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Students help kids in annual charity event DAISY CARLOS Daily Titan Camp Titan, an official philanthropic arm of Associated Students, Inc. (ASI), has begun its annual Camp Titan Toy Drive.

The month-long event encourages students and community members to support Orange County’s underprivileged youth by donating toys and other Christmas gifts.

Camp Co-Directors Taylor Scherer and Karin Lee warn students and community members to refrain from donating toys that may be used as weapons, personalized items with a child’s name on them and any items with infused fragrances.

For those unable to provide a toy donation, monetary donations are also accepted.

“If you don’t have a gift, they do use that to buy the gifts for the children,” Scherer said.

This year, the gifts will be presented at the Camp Titan Holiday Party held Dec. 5. It is an annual event offering former campers and student volunteers the opportunity to celebrate the holiday season.

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Davien Graham, CSUF radio-TV-film senior, was mistakenly associated as a gang member and shot in 2008. He spent months in recovery and was told he would never walk again. However, six months later he began to regain movement in his legs. Despite the inherent challenges, Graham has stayed focused on the positives in life.

Student redirects athletic energy into the arts CLAYTON WONG Daily Titan Pop! Pop, pop, pop! The sound of gunshots rang through the streets of Monrovia on Jan. 12, 2008 as Davien Graham fell to the

ground, bleeding. Hollow-point bullets struck his spleen, lung, heart and spine.

“Imagine being hit with a sledgehammer in your side with something this small that’s spinning, drilling into you and stabbing you at the same time,” Graham, now a senior radio-TV-film major at Cal State Fullerton, said, describing the sensation of being shot.

In 2008, Graham was 16

years old and worked as a janitor at Calvary Grace Church in Monrovia. That Saturday, he had just finished cleaning the church in preparation for Sunday’s service before biking to a local dairy and back home.

After circling around and passing the church, Graham noticed a car slowly approaching him.

“F*** Dirt Rock!” he heard someone yell, before realizing he was being shot

at with a semi-automatic handgun. “Dirt Rock” was a derogatory term for the Du Roc Crips, which Graham was mistakenly affiliated with.

Graham remembered his feet being caught on his bike’s pedals as he was hit, trying to escape.

“It was so fast that I was just like, ‘What the hell just happened?’” Graham said.

He forced himself to play dead because the car hadn’t

sped away. Instead, it rolled away slowly in case Graham was still alive, he said.

After they left, Graham reached into his phone to call his aunt, and then the police. It took the ambulance about 10 minutes to get to him, Graham said, but even when they did, they did not touch him until the police arrived.

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Sistertalk shares cultural experiences Club meets weekly to discuss topics on black women ERICA BUESA Daily Titan Each week, Sistertalk, a campus organization affiliated with the Cal State Fullerton African American Resource Center, hashes out issues about black women, and while the discussion can get heated, it is never without order and respect.

Sistertalk focuses on the role and concerns of black women on campus and in the community. In the group’s weekly meetings, Shaqreua George, discussion facilitator, presents a topic and poses a question for Sistertalk to discuss.

“It can be anything that’s happening at the moment that’s affecting us as black

women,” the 22-year-old sociology major said.

George comes up with a new topic every week by conducting research and staying up-to-date with current events, she said.

She also gets topics from the experiences of group members.

Each week, University Hall’s room 205 fills up, creating an intimate setting. The room is set up with chairs lining the edges of the room so that everyone can be seen and heard with no obstructions to their view.

Sistertalk had a small turnout last Wednesday with only 22 members present. Normally, the room fills up with anywhere from 35 to 60 people.

Last week’s topic was beauty standards among African-American women, focusing on full lips, “big booties” and the comeback of natural black hair.

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To break into the topic of black hair styles, from perms and weaves to cornrows and natural hair, George brought up reality show star Kylie Jenner’s cornrows.

“I have heard people say that cornrows are ghetto, that they make you look hard, but then Kylie did it and all of a sudden it was this cute hipster thing to wear cornrows,” George said. “Our moms used to put cornrows in our hair all the time when we were little, but it wasn’t cool then.”

The group discussed how dark skin, black hairstyles, big lips and curvier bodies are all features that black women have been ridiculed for throughout American history, but that all of these features are suddenly extremely desireable on nonblack women.

