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Grant to fund ALS patient device Tool would allow people with ALS to communicate DREW CAMPA Daily Titan

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Alec Paquette, a biology major, voted Tuesday, the first day polling booths were open. Voting will close Thursday at 8 p.m.

Campus voting kicks off Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday

Pollak Library booth

Titan Student Union booth

Between the Pollak Library and the Education Classroom Building.

Between the TSU and the ATMs.

Students can vote on campus or online at vote.fullerton.edu

Steven G. Mihaylo Hall booth Between Carl's Jr. and Mihaylo Hall.

Voting closes Thursday McCarthy Hall

Winners will be announced Thursday from at 8 p.m. in the Titan Student Union

McCarthy Hall booth In front of McCarthy Hall.

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A group of students, led by a Cal State Fullerton computer engineering professor, is working to make communication easier for patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS. Kiran George, Ph.D., associate professor of computer engineering, hopes to create an affordable wireless prototype that will allow people with ALS to communicate and even use social media through thoughts and body signals, he said. The project is funded by a $100,000 grant from the Disability Communications fund based in Oakland, California. The device George and his team are developing would cost a fraction of what current communication systems do—just $200. The device would take steps toward limiting the cost of living with ALS, which can reach into the six figures over a lifetime. Costs associated with ALS care have been estimated at $63,692 per year, according to a 2013 study by the Muscular Dystrophy Association. “The overarching goal of this project is to design and pilot test a low-cost electronic communication system that would allow persons with ALS to effortlessly access the internet and engage in electronic communications,” George said in an e-mail. Current communications systems are pricey and don’t adapt well to patients’ changing conditions, George said. SEE ALS

Softball tames Bulls in doubleheader

Titans extend win streak to six after sweep of Buffalo RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton softball team has finally started to find its groove. The Titans entered Anderson Family Field on Tuesday’s doubleheader looking to find some consistency against the State University of New York at Buffalo, and find it they did. The Titans took advantage of the Bulls’ paltry win-loss record to extend their own winning streak to six games in a row, a season best for the Titans. Fullerton started the day with an 8-0 win that ended via the mercy rule, before closing with a more closely-contested 8-4 victory in the second game of their doubleheader. “We’re on a little roll,” Head

Coach Kelly Ford said. “I think the momentum is very important at this point in the season, taking that with us into conference ... the confidence factor is huge.” Desiree Ybarra was in charge of pitching duties in the day’s first game, bringing with her 13.1 innings of shutout ball from the Easton Tournament. Ybarra once again impressed in the circle, pitching a complete-game shutout of the Bulls that ended in only five innings. Ford opted to change the batting order once again, a tactic that continued to pay off after initially being employed at the Easton Tournament. In the bottom of the second inning, the Titan bats got hot. Kylie Padilla’s sacrifice bunt moved Melissa Sechrest to second base and Brooke Clemetson to third. Samantha Galarza then hit an RBI single to left field that drove in Clemetson and gave the Titans the 1-0 lead. SEE SOFTBALL

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Program pivots for applicants High enrollment has led dance program to add new auditions DEVIN ULMER Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton dance department will add new audition times to its itinerary in an effort to address an increase in applicants and simultaneous lack of spots. In the past, the department has accommodated 100 applicants, but increasing enrollment is expected to push that number up to nearly 170, said Debra Noble, professor and chair of the CSUF dance department. “We have applicants from New York and Oregon and Wisconsin,” Noble said. “We have people from all over applying outside of California ... we’re drawing people nation-wide,” Noble said. More student enrollment in an impacted program means competition is heightened,

Noble said, and this means students must have already reached a certain level of training and dance competency upon arrival to the program. Not all the students who audition will be able to get into the program. Students must first gain the approval of the dance program faculty through an audition process that require them to perform ballet or contemporary-style dances, which are CSUF’S main focus areas, Noble said. She added that students must go through a second tier review before they are accepted to the program. “Even though we have more students wanting to attend our program, it’s more difficult to get them in because of impaction,” Noble said. Noble attributed the large increase in applicants to a strong alumni base that has come from the program. The success of those alumni members, she said, has

