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CSUF students gather for first presidential debate

Elders goes the distance Head coach eager for first Big West team running title BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan

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Engaged univeristy students enjoyed free food provided by the Lobby Corps at Monday night’s presidential debate watch party. Potential voters from different ideologies were present and ready to receive some sought out answers in the CNN hosted debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Lobby Corps hosted free watch party at The Pub JILLIAN SALAS Daily Titan

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met at the podium for the first time since the presidential race began and Cal State Fullerton students gathered together to watch the event.

The ASI Lobby Corps hosted a showing of the presidential debate at The Pub

in the Titan Student Union where students had the opportunity to see the face-off between the Democratic and Republican nominees.

With the election just weeks away, students looked toward the debate for more information on each party’s platform, but some left with

questions unanswered.

“I want to see genuine answers from both candidates..

I feel like there was a little beating around the bush tonight,” said senior human services major Victor Fletes.

As a first generation college student, Fletes felt the heaviness of the next possible

president and said the debates were time-sensitive to him.

“It’s just too important right now… I really want to see a future for not just my life but I want to see other people have opportunities,” Fletes said.

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Cal State Fullerton cross country and track Head Coach John Elders paces around the weight room with a smile from ear-to-ear. He offers words of encouragement to each group of runners, urging them to finish their workout strong.

“He always has a smile on his face, he always pushes you to work harder,” said cross country and distance track runner Sierra Ungerman. “His energy makes you want to try harder and do better.”

Elders has been at his post for 29 years. His longevity as a coach and success in reaching his runners wasn’t something he expected.

“Coaching wasn’t really something on my radar. I just thought it would be fun to stay involved with the team,” Elders said.

Elders earned his Bachelor of Science in computer science with a minor in mathematics from CSUF and ran on the cross country team.

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Prison reform dissected in panel

Boom magazine invites debate on California prisons ANDREW SALMI Daily Titan

Boom: A Journal of California, a University of California Press publication that was brought to Cal State Fullerton over the summer, hosted a forum Monday night at the Fullerton Arboretum to discuss prison reform in California.

The latest issue of Boom’s quarterly publication from summer 2016, “Correcting California,” was the focal point of the free event that was open to students as well as the public. “(Boom) will be peer reviewed and it’ll be an academic interdisciplinary engagement with California’s culture, and social issues that matter to Californians,” said Jason Sexton, lecturer in CSUF’s University Honors Program and editor of Boom magazine.

The forum on prison reform featured a panel of five participants: Sexton, UC Riverside associate professor of history Catherine

Gudis, former lawyer turned community activist Kevin Michael Key, Proposition 47 implementation director Marisa Arrona and Healing Justice Coalition director Javier Stauring.

Sheri Graves, the mother of recently-deceased prisoner Shaylene Antoinette Graves, headlined the event by speaking about what she believed was a complete injustice committed by the California Institution for Women in Corona.

Shaylene Graves died of an apparent suicide on June 1, 2016, just six weeks before she was scheduled to be released upon completion of an eight-year sentence.

“I was directly affected by the abuse, neglect and extended failure of our current prison system,” Sheri Graves said. “(Shaylene Graves) was definitely a one-in-a-million person. Many people are described as special, but under normal circumstances. Shaylene was exceptionally special in the worst of circumstances. Having to wake up every day in hell on Earth, she was real; one of the most verbally expressive persons you could ever meet.”

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STEM grant leads to new expansions

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$300,000 is set to fund a new two-year pilot program in the College of Engineering and Computer 2 Science

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A panel of individuals who all wrote articles for the Summer 2016 edition of Boom magazine discussed prison reform in California at a forum in the Arboretum. From left to right, the panel included Javier Stauring, Kevin Michael Key, Marisa Arrona, Catherine Gudis and Jason Sexton.

Grad student serves as program director

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Patricia Feliz, a student pursuing a master’s in social justice, heads the High School Equivalency Program 4 (HEP) at CSUF

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DTBRIEFS Suspects named in local murder

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New updates on the triple homicide murder case in Fullerton were provided by Sgt. John Radus of Fullerton Police Monday, according to KTLA. Radus predicts that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office will begin processing the case concerning Josh Acosta, 21, Frank Felix, 25, and the 17-year-old girl who is being held on the suspicion of murder and conspiracy Tuesday.

