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Softball comes out on top over Yale and Princeton AARON VALDEZ Daily Titan With outstanding play on both sides of the diamond, the Cal State Fullerton softball team swept its Ivy League double-header, defeating the Yale University Bulldogs 8-0 and the Princeton University Tigers 5-0 on Tuesday.

The game marked CSUF and Yale’s first-ever meeting. The Titans are now 2-1 in the all-time series against Princeton, with their most recent contest coming last week during the Louisville Slugger Invitational in Long Beach.

Vs. Yale In Tuesday’s first game, junior left-handed pitcher Christina Washington started in the circle against the Bulldogs.

This game marked Washington’s eighth appearance on the season.

Offensively, it was evident CSUF had picked up from where it left off last weekend, as the team jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first inning.

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Booths have been set up in five locations on campus for students to vote for the next president, executive vice president and board of directors for Associated Students, Inc.

Voting begins for ASI executive staff, board of directors KATE JOLGREN Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton’s Associated Students, Inc., is currently holding elections for its 2016 Executive Staff and Board of Directors.

The ASI Executive Staff consists of two elected members: the president and executive vice president.

The president and vice president will appoint four additional students to complete the executive staff: vice president of finance, chief administrative officer, chief communications officer and chief governmental officer.

The executive staff is elected to bring the student body’s needs and concerns to CSUF administration, faculty, staff and the general campus community.

These individuals run the daily operations of various student programs and also

initiate projects that benefit students.

In this year’s election cycle, there are three teams of campaign partners running for ASI president and executive vice president.

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Cooking challenge promotes healthy habits Annual PHUN event introduces healthful resources and skills RYAN WHITEHEAD Daily Titan Students of the Peer Health University Network (PHUN) teamed up with the Student Health and Counseling Center on Tuesday afternoon at the SRC pool to cook up some healthy, refreshing treats.

The Titan Master Chef is an annual event PHUN puts on to promote healthy behavior and give students more resources to help their cooking skills and ultimately improve their nutrition.

Darany Hoang, a coordinator of the event and health educator of the Student Health and Counseling Center, went into detail on how these students train for the event. The participants went through a cooking class last Tuesday where they were provided instructions to

create a mason jar salad dish, Hoang said.

This dish is a combination of an array of fruits and vegetables with at least one source from the different food groups. Each group of students worked together in teams of two or three per table to put their salad and smoothie dishes together.

Each of the salads were put together using different techniques. One way was to put the dressing, a honey-vinaigrette ginger made from scratch, with different seasonings on the bottom, and then layering the plate with hearty, solid protein such as garbanzo beans.

Smoothies were made by mixing fresh fruit, such as bananas and strawberries, with honey and dairy items such as yogurt and milk.

The vegetables ranged from carrots and zucchinis to sweet potatoes, which each team cut and diced to provide a colorful display inside their mason jars.

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Kendrick Lamar drops unfinished project

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The Titan Master Chef challenge is an annual event hosted by the Students of the Peer Health University Network (PHUN) and the Student Health and Counseling Center. Students gathered at the SRC pool deck Tuesday afternoon to witness the cooking challenge.

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The Cal State Fullerton WoMen’s Center invited a panel of ex-military women to talk about how they navigated through their former jobs in the male-dominated military.

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Panelists reflect on their struggles serving in the military YUKIE BOJORQUEZ for the Daily Titan Female veterans shared their experiences and hardships in the male-dominated military during a panel hosted by the Cal State Fullerton WoMen’s Center on Tuesday.

The event, titled “Women in the Military: Self Reflections,” was part of the university’s Women’s History Month celebration.

Catherine Ward, assistant director of engagement and student success at the Veteran Resource Center, gave the opening remarks. Ward, who has worked with the student veteran population since 2009, said that of the approximately 500 students that make up the veteran population on campus, only 88 identify as women.

“Women veterans end up being their own advocates as long as they have a platform and a place in which to speak up and tell their stories,” Ward said.

All four panelists — Janet Gatihi, Claudia Acosta, Deanne Locker, and Yareli Mendoza — are female veterans and graduate students at CSUF. Each panelist shared what it was like to be a woman in the military.

Locker said she struggled

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to build up the confidence to carry on her duties as a “mean” female sergeant.

“I have a bubbly personality, so it was hard for me to put on my sergeant hat and not let people get away with anything,” Locker said.

When Locker got pregnant, her supervisor asked her, “How could you do that to your soldiers?’” she said.

At that point, Locker decided to get out of the service because she felt her hard work was not acknowledged when she wanted to start a family with her husband.

