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CSUF thwarts hacking attempts by the millions

Ybarra leading softball charge The junior has sacrificed for the better of the team KLARISSA ALCALA Daily Titan

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Willie Peng, assistant director for infrastructure services, explains the function of various machines in the data center on campus.

CSUF ranks among top CSU campuses for security SVETLANA GUKINA Daily Titan Over the course of a year, Cal State Fullerton’s Information Security Office addressed millions of hacking attempts, making CSUF one of the best-protected campuses in the CSU system.

From July 2013 to July 2014, CSUF blocked nearly 59 million intrusion attempts, which targeted

entire system and servers, and 152 million attempted email attacks, which target individual users, according to the Information Technology Annual Report.

Universities make appealing targets for hackers because they have highspeed networks, large amounts of storage, many instances in which users are required to enter information and they tend to be open environments, said CSUF information security officer Kerry Boyer.

Hackers are usually looking to steal users’ identity and financial information, said Rommel Hidalgo, assistant vice

president for information technology and IT division financial manager.

For example, there is a type of malware that captures every keystroke that a user does, he said. If a user is logging into his or her bank account, the malware can capture such information as username, password and credit card number, even though the connection between the bank and the user is secure and encrypted.

Once a user’s computer is compromised, hackers can use it to compromise other computers in the system.

“My computer can talk

to the computer in the next room,” Hidalgo said. “I can start sending out intrusion attempts from my computer without knowing it.”

The university uses a layered security system, combining software and hardware to protect student and staff information. CSUF uses a series of methods to protect information, including an encrypted connection, firewalls and intrusion detection servers, according to a Daily Titan article published last year.

This year, from January to March, management, faculty and staff received 74 million emails, and only 23 percent were clean

messages. The rest were dropped because of security concerns, Boyer said.

These numbers are fairly standard industry-wide, Hidalgo said.

CSUF ranks number one or two in level and quality of information security among CSU campuses, Boyer said.

Statewide, the university is in the top 10 percent and falls in the top 20-25 percent in the nation, he said.

CSUF’s high ranking is due in large part to the campus and community size and the amount of resources invested in information security.

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As a freshman, she logged a Division 1 win in her first career start against Colorado State. As a sophomore, she had 13 multiple-hit games, plus five multiple RBI games.

Currently, as a redshirt junior, Desiree Ybarra continues to be a strong threat for Cal State Fullerton’s softball team.

Ybarra began her softball career at the age of five, following the footsteps of her older sister and cousin, who played softball and baseball, respectively.

At the age of nine, Ybarra began playing travel ball for the Corona Angels. She remembers the recruitment process being very overwhelming, especially because she was so young.

“There is a lot of pressure to perform and to do well, but I think if you just trust that you put all the work and you’ve done everything that you can, you just kind of let whatever happens happen and you’ll end up where you’re supposed to be,” Ybarra said.

Ybarra did end up exactly where she wanted to be, landing at Cal State Fullerton due to the school’s location as well as the softball team’s coaching staff.

“The coaches made me feel so welcomed and wanted here, and it was more than just softball; they really emphasized school and all the academic parts, but also the team chemistry,” Ybarra said.

It was also important for Ybarra to stay close to her family, which plays a huge role in both her academic and softball career.

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Entrepreneur lives by design, not by default Jazmine Graza decides to leave corporate life HEAVEN OCAMPO Daily Titan Twent y- eig ht-yea r- old alumna Jazmine Graza had the job of her dreams right out of college.

She launched the UKbased beauty and fashion company, Toni & Guy’s, social media platform from the ground up. The company is a major sponsor for New York Fashion Week and the job was everything she wanted in a career.

However, the corporate world left Graza feeling as if she stopped growing personally as well as career wise. She began questioning what else is out there and where she could find fulfillment in her life.

By chance, Graza stumbled into yoga and found

it healed her. She began to meditate daily and focused on mantras such as “I am powerful,” helping her realize that the happiness she was seeking lied within her.

After returning from her very own “Eat, Pray, Love” experience in Bali, where like Julia Roberts, she reconnected with her inner self, and taught art to young children. She returned to work in this weird and almost foreign corporate world.

She had been thinking about quitting for a while, and after three years in her structured job, she quit.

On her last day, working on a photoshoot, the response was ‘this is great, but we can’t use these photos,’” Graza said.

“It was just so weird to me, coming from a place where there weren’t even cameras to create an awesome photoshoot and they didn’t even think it was good enough.”