Police suspect the three arrested knew the victims.

The ages of the deceased couple’s two younger children were confirmed to be six and nine. The 6-year-old called 911 to report the crime.

The other deceased victim also had a 5-year-old son.

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The College of Engineering and Computer Science has implemented the (STEM)² program for the past five years. Now in its last semester, it serves as a model for the upcoming (STEM)³ program.

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Students involved in the STEM program find themselves in a resourceful community and reap the benefits of priority registration as well as a peer mentoring program.

$300,000 grant to expand STEM CSUF science program to help more students ASHLYN RAMIREZ Daily Titan The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued almost $300,000 to Cal State Fullerton in order to fund a two-year pilot of the existing (STEM)² program called (STEM)³.

The program plans to expand the project to other neighboring CSU campuses and eventually apply for a much larger grant, according to interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Susamma Barua.

(STEM)² is a branchoff from the STEM majors on campus: Science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

This branch focuses solely on reaching out to community college students who are underrepresented and often struggle to complete a bachelor’s degree in a STEM major, said Barua.

(STEM)² works with community colleges that are Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI). Their mission was to increase STEM majors from the community college level to the four-year university. (STEM)³ replicates it with Pomona and Citrus. (STEM)² served as a model for the new program, said (STEM)² project director Maria V. Dela Cruz, P.h.D. CSUF was previously working with a five-year pilot grant, CSUF partnered with Cal Poly Pomona, Citrus Community College and Cypress College. The goal is to continue to engage hispanic and low-income students who are specifically STEM majors and want to transfer to a

four-year university.

It started as a $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the model proved to be successful, prompting the NSF to want to make networks with different universities in order to provide STEM success.

Dela Cruz hopes that this model can eventually be formulated to fit all of California’s CSU colleges.

There has been a national need for an increase of representation in STEM fields, said professor of physics Michael Loverude, P.h.D., a contributor to the (STEM)² program. He places emphasis on the fact that there is a lot of talent and people interested in applying themselves to those majors, however, the system is failing those young people.

In order to help students further their learning at a four-year institution, (STEM)², which is coming to an end this semester, offers a peer mentoring program and a summer research session.

It also provides benefits such as priority registration, which helps students get the classes they need.

“This grant will allow us to expand some of the successful components that we have already implemented through another STEM grant which was a five-year grant and is coming to an end this semester,” said Barua.

The summer research sessions, which the program hopes to expand upon in the future, enables students to have one-on-one training with a CSUF faculty member over an eight-week period.

The student is paid a stipend of $5,000 to help students with the cost of school and living while studying over the summer, and the staff is also paid for their research time.

“A lot of these students end

up coming to Cal State Fullerton after doing research in the faculty labs here, and when many of these students come, they continue to do their research. So, it kind of makes science alive for them,” Dela Cruz said.

An increase in successful STEM majors means that we will increase the workforce, Barua said.

Along with helping the educational needs of students, (STEM)² also aims to provide students with a community that they can meet and share with. From the 33 students who participate in the summer research program, almost everyone transfers, said associate dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Mark Filowitz, P.h.D. CSUF has been collecting data from the pilot and it has been found that 74 percent of students who begin researching through the (STEM)² program end up transferring to a four-year institution, Dela Cruz said. The transfer support program has proved that the retention rates have gone up, and there is far less of a GPA drop compared to other STEM majors who aren’t participating in the program.

Alejandra Garcia, a marine biology major, transferred to CSUF in 2014 from Citrus College and currently works in the peer mentor program for (STEM)². Her interest in the STEM field and the connection to Citrus College is what brought her to transfer and continue her studies at CSUF. “What I like most is that we provide great resources for transfer students, especially for first generation students.

I’m a first generation student, so it helped me a lot to guide me through what programs they have offered, related to your major,” Garcia said.

