Thursday September 27, 2018

Thursday September 27, 2018

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Volume 104 Issue 14

Director emphasizes student wellness

Therapists look to diminish the stigma surrounding mental health.

OMAR SANCHEZ Staff Writer

Jaime Sheehan, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, also known as CAPS, at the Student Wellness center, said she fell in love with psychology after reading about serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, during a psychology class in high school.

Sheehan is the new director of CAPS at Cal State Fullerton and said her goal is to make her services more approachable to anyone who just needs someone to talk to by both encouraging students to come to the counseling center and by reaching out to them directly.

“Speaking as a therapist, we sometimes have to turn to our own therapist. We carry a lot and go through a lot. Day in and day out. It’s really nice to have someone that’s a neutral person that you can go in and bounce ideas off of and allow yourself to be vulnerable,” Sheehan said.

Sheehan said she was previously an interim director for CAPS last semester and started at CSUF in 2015 as the clinical coordinator, a position that serves as an assistant director of CAPS. She has been involved in counseling for 18 years.

Kevin Thomas, interim clinical coordinator for CAPS, said working with Sheehan is “amazing.”

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Jaime Sheehan, the director of Counseling & Psychological Services at the Student Wellness Center.

“Jaime is truly a therapist first and she cares so much about her students,” Thomas said. “To be able to see how she’s diligent and dedicated to what she does with them and how she can try to do different things or be creative to help students (in different ways) I think is inspiring.”

Sheehan said that even though the numbers of students coming in for counseling has increased, there may still be a population of students that need help and are afraid to seek those services simply because of the negative stigma attached to it.

“We admit more today that (therapists) are human. We get

to know you and might share some stuff about our lives and what we’ve been through. It’s not like we’re the all-knowing experts,” Thomas said Some services that CAPS provides for students include: individual counseling, couples counseling, crisis counseling, psychiatric services and group

counseling, according to its website.

Thomas also recommend that students and faculty take advantage of CAPS’ Wellness Workshops, which he said help students and faculty deal with difficult situations they are going through prior to considering counseling.

With dachshund races, Titans try to end everyone’s a ‘weiner’ streak against LBSU CSUF women’s soccer enters Big West play on a four-game losing skid.

MEGAN GARCIA Sports Editor

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Dogs are put to the test as they race one another in front of a crowd of spectators in Huntington Beach.

Oktoberfest is celebrated annually with familyfriendly dog races.

WILLIAM ROBBINS Staff Writer

Old World Village in Huntington Beach hosted its weekly Kinderfest this past Sunday. Kinderfest, the family-friendly version of Oktoberfest, is home to wiener dog racing. Families can bring their children to eat authentic German food, listen to live bands and watch little dogs waddle across a finish line.

Inge McKellop, store owner of the Wiener Dog Store and coordinator of the event, started the dachshund races 25 years ago.

This is the first year at Kinderfest that Old World has extended its

fall competition to small dogs of all breeds.

Wiener dogs, or dachshunds, are a sausage-shaped breed with long backs and short legs. Originally bred as agile hunters of small animals, dachshunds now use their talents for family companionship and, of course, racing, McKellop said.

“We want to celebrate people who don’t have purebreds but love their dogs too. And we want to give them an opportunity to have fun in a race,” she said.

McKellop said the racing idea started when she brought dachshunds from a club for a completely different event and they started running through the middle of the village like a “little Tour de France.”

Cherry Blaine, the master of

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ceremonies for the dog races, talked about the safety and rules involved in these events. “(The race) has to be short enough that (the dogs) can’t just step over the (dividers). We don’t want to risk it and step over the lane, we gotta keep a little bit of safety first,” she said. “Any overly aggressive dogs or owners will be disqualified. We’re here to have fun.”

The races take place in the center of the Old World Village.

The dog-friendly patio, where they had the miniature track placed, was surrounded by souvenir shops, festival games, authentic German restaurants, open pubs and a dance hall with a live band.

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Titan Stadium will be the stomping grounds for the Cal State rivalry between Fullerton and Long Beach women’s soccer Thursday.

Cal State Fullerton University will host Long Beach State University for its first meeting of the season at 7 p.m. It will be the first game of conference play for both teams.

The Titans’ record (3-7-1) and the Beach’s record (5-4-1) this season show how different these two teams are.

Long Beach has won two of its last four games, with another match ending in a tie. CSUF is riding a four-game losing streak, the most recent defeat coming at the hands of the University of Denver at Titan Stadium, Sept.

23.

“It’s in the past. Right now if you were to ask anyone from Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer — if you asked them what their record is — any one of them will tell you we are zero, zero and zero,” said Titans head coach Demian Brown.