Mendoza, who is pursuing a master’s degree in public administration, never felt like she was good enough for a male-dominated career like the Air Force.

She spent five years as Air Force military police, but did not feel appreciated, even when she scored highly on her exams. Mendoza felt like she had to put in more effort just because she was a woman.

“It was really tough on your self-esteem always living every day knowing you are never going to be as good as a man,” Mendoza said.

Despite her struggles, she made amazing friends and got to travel a lot, she said.

Gatihi joined the army when she was very young.

In 2004, before being deployed to Iraq she asked to be taken out of the deployment team.

“I did not want to deal

with shipping dead bodies,” Gatihi said. “I did not want to to be traumatized by that experience.”

After getting out of the army, Gatihi did not have a sense of veteran support until she got to CSUF. She is now happy to have made it this far.

As for Acosta, an injury prevented her from moving forward with the Marine Corps. Even though she was good in all the other areas, she had to accept that her body could not take the training.

Being in such a male-dominated environment, Acosta felt that she was not allowed to show weakness.

“If you get injured, you suck it up and don’t show it,” she said.

For Acosta, it was hard to get out, but her experience in the military has given her a foundation to overcome any challenges. She is often told that she does not look like a veteran, but to her there is no specific criteria to how a veteran should look like.

Analleli Barragan, a human services student who attended the event, found the women’s experiences interesting. She said that she would like to work as a social worker with women in the military.

“You don’t really hear about them so you don’t know a lot about them.

That’s why I came out,” Barragan said. “It changes your perspective.”

OLLI members share opinions on TED talks Video series presents insights on music, news and feminism

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GABE ESPIRITU Daily Titan Members of Cal State Fullerton’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) gathered in Mackey Auditorium to share their opinion on various topics at OLLI’s seminar on Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Talks.

The TED Talks YouTube channel showcases insightful speeches on various topics presented at conferences around the world, from which OLLI chooses videos to present to its members each meeting.

The event began with the video of musical conductor Benjamin Zander’s presentation, “The Transformative Power of Classical Music.” His personality entertained the crowd and sparked laughter from the OLLI members.

Playing Frederic Chopin’s “Prelude in E-Minor (op.28 no.4),” Zander reinforced his belief that no one can be tone deaf. The OLLI members watched the screen as Zander’s fingers scaled the

piano keys.

Zanders said that his job as a musician “is to awaken possibility in other people.” The best way to find out is that “if their eyes are shining, you know you’re doing it,” Zanders said.

OLLI member Dick Cole couldn’t agree more.

“As a teacher for a lot of years, when you saw those students’ eyes light up you knew you were getting somewhere,” Cole said.

In the next video, Alisa Miller, CEO of Public Radio International, presented “The News About the News.” The talk received mixed reviews from the OLLI members, but they agreed that when it comes to defining news, the public has to be a better steward for what content it wishes to receive.

“Every time you turn on the TV, what do you see?” asked OLLI trustee Jack Wheatley.

“Mostly Donald Trump and a lot of commercials.”

To end the session, OLLI members watched author Isabel Allende’s “Tales of Passion” TED Talk. A self-described storyteller, Allende’s mission is to “convey something that is truer than truth about our common humanity.”

Allende’s books contain real, strong and passionate female protagonists. When the idea that feminism is outdated is raised, Allende disagrees.

“Feminism is dated?” Allende asked. “Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor.”

Allende’s presentation left the members of OLLI with a challenge to help find a solution.

“Let’s get off our fannies, roll up our sleeves and get to work passionately creating an almost-perfect world,” Allende said.

Cole thinks that the problems with equality that women face is “just a small touch of what’s going on in the world.”

“Somehow there’s gotta be a way to do something about it,” he said. “But I’m at a loss to know how to capture the ideas to put them in motion.”

OLLI’s TED Talks sessions are open to the public and students of CSUF. The next session is scheduled for April 5 from 2:15 to 3:45 p.m.

Sen. Marco Rubio officially suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The Florida senator announced his withdrawal after losing his home state to Donald Trump at Tuesday’s primaries.

Rubio, 44, faced criticism for his relatively young age and his lack of experience compared to his opponents.

His work with immigration reform had Republicans questioning his leniency, while Trump’s proposal to construct a wall along the border seemed more fit.

“This year, we will not be on the winning side,” Rubio said in his concession speech.

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Inmate escapes from LA jail A state prison inmate, Donta Baker, escaped from a re-entry facility in Los Angeles on Monday, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Baker allegedly escaped the facility around 5:20 p.m. Monday. He is described as a 6-foot-1 man and weighs 205 pounds.

Baker had one month left to serve out his four-year sentence for grand theft, but tested positive for marijuana. He was convicted of grand theft for more than $950 in Dec. 6, 2013.