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The CSUF dance program will add more additions to compensate for an overflow of applicants. The program, which normally receives 100 applicants, is expected to see nearly 170.

helped the dance department get a reputation and become a highly recommended program. “As they go off and do wonderful things, they are influencing other young dancers and telling them that the program is very

good,” Noble said. With applicant numbers increasing, one thing that could change is the small-department feel. That feel is something Robert Pulido, a senior dance major, enjoys because it is easy to get to professors on a

personal level, he said. But, at the same time, Pulido said he eagerly anticipates program growth and its greater implications. “The volume coming in is great, it shows that our dance program is really unique,” Pulido said.

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Officer suspected in shooting The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for rookie probationary officer Henry Solis, who is suspect of a homicide, according to the Los Angeles ABC affiliate. Solis, who was fired by the department Tuesday is under suspicion of fatally shooting 23-year-old Salome Rodriguez, Jr. in Pomona Friday. The shooting occurred at 3:29 a.m. Solis was off duty and investigators believe the two got into a fistfight before the shooting. Police found Rodriguez with gunshot wounds in his lower torso. Pomona police issued a warrant for Solis’ arrest on Monday. Solis has been missing since the shooting and has not showed up for work since, according to the Los Angeles Times. - JUSTIN PATUANO

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Tracey L. Richardson, one of the four candidates for associate vice president for business administrative services presented in Pollak Library Tuesday.

Four candidates vie for VP position Candidates will present Wednesday and Thursday CECILY MEZA Daily Titan Four finalists have been chosen for the position of associate vice president for Business and Administrative Services. Two candidates visited campus earlier this week to deliver presentations and get feedback from the campus community, two more will visit Wednesday and Thursday. The associate vice president for Business and Administrative Services oversees many departments, including Contracts and Procurement, Student Financial Services and Parking and Transportation Services. Cheryl Ross, who visited campus Monday, has worked in various positions at Columbia University since 2004. Currently, Ross is the head of Special Projects for Global Financial Operations. Until 2014, Ross was vice president for Student Financial Services at Columbia, where she was responsible for the disbursement of nearly $400 million of financial aid. She instituted a more seamless distribution process and resolved a budget deficit in

the department, according to her resume. From 2004 to 2011, Ross was the university controller. As controller, Ross was responsible for financial reporting, investment accounting, endowment compliance and other duties. Before Columbia, she worked as the director of Internal Audit at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. There, she was responsible for conducting systems audits of the Mayo system. Ross received her master’s in management and accounting and her bachelor’s in psychology at Purdue University. She is a certified public accountant in Illinois. Tracey L. Richardson, current controller for the Hartnell Community College District, delivered her presentation for the position Tuesday. Richardson has 20 years of higher education experience in financial and business operations, which include process improvement, technology initiatives and cross-divisional collaboration, working with shared government groups and revenue generating operations. Richardson was the financial manager for University Housing Service at San Jose State where she balanced the budget by establishing zero-based budgeting that brought the department out of a deficit.

Richardson received a master’s in business administration from Long Beach State, as well as a master’s of accountancy from San Francisco State and holds a bachelor’s in communications and international relations from the USC. “My passion is process improvement,” Richardson said. “This is something where I can use my talent and skill.” Richardson elaborated on her philosophy to improve business processes at Cal State Fullerton. Processes should align with the University Strategic Plan work flow improvements should be made to create greater efficiency. “We may do work flow improvement, we think, but if it ultimately doesn’t create greater efficiency then it’s pretty pointless,” Richardson said. “There has to be a point to it.” Benjamin Figueroa, director of resource planning and management for Academic Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles, will visit CSUF on Wednesday and deliver his presentation at 1:30 p.m. in Pollak Library North room 130. Mary Wheeler will deliver her presentation Thursday, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Pollak Library North room 130. Wheeler is currently the assistant vice president for Finance at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Members of ISIS kidnapped 20 foreigner Libyan hospital workers only to soon release them under the stipulation that they would treat ISIS group members, according to a CNN report. Ibn Sina Hospital in Sirte was stormed Monday by about 30 gunmen from ISIS. After releasing the hospital workers, who had been trying to leave Sirte’s deteriorating safety, ISIS soldiers told them they must remain under penalty of death. Those at Ibn Sina Hospital believed that ISIS targeted them because the organization has a lack of medical help options. - MEGAN MENDIBLES

