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Program planned to help students facing hunger MONSE RODRIGUEZ Daily Titan Spurred by the hidden problem of food insecurity, Cal State Fullerton students are working on creating a program to help students facing hunger. CSUF is among the CSU campuses with the fewest available resources for students seeking help for food, housing and financial issues, according to a study funded by the California State University chancellor’s office. Financed by a $100,000 grant, the study “Serving Displaced and Food Insecure Students in the CSU” was commissioned last year by CSU Chancellor Timothy White. CSU Public Affairs said that the CSU system is the first public university system in the nation to conduct a study about these issues. The study included a list of social programs that each CSU member school offers its students, such as food pantries, emergency funds and low-cost housing. There are currently 11 CSUs with food pantries for their campuses. CSUF has none. Human services major Andrea Juarez is among those personally impacted by food insecurity on campus. SEE FOOD

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Twenty-one percent of Cal State Fullerton students have experienced some sort of anxiety disorder, according to a study conducted by the Healthy Minds Network for Research on Adolescent and Young Mental Health. Yet the stigma surrounding mental health issues can prevent students from seeking out help.

Campus resources help students overcome anxiety MONSE RODRIGUEZ BRENT CABATAN Daily Titan Overwhelming anxiety can happen at any time. For Patrick Getz, a Cal State Fullerton junior, it happened during class. “I don’t know why at one moment it all came down, but

it did,” Getz said. He compared the experience to feeling “the weight of the world” on his shoulders, as a sudden culmination of poor sleep and dietary habits came to a head. “I had to get up and walk around. I left class and I didn’t show up to class for a little while,” he said. “It was hard to breathe and it was hard to focus. It was kind of like an outof-body experience where I just didn’t know what was going on.” Getz started experiencing anxiety after graduating high

school when he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life moving forward. Twenty percent of college students experience some sort of anxiety disorder, according to a study conducted from 2014-2015 by the Healthy Minds Network for Research on Adolescent and Young Mental Health. At CSUF, 21 percent of students experienced some sort of anxiety disorder, according to the same study. The study also found that 61 percent of CSUF students surveyed agreed that mental

or emotional difficulties had hurt their academic performance for at least one day in the four weeks preceding their survey. Anxiety is a reaction which alerts a person to take action in the face of a situation perceived as threatening or dangerous, according to a brochure published by the University of Illinois. While anxiety may be useful to prompt a student to act properly, it can also be detrimental if it becomes overwhelming and leads to counterproductivity, according to a brochure published by the

University of Illinois. During the 2015 fall semester, 1,303 students were treated through Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Leticia Gutierrez-Lopez, Psy.D., director of CAPS at CSUF’s Student Health and Counseling Center, said anxiety is a mental health condition that can be treated quickly, but students often find it difficult to reach out for help because of the stigma often associated with mental health issues. SEE HEALTH 5

Titans fall to Arizona State in 14 innings Baseball fails to split series with the Sun Devils BRANDON ROSS Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton baseball team lost a 14-inning pitching duel under the lights at Goodwin Field to the Arizona State Sun Devils 2-1 on Wednesday night. The loss puts CSUF (6-6 overall) back to a .500 record for the first time since its home opener against the Indiana Hoosiers. Meanwhile, ASU (10-3 overall) has won five straight. During the first game on Tuesday, the Titan bullpen,

gave up no earned runs in a combined 3.2 innings pitched to keep the Titans within striking distance of ASU’s lead. However, CSUF failed to score runs despite opportunities with runners in scoring position, securing the win for the Sun Devils. In the second game of the series, the Titans sent sophomore southpaw John Gavin to the mound. He entered Wednesday’s matchup against the Sun Devils with an 0-1 record and a 5.02 ERA. On the ASU side, freshman righty James Ryan made his first start as a Sun Devil, entering the game with a 3.38 ERA in three relief appearances. SEE BASEBALL 8

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Titan junior infielder Timmy Richards (above) went 0-5, including a strikeout in Wednesday night’s 2-1 loss to the Arizona State Sun Devils. As a team, CSUF left a total of 12 runners on base and didn’t score a run until the 14th inning.