The Titans have been far from dominant this season. In the 11 games played so far, CSUF has scored 14 goals. While they rank fourth in goals scored among the nine Big West teams, their .096 shooting percentage is the fourth lowest in the conference.

Long Beach ranks third with a .131 shooting percentage, behind the University of California,

Santa Barbara and the University of Hawai’i.

But goalkeeper Tianna Sanders has been a silver lining for the offensively weak Titan team.

Sanders is fifth among qualified Big West goalkeepers in saves with 42 so far this season.

“I think she’s made some fantastic saves and kept us in games,” Brown said. “Saves that we were sure were going to be goals and she’s come up really big time for us.”

However, the Beach have a weapon of their own. Long Beach goalkeeper Imani McDonald is ranked fourth in the Big West with 43 saves.

“I know she’s strong, I know she’s aggressive and I know that she’s good. So I’m going to have to up my game and do everything I can to just try to get the ball and get back on the net,” said defender Nano Oronoz.

The history between the two teams goes beyond just performance levels on the field.

Long Beach’s head coach Mauricio Ingrassia graduated from CSUF in 1995. One of his former teammates from the Fullerton soccer program will be coaching the Titans during Thursday’s game.

“Him and I are teammates.

Ex-teammates,” Brown said. “I remind him of that, often … It’s healthy, it’s fun.”

Last season, the Titans narrowly beat out Long Beach in the Big West standings.

Both teams had three loses in conference play, but the Titans came out with one more win than the Beach (who had two ties to CSUF’s 1).

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2 News

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Experts detail risks of antibiotic use

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Dr. Bhanu Sud, an infectious disease specialist, spoke to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute members at the Elk Lodge in Fullerton.

Mediction abuse can cause bacteria to develop resistance to infections.

IAN FINLEY & NATHAN NGUYEN Asst. News Editors

More than 23,000 Americans die annually from infections stemming from antibiotic-resistant germs, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Bhanu Sud, an infectious disease specialist and practicing physician at St. Jude hospital, spoke about the use and abuse of antibiotics during an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute event Wednesday.

“We are using antibiotics more than we should. We have to be very careful when we take them because they do have bad side effects.

If you don’t necessarily need an antibiotic, you should not be taking

it,” Sud said.

The event was held at Elks Lodge in Fullerton, and was focused on informing audience members about the proper use of antibiotics, dangers of abuse and recent advancements in the medical field.

The institute is a program for “retired and semi-retired” adults founded in 1979 that now boasts over 1,600 members at Cal State Fullerton. It is connected to a nationwide organization of Lifelong Learning Institutes that promote education for all ages, according to Nancy Hill, the organizer of the event, in an email. Antibiotics are typically used too often and the incorrect use of them has widespread consequences, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

This has led to different types of bacteria becoming “resistant to antibiotics,” which makes it harder to fight bacterial diseases.

In some cases when a patient has an infection, Sud said an antibiotic is not always needed.

“You have to have a good discussion with your doctor to say, ‘Ok, what are the alternatives? Can we use anything else, can we wait a while?’ If you keep using these antibiotics, they’re just going to cause more and more resistance,” Sud said.

Bacterial resistance is produced when enough people use antibiotics inappropriately, causing antibiotic-exposed bacteria to be released into the environment, said Stevan Pecic, a medicinal and organic biochemistry professor at CSUF. “Because of this inappropriate use, we contaminate the environment. And that’s where bacteria picks up resistance. It’s actually your byproducts of taking antibiotics and what you release to the environment. If we all do this, then

we contaminate the environment for other bacterias and they pick up resistance,” Pecic said.

Pecic said researchers have “huge pressure” to create new antibiotics to prescribe to patients because bacteria are continually growing resistant. He said this creates a cycle: A new antibiotic is created, then it is abused by the public, then the bacteria becomes resistant to the antibiotic, which leads to the public demanding a new antibiotic.

Sud said the way to prevent infections is through the use of vaccinations.

“By vaccinating people, you decrease the incidents of the infection and it doesn’t get transmitted (until) you can eradicate it. The only way we eradicated smallpox was by vaccinating people. Unfortunately, we don’t have vaccines to prevent every infection,” Sud said.

Pecic said he and his team

of undergraduate researchers at CSUF are taking a different approach. He and some researchers are currently seeking an internal grant from CSUF that would find and employ DNA-based biosensors to measure concentrations of antibiotics in specific areas, which can then be used to build a strategy to fight antibiotic resistance.

The Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity grant, which is a $15,000 grant open to all colleges at CSUF is designed to “(provide) seed funding to establish unique research programs” at the university, according to the grant’s factsheet.

From there, Pecic said he and his team want to use the grant’s funding to gather preliminary data to submit to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, which can then provide a larger grant to spur forward significant research.

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Venmo joins traditional banking methods Titans look at the risks and benefits of using the application’s debit card.