Protestors receive probation Two men received one year of informal probation after pleading no contest for failing to disperse in a January 2014 protest over the not-guilty verdicts of the police officers charged in the Kelly Thomas murder case. After being asked to break up a protest by police officers, Juan Zuletariveros, 27, and Adam Alder, 36, allegedly stood their ground and continued protesting. The two originally submitted not-guilty pleas for their charges before pleading no-contest. Five other protesters are also charged with failure to disperse when ordered but have pleaded not guilty. Those individuals have a pre-trial hearings set for April 7. - MEGAN MENDIBLES

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ALS: Device to aid communication CONTINUED FROM

“Currently available systems, similar to the one being developed at CSUF, cost thousands of dollars,” George said. “Moreover, these systems cannot be customized to the needs of patients as their symptoms worsen—as the disease progresses patients are unable to use the previously used input.” The system George and his team are working on would improve on some of those deficiencies. “The communication system I envision is a wireless headset with four to five sensors that the patients would wear to operate a laptop or tablet that will have a shelf-life of three to four years,” George said. The system would track biosignals, including thoughts, through EEG signals and facial expressions using EMG signals. It would also track movement of the patient’s head using a gyroscope, George said. The system will let

patients control electronic devices such as laptops and tablets for communications such as email, text, chat and Skype by voluntarily manipulating these biosignals, he said. In accepting the grant, George and his students have one year to develop the system, and will file two progress reports with the Disability Communications Fund, the first of which will be due in June. Before then, George plans to test a prototype with patients in May. The thought of learning valuable experience was one that 25-year-old Fullerton master’s student, David Diaz, said he couldn’t pass up. “(George has) given us an objective toward making it easy for ALS patients to work toward having the ability and convenience to work on the computer with limited movement,” Diaz said. “He provides us adequate tools, software, equipment to help us work toward that experience. For now, George has five

CSUF students performing a variety of tasks, but that number could increase soon. “Currently all students working on the project are students from my classes,” George said. “In summer, several students from the community colleges will also have the opportunity to be involved in the project.” Yeu Cheng, a second-year computer engineering master’s student, contributes to the technical aspects of the project. The experience goes beyond working with the latest tools and gives the group a chance to impact others’ lives, he said. “We’re really working with very cutting-edge technology and it’s kind of like a field that’s still very new,” Cheng said. “You know, the emergence of robotics mixed with interfacing with the brain and all that, so it’s really exciting to work in the field and to know that what we do can potentially have a positive impact on the people with ALS.”

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The group of students, led by Associate Computer Engineering Professor Kiran George, Ph.D., are working to create an affordable communication device for patients diagnosed with ALS.

UCI enhances open course program NAYARA ASSIS Daily Titan

UC Irvine announced a plan to advance free and open education by allowing students in any of California’s three post-secondary education systems to take classes through UCI. Students from any of the 23 CSU campuses or 112 community colleges will be able to access an open curriculum for chemistry, including lectures and class materials, according to a release on the program.

The program will allow students to access a parallel program to the university’s traditional chemistry curriculum, including a yearlong general chemistry course, and transitions into organic and physical chemistry after that, said Larry Cooperman, associate dean for Open Education at the UCI OpenCourseWare. “Our objective is to provide an informal chemistry learning community to supplement and support classroom instruction at the undergraduate level,” Cooperman said. The Open Education Consortium, formerly OpenCourseWare Consortium, was launched at UCI in 2006 and provides free and open access to

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undergraduate-level learning opportunities, according to UCI’s website. The OpenChem program at UCI extends the piecemeal individual courses provided by the Open Education Consortium to cover

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“We already collaborated with CSU’s Merlot project and Affordable Learning Solutions to place our OpenChem project in their listings. We realized that in order to make the years of lecture classes offered

Our objective is to provide an informal chemistry learning community to supplement and support classroom instruction at the undergraduate level.

