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Documentary focuses on ‘TRAP’ bills in the South KATE JOLGREN Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton’s Moot Court Club, in association with the Division of Politics, Administration and Justice, screened the film “Trapped,” which highlights modern issues facing women’s reproductive health freedom in the United States on Wednesday. “Trapped” is a documentary that follows one of the latest landmark abortion cases, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which presented arguments to the Supreme Court in March. The Center for Reproductive Health represents the abortion clinics in the case, and a ruling is expected from the Supreme Court in June. Over the past six years, several states in the South have faced such legislation. These laws are what the Center for Reproductive Rights calls “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers,” or TRAP. Many clinics in the South have been forced to close due to their inability to uphold these rulings, according to the film. The film focused on the repercussions of the passage of House Bill 2, a bill that Texas legislators passed in 2013 that creating multiple restrictions for abortion services. “Trapped” also highlights the struggles women face in states like Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, where bills similar to House Bill 2 are pending and are designed to shutter abortion providers. House Bill 2, for example, requires doctors who provide abortion services to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital no farther than 30 miles away from the clinic in which they practice. It also requires that each health care facility that offers abortion services must meet particular building specifications to essentially serve as mini-hospitals, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. “They just zoom in on doctors who provide abortion services,” said Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup, in the film. “They’re designed to make it harder for them to provide those services.” SEE TRAPPED

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In the contract between Associated Students, Inc., and Spring Concert headliners Rae Sremmurd, the hip-hop duo requested various food products and toys be delivered to their dressing room.

Spring Concert to cost nearly $400,000, including main act’s various contract stipulations. RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan What does it take to book an artist for Cal State Fullerton’s Spring Concert? In the case of Spring Concert 2016 co-headliners Rae Sremmurd, it takes $70,000,

“almost dangerous” levels of music, plus an assortment of food, drinks and trinkets. Through a California public records request, the Daily Titan was able to obtain a copy of the contract between Rae Sremmurd’s representatives and Associated Students, Inc. The

contract revealed, among other things, that the hiphop group is set to play 60 minutes of preferably non-explicit music in order to receive payment. The total cost for this year’s Spring Concert will be $389,000, the same cost as 2015. And while Rae

Sremmurd will be paid $70,000, co-headliner Porter Robinson will be paid $75,000, according to current ASI Spring Concert Coordinator Brian Miles Garibay. Originally, ASI was allocated $216,000 to host the 2016 concert, said Dave

Edwards, E.D., executive director of ASI. However, that figure was based on the money allocated for the 2014 iteration of Spring Concert, said Laura Romine, ASI’s vice president of finance. SEE CONCERT

Professor’s outstanding work praised Award commends math enthusiast’s dedication AMBER MASON Daily Titan In the whitewashed basement of McCarthy Hall, math students must navigate a maze of offices to find Scott Annin, Cal State Fullerton math professor, when they’re stumped by their course work. When they approach the whiteboard inside Annin’s office, they write and erase and then write and erase again until they have reached what Annin calls a “mountaintop moment.” “Every time I have one of these experiences (with a student), I reinforce the idea that, ‘Yeah, I’m really glad I decided to become a professor,’” Annin said. One day, while Annin was giving his students a test, he saw the faces of people approaching his classroom through the window on the door. The faces were that of President Mildred Garcìa and some members of the Outstanding Professor committee. They

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Scott Annin, Ph.D., math professor, received the “Outstanding Professor of the Year” award for 2015 from CSUF.

greeted him with balloons and exciting news: he was being recognized with the “Outstanding Professor of the Year” award for 2015. Annin’s colleague,

assistant math professor Adam Glesser, said he could not imagine anyone more worthy of the award. “Everything he does is

around making the students and the university better,” Glesser said. Annin completed his undergraduate math and physics degrees at the

University of Nebraska before going on to complete his Ph.D. in mathematics at UC Berkeley in 2002. SEE AWARD

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Pamela Fiber-Ostrow, Ph.D., associate professor of political science, talks to students who attended the film screening of “Trapped,” a documentary about female reproductive health in the United States.

