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Clinton, trump duel for dominance in final debate Candidates discuss the Supreme Court, immigration, the economy, fitness for the presidency, foreign hot spots and the national debt 20 days before the election.

ZACK JOHNSTON, PRISCILLA BUI, CHRISTOPHER SHEATS II, AND AMY WELLS Daily Titan Presidential nominees Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton squared off in the final presidential debate

Wednesday night at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Fox News’ Chris Wallace moderated the debate and divided it among six different topics.

Supreme Court The debate started on the topic of where the Supreme Court will take the country and how the constitution should be interpreted.

Clinton began by saying the Supreme Court needs to side with Americans rather than rich corporations.

“For me that means we need a Supreme Court

that will stand up on the behalf of women’s rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community,” Clinton said.

Trump wants to appoint justices that would protect the constitution’s original meaning that the founding fathers intended. He placed importance on having a Supreme Court that upholds the Second Amendment, which he believes Clinton would change if elected.

“If my opponent should win this race … which I truly don’t think will happen, we will have a Second Amendment that will be a small replica of what it is now,”

Trump said.

Although Clinton reiterated her support for the Second Amendment, she said gun ownership should be regulated with extensive background checks.

Clinton said she hopes the reform will unite Americans to help prevent the 33,000 deaths caused by gun violence each year.

The topic of abortion was brought up next. Trump said his appointment of pro-life judges could “inevitably” lead to Roe v.

Wade being overturned.

The former Secretary of State responded in support of Roe v. Wade and opposed government intervention.

“I will defend Planned Parenthood.

I will defend Roe v.

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DAR holds annual ceremony

Mojave Chapter plants a tree in remembrance.

ELIZABETH HUMMER Daily Titan The rain was pouring this past Monday, and tears were pouring, too. On this day, the Mojave Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), hosted its Annual Tree Planting Ceremony to Honor their Daughters.

The DAR is a national service organization for women with ancestors who fought in the American Revolution.

The organization has 3,000 chapters and over 180,000 members nationwide. It was founded by 18 women in October of 1890, and has since grown to over 900,000 members across all 50 states.

“Our big thing is education, historical preservation, and patriotism. Those are the three main goals of the DAR,” said Melissa Teeling, corresponding secretary of the Mojave Chapter.

The insignia for the organization symbolizes the history of DAR and its’ members.

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Titan Student Union reopens

New expansion officially to be introduced.

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Some of the members of the Mojave Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) gathered at Tri-City Park Monday to honor their members who died this year.

“It is a spinning wheel that represents the ladies that created the fabric that goes across the nation. And then there’s 13 stars for the 13 colonies,” said Jill Belanger, the volunteer information specialist and state chairman for the Mojave Chapter.

The Mojave Chapter was

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defend women’s rights to make their own health care decisions,” Clinton said.

Whitney Johnson received an award from the Council on Social Work Education’s Minority Fellowship Program.

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founded in Fullerton in 1925 and started off with 16 members. Today, that number has grown to 200 members. The chapter was named in honor of the nomadic Mojave Native American tribe that journeyed to Orange County from as far as Colorado.

Throughout its 91 years, the chapter has provided awards for community service and ROTC involvements to high school and college students, and even a Constitution Award for middle school students.

The chapter’s members work to enhance the

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Only managing to control himself in first half, Republican nominee reverts to childish insult tactics to distract from policy.

education for American children by volunteering in the community. DAR even started to log their volunteer hours and, in no time, they reached one million. Now, the goal is 19 million hours for the year.

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After over two years of countless hours planning, construction and cleaning, the Cal State Fullerton Titan Student Union (TSU) expansion will have it’s official grand reopening festivities Thursday afternoon.

The construction for the 27,000-square-foot expansion of the TSU building’s southeast corner was completed in late September and has been accessible to people since last week.

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Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer cruises to victory over UC Irvine Anteaters to keep Titans in contention for conference title.

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On the subject of late-term abortion, Trump spoke graphically about the process.

“In the ninth month you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby,” Trump said.

Clinton called his comments “scare rhetoric” and repeated her view of having no government involvement in women’s personal lives.

Immigration Next, Wallace asked the candidates about their plans for immigration reform.

Trump spoke about the violence and drugs coming across the border due to illegal immigration. He said his proposed wall along the border would prevent drugs and crime from entering America.

“We have to have strong borders, we have to keep the drugs out of our country,” Trump said.

“We have some bad hombres here and we’re gonna get them,” said Trump, referring to the drug lords he said come into America from Mexico.

Clinton believes Trump’s plan of mass deportation would “rip families apart.”

Her plan would secure borders and provide amnesty to immigrants.

She accused Trump of exploiting immigrants by using undocumented workers to build the New York Trump Tower.

The topic then went off on a tangent about Clinton’s leaked emails and Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin.

“I don’t know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good,” Trump said.

Clinton blamed the email hacks on Russian espionage, which she said Trump encouraged. Trump interrupted by saying Clinton does not know who carried out the attacks.

“He’d rather believe Vladimir Putin than our military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us,” Clinton said.

Trump insisted that Clinton’s dislike of Putin was due to him defeating her.

“Putin has outsmarted her and Obama at every single step of the way,” Trump said.

