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Report remarks on security Despite high numbers, cyber threats not unique to CSUF. SAMUEL ALSTON Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton Division of Information Technology has released its annual report for the 20152016 academic school year, which shows high numbers of security threats that had affected the campus’ network. The 11-page report outlines the advancements in network security being made by the division of technology’s information officers, as well as the progress toward achieving the ongoing goal of providing access to the latest technological tools for students to maximize their own learning goals. This year, the division listed security as one of its primary points of focus. Working in collaboration with the campus Advisory Committee and University Administration, they set out to create new privacy protection regulations through forming a task force to better combat the ongoing threat of cyber attacks. Jay Lin, the interim assistant director for Network Services at CSUF, has worked as part of the network services team since 2006. He said in an email interview that new measures are being taken to help improve the overall security of the campus’ network. SEE SECURITY

IT seeks to improve campus Wi-Fi

Survey finds wireless internet unsatisfactory.

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In the Division of Information Technology (IT) Annual Report for the 2015-2016 academic year, large numbers of online intrusion attempts, vulnerabilities, email and virus attacks were identified and prevented. The senior director of IT said these attacks are “expected.”

Due to data gained from a survey in the Cal State Fullerton Division of Information Technology’s annual report for the 2015-2016 academic year, plans to improve wireless internet access at Cal State Fullerton are being put in place. Wi-Fi ranked 3.77 and email ranked 3.99 on average for satisfaction by faculty, staff and administrators on a scale of one to five. These were two of the lowest ranking services compared to Dropbox with 4.07, Telecommunication Services with 4.28 and Workstation with 4.37. This data has not been surveyed since 2011. “People knew how wired connection worked, wired connection worked all the time. The expectation is that wireless connection needs to work all the time,” said Berhanu Tadesse, associate vice president for IT/Infrastructure Services. SEE WI-FI

From acting to active duty to academia

Professor accepts new position and reflects on past. ASHLYN RAMIREZ Daily Titan

While the search for a permanent director for the Office of Undergraduate Studies and General Education continues, Brent Foster, Ph.D., has been appointed as interim director. A tenured associate professor in the Department of Communications, Foster has been teaching at Cal State Fullerton since 2007. Foster also worked as a faculty coordinator for General Education (GE) in the Office of Academic Programs in 2014, where he worked on the GE Pathways program, which organized GE courses into pathways such as global studies, sustainability and power and politics. While in effect, the program allowed students to receive

certificates in these areas by taking certain sets of GE courses. In 2015, Foster was appointed interim director of Freshman Programs, where he dedicated his time to expanding the First Year Experience. Rosemarie Enriquez, Administrative Support assistant for the Office of First Year Experience, described Foster in an email as “an open-minded, charismatic and a forward-thinking director who always keeps our students’ success in mind while encouraging and enhancing campus partnerships.” Dawn Macy, director for the Center for Internships and Community Engagement, said that Foster is ethical, hardworking, and devoted to students, but a great colleague to boot. Foster also worked to make the First Year Experience fulfill a general education requirement, benefiting students by saving them both time and money, Macy said. “I am very grateful that he is a part of the CSUF

Technological assistance offered to faculty

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Training for online education and technical support center can be found on the second floor of the Pollak Library.

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Brent Foster, Ph.D., was recently appointed as the interim director for the Office of Undergraduate Studies and General Education. He uses his experience in radio and television to teach courses in the Communications Department.

team,” Macy said. An individual who dances with versatility, he minored in theater and also has a background in

broadcast, but ended up riding out the waves that life threw at him when it came to getting involved in communications.

Student and cheerleader pursues passion

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Communications major Chanelle Riggan has traveled to 10 countries in the past two and a half years.

“Journalism kind of came along for the ride,” Foster said. Edward Fink, interim associate dean for the College

of Communications, said that he has always been impressed with Foster’s work ethic. SEE COMM 4

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Wi-Fi dead zones exist both indoors and outdoors across campus. While parking and remote storage areas are the main outdoor dead zones, indoor zones are mostly in elevators, restrooms and basements.

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Wi-Fi is important to not only faculty, staff and administrators, but to the students as well. “I think if I’m where a lot of people are using it, it’s kind of slow like in the library. If I’m somewhere where there are less people, I think it’s okay, and it’s fast,” said Billy Saysavath, computer science major. Access points are a key component for Wi-Fi to function properly in any given area, and it relies on access points to be able to send out signals that can be received by other devices, such as a cell phone or a tablet. “The more access points on campus, the more signals go out,” said Dhusdee Chandswang, IT Project Management officer. “But there is also a point where you have to say, ‘If there’s too many, they compete with each other and cancel out each other.” The total number of existing access points is 1,305, Chandswang said in an email. There are 43 outdoor access points and 1,262 indoor access points, which doesn’t include Student Housing. Based on the response IT has received about what elements need to be improved upon, a plan has been set to