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As more clinics close in the U.S., abortion providers are forced to recommend patients to other abortion services that may not often be in the patient’s vicinity, according to “Trapped.” In some states like Texas, the nearest open reproductive health provider may be located 200 or more miles away or in another state entirely, the film said. In other instances, open abortion providers are able to accept new patients, but there may be a two-to-threeweek-long waiting list for the procedure. “It’s not just an issue in the South,” said Pamela Fiber-Ostrow, Ph.D., associate professor of political science. “It impacts the states where access is still fairly open.”

Clinic closures in other states may cause California and neighboring states to feel repercussions, she said. “Every time you have a state that makes it nearly restrictive — if not entirely restrictive — to have abortions, the states around must absorb those patients,” Ostrow said. “Essentially, your ZIP code determines whether you have access to autonomy over your body.” Often, regulations even require that women engage in informed consent, making them receive counseling prior to receiving abortion services. According to the Guttmacher Institute, as of March 1, 2016, 38 states mandate that women receive counseling before an abortion, and 28 of those require a certain amount of time between counseling and

procedure, usually 24 hours. In some of the most severe cases, women may even consider home options for abortion if clinics are unavailable. The film presented testimonials from women determined to find home solutions, even if they were dangerous or unhealthy. Kate Mika, entertainment and tourism management major, said that fighting for women’s rights is a collective effort. Just because Californians may not be affected directly by certain oppressive laws, it is still necessary to help others, she said. “It’s important to dive in and figure out why this is happening,” Mika said. “It’s disheartening to see that historical and systematic oppression is continued and is still such a fight.”

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Schwarzenegger to speak at CSUF insurance forum Former CA governor set to be keynote speaker at event DAISY ORTIZ Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton’s 2016 Spring Forum, “Insurance Industry Trends 2020 and Beyond,” will feature a moderated discussion with former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on May 9 at the Titan Student Union. The event will be a first of its kind for the Center for Insurance Studies, which aims to bring more career opportunities for students, said Weili Lu, Ph.D., CIS director and a professor of finance. The moderated discussion with Schwarzenegger will begin at 1 p.m. and cover topics such as the talent gap in the insurance industry. Insurance industry leaders will also be hold a panel. “Our program is the largest risk management and insurance program west of the Mississippi. We have a very well-known, well-established insurance and risk management program,” Lu said. “We’re getting major insurance companies to come together for the forum and support program. That’s the exciting part.” The panel will offer students perspectives from

notable industry names such as Mark Costa, senior vice president at Kaiser Permanente; Chris Baggaley, senior vice president at AAA; Ron Guerrier, CFO of Farmers Insurance Group and Adrian Griggs, executive vice president and CFO of Pacific Life Insurance Company. It will be moderated by James R. Woods, co-leader of Mayer Brown LLP’s Global Insurance Industry Group. Robert Hartwig, Ph.D., president of the Insurance Information Institute, will deliver the keynote address. Hartwig has had a long and successful career, including positions such as director of economic research and senior economics with the National Council on Compensation Insurance and senior statistician for the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington, D.C. The program is being sponsored by Armstrong/ Robitaille/Riegle Business and Insurance Solutions, a full-service insurance agency that provides clients and their business partners services such as risk management. The event will conclude at 4 p.m. with a wine reception for attendees. Tickets for the program were $550 per seat with table and sponsorship opportunities available. Registration for the event is now closed as attendance has reached its full capacity.

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In 2015, then-ASI Spring Concert Coordinator Shannon Franklin requested additional funds for the event. Because of that concert’s success, Romine said, the ASI Board of Directors wanted to double the attendance. However, the ASI Finance Committee’s budgeting process ended even before the 2015 concert took place, leaving Garibay with a budget that would not have been enough to cover 2016 expenses, which now include costs like the increased security that is associated with doubling attendance to 8,000 people. Current ticket sales are “above 80 percent,” Garibay said, though it is unclear whether or not sales will reach 100 percent by Saturday. The $2 increase of student ticket prices for this year’s concert is due to costs associated with selling tickets online, Garibay added. As for Rae Sremmurd’s agreement with ASI, “No cursing, drug references or explicit language during in-between song banter. Radio edit version of songs is requested,” reads part of the contract. Garibay said that he was “not sure” who requested that clause of the contract. The request, though, may have come about due to concerns for community members, Edwards said. “Oftentimes you’ll have those types of clauses added to performances that are outside, especially where there might be community members present or near local communities because of

children and whatnot,” he said. Another part of the contract stipulates that contractual breaches are to be settled through arbitration in Orange County. Last year, rapper Wiz Khalifa breached his contract when he canceled his Spring Concert appearance to instead perform on Saturday Night Live. ASI, however, chose not to go through arbitration.