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At first the transition was difficult for Graza. Without any money saved, she found herself constantly scrambling, isolating herself from her friends and eventually hitting rock bottom, she said.

“The transition is hard, but I think whenever you are true to yourself … or at least asking yourself questions, you will eventually find answers and you will get through that,” Garza said.

This is where an idea for a giveback product called the Mantra Candle came from. It was an extension of her journey of yoga and affirmation. Garza’s love for candles and need for a daily reminder to mediate led to the creation of the product. Each candle had a mantra placed on the outside of the jar and came with a meditation.

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After plenty of self-exploration, meditation and even her own “Eat, Pray, Love” trip to Bali, Jazmine Graza has used her journey to “find herself” to help others.

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Last year, IT department spent around $280,000 on layered security implementation used to protect the campus, Hidalgo said in an email.

Next year, he expects the cost to be about the same, he said.

In a layered security system, all content is processed and analyzed using a combination of hardware and software on several levels before it is allowed to enter the system.

A security software that just detects viruses’ signatures—their “DNA” or “electronic fingerprint”—is only 33 percent effective, Boyer said.

A better protection requires a software that can do heuristics, a logical progression of what a virus can do, and sandboxing—isolating and executing the file to see what it really does, he said.

The system CSUF uses, called FireEye, performs both those tasks, using signatures

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The data center (above) houses CSUF’s computing resources, including FireEye, the university’s security system.

to perform heuristics and sandboxing to filter web content, Boyer said. The system costs the university $50,000 a year, he said.

Boyer said many users fall victims to phishing, when an email with a banner of a

legitimate organization contains a malicious link, and the users are asked to click on it.

A legitimate organization, such as CSUF, would never send out emails asking users to click on the link and type in any kind of personal

information, Boyer said.

No matter what he or the university does, it is still up to each individual user to take care of his or her security, Boyer said.

“If the person there is reckless and doesn’t pay attention

at what they’re doing, then they are going to get compromised,” he said.

If students have virus or malware problems on their laptops, they can refer to the IT help desk at the Pollak Library North.

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Rubio announces 2016 bid Florida Sen. Marco Rubio announced his bid Monday for the 2016 presidential race, the New York Times reported.

Rubio, 43, is the youngest candidate in the field so far, and has cast himself as a forward-looking leader, contrasting himself with Hillary Clinton, who announced her own presidential campaign Sunday.

He presented himself as a breath of fresh air in the Republican party, and some Republican supporters hope his Cuban-American background will draw the Hispanic demographic to the Republican party.

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky have also announced their candidacies, and will face off with Rubio for the Republican nomination.

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Hillary Potter, Ph.D., an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, gave her presentation at “After the Blood Dries,” Monday.

Ferguson shooting focus of presentation Presenter discussed research into Michael Brown shooting SPENCER CUSTODIO Daily Titan An associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder recounted her experience and research during the protests following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last year.

In August 2014, officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager. During the following months, residents of Ferguson, Missouri held protests and vigils. Protests continued after Wilson was acquitted by a grand jury in November, and the events sparked national conversation about police violence.

Hillary Potter, Ph.D., spoke Monday at “After the Blood Dries,” an event focused on law enforcement and community action in Ferguson following Brown’s death.

Potter focused her presentation on some of the narratives and misperceptions surrounding the shooting and the community action that followed.

Potter told the audience that she was in Ferguson with some other professors from around the country to conduct research on the activists and participate in the demonstrations.

As an activist-scholar, her role in the research was to speak with the

African-American women of the community, particularly mothers of black males, she said.

Potter touched on the polarized narratives of the Michael Brown shooting. “(We) have to remember, it’s about the broader issue,” Potter said.

She reminded the audience that much of the aggression and frustration in the community went beyond the shooting.

The report from the Department of Justice on Ferguson included statistics which indicated the presence of inequalities faced by the African-American population in Ferguson.

African-Americans accounted for 85 percent of vehicle stops, 90 percent of citations and 93 percent of arrests, despite making up 67 percent of the Ferguson population, according to the report.

“I think regardless of your political affiliation ... that across the board, that most people, if not everybody, would say that our justice system here in the United States need to change,” Potter said.

Potter pointed out that the report demonstrates that Brown did reach into Wilson’s car for something, as the recently-released report indicates that Brown’s DNA was inside Wilson’s patrol car. Despite that, lethal force was not warranted, Potter said.