A new bill signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown requires law enforcement officers and concealed weapon carriers to lock unattended weapons in a safe box or in the trunk of their cars, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The bill began as a response to two deaths that occurred as a result of guns being stolen from a Federal Bureau of Land Management ranger and a Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement car in San Francisco and Oakland.

Other bills signed in the package aim to shorten the number of days it will take to review cases concerning gun purchasers who are ineligible to carry a firearm and to develop concealed carry license uniformity between counties.

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Disney to get cupcake bakery Downtown Disney District will welcome well-known Sprinkles Cupcakes this November.

Food Network star and founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes, Candace Nelson, said to the OC Register that she’s excited to be represented on both coasts. Disney Springs, Walt Disney World’s equivalent of Downtown Disney, has had a Sprinkles Cupcakes since May. The dessert shop will replace the current Something Silver retail store in the Downtown Disney District.

Customers will be able to purchase homemade gourmet cupcakes. However, this location will not be offering its ice cream that is found at the store in Newport Beach, Calif.

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Jason Sexton, lecturer in the Univeristy Honors Program at Cal State Fullerton and Editor of Boom magazine, spoke as part of the panel at Monday’s “California Prison Reform Today” event.

Boom’s issue on prison’s, “Correcting California,” was Sexton’s first publication as editor.

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Arrona opened up about Proposition 47, saying that issues with criminals need to be addressed with more urgency.

“The way government agencies and law enforcement agencies respond to reform is very important in the way they collaborate and partner with other agencies to address crime way before it happens,” Arrona said. “I think if we really took care of our brothers and sisters who have mental issues or substance abuse problems, we would have a much smaller population of people who really

needed to figure out ‘what else do we need to do with these individuals?’”

Key was very vocal about his stance on the corrupt prison system in California as well as the overly-flawed and underfunded education system spanning from kindergarten through the 12th grade.

“It’s corrupt, it’s corrupt, it’s corrupt,” Key said.

“You’re not going to get any justice. You’re not going to get any peace. We become slaves to this monster.”

The topic of prison reform is addressed in California’s Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016 (Proposition 57), which

would make more parole opportunities available for convicted nonviolent criminals. Proposition 57 also potentially puts the decision to try certain juveniles as adults up to the judges rather than the prosecutors.

“We’re faced with chipping away at a system,” Stauring said. “If Prop 57 passes, it would take away the power from prosecutors to send kids into the adult system automatically. It brings back incentives for people in prison to do well.”

Key said there needs to be massive change in the already-broken California

prison system.

“I’m sorry, but when I hear the words ‘prison reform’ or ‘jail reform,’ all of that almost makes me want to puke because it’s a fallacy and a lie. That’s why I’m an abolitionist,” Key said.

“Would you reform slavery? Or did it need to be wiped clean? The jails are getting bigger, they’re getting more modern, they’re making the prisons prettier. But when you go inside, the same inhumanity reigns supreme.”

One of the event attendees, manager of public affairs with Californians for Safety and Justice Will Matthews, found that the

discussion topics were extremely important for California residents to be having amongst one another right now.

“I think we have a really unique moment in time where there are a lot of folks who are very dialed into the need to reform the criminal justice system, and because so many people are dialed in we really have the opportunity to do some meaningful things,” Matthews said. “I’m really hopeful about this moment. I don’t think people are overlooking this issue at all, actually.”

Colby Rummell, a sophomore business major at

CSUF, said Monday night’s experience was very eye-opening.

“Just to open your eyes and understand that there are things behind the things that you don’t know about.

And just to definitely look at how you can change the world for the better,” Rummell said.

Sexton, Arrona and other panelists will continue to discuss their summer 2016 issue of Boom magazine’s focus on California prison reform Thursday at the University of California, Berkeley. The event will take place at the Boalt School of Law from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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In one of its many efforts to get CSUF students registered to vote, the Lobby Corps handed out informational pamplets on how to register to attendees.

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Sophomore accounting major David Phung, said the limited time frame restricted what the presidential nominees could say and left the audience with a repetition of what was said in the primaries.