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BRIAN MILES GARIBAY Spring Concert Coordinator “It was pretty much dropped,” Garibay said. “We replaced the artist; we didn’t really lose much money.” ASI partners with The Contract Agency, which is responsible for booking acts and finding replacement acts when needed, Garibay said. The agency receives payment equal to 10 percent of what is paid to each performer, he said. Garibay said that Rae Sremmurd was chosen in part due to their live performances. “We narrow down both of our artists, so we pick them based off of budget, availability and genre,” he said. Students can look forward to “a lot of good crowd interactions” come Rae Sremmurd’s performance, Garibay said.

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Data analyst Mikhail Popov spoke about the Wikimedia Foundation’s work in making information more accessible to the world. The foundation is behind Wikipedia, one of the world’s biggest research websites.

Data scientist talks wikis Wikimedia Foundation analyst speaks at statistics colloquium ANDREW SALMI Daily Titan Wikimedia Foundation data scientist and Cal State Fullerton alumnus Mikhail Popov focused on big data analytics and wiki-based products at the mathematics department’s Statistics Colloquium on Wednesday afternoon. Mathematics professor Sam Behseta, Ph.D., and the Cal State Fullerton mathematics department hosted the statistics seminar, drawing a full room of CSUF students in McCarthy Hall 480. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Wikimedia Foundation runs some of the largest reference websites in the world, such as the universally-known Wikipedia. The foundation’s collaboratively edited sites use web analytics and event logging to collect anonymous data about its

users’ search activity. Popov said that the Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to the “growth, development and distribution” of free public content in many different languages in order to educate people around the world. One of the up-and-coming, wiki-based products Popov highlighted is called Wikipedia Zero, which would allow people to freely access information on Wikimedia websites anywhere in the world. “In a lot of countries, the only way to access the internet is through a mobile network where you don’t have actual cables running through it,” Popov said. “We are partnering up with mobile carriers and waiving all data charges when you browse Wikipedia or other Wikimedia websites.” Wikimedia also fights for user privacy, Popov said. “We actually have an ongoing lawsuit against the National Security Agency,” he said. Together with the American Civil Liberties Union and

other organizations, Wikimedia has been fighting against the NSA monitoring Americans’ internet traffic. As one of the scientists at Wikimedia Foundation, Popov works together with his team in the Wikimedia Discovery department and a large global community of volunteers in using big data analytics to make data-informed decisions on new features for Wikimedia products. One metric Popov discussed was that of key performance indicators — or KPIs — for building and maintaining website dashboards, “metrics that search teams set up to monitor their progress and success,” he said. “For us, it’s important to have a high click-through rate because that means that we’re actually providing people with results that they were interested in and that are relevant to them, as opposed to when we provide them with garbage and they don’t end up clicking on anything,” Popov said. The seminar ended in a Q&A session, where someone

asked how Popov makes a living doing work for the nonprofit Wikimedia. Popov quipped, borrowing from the PBS slogan: “from viewers like you.” “In December, we have this giant push to try to get money for the foundation,” Popov said. The foundation receives funds from regular donors who find value in the work that Wikimedia does. While there are a few donors of large sums, a bulk of the money comes from small donations. “Once you have enough people like that, then at that point you have a foundation that can pay its employees a competitive salary,” Popov said, especially in a tech-saturated area like San Francisco. Wikimedia’s main goal, Popov said, is to help people access the information they need through open-source software. “Our mission is to make all of the world’s knowledge available to the public and freely accessible,” Popov said.

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Social media keeps exes connected even after cutting ties EMILY DIECKMAN Daily Titan

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Scott Annin, Ph.D., math professor, enjoys engaging with students by eating lunch and playing basketball with them.