Baker would have been released on parole by mid-April if he had not escaped and tested positive for marijuana use.

Anyone with information on Baker’s location should call 911.

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Migrants halted in Balkans Migrants were forced to return to their transit camp in northern Greece after the Macedonian government blocked their attempt to cross the border into Macedonia on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

On Monday, about 1,500 migrants marched from their camps in northern Greece into the mountains, eventually crossing a river in an attempt to bypass a barbed wire fence built

by Macedonia to keep refugees out. Three drowned while trying to cross the river.

Macedonian police transported those who successfully crossed the border back to Greece in trucks.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras recommended that refugees move to Greek reception centers set up by the government, as it is unlikely that borders throughout the Balkans would reopen.

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Members of the Associated Students, Inc., Election Team gave out stickers to students who voted in this week’s ASI elections. Students can vote for the next ASI president, executive vice president and members of the board of directors.

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Yanitza Berrios, cellular and developmental biology and Spanish double major, is running for president, while Alexandra Beltran, communications major, is running for executive vice president.

The team has outlined several goals if elected, providing more resources that benefit students, such as free printing, free personal training and affordable textbooks.

On their campaign platform, Berrios and Beltran say that they hope to aid students’ academic journey and provide support for students, ranging from equipment to additional advisors, tutors and mentors with the help of the Student Success Initiative.

“A lot of students take the wrong classes because they didn’t know or they were misinformed,” Berrios said. “We definitely want to make sure that students are getting the help they need so they can graduate (on time).”

Justin Kylzcek, political science and philosophy major, is running for president with Katherine Gwaltney, business administration major, as his running mate. The duo lists three values as the foundation to their campaign: transparency, inclusivity and accessibility.

Kylzcek and Gwaltney plan to make diversity training mandatory for all of the

associated students, employees and leaders to ensure that the campus community is using appropriate and inclusive language.

“We now want to advocate on behalf of the LGBTQ community to the greater campus community to make it mandatory for all students at Cal State Fullerton to have to take those trainings,” Kylzcek said. “That way everyone at Cal State Fullerton is better equipped with inclusive and appropriate language.”

He wants to make sure that every student at CSUF can find someone in ASI to relate to, get to know and feel comfortable sharing information with.

The final duo running in the executive staff election is accounting major Christian Martinez, for president, with Darren Benton as his running mate. Their campaign aims to encourage the student body to become more involved and truly establish a sense of community with CSUF students.

“The biggest struggle of our campus has always been that it’s a commuter school,” Martinez said in his candidate statement. “There are plenty of voices that are unheard of because every student has a life of their own.”

The current elections are also for filling the ASI Board of Directors, which is composed of two representatives from each of the eight colleges

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Three pairs are in the running for Associated Students, Inc., president and executive vice president: Yanitza Berrios and Alexandra Beltran (left), Justin Kylcek and Katherine Gwaltney (center) and Christian Martinez and Darren Benton (right).

on campus. The board’s main function is to set policies for ASI and approve all funding distribution to programs and services within the colleges.

The board also serves as the student voice for advocacy on university committees and boards.

With 22 candidates in the running, each college has at

least two candidates to choose from. Some colleges, such as the College of Health and Human Development and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences even have four candidates each.

Ameya Agavekar, candidate for the College of Business and Economics, said that other international students

have told him that running for office would be a good opportunity for their voices to be heard.

“There is a strong need,” Agavekar said. “They don’t really have someone international on their board.”

Five polling stations, located near the Titan Student Union, Housing Piazza,

Mihaylo Hall, McCarthy Hall and Pollak Library, will be available to students from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Students may also vote online at vote.fullerton.edu. For more information on each of the candidates and their platforms, students can visit asi.fullerton.edu.

Elections will be held until March 17.

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Jacob Rosales (left) and Mitchell Tao (right), members of the the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the winning team of the Titan Master Cooking challenge, give out smaples of their smoothies and salads to studetns.

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The teams provided small sample cups of their smoothies and salads for people to try.

Teams also added chicken to their salads which added extra flavor. The chicken was lightly seasoned and then grilled or pan-seared. The grill

was also used to saute vegetables.

The winning team of the competition was the Red Hot Chili Peppers consisting of Jacob Rosales, a fourth year health science major, and Mitchell Tao, a fourth year kinesiology major. The duo won a 10-piece set of cooking wear.

“It felt great to win, even though we were short a guy,” Rosales said after the competition. “We recognized we had to focus on presentations since all the food was going to be similar across the tables.”