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Members of Sistertalk, an organization affiliated with the Cal State Fullerton African American Resource Center, meet every Wednesday to share their experiences as black women.

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Toy: Camp Titan gives joy to kids

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The annual Camp Titan Toy Drive collects toys for children from underprivileged homes.

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Camp Titan is a program run by 60 Cal State Fullerton students who volunteer their time to serve as mentors and counselors to approximately 130 children, from ages 7 to 14.

For one week in June, Camp Titan takes campers to the San Bernardino Mountains, where the children are encouraged to feel good about themselves in order to promote self-confidence.

Toy recipients are children who had previously attended Camp Titan and make up the holiday party’s guest list, said Scherer.

“Last year we had over 100 children come (to camp) and almost every single one

comes to the holiday party,” said Scherer. “They also bring their siblings with them as well. So if we have extra toys, especially if they are younger, we will give

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held at Titan Bowling and Billiards Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., where people can bring in toy and monetary donations and receive discounts for games.

Last year, we had over 100 children come (to camp) and almost every single one comes to the holiday party.

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TAYLOR SCHERER Co-Director, Camp Titan them a stuffed animal or something like that so they don’t feel left out.”

Last year’s Camp Titan Toy Drive brought in many donations, providing approximately three to five gifts per child.

In addition to the Toy Drive, a fundraiser will be

Donations can be made at the TSU Information and Services Desk from Nov. 1 through Dec. 2.

More information on donations and the Camp Titan Toy Drive is available from Scherer or Lee by e-mail at ctitan@fullerton.edu or by phone at 657-278-7099.

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DTBRIEFS Over 6,000 released from prison Nearly 6,000 nonviolent prisoners were expected to be released from federal prisons across the nation from last Friday to yesterday due to a U.S. Department of Justice effort to alleviate overcrowding, according to the New York Times.

Federal law enforcement officials said that the move was an effort to ease the harsh penalties given to nonviolent drug dealers in the ‘80s and ‘90s. An estimated one-third of the inmates are undocumented and are expected to be deported due to significant legal offenses.

This will be one of the largest discharges from federal prisons in American history. It comes as an increasing bipartisan effort is being made to roll back tough sentencing laws that unfairly target minorities.

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“Like, Angelina Jolie, how her lips are full for being herself, and everyone talks about that all the time, ‘oh her lips are so beautiful.’ But no one ever says our lips are beautiful,” one group member said during the discussion.

The topic then shifted to that of natural hair, which many women have been transitioning to. George, who calls her hair “the madness,” asked the group about their decision to sport their natural locks.

Many of the women recalled phases in their lives where they realized that impressing others wasn’t as important as being themselves. Growing up, they had similar experiences with their hair but now they feel that having hair that is “done” does not mean it has to be permed or pressed. Some even decided to keep their hair

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natural after seeing other students at CSUF carry the look.

Sistertalk does not attract only women to its discussion group. Carlos Juarez, 19, attends weekly because he is drawn to the sisterhood that the group promotes. Since becom-

(Alliance for Preservation of African Consciousness), Divine Servants,” Juarez said. “I met certain key people in those organizations that helped build connections on campus.”

Sistertalk also puts on a bake sale each week where they sell homemade

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I have heard people say that cornrows are ghetto, that they make you look hard, but then Kylie (Jenner) did it and all of a sudden it was this cute hipster thing to wear cornrows.

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SHAQREUA GEORGE Discussion facilitator, Sistertalk ing a member, Juarez said the group has helped him make friends and network during his time at CSUF. “(Sistertalk) also opened the door to the African-American Resource Center, where I met other organizations: Black Student Union, APAC

goods in front the Humanities building from noon to 4 p.m. All proceeds go toward events and scholarships for its members, said Esther Ogunrinu, one of the co-presidents of Sistertalk.

Sistertalk meets Wednesdays at 6 p.m. in UH 205.

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Former Cal State Fullerton baseball player Christian Colon, who hit .500 for the Titans and crushed a home run in the 2009 College World Series, contributed to the Kansas City Royals’ World Series win against the New York Mets on Sunday night.

According to MLB’s website, Colon, a utility infielder who had not had a major league at-bat since before the postseason, lined a pinch-hit single to left field to score the go-ahead run for the Royals in the 12th inning.

