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Thursday December 11, 2014

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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

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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

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

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

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.

“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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Making a safer cell phone CSUF student research team looking into new ways to transform biometrics

JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton has a research team working to improve the future for personal security with facial recognition, fingerprint scanning and heartbeat sensors–also known as biometrics. Seven students and two mentor professors make up the team that presented last month at the CSUF Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Research. The team is led by Mikhail Gofman, a computer science professor who was awarded a junior faculty research grant as well as intramural and incentive grants for his biometrics fusion research. Also leading the team is Sinjini Mitra, an information systems and decision sciences professor who has been published more than a dozen times on work related to biometric authentication.

The research team’s focus is to enhance mobile phone and tablet security by creating a multimodal framework. This means using multiple inputs, such as face and voice, to unlock or secure mobile devices. Improved biometric authentications could prove to be more secure authentication protocols than traditional methods like passwords and pins. “Strong passwords are difficult for users to remember. Weak passwords are easy for attackers to guess. The same is not true for biometrics: people do not need to remember and cannot forget their biometric traits,” Gofman said. But in practical application, the use of biometrics to secure mobile devices has been weak. Google and Android devices still list such functions as low security. Violators could use photos to unlock devices or poor lighting conditions resulted in rejections, according to a patent filed by Google. Apple’s fingerprint sensor,

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Touch I.D., has also been criticized for its inconsistencies, wrote Wired. Current sensor technology and biometric algorithms are not robust enough to resist sophisticated spoofing attacks or do not work well in less than ideal conditions, according to the team’s research abstract. “We believe that a multimodal approach which viably consolidates features from multiple biometric modalities e.g. face and voice features can address many of these problems,” Gofman said. The CSUF team experimented with the Fischer Faces and Hidden Markov Model algorithms, commonly used in face and voice recognition and found 40 percent error rates. The CSUF team’s approach had lower error rates, near 20 percent. “Our preliminary results indicate that such ‘multimodal’ fusion yields significantly more accurate authentication results than methods that use only one single biometric trait,” Mitra said. The CSUF team’s prototype

companies called Fast Identity Online Alliance have allied themselves to phase out passwords entirely. Google, Alipay, Microsoft, Samsung, Lenovo, Qualcomm and RSA are all members of the FIDO alliance. NokNokLabs, an authentication company also associated with the Alliance, just announced it has secured $8.25 million for biometrics enterprise. The CSUF biometrics team plans to launch their prototype as a mobile application.

Research team • Graduate students: Wakasa Arigami, Jeff Bohlin, Kevin Cheng, Brian Frick, Sara Mortazavi, Nicholas Smith

• Undergraduate students:

Ivan Espinosa, Robert Kretschmar

Courses: Biology program evolving CONTINUED FROM

The department has approval for these courses, but is waiting on approval from the general education committee, meaning the courses cannot be taught under the new numbers until fall 2015. However, most of the changes have already been made this semester and are currently being taught under the original names. Another reason the new courses have not been offered yet is to allow students who have not passed the course another opportunity since grade forgiveness cannot be used, said Kathryn Dickson, department chair of biology. Students who don’t pass biology 171 or 172 during the spring semester will still be able to retake the course under the new names, but using the grade averaging tool. In addition to the course redesign process, the number of units needed for the major will

be reduced. An exact number is not established at this time. The main change that has been applied is a change in the units of each core course from 5 units to 4 units. This will be done by cutting the lab time in half from twice a week for 6 hours total to once a week for 3 hours total. Having lab only once a week will free up more laboratories, allowing more sections to be offered and more students to enroll. By reducing lab by three hours, content and lab activities have been adjusted. Compared to last semester, lab requirements for biology 171 are reduced and focus on pre lab work, lab assignments, group work, presentations and writing. Students are now expected to put in 20 hours of work per week including class time instead of 25 hours. Although some in the

biology department have concerns that reducing lab time could lead to a reduction in the amount of information students come away with, Dickson thinks that reducing lab time is a practical decision that will be beneficial. “This one change would help us on all aspects and benefit students, especially transfer students,” Dickson said. The process has also provided some benefit to professors, Bowman said. “The redesign projects have allowed the departments to have to resources to give faculty a lighter teaching load to redesign their courses and has given us access to resources we wouldn’t normally have,” Bowman said. Several other departments also received funding for the 2014-2015 school year to assist with course redesign including history, chemistry, political science and information systems and decision sciences.

