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Thursday December 11, 2014
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Opinion
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Volume 96 Issue 53
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
All aboard for ARTIC
Biology courses set for revamp Course redesign will accomodate transfer students and reduce bottleneck classes
LARUEN GAMACHE Daily Titan
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The ARTIC station will host a grand opening ceremony this Saturday despite the fact that commuters officially travelling out of the hub earlier this week. SEE ARTIC
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Titans hope to bite Bulldogs CSUF wraps up a six game road trip Sunday against the Fresno State Bulldogs
MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team wraps up a streak of six consecutive road games Sunday against Fresno State at the Save Mart Center. The Titans fell to the Bulldogs in the second game of the season last year 68-57 at the Titan Gym. Point guard Chante Miles had a team-high 16 points and Hailey King had six rebounds in the loss. CSUF is coming off a blowout 86-50 loss to a tough South Dakota team at the Dakota Dome. They were unable to overcome a 21-2 deficit early in the game. Miles scored 16 points, making it the seventh time this season she scored in double-figures. “That was a game that obviously we weren’t ready to play. We didn’t compete
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Three seniors: Chante Miles (5) Kathleen Iwuoha (33) and Tailer Butler (3) have been key performers recently, contributing to CSUF winning three of their last five games.
and play to the level we’re accustomed to,” Park said. “Unfortunately in a long season, you have a game like that every now and again.” The Titan defense was lackluster, allowing the
Coyotes to shoot 52.5 percent from the field and 44 percent from 3-point range. They will have their hands full with a Fresno State team that shoots 37.3 percent from beyond
the arc, with the second highest percentage in the Mountain West Conference. They are led by Alex Sheedy, who is scoring 15.1 points per game. The Australian native
scored in double figures 18 times last season and has carried the solid offensive play into this season. Despite the Bulldogs’ average scoring offense, they shoot very well from the field. Their 42.1 field goal percentage is the second highest in the Mountain West, trailing Colorado State. The Titans are a much better defensive team than they showed against South Dakota. Their opponents are shooting 38 percent, which is the third best in the Big West Conference. One weakness in Fullerton’s defense is their inability to force turnovers. Their opponents only turn the ball over 11.1 times per game, three times fewer than any other team in the conference. The upperclassmen of the Titans have carried Park’s squad as of late. Four of the five starters are upperclassmen who have guided them to their three wins this season. SEE W BBALL
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Biology students faced with the challenges of bottleneck courses will be getting some relief thanks to a course redesign process. Cal state Fullerton’s math and biology departments received over $537,000 as a part of the Chancellor’s office course redesign. The biology department, now considered impacted for the first time, was provided with $216,744 from the Chancellor’s Office and CSUF to redesign biology 101, 171 and 172, and 361 and 362. The math department received $321,171 to redesign math 040, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130 and 135. The course redesign project will better accommodate transfer students, particularly those who transfer in as biology majors. The biology courses offered at CSUF often fail to correlate with what is being taught at feeder campuses, including Fullerton Junior College. This leaves transfer students with the problem of either taking courses that overlap what they learned at their previous school, or, with department approval, moving on to courses without the full basis of knowledge CSUF students are expected to have. Starting fall 2015, biology 171 Biodiversity and Evolution and 172 Cellular Basis of Life, will be replaced by biology 151 Cellular Molecular Biology and 152 Evolution and Organismal Biology. By changing topics and course names, the material will be an exact match to most of the schools that feed into CSUF. This will allow students to transfer seamlessly and allow them to avoid repeating a course or miss information. Transfer students aren’t the only students who will benefit from the redesign. Bottleneck courses are also an issue in the biology department due to the number of courses that must be taken sequentially. Students who can’t enroll in one of the lower level courses must wait until they can take the course before moving on to the next in the series. SEE COURSES
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Local business owner finds passion as a bee lady Lynne Gallaugher harvests and sells organic honey at local farmers markets
AUBREY SAULS Daily Titan Being a beekeeper isn’t just gathering honey and distributing it into jars shaped like bears. In reality, you become as busy as a bee—literally. Expert beekeeper Lynne Gallaugher is the founder of the local business Bee Ladies. Established in 2006, Bee Ladies are a local group of women who sell honey at various Orange County farmers markets.
The honey they sell is raw and locally harvested in Orange County. The organic quality is what makes the Bee Ladies’ honey so appealing to customers. The raw honey stands can be found in Placentia, Huntington Beach, Fullerton, Chino Hills, Santa Fe Springs, Fountain Valley, Anaheim Hills, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. The Bee Ladies got their name after Gallaugher did a learning talk at a grade school in Yorba Linda. When she was leaving, the kids stood up from their lunch table and yelled, “Bye Bee Lady,” she said.
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“I knew then, that was our name,” Gallaugher said. She has had the bees for nine years. This past May, she bought one hundred new colonies of bees, which cost $10,000. “I personally don’t make a ton of money doing this. I just keep bees alive,” Gallaugher said. Working with animals has always been a part of Gallaugher’s life. She has worked in agriculture for 45 years. She attended Brea Olinda High School and worked with livestock in the 4-H club, an agricultural club, and Future Farmers of America. After high school, she
went to Mt. San Antonio College and majored in animal science. After deciding not to pursue that career, she attended Cal Poly Pomona with a major in agriculture business. Even though she wasn’t fond of that field of study either, she admits that what she learned was beneficial. “I still don’t really like that, but I’m very good at it—doing things in my head. If I have to sit down and be a business person, I don’t like that. But I’ve learned how to make projections and calculate costs, and I do it all in my head,” Gallaugher said.
After college, she ran a floral company, selling flowers for 10 years. “I feel very happy. Who would’ve thought I had to go through all those steps and go to college and end up being happy selling honey in the street,” Gallaugher said. In 2001, she got ill and took medicine that didn’t seem to work. Gallaugher bought three hives of bees, but lost two. Because she was too sick, her friend took the bees and housed them in her orchard. The bees are a labor of love. They need to be fed with sugar syrup, and with
the amount of bees she has now, they eat about 10 buckets that she carries to them. This intense involvement with the bees can sometimes be taxing. Gallaugher is currently recovering from a foot injury in September, while her family helps take care of the colonies. The typical night for Gallaugher is filling containers with honey and days are spent at farmers markets. She has also begun to make appearances at events. SEE HONEY
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