The Royals were down 2-0 to the Mets in the ninth when they scored two runs to tie it up. Colon’s at-bat was the turning point that led to the win in the 12th.

A requirement for doctors to inform patients when they’ve been placed on probation has been rejected by the Medical Board of California, according to the OC Register.

The medical board had a meeting this past Friday to discuss a demand sent by the Consumers Union in which doctors would be forced to inform their patients, both orally and in writing, if and when they are on probation. Doctors are not currently required to report probation to their patients; however, they must inform hospitals and malpractice insurers.

Although this demand was rejected, the medical board is currently trying to find different ways to make probation information available to the public.

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Lecture examines inequality

Intersection of race and violence explored in lecture series CONNIE LEE Daily Titan

Students and faculty learned about both the effect of media coverage on police shootings, and the differences between Fullerton and Ferguson, at a Monday lecture hosted by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The first speaker, Liam Leonard, sociology lecturer at Cal State Fullerton, talked about how cases like the shootings of Tamir Rice and Michael Brown have been affected by errors he found in media and with law enforcement.

Leonard used the wellknown picture of Brown in a graduation cap and gown to put emphasis on how he thinks some media outlets instead showed photographs of Brown in a negative light. The media added to the structural racism that already exists in society, he said.

He started writing a report following the shooting and said that he wanted to leave the country and go back to Europe after what he learned. He found the coverage in the media “shocking” because “Brown was set up as a thug and a kid who had nothing going for him,” he said.

The second speaker, American studies professor Elaine Lewinnek, gave background into the history of racism in Orange County and the differences between Fullerton and Ferguson.

One difference, she said, is that housing prices in Fullerton are exceedingly higher than Ferguson.

Companies even use Fullerton to film suburban scenes in movies, but the 2010 U.S. Census data proved

that Fullerton is more diverse than people think.

Fullerton is 53.9 percent white, 34.4 percent Latino, 22.8 percent Asian and 2.3 percent African-American, Lewinnek said, citing the census.

“I think it was insightful, especially because a lot of people don’t think about suburbs,” Amanda Ritter, an American studies major, said. “Especially being in Orange County. It’s really important to see where we’ve come from and to contextualize the history that we have now and even the projected image of this ideal suburbs.”

At the end of the lecture, some of the audience members were visibly moved by the topics Leonard and Lewinnek brought to light, even though they only had enough time to touch on the surface of each subject.

“Just hearing the views from someone who isn’t African-American and has the same kind of feelings felt good,” said Nathan Lee, a student who attended the event. “We have to get more people to come out here and actually listen.”

The lecture was part of a series called “Interdisciplinary Conversations on Inequality and Violence,” which was conceived to help show members of the CSUF community the relationship between inequality and violence from multiple perspectives.

Carly Culhane, coordinator and administrative support assistant to the humanities dean’s staff, thought the series was a good way for students to get some insight on what has been going on in the world.

“We left it open to the professors to pick the exact topics,” Culhane said. “I think it’s great because it’s opening the students’ eyes to what’s happening in today’s society, and it’s starting a conversation.”

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Nathaniel Johns, a citizen of Fullerton, asks a question at Monday’s lecture on inequality and violence. The lecture series is hosted by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Kija Wade, pre-business major, and Curtis Mitchell, business major, listened as American studies professor Elaine Lewinnek compared the history of racism in Orange County to current events in Ferguson, Mo.

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“I just remember feeling like, ‘Damn, I don’t want to go out. I’m not ready to die.

But if it’s my time to go, it’s my time to go,’” Graham said.

“You’re young. You don’t want to die.”

Graham said that the area in Monrovia where he was shot was unincorporated. “No man’s land,” he called it. The ambulance had to take him to a hospital in Temple City, two cities away, instead of one closeby.

When he woke up in a hospital, he was on a ventilator and unable to speak. The first thing he did was write “I 4 Give Them” on a piece of paper. Graham would later take Jimmy Santana, the man who shot him, to trial. Santana was sentenced to 40 years to life.

“I don’t hate the dude. I really don’t hate him,” Graham said. “He did the worst thing to himself that he could do ...

He’s more crippled than I’ll ever be.”

After writing the note, his doctors said he would be paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

In spite of his paralysis, Graham channeled the energy he previously used for sports into music and filmmaking.

