Daily Titan| August 29, 2022

The Women’s Center will reopen temporarily in Langsdorf Hall on Sept. 8, the Student Affairs office said on Thursday.

The announcement described it as a “physical location for students” during the search for a permanent center, designed to “support women Titans and members of other emerging communities.”

In December, the university abruptly shut down the Women’s Center, a hub of mental health workshops and resources since 1972. After subsequent faculty and student pushback, CSUF announced a hazily-detailed reopening in the spring - with no date and location.

The temporary center will occupy LH-556, operating from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with programming and faculty liaison office hours. Rebecca Dolhinow, women and gender studies associate professor, will act as the faculty liaison.

Dolhinow, who was part of the faculty campaign to bring back the center, said staff is still deciding what services will be offered. Along with her office hours, the center staff is aiming to start a series of lectures ranging from upcoming elections to reproductive rights.

“My hopes are once we get a permanent space, which obviously we’re

hoping will be bigger and have more resources than the one we’re getting now, but we are happy to have a space, we’re happy to have a place for people to go and have community,”

Dolhinow said.

The center likely will not return to Gordon Hall for its permanent reopening. A home in the Pollak Library is sought, near or within the Diversity Initiatives and Resource Centers, university officials said.

Martha Enciso, associate vice president of student affairs, said there is no estimate of when a permanent center will open. Settling on the temporary center in Langsdorf Hall was difficult due to limited space, she said.

Center funding falls under the diversity center and student affairs, Encisco said. In the spring, Tonantzin Oseguera, vice president of student affairs, said student fees would fund the new center, but didn’t specify the amount.

Karyl Ketchum, women and gender studies department chair, said the center would be renamed. Though most recently called the WoMen’s Adult and Reentry Center, or the WARC, the announcement now refers to it as the Women’s Center. Encisco said the return to its original 1972 name was a “conversation that needs to be had.”

After pushback, Women’s Center to reopen University expands amount of virtual instruction allowed

Up to four weeks of an in-person course can be held online.

The Academic Senate voted to increase the amount of virtual instruction permitted in in-person classes for fall 2022, jumping from three weeks to four weeks of potential virtual instruction.

Approved on Aug. 25, an amendment was added to ensure professors

The Black Student Union hosted the inaugural Black Titan Experience event in collaboration with the African American Resource Center to launch a year of reinvention for Black organizations on campus.

for DJ Saraj, a dance floor and food. Seven other clubs under the BSU umbrella organization participated in this year’s event to greet the 300 students that attended.

“I am so excited to see such a wonderful turnout, and it’s been great to meet all the students and to see them interacting and mingling,” said Angelica Robinson, an undergraduate student advisor for AARC. “This is the energy I hope that we can carry through the rest of the year and really just making sure that we’re maintaining a strong community here at CSUF.”

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The launch of this event was especially important for beginning the year.

“We need to set the message, the tone, that this is how BSU is going to be this year,” said Neemah Abdul-Karim, a fourth-year political science major and co-president of the Black Student Union. “We are active. We are present on campus. We are here for students.”

BSU held the Black Titan Experience Thursday afternoon on the Engineering and Computer Science Lawn, which served as the fairground

affected by a sudden change in class format, said CSUF Title IX coordinator Sarah Bauer.

Since June, BSU and AARC have planned the event to shine a light on the Black students and communities on campus. They planned to kick off the semester with this event to revive membership and interaction with students after the pandemic.

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make efforts to maintain the original syllabus and coursework, even if the class is changed to virtual instruction for a set period of time.

Concerns of students’ ability to adjust between in-person and virtual instruction was stated throughout the meeting. “Transitioning to alternative modalities mid-semester is not ideal, particularly for students who do better in one modality than another. This is not ideal, this is the emergency case,” said Matthew Jarvis, associate professor of political science.

Students with disabilities and those who commute could be negatively

“75% of students with disabilities perform poorly in virtual learning environments due to their disabilities, and they purposely register for in-person courses that were designated on the course schedule,” Bauer said. “Many of them rely heavily on public transit and commute two hours each way. If there’s a last minute change, and a student is already on the bus or transit, that could impact them as well.”

In a pre-recorded video, Provost and vice president for academic affairs Carolyn Thomas said that when students sign up for in-person classes, they are eager to have the in-person experience.