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Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage are slated to give the keynote address at the Science and Math symposium 2 next Thursday

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Popular television show hosts will speak at symposium GALEN PATTERSON Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton’s College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Inter-Club Council (NSM-ICC) will welcome Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, stars of the Emmy-nominated TV show “MythBusters,” as keynote speakers for the Science and Math Symposium on Thursday, March 17. Hyneman and Savage will speak about their experiments as part of the keynote address, “Realizing Reality: Shatter Expectations.” Because this is a science symposium, Hyneman and Savage’s first concern was

how to get people excited about science, said Jeremy Wilson, inter-club council chair. “We want to invite students from all over campus to come and celebrate the work of NSM students,” said Colleen McDonough, assistant dean of student affairs. The aim of keynote speakers at the NSM symposiums is to gather the attention of students across the campus with their notoriety or celebrity status. Last year’s keynote speaker was Anousheh Ansari, the first female private space explorer and first person of Iranian descent to be launched into space. The year before that, the NSM symposium keynote speaker was Bill Nye. The funding for the event came from several sources and “took quite a bit of work,” Wilson said.

Wilson listed contingency funds from Associated Students, Inc., corporate sponsorships and the NSM dean’s office as some of the major contributors that funded the event. The first 500 free student tickets ran out within two days. Another 20 have since been made available, while 25 guest tickets are still available for $50 through the Titan Student Union. Students still have a chance to win tickets to see the keynote speakers. “We’re going to have an opportunity drawing,” Wilson said. If students attend any symposium events prior to Wednesday’s drawing, they will get a ticket to fill out and enter into the drawing, Wilson said. Five keynote tickets will be drawn Wednesday night. The ICC will notify the winners via the information on

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Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, hosts of “MythBusters,” will speak at the Science and Mat Symposium on campus this Thursday.

the entered ticket, and winners can pick up their prize at the discount ticket office in the TSU before the presentation on Thursday.

Hyneman and Savage will be speaking at TSU’s Portola Pavilion on Thursday, March 17 at 6 p.m., with doors opening at 5 p.m.

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North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from the coastal city of Wonsan into the sea early Thursday, according to Reuters. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced Wednesday that his country had miniaturized nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles. However, the Pentagon has stated that it has not determined whether or not North Korea successfully miniaturized the warheads. While State Department Spokesman John Kirby declined to comment on Kim’s announcement, Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department was working on ballistic missile defenses in case of an attack.

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CSUF University Police has created a community outreach program in hopes of strengthening relationships between students and police amidst conflicts between citizens and law enforcement.

Campus police aim to bolster relationships with students A program has been created to improve understanding MEGAN SMITH Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton University Police has created the program EPIC (Encouraging a Positive and Interactive Community) in order to promote and enhance a positive relationship between campus police and students. The new community outreach program was designed in light of the recent conflicts between police officers and citizens. EPIC aims to increase trust, build personal relationships, provide bilateral education, address misconceptions and stereotypes and improve understanding of law enforcement’s practices, according to the program’s mission statement. The events that occurred in Ferguson impacted University Police as a law enforcement agency, said Carl Jones, CSUF police lieutenant. According to the Bureau of Justice, as of January 2013, there are

approximately 477,000 sworn police officers with arrest powers around the nation, a 35 percent increase since 1987. “That’s one of us to every couple of thousand people,” said University Police Capt. Scot Willey. “We are just getting kicked around.” The EPIC program was created as a vehicle for campus police to be able to reach out to the CSUF community, and for organizations on the campus to reach out to them as well, Jones said. “Our goal isn’t to try and change people’s minds; people are going to believe what they believe,” Willey said. “We’re not trying to make people think all cops are fantastic, because we know that there are people out there that are not and do not meet our standards.” The goal is to humanize what police officers are doing and how hard it can be for their families, Willey said. There are different things happening not only around the country, but on the CSUF campus that have created a feeling of disconnect, Willey said. “We try to bridge that communication gap or lack

of understanding as to what law enforcement does and sometimes why we do it,” Jones said. Willey believes just sitting across people and asking them, “What don’t you like about cops?” helps him learn about things police officers do unintentionally that offend people. Willey said he sometimes rests his hand on his gun while in uniform because he is tired and will later hear people say, “I don’t like how your cops are standing with their hands on their gun.” The topic of use of force is also a popular topic among students, Jones said. “We have had some challenging conversations,” Willey said. However, the need for dialogue between police and students is out there, and according to Willey, people are really interested in this program. University Police has held about a half-dozen “coffee with a cop” events where officers set up a motorcycle or car along with a sign detailing the reason why they are there. So far, the response has been fantastic, Willey said.