alleviate some of these inquiries and concerns presented about Wi-Fi connectivity and email efficiency. “There is a plan to do more outdoor wireless connection, for outdoor access points,” Tadesse said. While outside of a campus building, it is not uncommon for students and staff to walk out of a building and lose their internet connection when heading to their next destination on campus. “Sometimes when you’re using the internet through your phone, it disconnects from the Wi-Fi and you end up using your data,” said Bianca Pichardo, human services major. There are some spots that exist on campus where connectivity simply cannot be reached, otherwise known as dead zones. Dead zones are located indoors and outdoors in various places throughout campus. Indoors, they can be found in elevator shafts, some restrooms, the building’s maintenance room and some building basements except for the library, education classrooms, Mihaylo Hall, and College Park, according to Tadesse. Outside of buildings on campus, dead zones are found in all parking structures and parking lots, as well as most

outdoor areas where there are less students, such as corporation yard, remote storage areas such as the sports complex softball cage and parts of the arboretum, Tadesse said an email. For the dead zones that exist indoors, IT plans on integrating more access points to strengthen those areas where signal strength is not sufficient enough to maintain a strong connection. These areas can be found in most of the older buildings on campus. Strong signals cannot be reached from these buildings because of the thickness of the walls, which creates a barrier that makes it difficult for a wireless signal to break through. “When people are walking out of humanities and going to the library, it’s very natural for people to expect that connection to be sustained over that long distance,” Tadesse said. In response to the survey published in the annual report, IT has already begun making some small improvements with the wireless connectivity on campus. “This year, we’ve now gone to the outdoor (areas) and we have also gone back to the older ones (buildings) and upgraded them,” Chandswang said.

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“We have been adding quite a few security features recently for the campus. In email, we have Proofpoint as our email protection from spam and malware attacks. For the network side, we’ve recently upgraded campus border firewall to next-generation firewall, which adds antivirus, wildfire protection and deep packet inspection for the campus.” Lin said, “All these technologies help us to prevent these types of attacks and malware from coming to the campus.” During the 2015-2016 academic year alone, information security officers were able to identify 10,123 vulnerabilities in CSUF’s network firewall. In addition to identifying these vulnerabilities, they worked nonstop to keep campus and student information private

and secure from a staggering 235,512,855 unique intrusion attempts, 193,143,303 email attack attempts and roughly 14,922 virus attack attempts. At first glance, the sheer number of attacks facing the campus on a daily basis appears to be an almost impossible threat to combat. However, the near constant information theft attempts being made by hackers were “expected,” said Kerry Boyer, senior director of Information Technology and Information Security officer at CSUF. CSUF is not unique in the fact that it’s constantly under surveillance and probing for weaknesses in network firewalls by individuals, groups and automated programs. Simply put, it would be nearly impossible to identify the driving reason behind each individual hacking attempt. However, Boyer and his

team of four, who are responsible for handling the vulnerability management, electronic access control and information security posture of the campus, speculate that each attempt by the hackers are all after the same thing. “They are attempting to gain either money through direct theft, extortion, identity theft, etc. … or they have political or theft of trade secret agendas.” Boyer said. Noah Berzuela, a 19-yearold computer science major, considers the steps being taken by Network Security officers as “a necessary step in the right direction.” “It’s an ongoing battle to remain on top of these attempts to intrude into our personal information, but it feels pretty good to know that the guys in charge are hard at work to protect the information they hold,” Berzuela said.

Santa Ana City Council members voted 5-0 Tuesday in favor of adopting an official sanctuary resolution in order to further protect all residents—regardless of citizenship status—from immigration-based policing, according to laist.com. The vote to adopt the resolution, which came ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, is aimed toward creating policies which prohibit the use of city resources for immigration enforcement and reaffirms city commitment to prevent biased policing. In addition to this, council members voted to scale back city jail capacity for immigration detainees and announced plans to begin phasing out city contracts with Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) by 2020. - SAM ALSTON

Trump: Person of the year Time magazine has named President-elect Donald J. Trump as its 2016 Person of the Year. While Trump was happy for the nomination, he was not happy about the title he earned: President of the Divided States of America, according to the New York Times. Trump beat Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who had scored the No. 2 spot on the list. Other nominees for the award included internet hackers, Beyonce, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Crispr Pioneers. Whether Trump can change America for the better has yet to be seen, but according to Time, “The year 2016 was the year of his rise; 2017 will be the year of his rule.” - ASHLYN RAMIREZ

Joe Biden hints he may run in 2020 Vice President Joe Biden announced Monday that he might be running for president in 2020 as the Democratic Party’s nominee. However, his delivery of this message was full of humor and a little confusing. When asked if he was joking, he paused for a long time and then told the reporters on Capitol Hill that he is “not committing not to run” because he “learned a long time ago fate has a funny way of intervening.” If he does end up running, it would be his third attempt at the presidency, and if he ends up winning, he would the oldest president to be elected at 78 years old. - ILANA LAGRAFF

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Technical support and workshops offered at Faculty Commons. PRISCILLA BUI Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton’s Faculty Commons is a place where faculty members can go for any kind of technological assistance. Located on the second floor of the Pollak Library, it is comprised of the Faculty Development Center (FDC), Online Education and Training (OET) and the Academic Training Center (ATC). The ATC in particular is setup to support faculty in their technological needs for instruction.