“Online classes can be a great learning environment when they’re intentional, we know that hybrid classes can be a great learning environment when

Between the energetic hip-hop beats, food and dessert, students were able to socialize with representatives from clubs, including the Afro-Ethnic Student Association, National Society of Black Engineers, and

intentional, but classes that are in person, and then become virtual, and then come back to in-person, are not great learning environments,” Thomas said. “Please keep student learning in mind, as you’re considering whether or not to provide an additional week of flexibility.”

In the past, students have shared that online classes help with the cost of gas and provide relief to commuters. “We have to be able to understand the way our students are understanding education now. From my perspective, students are way more flexible than we think,” said Ricardo Valencia, a CSUF public relations assistant professor.

The coronavirus pandemic halted in-person classes from March 2020 to August 2021, forcing students to quickly adjust to school online. Increasing another week of virtual instruction does not mean professors will be switching to hybrid classes mid-semester, but instead gives them

flexibility for another two class meetings if they are still testing positive for COVID-19, said Jon Bruschke, human communications professor .

There are over 600,000 COVID-19 cases, to date in Orange County. Jarvis said it’s not just about the individual faculty member but the people they care for.

“Once you have multiple people in the house and you’re a caregiver, whether they’re above or below you in age, there’s just going to be caregiving responsibilities for people at the age range the faculty are. We are going to have children, and we are going to have parents, who may need us to stay home,” Jarvis said.

The resolution applies to the fall 2022 semester. It will not automatically expand to other semesters, and the amount of class instruction flexibility necessary will be reassessed in the future.

Gender: Resource gets new space

Dolhinow said her position as faculty liaison is new – the first time there’s been any identified integration of student affairs and academic affairs in a resource center. The hope is that the Women’s Center will pioneer a new format, she added.

She pointed out the importance of centers for women in these times, not just because of the lack

of reproductive rights but because of the Cal State system’s “inherent problems of sexual harassment.”

“This is not a time in the history

Flooding disrupts frst day of classes

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Flooding in Dan Black Hall interrupted the first day of in-person instruction, canceling classes in the building for the rest of the day.

A broken hot-water pipe triggered the fire alarm shortly after 7 a.m., causing flooding from the second floor to the basement, said CSUF PD Captain Scot Willey.

After a brief inspection, the Fullerton Fire Department assisted the CSUF Police Department to shut off the water and power in the building at around 8 a.m., Willey said.

a steam bath. There was condensation all over the windows,” he said.

The university sent a message on the CSUF portal before noon that classes would be canceled for the day and to contact instructors for questions regarding classes.

Capital Programs and Facilities Management have since cleaned up the flooded areas, as well as performed safety checks on the elevators and high-voltage areas, said Beth Moody of the department. Though part of the building was temporarily closed for repairs, classes resumed in the building the next day.

of our country or the world, for women-identified people to be losing community spaces,” she said.

“The flooding was caused by a hot water pipe that ruptured, so the inside of the building was like

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New Wellness Room opens in Titan Hall

the end of September. Rios estimated that although over 100 students can utilize the room every day, he and the room’s ambassadors do not want the space to be overcrowded for the sake of maintaining a serene atmosphere.

To reserve a 15-minute spot for either the massage chairs or the napping pods, students can search “TitanNet” in their student portal, look for “CAPS Wellness Room” and the available services will pop up.

Students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a tranquil yoga session offered twice per week. The Student Recreational Services and ASI helped facilitate the supplies needed for the room and rotate certified yoga instructors. Each session has a capacity for 10 students.

The Wellness Room’s hours of operation are Monday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Massage chairs and napping pods have come to CSUF.

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Counseling and Psychological Services staff are preparing for the soft opening of the new Wellness Room on Aug. 29, which expands services to the third floor of Titan Hall.

The Wellness Room includes

three massage chairs, two napping pods, yoga sessions and a lounging area dedicated to spatial arts activities.

Ken Rios, the CAPS Wellness Room coordinator, said there will be a grand opening at

After evaluating student engagement and rejuvenation, the Wellness Room coordinator and ambassadors anticipate extending their hours of operation.

“Most likely in spring we will have modified hours, maybe extended to the evening after

classes and even after the staff is done,” Rios said.