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Annin said he was drawn to math because he was naturally skilled in it and after seeing others struggle, he thought he could help students. He was inspired by his junior high and high school teachers, who demonstrated that teaching was a craft in which one could become great with effort and time. After receiving his Ph.D., Annin was hired at Cal State Fullerton, where he has worked as a professor for the last 14 years. Over the years, Annin said that he has changed as a teacher based on his experiences with students. He has gone from lecture-style lessons to facilitating practical experiences for his students. For example, students in his classes can be seen working out problems on a whiteboard or in groups. “The art of how to explain concepts is something I’ve tried to improve and perfect throughout my career,” he said. Lisa Mueller, president of the CSUF Math Club, has taken three classes with Annin and said he provides “clear and concise” lessons and frequently checks with students to make sure they are comprehending the material. “Whenever he’s teaching, he’s always very enthusiastic about it, which helps us pay more attention to the material and helps us understand it a lot better,” she said. Annin also serves as the faculty adviser to the Math Club. Mueller said he is always there, armed with enthusiasm to participate and promote the club’s activities. Last Friday, he suited up for the annual Physics Club versus Math Club basketball game. “He always participates and

gets us a lot of points, since he plays basketball everyday,” Mueller said. Glesser said that when Annin is not teaching, he is helping students, and even when he takes breaks to decompress, he is engaging with students. “If he needs to go out to eat he’ll say, ‘OK, we’re going to move our office hours over to Del Taco,’” Glesser said. “When he takes breaks, he goes to play basketball with students.” For Annin, teaching and guiding others does not end with the school year. He spends his summers giving people “mountaintop moments” in a more literal sense. For the past nine years, he has been a hikemaster for the YMCA in Colorado, leading hikers to various peaks and points of interest in Rocky Mountain National Park. Annin believes that being a hiking guide has similarities to being a teacher, as both allow him to help people discover new perspectives or accomplish things they may not have thought themselves capable of. Glesser and his kids were also led by Annin while in Colorado for a family reunion. “As a hikemaster, he has the same enthusiasm as in the classroom and the same expertise as when he’s in the classroom, and so it’s just a pleasure to watch,” Glesser said. For Mueller, no one other than her parents has been more influential in her college career than Annin. Annin’s number theory and combinatorics classes are what inspired her to pursue a Ph.D. Glesser said that he believes Annin’s dedication helps to inspire his students to do better. ”We all try to do what he does, but he’s the authentic one; he’s the real deal,” Glesser said.

Ah, the end of a relationship. It’s like the end of a party. You might not know when it’s coming, or it might be pretty much expected. It might end with civil goodbyes, or with a huge, blowout fight. You might date again sometime, or have it be a one-time thing. You just never know. Whether you’re the heartbreaker or the heartbroken, the newly single life is a rocky, confusing and altogether horrendous landscape. Social media has made every individual in our lives more pervasive than ever, but it seems like it has made our exes especially inescapable. Sometimes, it is practically impossible to avoid pictures of your ex with his hot new girlfriend, because of all the pictures and statuses where they are proclaiming their undying love for each other. “I’ve never felt like this

before,” says his Twitter. “Once in a lifetime love,” screams her Instagram captions, making you wonder what exactly that made you. Sometimes, though, I have to admit, the pictures and statuses don’t need to be pervasive for me to see them. I swear, sometimes when I’m in the throes of heartbreak, I’m just trying to scroll through Facebook nonchalantly when, before I know it, I’m on my ex’s Facebook page. Breakups in today’s world are a lot harder because they’re not clean breaks. In the days of sock hops and rotary phones, a breakup was like ripping off a bandaid: painful, yes, but over in one fell swoop. Today, a breakup is more like trying to hack off a diseased limb with a dull axe: you expect it to be over all at once, but cutting off ties is difficult. Maybe I still see my ex at social events, so I start avoiding gatherings where I know I will see him. But there’s still social media, haunting me with my ex’s face, my ex’s check-ins and my ex’s witty aphorisms, so I delete him off every

account I can think of. But his number is still in my phone, so every time I’m feeling lonely, nostalgic or maybe a little bit drunk, it would be so easy to send a quick, “hey.” I mean, if I don’t capitalize the “h” and I don’t even bother to put a period, it doesn’t seem too desperate, right? Because I’m not desperate, so I don’t want to seem that way. I’m just checking in, not because I care, but to be polite. For God’s sake, I don’t want to seem inhumane. He’s probably wondering about me at this point, honestly, because he hasn’t seen anything about me on social media. It’s kind of rude to let him worry, probably. I guess that sort of makes the whole post-breakup experience sound a little common, but I really do think that all of the ways technology keeps us connected has made the end of any relationship harder. I remember my dad telling me, after my first tearful breakup, to just give myself, and my (how it pained my heart to say it) now-ex-boyfriend some space. “When I was your age,”