The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ smoothie recipe was meant to stand out against the other teams. They went

more for a “neutral taste,” with creamy flavors, using strawberries, a sprinkle of sugar and a splash of Orange Juice, Tao said.

Their salad was prepared using peeled julienne carrots sliced lengthwise so that it would be easier for them to eat from the jars.

They also strained their Garbanzo beans to prevent

them from getting soggy, Rosales said.

Their primary focus was roasting on the grill. They chopped up their medley of veggies and sweet potatoes and roasted them until they were soft in texture.

“My job is to create programs that are easily accessible to students and will help them improve

their eating habits,” said Alexandria Jacobs, a biology major and nutrition chair of the PHUN. Jacobs hopes that the students can have an experiential learning component that they can take home with them. She was proud to see the students collaborating to create a healthy dish in the competition.

Victims share untold stories to gain justice Film brings attention to unconsented medical practices in the 1970’s CINTHIA PASILLAS Daily Titan During the 1970s, the Chicana movement brought attention to issues of gender, race and reproductive rights.

But the civil rights of Latina women were violated by unconsented sterilizations due to the “zero population movement,” which sought to decrease the birth rate of the Chicano population.

The college of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted a screening of the film “No Más Bebés,” directed by Renee Tajima-Peña on Monday afternoon. The film confronts California’s high sterilization rates in the 1970s.

“No Más Bebés” traces the 1975 Madrigal v.

Quilligan court case, a lawsuit filed by ten women against Dr. Edward James Quilligan, who was head of the obstetrics at LA County USC Hospital, said Margie Brown-Coronel, Ph.D., assistant history professor.

“It also traces the individual stories and collected efforts of the women who sought justice for the abuses they encountered,” Brown-Coronel said.

About 30 students attended the screening of the film, which included a panel discussion with Virginia Espino, the film’s producer, and Consuelo Hermosillo, one of the ten plaintiffs. Both shared their experiences of the court case and the film process.

The audience sat through the 50-minute documentary that generated a range of emotions

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from laughter to tears when the story of each woman was told.

The film reveals Dr. Bernard L. Rosenfeld as a whistleblower for the case. He stole the medical records from the hospital that brought the sterilizations to light.

Rosenfeld is now one of a few doctors who is an expert on tubal reversal procedures. He had to leave the state and agreed to not testify in the case in order to avoid prosecution for wrongfully obtaining the medical records, Espino said.

The victims did not speak a word to anyone about their sterilization, according to the film.

They believed that being sterilized was the end of a woman’s life because she no longer had the ability to produce children.

Women feared their husbands would abandon

them because they would no longer consider women.

Plaintiff participation in Madrigal v. Quilligan caused major changes in medical services, particularly practices of obtaining informed consent.

Making the film was difficult because some of the plaintiffs did not want to relive their experiences, Espino said.

It took Hermosillo two years to agree to appear on camera and share her experience.

“I didn’t even want to open the door,” Hermosillo said. “You know, I didn’t want to talk to them. I just wanted to forget it happened.”

Trying to hold back the tears, Alma Gonzalez, assistant to the dean of the College of Health and Human Development, saw a reflection of her mother in the victims’ stories due to the language

barrier that enabled injustice and the fact that her mother gave birth during the time the events transpired at LA County USC Hospital.

“The thing that touched me the most about the film was when the children were saying, ‘Mom, I didn’t know this happened to you,’ and I always think about that because I’m an advocate for my mother, too,” Gonzalez said. “This could’ve happened to her.”

One of the main reasons for sterilization was the language barrier, which prevented victims from understanding the situation, Hermosillo said.

“When she (Espino) told me exactly the way (the victims) were sterilized, each one had a different story,” Hermosillo said.

Hermosillo decided she wanted to help victims by going to court

and testifying.

She participated without telling her husband and her whole family, she said.

“Nobody knew what I went through. A lot of people, they were rude to me, and they later apologized,” Hermosillo said.

As Hermosillo shared details about her experience, her voice filled with pain while she tried to hold back her tears.

“I went through a lot. I mean, I carried and carried it for years,” Hermosillo said.

Espino said she always wanted to shed light on stories like Hermosillo’s to show that even in the most difficult situations, there is a way to fight back and bring justice.

People in the audience connected with the stories of these women because most of them were daughters or mothers like Gonzalez.

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Rapper tells introspective views on social issues and music industry CLAYTON WONG Daily Titan “untitled unmastered.” is a compilation of tracks from the cutting-room floor of the Compton rapper’s third album, “To Pimp a Butterfly,” which won Kendrick Lamar 11 Grammy nominations and spawned an anthem for police brutality and Donald Trump protesters across the country.