“We help them with their iPads and their laptops and any kind of training or techniques they need for their classes,” said John Carroll, director of ATC. Some of the services at Faculty Commons used to be separate entities. While people could go to the ATC for anything regarding technology, they would have to go to the basement where the FDC used to be located for workshops on how to deal with diverse students, first-generation students or any other FDCbased workshop. “The idea for creating the Faculty Commons was to bring these faculty-centered services together, so that when faculty came for one thing, they could learn about other things that were going

on,” Carroll said. Faculty members can also come in to the ATC if they need help with online components such as personal portfolios, scantrons and Titanium. In terms of Titanium help, the OET staff are the specialists who are able to teach faculty members online teaching techniques. The FDC was responsible for running a variety of workshops, including how to handle different classroom situations, how to improve teaching methods and how to be better at doing research and other scholarly activities. The ATC received 2,666 service requests in that academic year, according to the 2015-2016 CSUF Information Technology’s (IT) Annual Report. Carroll said those

numbers were expected to be at least that high or higher. While most of the requests were about smart key help, laptop help and password resets, they weren’t all necessarily about technological problems. “In that 2,600, it might be somebody coming in for training. They’re not coming for a problem, they’re just coming for their training for a certain occasion,” Carroll said. Laura Labuda, the ATC office coordinator, said that of those 2,666 service requests, passwords were the most common problem. Based on the IT report, 33 percent of those requests were dedicated to password resets. Faculty members typically changed their passwords

before summer break and once they came back in the fall, they didn’t remember what their passwords were, Labuda said. “It’s just so easy to get locked out,” Labuda said. For security reasons, faculty are required to change passwords three times a year. Even though students don’t change it as often, password resets also remain a problem for some. “Recently, I had to change my password and sometimes I forget it and it gets mixed up,” said Andrew Jacobsen, a psychology major. “I get the reason why, but it is kind of annoying to have to change it all the time.” Although they were the most in sheer volume, password problems weren’t the

most challenging to deal with, Carroll said. Rather, Carroll said the most challenging problems come when a faculty member brings in a device that isn’t functioning properly without any obvious reason. To fix it, the ATC used various diagnostics software while running through statistics. ATC sometimes got information off the hard drive, but they would attach it directly to another computer and access it directly since the operating system itself might have been corrupted, Carroll said. “But it’s always a happy ending,” Labuda said. “We usually get them whatever they need, whatever we can work out. That’s what we do.”

Titan Scheduler use has grown over time

Digital feature eases course registration for students. WILLIAM OLIVIERI Daily Titan

Titan Scheduler, a tool that helps students plan their school schedule for the coming semester, has seen a large increase in logins in its first year of existence according to Joe Luzzi, senior director for Enterprise Applications in the IT Department at Cal State Fullerton.

The function was an added feature in the 2015 fall semester, Luzzi said. From its first month in October 2015 to this semester, Titan Scheduler logins have risen 1,000 percent. From October to December of 2015, Titan Scheduler saw around 44,000 logins from students looking to form schedules for spring 2016 registration. From July to September of 2016, the tool saw about 50,000 logins for the fall 2016 registration. Finally, from October until now, there have been

roughly 50,000 logins so far for the coming spring semester. The total amount of logins for 2016 is about 110,000, Luzzi said. “It’s interesting. I like the concept, how you can change around your schedule and what you want and what you don’t want,” said Hayden Swoish, a third-year kinesiology major. Titan Scheduler allows students to select the types of classes they wish to take and build a list of courses. The tool will then take the list and generate every possible schedule for the group

of classes selected, Luzzi said. “I think it really helps organize your schedule. The visual side of it is really cool” said Ngoc Mai, fourthyear health science major. Students can also input different breaks or time blocks they can’t be in class because of factors such as work. Titan Scheduler can then generate every possible schedule with the allotted breaks in place so the student won’t have to do it on their own, Luzzi said. Cielo Moreno-Garcia, a fifth-year illustration major,

said Titan Scheduler has helped her search and plan for classes. Titan Scheduler has also added features this semester such as the “favorites” options. This allows students to arrange schedules and mark them as favorites so that they can simply enroll in one of their “favorite” selected schedules when their enrollment appointment becomes available, Luzzi said. The tool has also added a notification feature that tells students when they have selected a course on the Irvine

campus and need to allow time for travel, Luzzi said. “If they don’t want to have to pull out a pen and paper and write down every possible combination of a schedule, I would think they would want to go into the Titan Scheduler and let it generate all of those automatically for them,” Luzzi said. Titan Scheduler can be found on the CSUF Portal through the Titan Online tab. From there, students can go to Student Center and the Titan Scheduler link can be found near the top.