Monday, December 15

9 a.m.

Coffee & Donuts – Becker Amphitheatre

12:30 p.m.

Walking Meditation – Presidents’ Room

9 p.m.

Dodgeball Mania – SRC Gymnasium

10 p.m.

All Night Study Giveaway – TSU Garden café

11 p.m.

Back/Neck Massages – Fireside Lounge Tuesday, December 16

Noon

Cup of Noodles – Titan Pride Center

9 p.m.

The Climbing Games – SRC Rockwall

11 p.m.

Back/Neck Massages – Fireside Lounge

25 arrests made in LA sweep In Los Angeles, hundreds of agents swarmed the Eastside and made 25 gang arrests Wednesday. Authorities aimed to weaken the gang’s presence, which has been rooted in the community for decades. The gang has been in Boyle Heights for 50 years, according to the Los Angeles Times. Federal prosecutors believe the Boyle Heights-based gang has ties to the Mexican Mafia prison gang. A minimum of 38 gang members were indicted under federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization laws, federal officials said. Approximately 800 law-enforcement agents conducted searches across the Eastside. - CESAR GAMBOA

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allows the user to record a short video of their face while speaking a sentence. From the video, photographs and audio are extracted. The samples are then statistically fused to create a third level of integrated biometrical inputs. The team plans to include fingerprinting in the future especially since many smart phones now come with built-in fingerprint scanners. As of now the team has only worked with the Android platform, but hope to also conduct research for Apple’s iOS. “Going forward, we have plans to make our technology available to cell phone manufacturers and other interested people,” Mitra said. CSUF is not alone in its quest to improve biometrics. Major tech companies have been investing and researching ways to advance biometrics and find ways to market them to broader audiences. Intel recently announced its new biometric authentication software that can be used on bank and email accounts. A consortium of tech

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Noon

Beat Stress in 15 min or Less – Presidents’ Room

4 p.m.

Laughing Yoga – Presidents’ Room

9 p.m.

“Super Train” Your Body – SRC Lobby

10 p.m.

Cereal and Milk – Titan Pride Center

11 p.m.

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22-year-old stabbed in Anaheim A 22-year-old man was stabbed early Wednesday inside an apartment used to house mentally-ill residents in Anaheim. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department responded to the crime around 4:50 a.m. A 55-year-old-man allegedly stabbed the 22-year-old visitor. The suspect once lived in the apartment for four days, according to the Orange County Register. The two men were reportedly engaged in an altercation before the 55-year-old man stabbed the victim with a small kitchen knife. The 22-year-old has been taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange. The 55-year-old suspect has not been arrested, but has been detained for questioning. The suspect claims the crime happened in self-defense. - CESAR GAMBOA

‘Storm of the Decade’ expected The “Storm of the Decade” is expected to hit Northern California Wednesday and move south throughout the rest of the week, according to CBS San Francisco. Named Pineapple Express because it originates from the central Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, the storm will bring hurricane-force winds, two story waves and blizzards in the Northern Sierras. San Francisco, Oakland and Marin county schools have announced school closures. Northern California will bear the brunt of the storm, but Southern Californians should expect cold winds and inches of rain. Beach hazards and high surf advisory have been announced and will be in effect through Saturday. - JAMIE CORPUZ

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ARTIC: Hub to serve thousands BRYAN CIFUENTES Daily Titan

The Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, more commonly known as ARTIC, will officially get its wheels rolling with a grand opening event Saturday. The 67,000 square foot transportation hub accepted its first passengers Monday, more than two years after construction on the center began in August 2012. About $170 million in funding for the center comes from California measures and programs with an additional near $12 million from federal sources. Those funds come in addition to $3.6 million for environmental studies, according to the center. The ARTIC features 10 transportation options, including OCTA, Amtrak, Metrolink and Anaheim Resort Transit, which provides transportation to major Orange County locations. Anaheim was ranked seventh out of ten in most used Metrolinks in Orange County, according to OCTA records. The current station in Anaheim serves around 450,000 Amtrak and Metrolink passengers annually. There are also plans to make the center compatible