Police and a bomb squad near Esqueda Elementary School in Santa Ana investigated a device “similar to a bomb” Tuesday afternoon, according to the OC Register. The item was reported to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department at about 2:30 p.m. The bomb squad found that the device was not an explosive and the area was cleared by 4:30 p.m. Students were kept on lockdown during the investigation. Automated calls were made to notify parents and all students were released through the back of the school on Anahurst Place by 4 p.m. - DAISY ORTIZ

Water company fined $125k The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a $125,000 fine to Central California’s Westlands Water District for misleading bond investors about the district’s finances, according to The Seattle Times. Instead of raising water rates for customers, the district used an inadequate accounting technique to make the agency appear more prosperous, the SEC said. The agency’s actions “left investors in the dark about Westlands Water District’s true financial condition,” said Andrew J. Ceresney, director of SEC’s enforcement division. Westlands said it had been following the advice of independent auditors. Under the settlement of the fine, neither Westlands nor its two executives said they were innocent or guilty. - DAISY ORTIZ

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Man injured in three-car crash Students involved in accident at nearby intersection MONSE RODRIGUEZ Daily Titan A three-car collision at the intersection of Folino Drive and Nutwood Avenue left one injured Wednesday night. At approximately 7:30 p.m., a Ford Focus made a left onto Folino Drive while a silver Honda sedan drove west on Nutwood Avenue. The cars collided at the intersection, causing the Honda to spin into the third car, a tan Toyota sedan that was stopped at Folino Drive to turn left onto Nutwood. The driver of the Honda, Nathaniel Long, had visible injuries to his face. “The airbag smacked me pretty hard,” Long said. However, there were no ambulances at the scene within the hour that the accident occurred happened. The driver of the Focus, Matthew Bower, a computer science major at Cal State Fullerton, said he did not see the Honda coming his way. He had two passengers in his car and was heading back to campus. Bower did not have any visible injuries and did not request medical assistance. Both parties involved claimed to have had the right of way, but there was no confirmation of this at the time of this report. Passengers in the third car, civil engineering major Ruben Hernandez and his parents, reported no injuries. Alan Bernal and Micah Augimeri-Lee contributed to this report.

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Two cars crashed into each other at the intersection of Folino Drive and Nutwood Avenue on Wednesday evening at around 7:30 p.m., causing one to spin into a third car stopped at the Folino Drive light.

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The driver of the Ford Focus reported no injuries. He and the driver of the other car both claimed that each had the right of way.

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Nathaniel Long, who was driving the silver Honda sedan, suffered abrasions to the face caused by his vehicle’s airbag.

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“I’ve had many food insecurities, and there’s been times when I came to school without money,” Juarez said. Juarez, who lives at home with her family in Anaheim and works in her family’s business, knows firsthand that the issue is directly related to academics. “You can’t concentrate. I wouldn’t concentrate with my stomach growling,” Juarez said. “That kind of didn’t allow me to get the full lecture that the professor was giving to me.” Juarez also said she has a friend of hers who brings snacks to school from which she takes small bites to make it last throughout the day.

Aware of the food insecurity problem on campus, members of the Human Services Student Association (HSSA) came up with the idea of creating CSUF’s first food pantry. Tom Garland, HSSA community services chair, spearheaded the project and created a committee within the club to look into the logistics behind providing the service. The committee, unofficially called Tuffy’s Pantry Community, consists of Garland, Juarez and their colleague Rosa Gonzalez, with faculty adviser Kristy Kanel, Ph.D., for support. Garland, a fourth-year human services major, said the team is looking to model its idea on the Fresno

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State Student Cupboard. Open five days a week for a total of 30 hours per week, the Student Cupboard also works to educate the community about food insecurity and homelessness. Fresno’s Student Cupboard opened late 2014 and has helped nearly 84,000 individuals to date. Garland’s goal for Tuffy’s Pantry Community is to have the service up and running by fall 2016. “My vision for it is to start small and grow and expand,” Garland said. He hopes for the pantry to begin by offering dry, non-perishable goods and then acquiring a refrigerator and having events such as “Fresh Food Friday,” when they could hopefully

have fresh food items on stock for students to take home. Garland wants students to feel welcomed to the pantry. “If you need something to eat, please come get something to eat,” Garland said. Right now, Garland said that the team’s next step is to create a formal proposal to present to university officials. Kayleigh Bates, ASI Board of Directors representative for the College of Health and Human Development, said she knows students with food security problems and hopes to address the issue now rather than later. “Are we going to wait a couple years for research