Currently enroled students are eligible to utilize the services at the CAPS Wellness Room throughout the academic year, including graduate, Extended Education and Open University enrolled students, according to the CAPS website. All students are required to sign the CAPS Wellness Room consent form to access the services provided. The consent form must be renewed annually.

The Wellness Room ambassadors consist of Jena D’souza, a CSUF graduate student, and four other undergrad students who are in charge of overseeing the functions of the space, providing customer service, maintaining a clean and safe environment and helping Rios create content for their Instagram.

“Overall, with this position and my time with CAPS, I am looking forward to destigmatizing and demystifying mental health on campus,” D’souza said in an email.

Yoga classes will be o ered twice a week to students at the Wellness Room in Titan Hall.

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The temporary Women’s Center will open in Langsdorf Hall.

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Athletics plans $8 million pool’s “grand opening” for October

Cal State Fullerton Athletics previewed the new Olympic-sized pool on Feb. 27.

major leaguers. We had speeches by current Oakland A’s manager, Mark Kotsay, and former Titan, Phil Nevin, the current Angels manager.

The grand opening of the university’s new Olympic-sized pool is planned for Oct. 6, announced Jim Donovan, athletics director.

“We will, with the grand opening, start an open swim hour for all faculty, staff and students from noon to 1:15,”

Donovan said at Tuesday’s Associated Students’ board of directors meeting. “They’ll get longer than an hour to be able to go over and get into the new pool once we have our grand opening.”

The $8 million pool finished construction in the spring 2022 and is being used for classes this semester, said project manager Joel Gonzalez. Sitting east of Titan Gym, it replaced two smaller pools and measures nearly 175 feet long.

Donovan said there will be grandstand sections with shading for seating. He thanked the board of directors for assisting the athletics department to improve facilities and programs, while Greg Paules, senior associate athletics director, presented the athletics’ highlights over the last year.

Paules highlighted the opening of softball and baseball’s new facilities, which includes new locker rooms, team space, video equipment and coaches’ offices. Softball took over the renovated Wilson Clubhouse, previously shared with baseball, while baseball received a new two-story building.

“The grand openings are really special for softball,” Paules said. “We had almost the entire NBA six national championship team come out. For baseball, we had more than two dozen

Paules pointed out the dance team’s victory at the 17th national championship, while the men’s basketball team won the Big West Conference title and participated in March Madness. The men’s track team won it’s first championship with first-year head coach Marques Barosso, and softball claimed the Big West championship, he said.

This past year also saw the launch of Titan Sports Network on ESPN+, hosted by student athletes. Students told their stories and showcased their potential as an athlete, Paules said.

“We have over 100 games last year that went on ESPN network, mostly on ESPN+ really able to expand our brand and our reach,” Paules said. “We had more viewers than any other big West school except for Hawaii. We have ambitious viewership goals going into this year.”

Kaya Hawkinson, senior on the women’s soccer team and Caden Connor, a sophomore on the men’s baseball team, encouraged the student body to join the stands.

“I just want to encourage other students, like you guys have said, to come out to our games.” Hawkinson said. “This past game on Sunday, it was nice to see a lot of students out there. It really made everybody come together as a whole and that really helped.”

Isabella Galvan, board of directors chair, said that the gratitude from the athletics department was appreciated, but that did not conclude the work to be done and that there will be more support to come.

“Thank you doesn’t mean ‘That’s it. We’re done.’ It means ‘Okay, let’s keep doing this’ and show more of our support for athletics because, as you can see, it contributes a lot to our school pride,” Galvan said. “So let’s get that crowd and still show our support for this amazing department.”

In the Aug. 22 edition, the Daily Titan incorrectly published the text from the story, “Men’s soccer returns with a tall task ahead,”, under the headline, “Titans remain winless after draw against New Mexico State. Parking: Last week, Rosemary Montalvo was named as the photographer for the image accompanying the campus parking guide. Sinclair Andruska took the photo. Pool: Last week, an article incorrectly said that the university’s Olympic-sized pool was 53 meters deep. The pool is 53 meters long.

The event will kick of an open swim hour for Titans.

Diversity: Clubs have new opportunity for student involvement

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“It’s a rebuilding year as well,” said Abdul-Karim. “A lot of clubs are suffering from COVID and coming back and trying to have engagement, so we’re also trying to do that.”