within apps. When students open the iFullerton app in their classroom, the device can detect their location through the phone’s movement using bluetooth technology. “This new technology allows students to check in and record their High Impact Practice (HIP) experiences. All this information is presented to professors and advisors in a custom report on Titanium in real time. Utilizing these new tools will give professors a new level of interaction

with their student,” according to CSUF’s latest annual IT report for 2015-2016. As of 2016, every classroom on campus is equipped with iBeacon. This is the third semester of iBeacon’s use at CSUF. The device was first piloted in fall of 2015 in a small number of classrooms and then expanded the following spring. The device is being used in HIP courses. HIPs give students hands-on experiences inside and outside the classroom. Different components such as attendance

are tracked in HIPs to show faculty the involvement of each student. Senior animation student Gabriela Madison uses iBeacon in her Intro to 3D design class with professor Bryan Cantley. The device was first introduced to her when an IT representative came to her class to explain the iFullerton app. She said it is a convenient way to take attendance. The service provides an easier way for professors to take attendance. “In some classes faculty were striking attendance

using a paper list and now they don’t have to use that anymore,” said Berhanu Tadesse, associate vice president for Information Technology/Infrastructure Services. By using the iBeacon technology in classrooms, faculty gain back the time that is lost when manually tracking attendance, Tadesse said. The piloting of the iBeacon device was apart of IT’s second goal in its 20142018 strategic plan. The technology is used in other industries as well.

For example, Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. uses iBeacons to guide fans to concessions stands and restrooms through a mobile app. Tadesse said he has heard of other universities using iBeacons in similar ways to provide dynamic navigation on campus but was unaware if they are using it for the same purpose as CSUF. Currently, iBeacon is only being used to track high-impact practice but could expand to all courses in the future, Tadesse said.

iBeacon feature assists HIP classes

Add-on to iFullerton app allows professors to track attendance. AMY WELLS Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton has implemented a new technology called iBeacon in which students can track their attendance in class by shaking their phone. iBeacon is a new device developed by Apple that provides more opportunities for location awareness

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Art student looks to the future after graduation. KALEB STEWART Daily Titan

On most evenings during the week, Emily Oetzell, 22, can be seen hovering over a drawing tablet, working on whatever storyboard or animation project she has coming down the pipeline. With an internship at Cartoon Network and some work with Pixar Studios under her belt, the future looks bright for Oetzell as she wraps up the final weeks of her college career. While neither of her parents were involved in the arts, she became familiar with the animation medium during a childhood rich with Cartoon Network and Adult Swim programming. “My dad would always cover our eyes and ears at the inappropriate parts, obviously,” Oetzell said. Both of her parents were supportive of her decision to go into the arts. Oetzell said her mom was always taking her wherever she needed to go and her was dad the one who really liked cartoons in the first place. Oetzell lives with her parents in Santa Monica where her room space is filled with art books and sketchbooks. “Any available surface, and I’m even talking on top of printers, is gone,” Oetzell said. Rebecca Genin, the president of the Pencil Mileage Club on campus, said Oetzell can work anywhere from nine to 12 hours on a project when she becomes focused. Chuck Grieb, a professor

at Cal State Fullerton who has Oetzell in his animation production course, said that he had lent his support to Oetzell by being the faculty advisor for the 24-Hour Animation competition. Oetzell not only participated in the event three years in a row, but was an organizer for it also. The short which Oetzell worked on with a group called the Birb Herd not only ranked No. 1 among the projects that had been entered for the contest at Cal State Fullerton, but it also ranked third of the shorts contributed nationally. “They really outdid themselves for the amount of time that they were given,” Genin said. “The prompt was pretty abstract, but they took a really relatable problem and they made a totally awesome animation out of it. I’m honestly not surprised that they got third place.” Chuck Grieb took note of the way Oetzell has developed a style distinctly her own. “I would describe the color choices that she makes as being very bright and full of energy,” Grieb said. “That idea of energy follows through in her drawing. It is very expressive. There is a lot of energy in the characters that she designs and how she makes them move.” When she interned with Cartoon Network, Oetzell learned the ins and outs of being a production assistant for two shows, one of them being a popular show called “Uncle Grandpa.” “If you are having a hard time getting hired on as an artist for a show, production assistant is a good way to start, because you are talking to the artists all of the time,”