At this point, a member of the audience began to repeatedly interrupt Potter. “What’s

your best guess as to what Michael Brown—fresh from that strong-armed robbery— was going to do when he was trying to get the gun from the police officer? What do you think he was going to do with that gun?” the man asked.

Potter said that she had no way of knowing. Three to five students began to tell the individual that they wanted to finish the presentation.

Reciting a narrative that, she said, social media helped to perpetuate throughout the country, Potter said, “The so-called protesters are nothing more than thugs, rioters, looters and jobless dregs of society.”

That perception, however, was inaccurate, she said.

“Many of those women are working full time. Many of them have college degrees,” Potter said.

The national media didn’t report on a major aspect of the protests, which included people within the groups of protesters training other protesters how to handle individuals who were looking to damage property in the community, Potter said.

Particularly, they all felt that an older African-American women would be best to confront an agitator, she said.

“You just try to talk some sense into them, basically,” Potter said.

Potter said she was tear gassed when she and other protesters were trying to stop an agitator from throwing a chair through a cafe window.

A Tulsa police officer accidentally killed a crime suspect after mistaking his gun for a taser and firing it, CNN reported.

Robert Bates, 73, appears to have unintentionally shot Eric Courtney Harris after fellow deputies had Harris in handcuffs.

The chase occurred following an undercover sting in which Harris attempted to sell a firearm to the undercover officer.

Bates told other officers he was going to pull his taser, but it was evident in the body camera footage that Harris was shot by a bullet.

Bates, who apologized, was placed on administrative leave and now faces manslaughter charges.

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Hundreds of artists enter exhibit The annual Made in California art exhibit at the Brea Gallery hit its 30 year anniversary recently, according to the Orange County Register.

Approximately 800 artists submitted their art pieces, but only 88 were showcased.

Forty-three of the artists who presented their work are Orange County residents.

First place was awarded to Conversation at the Beach, an acrylic painting of two women dressed in swimming gear chatting. It was painted by Malibu resident Daniela Schweitzer.

The exhibit will remain on display in the Civic Center gallery until May 8.

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Students wait for concert wristbands KATHERINE PICAZO Daily Titan Hundreds of students stood in a line with an estimated four-hour wait to purchase $10 Spring Concert wristbands Monday, April 13.

The Associated Students, Inc. Productions spring concert for 2015 will feature Tyga and Wiz Khalifa. Previous Spring Concert headliners have included artists such as Jeremiah and Waka Flocka Flame.

“I feel like to see Tyga and Wiz for $10 only, it’s a one time opportunity,” said freshman student Sarah Markoff.

The $10 wristband for students includes entry to the concert, one meal and access to carnival games and rides.

This year’s concert will take place at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 2 at the Intramural Field.

Wristbands for the concert sold out as of 10 p.m.

Monday.

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Student to take black holes to Capitol Hill Haroon Khan will present gravitational research to Congress GABRIEL CASTELLANOS For the Daily Titan The process behind black hole collision will come to life at the U.S. Capitol when a Cal State Fullerton physics student brings his complex research to audiences there.

Haroon Khan, 22, an electrical engineering major

and physics minor, was chosen to present his research on gravitational waves to select members of Congress April 23.

Khan will give members of Congress an overview of the research he has found on black hole collisions and the gravitational waves emitted from them.

Khan will also give them a simple explanation of other day-to-day operations about work done at research centers and why it is important for society, physics and science.

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The event is hosted by The Council on Undergraduate Research, which picked the best research efforts from undergraduate students across the country.

Khan is one of five students chosen from California to present his research in Washington D.C., and one of 79 students chosen nationally.

“I feel really honored to represent my school, the state and be an advocate for science,” Khan said.

Geoffrey Lovelace, Ph.D., assistant professor

of physics and leader of the team of graduate and undergraduate students—which conducts research on black hole collisions—understands how difficult it can be to share research findings, he said.

“This is really technical stuff and it can be a challenge, especially when you’re just learning it yourself as a student to explain it to people,” Lovelace said.

However, Lovelace had no worries about Khan’s ability, he said.

“One of Haroon’s real

strengths is being able to keep his composure and put it into words so the public can understand what it is he is doing,” Lovelace said.

Khan’s main area of expertise lies in making visualizations to make sense of all the data received from black hole collisions, he said.

“Every second we get thousands of data points, so what I do is take that data and turn it into something that we can see and understand,” Khan said.