Lamar’s talents as a rapper are telling if these are the songs that couldn’t make his fulllength’s cut. “untitled unmastered.” is unmistakably raw. Compared to Lamar’s full-length albums, the compilation has a rough, incomplete feel to it, but the way Lamar contextualizes it as a complete package makes it seem conceptual, with minimal, dark artwork and every song left untitled, save for an enigmatic date attached to each track.

The album opens like a film, with singer Bilal narrating the beginning of “untitled 01,” lending the track a sinister atmosphere as he speaks over clashing, dissonant free jazz instrumentation.

As Lamar begins his verse, he evokes biblical, apocalyptic imagery over a beat reminiscent of the dramatic, Wuxia-inspired instrumentation employed by Wu-Tang Clan producer RZA. Lamar questions whether his faith has been misplaced, “I made ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ for you, told me to use my vocals to save mankind for you.”

Despite Lamar’s best efforts and critical recognition, he continues to see people around him suffer.

Lamar’s effectiveness as a rapper is that although his music is overtly political, he rarely uses it as a platform to preach about social issues and is as critical of himself as he is about the world around him.

“Unlike other artists whose juxtaposition of hip-hop bluster with confessional vulnerability feels like shtick, Kendrick does not do performative honesty,” wrote Carvell Wallace for Pitchfork.

On tracks like “untitled 02,” Lamar looks at his ambivalence about his success. “Can’t pick a side, the Gemini,” he raps. Though he seeks to highlight societal problems he sees in his community through his music, his success has ironically distanced him from friends and family.

Lamar juxtaposes an intense, inward criticism with his second verse, employing a listless flow as he raps about giving into excess — “What if I empty my bank account and stunt?” — before the song ends in a cascade of discordant piano keys. “untitled 03,” which Lamar first performed on “The Colbert Report” in 2014, features a driving beat, accompanied with simple chords from a keyboard and a truncated bass groove by Thundercat, who collaborated with Lamar previously.

Lamar vents his frustration with capitalist greed, contrasting cultures that value peace, equity and welfare with American corporations, specifically record labels that exploit the talent of artists while pressuring them to change their music

to increase sales.

“He selling me just for $10.99, if I go platinum for rapping, I do the company fine,” he raps. “Your profession anonymous as an artist, if I don’t target your market.” “untitled 04,” the album’s shortest track, features singer SZA stepping in for Lamar and singing criticisms of misinformation, encouraging listeners to be skeptical of the world and not accept information uncritically. The song is also the album’s most minimal, driven primarily by SZA’s vocals. “untitled 05,” marks a return of a jazz ensemble, opening with saxophones, pianos and bass guitars improvising off one another. The track has Lamar at his angriest, railing against unjust systems that fail to protect him and those around him.

“Justice ain’t free, therefore justice ain’t me, so I justify his name on (an) obituary,” he raps. Though Lamar doesn’t advocate violence in his music and often criticizes it, he offers an explanation as to why violence in his community happens: those who turn to it often feel as though there are no other alternatives.

Lamar smoothly transitions with change up of “untitled 06,” eschewing the dissonant, dark jazz with an upbeat, soulful bossa nova arrangement produced by A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad and film composer Adrian Younge and accompanied by singer CeeLo Green. “untitled 06” is celebratory, taking the form of a love letter through which Kendrick talks up aspects of himself that are unconventional. CeeLo sings in the first verse, “I’m bizarre, avant-garde, both sides of me are evenly odd.”

The song is an acceptance of self, put in stark contrast with “To Pimp a Butterfly,”

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Rapper Kendrick Lamar surprised fans with the release of “untitled unmastered.,” an eight track album that reached No. 1 on the billboards charts, selling 178,000 copies its first week.

throughout which Lamar repeats the mantra, “Loving me is complicated.”

The longest song on the album, “untitled 07,” is the most intricate and musically varied.

It opens with a dark, oscillating synth played over a minimalist trap beat, reminiscent of heavier songs from Lamar’s second album, “good kid, m.A.A.d. City.”

In the first part of the song, he lists earthly possessions: “Drugs won’t get you high as this, fame won’t get you high as this, chains won’t get you high as this.” He juxtaposes material wealth and feelings with feeling the need to “levitate” beyond earthly desires.

As the track progresses, the quality of the recording deteriorates like an old cassette tape. Eventually, it devolves into a grainy recording of what sounds like Lamar freestyling,

accompanied by a bass guitar, with a group of friends.

The laidback ending of the eight-minute track transitions into the heavily funk-driven “untitled 08.” The song feels like an extension of Lamar’s collaboration with Parliament and Funkadelic member George Clinton from “To Pimp a Butterfly,” and a sendup of Compton g-funk artists Lamar listened to in the ‘90s.