he said, “we didn’t have a choice but to give each other space. And I think that made it easier.” I can’t help but agree with the sentiment my dad offered to 17-year-old me, who, at the time, was hiding under her covers in a cocoon of grief. While it’s nice to be connected to the ones we love, sometimes it can feel like a special form of torture to be able to be so connected to the people who don’t love us. After a breakup, we don’t just have to adjust to not seeing that person anymore, but we also can no longer comment on their new profile pictures, expect their text messages or have their picture as the background on our phones. As communication in relationships become easier and more convenient, it stands to reason that breakups would become more difficult and agonizing. Technology seems to have turned up the volume for the whole spectrum of human experiences. I guess intensity isn’t always a good thing, but, hey, you can’t win ‘em all.

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Cal State Fullerton students gathered on Tuffy Lawn in front of the Student Recreation Center for an ASI Productions-hosted screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” on Wednesday night. Attendees were given complimentary blankets and food vouchers as they sat in front of a large, inflatable screen to watch the film. Prior to the screening, first-year entertainment-and-tourism major Celeste Lara won first place at a costume contest, hosted by the Resident Student Association, for her portrayal as Darth Vader. She received two tickets to Disneyland.

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Alumnus helps start video company CSUF graduate coowns low-budget production business MEGAN SMITH Daily Titan Keane Eacobellis looks like a typical Hollywood producer, with his backwards hat, long-sleeved, button-up shirt and relaxed posture at a retro eatery in Old Town Orange. His easy demeanor is apparent upon his first spoken words. “I had originally majored in radio-TV-film, and I emphasized in writing,” said Eacobellis, a Cal State Fullerton alumnus. “I always said, ‘It’s all fine, because there’s two things I’m never going to do, and that was produce and own my own company. And now, surprise, here I am four years later suddenly producing and owning my own company.” Eacobellis is the co-owner of a production company called Monkey Suit Productions. Eacobellis said that going to CSUF and majoring in RTVF helped with base knowledge of the field. If he had not majored in RTVF, he would not have known what anyone was talking about, he said. But by owning his own company and actually being on set, he has learned “exponentially more.” “It helped with knowing a lot of basics,” he said. “But the funny thing is, I went to film school and I learned more about the film industry in the two years after I graduated than I learned in the two years I was there.”

Monkey Suit Productions consists of four owners: Eacobellis, Andrew Ferchland, Kristopher Allen and Zach Whitcomb. “Andrew and I originally kind of started the thought process on (our company),” Eacobellis said. Eacobellis first met Ferchland while working at Starbucks, when Ferchland came in as a new trainee. He said that they quickly started talking about how Ferchland was interested in acting and was looking for a writing partner. “‘Funny you should say that,’” Eacobellis recalled saying. “‘Because I happen to be going to school for writing.’” It wasn’t long before the two started collaborating. “He showed up the next day with an episode and a half and a storyboard,” Ferchland said. “It’s easy when you have somebody to spitball with,” Eacobellis said. “He was like, ‘Oh yeah, I have this idea,’ and he explained it to me, and my mind wheels just started turning at hyper speed. I was like, ‘Oh, this is so great.’ I felt inspired.” Ferchland believes Eacobellis’ background at CSUF has been beneficial to their company. “We all have different backgrounds. For instance, I grew up acting in the business, and so my perspective (was that) I did not go to film school, I just worked as an actor,” he explained. Whitcomb, the group’s cinematographer, is selftaught and did not go to film school either. Allen is an actor who has worked with notable

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CSUF alumnus Keane Eacobellis (right) helped start Monkey Suit Productions, a video production company, which he co-owns with Andrew Ferchland (left), Kristopher Allen and Zach Whitcomb. To keep production costs down, they rent out their equipment.

directors like Alejandroc Iñárritu. “What (Eacobellis) brings to the table with his more formal education is very useful because there are things that he knows that we just don’t from that perspective and vice versa,” Ferchland said. Whitcomb said that CSUF is where Eacobellis went and learned his writing skills. “I think he brought his writing and a maybe little bit of his directorial experience (from CSUF),” he said, adding that Eacobellis also learned the creative process of storyboards at CSUF. Eacobellis said that, while he learned the ropes at CSUF, and Whitcomb and Allen have firsthand knowledge of being on sets, the different viewpoints are what make the process really work.