Oetzell said. The experience also allowed her to learn about the behind-the-scenes work done on a show’s production. From gathering assets to organizing some of the minor elements of production, Oetzell got a firsthand look at real working professionals. As part of her experience with Cartoon Network, she was also able to make a pitch for an original cartoon program. The concept “Near and Far” followed the story of a blind shaman girl who can see into and travel inside of a spirit world along with her familiar. It was initially conceived as being a simple one-off episode. However, when she was encouraged to expand the idea into something that would be durable for a complete series, she basically started over, beginning work on a pitch booklet, which basically served as a summary of what “Near and Far” would be if it entered into production. Using a Powerpoint as an aid, she explained the world she had created for the show and the characters that would inhabit it. “I also passed out stickers,” Oetzell said. On top of interning at one of her dream companies, she also participated in a storyboarding workshop this past summer with her other dream company: Pixar. The workshop was taught by Jim Capobianco, one of the board artists and writers who had worked on “Ratatouille” and a scene from “Finding Nemo.” Some of the techniques the artists were using were off-putting to Oetzell at first. At the beginning of the workshop, Oetzell often felt frustrated when her superiors

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Emily Oetzell, 22, a senior majoring in animation, has interned at studios such as Pixar and Cartoon Network. She has also been involved in art events on campus, and is preparing to graduate this semester.

would look at her art and give constructive criticism. “We would say, ‘Okay, how do we fix this?’ They would say back, ‘How do you think you’re supposed fix it?,’” Oetzell said. “But what they were really doing is they were getting us to be able to look at our boards ourselves and make a decision.” When she isn’t balancing career opportunities with her academic life, Oetzell is a teacher’s assistant in an art class at Notre Dame Academy, a private school in Los Angeles. She attended high school at Notre Dame and looks back on her time there fondly. “We had a model every week, which is rare for a class with young students,” she said. “So I was very

fortunate to have that leg up already,” Oetzell said. Oetzell’s art can be found on her Instagram and Tumblr profiles. She considers her Tumblr to be a sort of online portfolio. For her complete videos, YouTube hosts her previous shorts which she had created “MoxietheIII.” With finals week steadily approaching, Oetzell spent Tuesday evening making headway on a final project for her storyboarding class with Wendy Grieb. The story follows a Corgi, based on one of Oetzell’s pets, isolating itself on an island in a fit of jealousy and rage. However, the Corgi finds a trail of bottles that leads him back home. “She’s very good at getting a character with personality

that you like and that you can relate to,” Wendy Grieb said. “She’s a great storyteller. And she’s really confident, and she draws really well.” This being Oetzell’s last semester at Cal State Fullerton, the long days inside of an animation lab may have to be move to a new location, but her professors aren’t worried. “I think she’s a really enthusiastic, really nice person to be around and I think once she gets a job, people will really enjoy having her there,” Wendy Grieb said. “She won’t only just be an artist that they like and hire that does a good job, but she’ll be someone that they like working with. She’ll be a good friend and colleague.”

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“He’s a Midwestern Missourian who jumps in, rolls up his sleeves and gets the job done–without talking it to death or waiting for someone else to do it. That no-nonsense work ethic, combined with his integrity, intelligence and leadership (which he honed during his years of service in the United States Army) have served his career advancement very well here at Cal State Fullerton,” Fink said. Coming from a life of poverty, nothing in life was handed to Foster. His mom was young and on her own; they didn’t stay at one home for long. “By the time I was 17 years old, I had lived in 17 different houses,” Foster said. Foster’s stepdad was a carpenter and a farmer, and was not a supporter of higher education.

“He wasn’t super interested in higher education. He thought it was a waste,” Foster said about his stepfather. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Foster was active for two and a half years and spent four years in the reserves. This chapter of his life is what shaped Foster to be the man he is today. The time spent in the army led to Foster receiving the GI Bill, which funded his higher education after his service. While in the military, he was able to study and earn college credits, which gave him an advantage in the future. His military training also provided him with the discipline to learn, giving him the option to go to college without ever taking a single ACT or SAT test. “By the time I got out and went to college on the GI Bill, I had completed almost a year’s worth of college

while I was serving,” Foster said. Foster lived in an area where there was no Disneyland down the street or no beach within driving distance. As a result, he spent a part of his youth working and partying. However,

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successfully immersed himself in the worlds of both broadcast and investigative journalism, both managing radio shows and producing for television shows. Foster has worked with the likes of NPR and PBS, along with working at two

That no-nonsense work ethic, combined with his integrity, intelligence and leadership... have served his career advancement very well.

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EDWARD FINK Interim Associate Dean for the College of Communications he also participated in high school football, dabbled in wrestling and took up track. On top of participating in sports, he also got involved with the arts, taking up both choir and theatre. However, Foster said he didn’t excel academically as much as he could have, so he didn’t have a plan for after high school graduation until he found the army. Since then, he has

universities before coming to CSUF. “One of the reasons they hired me was because they needed someone to produce a television show for KCET in Los Angeles,” Foster said. With a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Missouri-Columbia, Foster came to California at a time when the economy was gasping for air.