His electrical engineering

major surrounded by physics majors has helped him get to where he is, Khan said.

“A lot of my engineering background with the programming, knowing how to use the supercomputer, the problem solving skills all plays into it … I feel like it has given me an edge,” Khan said.

Khan has always had a passion for astronomy and someday hopes he can follow that passion and work for NASA or Space Explorers, he said.

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Home is where their art is Artists lay their heads and sketchbooks in a Santa Ana studio GABRIELA LEPE Daily Titan Inside Aaron Jones’ workspace, seven large sketches hang on three walls. The sketches will remain untitled until they are all completed for his showcase. This workspace is not only a sanctuary for the artists inspiration, it’s also his home.

Ten miles south of Cal State Fullerton is the CSUF Grand Central Art Center, a center that provides an art and housing community for the College of the Arts graduate students.

“You get to learn different aspects of your own work and then different people’s work, and also the business aspect of it, like what are you going to do after grad school and how do you continue working?” Jones said.

The 45,000 square foot building located in downtown Santa Ana is an art gallery, a housing complex for the center’s Artist-in-Residence Program, a flamenco studio, a 70-seat theater and even a woodshop.

The artists part of the

Artist-in-Residence Program are CSUF students who have been accepted into the university’s Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts visual and performing arts programs.

Xavier Robles, who works at the center, grew up in Santa Ana. Being from the area, Robles feels as though he has seen many changes that have taken place in the community.

“I feel like this opportunity has given me the connection that I need in order to be able to engage the community more into art,” Robles said.

His work at the center gives him the opportunity to start developing programs that allow people to come in and try to engage more with the space he said.

He enjoys delivering a social connection to the community through art.

“Sometimes there is a disengagement within the area, specifically the residents, the existing communities that live here, so I feel like this space has opportunity and potential to engage more people,” Robles said.

A r t ist-i n-Residence, Jones, working on the seven large sketches, is in the CSUF Master’s of Fine Art Drawing and Painting Program. He’s been drawing since he was a child and a

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Aaron Jones (above) works on one of his sketches at the CSUF Grand Central Art Center, a facility that not only caters to artist work, but is also their home.

resident of Grand Central for about two years.

He described his style as “low-brow art” with elements from comic book illustration, animation, graffiti and elements of classical figure drawing with new approaches of analytical figure drawing and count composition drawing.

“The Artist-in-Residence

come and go. They come in every two months and have different projects, some of them come from different countries, some come from across the United States,” Jones said.

Clare Shadduck, another Artist-in-Residence and Master of Fine Arts drawing and painting graduate student, teaches beginning drawing and painting

classes three days a week.

“It’s really nice to have my living space and my work space in the same location, it makes it convenient,” Shadduck said.

Shadduck was originally a nursing major as an undergraduate, but during her third year in community college, she took a ceramics class that changed her career path. Shadduck

credits this change to the ceramics professor as a major influence in deciding that art was really what she wanted to do.

The Artist-in-Residence Program will continue to house artists like Jones, who fill more walls with works in progress. Creating a dwelling where artists merge their work, studies and living.

Communicating his pride to work The Doug Swanson experience that led him to CSUF KLARISSA ALCALA Daily Titan A disc jockey, a janitor, a reporter, a luggage salesman and a steamboat waiter are some of the jobs Cal State Fullerton’s professor of communications Doug Swanson has held during his life.

“All of these crazy jobs, in each one of them, I learn something about how to relate to people and ultimately thats what it’s all about,” Swanson said. “We’re here on this planet so that we can relate to other people and make life better for other people.”

Swanson, who came to CSUF in 2010, is now vice chair of the Department of Communications and supervises PRactical ADvantage, the student run advertising and public relations agency. He has always had an interest in communications, he said but was never exactly sure of a focus.

One thing he was sure about was his love for the desert, which led him out of California from the San

Fernando Valley, where he grew up, to Portales, New Mexico to study at Eastern New Mexico University for his undergraduate degree.

As a broadcast journalism student, Swanson worked as a disc jockey at a local commercial radio station. In his last semester, Swanson took a course in newspaper writing, which led him into a position as a reporter for the Roswell Daily Record in New Mexico.

“For the years immediately after I got out of school, I never had to go looking for a job, the job always came looking for me,” Swanson said.

Swanson was at the Roswell Daily Record for less than a year before being offered a position at a small AM country radio station.

During that time, Swanson met his wife and got married while still in school. His first son was also born less than six months after graduating.