Mykayla Miller, a fifth-year biochemistry major and co-president of BSU, hopes that holding this event at the beginning of the semester will allow their clubs to be active on campus and be present for students.

At Cal State Fullerton, Black and African American students make up just two percent of the student population, so it’s vital to have these types of events to create a space where Black students can feel seen and recognized on campus, said Aajah Williams, a fourth-year double major in political science and criminal justice, who represented SisterTalk at the event.

One of the main focuses of BSU, especially with this event,

was “bringing back the light of BSU and Black students on campus,” said Miller.

“When we talk about Black students in Orange County, we are a monolith, we’re non-existent,” said Miller. “I think our real big thing because of COVID is to bring back our clubs to where they were before and having them be active on campus.”

All the organizations reflected the diversity of interests that Black students may have, from professional associations, to social clubs, to religious affiliations. One of them was the fraternity Omega Psi Phi.

event was a space for the Black organizations to represent themselves on campus.

Edwin Valdez, a freshman psychology major who attended the event, said that the event was not just about bringing diversity on campus, but “highlighting it, and showing that it’s there, because it could be throughout the campus, but if it’s not brought together, no one would know about it.”

Abdul-Karim said that they were happy seeing the turnout and hope to establish the Black Titan Experience as an annual event.

Keeping a regular sleep schedule can help improve the quality of your sleep.

Maintaining a regular sleep schedule can be difficult, especially as a college student. However, keeping a consistent sleep schedule is vital to a healthy lifestyle. Not getting enough sleep can lead to serious health problems. Try these tips to get your sleeping schedule back on track.

Have a consistent routine

Plan out your days and have a set schedule when you go to bed. Try to keep this consistent routine even on the weekends. Regardless of what day it is, it’s best to have a consistent bedtime so that falling asleep becomes easier and faster. With a set schedule,

keeping yourself busy throughout the day can also help tire you out once it’s time for bed. You can do this by incorporating light exercise, such as gentle aerobics, into your daily routine to promote better sleep. If you like intense workouts avoid working out an hour before bedtime. Instead, it is best to exercise one to two hours before bed.

Go outside in the sunlight

Exposure to sunlight at the start of your day can facilitate falling asleep, as well as improve the quality of your life. So instead of sleeping in, go outside for a walk, ride your bike or go to the beach and soak up the sun.

Avoid naps and all wnighters

Taking naps longer than 30 minutes throughout the day can make it difficult to sleep at night. But if you genuinely need a nap, it’s best to take a power nap. A study conducted by NASA shows that the perfect power nap is 26 minutes. Power naps can

also be beneficial because they help alleviate stress and increase your alertness. For those that like to pull all-nighters, know that staying up all night will not help reset your sleeping schedule for the next day. Instead, all-nighters will disrupt your routine and quality of sleep even more. That being said, staying up to study for an exam or to do homework will only ruin your day and leave you sleep deprived.

Prep your sleeping space

The best way to prepare your sleeping space is by turning off all the lights in your room (including the light from your phone) and reducing any noise. Any type of light can prevent you from falling asleep, especially the blue light coming from your phone. Sleeping in a cooler room temperature between 60 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit can also help you sleep better. Another way to prep your room is to use a diffuser with essential oils like lavender, peppermint,

“It’s very important to have a space for Black men, but also just the Black community in general and to be able to uplift your community in the best way possible,” said Makai Riley, the chaplain of the fraternity.

Students appreciated that this

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“Just seeing all these beautiful Black students, it’s just so nice that we can come together and have an event that is our own,” said Abdul-Karim. “Hopefully, this is an annual thing, so next year, BSU can do this too, and do it even better than we did.” sandalwood or marjoram oil. A few drops of these oils in a diffuser or pot of boiling water will do the trick.

Avoid heavy meals before bed

Heavy meals, like a cheeseburger and fries, before bed will keep you tossing and turning at night. Spicy foods should also be avoided because they can cause acid reflux and heartburn. Instead, try eating foods that promote better sleep, like almonds, turkey and fatty fish. Almonds are a natural source of melatonin that may improve the quality of your sleep by regulating your internal clock. Turkey is high in protein and contains the amino acid tryptophan, which also produces melatonin. Fatty fish like tuna and salmon contain omega-3 fatty acids and Vitamin D which increases the production of serotonin.