Despite being influenced by gangster rap, Lamar rejects the lifestyle lived by his idols throughout the song. “When y’all came on the boat looking for hope, and all you can say is that you’re looking for dope, these days ain’t no compromise,” he raps, critical of scamming and drug dealing, which he perceives as shortcuts to success.

Though he speaks harshly about those around him, he

also criticizes those who look down on his community without understanding it. “Your pain ain’t mines half the time,” he raps.

Despite being a collection of unmastered demo tracks, most artists could only dream of putting together an album that feels as thematically cohesive as “untitled unmastered.” The arrangements and production prove Lamar’s reputation as a perfectionist.

Though “untitled unmastered.” doesn’t feel as complete as Lamar’s full-length albums, he approaches social issues without proselytizing.

“It’s not me pointing at my community; it’s me pointing at myself,” Lamar said to NPR. What elevates Lamar above other rappers, beyond technical skill, is deep introspection and the continuous drive to grow and evolve.

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OPINION Gaming could improve education

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Including video games in school could benefit the learning process CODY GION Daily Titan Video games have recently made the jump from being a popular form of entertainment to a better alternative teaching method in the classroom.

Video games offer a beneficial way of learning for students. New methods combine hands-on participation with teacher instruction. In this environment, teachers behave more like coaches than lecturers, said Scot Osterweil, a research director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s comparative media studies program.

Educators throughout the nation should open their minds and adopt the newest supplement to education so that they can provide students with a better approach.

Some case findings express concern that children could be over-exposed to gaming. The cases expressed worry about the increased frequency of myopia, or nearsightedness, in young children as of late, according to CNN. “Many epidemiological studies … have found no association between time spent using digital media and the development of myopia,” said Kathryn Rose, Ph.D., a visual disorders researcher at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Health Sciences.

Others have voiced concerns over gaming addiction, that the enjoyment experienced by children playing video games is akin to a high that’s often reported by gambling addicts.

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Students can greatly benefit from a school curriculum that incorporates video games. Gaming can has proven to be an efficient medium for learning by improving a plethora of skills while fully engaging its audience.

“Video games are games of skill. They are like chess or any other game in which success depends on perseverance, intelligence, practice and learning, not chance,” said Peter Gray, Ph.D., a research professor at Boston College.

Gaming stimulates the reward centers of a person’s brain. It would be highly beneficial if that reward response could be experienced as a result of learning in the classroom.

The school system, as

it is, does not push students as hard as it should.

This method will give students the motivation they need to hone skills with mathematics and computer programming.

Another potential benefit is the relatively low cost to the school system.

Video games are also inexpensive to build and distribute Forbes contributor Jordan Shapiro, Ph.D. said. “Video games have a lot going for them in a world that loves digital

technologies and worships the concept of innovation,” he said.

Incorporating video games into the educational system would not be a financial issue for most schools. The new innovation is cost-effective and can easily benefit students who use it.

Teaching with video games supports pre-existing strategies already used in schools, dispelling the notion of having to completely remodel the

educational system, according to a collaborative study conducted by New York University and the University of Michigan.

Video games can also seek to replace textbooks, tremendously reducing the cost of resources.

Amplify, a subsidiary of pioneering mobile assessments and instructional analytics company Wireless Generation, seeks to set the standard for next-generation digital curriculum and assessment, and is

right to do so. Starting the new revolution of technological advances in teaching will only benefit the education.

The opportunity to educate students by providing a fun and interactive way to learn can improve their engagement in the material and help retain information. Video game integration within the classroom setting is growing, and it’s the right time to fully invest in the transition to make it the new norm.

Paid time off will improve family ties Legislation will make it easier for parents to see their children VERONICA MARQUEZ-ESHELBY Daily Titan It is imperative that companies grant expenditures to employees with children to further promote employee’s involvement in their children’s lives without harming their family’s financial well-being.

In an era where the majority of children are raised in single-parent households, finding a balance between work and familial responsibilities is an ongoing challenge, according to the Pew Research Center’s analysis of an American Community Survey and Decennial Census Data.

Fifty percent of working fathers and 56 percent of working mothers, find it “very or somewhat difficult” to balance work schedules with family life, according to the Pew Research Center.

This problem is quickly becoming an issue that California lawmakers are looking to address.

Democratic Assemblyman Mike Gatto presented legislation AB 2405 to the California state assembly. The bill would amend the state’s Family-School Partnership Act and grant parents the annual equivalent of three days of paid leave for them to attend their children’s school-related events. Currently, employees can only take up to 40 hours of unpaid leave for their children’s school activities and school-related emergencies per calendar year.