to come out? Or are we going to implement it and see how it would dramatically change every student here at CSUF?” Bates asked. “Why wouldn’t we want to help students in their personal lives as well as their academic lives?” Bates said that one of the reasons why CSUF does not have an exact number of food-insecure impacted students is that a stigma is often associated with the issue. “We don’t want students to feel ashamed that they need help because we are not ashamed when we need help with math homework or those things that are implemented with school,” Bates said. Taylor Feher, ASI Board

of Directors member for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, said that she also knows students with food security problems on campus. She and Bates are both working together with the team behind Tuffy’s Pantry on researching and creating policies to help these students. “I think that the best thing we can do is just make it as welcoming as possible and let the students know that the other students are there for them and supportive of them,” Feher said. “I think that that’s the best way you can change that kind of culture of not wanting to take the food or help, because that’s hard. That’s a hard thing to do.”

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The Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience (U-ACRE) program was created in 2011 by Cal State Fullerton anthropology professor Sara Johnson. She felt that food insecurity was overlooked in Orange County and wanted to develop a program where CSUF students work together to promote sustainable food practices.

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A pristine lab lies nestled on the fourth floor of McCarthy Hall where student fellows of the Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience (U-ACRE) program meet every Friday. The room is nearly empty, devoid of any conventional lab equipment, with only light, slate-gray tables arranged in a large rectangle. The U-ACRE program at CSUF is a spring semester course where students partner with community organizations, develop urban agriculture projects, research and find solutions for food insecurity; a state where people struggle to obtain food due to financial reasons or lack of resources. “There are no bunsen burners here,” said Sara Johnson, Ph.D., U-ACRE director and professor of anthropology at Cal State Fullerton. “All the glassware and chemistry — I love chemistry, so I’m not making fun of it. I learned a lot from it and it got my first job, but that’s not what we do.” The U-ACRE fellows are currently applying for grants for the program,

Johnson said. “People who are successful at grants will tell you, you only see when somebody gets it, but you don’t see the nine they didn’t get,” she said. Food insecurity in Orange County is what first inspired Johnson to start the U-ACRE program in 2011. “There’s a tremendous amount of food insecurity in Orange County, and it largely, in 2011, was not talked about, which is why it got worse and worse and worse,” Johnson said. One in nine people in Orange County struggle with hunger, according to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County, a food bank in Orange that serves about 18 million meals annually. Although the food bank primarily serves disenfranchised individuals such as the working poor, single-parent families, homeless and seniors on fixed incomes, food insecurity affects CSUF students, too. California State University Chancellor Timothy White commissioned a study in 2015 to learn more about food insecurity within the CSU system. The study found in a survey of over 1,000 students, 24 percent lacked adequate access to food. It also found that food insecurity led to high levels of stress among students because of stigmatization.

Students did not seek help because they did not want to seem needy, according to the study. One of the ways U-ACRE fellows try to mitigate food insecurity in the community is by working with local schools to educate young students and get them to engage with sustainability projects like school gardens. Students in the program visit Ladera Vista Junior High School, located about a mile from CSUF, twice a week, said Andrew Shensky, a graduate student in environmental studies at CSUF. “We work with students, usually in groups of probably about 15 to 30,” Shensky said. “We help run the school garden there, and we do environmental education lessons and things like that.” The school garden is a core component of Ladera Vista’s culinary arts elective course, providing ingredients for students to learn how to prepare and cook simple meals. In addition to Ladera Vista’s garden, U-ACRE members also help maintain a waste diversion program where garden and food waste are put into a vermicomposting unit, which creates nutrient-rich compost to be put back into the garden, Johnson said. Vermicompost is what worms leave behind after processing food waste, essentially worm poop.