Avoid caffeine before bed

Drinking ca ffeine a few hours before bedtime will keep your body and mind alert because ca ffeine is

a stimulant that will disturb your body’s natural way of falling asleep. Try to avoid drinking coffee or energy drinks in the afternoon, and especially before heading to bed.

Rest your mind

Instead of using your phone before bedtime as an attempt to ease your mind, try taking a relaxing bath by adding a lavender bath bomb and playing some soothing music. Keeping a good book by your night stand and reading before going to bed can also be a better option to relax your mind. If you’re looking for something that will take less of your energy, meditating to calming music or guided meditations will help clear your mind and body right before bed.

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The African American Resource Center collaborated with the Black Student Union to host the rst annual Black Titan Experience.

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Volleyball splits season opening doubleheader

Fullerton lost to New Mexico State, 3-1, after sweeping Abeline Christian last Friday.

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Under Head coach Nicole Polster’s first full season, Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball returned to the court at the Lobo Invitational where they had mixed results against the University of New Mexico Lobos and Abilene Christian University Wildcats.

The Titans started the weekend on a high note, sweeping the Wildcats, 3-0, in their season opener.

Following the dominant performance against Abilene Christian University, the Titan’s success did not translate in the following match against the University of New Mexico. They lost 3-1 after four sets. The Titans now hold a 1-1 record.

Freshmen starting libero Nadia Koanui and middle blocker Ketesia Hall served a stunning debut for CSUF in their first-ever collegiate match against ACU. Koanui tied with CSUF senior setter Elizabeth Schuster for the most digs with 16, while Hall posted seven kills against the Wildcats.

Standout senior and outside hitter Julia Crawford led the Titans in kills with 16 and points with 16.5. Crawford’s fellow 2021 Big West Honorable mention recipient Schuster led the Titans in two categories with 37 assists and 16 digs.

CSUF captured the match after a tight 25-22 third-set victory. In the

third, it was CSUF’S outside hitters, Crawford and senior Danielle Jeffries, who served as catalysts for the win.

Crawford ended the game with eight kills in the third, while Jeffries collected four. With the Titans one point away from a set win, it was a kill from freshman middle blocker Bianca Martinez that ended the match for the Titans.

Against New Mexico, CSUF sophomore Lyla Traylor had an excellent outing with 14 digs and a game-high 15 kills. Crawford followed up with another strong performance with 12 kills while Schuster recorded a teamhigh 44 assists in the loss.

With the second set tied at 15, the Titans went on a 5-1 scoring run before the Lobos fought their way back into the game.

In the second set, the Titans led with the score 22-21 from kills by Crawford and back-to-back attack errors by the Lobos.

The Titans fell behind early during the first set against the Lobos as they found themselves trailing, 7-1, after three attack errors, two of them committed by Crawford.

CSUF outside hitter Traylor kept the first set close with six kills which brought the Titans to within two points, 21-19. Service errors continued to be a problem for the Titans, having five in the first set resulting in a 25-21 loss.

The Lobos led 10-4 to start the third set. CSUF could not recover from this deficit as New Mexico State took the set, 25-17.

A block assist from setter Anilee Sher and a kill from middle blocker Lea Zurlinden led to a close 2725 victory in the fourth set for the Lobos.

The next match for the Titans is scheduled for Sept. 2 against Utah Tech University in St. George, Utah.

Julia Crawford (left), pictured going for a block against UCSB last November, led the Titans in kills and points against ACU.

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Women’s soccer ends in scoreless draw against Texas Tech University

substitute. After Kozarski led a last-minute desperation attempt to get on the scoreboard in the 89th minute, Teeter, attempted and missed a shot off the crossbar, which ended up being the final play of the game.

Heading into the upcoming twogame road trip to Utah, Brown wants the team to recover before facing another Power 5 Conference school . CSUF’s next game will be against the University of Utah on Sept.1 at 6 p.m.

under a lot of pressure to start the game, we didn’t respond very well.”

Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer played to a 0-0 draw against Texas Tech University Red Raiders Saturday at Titan Stadium.

After hosting their first four games of the season at home, the Titans’ record currently stands at 1-1-2.