“I’ve got a very wide perspective on like, ‘Well this is like what the books taught me,’” he said. “When I observed at school, somebody said, ‘This is how it all works together,’ and I feel like that helps us be cohesive. We all have our own centered paths that we want to focus on, but it helps when you step back and look at the whole picture.” Monkey Suit Productions’ first project, “The Unhallowed,” is a fantasy horror show. The inspiration came from Ferchland, who played a minor featured character named Collin in the first two seasons of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” “Thinking, business-wise — which is something I said I would never have to worry about in school — I was thinking, you know, it would be great if we threw back to

those things, and to some of those ideas and themes,” Eacobellis said. Monkey Suit Productions has worked on short trailers, scenes to use as teaser footage and the pilot for “The Unhallowed.” “In terms of scope, this is the first thing we have actually tried to pitch and make as a solidified series,” Eacobellis said. Collectively, Monkey Suit Productions’ owners have invested well over $5,000. To keep costs low, the production company rents its equipment. “We buy little things where we can, but a lot of it is relying on rental houses,” Eacobellis said. Ferchland said that because Whitcomb does work gaffing and gripping for Chapman University, he knows a community of people who can help him get his hands on equipment.

”Beg, borrow and steal,” he chuckled. The pilot episode of “The Unhallowed” has taken about a year to make, and the end result is only about nine minutes long. However, the company also created 15 minutes of pre-release footage. Monkey Studio Productions is crowdfunding for the next episode of “The Unhallowed” on IndieGoGo.com, starting May 11. “We are going to put the pilot up, the very first episode, and we are going to crowdfund for the next one,” Eacobellis said. The idea is if someone sees the pilot and they like what they see, they can help fund Monkey Suit Productions’ next project. Monkey Suit Productions will be presenting at the Whedonopolis convention and participating in a panel on May 15.

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Proper form for journalists can censor a story’s emotion AP style’s stringent rules on vulgarity make articles lose meaning GERARD AVELINO Daily Titan A picture is worth a thousand words, but the Associated Press doesn’t like it when those words are too explicit. For publications that follow AP style, it’s standard journalistic practice to censor foul language. Of course, this is only the case when no other illustration or quote would do. However, even if the text or photos that contain expletives are the best way to tell the story, the AP Stylebook says censorship is necessary. Offensive photos must be blurred and profanity must be replaced with dashes. The Daily Titan news desk ran into this problem last week, thanks to Donald Trump. The Daily Titan reporters took photos of agitated demonstrators holding signs declaring, in very colorful language, a profound hatred of the Republican presidential front-runner. “F--- Trump!” one sign said in red spray paint. “F-- racism!” said another. Just the week before, the Daily Titan published photos from The Clothesline Project, where sexual violence survivors found catharsis in decorating shirts with messages for their assaulters. Right on the front page, a prominently placed, purple T-shirt declared: “Dear straight rapist, you can’t f--- the queer away. F--- you.” Sure enough, the Daily Titan faculty adviser shortly thereafter sent the editors a series of emails, one with a copy of the

AP policy on vulgarities. There did seem to be a weekly trend of F-bombs, and it’s a completely valid concern. People could be offended by profanity, no matter how sparsely the paper prints them. But as times change, the use of language changes and, as I had pointed out a few weeks ago, AP style isn’t exactly a benchmark for keeping up with the evolution of common language practices. In March 2014, English expert and lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower wrote “The Case for Profanity in Print” in the op-ed section of The New York Times. Sheidlower, who wrote a detailed history of the word “f---” in his book “The F-Word,” said that pixelating profanity and introducing roundabout ways to explain expletives takes away from the story, especially considering how society has since become more tolerant of obscenity. “Even when certain words are necessary to the understanding of a story, the media frequently resort to euphemisms or coy acrobatics that make stories read as if they were time capsules written decades ago, forcing us all into wi n k-wi n k-nudge -nudge territory,” he wrote. There’s even a whole Tumblr blog, “Fit to Print,” that documents the ways NYT tries to creatively avoid printing profanities in quotes. Some common methods include saying “He added an expletive,” or calling someone’s words “unprintable.” One entry I found especially funny was one in which NYT tried to avoid the F-word in the title of a theater play — in a review of said play. That is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

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Since AP style requires explicit words or phrases to be cut out of an article, this could potentially lessen the impact of a story. Furthermore, changing words or blanking them out can cause confusion to the reader.