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OpenChem program will give students free chemistry classes

Larry Cooperman Associate Dean for Open Education at UCI OpenCourseWare an entire curriculum for a single subject. The project has already been available to students through other partnerships with California, Cooperman said.

useful in the classroom, the lectures needed to be captioned,” he said. The program will move along the same lines of the traditional courses offered at UCI, he said.

“The OpenChem curriculum mirrors the UCI Chemistry Department’s curriculum, with a preparation course, a year-long course in general chemistry, then organic chemistry and finally physical chemistry, as well as other specific undergraduate and graduate Chemistry courses,” Cooperman said. Students can use their topical index if they are looking for a specific, brief explanation of a concept or an example, or they can follow along with our lectures, supplementing their own class work and enhancing their understanding by using the OpenChem courses as a second explanation of a concept they may not have

understood in the lecture hall, he said. “We are hoping that it will be widely used and that OpenChem will finally transition to supporting resources. Currently, the YouTube channel, UCIrvineOCW receives 60,000 visits per month for our OpenChem courses and is watched for an average of eight minutes per view. We expect double this number by the end of this year,” Cooperman said. Chemistry won’t be the last subject to get the Open Course treatment, Cooperman said. “We believe that the experience that we are having now with OpenChem will be eventually replicated in other subjects,” Cooperman said.

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OC indie band to play the Becker SVETLANA GUKINA Daily Titan Orange County band, Kiev, will be performing live at Becker Amphitheater Wednesday as part of the Associated Students, Inc. Productions Wednesday Concert Series. Associated Students Concert Series coordinator, Doris Munoz, found the band through a friend’s recommendation and thought they would bring a good vibe to Cal State Fullerton, she said. “Musically, they are just fantastic,” she said. Kiev was established as a band in 2009, adding members one by one. After releasing two EPs—Ain’t No Scary Folks In On Around Here in 2010 and Be Gone Dull Cage & Others in 2011—Kiev was named “Best Indie Band” at the 2011 and 2012 Orange County Music Awards. In 2013, the band released its first full-length album, Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth, with Suspended Sunrise Recordings. A track from Be Gone Dull Cage & Others was recently featured on an episode of The Walking Dead. The band was built very

slowly over the course of few years the band’s vocalist and guitarist, Robert Brinkerhoff said. Brinkerhoff met Brandon Corn, the band’s drummer, about 10 years ago. The two played together for a year or two before meeting Andy Stavas, keyboard and saxaphone player, and Derek Poulsen, bassist. Poulsen was a composition major at CSUF at the time, Brinkerhoff said.

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There is so much music available to us now ... we are always into anything creative, dusty or groovy.

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Rising local band Kiev to play their electric indie music at CSUF

ROBERT BRINKERHOFF Vocalist and Guitarist Kiev plays eclectic-style music that can be best described as “a mix of something that is like an organic, electronic, experimental, indie sound,” Brinkerhoff said. The wide range of musical styles incorporated in Kiev’s compositions comes from a wide range of the band’s musical tastes. “There is so much music available to us now,” Brinkerhoff said in an email. “We are always into anything creative, dusty or groovy. Lately, we have been listening to new folks

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Local indie band Kiev formed in 2009, and have released two EPs and one full-length album. A track from their EP Be Gone Dull Cage & Others was featured on The Walking Dead. They were named “Best Indie Band” two years in a row by the Orange County Music Awards.

like Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Arp, Timber Timbre, Michael Kiwanuka, Todd Terje, Luke Abbott

among a zillion others.” Brinkerhoff is happy to perform at CSUF because he saw a number of bands like

At The Drive-In and Jimmy Eat World perform here on campus, he said. Associated Students will

again be giving out free pizza for students and free tickets for upcoming concerts in the Orange County area.

