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Volume 103 Issue 42
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Thursday April 26, 2018
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Federal judge orders reopening of deferred action Washington D.C. Judge John Bates deals blow to the Trump administration’s goal to end DACA. BRANDON PHO News Editor
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that protections for some undocumented immigrants in the U.S. stay in place, and that the federal government must continue granting them. Although John Bates, in Washington, D.C., is the third U.S. district judge to make a ruling against President Donald Trump’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Bates’ decision to order the federal government to accept new applications, on top of renewals, deals the
largest blow. Bates gave the ruling a delay of 90 days to allow the government an opportunity to better explain its stance, with the possibility of reversing his ruling. While Bates’ ruling does work in favor of undocumented young adults, Ana Aldazabal, Associated Students vice president-elect said some undocumented Cal State Fullerton students she has spoken to are tired of “being played” by the DACA program, and that they don’t want a “Band-aid” for the situation of immigrant families. “DACA isn’t a permanent solution and DACA is not a pathway to citizenship, and ideally that’s what we deserve as undocumented people in this country,” Aldazabal said. At the time of this publication, Trump
has not made an official statement on the ruling. However, in a White House press briefing Wednesday, communications director Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Bates’ ruling “good news for smuggling organizations and criminal networks, and horrible news for our national security.” CSUF fifth-year student and DACA recipient Berenice Guillen, however, said with this decision comes a sense of relief. She said she hopes her protected status might allow her to travel in and out of the country to see her grandparents in Mexico, who she hasn’t seen in over 17 years. “I have the opportunity to have this permit to work and be here without being afraid. I feel like other people having that security as well is really good,” Guillen said.
Bates not only ruled that the program, enacted in 2012 under former President Barack Obama, was lawful, but that the rescission of DACA under Trump, six months into his term, was “arbitrary and capricious.” “The Department (of Justice) failed adequately to explain its conclusion that the program was unlawful,” Bates said in his ruling. “Neither the meager legal reasoning nor the assessment of litigation risk provided by (the Department of Homeland Security) to support its rescission decision is sufficient to sustain termination of the DACA program.” On Sept. 5, 2017, the Trump administration announced a plan to “wind down” the program. SEE STATUSES
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CSUF to host series against UC Davis Titans softball is “overpreparing” for three-game series against the Aggies. JARED EPREM Sports Editor
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Apollo Hill has worked with other CSUF student-musicians and friends to create music videos for his songs like ‘RED WINE’ and ‘DIVE.’
Student overcomes stutter through his music Apollo Hill pushes boundaries to create his own sound and express what he otherwise cannot. KAMERON LEONG Staff Writer
Hip-hop singer and Cal State Fullerton student Paolo Ombao, better known by his stage name Apollo Hill, said it’s an uphill climb to get where he wants to be as a successful musician. To Hill, the representation of Asians in the arts is low and even lower in the music industry. “People may not take me as serious because I’m Asian,” Hill said. But he wants to reverse that trend and be as prominent as his role models Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, significant figures who have “kicked down the door for Asian people.” Hill’s musical passion started when he was a child, but amplified when he started to
record himself and create his own beats at the age of 16. Now 23 years old, Hill continues to make his own music and distribute it on Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube. While he has performed in Reno, Nevada as well as Programme Skate & Sound in Fullerton, Hill focuses on social media as his primary means to spread his name. In the seven years since Hill started to record and make his own music, he has drawn from rock, hip-hop, modern rhythm and blues and ‘90s R&B to develop his own musical style. “Honestly, I don’t really have a genre. I guess I am making a new genre. Like pop songs, it’s kind of like a mixture of everything,” Hill said. Quinton Hal, a friend of his, said Hill has the ability to transform a song. “They all start from something so tiny and random, but they always come out so good like he’s just been plotting on it his whole
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With the stutter, I can’t really express what I feel sometimes, but I guess with music you can fully express yourself.
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Cal State Fullerton softball will host UC Davis for a threegame series starting Saturday. The Titans (11-1 in Big West conference) swept Hawaii last weekend on the road. UC Davis lost its final game to UC Riverside on Sunday, but took the series by winning the first two. “We won each game differently and it shows how versatile we are. We don’t have to rely on one thing at a time, hitting, pitching and defense. When we have all three working, it’s incredible,” said Titans third baseman Bryanna Ybarra. Ybarra is fresh off her first career Big West Conference Field Player of the Week award after recording six hits and two home runs at Hawaii. She said the award didn’t come by surprise. “It was a goal of mine but it wasn’t what I was striving for. It’s really great that I got it but I think it shows all of the hard work that I’ve been putting in. To see everything clicking last weekend and getting this reward is like ‘Wow, finally, my work is paying off,’” Ybarra said. CSUF’s offense, led by Ybarra, ranks first in runs, hits, extra-base hits, RBIs and more since conference play started. However, they will be matched up against an astute defense at UC Davis. The Aggies have given up the third fewest hits, runs and have the third lowest ERA in the Big West. They also rank third in fielding percentage. The Titans know how much work is required for a win — they have yet to lose a series in the conference — and that starts with “over-preparing” for the matchup against UC Davis. “We scout them and know which pitch they’re going to throw. Defensively and offensively, we take our reps. Throw some fun in there, and I feel like we’re going to be good,” Ybarra said. Saturday’s doubleheader will start at noon, with the second game at 2:00 p.m. The final game of the series will start at noon on Sunday.
APOLLO HILL Musician life,” Hal said. Music has grown into something beyond just a passion for Hill. Making music has become a sanctuary because of a stutter that makes it difficult for him to speak and connect with others. “With the stutter, I can’t really express what I feel sometimes, but I guess with music you can fully express yourself,” Hill said. Hill’s friend Dalton Robinson described the influence music has on Hill and how it tells a different story. SEE BEAT 4
Alumnus defected from Iran to the U.S. Iranian wrestler and CSUF graduate Reza Abedi left his home country in 1982. TRICIA LASHA Staff Writer
Cal State Fullerton alumna Kristin Orloff said her life was changed after hearing the story of Reza Abedi, a gold-medal winning wrestler who fled Iran in 1982. Orloff said hearing Abedi’s story gave her an entirely new perspective of Iran. The country, to her, became a “different place and time in history,” and she said she felt compelled to share. “I had no idea that I was going to dive into an adventure and book, but it was life changing,” she said. Orloff spoke in the Pollak Library on Wednesday about her book, “American Wings, Iranian
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Roots,” based on the life of Abedi. The book also details the events before and after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. “When I grew up in the 1970s, what I saw on TV, with relation to Iran, was the Iranian hostage crisis. I was afraid of Iranians, I didn’t understand, and there wasn’t an opportunity for me to be educated in anything,” Orloff said. “I didn’t have anything to challenge those views until I started speaking with Reza Abedi.” Abedi was also present, and talked about growing up in a family of 10 children. Growing up, Abedi said his mother never forced him or his sisters to do or wear anything they didn’t want to although, despite living in Iran during a time when the government would restrict its citizens from reading books. SEE BOOK
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