Economy The candidates were asked how their economic plans would create jobs and growth, and why their opponent’s would not.

“One of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people. So I do have investments in new jobs, investments in education,” Clinton said.

Clinton’s focus was on helping the middle class grow through more jobs in technology and infrastructure, using clean energy, raising minimum wage and having more technical education.

“I think when the middle class thrives, America thrives,” Clinton said. “I want us to have the biggest job programs since World War II.” Clinton also touched on how to combat the student-debt issue.

“I want to make college debt-free, and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university,” Clinton said.

Her economic plan rests on tax enforcement and making sure wealthy citizens pay their fair share of income-tax, while vowing to “not raise taxes on those making $250,000 or less,” and not adding a “penny” to the national debt, Clinton said.

Clinton said an estimated 10 million new jobs could be added under her plan, while 3.5 million could be lost under Trump’s plan, which she called “trickle down

economics on steroids.”

Trump was quick to comment on Clinton’s plan, saying “her plan is going to raise taxes and even double your taxes, her tax plan is a disaster.”

A big issue with the economy, Trump said, is that U.S. allies that are being protected

by U.S. forces are not paying up, and those nations should be asked to contribute to America’s economy.

Another point in Trump’s plan is to re-negotiate trade deals, such as NAFTA. “I am going to re-negotiate NAFTA, and if I can’t make a great deal, then we’re going to terminate NAFTA and we’re going to create new deals,” Trump said.

After the candidates went toe-to-toe on each other’s past 30 years of experience, Trump defended his rank as a successful businessman.

“If we could run our country the way I’ve run my company, we would have a country you would be so proud of,” Trump said.

Fitness to be President The next topic was each candidate’s fitness to serve as the leader of the free world, should they be elected this November.

Wallace asked Trump about the nine women who have come forward claiming that Trump sexually assaulted them. Trump said that each of the women’s cases are false, and he suspects that they come straight from the Clinton campaign.

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the Iraqi army would be the best solution in the effort to force ISIS out of the area, and how occupation would raise concern.

Clinton also stressed her support for creating no-fly zones and safe havens within the country of Syria to better assist its’ citizens and refugees.

Trump responded by pointing out the U.S. departure from Mosul, Iraq and how that ultimately resulted in them returning to the city.

He continued by saying the situation was an outcome from the poor decision-making of the military advisors under the Obama administration to pull out forces from the foreign city.

“What happened to the element of surprise? Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, are spinning in their graves when they see the stupidity of our country,” Trump said, referring to the announced attacks on the city of Mosul.

He went on to say that Iran would be benefitting the most from the seizure of Mosul, insisting that it would play into their plan for taking over Iraq.

The topic then turned to the situation in Aleppo, where Trump pointed the finger at Clinton for the mass murders and called it a “humanitarian nightmare.”

“If she did nothing, we would be in much better shape,” Trump said about Clinton’s involvement in the Middle East.

I’m going to create a kind of country that we were from the standpoint of industry we used to be.

DONALD TRUMP Republican Nominee Trump referred to a video showing operatives of a Democratic organization linked to the Clinton campaign hiring protesters to incite violence at Trump rallies to back up his suspicion.

Clinton responded by speaking about Trump’s treatment of women and the several cases of him acting crudely over the course of his campaign.

“Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger,” Clinton said.

The Clinton Foundation and possible conflicts of interests were called into question.

Trump referred to the foundation as a “criminal enterprise” on account of Clinton paying special attention to foundation donors during her time as Secretary of State.

Clinton pointed out that Trump’s claim that his foundation donates 100 percent of its proceeds to charity cannot be proven until Trump releases his tax returns.

When asked about his claims of the election being rigged and if Trump would concede if he were to lose the election, he said that he will “look at it at the time.”

Trump went on to say that, given Clinton’s mishandling of her emails, she should have never been allowed to run for president.

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The National Debt and Entitlements For the final topic of the debate, Wallace brought up the growing concern of the national debt and questioned how each candidate plans to tackle the dilemma if elected.

Trump was given the floor first, where he expressed his ideas to keep jobs in the U.S. from leaving the country and creating more for the citizens here.

“I’m going to create a kind of country that we were from the standpoint of industry we used to be,” Trump said.

He went on to address how business experts aren’t used in the process of negotiating major trade deals, and how this dynamic needs to change.

Clinton responded by standing behind her position of supporting the middle class and having the wealthy pay their dues.

“We are going where the money is, we are going to ask the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share,” Clinton said.

She continued by saying that she and her opponent have conflicting ideas on how to improve the national debt in the country, and that boils down to their differences in upbringing.

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I think when the middle class thrives, America thrives.

HILLARY CLINTON Democratic Nominee

Foreign Hot Spots The debate then turned to the issue of foreign hot spots and where exactly each candidate stands on military forces in the Middle East.

“I will not support putting American soldiers into Iraq as an occupying force,” Clinton said.

She then laid out her belief that gaining the assistance of

“I think it’s a difference that affects how we see the world and what we want to do with the economy,” Clinton said.

On the topic of entitlement being the major driving force for the national debt, Trump suggested that the cutting of taxes would help improve the economy, but also that Obamacare needed to go.

“We need to repeal and replace the disaster known

as Obamacare, it’s destroying our country, and destroying our businesses,” Trump said.