“It’s better than most soil amendments,” Shensky said. The process is entirely organic, so no outside chemicals are introduced into the garden. Vermicompost also helps plants become more disease-resistant, Johnson said. U-ACRE’s involvement with Ladera Vista helps spur student interest in science that might not otherwise be there, Shensky said. “Some students that may not like their science class, I think they kind of go into that having a preconceived idea that they don’t like science, or just being in a classroom and in that setting, they don’t really like it,” he said. “But when they’re in the garden and you’re teaching things where it is science, but it’s more hands-on and they get to interact, they don’t view it as science, even though that’s what they’re learning.” Shensky also noted that working with university students instead of teachers creates a more informal aspect to lessons, encouraging younger students to socialize and treating gardening like an outlet. It also helps boost students who are doing well in school and helps inspire those who are not. “There are also students there who are not on that trajectory, and they can start to think about it much more when they see a university role model who’s saying, ‘This is fun, this is

exciting,’” Johnson said. Other U-ACRE community partners include Pathways of Hope, a transitional living center in Fullerton; the Orange County Food Access Coalition; the U.S. Forest Service; and the Fullerton Arboretum. U-ACRE provides a hands-on experience for students interested in sustainability, Johnson said. “I wanted to teach students about research. I didn’t like the books that were for sale,” Johnson said, laughing. Textbooks and classrooms alone aren’t enough for students to learn from, she said. “You have to do it. It’s a craft,” Johnson said. “If you just tested with multiple choice, you can’t say anything except students can take a multiple choice test. It doesn’t come up much in life afterwards.” Only 10 students are accepted into the program per semester, making U-ACRE highly competitive. Johnson said she evaluates applicants on aptitude, the desire to work with the community and the ability to stay committed to personal and program goals. “Sometimes that commitment is cleaning out the garbage cans that the kids put their food waste in. And you know what? I’ve done that job, too — it’s not a fun job,” Johnson said. “But it’s a job that needs to get done to do the process. I don’t want to have students come

into the program that say, ‘I’m a university student, I don’t do that,’ because you need to do it all.” U-ACRE is interdisciplinary, with fellows majoring in everything from environmental studies, to psychology, to art. “I think there’s various ways you can incorporate any field of study with this,” said Lidia Orozco, psychology major. “With me, personally, as part of my research, I was developing a questionnaire measuring knowledge and behavior as a result of sustainability education. So that component within itself is both psychology and environmental studies or sustainability.” Looking forward, Johnson’s plans for the program include having vermicomposting units built in the Fullerton Arboretum. To do so, U-ACRE is working in conjunction with the arboretum and facilities at CSUF. “U-ACRE doesn’t exist without the arboretum,” she said. “We work together.” Johnson hopes not only to increase the size of the program, but to maintain the quality of work that students do with community organizations. “It’s not just expanding, it’s not just collecting community partners like trinkets,” she said. “It needs to be broad. It gets a broad education when students can pick from diverse community partners, but it needs to stay deep.”

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The first date no longer means the first impression Pre-date Googling has changed the romantic landscape EMILY DIECKMAN Daily Titan Technology has made a lot of things much easier. I mean, I remember when forgetting the name of a movie or which band sings that one song would be something that bothered me all day, and now I can look up all of that on my smartphone instantaneously. Not only that, but it’s much easier to keep track of the people I know. Forgot my friend’s birthday? Check Facebook. Not actually sure how to spell my cousin’s last name? It’s probably on Twitter. We’re kind of obsessed with looking up people, places and things online before we encounter them in real life. Yelp lets us check out restaurant reviews. Ratemyprofessor.com lets us figure out which teachers will be entertaining, and even which ones will be cute. Is there any point where we should draw the line when it comes to looking people up online? Is it cool to Google someone before you go on your first date with them, or is that a faux pas? There are times where I

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It’s not unusual for millennials (or their moms) to Google someone before the first date. However, sometimes this practice can be more harmful than helpful. One Google search left a student wondering if she was on a date with a drug lord.

find that I know way more about a person than he or she ever told me, simply because I spent too much time scrolling through his or her Instagram feed one night. Sometimes I think it would be better if someone cut me off from this sort of thing. Once, when I was working as a waitress, a customer named “Joe Smith”

left me his name and phone number on a receipt, asking me if I’d like to go out sometime. I was irrationally excited and flattered by this and told everyone, including my mother. Cautious woman that she is, she took the liberty of Googling his name for me. She called me back the

next day with horrible news: there was someone named “Joe Smith” in Indiana who had been arrested for possession. My mom was at least 87 percent convinced that the guy who had left me his number at a pizza place was a notorious drug dealer who was no doubt going to corrupt me, if not actually kidnap

me and force me to be involved in his drug cartel. It would have seemed really far-fetched, except that the guy who had asked me out actually was from Indiana. I was caught in a weird situation where it seemed ridiculous to worry, but maybe a little bit irresponsible to not worry. But how was I supposed