However, because of the GI Bill and the military, along with growing up poor and uncomfortable with the idea of having stacks of bills to pay, he knew the value of every dollar. Foster is incredibly proud of what he’s accomplished because he did it without having to borrow a single dime from anyone. “The biggest obstacle was that I came here in 2007, and that’s when the economy crashed,” Foster said. Uprooting his entire family was hardly a walk in the park. Foster went from a huge home in Missouri that was almost paid off, to a rented home in a stagnant market, but without the quaint country feel he was accustomed to. “You couldn’t see my neighbors from my house (in Missouri), and now I live in a place where it’s a sea of humanity,” Foster said. Foster said that in

California, many people don’t even notice how there is never a quiet moment. However, Foster said he doesn’t miss Missouri’s sticky, humid summers and bitterly cold winters. “I do (miss Missouri) but I would never go back,” Foster said. Foster and his wife have three children, ranging from ages 12 to 17. California has brought them closer together by allowing them to travel up and down the expansive West Coast, as well as giving him a job that he loves. He has taken his family around Catalina, Coronado Beach and to Mexico. Foster loves all of the places there are to go camping. “I think that if you really embrace the variety that Southern California offers– and when I’m saying variety I’m meaning in terrain and experience–you can really enjoy it,” Foster said.

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FEATURES Student pursues passion for traveling the world

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Local cheerleader has ventured to 10 countries in past few years. WILLIAM OLIVIERI Daily Titan Chanelle Riggan sat in a frosty car with her two travel partners staring solemnly into the Alaskan night sky. It was a night like many others that week, a hunt to find the Northern Lights. They had been searching for the lights all week and their determination had led to sleepless nights and only the occasional nap. Now they waited in an empty lot in Fairbanks, Alaska living on traveler luxuries such as coffee and gas station food. But this night was their last in Alaska and they all saw the same thing they witnessed the nights before: darkness. Suddenly, before all hope was lost, bright green and pink lights shot across the sky and greeted them. They got out of the car and greeted the lights in return, dancing and shouting as the colors painted the sky above them. Alaska is only one of the many stops Chanelle Riggan has made around the world. “At this point, people that are close to me understand that travel is a need for me. It’s not a want,” Chanelle Riggan said. “I could not stay in Southern California my entire life.” Chanelle Riggan is a senior at Cal State Fullerton majoring in communications with an emphasis in broadcast journalism. Originally, Chanelle Riggan was a psychology major, but she made her career change when she

became a cheerleader for a professional sports team. “It’s just a great environment,” Chanelle Riggan said. “I love being a part of a team. Even the entertainment side, the broadcast side, it’s all like a big family. I just would love to have that for the rest of my life.” Members of her own family support her decision to study communications. “I think it’s a good fit for her,” said her father Mark Riggan. “She’s an outgoing person, so I think it’ll be good for her” Accompanied by her travel buddy Krista O’Donnell, Chanelle Riggan has traveled to 10 countries and 11 states in the past two and half years. These destinations range from Spain, Greece and Italy to China and Costa Rica. Chanelle Riggan’s love for travel started at a young age when she would go on adventures with her two younger brothers while they traveled with their parents. Every year, they go to Lake Havasu where they relax, escape and even engage in a bit of battle tubing. “When I think of the river, I just think of fun,” Chanelle Riggan said. “Good times. Relaxed.” Chanelle Riggan and O’Donnell plan to visit nine countries in the next eight months. However, their travels were not always accepted by others. Chanelle Riggan and O’Donnell received negative comments when they planned their trip to Mexico. Regardless, they met incredibly nice people during their vacation in Mexico, Chanelle Riggan said. “Probably one of the safest trips I’ve taken,” Chanelle Riggan said. “I’ve found that

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the people that are going to try to scare you off are the people who have never been to those places.” Before going out to the places they have never been, Chanelle Riggan and O’Donnell do extensive research in order to visit every location they can. “We try to fit in everything that we can,” O’Donnell said. Chanelle Riggan and O’Donnell have also mixed their love for travel and their experience in communications together. The two run a blog that documents much of their travel experiences properly titled “blonde hair & exotic air.” Both have tackled most of their travel locations together and plan to do the same for their upcoming journeys. O’Donnell cannot wait to take on the world with Chanelle Riggan. “She’s definitely very adventurous and spontaneous,” O’Donnell said. “I think she’s the one friend that I have that I can always rely on who’s always up for anything, always up for discovering new countries and really isn’t afraid of anything. I really admire (her), because she’s really pushed me out of my comfort zone.” Chanelle Riggan believes that most people can come up with the money and time to travel. If people cut out certain luxuries such as the monthly Starbucks trip and search for cheap places to stay, it is possible. People that want to travel should just go, Chanelle Riggan said. “Do it now. Everyone is just like ‘I’ll do it later, I’ll do it later,’ and all of a sudden you don’t have later,” Chanelle Riggan said. “If you keep putting it off, it’s never going to happen.”

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Alaska is just one of the 11 states that Chanelle Riggan and her friend Krista O’Donnell have traveled to in the last two and a half years. Their trip to Fairbanks led to a successful search to find the Northern Lights.