Clinton, who was an advocate for the health care plan, would like to see it continue to be refined instead of repealed.

“I will not cut benefits, I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers, and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current social security system,” Clinton said.

In the final moments of the debate, each candidate was given a brief moment to reach out to the viewers and give closing remarks.

Clinton urged the people to stand up to special interests and emphasized her stance on the improvement of education systems throughout the country.

Trump insisted that the nation’s law and order must be improved in order to help improve the inner cities.

Watch Party and Student Response CSUF students filled the entirety of the TSU Underground Pub to watch the third presidential debate Wednesday night.

ASI Lobby Corps has planned all the presidential debate viewing parties in partnership with CSUF Democrats and CSUF Republicans, in an effort to make sure students had an opportunity to watch the debates in an inviting environment amongst people with both agreeing and differing beliefs.

Meghan Waymire, a member of ASI Lobby Corps, said that the third debate was a big improvement over the last one.

“I felt like (with) this one, they both seemed a little bit more prepared. There was less interrupting than the last ones, which was kind of nice, but there’s still a lot of personal attacks rather than policy talk,” Waymire said.

ASI chief governmental officer and Lobby Corps member Amanda Martinez also appreciated that both candidates were more focused on issues than personal attacks. With the candidates really focusing on the issues more, they managed to get to subjects that mattered to her, such as the national debt and national security, she said.

However, Martinez found Clinton to be the stronger opponent of the two.

“I think that Hillary Clinton really came prepared,” Martinez said. “She’s been doing this for a while now. In her answers, she made sure that the issues were addressed.

When they asked a question about a certain issue, such as Aleppo or the strategy for addressing the Middle East, she tried to address the issue with as much of a clear answer as possible.”

In retrospect, CSUF Republicans president Chris Boyle was in favor of Trump. Although both were strong candidates in their own way for the election, Clinton came out as a less desirable opponent, he said.

“Hillary Clinton is a good liar. I know that sounds (like) a terrible thing to say, but she said some things that sounded great to the ears until you tear them apart,” Boyle said.

He said that although it might have sounded great when Clinton’s answers involved investing in shovel-ready jobs and green energy, such promises had been made in the past.

“Obama made the same promises back in 2008 when he was talking about shovel-ready jobs as part of the stimulus package and talking about green energy, but we got companies... that were essentially laundering money for the Democratic Party. So, I think (Clinton) sounded good, but she’s a liar in a lot of these areas,” Boyle said.

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Before and after: The Titan Student Union went under construction in July 2015. The expansion to the building will officially open during a grand reopening ceremony at 2 p.m. on Oct. 20, 2016. New additions in the expansion include a grand staircase, floor-to-ceiling glass windows, energy-efficient lights, open vistas and outdoor outlets and big metal letters outside spelling out “TITANS”.

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However, Oct. 20 was chosen as the grand reopening date following final preparations such as: polishing the floors, installing light fixtures and laying down blue, orange and gray carpet.

Carol McDoniel, the Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) director of administrations and interim TSU director, was in charge of leading the TSU expansion process.

The new addition features floor-to-ceiling glass windows, energy-efficient lights, a grand staircase and open vistas.

“Now we actually have a

union building where all the students can come in and interact with each other,” said Kimani Schumann, a CSUF cinema and television arts student and videographer for ASI. “There’s a lot of open spaces where they can see each other, just get their homework done and hang out.”

What stood out the most to Schumann about the expansion was finally getting inside to take a look around, as his expectations were exceeded.

“I’ve been looking at it from the outside for the past year and once I got to go inside, I was like ‘wow, this

is epic’ and you can see all three stories at once. If you’re on the third floor looking down, you can just see the majesticness of it yourself and how big it is,” Schumann said.

Countless students have flocked to the new TSU expansion’s three-floor atrium to study at the large tables, conduct meetings in the conference rooms, relax in the lounge chairs, easily enter Titan Bowl & Billiards and socialize with other people throughout the day.

Keya Allen, associate executive director of ASI, said she is amazed by how well the TSU expansion turned

out as a result of all the hard work done throughout the planning and construction process; even when it didn’t go as smoothly as ASI wanted at times.

“Some of the difficulties that they had was really the inconveniencing of the students. The building was in shambles, we had to move all the offices in order to create the expansion,” Allen said. “It was supposed to be open in January and it’s open now, so the actual construction process (was) a positive one.”

On the first floor plaza leading up to the main second floor, visitors are able to

sit across the staircase that stretches along the south side of the building’s expansion.

“I would say the grand staircases were pretty impressive,” said Art Serna, who has worked at CSUF as a graphic designer with ASI since 2013. “It seems to really bring a lot of students together, and everybody seems to really enjoy that area to come together and study. It seems very social, and I think that’s what the TSU should be all about.”

Originally built in 1976, the TSU was designed for a much smaller student body and underwent its first major expansion in 1992, which

doubled the size of the original building. The TSU expansion project provides extra space for a student population of over 40,000 enrolled for the fall 2016 semester.

“It was absolutely unbelievable,” Allen said. “When we opened the doors at 7:15 a.m. with people coming in staring ... That was just amazing just to see their faces.”