Head coach Demian Brown credits the pressure the Red Raiders applied on the Titans to start out the contest.

“We felt like through the first half, we weren’t very comfortable,” Brown said. “I felt like Texas Tech put us

CSUF goalkeeper Mia Ranson, who was recently named the Big West Freshman Player of the Week, continued to do a stellar job on the defensive end for the Titans. She finished with five saves, increasing her total for the season to 17 saves. Ranson is currently second in the Big West in saves, only trailing Cal State Northridge’s Taylor Thames, who has a total of 29 saves this season.

In the first half of the game, the Red Raiders had two scoring opportunities saved by Ranson. The first was a shot on goal by forward Macy

Shultz in the 19th minute of the game, followed by another shot about half a minute later by midfielder Charlotte Teeter that was also saved by Ranson.

The Titans had two scoring opportunities in the opening minutes of the second half as forward Kaytlin Brinkman had her shot saved and seconds later, midfielder Karla Rodriguez missed her shot as well.

Texas Tech responded with two scoring opportunities of their own 10 minutes later. Red Raiders forward Gisselle Kozarski had a pair of shots saved by Ranson just minutes after coming onto the pitch as a

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Freshman midfielder Isabella Cruz (left) was held without a shot attempt after 90 minutes.

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Revamped Women’s Center calls for new focus

Fully integrating the center into the university prevents endless redirecting for women who need resources.

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The Division of Student Affairs announced last Thursday that the Women’s Center, formerly called the Women’s Center, would be reopening on Sept. 8 in Room 556 at Langsdorf Hall after being closed for almost eight months.

It is important that the center does not become a glorified multipurpose room to redirect students to other facilities on campus; it must be a onestop shop to provide resources, programs and necessities to women and gender-nonconforming studenfts.

The announcement does not mention what services or programs may be offered at the center. However, more details may emerge before its reopening.

A room at Langsdorf Hall achieves one objective: space. A designated area for the center is necessary to acknowledge female and female-identifying students on campus. Becky Dolhinow, a women and gender studies professor and faculty liaison for the center, said there needs to be a space where women can talk about issues that pertain to them.

“It’s not just what’s happening legislatively in our country. It’s not just thinking about the upcoming elections in our country. It’s also because the CSU, more and more we’re finding out, has an incredibly difficult and mired past in terms of allegations of sexual misconduct,” Dolhinow said. “There are so many reasons why we

need to protect spaces for women organizing around their own issues and understanding their own power and understanding the means by which their own power can be controlled by others.”

Although an exact location will be determined in the future, students, especially those who are women, deserved a permanent space from the beginning. The center’s reopening was long overdue, and planning its reopening should prioritize establishing a permanent location so students need not to worry to access essential resources.

With space comes issues of confidentiality. In order for the center to be effective, it must serve as a space for women and women-identifying people to discuss their issues in private.

The new room in Langsdorf Hall must provide private spaces and confidants for women who experienced mental health issues, sexual assault, or domestic violence.

Mirella Monroy, a Cal State Fullerton graduate with a bachelor’s degree in history and anthropology, said the center should have secure places and administrators who are trained to help women through difficult situations.

“It should be in a secluded type of space where they can go to the admin or the supervisors, whoever is working in there, in order to make sure that like, ‘Okay, I feel comfortable telling this person what is going on,’” Monroy said. “And I don’t have other people looking at me, seeing me tell this or watching me break down because of how hard it is to restate this memory I’m experiencing right now.”

Immediately filing a Title IX report or making an appointment with Counseling and Psychological Services does little to soothe people with mental illnesses or victims of assault and violence. The center should

The lesson unlearned from past epidemics

provide an intermediary step before taking action to allow women time and space to process trauma and consider all their options.

When the center returns, it must provide unique services and programs within the center without relying on external organizations. The Daily Titan previously reported that Tonantzin Oseguera, vice president of student affairs, said she closed the center and diverted its programs and services to other on-campus organizations to follow an executive order.

The announcement follows this rhetoric by stating that different organizations would handle the programs and services that were formerly handled by the center. Violence Prevention and Advocacy will be handled by the Student Health Center and adult reentry is under the Transfer, Adult, Parent, and Pregnant (TAPP) Student Center.