While he was confined to his hospital bed for three months after the shooting, Graham learned how to use digital audio workstations such as Fruity Loops and Logic Pro to make music.

Although Graham started making his own music when he was in the hospital, he could not remember a time when music was not present growing up.

“My dad used to sell cassette tapes when they were still popular at the Slauson Strip Mall, so I always had music around me. My older cousins had every hip-hop CD that you could ever imagine,” Graham said. “They had so much music and they would play it and I would listen to the production, the words, everything. And I just loved the construction of music.”

Graham’s access to his father’s tapes allowed him to adopt a host of influences, from Fleetwood Mac and Muddy Waters to Dr. Dre and Jay-Z.

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Davien Graham spent three months confined to his bed after the shooting. He used that time to learn digital audio workstations such as Fruity Loops and Logic Pro. Prior to the shooting, Graham was heavily involved in sports. He now channels that energy into various creative outlets such as photography and film.

One record Graham cited as a large influence was Eminem’s “Marshall Mathers LP.” It inspired him to try to make music that fits someone who could rap in a quick and witty way, which ultimately inspired him to rap on his own. “(Rapping) just helps you develop your own concept of using words and twisting them, using metaphors and similes, actually putting them all together and creating something that people will ponder on for years later,” he said.

Graham has a natural intuition for rapping, said Eddie Sanchez, Graham’s roommate of six years and CSUF political science alumnus.

“It would be weird because he hears a beat, right? And you give him about 20 or 30 minutes and he already has a verse for it,” Sanchez said.

While Graham admires gangster rap godfathers such as Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, he is uninterested in making music that glorifies the gangster lifestyle he was surrounded by growing up. He wants to make music that feels timeless and resonates

positively with others.

Sanchez described Graham’s music as “introspective,” but with a popular appeal.

Making music has not been without its difficulties. The shooting resulted in regular hospital visits and 13 surgeries, not including minor operations, since 2008, Graham said. It made it hard to focus on large-scale projects that required extended periods of time.

However, Graham considered it a blessing in disguise.

The hospital visits gave him time to consider if he liked the direction his projects were going.

Graham’s passion for filmmaking came at a young age.

When he was in the seventh grade, he used film as a means of expressing himself.

“I didn’t really talk much when I was younger about how I was feeling,” Graham said. “So I guess when I did film, I could actually kind of get my feelings out.”

Graham cites director Spike Lee as one of his primary influences because of Lee’s

distinct aesthetics and approaches to filmmaking.

Graham recalled watching a scene from “Do the Right Thing” in which one character throws a trash can through the window of a pizzeria. During the scene, Lee cuts between the outside of the pizzeria to the inside, illustrating the tense racial divide in the film.

Graham dreams of being able to direct and write his own project one day, but acknowledges that he still has much to learn before he can tackle that responsibility.

Graham said he is not satisfied with the current representation of ethnic minorities in film and television, so he hopes to make films that represent his background, his experiences growing up and the stories of those around him.

“I think we need to represent more people of what the population is made of here,” he said. “We want something real too.”

His passion for filmmaking gave way for an interest in photography, as well.

It was a way for him to better understand visual aspects

such as lighting, framing and imagery.

“His photography is magnificent. It’s excellent compared to some of the photography I’ve seen,” said Neeli Vangalapudi, health science major and Graham’s girlfriend. “I think he has a really great talent.”

Vangalapudi has modeled for Graham’s photography since they began dating. She worked with other photographers before, but in comparison, Graham gave his subjects more freedom by creating a laid-back working environment.

Despite his ambitions, Graham acknowledged the difficulties he faced after the shooting. He described his stays at the hospital as “gruesome,” and said he suffered from painful infections.

When he was finally released home, reality began to set in. Being confined to a wheelchair had literally forced him to change his perspective.

“Everything was big, and I felt really little,” Graham said.

At times, he felt depressed and embarrassed about his physical limitations.

But by changing perspective and tackling his demons, Graham said he came out the other end as a better, stronger person. He always showed a positive face and expressed gratitude because things could have turned out much worse, said Vangalapudi.

“I learned a lot more patience in this chair than I ever would have standing up,” he said.