For supplemental income, Swanson always had a second job. But money aside, Swanson craved new experiences.

“I did nighttime janitorial, I pushed a janitor’s cart around an office building

and emptied trash cans and cleaned toilets at night,” Swanson said. “I’m always spinning two plates at the same time.”

CSUF Professor Diane Witmer, Ph.D., and Swanson have worked together in the college for a few years. “His only problem is that he says yes too many times,” she said.

Witmer describes Swanson as the go-to person when something needs to get done and she’s not surprised by the many random jobs he’s had over his life, she said.

“He’s self innovated and willing to do what it takes to get a job done, if that’s what he needed to do, that’s what he did,” Witmer said.

While working for a TV station in New Mexico, Swanson got laid off along with others in the television business. Luckily, his college advisor from ENMU got in contact with him about an opportunity to get his master’s, live in student housing and work as a graduate assistant.

Working as a graduate assistant sparked a new interest and passion in Swanson—teaching. He then went on to get his doctorate at Oklahoma State

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Douglas Swanson (second left) being honored as Outstanding Irvine Campus Faculty in March.

Swanson has been teaching at CSUF since 2010 and is now Vice Chair of the department.

University in order to gain stability working as a faculty member and be in a tenure track position.

Pamela Caldwell, faculty internship coordinator at CSUF, has worked closely with Swanson and said his sense of humor makes him unique as a professor.

Caldwell remembered when he was chair of the department. Every day he would put up a new

“thought of the day,” either a quote or in cartoon form, for faculty and students to read. “(He would use) quotes and humor to make people think about what’s going on in their immediate life,” Caldwell said.

Although Swanson was making a good living as a professor in Wisconsin, he also spent summers working on a steam boat.

“I loved my job on the steam boat, I really did.

It is hard work,” Swanson said. ”It was fun to hang out around people that work hard and don’t make a lot of money.”

Throughout his life, Swanson has learned the importance and value of hard work.

“I enjoy working. I get a lot of value out of it and it helps me learn,” Swanson said.

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Unfortunately, she did not raise enough money before it closed.

“What I realized through being unsuccessful with Kickstarter is not that I needed all this money to start whatever I was doing,” Graza said. “What I needed was the confidence to promote whatever I have going

on in my life and it’s not necessarily candles right now.”

Charlesetta Medina manager of the Small Business Institute in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Institute at Cal State Fullerton believes the pursuit of entrepreneurship is difficult, but the positives that stem from it are worth the journey.

“You can create something that you are truly passionate about,” Medina said.

“Often times we are working for companies and businesses, and it’s great, we have great co-workers and all that, but are you really passionate about what you are doing? And the answer to that often is no, not really, it’s a job.”

Now, Graza’s energy has

shifted to an online course she’s created called, Manifest + Move, which helps people live a lifestyle by design not by default. It isnt the candle project, but incorporates everything the candle stands for.

The workshop will help attendees find dharma, or your purpose in life, and incorporate mantras that focus on happiness, sustainability,

helping others, being grateful and becoming closer to the universe.

Graza said the course is personal development meets adventure. The tour of this project will begin April 26 and will be shown in Los Angeles, Orange County and Hawaii.

With a ocean view, the workshop begins with a hike, followed by meditation, brunch along a course lecture

and ends with paddle board yoga.

“My piece of advice would definitely be to, even though it sounds really, really scary, let your decisions of what your career and life is not be led by money,” Graza said.

“Money will actually follow with whatever you are doing.

And that takes a lot of time because we are so culturally focused on money.”

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Monica Lewinsky delivers a TED talk intending to change the social media environment and prevent an ongoing epidemic of childhood cyberbullying.

TED talk properly spotlights the dangers of cyberbullying Monica Lewinsky advocates for change in the cyber world HEAVEN OCAMPO Daily Titan Numerous online articles have covered Monica Lewinsky’s claim to fame, shaming the choices she made when she was 22 years old.

Now 41, Lewinsky has turned her public shaming in 1998 into a call for action toward a safer and more compassionate social media environment.

Last month, she delivered her thoughts and experiences in her TED talk, “The Price of Shaming.”

“What that meant for me personally was that overnight I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one worldwide,” Lewinsky said. “I was patient zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”

Lewinsky expounds on the idea that the internet has become a hostile place, rife with

bullying among Internet users, especially younger ones.