Exhibit takes viewers to ‘Distant Worlds’ Student displays the results of his helpful artistic process KATELYNN DAVENPORT Daily Titan Spectators were transported into another world Saturday with the opening reception for Distant Worlds, Dzu Nguyen’s graduate exhibition, which was held in Cal State Fullerton’s Marilyn & Cline Duff Gallery. Nguyen, an illustration major, had been preparing the works presented in this show since he first became a Titan four years ago. Each of his digital paintings open the door to viewers’ imaginations, taking them places far away from Southern California. Overgrown takes onlookers deep into a murky swamp with towering trees. The atmospheric perspective created gives the illusion that an end to the swamp is nowhere near. Such an environment was created through Nguyen’s artistic process of beginning each work with abstract areas or lines of color, and letting those guide him in the direction of the final work. “I’m looking at abstract shapes and I’m using my imagination to recognize patterns,” Nguyen said. “When I’m painting something, if that brush stroke looks like a mountain, I just make it a mountain and I see where the story takes me at that point.”

City, one of the largest digital paintings, looks like a scene straight out of a scifi film. Viewers are tunneled straight into a warm, futuristic cityscape. When looked at closely, blocks of color makeup larger shapes in the painting. This work sold for $500. Nguyen feels that his creative process gives him a head start when working on a piece and also helps to keep the artistic flow running smoothly. He chooses to dive right in and make those brave first marks, rather than staring at a blank canvas until figuring out what to paint. “(Feeling stuck), it’s the scariest thing, and so the easiest thing to do is just put a mark on the page,” Nguyen said. “There’s no association as to whether it’s a good mark or bad mark, you just put something on the page and then you evaluate it.” Juan Ramirez, a senior majoring in illustration, drawing and painting, felt as though Nguyen’s marks on the canvases took him to many distant worlds. “It’s all about environments and I thought it was very interesting just (for) somebody to be able to come up with that stuff,” Ramirez said. “(Nguyen has) a really good imagination and that’s really something that’s useful in art—having a good imagination.” Distant Worlds will be running through Thursday, from noon to 4 pm.

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Illustration major Dzu Nguyen opened his solo exhibit Distant Worlds on Saturday in Cal State Fullerton’s Marilyn & Cline Duff Gallery. The exhibit is a collection of Nguyen’s favorite digital paintings he has been working on over the past four years.

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The paintings featured in Distant Worlds are all products of Dzu Nguyen’s artistic process of free expression. When painting he begins by making random shapes and lines and then creates a story from what he sees on the canvas.

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Plans This Week? ASIP Concert: Kiev • Becker Amphitheater • Wednesday Noon • Free

Distant Worlds • Marilyn & Cline Duff Gallery • Wednesday-Thursday Noon • Free

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The Cal State Fullerton Salsa Club hosted their fourth annual CSUF Salsa Showcase Saturday in the Titan Student Union Pavillion. For the first part of the event, guests were given salsa and bachata dance workshops from professional dancers.

CSUF Salsa Club shakes things up in TSU Pavilion Titans treated to dance workshops and performances

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A Lesson of Love, an independent film produced and directed by Michael McAlexander, an associate professor of communications, has been selected to screen at the 48th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival. This will be the second film festival that the film has been selected for. It was previously screened at the Temecula Valley Film and Music Festival in August 2014. The prestigious WorldFest-Houston International VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM/AE

• Arena Theatre • Thursday-Saturday 8 p.m. • $10, $5 with Titan discount

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Trampled By Turtles • Orange County Observatory • Friday 9 p.m. • $25

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Salsa and bachata teams from all over Southern California came to perform for the salsa club’s showcase. Music was provided by DJ Rumbero and DJ Daniel “D” Morquecho.

Devries teaches students about the origins of salsa and its different branches and history, which is also what the club set out to showcase, DeVries said. The event also offered different performances by salsa groups and bachata groups, which is a Dominican dance similar to salsa. The event was free for CSUF students so they could see the professional side of dancing as well as create a community within the campus, DeVries said. “The fact that it’s open to the public means we can bring our community a little

bit closer together so we can have people from the community come and learn,” Salsa Club President Jazmine De La Cruz said. The performers of the night included dance teams from Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County. Each team displayed their unique take on salsa and bachata music, along with a solo performance by the instructor in the bachata room, Violeta Anderson. “This is a night where we actually get to show people about Latin dancing,” Cruz said. “We have contracted

special performers and the whole educational purpose is to make sure that people are aware of how many hours you have to put in to look really good, the outfit, the type of music and just overall the Latin culture and different types of dances.” Following the performances from the visiting dance teams, the dance floors were once again open to the CSUF students and guests. Many partnered up to practice what they had learned that night as the DJs selected different salsa and bachata tunes.