Slowly, six months after the incident, Graham gradually gained feeling and movement in parts of his body. Several doctors believed that he would never be able to walk again, but eventually Graham was able to make small movements with his legs and feet. Recently, he retook his driving permit test in anticipation of being able to regain full control of his legs.

“If I want to walk, I’ll walk. If I want to run, I’ll run,” he said.

‘69 Shades of Tyler’ aims to inspire students WOARIA RASHID Daily Titan Tyler Appel sits in front of club representatives from Cal State Fullerton’s College of Communications. He takes attendance and begins an ice breaker. Appel smiles as he talks about one thing he likes the most about his fellow SOAR-CICC officers. At first glance Appel, CICC’s Director of Administration, seems like a kind, regular student; however, the stories he recently published tell otherwise.

“69 Shades of Tyler,” published Oct. 9, is Appel’s first book, a narrative of his personal life stories told in a comedic fashion. He describes his book as “Junie B. Jones meets Chelsea Handler.”

“Basically, the book is all these different sides of me that people normally wouldn’t see just by looking at me,” Appel said. “So ‘69 Shades’ is basically just a ton of different sides of me, different shades.”

Appel writes about topics ranging from dating fiascos to near-death experiences.

A Fullerton native, Appel transferred from Fullerton College to Cal State Fullerton two years ago and is now in his senior year. He is pursuing degrees in radio-TV-film and public relations.

“It’s not just a punchline joke … it’s a buildup of a story and also includes life lessons,” Appel said. “As college students, sometimes we need that. I’ve experienced a lot, so I wanted to include that in my book.”

Appel said the book was his

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He’s the dream student in a creative class because he’s not afraid to take risks.

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CSUF senior tells his life experiences in a comedic fashion

JENNIFER O’KIEFFE CSUF screenwriting lecturer revival to everyone after overcoming a rough year in 2014.

Like most students, Appel struggled to decide a major.

For a while he considered acting. He was on an episode of WipeOut and in a commercial and auditioned for a Universal Studios movie. However, “all of a sudden, it didn’t really work out,” he said.

“A lot of people were telling my story for me and so this basically is my story, my way how I want it to be told,” Appel said.

Jennifer O’Kieffe, screenwriting lecturer in the RTVF department, has known Appel for over a year. He is a “very creative” individual who is “extremely good with comedy,” she said via email.

“He’s the dream student in a creative class because he’s not

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Tyler Appel, a radio-TV-film and public relations double major, began writing after his mother told him to write down all his ‘crazy’ stories. Appel complied and compiled a book re-telling his personal stories in a comedic style, hoping to inspire others to open up.

afraid to take risks,” O’Kieffe said. “I hope I’ve helped him grow as a writer and provided a safe environment in which he feels free to express his talent.”

Aside from writing film scripts, poems and entering student screenwriting festivals during his downtime, Appel is heavily involved on campus as a peer mentor in Freshman Programs, and as a worker for SOAR-CICC, a funding council for students and clubs in the College of Communications.

Appel found inspiration

to publish his novel from his mother and Selena Gomez.

His mother encouraged him to write the stories that he shared with her as a way to remember the funny moments.

Gomez was an inspiration to Appel because he always looked up to her growing up.

He released his book through Amazon the same day Gomez’s album, “Revival,” was released. Appel sports a dog tag around his neck that was given to him personally by Gomez.

“It’s kind of scary to put

yourself out there just for everyone to read, so I think that was the most challenging (thing), was trying to open up to my audience,” Appel said.

In the introduction of his book, Appel wrote that he wants to spread a positive message “one shade at a time.”

His father is his parttime manager. They are planning a book tour during the summer, after Appel graduates in spring 2016, and are in the

process of discussing book signings at local libraries and at CSUF. “It’s light reading, entertaining and humorous; that’s how I’d describe it,” his father said.

After a year of sleepless nights and balancing work and school, Appel hopes to inspire others to share their personal stories.

“At the end of the day, it teaches people you always have to be yourself and never let anyone try to change you,” Appel said.

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One-child policy ends too late

Lifting China’s childbearing limit will do little to fix its economy GABE ESPIRITU Daily Titan

China has officially changed its one-child policy, allowing an estimated 90 million couples to have a second child—in an effort to “increase labor supply and ease pressures from an aging population”—according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

The nation’s sudden attempt at resolving its economy’s rapidly debilitating problems comes too little and far too late.

