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Thursday November 13, 2014
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Volume 96 Issue 41
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Titans win convincingly in semifinal Men’s soccer advances to the Big West Tournament championship at UC Irvine
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In the first of two days of meetings, the CSU Board of Trustees approved faculty and staff compensation contracts.
Trustees OK raises California Faculty Association among groups that received compensation approval
BRITTANEY CARPENTER Daily Titan The California State University Board of Trustees ratified collective bargaining agreements Wednesday for five unions that serve CSU employees. A three-year contract was approved for members of the California Faculty Association and California State University Employees Union, the union that serves CSU health care, operations, clerical, administrative and technical support employees. They will see a 3 percent raise in the first year and a 2 percent raise in the second and third years. The second ratified contract
applied to the student services Academic Professionals of California, which represents counselors, advisors and financial aid officers. These employees will get the same deal as the Employees Union–a 3 percent raise for year one, followed by a 2 percent raise during the subsequent two years. The same contract terms were approved for the International Operating Engineers and trade workers at the Maritime Academy in California. The agreement affecting the State Employee’s Trade Council and their building trades was ratified as a one year contract with a 3 percent raise in benefits and compensation. The CFA agreement regarding fair faculty compensation
with the CSU system has been of particular importance to faculty members. The previous board meeting in September saw several CSU professors and staff members speak on the lack of raises in compensation and the fact that it has increased financial pressure on CSU faculty. The ratification of the contract provides some relief for CSU employees. These contracts were ratified quickly, without any issues from the chairmen present. While members from each campus have the ability to ratify the agreements at their level, the second stage in enacting the agreements includes sending them to the chancellor’s office for approval.
Board of Trustees
Next meeting: • Thursday Nov. 13 • Meeting begins 8 a.m. • 11:30 a.m. public comment • Office of the Chancellor, 401 Golden Shore, Long Beach
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The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team continued their path toward the Big West Tournament championship Wednesday, downing UC Riverside 3-0. Fullerton faced Riverside for the third time this season, and was looking for their first win against the Highlanders after having tied the two previous matches. The first game of the season between both sides ended in a 1-1 tie at UC Riverside Soccer Stadium, while the second game ended 2-2 at Titan Stadium. Both matches were physical affairs, with Riverside committing 49 fouls over both legs and Fullerton committing 48. The game at Titan Stadium saw two Riverside players earning red cards. Titan Alex Cannas also went off with a leg injury in what was his and 11 other teammates’ senior night. Cannas has not played since. After that game, CSUF forward Marc Fenelus spoke out about the disappointing tie. “For me, it’s the biggest disappointment of the season because we played for more than 10 minutes with two men up, so we should have definitely won the game. There’s no excuse about that,” Fenelus said. However, the Titans did not disappoint Wednesday night. Fullerton couldn’t have asked for a better start to the game. Right before the fifth minute, Highlander Stephen Copley pulled down Fenelus as the Titan forward was gearing up for a one-on-one with UCR goalkeeper K.C. John. The referee blew the whistle, awarding Fullerton the
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0 penalty and sending off Copley in the process. Ian Ramos stepped up to take the spot kick and converted from 12 yards, giving CSUF the early 1-0 lead. The goal was the senior’s fourth of the season, and second in the last two games. The Titans doubled their lead in the 12th minute. On the right flank, junior defender Colin Okirie played the ball forward to Ramos, who sent a cross to Fenelus. Fenelus struck the ball from 12 yards, putting the Titans ahead 2-0. The Highlanders tried to respond two minutes later via a Hector Romo shot, but they failed to convert. However, the Titans were whistled for a penalty in that same minute, giving Riverside the opportunity to cut the deficit. Michael Salazar stepped up to take the spot kick for the Highlanders, looking to put them back in the game. Titan goalkeeper Jeff Salt, however, had other ideas. Salazar took the shot, but Salt guessed correctly and made the save. The stop was Salt’s second penalty save in the last three games, having also denied Cal State Northridge last week in the regular season finale. In the 27th minute, Romo tried again to put UCR on the scoresheet, but Salt came up big again and denied the Highlanders once more. Riverside tried to flurry in the next eight minutes, firing off five shots, but each time they were denied. SEE SOCCER
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Applying nature’s miracles for practical solutions
Professor researches manta ray filter systems to improve wastewater treatments
AMBER UDDIN Daily Titan You’re in the ocean with nothing but an oxygen tank. Apart from the bubbles jetting out of your breathing apparatus, it’s peaceful and eerie. You can see something deep down below moving in the depths of the water, and you start to feel uneasy. Thirty feet below, a whale shark the size of a school bus glides past you. You feel insignificant. You remind yourself to breathe as it slowly makes its way toward you. Breathe. You move above it and climb on top as it opens its wide, gaping mouth and takes in water. Quickly, you snap a picture. *** This is not the ideal job for many, but for professor and biomechanist Erin “Misty” Paig-Tran, Ph.D., it’s not just a job, but a passion to know more and to unlock some of
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Manta rays are a type of filter-feeder fish, whose biological mechanics can be used to purify water more efficiently.
the mysteries that lie under the water—and it’s all for a greater purpose. Paig-Tran has been studying large filter-feeders in places like Hawaii, Yucatán and Scotland. A lecture she took as a graduate student sparked a question in Paig-Tran’s mind: How do very big
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animals like manta rays, whale sharks, basking sharks and megamouth sharks sustain themselves by feeding on the smallest things in the ocean, like plankton? She questioned the current theories about how the fish were feeding and something told her there was more to
it. Dissatisfied with the answers to her questions, she began to investigate. That question has driven her not only to a career, but through years of innovative research both in the field and in the lab. It has prompted more and more questions like how these filters can be used to benefit humans and
their environment. Paig-Tran films the inside of the mouths of these larger-than-life wild animals as well as studying dead specimens in a lab. With the use of X-rays, CT scans or by taking casts of the internal structures, she uses 3-D imaging and 3-D printing to create models of the filters,
including life-sized models and larger. The 3-D printing method allows for the tiniest pores in the filters to show and Paig-Tran uses the 3-D prototypes to experiment with the way they work in a controlled environment, which is difficult to do with a live animal. Paig-Tran has been working on the use of the filter-feeders’ powerful filtering technology for applications in wastewater treatment, or even water faucets and vacuums. “Because their filters are so good at doing what they do because they don’t clog, we can now make manmade applications based on it,” she said. Wastewater plants have primary and secondary treatments which remove large waste and biological content, then pumps the effluent, or sewage, into the ocean. But Paig-Tran’s theory differs in that it uses the biomimetic manta filter to further purify the water, thus putting less harmful and dangerous sewage into the ocean. SEE MANTA
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