Romance film gets exposure CSUF professor’s film gets selected for prestigious festival

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GABRIELA LEPE Daily Titan The DJs set up and dance floors were laid out by the Cal State Fullerton Salsa Club for a night of cultural and educational experiences in the fourth annual CSUF Salsa Showcase on Saturday. For the first hour of the event, guests entered the Titan Student Union Pavilion with the choice of either going to the salsa room with DJ Rumbero, or the bachata room with DJ Daniel “D” Morquecho. Each room had an instructor giving dance workshops. Kazumi DeVries, the instructor in the salsa room, also teaches the competitive salsa team at CSUF. Each semester, the club hosts two events where they bring a cultural experience to the local community with the help of the Association for InterCultural Awareness, DeVries said. In her classes, DeVries first helps her students become dancers by teaching them the basics, and then later teaching them choreography, she said. She sometimes starts with the students who have no idea what salsa is, and helps them become just like the students performing in the showcase, and it can sometimes be accomplished in one semester, DeVries said.

• Young Theatre • Thursday-Saturday 8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday 2 p.m. • $11, $10 with Titan discount

Film & Video Festival is one of the largest and oldest film and video competitions in the world. WorldFest was founded in 1961 as Cinema Arts, an international film society, and became the third competitive international film festival in North America. The festival is known for discovering highly acclaimed directors including George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. “A man of reason, a woman of faith, a chance for love,” the film’s tag line reads. A Lesson of Love, is the story of an athiest professor from Los Angeles recruited to teach at a small-town college and falls in love with a local woman who is deeply religious. Set in the Appalachian Mountains, they both must

overcome their differences in order to make their relationship work. The film also explores the deep-rooted questions that surface during the couple’s journey of love in order to reconcile their philosophical differences. “Can love exist without God?” McAlexander said. “Does he, this man, need to have God in his life to find love?” The inspiration for the drama-filled movie was loosely drawn from McAlexander’s past relationship, he said. “It hits core. Reason versus faith, How does that affect us in our relationships?” McAlexander said. “It’s not just a philosophical question ... you get to that point where the person that is the religious person is always going to ask,

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David Chui • Orange County Observatory • Saturday 8 p.m. • $12

Moon Duo • Orange County Observatory • Sunday 8 p.m. • $15

‘well I need you to believe like I believe, because if you don’t then we are not going to be together in eternity.’” The film is an example of some of the many controversial questions that many can relate to at some point in life. For the past year, McAlexander has been entering his film into several film festivals in hopes of having his film be discovered. “I’m looking for someone to watch my movie and go, ‘wow we want to take the movie and release it to a thousand theaters across the country,’” McAlexander said. A Lesson of Love will be screened for the first time at CSUF during Communications Week at the Titan Theater on April 21 at 8 p.m. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN

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Hip hop still provides social critique Hip hop music remains an important cultural institution KLARISSA ALCALA Daily Titan Hip hop is not only a type of music, but a culture that has gone through many transformations, while still sticking to its roots. Within every hip hop era, hip hop artists speak about social and political issues. Some may argue that hip hop has become meaningless today, filled with consumerism and stereotypes, but that’s not true. Hip hop remains one of the most diverse and meaningful genres of music today. Throughout the decades, hip hop has continuously tackled some of the tougher issues in life. The messages differ from song to song, but overall, they’ve stayed consistent in meaningful content throughout the years. In the 1970s, artists like Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and the Sugarhill Gang were the voices of hip hop. One of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s most famous songs, The Message speaks about living an inner city life around