She’s absolutely right. The advancements in technology and social media have opened the door for private individuals to become victims of hacking and cyber bullying.

The age of technology has allowed bullying to move away from a physical environment into a virtual one, where there is a lower chance of justice being served. “Cruelty to others is nothing new, but online, technologically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained and permanently accessible,” Lewinsky said.

Fifty two percent of teenagers have been harassed online and 95 percent have not reported harassment according to NoBullying.com, an online forum educating individuals on the issues of cyber bullying.

Seventy percent of young adults ages 18 to 24 have experienced some form of online harassment, according to the Pew Research Center.

That’s a scary statistic, knowing the younger generation is consistently exposed to larger amounts of bullying than ever

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before. 81 percent of young people believe bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person, according to DoSomething.org.

“Gossip websites, paparazzi, reality programming, politics, news outlets and sometimes hackers all traffic in shame,” Lewinsky said. “It’s led to desensitization and a permissive environment online, which lends itself to trolling, invasion of privacy and cyberbullying.”

Without proper regulation of anonymous comments, hackers and hostile online interactions, these numbers will continue to rise dangerously.

Media today has allowed for online harassment to become a common occurrence with young people.

The best way to become more conscious of online harassment is to report threats and comments when they are seen, check privacy settings on all social media outlets and keep in mind that everything said online will remain there forever.

Be mindful and compassionate to the people and lives who are on the other end of the computer screen.

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Online streaming services becoming increasingly popular VIVIAN CHOW Daily Titan

In the golden age of the Internet, content and media has become increasingly digitized these past few years, most notably affecting television viewing.

In the past, everybody gathered around and watched the same primetime viewing programs as a family.

Watching television was a household affair. Nowadays, gathering around the small screen for a proper sit-down viewing seems as antiquated as listening to the radio for fun.

The lack of television engagement is most notable in younger demographics.

From 2011 to 2014, weekly viewing by 18 to 24-yearolds has fallen by more than 27 percent; more than one-quarter of this age group’s traditional TV viewing time has migrated to other activities, according to the latest Nielsen report.

It seems Americans, and youth in particular, are straying away from television, and that’s bad news for

cable companies.

Cable companies have been a source of irritation for many customers due to increasing prices, messy network negotiations and poor customer service.

For the most part, Americans are starting to feel like they don’t need cable television anymore.

It’s easy to see why television viewing has dropped; just look at all the options available with a click of the mouse.

Since the introduction of Netflix in the late 2000s, streaming content over the web is now the new normal.

Tweens continually seek out YouTube content in their spare time, making the YouTube star a new phenomenon.

High school and college kids watch Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Instant Video for their media needs.

Each streaming service costs less than $10 a month; a steal compared to an average monthly charge of $63 for expanded basic cable.

But there is hope for cable companies. They can steal back the audience if they focus on serving the needs of the average cable consumer.

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Online television streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Instant Video have stolen a large number of television viewers, leaving the future of traditional cable

a lot keener on subscribing to cable.

The hundreds of channels out there all strive to appeal to every demographic possible.

Cable companies should take note and apply that same niche-oriented concentration and apply that to their business model.

Nobody wants to be

paying for channels they don’t watch.

Also, nobody wants to be straddled to a fixed schedule.

Television shows air at certain times every week and although the DVR has solved time restraint issues, it still isn’t enough when consumers are constantly on the go.

That’s why streaming services are so successful.

The services allow viewers the ability to watch cable programming anytime, from anyplace they can access the Internet and for a monthly price lower than the cost of lunch.

Television is a wonderful medium, providing a portal to the world beyond your backyard, informing, inspiring

and entertaining audiences for generations.

It’s not a medium I’m eager to see disappear.

Cable companies need to salvage their reputation and start addressing today’s dynamic audiences.

If they continue on the stubborn road they’re on, television will soon be a thing of the past.

Letter to the Editor In Response to “Removing Yik Yak from school campuses is a good start in protecting students”

BY JOSEPH ROSENBLUM, YIK YAK CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVE/SHERPA Like many college students, I have used quite a few apps during my tenure at CSUF. Some apps have definitely been more productive than others.

While some have been funny, amusing, helpful in romantic endeavors or just used to listen to music, no app has affected me as much as Yik Yak. I support Yik Yak because of their commitment to privacy, freedom of speech and their dedication to building a positive community on college campuses. Yik Yak is an anonymous proximity-based message board available on smart phones. Users can post messages for other users to reply to, upvote, or down-vote. In a way, it can be compared to an anonymous Twitter.

