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Inspections are set to take place before April 30 SPENCER CUSTODIO Daily Titan The permits displayed in the four elevators in the College Park building have been expired for more than a year. College Park elevators are to be inspected again no later than April 30, said Paola Laverde, public information officer for the California Department of Industrial Relations. PM Realty owns the elevators, Laverde said. However, she was not able to say if or when PM Realty scheduled inspections before the expiration date. A failure to schedule an inspection before the permit’s expiration dates results in fines mandated by the state labor code if the elevator’s use is continued. PM realty leases the College Park building to the Cal State Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation. The fines are a misdemeanor and can result in fines of up to $1000 a day, or 10 days in jail, or both to whomever owns, manages and operates the elevators. Cindy Dowling of PM Realty is the building manager of College Park. Dowling was unable to comment and confirmed that she was under a standing order that prevented her from speaking with a Daily Titan reporter. A university official was unable to confirm if College Park elevator inspections had been scheduled before the permit expiration date of Jan. 10, 2014. A CSUF employee in Facilities, Planning and Management said that employees of the department were also under orders not to speak with the Daily Titan and was unable to confirm if inspections had been scheduled before the Jan. 10, 2014 expiration date of the College Park building’s four elevators. SEE ELEVATORS 2

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Built in 1936, The Bridge to Nowhere, located in the San Gabriel Mountains was the last structure left standing after a flood in 1938. Now left without a destination, the bridge has become a destination in itself. The bridge attracts bungee jumpers, hikers and nature enthusiasts alike.

With no destination the bridge has become one itself ALEX FAIRBANKS & SPENCER CUSTODIO Daily Titan The Bridge to Nowhere in the San Gabriel Mountains serves as a reminder that sometimes human innovation can overcome the forces of nature. The bridge, which was built in 1936 during a project to connect the East and West forks, was the only complete structure left standing after a flood swept through the area in 1938, according to Bungee America owner Ron Jones, whose company operates the bungee jumping operations there.

The mild temperature and slight breeze on a sunny Saturday afternoon complemented the beautiful backdrop of the spring green hillsides, with numerous wildflowers in bloom along the well-kept 10-mile-roundtrip trail. The culmination of the trail is the pristine, seemingly untouched bridge that curves over the San Gabriel River East Fork into the side of a mountain. However, one does not expect to find nearly 70 people in line ready to jump off a bridge in the middle of nowhere. This type of operation does leave some people unhappy. Backpacker Carl Atilano and his mother, Nancy Atilano, have been camping, hiking and exploring the area for the past 14 years. SEE BRIDGE

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One of four desert bighorn sheep seen scaling the San Gabriel Mountains, kicking rocks down to the trails nearby the Bridge to Nowhere.

Titans head east to face No. 24 Maryland CSUF is looking to get back in the national rankings ERICA BUESA For The Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton’s baseball team will head to the East Coast this weekend for a three-game series against the University of Maryland. The Titans will look to bounce back from a tough loss to No. 3 UCLA on Tuesday evening. However, Fullerton will face another tough opponent in the Terrapins. Maryland will go into the non-conference set as the No. 24-ranked team in the nation

with a 25-10 record, according to Baseball America. Fullerton is going into the series with a record of 19-16, but only a 7-9 record away from Goodwin Field. The Titans can even their road record with a solid performance, but it won’t be easy against a Terrapin squad that holds a strong 13-3 home record. Fullerton will look to some of its key players to step up in order to find success against Maryland. David Olmedo-Barrera’s ability to drive in runners will be crucial, as the junior leads the team with 27 runs batted in. Olmedo-Barrera also carries a solid .302 batting average to go along with his four home runs. SEE BASEBALL

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Arboretum to host Green Scene

Annual event will feature plant vendors, student artwork JACKIE TAMBARA Daily Titan

The Arboretum will blossom with crowds when it hosts a variety of plant vendors and art exhibits during the 41st Green Scene Plant and Garden Show. This year’s event will feature garden items from California, said Janet McGarvey, the special events coordinator for the Arboretum. The show has long attracted botanists, artists and nature lovers who are looking to learn something new or add something different to their gardening collection. “Our vendors come from all over the state and feature everything from Japanese Maples to California Natives,” McGarvey said in

an email. The event doesn’t just attract people for its unusual variety of plants and gardening tools, its demonstrations draw their own set of crowds as well. The event offers small classes called “Discovery Sessions,” during which experts will discuss specific topics from drought-friendly gardening to strawberry harvesting. The event will also host a varied selection of artwork, as art professor Lawrence Yun and students in his watercoloring class exhibit their perspective on the Arboretum through an exhibition titled, “Nature’s Gift: Colors of the Arboretum—A Botanical and Landscape Watercolor Exhibition by CSUF Students.” Each student created two pieces, a landscape piece and a botanical piece, a total of 46 paintings will be on display. “The featured landscape

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During the Fullerton Arboretum’s 41st Green Scene Plant and Garden Show, garden items, a number of plants and student artwork will all be on display.

and botanical paintings are traditional transparent watercolor depictions of the arboretum scenery and unique plant collections during late February and early March,”

Yun said in an email. Proceeds from the event will fund the Arboretum’s plant collections, garden maintenance and educational programs,

McGarvey said. The Green Scene Plant and Garden Show will run from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Arboretum grounds on Saturday and Sunday.