to ask him about that? At what point during a date do you ask about past convictions? Right before you order? During dessert? Should I just wait for him to confess? Joe Smith turned out not to be a homicidal drug dealer, nor did he turn out to be very interesting either. So in the end, it didn’t matter anyway. But it did get me thinking. Assuming the real drug dealer Joe has shaped up and is now looking for love, he is probably in an awkward position during dates, too. “When do I bring that possession charge up? Before we order? During dessert? Does she already know because she Googled it?” I just Googled myself and, although I don’t have any drug charges, my profile picture for Pinterest that I posted and forgot about in 2013 is embarrassing enough, and I would never want that to be anyone’s first impression of me. Maybe that’s my fault for posting a picture I thought was artsy in high school, and probably that’s Joe’s fault for selling drugs. But whether you blame the Googler or the Googlee, it’s true that first impressions aren’t what they used to be, mostly because no one knows when they happen.

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The Healthy Minds Network study found that 54 percent of CSUF students who participated in the survey believed that most people would think less of a person who received mental health treatment. Eleven percent said that they personally would think less of a person who received mental health treatment. “We’re constantly trying to break down barriers so that people who have mental health issues can go and seek out the resources that they need that are available,” said Laura Luna, Ph.D., CSUF’s learning disability and mental health specialist. Luna said that people feel apprehensive about coming forward, not wishing to be labeled as individuals who have “something wrong with them.” “I didn’t ever see me going through anything like that. (For) people who went to get counseling, I was like, ‘Something’s just not right

in their heads or something,’ but it can happen to anybody,” Getz said. Mental health stigmas have existed for years, even in regards to studying about mental health. Dr. David M. Davis, a psychiatrist, recalls his father’s reaction when he became a psychiatrist 37 years ago. “He didn’t consider a psychiatrist to be a ‘real’ doctor. ‘Real’ doctors were internists and orthopedists and pediatricians,” Davis said. Getz experienced the stigma surrounding mental health conditions before even learning about his anxiety. “I did care about (the stigma) because I thought I was going crazy. I couldn’t control this feeling I had in my head, of all this anxiety and overwhelming stuff that was going on.” Lack of education can also be a barrier keeping students from seeking help. “(Students) don’t even understand what is going on,

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that they don’t even know where to go,” Gutierrez-Lopez said. College students face numerous pressures, ranging from school to economics to family dynamics, Davis said. Davis also said that the distractions students encoun-

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raising one’s hand during class can trigger anxiety, and when it does, it can affect the entire body. “When the anxiety struck I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t do any of those things,” Getz said. Getz said he had counsel-

I did care about (the stigma) because I thought I was going crazy. I couldn’t control this feeling I had in my head, of all this anxiety and overwhelming stuff that was going on.

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PATRICK GETZ CSUF Criminal Justice Major ter, such as illegal drugs and sexual issues, often add to the anxiety of college. Davis said he currently treats about 10 college students at his practice in Newport Beach. “For me, anxiety in general kind of boils down to fears and worries, fears and worries to the point where you can’t function,” Luna said. Simple tasks such as

ing at his church, Compass Bible Church. He also finds prayer and meditation helpful in dealing with anxiety. At CSUF, there are many services available for students struggling with anxiety or students who want to learn more about it. The Student Wellness Center, which includes Student Health Services, CAPS, Health Education

and Promotion and Disability Support Services, can be helpful in addressing and managing anxiety. CAPS currently employs 17 full-time counselors, one part-time counselor and three full-time psychology interns. The center also has a psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse practitioner available to help students deal with anxiety. In addition, a chapter of Active Minds has recently been on the rise at CSUF. Active Minds is a group of social activists who advocate for mental health. Every Friday, Active Minds President Edwardo Lopez holds meetings where students can ask questions and learn more about mental health. There are currently about 10 to 15 consistent members. “Not everyone has mental illness, but everyone has mental health,” said Lopez, a psychology major. “We are not professional therapists, so we also don’t want it to turn into group therapy,

so we are very careful about how we are leading the conversation.” In order to do this, Lopez said he makes sure the conversation is focused on mental health issues as a whole and not on personal experiences. Students are still welcome to share their experiences with mental health issues, but if they do so, Lopez said he usually directs them to the professional services offered on campus. The club hosts events and workshops to educate students and help them get past the stigma that exists with mental health. “There’s no harm in seeking out help, so try out the services or even learn a little bit more about the services provided,” Lopez said. CAPS is currently holding workshops throughout campus every week for the rest of the spring semester, addressing “Mood Management,” “Anxiety/Worry Thought Management” and “Stress Management.”