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Riggan overlooks the skyline of Vancouver from Stanley Park. She and O’Donnell are planning to visit nine more countries in the next eight months.

OPINION

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Letter to the Editor “MIHAYLO SCHOOL OF INTERNET HARASSMENT AND MISINFORMATION” FROM MARIE WATSCHKE Steven G. Mihaylo is a big name on campus, literally. The words “Steven G. Mihaylo” are plastered all over the business building and the business college’s website. Students and campus visitors can even sit next to a bronze statue bearing the likeness of Mihalyo if they want to. Before Dec. 1, I honestly thought Steven G. Mihaylo was a deceased alumnus, whose life’s work is honored by students napping on cushy benches and sipping venti frappuccinos. Little did I know, Steve Mihaylo (@smihaylo) has a very active Twitter account. Luke Higgot, 21, a senior computer science major at CSUF, who is an active member of the Titan community and student government, tweeted, “expected student loan debt payoff: April 2057” in 2015. Mihaylo brought it upon himself to offer some sage wisdom to this student …. over a year later: “@LukeWalkSkyer Have you ever considered getting a job? That’s what I did! It worked. @smihaylo #trump http://crexendo.com” (Yes, Mihaylo signs nearly every one of his tweets with his Twitter handle and business website). Not only is this interaction strange, but it is incredibly inappropriate. Mihaylo does not know this student personally. He doesn’t know whether or

not this student has a job. The student actually has two, yet Mihaylo does not understand the economic struggle of college students in 2016. Kelsey Brewer (@KelseyBe77), a successful CSUF alumna who was an active member of ASI during her time as a Titan, had a heated discussion with Mihaylo on Nov. 30. Brewer tried her best to educate Mihaylo on the financial burden that plagues students today. Unfortunately, her carefully worded and citation-based argument did not mean anything to a man who replied with, “Wrong. Recheck your facts. @smihaylo http:// crexendo.com.” When I asked Mihaylo how much he paid for tuition, he claimed that it was about the same as now if you count for inflation. This is a straight-up lie. Mihaylo graduated from CSUF in 1969 when tuition was free and had a job as a full-time accountant while he was in school–a position you can’t even hold without a B.A. in Finance in 2016. For him to be giving such flippant and dismissive advice as “Get a Job!” any college student, let alone students that he donates money to, is repugnant. I interacted with Mihaylo on Twitter and I (@ WestCoastBabae) was not “classy” as he pointed out (I tweeted him a picture of me flipping off his statue and joked about defecating on his statue).

He replied with “Talk to Pres. Garcia about taking my name off the University. I’m sure she will think you’re brilliant! @smihaylo http://crexendo.com.” Mihaylo has a history of telling students who have had the misfortune of interacting with him on social media to talk to the president of the university about it. He is taunting us with this statement because he knows that no one is going to take his name off the building. If students and faculty criticizing his company being guilty of fraud didn’t stop the initial inscriptions, then he knows nothing will. He knows that his donations to the school give him power over us. He can pick on us all he wants and can tweet and say whatever controversial and insulting statements he likes because he knows the university loves those dolla dolla bills y’all. I don’t like Mihaylo’s politics, business sense or condescension, but I don’t mind his name being up on the building. It’s a big, silver, glinting reminder that philanthropy does not equal empathy or compassion. Especially since, he paid for less than 10 percent of the building and that probably only covered his statue and all those nameplates. Written by, Marie Watschke a fourth-year English major.

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SPORTS Offense fails to keep pace in second PAGE 8 DECEMBER 8, 2016 THURSDAY

Men’s basketball takes 82-75 loss to San Diego. BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball lost for the sixth time in seven games Wednesday night, falling 82-75 against the University of San Diego. With the loss, the Titans drop to 3-6 on the season. Titan leading scorer Tre’ Coggins carried the team on his back through the first half with 12 points on 50 percent shooting from the field while knocking down two of three shots from the three-point line. Freshman Jackson Rowe added six points in 16 minutes for the Titans while being aggressive on offense with three free throws. Kyle Allman didn’t jump off the stat sheet in the first half, putting up five points and two assists with two turnovers. Allman did, however, seemingly jump out of the gym when he stole the ball from San Diego and finished with a two-handed slam dunk on the fastbreak. The play of the first half came when center Richard Peters blocked Toreros’ leading scorer Brett Bailey’s shot and guard Austen Awosika grabbed the rebound and took it coast to coast for a layup to break the deadlock with San Diego. The field goal put the Titans up 30-28 just a minute before halftime. Fullerton looked like they were going to take the twopoint lead going into halftime, but Bailey drained a three to put San Diego up by one point with 20 seconds left in the first half. The Titans called a timeout

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Senior guard Lionheart Leslie (right) sets up the Titans’ offense against Nebraska-Omaha Nov. 30. Leslie contributed 21 points in Wednesday’s 82-75 loss to San Diego.

