 championship game at Anteater Stadium in Irvine. The Matadors beat the Titans that game in a 1-0 overtime thriller.

The game Thursday may be a low scoring contest.

Northridge doesn’t have a potent offense, and the Titans are one of the best defensive teams in the conference. The Matadors have only scored 19 goals in 19 games this season compared to the Titans who have scored 25 goals in the same amount of games.

Only four Northridge players have scored multiple goals this season with Lyndsey Preston and Cynthia Sanchez leading the team with three each.

Despite the team’s low scoring numbers, CSUN has no trouble getting scoring opportunities. They average 12.6 shots per game, but their .079 shot percentage is the second worst in the Big West.

If the Titans get past the Matadors Thursday, they will play in the tournament final Sunday against the winner of a game between Cal Poly SLO and Long Beach State. Cal State Fullerton is competing for it’s second consecutive Big West Tournament title.

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DTBRIEFS Several Titans receive Big West accolades On the heels of the program’s seventh Big West regular season championship, the Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team received several all-league accolades led by Coach of the Year Demian Brown and Offensive Player of the Year Rebecca Wilson, the league announced Wednesday.

Brown claimed his third Big West Coach of the Year award in eight years with the Titans, as they look for their second consecutive NCAA Tournament berth.

Wilson became the third Titan to earn Offensive Player of the Year honors after recording 10 goals and one assist this season.

Joining Wilson on the Big West Conference First Team were junior midfielder Christina Burkenroad as well as junior defender Morgan Batcheller.

Five CSUF players made the Big West Conference honorable mention team, as freshman Connie Caliz, sophomores Amanda Howard, Jazzmin Mancilla, Jennifer Stuart and senior Colleen Ortega earned the honors.

Freshman Kaycee Hoover was named to the Big West Conference All-Freshman team with Caliz.

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CSUF baseball hosts Concordia Saturday The Cal State Fullerton baseball team will host its second fall game of the year Friday against the Concordia Eagles at Goodwin Field.

The two teams will play a nine-inning game followed by five innings of situational baseball. The Eagles were ranked No. 22 in the NAIA rankings at the end of last season.

The Titans are scheduled to pitch the following, in no particular order: Kyle Murray, Tyler Peitzmeier, Chad Hockin, Connor Seabold, Max Gibbs, Willie Kuhl, Miles Chambers, Henry Omaña, Shane Stillwagon and John Gavin.

Two former Titans are on the coaching staff at Concordia. Joe Turgeon and Matt Fahey spent their collegiate careers at CSUF, and Turgeon was a member of the 2004 National Championship team.

The Titans are coming off the 40th consecutive winning season and 30-win season in the program’s NCAA Division I history.

CSUF advanced to its 23rd consecutive NCAA Tournament in 2014.

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The Titans stumbled into the Big West Tournament and are winless in their last four matches. They play UC Davis on the road Saturday.

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Davis features a balanced offense similar to the Titans, as the Aggies have no player with more than four goals on the season.

Davis rotated goalies early in the season, and sophomore Armando Quezada has made that move pay off by

allowing just eight goals in 11 Big West matches.

Salt will need to continue his stellar play against the consistent Aggies offense. Salt has allowed only 14 goals in 14 starts, which has allowed for the Fullerton offense to not have to overcompensate throughout the year.

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Seniors Fenelus and Garrett Losee will look to lead the Titans offense and perform better against their higher-seeded Big West foes.

Fullerton has not won a match in their last four times out on the pitch, and that is a trend that must change if they want to continue their

2014 season.

As the last team to qualify for the tournament, the odds might seem stacked against the Titans.

However, CSUF has come together against strong opponents all season and hope to do the same en route to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2000.

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