On Thursday afternoon, students and faculty are encouraged to stop by the grand reopening of the TSU expansion as live music and free food will be provided at 1 p.m. The official reopening announcement and ribbon cutting will begin at 2 p.m.

Professor talks philosophy of monsters

Erin Hollis and students discussed creatures at residential housing.

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Erin Hollis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, led an interdisciplinary discussion Wednesday night about monsters in

student housing.

Students were casted together to share their thoughts on fear and the creation of monsters.

Bounded by pumpkin decorations and candy crushing, Hollis delved deep into why the modern day human is fascinated by creatures of the night.

Topics crept into discussion included colors associated with monsters

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and humanizing monsters.

From deformed body parts, or lack thereof, the strange and supernatural haunts people for a reason.

“Monsters represent imperfection and we all need that idea that it’s ok to be imperfect, that it’s okay to not have to be exactly the right way,” Hollis said.

“We’re so worried about being imperfect and that’s why we are so fascinated

by monsters.”

Inspired by a podcast featuring fantasy director Guillermo del Toro, Hollis said that the idea of monsters being connected to the unknown is interesting to humans because “they are things that are not like us.”

She played on the idea that people are fascinated by fright and treated by terror.

“Terrific actually comes from the word terrifying or terror, so terrific means to be scary and amazing at the same time,” Hollis said.

Hollis also teaches a course on the Harry Potter series and connects J.K. Rowling’s half-human, half-monster characters as the most understanding, namely Remus Lupin and Hagrid. Their roles as half breeds show that an

individual can accept their imperfections.

“It was interesting nowadays that we make monsters cute,” said freshman Erin Vaupel, business management major.

Vaupel said she loves animated monster movies like Monsters Inc. and Hotel Transylvania, and also said that films like those play a part in helping desensitize terrifying things.

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Student finds passion in social work

Titan is one of 40 U.S. applicants to receive master’s fellowship.

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Whitney Johnson is currently a graduate student working toward her master’s degree in social work with an emphasis in community and mental health at Cal State Fullerton.

Johnson received the 2016-17 masters-level fellowship award from the Council on Social Work Education’s Minority Fellowship Program. This fellowship is awarded to only 40 students in the country, and she was one of them.

In 2010, Johnson came to Cal State Fullerton as a computer science major, but no major felt quite right to her. She even changed her major to business during the second half of the year. Feeling that she had no place, Johnson went to the career center and filled out a questionnaire to see which career would be most suitable for her.

“I kept getting that I should be in the helping profession or counseling,” Johnson said.

Johnson ended up discovering human services, and she graduated with that degree in 2014.

Carrie Biely, a friend and peer of Johnson, has been in the master’s program with her since their orientation.

“The strength that I admire the most is her ability to push through even when she’s going through the hardest time in her life,” Biely said.

Kristina Lovato-Hermann, lecturer in the Department of Social Work at CSUF, also admired Johnson’s stamina.

“She’s a hard working individual and what was especially important that I noticed was that she takes every opportunity to engage in professional development and training to enhance her school development to be able to better serve marginalized communities,” Lovato-Hermann said.

Johnson’s childhood played a big part in her choice to pursue an educational career in social work.

Johnson is the youngest of four children; although her family was supportive, it also had its ups and downs.

“Of course we also had struggles, too. I grew up with both of my parents being married, but my dad struggled with alcohol abuse,” Johnson said. “We had to move around to different places, but overall I

still felt like, at the end of the day, I always knew that my parents loved me.”

Due to her challenges growing up, her concentration is in community mental health which includes the health needs of the community. Johnson said she wants to focus on children more because of their vulnerability.

“They rely on a parent or some type of adult figure to take care of them and a lot of things they can’t do for themselves,” Johnson said.

“I think if I were able to help more with children, it would help to prevent a lot of future issues that could arise when children’s needs aren’t met.”

Johnson took advantage of an opportunity knowing that many others would not and sought out the fellowship within social work.

In the spring of 2016, Johnson applied for the master’s fellowship and it was awarded to her this month. Being a grad student has placed restrictions on her personal life, so she said receiving this fellowship has helped her out tremendously.

“I’m a full-time student so I don’t really have time to make money,” Johnson said. “Grad school is expensive and it’s hard in the MSW program to work because you have to do field work 15 to 20 hours

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Graduate student Whitney Johnson (right) is studying social work with a concentration in community mental health. She wants to do proactive work by making sure that children’s needs are met.

a week. So that would be like a part-time job, but you don’t get paid.”

Johnson is currently interning at the Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles as a Care Unit Case manager within The Care Unit, which serves youths and their families that are currently in the foster care system.

After her graduation, expected in May 2017,

Johnson hopes to find a suitable job and gain experience before pursuing her Ph.D. Before receiving this fellowship, Johnson had to face one of the most difficult challenges in her life.

“A really important reason why it is significant to me is because it is what I like to call ‘a blessing in the storm,’” Johnson said via email. “My dad passed

away on Aug. 21, and a few days later, I received my initial notification of the fellowship award. He was always one of my biggest supporters, and I am motivated to continue making him proud, and ‘handling my business’ like he always encouraged me to do,” Johnson will continue to “handle her business” and receive her master’s degree this coming spring.