As the campus representative for Cal State Fullerton, I have been spotted passing out merchandise for Yik Yak, taking pictures with students in full Yak-Attire and I’ve done my part in monitoring the app for less-than-savory material. I am glad to be a part of such a collaborative and constructive project that brings students together to help further our high-spirited campus community.

No app promotes privacy and freedom of speech as much as Yik Yak. The anonymous setting

allows users to feel comfortable in sharing what’s on his or her mind. This provides for an excellent free flow of ideas without a limit, which is something that all free spirits and free thinkers should be in favor of. From this free flow of ideas, anything is possible.

Students who’ve never met have used Yik Yak to meet up to study. People have used the app to hang out. There has been a slew of advice posted on every topic, ranging anywhere from succeeding in romantic endeavors to how to approach a teacher that isn’t a fair grader.

The feed is localized to a two mile radius, so as you relocate from CSUF to Disneyland, the feed will change. In NYC, the feed will be different than in San Francisco. When you use Yik Yak at CSUF, you are seeing posts almost exclusively from other students at CSUF. Yik Yak users are typically light hearted or sarcastic and post things they find funny. It’s not the hateful, sexist, racist environment it’s been made out to be by a few. In fact, those posts get voted off very quickly. The overwhelming majority of posts resemble these Yaks from CSUF students: “Brb, crying, I got a 24/25 on my essay D:”

“Someone ordered pizza while waiting in line for Spring Concert tickets and it was delivered to them! O_O” “People don’t even ask for numbers anymore, they ask if they have Instagram!”

“If I look at a girl and she smiles, that means she thinks I have good grades and she’s looking for a tutor, right?”

While the app promotes freedom of speech, non-savory posts are not tolerated. If a post gets ‘down-voted,’ the post is removed. If a post is ‘flagged’ and reviewed as inappropriate, the post is removed. The point is, while the app promotes privacy and freedom of speech, it does not neglect the fact that unsavory individuals will inevitably try to abuse the app, and when this happens, the community quickly removes the post, keeping the app clean and friendly. Yik Yak is a self-sufficient and efficient project.

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Teammates motivate Galarza The second baseman finds success both on and off the field JUSTIN PATUANO Daily Titan It was the bottom of the sixth on March 30, 2014 at Anderson Family Field.

The score was tied at seven, and Cal State Fullerton was up to bat. Runners were on second and third when redshirt senior Gabby Aragon came to the plate.

UC Santa Barbara pitcher Shelby Wisdom intentionally walked Aragon to load the bases. Second baseman Samantha Galarza, a sophomore at the time, was now at the plate.

Up to this point, Galarza was 0-for-3 with two fly outs and a strikeout. With the bases juiced, Galarza made UCSB pay with a booming shot that would not come back.

She hit the game-winning grand slam, emptying the bases and giving her team the four-run lead.

Galarza finished the game 1-for-4 with four runs batted in and one run scored.

This was her first career grand slam. It was her only hit of the game, but it came at the perfect time.

“That was pretty unreal.

I actually was struggling that game. They walked a batter intentionally so that they could get to me, so it was basically saying, ‘Let’s pitch to her because

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Junior second baseman Samantha Galarza tosses a ball during warmups. Galarza is driven by her teammates to succeed. Galarza notes her grand slam against UC Santa Barbara last year as one of her most memorable moments as a Titan. The Moreno Valley native has received accolades for her achievements on and off the field.

we know she’ll be an out,’” Galarza said.

“I just took it as, ‘There’s always a plan,’” Galarza said. “So I just have to stay in the present moment.

I can’t focus on what’s in the past. It was pretty amazing.”

Galarza began her career playing baseball at four years old with her three elder brothers.

“I wanted to do what they were doing,” she said.

She continued to play

baseball for four years until she was introduced to softball.

Galarza measures achievement in staying positive despite playing a sport where failure is a constant reality.

“This sport is a sport where you fail a lot and so it’s easy to get caught up in negativity. Just to be able to stay positive and get up the next morning and believe that you’re going to get the job done is a great

accomplishment to me,” Galarza said.

In her tenure at Cal State Fullerton, Galarza has earned accolades on and off the field.

On the field, she has received: 2014 All BigWest Conference Second Team, 2014 College Sports Information Director of America Academic All-District Team, 2013 Cal State Fullerton Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year and 2013 Big West

Sportsmanship Award.