The fact is that everybody knows what “f---” stands for. There’s no point in covering up a word that is so ubiquitous in American parlance that even 8-year-olds know what it is. NYT’s associate managing editor for standards, Phil Corbett, told the American Journalism Review that his paper’s goal wasn’t to be “prudish” but to keep a serious, intellectual tone. But being intellectual and using taboo exclamations are not mutually exclusive. I think that people who can get past the use of expletives show a level of intellectual

and emotional maturity greater than those who are offended by words that are not even targeted at them. It’s also relevant to note that, as a student paper, the Daily Titan’s target skews toward a younger audience. College-age students are at the center of the rapidly evolving English language, and profanity like what had been featured on DT’s front page just doesn’t faze them anymore. Besides, nobody has, as of yet, complained about the photos that the Daily Titan decided to publish. And if you do want to complain, by

all means, send us a letter. We’d love to read (and maybe publish) what you have to say. Of course, obscenities shouldn’t just be thrown around willy-nilly or for shock value. There are certainly situations in which using a curse word or slur would do more damage than otherwise. It’s common sense to have a policy that minimizes harm and, thankfully, these situations are often obvious enough to avoid. Yes, profanity is mostly avoidable, but self-censorship, especially when it

comes to providing emotional context behind a story, is not the best way to present the facts in certain stories. The fact is that the anger in the anti-Trump signs and the fury in the purple T-shirt were important in showing the audience what the subjects of the story were feeling. After all, journalism, at its core, is a testament to the human condition, blemishes and all. Sheidlower said it best in his op-ed: “When language can play such a hot-button role in our society, what we need is more reporting, not less.”

School closures bring out the best in Detroit Motor City learns valuable lessons when teachers call in “sick” GALEN PATTERSON Daily Titan For two days straight, Detroit’s teacher’s union has called in “sick” to protest its missing pay. This happened because the $48.7 million that was set aside to pay them was most likely spent on other things, according to ABC News. What the citizens of Detroit did in response is as valuable as any lesson they could teach in school. The problem extends further than the instructors, to the parents of the students

and the students themselves. Detroit Public Schools are under emergency management and have taken emergency measures. Many of the parents rallied in support of the teacher’s union, but some were forced to provide child care when the schools were canceled. The Detroit Free Press reported that Barbara DeBoest, a grandmother of three affected students, babysat her grandchildren and other neighborhood kids while parents worked during the school day. She also provided them with food in exchange for a reimbursement of food. The situation in Detroit is the result of the city’s 2013 bankruptcy declaration. There’s no money to pay for

teachers or child care, so in this case, the people of Detroit had to be resourceful by resorting to a form of archaic exchange and communal child care. For DeBoest, this protest has given her an opportunity to help her community. A great deal of attention has been placed on the students. Roughly 47,000 children had to stay home for two days while the schools were closed. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Students in Detroit Public Schools have a noteworthy and remarkable education gap, even when compared to their geographically similar competitors. The student performance in fourth and eighth-grade reading and math stand well

below Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland and the rest of the state of Michigan in almost every category, according to Education Next, an online journal focused on education reform. These students are not missing out on anything crucial, because the method in which they are being taught by the state clearly isn’t working. Perhaps they will benefit from frustrated teachers, parents and child care providers who can teach them when the appropriate time to protest is, and how a strong community bands together in a time of need. The teachers are arguably the most affected by this. They have contracts with options that determine their pay schedule, which allows for

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them to be able to manage their money and help cover their summer absence. The school district literally told them they wouldn’t be paid. The announcement was the protest’s catalyst. Teachers are professionals, regardless of the retention of their students. The teachers dedicated time from their lives to learn how to teach. They entered the field under the expectation that they would be paid for their services. When they were told the school district couldn’t afford to pay them, they made a decision as a union. If the school district couldn’t afford them, they couldn’t afford to work for free. Early Wednesday morning, the emergency manager appointed to the district, Steven

Rhodes, issued a guarantee that the teachers will be paid in full, according to CNN. The teachers union went back to work. This is just another problem facing the decaying public schools of Detroit, but it’s not the condition of the school that matters, or the paycheck the staff bring home. What matters is what the school produces. With this protest, the teacher’s union stood its ground and offered an honorable example to its students. The community members who stepped up to ease the child care crisis did the same. The city is meeting its legal obligations to pay what is due. The Detroit “sick-out” of 2016 brought out the best in Detroit.