Students discuss effects of new bathroom law

Assembly Bill 1732 aims to benefit the LGBTQ community.

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When Liz Sanchez needs to use the restroom, they will use whichever facility is more convenient, regardless of what the sign on the door says.

“They’re all toilets,” said the 32-year-old Cal State Fullerton graduate student.

Sanchez majors in sociology with a minor in queer studies, and identifies as gender-queer with the pronouns they, them and theirs.

With tattoos covering their arms, colored hair, a punk style of dress and a number of piercings–including a septum, Sanchez draws much of their expression influence from punk culture.

They also draw influence from queer culture and are an advocate for the trans and queer community.

“Gender is a spectrum of fluidity. On one end you have femininity and on the other you have masculinity,” Sanchez said. “A human

being can possess both and be fluid on the spectrum.

We all do it everyday.”

While Sanchez doesn’t mind which restroom people use, many will choose to only use women’s or men’s restrooms. People of the transgender, nonbinary gender and gender nonconforming community will choose either one of the sex-segregated bathrooms or one that is gender-neutral.

On Sept. 29, Gov. Jerry Brown passed Assembly Bill 1732, which requires all single-user restrooms in business establishments, public and government places to be identified as gender-neutral.

“Those who don’t accept transgenders will be very against it and won’t think it’s a good idea, while those who do agree with it are going to say it’s a new advancement toward accepting everybody as equal,” said Jacqueline Rubio, a child and adolescent development major.

For Sanchez, it’s a noteworthy but very small step toward making a difference for the community. The new law is like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound, they said.

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“All they’re doing is changing a sign,” Sanchez said. “It’s not going to prevent the violence that the community experiences.”

While AB-1732 is not a solution to all problems that the trans and queer community face, people still view it as progress.

“Gender-neutral restrooms create safer spaces and prevent discrimination, harassment and acts of violence toward the transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming community,” said Chris Datiles, coordinator of the LGBTQ Resource Center via email. “(The restrooms) contribute to mental and emotional well-being as they are affirming of one’s gender identity.”

When those in the community are forced to choose between gender-specific facilities, their identities may be compromised.

“It’s more confusing because they may associate one way but appear to be another. It adds more burdens to them,” said Stephen Fink, 30, cinema and television arts major. “They’re already trying to go through understanding who they are or who they have been.”

There are nine gender-neutral restrooms on campus, and a map of their locations with a list of specific floors and buildings that can be found on the ASI website.

“In this academic year, CSUF has made progress by changing all single-stall restrooms in the Student Health and Counseling Center and residential halls to be gender-neutral,” Datiles said.

The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs is responsible for enacting the new law by March 1, 2017.

Some of the unisex restrooms are not single-stall, like the one on the second floor of the Titan Student Union.

It contains one closed stall with a toilet and one urinal without a door or panel. The door that used to be there was recently removed “due to code compliance needs” as stated on a note left on the door of the restroom.

“They took down the stall door to the urinal in the gender-neutral bathroom,” said Megan Muller, a student involved in the LGBTQ community. “Among my transgender and other gendered

friends and myself, who personally uses the gender-neutral bathroom, we think it’s an invasion of privacy.”

The bill’s passing runs counter to the 19 states that considered restricting access to restrooms, locker rooms and other sex-segregated spaces on the basis of biological sex this year.

In March of this year, North Carolina amended House Bill 2, mandating that people use bathrooms and changing facilities corresponding to the biological sex stated on their birth certificate, regardless of whether it is single or multiple-occupancy.

While gender-neutral restrooms allow people to affirm their identities, Sanchez said that the real issue is still violence against the trans and queer community.

According to a 2013 study by the Williams Institute at UCLA, 70 percent of the transgender and gender non-conforming people who participated in the survey reported experiencing denied access to gender-segregated restrooms, verbal harassment or some form of physical assault. Sixty-eight percent of respondents

reported being verbally harassed, 18 percent reported being denied access and 9 percent reported being physically assaulted.

“It’ll help individuals, because violence does occur in the bathrooms but more so against the transgender people,” Sanchez said.

“Having single-stalls that you can lock and feel protected, hopefully, is somewhat helpful. But even then, you’re going to have to unlock it eventually.”

Sanchez emphasizes that education is the main solution to discrimination against the community.

“If someone’s going to be violent, they’re going to do it,” Sanchez said. “We need to address education.

We need to maybe reform our hate crimes and the laws surrounding those issues.

We need to address masculinity just as we talk about femininity. We talk about trying to prevent violence against women, but we need to talk about why violence occurs.”

Sanchez and the community hope that by passing this law, the world would be one step closer to accepting everyone regardless of gender identity.

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To celebrate those who have helped with all the hard work, the chapter plants a tree at Tri-City Park in Placentia every year in honor of the members who have passed away that year. It also has a short ceremony that illustrates the women’s accomplishments and all of the people they impacted.

After the speeches, they pray and one by one, the family members and women go to a pile of dirt and fill the hole with soil for the tree to continue growing.

“We invite the family members to come back and have a picnic under the tree, water the tree, whatever they need to do,” Belanger said. “We’re the only chapter in the state of California that does this memorial service.”