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The ARTIC station will house multiple transportation options, including OCTA, Metrolink and Amtrak, along with shopping and dining venues for commuters. The center will have its grand opening Saturday.

with the Anaheim Rapid Connection, and space has been allocated for future high-speed trains. In addition to the transportation options available in ARTIC, the center will

also eventually offer commuters dining and shopping options. ARTIC’s trademark outer shell is made of Teflon-infused plastic that allows three-fourths of the public

space in the building to be lit by sunlight, according to the Los Angeles Times. The hub is also outfitted with solar panels that provide power for the building. The transportation mega

hub will also use its innovative technology and proximity to light up over 600 strips of LED-lighted pipes, which can change to the home teams’ colors during games at either

Angels Stadium or the Honda Center. The grand opening event will be Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include food, music and tours of the center.

‘Welebaethan’ continues winning streak For 28th consecutive year, student history journal wins national championship

DARRELL KING Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton history journal, Welebaethan, continued its streak, winning best student history journal for the 28th consecutive year. Welebaethan is named after the late Shirley Weleba, who taught African-American studies at CSUF and was the first full-time female professor in the History Department. Weleba was responsible for putting together an organization to start a history journal on campus, but died due to health problems during the process of creating the journal. The journal competition is run by the National Historical Honor Society Phi Alpha Theta, and CSUF is in the largest school division with the likes of UCLA, Harvard and other prominent programs. CSUF has dominated the competition for 28 years thanks in part to the amount of work that goes into putting the publication together. In History 494, a two-semester course that starts in Fall, students become editors of research papers submitted by graduate and undergraduate students.

The review process is rigorous–each paper submitted goes through a triple-blind process in which an undergraduate, graduate and faculty member review each paper and rate it using a detailed evaluation form. After the paper is reviewed, it goes to the review board made up of a faculty advisor, managing editors and editors-in-chief. After all papers are reviewed, the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief make the final decision on which papers are accepted. CSUF history graduate students Ben Cartwright and Matt Snider, served as editors-in-chief of Welebaethan from fall 2013 to spring 2014, and were responsible for putting together the 400-page publication. Articles published in the Welebaethan 2014 issue include European and North American History, History in Theory, Memory Studies and other historical subjects. “Part of the journal’s composition is about being diverse,” Snider said. “It’s about having different articles, like Oral History, Public History, Cultural History.” In addition to being co-editor-in-chief, Snider also published two articles in Welebaethan. His paper titled

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The 2014 publication of Welebaethan contains about 400 pages of papers written by undergraduate and graduate students. This year, Welebaethan won the national journal competition held by Phi Alpha Theta honor society for the 28th consecutive time.

“Climbing the Rabbit Hole: Neo-Historicism in a Thoroughly Subjective Field” was celebrated by the Welebaethan staff as the best graduate student paper. Snider and Cartwright were both well aware of the task ahead of them. “You dont want to be the

year that didn’t win and broke the streak, and suddenly the Welebaethan isn’t what it used to be, so the whole year we knew we had to live up to the standard. We felt the pressure,” Snider said. The effort put in at times was tiring, he said. “It became especially

noticeable toward end of the spring semester when we were really pushing for the deadlines and getting ready to actually give the material to the publisher,” Snider said. Both editors-in-chief credit late Professor of History Gordon Bakken, Ph.D., for not just the evolution of Welebaethan,

but assisting them along the way. “He was really the driving force behind us winning. He was the template for us to get a winning journal,” Cartwright said. CSUF will be awarded at a luncheon initiation ceremony hosted by the Honor Society.

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The ‘Lone Woman’ discovered The Cooper Center hosted a lecture about discoveries on a Southern Californian island

AUBREY SAULS Daily Titan The Cooper Center Lecture series hosted Rene Vellanoweth, Ph.D., at the Fullerton Arboretum last night. His presentation was called, “Archaeology, History and the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island.” Vellanoweth is chair and professor of anthropology at Cal State Los Angeles. He was part of a team of archaeologists who discovered a cave on the San Nicolas Island, off the coast of Southern California. He has been researching this island for 24 years. The cave is believed to be the home of the fabled “Lone Woman”. “This is my story of research on San Nicolas Island,” Vellanoweth said. “Although I didn’t start work on San Nicolas Island to search for the “Lone Woman,” I just kept following her.” The story of the “Lone Woman” inspired the novel by Scott O’Dell entitled, Island of the Blue Dolphins. It’s about a young Native American woman who lived alone on the island after jumping off the ship of Captain Hubbard, who was taking the native people away from the island to what is now California. “This book has done wonders at keeping the story of the San Nicolas Woman alive,” Vellanoweth said. The island had originally