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Playboy’s latest tactic to regain its lost readers caters to a more progressive audience that the company is hoping to tap into. Since pornography has become more accessible with the rise of technology, the company believes that its shock value has diminished, leading to the magazine’s modern take on sexuality.

Playboy is smart to cover up The 63-year-old magazine reinvents itself to a new age

Hefner introduced Playboy to the world, bears almost no resemblance to today,” said Scott Flanders, Playboy Enterprise CEO, to Fortune magazine.

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Looking to change Playboy was on a downward spiral and desperately needed change. It was far overdue for a makeover to renew the mass interest it once garnered. Playboy’s transformation is an answer to the growing audience of the new generation. “Playboy got out of the frontal nudity game because there’s no niche there, particularly among the millennial audience everyone covets,” said Phil Rosenthal, Chicago Tribune writer. The latest issue’s cover features a transparent text bar with “heyyy ;)” spelled out, centered at the bottom of the magazine. The artwork is a direct reference to the popular social media application Snapchat. The new magazine seems to be calling to a younger audience, and has already shown success in sales and digital traffic. According to

Playboy announced a major revamp to the 63-year-old adult magazine last October. The magazine’s March edition, released Feb. 12, is a completely non-nude issue, bringing a change to the brand’s long-standing reputation. The idea of a relatively safefor-work issue came about after a discussion regarding the magazine’s competition with Internet pornography and mainstream relevance. Renovating Playboy to better fit into modern lifestyles is a smart, well-timed decision. At its inception, Playboy played a pivotal role in facilitating the 1960s sexual revolution. But times have changed and so have social perspectives on sex. “The political and sexual climate of 1953, the year Hugh

Shareablee, a data platform that tracks business’ social media presence, Playboy’s social media engagement has risen 72 percent across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram — which have strict rules against nudity. With anything and everything available at consumers’ fingertips, Playboy’s decision to take things in a new direction is for the best. The new Playboy will still feature prominently nude women in sexual poses, but with strategically placed hands, fabrics and other objects covering their breasts and genitalia that will leave the rest to the consumer’s imagination. Furthermore, a more tame magazine could entice a bevy of advertisers who wouldn’t want to associate with such an explicit product. With that, Playboy’s platform has significantly increased in terms of its ability to reach new audiences. “What we were experiencing (before the switch) is we would get in a lot of proposals from consumer-facing

brands for huge digital ad buys, then there would be hesitancy before we could actually close the insertion order. Now we’re getting requests for proposals asking us for ideas,” Flanders said to CBS. Covering up “Nudity’s not provocative anymore. It used to be progressive,” said Cory Jones, chief content officer at Playboy Enterprises, Inc. This begs the question of Playboy’s deteriorating relevance in the mainstream. The magazine used to question the “morals of America,” as Jones puts it. But now it has lost its shock value due to the online accessibility of similar content. Along with changing the aesthetics, Playboy is also including more articles about birth control and other controversial topics the magazine used to touch on. This change is a great way to keep up with modern society. With photos, articles and information all accessible

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More personal The realism of Playboy’s models is its strongest feature. The small details, such as the Snapchat text bar, allow the audience to feel that this is a picture that could be sent through social media in real life. The cover is also far less airbrushed and retouched than traditional Playboy shots. The March issue features Sarah McDaniel, a 20-yearold amateur Instagram model, taking a selfie. This, again, appeals to younger audiences who are social media users, but also creates the concept of relatability to the models. “The idea was to look at

me from a boyfriend’s perspective,” McDaniel said. McDaniel mentioned in an interview with Fox News reporter Diana Falzone that she did not wear any makeup during her shoot, at the request of the photographer, to create a more realistic image. “Instagram has become the new girl next door,” Jones said. “It has taken that mantle of: These are women who are beautiful and healthy and having fun and owning the way they’re portrayed – but they’re also accessible. You can imagine running into these women at Starbucks.” When audiences can follow models on social media, or follow the models prior to their features in the magazine, this creates a connection. The models seem attainable, not plastic dolls. With a larger audience and greater accessibility, Playboy’s decision to lose the nudity is concurrent with the times. Hopefully, the new changes can bring them back to being an icon of the intimate magazine.