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CSUF lands in seventh place out of nine in Big West Championships VICTOR GALLEGOS Daily Titan

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Raeanne Martinez scored a run in last Wednesday’s 8-0 win over the Cal State Long Beach 49ers when she came in to pinch run for Kylie Padilla in the third inning.

Titans to defend No. 1 Big West spot Softball hits the road for conference series against Northridge ANDREW SALMI Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton softball hopes to rebound from its first Big West Conference series loss last week when it travels north to take on the Cal State Northridge Matadors for a crucial three-game slate. With its visit to CSUN this upcoming weekend, CSUF will put its perfect 9-0 away record on the line for its final three road games of the 2016 regular season. The Titans are currently at the top of the Big West

standings with a 13-2 conference record and 39-12 overall. Long Beach ruined The Titans’ 13-game winning streak last Wednesday, handing Fullerton its first conference loss of the season in the first game of a doubleheader. The Titans took the second game of that doubleheader 8-0, as senior lefty Desiree Ybarra struck out four batters in six innings en route to her 13th win of the season, her best win total since her 13-win freshman season. The Matadors are right on the Titans’ tail in the conference standings, sitting in second place with a 10-5 conference record and 30-20 overall. During Friday’s 8-4 loss in the series finale, junior

catcher Alexis Gonzalez hit her eighth home run of the season in the first inning to give the Titans an early 2-0 lead. Gonzalez’s homer tied senior third baseman Missy Taukeiaho for most home runs on the team. Gonzalez leads the Titans in RBIs with 38 on the year, while Taukeiaho is a close second with 34. Fresh off of a series sweep of the UC Riverside Highlanders (31-17-1 overall, 7-8 Big West), the Matadors have gained some momentum going into this weekend. Northridge put the hurt on UCR in the three-game series, outscoring the Highlanders 16-3. For the Matadors this season, sophomore infielder Savannah Horvath leads

the way on offense with a team-high 11 home runs, 31 RBIs and 20 stolen bases in 2016. Taylor Glover, junior outfielder, leads the team in batting average and has smacked four home runs to go along with 30 RBIs. In the circle, junior right-hander Daphne Pofek serves as Northridge’s ace this season. Flaunting an impressive 17-6 record and 2.62 ERA, Pofek has struck out 90 batters in 147 innings pitched. The upcoming series at Cal State Northridge will begin on Friday with a doubleheader at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m., followed by Saturday’s matinee game, also starting at 1 p.m. All games will be held at Matador Diamond.

In its final competition of the season, the Cal State Fullerton men’s golf team shot a 3-over par third round Wednesday, finishing the Big West Championship in seventh place, 26 strokes behind first place. The Titans, who had won the tournament in 2013 and 2014, were all but out of contention entering Wednesday. Fullerton managed to shoot an improved round after shooting a disastrous 15over par in round two. The first hole continued to trouble the Titans on Wednesday as four of the five players recorded a bogey or double-bogey. In contrast to round two, however, the Titans were able to brush aside the slipup of the first hole. Davis Holman shot a 2-over par; a much-improved score from the 9-over par he shot the day before. He finished the tournament with an overall score of 12-over par and

tied for 34th place on the leaderboard. Mark Jensma also performed much better on Wednesday, with a 3-over par. He finished the tournament with a 10-over par, tied for 30th. The biggest bounce back belonged to Jack Ireland. After shooting a 7-over par in round two, Ireland shot a 1-under par in the third round. He finished with an 11-over par and tied for 32nd place. Mark Cobey, the Titans’ second-most consistent player in the tournament through the first two rounds, had his worst outing Wednesday. He shot a 6-over par, including a bogey on the 17th hole and a double-bogey on the 18th. Cobey finished the tournament with a 12-over par and tied for 34th place. Lastly, Matt Wilson, the Titans’ best player throughout the three-day championship, continued his scorching play. He shot a 1-under par in the final round and finished the tournament tied for third place with a 1-under par. Wilson was the highest-placed freshman in the tournament and led the Titans in scoring for the third time this season.

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