Separation of these necessities and programs is inefficient because it implies that students would have to run around campus to get what they need. Having these programs and resources doled out to other departments forces them to be spread thin, which will do nothing but harm students in crises.

There must be resources that are unique to the center. Monroy said they would like to see the center prioritize feminine hygiene products and birth control to students on campus.

“Even though ASI is doing this already, I would believe all of the menstruation stuff should be localized within the center, the condom distribution,” Monroy said. “It should still be a lot of resources for violence and sexual assault victims.”

The care and safety of women must be localized around the cCenter with the support of other campus organizations.

The monkeypox outbreak continues history of scapegoating marginalized communities.

ALEXANDER ALVARADO Asst. Editor

Monkeypox, a rare viral infection, has become a public health concern due to its smallpox-like tendencies. The disease has started to spread and is mostly affecting gay or bisexual men and transgender people. Due to these pervasive numbers, it has led to an increase in discrimination toward the LGBTQ community.

Diseases are not warrants to treat people unfairly, and monkeypox should not be exempt from that rule.

Although the disease has existed since 1958 and originated from monkeys in a research lab, it is now being used to create a stigma towards gay or bisexual men and transgenderpeople.

There is a common misconception that monkeypox is just another STD, but that is incorrect. While the virus can be spread through sexual contact, the CDC states that any skin-to-skin contact, touching of contaminated fabrics, contact with respiratory secretions, or non-sexual intimate contact can lead to infection.

Anthony DiStefano, professor of public health at Cal State Fullerton, mentions that historically, groups of people are often associated with certain diseases, causing people to discriminate against these communities.

“The first group of the population or place that a new infection occurs, we often immediately blame that people or that place,” DiStefano

said. “It’s part of human history that we do this. And it often comes from a lack of understanding in the early days of an epidemic or pandemic. It’s a lack of understanding of the actual causal mechanisms.”

In 2020 and the years after, there was a rise in hate crimes towards Asian Americans and Asian immigrants which stemmed from people’s beliefs that they were to blame for COVID-19.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation recorded a 77% increase in Asian American hate crimes from 2019 to 2020.

According to Health Affairs, more than 57% of Asian Americans reported that they felt unsafe when going out in public because of their ethnicity.

The dangers of stigmatizing diseases have real-world effects. Rather than taking the time to further educate themselves on COVID-19, the disease was used as a chance to justify discrimination towards a minority group.

Monkeypox is not the first time the LGBTQ community has been used as a scapegoat for a disease.

In the 1980s, there was a catalyst in cases for HIV and AIDS. Due to some of the first cases being reported were among gay men, the viral infection was labeled a “gay disease.”

“So they take diseases,” Craig Loftin, lLecturer at CSUF, said, “and they sort of put them in their pre-existing prejudices and use that as a rationality for something they already dislike.”

Even though HIV or AIDS can affect anyone, the LGBTQ community took a large hit, both within the media and in healthcare. The disease itself was ignored for many years and it was not until the late 1980s that it was declared an epidemic.

“I think, also, for a lot of gay men,

this is stirring up old traumas,” Loftin said. “To have lived through that period in the 80s was deeply traumatic for pretty much every gay man at one level or another.”

By 1990, AIDS had wiped out 100,777 people in America. A majority of these deaths were gay or bisexual men.

The AIDS epidemic being widely -ignored and brushed to the side as a “gay disease” is what led to the deaths of many people. If the disease had been taken seriously in its earlier stages, more lives could have been saved.

This idea that only gay men could contract AIDS and HIV also put heterosexual people in a dangerous place. Since they were under the impression it could not affect them, it left them vulnerable to the disease. In 2019, heterosexual people made up 23% of new HIV infections in the U.S.

The World Health Organization is working towards creating less of a stigmatization around the disease, such as changing the variant names to Clade I, Clade IIa and Clade IIb.

Educating the public about how different illnesses, not just monkeypox, are transmitted prevents people from jumping to the conclusion that specific groups of people are responsible for certain diseases.

Everyone should continue educating themselves more on the disease and how it actually can affect them. By looking at the ailment through a non-stigmatized lens, we can help in the fight against monkeypox and reduce the cases as well.

To find your local vaccination site and its qualifications, visit https://www.ochealthinfo.com/ monkeypox/vaccine.