drugs and poverty. The song is also listed as number one in Rolling Stone’s list of the “50 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of All Time.” The 1980s brought Run D.M.C, Public Enemy, N.W.A, Eric B. & Rakim, and so many others. Public Enemy’s hit Fight the Power sent a message of empowering the black community. Run D.M.C.’s My Adidas served as a platform for the now wellknown hip hop style of sneakers and tracksuits. Another popular hip hop group during the later part of that era, 2 Live Crew, included sexual themes in their music, pushing the boundaries of commercial music content. 1980s hip hop covered many grounds, from light and fun to serious and impactful. In the ‘90s, we had rappers like Tupac, Dr. Dre, Notorious B.I.G., Nas and Jay Z, to name a few. These rappers all released songs that talked about partying, yet tackled serious issues like politics, racism and classism. The same community issues that were discussed in the ‘70s and ‘80s were also relevant in the ‘90s, such as in Tupac’s Changes and Jay Z’s Hard Knock Life. Flash forward to today, rappers like Kendrick

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Hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar is one of many artists today who still uses hip hop as a platform for important social commentary and critique. Hip hop today still addresses tough subjects like racism, classism and politics, just like hip hop trailblazers of the past.

Lamar, J. Cole, and others deliver the same message of black empowerment and socio-economic issues. Hip hop is a language on its own. Since the beginning, hip hop has spoken about neighborhood struggles within the black community, gangs, drugs, police brutality; all topics that

are still discussed in music today. The messages are still there and present in hip hop. Hip hop isn’t just meant to appeal to one type of issue, it speaks of the highs and lows in life, and has many impactful messages. “Hip hop music invites

questions and debates about all of these issues–about commercialism, about a message, whether or not the music has substance and social commentary, gender, race–all these really controversial issues that are part of American history are reflected in the music,” said Matt Thomas, a music history professor at

Cal State Fullerton. Regarding the notion that hip hop today is filled with consumerism Thomas said, “There’s no simple, I think, answer in terms of is hip hop, does it have a message or is it all commercial? It’s both. Popular music by its nature has always been a commercial product.”

Plant-based diets are easy in SoCal ERIN STORTI Daily Titan

It’s common to be at the front line of up-and-coming trends in Southern California. Though it was thought to be just a fad, the vegan and vegetarian movement has proven to have made a lasting impact on culture. Aside from getting into the animal rights debate, this lifestyle choice has been shown to improve one’s appearance and overall health. Those on the fence about trying out this lifestyle should definitely consider it. There are so many vegan and vegetarian options available. Outside of adopting

vegan or vegetarian beliefs due to religion, this way of eating has only been widely popular in the last 20 years. Within the past 10 years, vegan and vegetarian options seem to appear on almost every menu, and the plant-based eateries have been popping up all around

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Those on the fence about this lifestyle should definitely consider it. There are so many vegan and vegetarian options available.

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Vegetarian eateries remain a rising trend that’s here to stay

Southern California. Yet, there is a lack of vegan and vegetarian options in less urbanized areas throughout the country. Why does this plantbased culture seem to be confined to highly populated cities?

The influence of people’s surrounding society has a lot to do with it. We are products of our environment. A person from a city has a whole different set of values than someone from the rural parts of the United States. The same goes for businesses and food trends– what is popular in the Southern California bubble is probably not going to be the same in say, Hugo, Oklahoma. Another thing to take into consideration is how populated California is compared to other states. It is so much easier to get to a market with an array of fresh produce than traveling several miles in Oklahoma to a store, only to find a select few options. Public transportation is a huge factor in a successful economy of an urbanized area and that affects trends, including food culture. A vegan or vegetarian restaurant would not last in

COURTESY OF FLICKR

The trend of vegan and vegetarian eateries has been steadily rising over the last 10 years, especially in highly populated cities. This trend derives from a difference in values and logistics.

a less urbanized area of the country due to the need for an array of fresh produce

daily. The overhead would not be worth the investment to put a plant-based

eatery in a rural small town, unless the demand was there.

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Frustration arises as your most ingenious ideas meet the stone cold reality of unchangeable circumstances today.

TAURUS

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A communication problem comes back to haunt you today, especially if it escalates into a major disagreement.

GEMINI

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Your life takes a definite turn for the better, but not until you first face a problem or two that might take the wind out of your sails.

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LIBRA

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LEO

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VIRGO

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