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Permits posted in all four elevators of the College Park building show past-due inspection dates. A CSUF official, however, said the elevators are safe for operation.

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Furthermore, the official wasn’t able to answer if the four College Park elevators have been scheduled for inspections, or if they have current permits. The official refused to answer questions regarding the role of the Division

of Occupational Safety & Health and said such questions should be directed to the department itself. The expired signs are not an indication the elevators are being operated unsafely, the official said. He added that complete inspections of all campus elevators were conducted in

October and November and “no serious concerns” were found at that time. Laverde confirmed that the last time the four elevators were inspected was Jan. 10, 2013 as of March 12, but did not have any information about any inspections that took place in October or November.

A Texas man will face federal charges for the heroin-related death of a Dallas teenager, according to an Orange County Register report. Jimison Coleman, 36, was arrested following a high speed chase from Buena Park to Irvine. Coleman was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to possess and distribute heroin following his apprehension. Coleman got into his car and drove away when police came to his motel on a tip that he was in the area. He then led them on a high speed chase that ended in Irvine. The Texas man was suspected of giving heroin to 19-yearold Rian Lashley of Dallas. Lashley died after using the drug for the first time, according to a federal complaint unsealed Tuesday. - ALEX GROVES

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Dean receives educator award Engineering dean helped increase college enrollment DEVIN ULMER Daily Titan The Fullerton Chamber of Commerce awarded Raman Unnikrishnan, Ph.D., dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Educator of the Year award. The award is given to an educator, administrator, business owner, school, institution or business that demonstrated innovation or a renewed foundation for growth, according to the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce website. Unnikrishnan, more commonly known as dean Unni, joined CSUF’s Engineering and Computer Science department in 2001 after being head of the engineering department at at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York for a decade. “I am very humbled … on a personal level, when someone says you deserve something, that’s validation of your personal works and professional accomplishments,” Unnikrishnan said. Since coming to CSUF, Unnikrishnan’s leadership transformed this college with the support of the faculty, said Shawn Wang, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineering. Wang joined CSUF a year before Unnikrishnan arrived. Prior to Unnikrishnan making his transition to CSUF, the university’s engineering and computer

science department faced low enrollment numbers, said Mohinder Grewal, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineering. Unnikrishnan’s outreach efforts to the community and within the industry helped to bring those numbers up, he said. Those efforts, coupled with is Unnikrishnan’s to keep the college’s finances in check, went a long way to building up enrollment numbers, said Caecilla Gotama, CSUF Leadership Development Council member for Engineering and Computer Science. “He is one of those rare individuals who has a business sense. He understands that balancing the budget is very important. He was able to do that and slowly rebuild the college,” Gotama said. Unnikrishnan was hired several years after a 1996 audit of the college, which faced the possibility of being shut down in the early 1990s, according to a previously published Daily Titan article. After he took over as dean, he implemented programs focusing on recruitment, retention, research, resources and reputation. When Unnikrishnan took over in 2001, the college had an undergraduate enrollment 1,331 students and a graduate enrollment of 459 students. Since then, the College of Engineering and Computer Science has seen the largest growth of any of CSUF’s eight colleges, reporting 2,993 undergraduate students and 1,229 graduate students enrolled in 2014. Unnikrishnan also

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oversaw the implementation of computer engineering, software engineering and environmental engineering master’s programs in 2004. “Number (of enrollment) can sometimes go up and down but when you change the culture of a college it is more sustainable,” Wang said. His success, Unnikrishnan said, is built upon the success of the faculty and staff in the college. “In a way, had it not been for them, what I do is not relevant. The fact that they chose me is an indication of how good of a job faculty and student have done,” Unnikrishnan said. Unnikrishnan’s main concern is the success of his students, Wang said, and that is why the college continues to thrive. “For everything he did, he considered the students first, and he’s right. Students are the reasons that we are here. So he tried to maximize opportunity for all students,” he said. Originally from India, Unnikrishnan came to America with a degree in electrical engineering from University of Kerla, India. He pursued his master’s degree in electrical engineering at South Dakota State, and his Ph.D. in the same subject at the University of Missouri. After receiving his doctorate, Unnikrishnan moved to New York as an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In the mid-1980s, he became a full-time professor there and, by the early 90s, he was head of the electrical engineering department.