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Rene Vellanoweth, Ph.D., is a professor of anthropology at Cal State Los Angeles who excavates on the island of San Marcos.

been inhabited only by indigenous people. In 1853, eighteen years after the exportation of the natives, Captain Nidever traveled to the island and discovered the woman still living there. The novel is supposed to be a recreation of the events and what scientists

think happened on the island. Vellanoweth said he is fascinated by the connection. “If we want to understand something about her, let’s understand something about her family, about her ancestors,” he said. “So the people living (on the

island) were probably related to the woman of San Nicolas Island.” In the exhibition, Vellanoweth and the team found a box of artifacts that belonged to the woman. The box contained artifacts like handmade bottles, necklaces, wands, fish hooks and knives.

He pointed out that there had only been one person living on that island from 1814 to 1853. “Nothing like this has been found in decades, maybe a hundred years,” Vellanoweth said. The exhibition team also found objects that she must have manufactured out of

sandstone—they found bowls and saws. There is also other evidence that suggests the woman or her ancestors who lived on the island made baskets from seagrass and beads. However, the “Lone Woman” wasn’t entirely alone. The exhibition found numerous remains of wild dogs who lived on the island. They found dog burials which were probably sacrifices, he said. It’s believed the dogs had a place with the people, according to the human food remains found inside the preserved canine corpses. The team also believes the dogs were working animals, helping the people who once lived on the island, hauling, hunting or protecting. “You sort of enter into a new world,” Vellanoweth said. “We might never be able to say, ‘Yes this is definitive. It can be associated with the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island,’ but when you begin to think about it and start crossing names off the list, she’s at the top.” The Cooper Center lecture series feature student research projects using the Center’s collections, featuring archaeological findings from around Orange County. Currently, the Center is showcasing Titans: Student Research in Archaeology and Paleontology in the Atrium Gallery of Cal State Fullerton’s Pollak Library, open during library hours. The lecture series are held at the Fullerton Arboretum, which are free and open to the public.

Student works at major radio station Senior finds himself working in an unlikely field and learns to love it

TROI MCADORY Daily Titan Senior communications major Jonathan Parra scored big when he got his foot in the door at one of the biggest radio stations in California. KIIS FM is best known for the morning show On Air with Ryan Seacrest, and Parra works for the show as a technical producer. The job of the technical producer is to control what listeners hear while on the air. Some of Parra’s responsibilities include censoring obscenities, maintaining an entertaining flow during the show and connecting incoming phone calls for big promotions like the annual Jingle Ball concert. After eight years with the radio station, Parra closely works beside Seacrest every day to generate ideas for the show and cater to what listeners would like to hear. Parra said his first day on the job was very stressful. “I was nervous because I thought to myself ‘this is what I wanted, now what do I do

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with it,’” Parra said. Due to his close interaction with the entertainment industry, Parra had to learn to maintain a professional attitude and put any personal admirations aside when he came into contact with celebrities. However, he still considers every part of his job as fun and exciting. Now Parra eats, sleeps and breathes KIIS FM, even when he is not working. He said his favorite part of the job is playing the music over the air because he loves all of the music the radio station is known for. “Even outside of the radio station, I’ll still listen to the station no matter where I’m at,” he said. “When I’m working out, I’ll listen to the iHeartRadio app.” iHeartRadio is an Internet radio platform that is available to people all over the United States. Landing a job with Seacrest was the last place Parra saw himself when he graduated from high school. He wanted to pursue a professional career in baseball. When his grades weren’t up to par at the community college he attended, Parra turned to radio as second

choice because of his passion for music. “After all that happened with baseball, I fell into radio through internships,” he said. “I love everything about it and I try to take it as far as I can.” Despite having to be at the station sometimes as early as 4:30 a.m., Parra is still eager to start his day and bring entertainment to the masses. He believes once you commit to something, you follow it through and see it to the end, even if it means not sleeping. On top of working and being a full-time student, Parra still manages to find time for clubs and organizations on campus while maintaining a high grade point average. He plans to graduate in the spring. “My passion for everything I do goes above and beyond what anybody expects,” Parra said. Parra hopes to one day have his own radio show and follow in the footsteps of his celebrity boss. “I just want to be on top of the entertainment industry and be on top of my game,” he said. “I want to take over the industry like Ryan did and be successful.”