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The Titans posed their first threat of the game in the bottom of the fourth when junior infielder Timmy Richards was hit by a pitch and senior infielder Tanner Pinkston walked, putting Fullerton in scoring position with two outs. Unfortunately for CSUF, Ryan got Blaser to fly out to end the inning before they could score. In his first outing as a starter, Ryan surrendered only one hit and struck out two through four scoreless frames. Gavin was equally impressive, giving up only three hits, two walks and fanning four Sun Devil batters in five scoreless innings of work. “I think he (Gavin) looked good,” Blaser said. “He’s a competitor and he loves to come out and compete and pound the zone.” CSUF had another golden opportunity to score in the seventh inning. The Titans had a runner on second with no outs, but lined out and struck out twice to end the frame. With the game going into extras, the Titans loaded the bases in the bottom half of the 10th inning only to strand the runners once again. Sun Devil infielder David Greer led off the 14th inning with a solo shot to dead center to give ASU a 1-0 lead. Arizona State tacked on another run in the inning, giving itself a 2-0 cushion heading to the bottom half. CSUF responded by adding a run of its own off a fielding error, but it wasn’t enough as the Sun Devils secured the 2-1 victory and series sweep. David Greer got the win and Seth Martinez picked up the save for Arizona State. Freshman righty Gavin Velasquez took the loss for the Titans. “It’s really frustrating because those guys (pitchers) work hard,” Blaser said. “They give us the opportunity to stay in the ballgame and when we can’t get runs for them, it upsets us.” Fullerton will continue its nine-game homestand with a three-game weekend series against the Wichita State Univeristy Shockers at Goodwin Field. The first game of the series will begin Friday at 7 p.m.

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Titan freshman guard Khalil Ahmad (right), who was recently named Big West Freshman of the Year, was the only starter to score in double figures in CSUF’s 75-73 loss to Long Beach State last Wednesday. Going into the Big West Tournament, Ahmad is averaging 14.6 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists.

CSUF seeks redemption in playoffs Titans set for Big West tourney quarterfinal against No. 1 Hawaii ROXANA RIVERA Daily Titan Looking to redeem itself from a dismal regular season, the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team will face off against the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in the Big West Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday in Anaheim. With an overall record of 10-19 and a conference record of 3-13, the Titans finished in last place in the Big West. Despite only the top eight teams being guaranteed a spot in the Big West Tournament, CSUF was given a playoff berth due to complications with Cal State Northridge’s eligibility. The Rainbow Warriors, on the other hand, are coming in strong after claiming their first-ever Big West Conference title this season. They will be going into the quarterfinals as the No. 1 seed in the tournament with an impressive overall record of 24-5. In terms of field goal percentage during conference play, the Titans nearly ranked last out of nine teams, averaging a lowly 40.6 percent in comparison to Hawaii, which came in

second place with a respectable 44.5 percent. However, the battle of the boards in Thursday’s game will prove to be interesting as CSUF averaged 36.5 rebounds per game, a slight advantage over Hawaii’s average of 36.1 per game. Fullerton freshman guard Khalil Ahmad, who was recently crowned Big West Freshman of the Year, contributed 14.6 points per game for the Titans during the season. Fellow guard Tre’ Coggins led the team with 16.1 points per game. The Titans lost both of their matchups against the Rainbow Warriors this season, dropping the first one 86-79 and the second one 76-59. The first game was a tight contest, with Hawaii holding a narrow lead of 29-27 in the first half. In the second half, the Titans shot a mere 20 percent from behind the arc compared to the Rainbow Warriors, who shot a whopping 50 percent. CSUF would ultimately come up short in overtime as the Rainbow Warriors were able to grind out a victory after outscoring the Titans 14-7 in the extra frame. Ahmad led the Titans in scoring with 19 points, while junior guard Lionheart Leslie added 17 points. Hawaii’s best individual efforts came from guard Isaac Fleming and forward

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Cal State Fullerton’s junior guard Lionheart Leslie (left) and sophomore forward Jamar Akoh (right) push the ball up the court in the Titans’ final game of the regular season against Long Beach State.

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looked bleak for the Titans after shooting only 31.7 percent from the field, compared to the Rainbow Warriors’ 39.3 percent. Hawaii guards Aaron Valdes and Quincy Smith both poured in 15 points apiece to help the Rainbow Warriors

take a 76-59 win. The Titans will tip off their postseason journey when they take on the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in the second game of the Big West Tournament Quarterfinals on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at the Honda Center.

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