This year, the Mojave Chapter honored five ladies: Joan Dolen, Patsy Schmitz, Janice Wantz, Mary Witmer and Sylvia Nair.

The family of Patsy Schmitz attended the ceremony. The Schmitz family grew up with three liquidambar trees in Patsy’s front yard, and it just so happened that the tree being planted in her memory was liquidambar. This serendipity set the perfect mood for her family, who was able to share some of her story.

Patsy was the first one in the family to find the DAR and she has been a part of the organization since 2002. Before and after her time with the organization, Patsy wrote for her local newspaper, worked as a school secretary for 25 years and traveled around the world while working

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Five women of the Mojave Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution were honored at the Annual Tree Planting Ceremony. The tree symbolized all the hard work and people impacted by the women of DAR.

at a travel agency with her husband.

The couple traveled to 44 countries. Her family said that each place Patsy visited became her new favorite, but nothing beat coming back home to America.

“The last place she went was always the best. That’s what she would say,” said Patsy’s daughters, Susan Seals and Julie Cain.

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Anyone who knew Patsy knew she loved her family and her ancestors. She made friends everywhere she went and kept them for her entire life.

“She had a wonderful ability to sit down with anybody, anywhere, create a friendship and keep them– that was the biggest thing,” said Patsy’s grandson, Nathan Schmitz.

Richard Schmitz, Patsy’s son, added that his mom could hardly keep from getting to know everyone.

“She never knew a stranger,” Richard said.

Patsy Schmitz is just one of the members in the Mojave Chapter of DAR that has changed many lives.

Women work hard to research their ancestral roots and join the organization.

Once they join, they don’t stop working hard. The Mojave Chapter specifically is known for its exceptional work.

“Some chapters only get one (new member) a year,” Belanger said. “We usually get one a month, maybe one every other month but we had 11 members come in last month.”

Each new member that

comes in is committed to the organization’s three main goals of education, historical preservation and patriotism. The Mojave Chapter continues to work toward these goals, and the Annual Tree Planting Ceremony was a true testament to the difference that these women make in the communities where they work and volunteer.

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Amazon Echo keeps users unaware

The tech’s news feature only gives the bare minimum.

KALEB STEWART Daily Titan

In 2016, Amazon released a device that embodies just how much technology has progressed in its ability to make life easier for the everyday person.

Amazon Echo is “a handsfree speaker you control with your voice,” according to Amazon.

While it has many features–such as playing music, ordering food, telling you what’s on your calendar–the one causing controversy is Amazon Echo’s news relaying feature.

The way Amazon Echo reads off the news is troubling because it only offers “micronews.”

Amazon Echo uses Alexa Voice Service, which is the assistant software that comes with the Echo similar to the way Siri comes with the iPhone. What makes Alexa problematic is that it is encouraging many users to have their news relayed to them through that computerized voice rather than processing the information through reading.

Surface details may stick when being given a news briefing from Alexa, but more often than not, people won’t be paying close attention and therefore won’t be able to recall many of the details. When one reads an entire article online or in a newspaper, it requires the full attention of the reader in order to process what has been written.

Echo only gives people

small news snippets and soundbites, so not only are people less invested in paying attention to the information given, they’re also not given all the information available.

This is not at all an evil feature, in fact, it is quite convenient. However, in Neil Postman’s nonfiction novel, “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” he says the current role of entertainment media is just another step forward in terms of making information too easily available and attained.

To quote Postman’s analysis of Aldous Huxley’s science fiction classic, “Brave New World,”: “As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”

There is nothing wrong with small news bites, especially if the listener intends to read in depth articles after the fact. The problem is that this often becomes the main course as opposed to an appetizer with which to whet the mind’s appetite.

This kind of mindset is already affecting the way people read news stories.

“When people land on a story, they very rarely make it all the way down the page. A lot of people don’t even make it halfway,” according to an article in Slate.

Many of these same visitors, who don’t read the full article, are viewing all of the information that has already been put into a visual medium for them–the videos and photos.

The issue with Alexa is that it’s only going to make this problem worse. A person need only say “Alexa,

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Amazon Echo’s Alexa Voice Service can read the news aloud on command. But it only gives shallow descriptions and soundbites that leave listeners uninformed. In addition, listening to information versus reading it contributes to problems with memory retention.

give me the news,” and receive a brief, overview response that doesn’t activate any kind of critical thinking or devotion.

Not only is the information given a hollow shell of what the news actually is, but it is given auditorily. There is a key difference between listening and reading in the way the brain absorbs the information given.

A psychology study at

the University of Waterloo in Ontario found that when compared to people who read information, people listening to information are more prone to distraction and mind-wandering, not retaining the information presented and not displaying any sort of interest in that info.

A Pew Research study found that 79 percent of Americans were reading a book in any format for

2011. For 2016, 73 percent claim they were reading, showing a 6 percent drop in five short years. A device like Amazon Echo will contribute to even more falling percentages in the future.

“It seems as though just listening is not as engaging as when people read,” said Daniel Smilek, co-author of the study’s paper to Co.Design. “The way we’re thinking about it is that the

more your body’s involved in the task, the less likely you are to be disengaged and mind-wander.”

Amazon Echo demonstrates the amazing advances in technology that are accessible to average people. However, the masses should be mindful of how much they might lose if they value convenience over actually reading and retaining any of the news they’re interested in.