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Ramen Unnikrishnan, Ph.D., dean of the college of engineering and computer science, was awarded the Educator of the year award by the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce.

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During his tenure as dean of the college, Unnikrishnan increased student programs, including ones like the one in which students developed a self-flying plane.

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“We go out to the wilderness to be away from people,” Nancy said as she gestured to the group on the bridge. The couple said the area was empty when they first started coming out. “We had to scramble up the side of the mountain to get to the trail. We couldn’t find the trail,” Carl said. It used to feel like more of an adventure before the trail became well-defined and filled with people like it is today, Nancy said. “My opinion is that I don’t like this,” Carl said. Contrary to the Atilano’s hiking the trails, first-time bungee jumper, Art Perez said, “It’s hard to describe. It’s something, like, you assume that you know what the feeling feels like because you’ve jumped from a high dive or something. It’s a very unsafe feeling for sure.” He said that the fear of jumping didn’t hit him, “until I pushed off on that first jump, (is) when it really hit me.” Perez described his overall experience regarding the hike and jump as awesome. CSUF Adventure Club member and public administration major, Immanuel Caldona was there with 15 to 20 members of the club last November. It was his first time also. “I was scared but I also felt brave at the same time. To me it was more of a personal thing. I just had to just face my fears, and go over that bridge and just be willing to jump,” Caldona said. “I can just remember that my whole guts and insides felt like they were tangled in my body.”

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The Bridge to Nowhere in the San Gabriel Mountains was the only structure left standing after a devastating flood in 1938. Now, adventure seekers and adrenaline junkies use the structure to bungee jump as hikers walk the trail to be one with nature.

The Bridge to Nowhere has been exciting people for over a decade. Gold was discovered in the area in 1897 and 1909 and the landowner patented a claim and it became private property, Jones said. The government paid an easement to the landowner to build the bridge on his property in the 1930s and after the flood, the bridge fell under

private property, which allows his company to operate the bungee jumps. “It’s the only, to my knowledge, the only bridge in the United States that is a full-time licensed … and insured bungee jumping sight (on a bridge),” Jones said. The bridge is inspected yearly by a state physical engineer and they

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are licensed through the amusement ride division of California, Jones said. “We have an impeccable safety record. The most I’ve ever seen are pinched fingers. All minor first aid stuff,” Jones said. The hike is considered moderate on most hiking websites. Hiking to and from the bridge requires at least a dozen river crossings, but since the

drought, the river has reduced to a stream and is about three feet deep in the deeper spots are on the way to the bridge. There are natural pools underneath the bridge that appear to be about six feet deep. During the hike back, many people returning from the bridge—mostly bungee jumpers—were treated to the sight of five giant-horned Desert Sheep scaling up the

side of a cliff. The natural beauty of the San Gabriel Mountains stands in stark contrast to the lonely bridge wedged between two mountains. A testament to the forces of mother nature overcoming manmade structures, in which the bridge now stands as a lonely beacon that attracts hikers and thrill-seekers alike.

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Wearing her art on her sleeve

A shirt found on the US border is an every day inspiration ALEX FAIRBANKS Daily Titan

While placing jugs of water for immigrants crossing the Mexican-United States border with a group called Water Station, Teresita de la Torre, 25, found a torn, sun-damaged shirt, which she thinks may have been left behind by an immigrant. Now, de le Torre’s been wearing it every day for the past 147 days. When she first found the ragged shirt on top of a bush she felt really connected to it. When she saw the shirt, she saw a human being, de la Torre said. “Who is this person and what did they have to go through to get to this point?” de la Torre said. She wondered how the shirt got there and if the person wearing it was male or female. “My imagination just like ran wild.” Her connection to the shirt was so strong that she decided to take the shirt home to figure out what to do with it and eventually she would decide to wear it. The main reason de la Torre connected with the shirt is that she knows about the struggle of immigrants well. “My parents migrated without documents (from Mexico to the United States) when they were really young,” de la Torre said. Married at the age of 19, de la Torre’s parents came to work in United States so they could work and make enough money to raise a family.

They lived in Chicago for a year and then in Santa Ana for a few years, all while undocumented. Eventually, her parents moved back to their small town home in Acatic, Mexico. Years later de la Torre was born and grew up in Acatic until she was five years old. De la Torre and her parents then moved to Laredo, Texas, a small border town next to Mexico. This time when her parents migrated they obtained legal residency status. Growing up in a border town as a Mexican-American, de la Torres would hear stories about immigration all the time. Sometimes she would cross over to Mexico on an international bridge and would see immigrants down below illegally crossing the border in broad daylight. “My friends were undocumented. People that were very close ... uncles and aunts that have had no other options and their only option is to come here and to work, and to save their lives because they have no other means of working in Mexico,” de la Torre said. By wearing the tattered shirt she found at the border, she can bring awareness to these types of issues, of immigration and social standards and on a more personal level by challenging herself and her ego, she said. The shirt has a strong political message, but it is also a performance art piece, part of her Master’s of Fine Arts degree work at Cal State Fullerton. Within the program, de la Torre’s first piece of art were stickers that she placed on the jugs of water