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A proposed state assembly bill would allow workers to share more time with their families.

California’s economy and specifically impact smaller businesses with narrower profit margins. But that is simply untrue and rather hypothetical. The bill would not apply to businesses with fewer than 25 employees, and is similar to paid sick days granted to California employees, according to the legislation.

Lower-income children are most impacted by their parents’ hectic work schedules.

Numerous researchers have closely linked parent involvement in their child’s education with overall academic achievement.

There is “a statistically significant association between parent involvement and a child’s academic performance, over and above the impact of the child’s intelligence,” according to the National Institute of Health.

Fewer than 25 percent of parents who earn less than $30,000 a year reported feeling “very involved” in their children’s education, according to Edsource, an independent education advocate organization.

California’s public school system has struggled for decades to keep pace with the

educational achievement levels of the rest of the nation.

The Quality Counts State Report Cards, issued by the nonprofit organization Education Week, ranked California 42nd in the nation based on key education performance indicators. The state was awarded an overall grade of a “D+.” The national average is a “C.” “We must stop passively bemoaning the state of our schools, and do something to engage families in the educational process and the school community. AB 2405 will allow parents to play an active role in their children’s success, without worrying about putting food on the table,” Gatto said.

The United States is one of the wealthiest nations on earth, yet it seems to lag when making legal advancements to better benefit the quality of life of its working class.

American lawmakers need to invest in the minds of the next generation.

They should start by allowing the parents of California’s children to attend school functions without causing a financial penalty for the family.

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SPORTS

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Baseball continues to roll with win over San Diego State

CSUF wipes out the Aztecs to extend win streak to four games BRANDON ROSS Daily Titan

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CSUF relief pitcher Jasmine Antunez helped the Titans secure the sweep in their Ivy League series on Tuesday. In three innings between two games, she allowed no runs with one strikeout.

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After working their way out of a jam at the top of the second, the Titans exploded for five more runs in the bottom of the frame, extending the lead to 8-0. In that stretch, 10 CSUF batters went up to the plate, and eight of them recorded either a hit or an RBI. Despite their offensive onslaught, the Titans remained quiet for the rest of the game, going scoreless in the final three innings. However, solid pitching from Fullerton reliever Jasmine Antunez secured the shutout victory over the Bulldogs in five innings.

Catcher Kylie Padilla, infielder Shianne Brannan and outfielder Ariana Williams all led the Titans in RBIs, notching two apiece.

Washington was given the win, which improved her overall record to 2-0 on the season.

Vs. Princeton The following game against Princeton saw CSUF’s junior righty Cerissa Rivera receive the starting nod in the circle.

The Titans got off to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning, recording two runs off an RBI single from Courtney Rodriguez and an RBI walk from Sydney Colenzo.

The bottom of the second inning saw Titan infielder Missy Taukeiaho blast a solo homer to straight away center field, earning Fullerton its only run of the frame.

The action subsided until the bottom of the fifth inning when the Titans scored two more runs to cushion their lead. With Moore and Rodriguez in scoring position, Brannan singled through the right side, bringing in both runners to give Fullerton a 5-0 advantage.

The Titans’ pitching staff remained dominant down the stretch, clinching the 5-0 win

over the Tigers. Rodriguez had the performance of the night, hitting three-for-four with one RBI. Rivera improved her pitching record to 2-1 with the win.

Head Coach Kelly Ford was in high spirits after her team completed the twogame sweep.

“Anytime you keep a team from crossing home plate in two back-to-back games, that’s outstanding,” Ford said. “They’ve just really put the work in and got the pay-off today.”

Fullerton now stands with a staggering 20-8 overall record, while Yale and Princeton’s records drop to 2-8 and 3-10, respectively.

CSUF will host the Easton Tournament beginning Thursday and wrapping up on Sunday. The Titans are set to compete in four games against the University of Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico.

The Cal State Fullerton baseball team continued its offensive assault Tuesday as it defeated the San Diego State Aztecs 8-1 at Goodwin Field.

CSUF (10-6 overall) has now won four straight games, matching this season’s record for longest winning streak. SDSU (412 overall) lost its first road game of the season.

Prior to Tuesday’s matchup with the Aztecs, Fullerton came off an impressive three-game sweep of the Wichita State Shockers. As a team, the Titans dominated on both sides of the diamond, outscoring the Shockers 21-2 in the series.