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Searching... for Mr. Right | Fearing uncertainty rather than rejection

Student shares the struggles that come with being patient and giving space

KALEY WILLIAMS Daily Titan I believe the worst part of someone being uncertain of their feelings for you is the waiting. It’s the messages that you’ll write and rewrite in vain because you know you

It’s a lot of pressure to be the one exception to someone’s rule, but it also gives me hope and it gives me a certain freedom.

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he’ll stop me, grab my hands and twirl me around the room because in that moment, he was overcome with the urge to dance with me. I like that he calls me sunshine and thinks the stupid faces I make are adorable. I even like that a lot of his uncertainty about whether or not we have a future stems from the loyalty to his best friend. I like that he drives his lit-

can’t send them. It’s the snapchats you immediately regret because you know you’re infringing on the space he asked for. You’ll ask your friends how long you have to wait until you can reach out to him, and when the deadline feels impossibly distant, you’ll look for a response that better fits the timeline you’ve already created in your head. I have no fear of rejection. My mother used to tell me that every failure, every heartbreak, just helps you become the person you’re supposed to be. Uncertainty, on the other hand, terrifies me. This waiting game that I’m an unwilling participant in can only end two ways, one of which is heartbreak. I don’t like those odds. I don’t like waiting by the phone and I don’t like not knowing what he’ll say when I finally hear from him, but I do like him. I like that mid-conversation

tle brother to school and that he loves his mother. I don’t know his life’s story. I don’t know the name of the woman that broke him before and I don’t know why he’s so afraid to let himself feel again, but I know who he is now, and that’s all that matters to me. He created a rule for himself long ago against dating, but he also told me that being with me made him feel like it could be different. It’s a lot of pressure to be the one exception to someone’s rule, but it also gives me hope and it gives me a certain freedom. I’m not afraid to break my rules for him. I have written for months now about not dating friends, and I’ve been friends with him for three years. I have a personal vendetta against waiting around for anyone, but here I am, checking my phone religiously, for him.

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This student is reconsidering her previously set rules that she would not date her friends because this one seems to be worth it.

For me, he’s worth throwing all of my rules out the window. He and I are barely on the cusp of infatuation, but

I think it’s clear by now that I’m not the type of person that can commit to something halfheartedly. I’m not asking to start a

relationship with him. I’m not planning our future or betting my life on us. All I want are interactions

that aren’t fueled by alcohol, time away from the ever-speculating gazes of our friends and the chance to get to know him better.

Honey: Harvesting to give back to the community CONTINUED FROM

Elizabeth Meyer, Gallaugher’s mother, said working with the bees is “magical.” “The benefit of this career is to her health,” Meyer said. “She is rewarded by helping other people.” Gallaugher has appeared at the Orange County Fair the past two years, demonstrating her expertise about the importance of bees in the ecosystem and the nutritional benefits of honey. Taking care of the bees takes up most of her time. She admits it’s a hands-on job and that she’s dirty most of the time. However, she said she enjoys it. “I feel like I was lost and now I am found. I was always trying to fit into a mold of being a secretary or in a job with a title. And I found out I was really OK being a beekeeper. It’s an honorable job,” Gallaugher said. “She’s gained agricultural experience,” Meyer said. “From the early days until now, all of that has built her to where she is now. She has a great understanding of the process of beekeeping and the importance of it.”

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Lynn Gallaugher, founder of Bee Ladies, strives to raise awareness of the positive impacts bees have on the environment.

Unfortunately, Gallaugher’s business has been affected by the drought. She said the lack of water has affected crops and how much nectar the bees can

harvest from them. The bees then have to eat the honey that she would normally harvest. “If we all acted like bees in a beehive, this world

would be a better place,” Gallaugher said. “There would be no hunger. There would be no homeless. Bees take care of themselves. It’s all about the common

good.” The Bee Ladies appear weekly at local markets. They can be found at the Placentia market Tuesdays from 4-8 p.m. and the

Anaheim Kaiser market Wednesdays from 8 a.m to 1 p.m. Anyone can come sample the honey, learn the health benefits of raw honey and buy products.