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Teresita de la Torre has worn the shirt she found on the U.S. border, the plaid button-up beneath her dress, every day for the past 147 days. It’s an expression to spread awareness of immigration as well as her own personal awareness of vanity and decay.

she helped place for the immigrants. “I had always heard, since I was a child, that people that were crossing into the U.S. through that region would die of dehydration,” de la Torre said. The stickers she placed read “Con agua hay vida, Pa’delante”, which translates to, “With water there is life, go forward.” She liked what she did, but after she found the shirt she wanted to do more. Before she got the idea to actually wear the shirt, she sewed the image of a woman on the back, even though it was a masculine looking shirt. She had read a lot of articles and found that women crossing the border are often

raped or sexually assaulted, so women will dress like men to avoid detection. She displayed the shirt for her Master of Fine Arts class at an event called Committee as a Whole, where she met Rebecca Campbell, assistant professor of drawing and painting, who encouraged de la Torre to start wearing the shirt. Campbell wanted her to turn the shirt into a more personal experience. “We felt like there was an opportunity for her to tell a more personal story,” Campbell said. Carmen de la Torre, Teresita’s older sister, who lives with her and shares the experiences with her everyday. “We talk about the shirt at

least once a night,” Carmen said with a little laugh. Carmen said she supports what her sister is doing and is inspired by her. “I love her so much, not only do I love her because she is my sister, but I look up to her in so many ways, she is just so much stronger than I am in a lot of ways,” Carmen said. De la Torres’s art piece has taken on a life of its own and everyone has their own take on it, including Carmen and Campbell. People always want to know what the shirt means in one word, but de la Torre says there are many layers to its meaning. It isn’t just about immigration, she said. It is also about

vanity. She gets a lot of looks walking around with a ripped up shirt falling off her body. She feels like it is a spiritual challenge to let go of her ego and not care about what others think. Another meaning she finds in the shirt is in the decay. The shirt is slowly deteriorating, a fate everyone also must go through in life. De la Torre said she doesn’t know when she will take the shirt off. “It is getting more and more interesting as the days pass by,” she said. With a torn and tattered button up, de la Torre has raised political, social and personal questions, while turning her life into a work of art.

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Congress lacks ability to solve nuclear policy

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In a seemingly surprising show of solidarity with President Obama, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously passed a resolution that approves the Iranian Nuclear Deweaponization deal. Not surprisingly however, there’s a catch. The congressional zeal for this resolution stems from a provision within it that gives Congress the option to determine whether to remove or perpetuate sanctions levied against Iran. This is a dangerous course of action. Congressional Republicans have already shown their vitriol toward Iran when they drafted the “open letter to Iran,” which only undermined the White House’s efforts at the negotiating table. Congress needs to stay out of this deal. They have continually shown an inability to perform even basic legislative functions, and this will be no different. For a recent example, look no further than the protracted renewal of the Department of Homeland Security. Media pundits and government officials alike expected a swift renewal of Department of Homeland Security, but what seemed like an almost unilateral support for its renewal turned into a three week debacle of short term funding methods until, at last, a “clean” bill was passed to fund the Department of Homeland Security. This process was plagued by “poison pill”

amendments and endless politicized debate, and with the fervor Congressional Republicans feel towards Iran, any meaningful concessions made with Iran are in jeopardy by similar action. In order to prevent Iran from refining weapons grade nuclear material, we must be willing to relax sanctions that have dogged the Islamic nation for decades. The sanctions regimes imposed on Iraq and Iran following the Gulf War unequivocally demonstrated that the nation’s people, and not its government, paid the heaviest price for sanctions. In the ten years following Desert Storm, sanctions barring the import of certain medical supplies saw the Iraqi infant and child mortality double, the cost of which was an estimated 500,000 young lives. Iran has viewed the sanctions as Western powers attempting to assert their dominance over their state, and have responded with defiance. Sanctions have had a galvanizing effect on Iran’s nuclear policy. Before the intensified round of sanctions in 2006, Iran had approximately 1,000 centrifuges, yet after the sanctions were passed, Iran increased its centrifuge count tenfold. While the same sanctions are likely a key motivator in bringing Iran to the negotiating table today, we must seize the opportunity to capitalize on Iran’s pragmatism and finally achieve a victory in the long fought battle to prevent a thermonuclear Iran. Until Congress can prove to the American people that it is willing to work on bipartisan issues outside of bills that extend the power of the legislature, it should keep its fangs out of the diplomatic process.

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