Trump train crashes, burns in debate When his policies fail, he diverts with insults and blame.

ASHLYN RAMIREZ Daily Titan In light of the recent sexual assault allegations made against Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee was noticeably on his best behavior for the third and final presidential debate. At times, he could be seen physically stopping himself from interrupting his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and at one point, he even mouthed the word “wrong” instead of shouting it out.

Trump’s restraint didn’t actually last more than 40 minutes, and while Clinton’s frustration and nerves were showing before Trump cracked, she still managed to win the debate by avoiding name-calling tactics and by displaying her clear and well thought-out policies.

In the beginning, Clinton was the one who kept talking over the moderator, Chris Wallace, and unfairly

dominating the conversation during topic discussions, even after being warned by the moderator.

“Secretary Clinton, respectfully, this is–this is an open discussion,” Wallace quipped.

Surprisingly, Wallace was the breakout star of this debate, asserting his control with critical and engaging questions, real-time fact checking and keeping the two candidates miraculously on course by steering away from any chaotic arguing.

On hot topics such as gun laws, Trump complained that the Second Amendment is under “absolute siege,” while Clinton calmly explained, as if to a toddler, that although she supports the Second Amendment, “reasonable regulation” would help reduce the incredibly high gun death rates.

In regards to abortion, Trump said, “I am pro-life and I will be appointing prolife judges (into the Supreme Court),” a direct contradiction to his already laughable claim that “no one respects women more that (he does).”

On the other hand, Clinton

recognized that abortions are tough choices that women and families do not make lightly and said that she will “defend Planned Parenthood.

(She) will defend Roe v. Wade and (she) will defend women’s rights to make their own healthcare decisions.”

When they got to subject of the economy and taxes, Clinton said that the government needs to be more involved in order to give “middle class families many more opportunities...when the middle-class thrives, America thrives.”

Whereas Trump’s economic tax plan was analyzed by the Tax Policy Center, only to find that it would add $7.2 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

Unfortunately, both candidates’ policies are still being overlooked because of the theatrics.

Trump certainly did better during this debate in comparison to the previous two–he actually answered questions and he kept his interruptions to a minimum–yet he still subscribed to heated character attacks, like shouting “You’re the puppet,” after Clinton

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said that Putin favors Trump because the Russian leader would be able to use him like a puppet.

These outbursts, while admittedly less in quantity during this debate than previous ones, are not an abnormal occurrence from Trump and point to his lack of control.

He’s like a spoiled child suffering from Affluenza in how he has to have the final word, even if the word is irrelevant and illogical.

“She gave us ISIS as sure as you’re sitting there...The NAFTA deal signed by her husband is one of the worst deals ever made of any kind, signed by anybody...It is so sad when you see what’s happened (in Aleppo). And a lot of this is because of Hillary Clinton,” Trump said, taking every opportunity to place any blame that he could on Clinton.

Banking on calling trade deals sloppy and name dropping both John Podesta and Bernie Sanders, the Republican presidential candidate was clearly trying to pander to disenfranchised voters who can’t stand Clinton.

Trump claimed that Clinton

has lied to the public “hundreds of times.” If this is true, she has managed to hide it well from the debate audiences.

While Clinton has a Politifact overall scorecard that leans heavily on the spectrum of true and mostly true, Trump’s Politifact scorecard hovers massively around false, mostly false and pants on fire.

In fact, out of 116 analyzed statements, only 13 are actually true, while the remaining 103 are rated false.

Trump says that he “truly” doesn’t think that Clinton will win the election, and yet he continuously says that the election is rigged, and that the media is corrupt and has “poisoned the minds of voters.”

He’s setting himself up so that it’s a win-win situation for him either way.

Clinton called him out on this, and pointed out the many times throughout his life that he has turned to claiming the establishment is “rigged” whenever he feels like things aren’t going his way. For example, when the FBI claimed the investigation against her emails had no case, when he lost the Iowa caucus and the

Wisconsin primary, and when Trump University was sued.

“He said the FBI was rigged...He said the Republican primary was rigged against him...he claims the court system and the federal judge is rigged against him,” Clinton said.

This is not the person we want for president. A man who whines about “rigged” systems opposing him, lies about his past and sheds “crocodile tears,” as Clinton said, about jobs being sent to China. Trump himself has chosen Chinese over American products in the past.

Someone who insults women and doesn’t even realize it, thinks there’s nothing wrong with describing Mexican immigrants as “bad hombres,” and said that he’s going to leave America in “suspense” over whether or not he will accept the outcome of the election, has absolutely no place in government, let alone being in charge of it.

This last debate only reinforced the idea that come Nov. 8, America needs to vote in a way that will keep Trump out of office.

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SPORTS

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Surging Titans make it two in a row Men’s soccer reaches .500 with victory over last place Anteaters.

ANDREW SALMI Daily Titan Following its previous 1-0 home victory over the UC Riverside Highlanders last Saturday that stopped a four-game winless streak, Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer (7-8-1 overall, 3-3-1 Big West) rode an early goal Wednesday night to pick up its second straight win in a 3-1 victory over the UC Irvine Anteaters (4-12 overall, 2-5 Big West) at Titan Stadium.