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It doesn’t make sense for Associated Students, Inc. to use student fees for maintenance. The organization and Students for Quality Education need to work together for comprehensive funding solutions.

SQE and ASI need to talk it out Student representatives and activists must find common ground to progress JAMIE CORPUZ Daily Titan The closure of the Pollak Library has been a source of great woe these last several months, and the Students for Quality Education won’t let the administration forget it. Good for them, because the book call system is flawed and the renovations could take a long time. Hopefully rattling the cage will expedite the process. But the Cal State Fullerton Students for Quality Education has got one thing wrong. At a protest last month, Students for Quality Education member Carie Rael told Associated Students, Inc. executives and Cal State University Student Trustee Kelsey Brewer that the California State Student Association should pressure the Cal State University Board of Trustees to amend policies so that Associated Students and Titan Student Union funds could pay for the library renovation.

Associated Students and Titan Student Union funds are levied by mandatory student fees, which are required upon enrollment. Students pay these fees not as tuition, but to fund co-curricular programs. The Associated Students fees pay for things such as leadership and multicultural development, Inter-Club Councils, fraternities and sororities, and safe space resources centers such as the ones for LGBTQ students and undocumented students. Student Union fees are paid to support the student union facility because the Titan Student Union building maintenance cannot be paid for with state funds. State funds are meant for university academics, administration and related university facilities like the library. What Rael and the Students for Quality Education advocate is that the Board of Trustees change these rules so that these funds could be used to aid

the ailing university facilities and academic programs which have been choked by underfunding. While that sounds good, it actually would serve to further privatizing the state university system which is a major issue that the Students for Quality Education rallies against. Changing the rules so that student fees could be used to repair buildings and aid in university costs would set bad precedents. Instead of justly allocating state revenue to higher education, legislators and board members could expect student fees to pay for university facility maintenance. Additionally, if money can be pulled from Associated Students and Student Union funds for university needs, the argument could be made in the future to pull from university funds to finance Associated Students and Student Union needs. The California state legislators and the Board of Trustees need to be held

responsible for the decaying state university facilities and struggling academics, not the students. “I want Cal State to mean something, because if you don’t have the state funding, I don’t know why we call it a Cal State system,” Brewer said, who is both an Associated Student chief governing officer and a student trustee. Brewer represents the students at Board of Trustees meetings, but does not have a vote. Talar Alexanian, of Cal State Northridge, is the student trustee with voting privilege. If students and faculty are mad that the library is closed or downsizing on hard copies of books, then they should direct that anger towards the state legislators because the funds to repair and expand facilities should come from deferred maintenance funding. The CSU system estimates that they are owed approximately $1.8 billion in deferred maintenance

backlogs. The governor and trustee budgets reflect a lower backlog closer to $500 million. But Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a line item measure this year that would have allocated $50 million for CSU facility upgrades. The entire Cal State system is in a varying state of decay. CSUF needs a library and McCarthy Hall is in bad shape. San Francisco State has outsourced its science programs to local high schools because their buildings are so bad. Sacramento State only has male restrooms in its science buildings. Fresno State has an electrical grid that is 100 years old. Brown said he regrettably had to veto the measure to fund the CSU system deferred maintenance because revenue from property taxes was too low. That’s why it’s important to address the question of why the infamous and decrepit Proposition 13 has still not been reformed. These are some areas where the Students for Quality

Education could refocus their energy. The group of student activists are truly a force for good on campus and should be commended for not succumbing to the apathy which consumes most others. Both Associated Students and the Students for Quality Education are reluctant to speak to each other, wary because they perceive each other as hindrances to their causes. But they have much more in common than they realize. They don’t need to agree on everything and they will probably always disagree on methods, but if the two groups could sit down one-on-one, they might learn from each other. If student representatives and activists could find common goals, then California’s students would have forces to be reckoned with. They don’t have to work together, they just need to understand one another. Who knows? Both sides might find camaraderie hidden behind perceived opposition.

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