to work for a high percentage shot to take a lead into halftime. However, the offense remained stagnant, resulting in a contested long three-point shot for Lionheart Leslie. San Diego came out of the locker room on fire in the second half, knocking down its first two shots including a three-pointer from Cameron Neubauer. Leslie did his best to keep the Titans in the game and stem the tide of the Toreros, slowing down

the pace of the game by getting fouled while going to the rim and knocking down two free throws. Although Leslie started off the second half strong for the Titans, the rest of the team struggled to score. Coggins had 11 points in the second half, but was much less effective from the field, shooting just 2-6 from the three-point line. San Diego pulled away early in the second half with a 21-10 run. Fortunately for

Fullerton, Leslie was clutch throughout the second with 21 second-half points, making a great driving layup over a San Diego defender to bring Fullerton’s deficit to five points after being down 12 earlier in the game. However, Neubauer answered yet again with backto-back three-pointers to push the Toreros lead back to 11. Every time CSUF brought the score back to single digits, the Toreros rattled a couple buckets to

extend it back to comfortable lead and eventually take the game. Neubauer’s 29 points on 6-9 shooting from the threepoint line and 9-14 overall from the field fueled the Toreros throughout the game. Neubauer far exceeded his season averages Wednesday, as he typically scores 9.3 points per game and has made only nine three-pointers this season on 29 percent shooting. Turnovers crippled the

Titans yet again as they totaled 14 on the night, leading to 11 points for San Diego. Allman made some key mistakes for the Titans down the stretch, which contributed to Fullerton not being able to pull off the comeback. He turned the ball over on two straight possessions with under two minutes left in the game. The Titans return home to Titan Gym to play Southern Utah Saturday night at 6 p.m.

Titans look to get rolling Led by Lathan, Fullerton heads to Washington. BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan With Cal State Fullerton guard Iman Lathan leading the Big West Conference with 17.7 points per game, the Titans head north to face Eastern Washington and Portland State Thursday and Saturday after falling to 2-5 on the season. Despite Lathan’s 23 points on 7-18 shooting with seven rebounds, the Titans lost to Loyola Marymount 77-62 their last time out. Lathan has scored 20plus points in five out of seven games this season, garnering a Big West Player of the Week honor Dec. 5. Eastern Washington The Titans will need to adjust to an 11 a.m. tip-off, their earliest start time this season, against a 4-3 Eastern Washington team. Delaney Hodgins leads the Eagles in scoring with 19.7 points per game. Hodgins scored 23 in her last outing on 8-14 shooting from the field while adding a game-high nine rebounds in 39 minutes of play in the Eagles’ 71-57 victory over CSU Northridge. Eastern Washington has three players scoring in double figures including Hodgins, with redshirt senior Tisha Phillips second on the team with 12.3 points per game. Phillips leads the team in assists with 25 total on the season to average 3.6 per game. Fullerton is 1-4 all time against Eastern Washington, including last season’s 68-57 loss at Titan Gym. In that game, the Eagles were FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @DTSPORTSDESK

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Cal State Fullerton redshirt junior guard Iman Lathan received Big West Player of the Week honors last week.

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Lathan leads the Big West in scoring with 17.7 points per game.

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Eastern Washington has three players averaging double figures in scoring: Delaney Hodgins, Tisha Phillips and Ashli Payne. • The Titans’ win over Portland State last season was one of only three wins all season.

led on the offensive end by Hodgins’ older sister Hayley Hodgins, who graduated last year. She dropped 25 points while younger sister Delaney Hodgins scored 19 on an efficient 6-9 shooting. Jade Vega scored 11 points on 4-13 shooting for the Titans while fellow freshman at the time, Lauren Nubla, added eight points in 24 minutes. Portland State After Thursday’s meeting with Eastern Washington, CSUF will travel to Portland State to take on the 3-3 Vikings. Fullerton will be the third Big West Conference team that Portland State has faced this season, winning against UC Irvine and suffering a blowout loss in its opening game to CSU Northridge. The Vikings offense is scoring 77.8 points per game behind two redshirt sophomores. Sidney Rielly leads the way with 16.8 points per game while Ashley Bolston averages 16.3.

On the other hand, the Titans have more trouble putting the ball in the hoop, averaging 64.4 points per game. Last year, the Titans beat Portland St. 84-69 at Titan Gym. The win over the Vikings was one of just three victories for Fullerton all season. Titan point guard Vega had an impressive statline in last year’s matchup as a freshman, scoring 15 points with five rebounds and six steals while dishing out eight assists. The only other Titans that played in that game that remain on this year’s roster are sophomore guard Lauren Nubla and senior center Dhanyel Johnson, who each scored two points. Michelle Berry led the Titans with 38 points in last seasons game, which Fullerton will need to account for as Berry transferred to Virginia Tech in the offseason. The Titans will hit the road to play Eastern Washington Thursday at 11 a.m. and Portland State at 2 p.m. Saturday.

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