Implemented by the nation’s communist government in 1979, the one-child policy put a cap on China’s growing population. The policy arose from a fear of an overpopulated country depleting resources as its growth was suffocated. Married couples were oppressed through fines, and mothers were forced to undergo barbaric practices such as forced abortions. It also wasn’t taboo for infanticide to occur, according to BBC News. Parents would often opt for a baby boy rather than a girl, which skewed China’s gender ratio.

As decades rolled by after the policy was implemented, China’s total fertility rate decreased by half in the 1970s, and has remained at an all-time low,

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After decades of harsh enforcement, China has done away with its one-child policy, which restricted Chinese couples to only bearing one child. The policy was lifted Oct. 29 in order to help alleviate China’s economic problems, but unfortunately the damage from the policy has already been done.

according to the Archives of Disease in Childhood.

The Chinese government is now beginning to realize that they’ve dug the country into a deep hole. China’s working-age population, those 15-64 years of age, is no longer growing, according to an estimate by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); people are living longer and growing older.

However, the two-child policy won’t be effective until March 2016 and the government will continue to strictly enforce the current policy and restrict parents from having more than one child until the new law is passed, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

If the new two-child policy is an attempt at a solution to expand its current 1.4 million population,

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it is a moot effort. If the minimum working age is 15 years old and Chinese families’ second children aren’t projected to be born until at least December 2016, then these future Chinese citizens won’t be able to contribute their labor to society until 2031.

China’s population increase will peak at 1.369 billion in 2030, according to a population estimate for China from 1950-2050 based on

figures by the United Nations Population Division.

Furthermore, many of China’s citizens are likely to not take this new opportunity for finacial reasons.

Mu Guangzong, a professor of demography at Peking University, said to the New York Times, “I don’t think a lot of parents would act on it, because the economic pressure of raising children is very high in China … many parents

simply don’t have the economic conditions to raise more children.”

Retired Chinese demographer Liang Zhongtang said it best when he advised officials in the 1980s to ease up on the one-child policy.

“It’s not just a problem of whether you permit ordinary people to have one or two kids,” Liang said. “It’s about returning their reproductive rights to them.”

Letter to the Editor In Response to “Political correctness has gone too far” FROM JOHN TICE, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS STUDENT

It is very easy to make these claims from a place of privilege. It is clear that the author of this piece comes from this place and does not have much of a grasp of the issues that affect the people whom he accuses of living with blinders.

It is easy for someone without mental health issues to say that people are being oversensitive for disapproval of using the word “crazy” when one does not hear their views ignored with that very word.

The same goes with any microaggression that is lobbed towards those from underprivileged circumstances; the individuals hear so much of these words each day, that it becomes unbearable. The author of this opinion seems to have no sense of compassion for this.

He also ignores the fact that words exist outside of their dictionary definitions. For example, no one uses the word “villain” to mean a member of a household staff, as the word meant in the 14th century. However, the word evolved as the privileged upper classes began to associate crime with poverty. This is a similar circumstance to the word “thug,” which like the word “urban,” among others, is part of an orchestrated effort to oppress African-Americans.

These

forces cannot use the n-word in public, so therefore, they require racially-tinged code words. There is clear documentation of this: it’s called the Southern Strategy, and politicians have been employing this for decades. It’s why you see myths such as “welfare queens” and the like crop up in politics. It demonizes African-American lives for the votes of racists, in a way that makes it (supposedly) palatable in discourse.

So when articles like this crop up, decrying “political correctness,” which people invested in the struggles of social justice have never used, it is clear that it is a reactionary pushback to people from underprivileged circumstances finally having some semblance of a voice. And that voice can take many forms. The tweet from Scherer towards Huckabee used volatile language, yes. However, it was not language based out of words of oppression. To try to compare words used to oppress with someone simply swearing online, venting about something, is the definition of playing respectability politics. I am far more troubled by the implications of this article than the fact that someone swore on Twitter because the subtext is clear here.

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LEO

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Distractions pop up so quickly today that it’s crucial to maintain your focus. It’s best to handle each situation as it occurs rather than letting your feelings accumulate, even if you’re pulled one way and then another.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22 - Dec. 21)

You can’t restrain the tide of desire that is welling up inside you, but you still might feel like it’s not possible to tell others what you want. You may try to suppress your emotions because the thought of discussing them makes you anxious.