Despite the stalemate some students felt, others had a stronger feeling of who they will be casting their vote for in November.

Alec Marshall, president of the CSUF College Democrats, favored Clinton’s foreign policy and her solution to create jobs and said the debate showed “her quality of understanding the topics at hand.”

On the conservative end, senior John Carusillo said he supported Trump’s vision for a stronger economy and tighter national security.

The airing of the presidential debate marks the homestretch to the election and the Lobby Corps’ effort to unite the student body to participate and vote. Alongside the College Democrats and College Republicans, students of other political parties came together in peace to see the future of America.

Although the symbolic “Make America Great Again” hat and infamous Donald Trump piñata made guest appearances inside The Pub, students still felt a sense of unity during the debate.

“It’s definitely brought us a lot closer (together). I know in previous elections, a lot of people our age - our generation - have been kind of tuned out. It didn’t really matter to them,” Carusillo said. “Trump and Clinton

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butting heads, it’s bringing people together.”

Lobby Corps Strategic Communications coordinator Saba Ansari said that the goal of the organization is to register 10 percent of students to vote.

In pairing with the presidential race, Lobby Corps launched its own campaign, #CSUFvote, “to get students excited about the election, about what was going on, to get them involved and to make them feel like they do have a voice,” Ansari said.

The Lobby Corps plans to show next week’s vice presidential debate on Oct. 4 and the third presidential debate on Oct. 9, but in a larger venue. It will also be hosting an all-day event in the central quad on Oct. 24, the last day to register to vote and its final push to meet its quota.

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Grad heads program for farmworkers

Master’s student helps rural youth attain higher education ROBERTO MUNIZ NIKKI NADVORNICK Daily Titan

Patricia Feliz is a current Cal State Fullerton graduate student pursuing her master’s degree in social justice while also working on campus as the High School Equivalency Program (HEP) director.

“HEP is a five-year grant to provide high school equivalency training and supportive services to local agricultural workers and their family members,” Feliz said.

Although this is only her second year working with HEP at CSUF, she has been involved with HEP in the nonprofit sector for 10 years.

Feliz has always had a major interest in helping the people around her, even when pursuing other fields of interest.

“My professional life has really been pretty much dedicated to community-based education work,” Feliz said.

Feliz’s interest in helping people stems all the way back to her undergraduate experience at UC Berkeley, where she studied history with a minor in both Spanish and Portuguese.

“Berkeley has historically been known as a very politically active place, and I think you can’t help but be a student and know what’s going on in the East Bay and to be driven to participate,” Feliz said. “I think you just have that consciousness as a student there.”

Following her education at UC Berkeley, Feliz pursued an internship within the Tenderloin, a notoriously disreputable neighborhood in San Francisco. It was one of the first places where she was allowed to apply her passion

for community work.

“I first started interning as a student when I was an undergrad, so it’s a pretty different neighborhood. It can be shocking if you’ve never been in an urban environment like that, but I grew to immediately love it because it was organizing work,” Feliz said.

Feliz decided to move back to Southern California to continue her journey closer to home.

“So then I went and taught high school, but I always missed that element of being out with other people in the neighborhood and working on resolving an issue together,” Feliz said.

While residing in Southern California, Feliz was separating her time between being active with her community and juggling her family life at home.

Pablo Jasis, Ph.D., associate professor in the Elementary and Bilingual Education Department, said that he first hired Feliz to work on an after school program in Pico Rivera. There, she introduced academic and extracurricular activities designed to help struggling students to improve.

“That program, under her direction, under her leadership, became an educational model for the whole nation.

She made tremendous progress,” Jasis said.

After working with Feliz on the project for about four years, Jasis was confident that his colleague’s track record of experience would benefit the upcoming farmworker program at CSUF. “I asked her if she wanted to be the instruction director/coordinator for a farmworker educational project, which is very similar to the one we have here, and again I was lucky that she accepted,” Jasis said.

That project helped over a thousand adult farmworkers to earn their GEDs and transition to college, he said.