“I feel like we knew the team pretty well, the coaches prepared us pretty well for this game to play against their formation and style of play,” senior Alex Heilmann said. “I’m kind of disappointed that we didn’t get like six or seven (goals) tonight because we had so many chances.”

The Titan offense struck

early thanks to Fullerton’s leading goalscorer Heilmann, who scored his ninth goal of the season in the ninth minute of first-half action. Immediately following a foul committed by UCI, Titan junior midfielder Robert Coronado set up a beautiful assist to Heilmann, who promptly scored the header.

There were plenty of scoring opportunities on the night for CSUF. However, the Titans were unable to capitalize on their multiple chances in the first half other than Heilmann’s early goal.

“I think our mistake was that we weren’t being productive with shots. That’s why I was getting frustrated because we were not creating shots in the first half, we were trying to get the last pass when we could’ve shot.

We also weren’t executing on the finish,” said CSUF Head Coach George Kuntz.

The Titans came out very aggressive in the second half and had a golden opportunity to go up 2-0 when sophomore midfielder Ronaldo Pineda drew a penalty kick

in the 47th minute. Unfortunately, Pineda’s kick went wide as the Titan lead remained 1-0.

“We talked a lot at halftime about closure and this is not a team you can just score one goal on. (UC Irvine) is a team that’s scored on almost everybody. There are very few teams that have just flushed them out,” Kuntz said of his former squad, who he coached for 19 years prior to taking the Fullerton job. “This is a team that’s going to be combative and it’s a rivalry. There’s a lot of blood there.”

Fullerton redeemed itself from the missed opportunity and took a 2-0 lead in the 53rd minute when junior defenseman Corentin Ohlmann scored his first goal as a Titan after transferring from East Tennessee State. Sophomore midfielder Ross Mcphie picked up his first assist of the year by making the low cross to an open Ohlmann, who neatly placed the ball into the back of the net.

The Titans two-goal cushion did not last very long.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Oscar Torres (right) and Alex Heilmann (left) led the way for the Titans as each scored a goal apiece in the 3-1 win over UC Irvine Wednesday night.

The Anteaters answered right back in the 55th minute when redshirt senior defenseman Thomas Janjigian scored a header for his third goal of the season off a perfectly placed assist by redshirt junior midfielder Randall McDermott.

Despite the consolation goal from Irvine, Fullerton was able to put the match on ice in the 83rd minute when Titan senior midfielder Oscar Torres netted his first of the season off the assist from Coronado to make the score 3-1. This marked

Coronado’s second assist of the night and fourth of the season.

Up next, the Titans will travel to play UC Riverside Saturday at UC Riverside soccer stadium for a rematch of last weekend’s contest. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Volleyball in search of big rally in Big West play CSUF hopes to spark conference comeback with weekend games.

BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball (6-14 Overall, 1-5 Big West) looks to rebound this weekend with a two-game road trip after losing its last five consecutive conference games.

Both games over the weekend will feature rematches

with teams the Titans have previously lost to this season.

Fullerton will play UC Irvine Thursday night and will then head to UC Davis Saturday for a matchup with the Aggies.

The Titans’ first loss in Big West Conference play this season came at the hands of UCI at Titan Gym in a 3-0 sweep. Haley DeSales led the Anteaters with 11 kills on the night with an impressive .556 hitting percentage. UCI combined for a .337 hitting percentage as opposed to the Titans’ lowly

.102 hitting percentage.

Leading hitters Shimen Fayad and Madeline Schneider struggled for Cal State Fullerton against UCI in the first matchup. Fayad led the Titans with eight kills in the contest while Schneider added seven, but both struggled to attack efficiently, hitting below a .100 hitting percentage.

Throughout the season, Victoria Dennis has produced the majority of the offense for UCI. Dennis dons a total of 288 kills on the season, placing her second in the Big West behind Nele Barber of Long

Beach State. Fayad is fourth in the conference with 247 kills. Dennis is also fourth in the conference in kills per set at 3.65.

Luna Tsujimoto led the Anteater defense in the first game against CSUF with 17 digs. Tsujimoto is second in the Big West with 297 digs on the season.

The second game of the weekend will be a matchup with UC Davis Saturday night. The Titans fell to the Aggies in four sets, 3-1, earlier in the season at Titan Gym. Freshman Lauren Matias

dominated the game for UC Davis with 34 kills in just four sets, which is the most kills in a single game for any individual player in the Big West Conference this season.

In the contest against CSUF, Aggies Aima Eichie and Emily Allen added 17 and 10 kills, respectively.

Eichie put up her 17 kills on 24 attempts, resulting in an impressive .708 hitting percentage. Allen leads UC Davis in total kills on the season with 242, placing her fifth in the conference for most kills right behind Fayad.

Fullerton was led by Schneider against the Aggies. The sophomore transfer racked up 18 kills on 39 attempts with a .385 hitting percentage. Fayad and freshman Meagan Carlson added 10 kills each for the Titans.

The Titans hope to come out on top in both games to stay alive in conference play.

First serve for the first game against UC Irvine is set for Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Bren Events Center. The second game against UC Davis will be Saturday at 4 p.m. at The Pavilion.

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