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TAURUS

(Apr. 20 - May 20)

You want your actions to speak louder than your words so that others can see your good intentions at work. A creative Venus-Mars conjunction in your 5th House of Self-Expression pushes you to do more and talk less.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23 - Sep. 22)

If you are still waiting for the perfect moment to declare what’s on your mind, weigh the alternatives one last time and then speak your piece today. Although roaring like a lion isn’t necessarily your style, shining the light on accomplishments is the thing to do.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19)

Although you can’t escape your commitments, you might also crave some well-deserved downtime.

Fortunately, you can get away with doing a little less at work now, but your desire to impress others with your competence doesn’t leave a lot of room for relaxation.

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LIBRA

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You might not be very clear about your destination now, but you’re still eagerly anticipating what’s next. Mental Mercury slips out of your sign today, shifting your perspective and encouraging you to invent new ways to express your creativity.

AQUARIUS

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Love could be in the air today, yet it’s up to you to make the magic happen. Luckily, you can express your feelings in a deeply personal manner, even if the tantalizing Venus-Mars conjunction doesn’t have you buzzing with romantic energy.

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There’s a lot of turmoil simmering beneath the surface today, even though you might appear to put up a good front when you think anyone is looking. However, if you don’t let others know what you need, you can’t blame them if you don’t get what you want.

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Sports this week Women’s Volleyball Vs. Long Beach State

• Home, Titan Gym • Wednesday, Nov. 4th at 7 p.m.

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The Titans are looking to make some kind of imprint on the Big West Conference in their game against Long Beach State. Last-place CSUF will host the second-place 49ers.

Titans eye first win against Long Beach Women’s volleyball hosts longtime rivals to overcome losing ways ALAN BERNAL Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team returns home Wednesday in search of its first win of 2015.

All season the Titans have struggled to put together a winning performance. Whether it was a close five-set game against UC Riverside or three consecutive shutouts at the hands of the University of Hawaii, UC Davis and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the Titans have not had much luck keeping up offensively.

The next match does not seem like it will provide the Titans with many favors, as Long Beach State comes into Titan territory with a commanding overall record of 19-5.

The 49ers are on a strong late-season grind, beating

their last five opponents with a total of 15 sets to four.

During that stretch, the first two victories saw Long Beach shut out bottom dwellers of the Big West Conference. However, the last three came against teams that rounded out the rest of the top half of the conference table.

The 49ers’ offense has outplayed other teams this year by hitting a .248 percentage, in comparison to its opponents’ .213.

49er junior outside hitter Nele Barber has propelled Long Beach’s high octane offense all season. Barber has racked up a team high of 366 kills, resulting in nearly four kills per set. Long Beach senior setter Janelle Hudson has been averaging 10.42 assists per set while setting up her teammates 959 times through the 2015 campaign.

The Big West title is well out of reach for CSUF. With seven games left in 2015, the Titans don’t have enough time left in the season to mount to any kind of comeback.

CSUF had its chance to make its mark in the conference, but its leaders haven’t rallied their team in late-game situations.

Wednesday night will see Head Coach Ashley Preston take on 49er Head Coach Brian Gimmillaro. The Titans will pit their young coaching staff up against the threetime NCAA National Champion.

Preston hasn’t been able to replicate the success she’s had in her time as the head coach of the Coppin State University women’s volleyball team. During her three-year stint, Preston became the winningest coach in program history as well as led her Eagles to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament.

The roster sheet seems to be stacked in Long Beach’s favor, but the Titans will still look to earn their first win of the season when they host the 49ers on Wednesday at the Titan Gym.

Vs. UC Riverside

• Home, Titan Gym • Saturday, Nov. 7th at 7 p.m.

Women’s Soccer Vs. UC Santa Barbara

• Home, Titan Stadium • Thursday, Nov. 5th at 7:30 p.m.

Big West Tournament Championship - TBD

• Home, Titan Stadium • Sunday, Nov. 8th at 1 p.m.

Men’s Basketball Vs. Bethesda University

• Home, Titan Gym • Friday, Nov. 6th at 5:30 p.m.

Women’s Basketball Vs. Hope International

• Home, Titan Gym • Friday, Nov 6th at 7:30 p.m.

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