Off the field, she is a president’s scholar and has received a Dean’s Scholarship from the College of Communications. “(Accolades) feel good; it makes you feel proud of yourself, but at the same time I have to focus on the present moment and the present task at hand,” Galarza said.

While many amateur athletes look up to professionals for inspiration, Galarza

is more motivated by her teammates.

“Everyone has something that they inspire me with,” Galarza said.

Outside of playing softball Galarza enjoys leisurely activities.

“Whether it’s going to the arboretum or going to the beach. It doesn’t take much to entertain me. I can go to a public place and just people watch, just sit back and observe. I just love life in general,” Galarza said.

Titans seeking upset over UCLA Bruins CSUF can make a splash if they beat the No. 3 UCLA Bruins RYAN WHITEHEAD For The Daily Titan Continuing on their season-long nine-game road trip, Fullerton heads into Westwood Tuesday looking to improve on its roller coaster season.

UCLA comes into this matchup ranked No. 3 in the nation, according to Baseball America. Fullerton, however, is undefeated this season in matchups against teams ranked by Baseball America, holding on to a 4-0 record.

UCLA will be the third Pac 12 team the Titans will face this season. Fullerton has a 1-3 record this season against the Pac 12, as they dropped their home opener to USC and lost two out of three against Stanford earlier in the season.

The Bruins come into this game red hot, having won 15 of their past 18

games to compile a 25-7 overall record and a Pac12-leading 12-3 conference record. UCLA is also 15-4 at home on the season.

Fullerton enters the game with a 19-15 overall record.

The Titans took two out of three games in Davis this past weekend, in which they scored in double figures in both their wins.

The Titan offense will look to continue producing with the hot bats of hitters Josh Vargas and David Olmedo-Barrea. Vargas leads the Titan offense with a .341 batting average, scoring 20 runs on 31 hits with eight runs batted in. Olmedo-Barrea leads the team in RBIs with 27 and has scored 23 runs on 32 hits.

The Bruins’ offense is led by infielder Kevin Kramer and outfielder Ty Moore.

Moore leads the team with a batting average of .375, while scoring 28 runs on 45 hits and 34 RBIs. Kramer has been hot lately as well with a batting average of .374, scoring 34 runs on 49 hits and 20 RBIs. A win against the Bruins

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If the Cal State Fullerton baseball team can upset the No. 3 UCLA Bruins Tuesday at Jackie Robinson Stadium, they will have momentum going into the weekend series against No. 24 Maryland and a good chance of getting back into the national rankings.

could really help the Titans move back up into the national rankings. The Titans

have the edge in the overall record against the Bruins at 65 wins and 30 losses, with

two ties. Fullerton has also won the previous two meetings against the Bruins.

First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Jackie Robinson Stadium.

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“My family hasn’t missed a game since I’ve been here,” Ybarra said.

The Titan pitcher has also shown her resolve since her freshman year. Ybarra had to learn to manage her time between school, practice and physical therapy for an elbow injury to her pitching arm that she was carrying when she arrived at CSUF. Ybarra came on to CSUF’s team under thenHead Coach Michelle Gromacki, but current Head Coach Kelly Ford said it was easy for her to see why Gromacki took a chance on Ybarra despite her injury.

“That’s one that you probably just go, ‘Yeah we know that there’s an injury,’ but even at 70 percent she is

darn good,” Ford said.

Ybarra has also seen a tremendous improvement in herself physically, but also mentally.

“I’ve improved a lot physically, but really understanding the mental part of the game has helped me to excel and keep calm on the mound, even when things are getting to be more in pressure situations,” Ybarra said.

As a pitcher, Ybarra feels that her relationship with her catcher is crucial. Catcher Kylie Padilla has been a big influence on helping her improve and push herself.

“She expects a lot of me, so then it makes me expect more out of myself and really to push myself and to continuously be better,“ Ybarra said.

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To Ybarra, the benefit of the team, not the individual, is what matters most. She currently holds the team’s lowest earned run average at 2.68, largely because she gave up batting in order to preserve her body and pitch more consistently.

“There’s more to her game,” Ford said. “There is much more to her game, but for the greater good of the team, she’s preserving her body ... That’s the ultimate sacrifice of a team player.”

Despite her many accomplishments and hard work ethic, Ybarra feels she has not reached her proudest moment.

“I don’t think I’ve reached that moment yet, just because I know, individually and as a team, we’re capable of more.”

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