Feliz said that working with HEP through a

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Patricia Feliz studied history, Spanish and Portruguese at UC Berkeley. After working in community-based education for 20 years, she returned to Cal State Fullerton to pursue a master’s degree in social justice. She is also the director of the High School Equivalency Program (HEP) on campus.

university rather than a nonprofit has provided more opportunities for expanding the program. For example, members have been able to make a more direct connection between university life and the farmworker students in HEP who live in rural communities such as Fallbrook. This includes events such as stress management workshops.

“If you haven’t had a family legacy of folks having gone to college and graduated, it’s hard to visualize that for yourself,” Feliz said. “We see that with the students, that the moment they set foot here, something changes.

It really changes their perspective about what’s possible, and about what they can accomplish.”

Feliz said she feels connected to her work because she grew up watching her

parents work with their hands. Although they never had the opportunity to pursue higher education themselves, they were a large part of why Feliz was able to be the first in her family to attend college.

“It is a very hard thing to do when you’re a farmworker, to engage in studying,” Feliz said. “But yet there’s something there – there’s an intellectual curiosity, there’s an interest in being a part of that formal academic life.

And I think that programs like these invite them in and invite their experience, are acknowledging of that experience.”

Feliz’s decision to return to school was not an easy one because she was so passionate about being able to work in the community. After earning her undergraduate degree, it was 20 years

before she returned to the education system to pursue her master’s degree.

“I’m usually here (at CSUF) until two or three and then we take off and we (the HEP team) go to Fallbrook or Coachella and then get home and I’m on the computer until about two or three in the morning to get my things done,” Feliz said.

Feliz’s family is very understanding and supportive of her busy schedule.

Feliz said that even her weekends are jam-packed, and that she feels lucky to have a supportive husband and an 11-year-old son who know how much her education means to her.

“He comes up to me randomly and says, ‘Mom, I’m really proud of you,’” she said.

Many people who work

alongside Feliz within the HEP program have nothing but nice things to say about her.

Scarlett Lobo, an international student working as a tutor assistant for HEP, has been working with Feliz since February.

“She’s very positive, has good energy and is very helpful,” Lobo said. “She always tries to make us all feel very comfortable.”

Jasis said that he values Feliz’s diligence and her ability to work with a team.

“We have a lot of the same ideas about education and the importance of family, community and seeing education as the tool for social change,” he said.

The road for Feliz has been long, but it has also been rewarding. She is expected to graduate with her master’s degree in social justice in 2018.

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Streaming does not pay off Musicians using sites to promote music are taken advantage of ANDREW SALMI Daily Titan As rapper Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., known professionally as Nelly, enters into an astronomical level of debt, it apparently falls into the hands of the public to defibrillate his bank account. But as heroic as the public has been in streaming his music night and day, Nelly is still at the bottom of the barrel.

However, one good thing that Nelly and his grillz have brought about is the questionable payment plans for artists who stream songs. If 60 million repeats of Nelly’s songs didn’t help, then there is something wrong with the profitability of music streaming.

While Nelly faces an IRS tax lien of an eye-popping $2,412,283 and owes an additional $149,511 in state taxes, his fans have been quick to help out. Listeners began streaming his nostalgic 2002 single “Hot in Herre” on Spotify in massive numbers, in hopes that he could fend off the IRS. Unfortunately, this small problem is part of a larger issue, one where streaming websites are not paying off for artists that work hard to get their work to the public.

Artists across the globe

are making considerably less money off their music being streamed than people really think. Frankly, this should not sit well with any artist who uses streaming sites, which is why most of them defer from this type of distribution.

Prominent artists like Prince and Taylor Swift removed their music from Spotify in protest of the lack of artist royalties. Swift famously wrote an open letter criticizing Spotify for giving “zero percent compensation to rights holders,” Swift said in an interview with Vanity Fair.

Drake’s songs were streamed on Spotify a whopping 1.8 billion times over the course of 2015. This seems like a massive amount of streaming time for the rapper.

However, the amount of money he actually made compared to the streams is disparaging.

The Toronto native and Grammy Awards winner roughly made about $15 million off of those 1.8 billion streams from Spotify users worldwide, according to The Verge, an online publication that covers the intersection of technology, science, art and culture.