Sophomore lefty John Gavin got the start on the mound for the Titans. He entered Tuesday’s matchup against San Diego State with a 0-1 record and a 3.72 ERA. Junior southpaw Marcus Reyes got the nod on the hill for the Aztecs. He struggled so far this season, as he entered the matchup with an 8.84 ERA and an 0-2 overall record.

Senior outfielder Dalton Blaser entered the game as the Titans’ best overall hitter, as he batted .341 with three RBIs and 15 hits.

SDSU got off to a hot start in the top half of the first, as sophomore infielder Justin Wylie belted a leadoff solo home run to left field, giving the Aztecs an early 1-0 advantage.

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Titans’ designated hitter Dalton Blaser ran the show offensively, going three-for-four with four RBIs against SDSU on Tuesday.

The Titans, however, responded with two runs of their own thanks to a sacrifice fly by sophomore catcher Chris Hudgins and a groundout RBI from senior infielder Tanner Pinkston.

Fullerton took a 2-1 lead after the first inning.

“Anytime you get run support in baseball, it’s a huge relief,” Gavin said. “It gets the monkey off your shoulders as a pitcher and that’s a huge help for me.”

After Gavin gave up the home run, he went on to retire 10 straight Aztec batters.

The streak ended with an infield single in the top of the fourth inning.

Fullerton drove in another run at the bottom of the fourth off an RBI double in the right-center gap from freshman outfielder Ruben Cardenas.

“I was kind of just going out just to have fun,” Cardenas said. “It meant a lot to come out and just do what I do.”

The Titans finally cashed in with runners in scoring position at the bottom of the

fifth, as Blaser drove in two off an RBI double to left center. Cardenas tacked on another run in the inning with an RBI single to right, doubling the lead to 6-1.

CSUF added on two more runs in the bottom of the seventh inning off an RBI single from Blaser. Fullerton ended up winning the game in dominant fashion by a score of 8-1.

Gavin (1-1) picked up his first win on the season, pitching six solid innings, only allowing three hits and one earned run while striking out eight. Blaser had a huge night in the batter’s box, going 3-for-4 with four RBIs. “We got together, we stuck to our plan, we trust the process,” Blaser said. “We just stuck to our plan and that’s what makes this program so great.”

The Titans will host the University of Maryland Terrapins for a threegame series this weekend at Goodwin Field. The first game of the series is set for Friday at 7 p.m.

Women’s tennis tramples Colorado State Titans begin four-game homestand with 7-0 win over the Rams VICTOR GALLEGOS Daily Titan The Titans (12-2 overall, 3-0 Big West), flexed their muscles Tuesday, defeating the reeling Colorado State Rams 7-0 and winning their 12th match of the season.

The Titans, were coming off a bounce-back win against Montana State in

Nevada. In Tuesday’s match, the Titans played up to their potential and jumped on the Rams early.

Fullerton’s first point of the day was earned in doubles play, where it took the advantage by winning the first two matches.

The duo of freshman Sarah Nuno and sophomore Danielle Pham kicked the afternoon off with an impressive 6-1 win over Caroline Henderson and Maddie Buxton.

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Portalatin finished things off for the Titans, earning the doubles point with a 6-3 victory over Emily Kolbow and Celine Voss.

With doubles play completed, the Titans looked to their co-captain and No. 1 seed Alexis Valenzuela to set the tone for singles play.

Returning to singles play after a one-match absence, Valenzuela’s performance was one of the best of the season. She defeated Kolbow 6-0, 6-0, displaying an impressive arsenal of shots that left her opponent helpless.

Nuno also showed her prowess, playing in the No. 2 singles spot as she dismantled Buxton by scores of 6-0, 6-2.

The Titans continued to roll in singles as Portalatin edged Aina Hernandez Soler 6-3, 7-6. Teammates De Leon and Makiba also got in on the action, each claiming a victory with scores of 6-3, 6-1 and 6-4, 6-2, respectively.

Being that the Rams had no player to fill in for the No. 6 seed, Pham won her match by default, giving

the Titans the sweep on the day.

With the way CSUF is performing this season, the Titans pose a real threat for the Big West Conference title, which would be their first in school history.

“We are pretty optimistic,” said Head Coach Dianne Matias. “That’s the main goal. We have a good shot as long as everyone stays healthy.”

The Titans face stiff competition at home against the University of Wyoming Cowgirls (7-7

overall) on Wednesday.

Fullerton has lost the last six meetings between both teams, including last year’s 5-2 loss.

Matias knows her team must remain focused and is aware of the danger the Cowgirls pose.

“Tomorrow, we need to be ready,” she said. “We’ve played Wyoming the past couple of years and they are a strong team. We need to come out with a lot of energy and just be willing to stay out here as long as we need to.”

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