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Ballet Folklórico dances into the heart of culture
Health service center to open CSUF partners with city to aid lowincome youth MICAH AUGIMERI-LEE Daily Titan
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Ballet Folklórico de Cal State Fullerton provides students the opprotunity to learn about Mexican culture through traditional Mexican dance. The club performs a new style of dance from different states or regions of Mexico every semester. The club, founded in 2007, hopes to teach students the importance of family as well as culture.
Dancers connect with traditional Mexican heritage KRISTIANA GUZMAN For the Daily Titan Steady vibrations travel across the floor as feet tap along its surface. Sharp, precise movements are in
full display throughout the room while upbeat music echoes in the crowded practice space. Women position their hands firmly at their hips while men keep theirs at their side. In sync with the rapidly-paced music, members of the Ballet Folklórico de Cal State University Fullerton club emit just as much passion in their movements as they do in their culture.
Ballet Folklórico, simply put, is an art. It’s an art that is expressed through traditional Mexican dance, said Joselyn Hernandez, president of the BF de CSUF club and a fourth-year member. The BF de CSUF club, founded in 2007 by Christopher Sandoval, emphasizes the rich history of Ballet Folklórico, which varies in dance styles, songs and attire depending on state and
region of Mexico. “We really pride ourselves in teaching each other the history about the states and also teaching each other the steps,” said Hernandez, a kinesiology major. BF de CSUF meets every Monday and Tuesday. Jose Vasquez, the club’s artistic director, is in charge of teaching the members Folklórico dances. He attends different workshops every
month to learn the traditional dances of various states in Mexico. “Folklórico is an ever-evolving process. It developed in the little pueblos in Mexico as a community-type event,” Vasquez said. “It evolved into something that allowed us to present our heritage to others.” SEE DANCE
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The Fullerton City Council approved a partnership between the city’s Parks and Recreation Department and Cal State Fullerton at last week’s council meeting, which resulted in handing the Richman Neighborhood Center to CSUF’s Center for Healthy Neighborhoods project. The overall goal of the program is to provide the community — particularly in areas of low income — with a means to access important health services, said Jessie Jones, Interim Dean of the College of Health and Human Development. “It is a privilege and it is a duty, I think, as a public university to help lift our communities,” Jones said. “We have to give hope to those who are in the low-income communities so that they don’t continue the cycle of poverty.” Student involvement will be a major aspect of the free services provided by the center, Jones said. Students in fields such as social work, counseling, nursing and child and adolescent studies will be able to get experience in their field. SEE HEALTH
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Professor embraces verbal variety Fellowship supports scholar’s unique research DANIELLE ORTENZIO Daily Titan Bonnie Farrier, Ph.D., has a youthful demeanor and an infectious laugh at 31 years old, but her age is no barrier when it comes to her research studies. She received the 2015-2016 American Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for her research entitled “Linguistic Gifts: Teaching African American Verbal Tradition to College Writers.” Farrier’s research focuses on communication in African-American cultures. She encourages verbal traditions as ways of communicating, a technique of which not all scholars approve. The widely accepted approach
is to encourage the transition of non-standard language varieties such as Ebonics or Spanglish to a more mainstream, standard type of English. “Writers from all different races, ethnicities and backgrounds use those verbal traditions and ways of communicating in their writing. It’s not something that you want to change; it’s something you want to get better at,” Farrier said. “I get a lot of resistance to that.” Farrier’s research began while in the graduate program at Michigan State University as her dissertation project in 2012. Her focus was on African-American literacy. The research consisted of fieldwork, in which she was able to teach a class of students for two weeks on the concept of verbal tradition. SEE BOOK 6
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Opinion
CSUF drivers need to use more common courtesy to make finding a parking spot go smoothly 6 and quickly
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Bonnie Farrier, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, focuses on communication in AfricanAmerican cultures in her research. She encourages verbal traditions as ways of communicating.
Men’s soccer needs to regain its form
Sports
In the last road games of the regular season, CSUF will try to take back its top spot in the Big West Con8 ference
Cross-country heads to the Championships
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