While that is a considerable amount of money, the math breaks down only $0.0083 per Spotify stream. While this might not matter for a big artist, it really would matter to someone who isn’t as popular as Drake, like Nelly.

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The extremely small amount of money streaming brings unfortunately cannot help Nelly come out of debt.

music streaming service says that an average payout per stream to rights holders ranges between $0.006 and $0.0084.

With numbers like that, a smaller or independent artist couldn’t exactly make a living off that kind of payout because not everyone can make the next “Hotline Bling.”

It doesn’t seem to make sense to artists if every time their songs are played they get less than one cent put into their pockets. A very real possibility is that artists will revert back to CDs or not allow their songs to stream for free.

Buying an artist’s CD or merchandise and going to their concerts does so much more for them rather than simply streaming their songs.

Just imagine how much artists can be making if people

only bought their CDs. Nelly’s 2010 album “5.0” costs $15 at Target. If one million people bought that album, he would make just as much as Drake did, absolve his debt and maybe even get some new grillz.

So instead of streaming one song 60 million times, just go buy an entire CD and help out the artists bringing that beautiful noise to your ears.

In retrospect, the public shouldn’t be concerned with having to help a rapper that had a net worth of $60 million.

Artists who rely on streaming sites to push their music simply aren’t getting paid anywhere near enough money for their hard work. So if you would like to help out your fellow artists, then stop repeating the same songs and go out and get the entire CD. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN

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Lena Dunham’s comment on Odell Beckham Jr.’s apathy denotes a bigger problem in society. If comments like hers are being passed for “comedy,” then the stereotypes that have caused so many unfortunate deaths are not being pushed away, but embraced.

Stereotypes sustained by Dunham The writer’s comment perpetuates negative views of black men JADE LOVE Daily Titan Lena Dunham, creator and writer of the TV series “Girls,” can now be added to the list of white feminists who navigate through Hollywood with an ignorant lens perpetuating stereotypes under the guise of “comedy.”

Dunham has been under fire after attending the Costume Institute Gala in New York City on May 2, where she made bigoted comments about Odell Beckham Jr., black wide receiver for the New York Giants, insinuating he is not following the stereotype of black men being attracted to white women when he seemed disinterested toward her.

Beckham’s decision of scrolling through his

Instagram rather than looking at the tuxedoed Dunham apparently sparked something in her that ended up in an extremely distasteful comment.

As Dunham continued to bash Beckham with her racist and sexualized comments, her followers on Twitter did not let her off the hook easily.

“It was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards.

He was like, ‘That’s a marshmallow. That’s a child. That’s a dog.’ It wasn’t mean—he just seemed confused,” Dunham said during an interview with comedian Amy Schumer.

The problem in assuming that a black man is purposefully ignoring a white woman is the connotation that black men need to have some form of sexual interaction with white women.

These assumptions force

Beckham to be seen as a stereotypical black man only interested in white women.

While Dunham tries to portray her comments as comedic, her poor taste really doesn’t settle well with the climate of current race relations.

Rebecca Dolhinow, Women and Gender Studies professor at CSUF, believes most comedy is inherently offensive but also feels that intersectionality and race relations are factors that affect everyone.

Therefore, there is no reason Dunham should be joking about things like this and not expect some sort of backlash.

Comments like “Get over yourself, girl” and “Racism aside, of course Lena Dunham would think that someone who isn’t interested in her is also obsessing over her,” from various Twitter posts in a Huffington Post article highlighting Dunham’s arrogance.

Dunham’s comments

inevitably caused tension with black writers, such as Kirsten West Savali who felt her comments were more than just a comedic slip-up.

Savali said she believes that comments like these are vitriol to the progressive ideals society is trying to instill in the world.

“She weaponized her body against him while centering herself as the victim,” according to an op-ed Savali wrote for the Root, a premier news, opinion and culture site for African-American influencers.

There is some truth in Savali’s conclusion when thinking about the implications that the comment portrays.

Dunham’s racially-charged comment perpetuates the stereotypical notions of blackness, such as the belief that black men are violent tricksters and have been the real reason for the deaths of one in every three unarmed black

citizens by police in 2015.

These deaths are not a joke to the families that have lost their loved ones and neither is Dunham’s horrible sense of humor when it comes to her interpretation of how black men think.

Dunham doesn’t have to worry about being objectified in the media as much as others, and it’s ironic that she’s aiming to be a positive role model. There is a racial intersectionality that, as a white woman, she never has to consistently monitor while in public spaces. On the other hand, black men and women are constantly being judged by historical stereotypes like the “jezebel” and the “angry black woman.”

If Dunham wants to make a positive impact on others, she needs to learn to look past her privilege and understand the problems of other people, rather than perpetuating them.

While Dunham did apologize for the turmoil she caused, she only did so because she received a large

and justified amount of judgment for her offensive comments.

“I went ahead and projected these insecurities and made totally narcissistic assumptions about what he was thinking, then presented those assumptions as facts. I feel terrible about it,” Dunham said in an Instagram post.

What seems to be a sincere apology from Dunham is served only as a pathetic method of saving face and being revealed for who she truly is: a white-privileged woman who only cares about the issues of other white-privileged women.

In such a racially sensitive and violent time, it’s easy to dismiss this comment as humorous, but while black people are being profiled, people like Dunham get to slander and defame whomever they please all in the name of “comedy.” Hopefully, this issue will bring to light some of the deeper problems that stereotyping causes in our society.

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John Elders discusses his 29-year tenure as Cal State Fullerton track and cross country coach. “You definitely can tell he loves his job,” said senior Titan runner Sierra Ungerman. “That makes everyone have more energy and want to be better and actually want to be there too.”

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He had plans to become a high school math teacher until his coach asked him to help with the team the following year. Despite his initial ambivalence, Elders was hired as the head coach of the Titans in the spring of 1988.

Some of the athletes he coached during his first seasons were his former teammates. It wasn’t until a brand new group of runners entered the program that Elders realized the responsibility he had.

“It took a few years really to understand what my role needed to be and me maturing as a young man to understand that I’m in a leadership role and a mentor role,” Elders said.

Ungerman, a transfer student, said Elders’ attitude sets him apart from other coaches.

“He definitely goes out of his way to not just see you as a runner but more as an individual human being,” Ungerman said. “We have other things going on in our life, we’re not just D1 athletes.

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going on and he’ll pull you aside.”

Elders’ perspective on coaching has led to individual Big West success for several of his athletes. Fifty-five of them have seen Big West individual or relay titles, while others have received All-American honors.

Despite those high points, the Titans have never won a team Big West Championship under Elders in either track and field or cross country. Elders keeps a standing promise to his teams that he will get the Fullerton “F” tattooed on his ankle if the Titans win a title.

“I want to bring a Big West Championship to Cal State Fullerton,” said Elders. “I think we’ve really laid the foundation for that. I don’t care what sport we get it in.”

The championship drought may be due in part to the amount of funding and resources allocated to his programs in the past. Since the Student Success Initiative was passed, Elders said cross country and track have seen a jump in funding.

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John Elders stands in front of a wall in his office displaying mementos collected throughout his career. Despite a secondplace and individual first-place finishes, his cross country and track teams still search for a Big West Championship.

improved from about four on the men’s side and about seven on the women’s, to the full amount allowed by the NCAA, 12.6 for the men’s program and 18 for the women, Elders said.

“This class that came in this year is really our

second significant class. We had a little bit of a jump last year, but this year you’re going to see a significant jump in the quality of our teams,” Elders said. “We’re going to really experience some great things this year and in the future.”

Despite new resources and championship expectations, Elders has not adjusted his light-hearted attitude.

“Everytime we show up for practice, he’s always like, ‘It’s a great day to be alive, it’s a great day to run,’” said sophomore cross country

and distance track runner Stephanie Cortez.

Jose Penaloza, cross country and distance track runner, echoed Cortez’ sentiment: “He’s definitely a child at heart. He loves running–he’s a great coach.”

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