NATALIE MEDEIROS Staff Writer

Venmo, a money transfer service of PayPal, debuted its physical Mastercard debit card over the summer to pair with the application. As of now, it is currently a limited-release product. Customers must first be put on a waitlist before receiving the card, according to Venmo’s website.

Sergio Laguna, a third-year Cal State Fullerton student, owns the card and said he didn’t expect a mobile-money sending app to even be possible.

Despite being put on a waitlist, Laguna said it was a quick process to receive the card.

“I used it to buy tickets to a festival this weekend. Since I was buying tickets for a few of my friends, I just asked them to Venmo me and I used my card to purchase the tickets instead of using my card to make the purchase and transfer the balance,” Laguna said.

The card allows users to spend a Venmo fund balance, track card purchases and make or split payments with friends, according to the Venmo website.

Jeff Parsons, CSUF adjunct finance professor, said e-commerce, or transactions made electronically, can be beneficial in monitoring accounts for potential safety issues, including unauthorized transfers or hackers.

“A lot of millennials and people here at school are heavily familiar and work with e-commerce for their checking and saving accounts. You can great value out of that. A lot of instant information,” Parsons said.

According to Parsons, one of the benefits of using cash is that it’s “a realistic transaction” as opposed to debit or credit cards.

“Psychologically, you don’t

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really give away anything when you use plastic or when you do electronic transactions. Whereas if you are a cash person, you are handing out cash you will never see again so it becomes a little bit more realistic,” Parsons said.

The security of debit or credit cards is important, especially because many financial systems are electronic based, said Mark Hoven Stohs, professor of

Lobby Corps gets Titans ready to vote Associated Students’ host events to inform students about midterm elections.

ALEC CALVILLO Staff Writer

Associated Students’ Lobby Corps Commission has numerous events planned this fall to help students become more politically informed for the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 6.

The first of its events, the October Candidate Forums, are an opportunity for students to ask questions directly to candidates running for the 65th State Assembly District, the 39th Congressional District and the 4th Supervisor District, said Meghan Waymire, chief governmental officer of Associated Students at Cal State Fullerton.

CSUF is situated within these specific districts.

The forum for the State Assembly will be held on Oct. 4, the Congressional District on Oct. 18 and the Supervisor District on Oct. 25, Waymire said.

The Faculty Voter Registration Drive is a new event this year that brings faculty and students together to help students register to vote in front of department buildings.

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a.m. to 4 p.m., Waymire said.

“Faculty talk to students more than anyone else on campus.” Waymire said.

“If you really want to target students, I think faculty is a great way to do it because they’re in their classes every day,” Waymire said.

Waymire said in the Lobby Corps meeting Wednesday that the Political Palooza, a political fair, will be held on Oct. 30 in front of the Titan Student Union.

Students will be able to ask any questions they have on the upcoming election ballot or political candidates.

“We’re going to invite candidates and campaigns.

Also, inviting different organizations both on and off campus where students can get politically involved.

We’re going to have basic ballot information, that way they can learn more of what’s on the ballot,” Waymire said.

Lobby Corps Commission is open to students who want to know more about public policies and local government, according to the Associated Students’ website.

“Lobby Corps meetings are open to everyone, we wanted to make sure that students are aware of what the props are about,” Waymire said.

“We need to make sure that they’re educated (on) what different props actually mean. I think it can be difficult sometimes because the way legislation is written can be extremely confusing.”

finance at CSUF. “What would happen if all electronics were hit by some huge virus and everything in the whole world shut down?” Stohs said.

The in-app activation feature makes securing account finances easier when losing the card. The cardholder can automatically deactivate the card through the app if it is misplaced, and can reactivate it again when it is found,

according to Venmo’s website.

Parsons said the market will decide if the innovation of the brand will be a smart idea.

“I just feel like it is unnecessary. Venmo is simple enough. I don’t really need another card. I have my debit card so that is my primary use,” said Marlon Rivera, a third-year kinesiology student.

Rivera has used the Venmo application previously and

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“I think it is a good way to make it available to people that like to use Venmo and use that more often than they do their debit card,” Rivera said. “It is a great way for them to advance their company and get it to a higher status, but for me personally, it’s not something that I would be interested in.”

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Operation PED targets students Ticketing pedestrians for their own safety doesn’t make sense.

BRIAN BECSI Opinion Editor

The sour memory of citations may remain, but students have returned to their normal, hurried pace across school intersections a week after Operation PED. This return to form begs the question: Was it worth it?

Operation PED was a hasty response to an ongoing concern.

Punishment does not provide lasting results. The two-week operation only established the fear of being caught in drivers and pedestrians, not a message that promotes law abiding behavior when police aren’t looking.

Other solutions aside from issuing tickets need to be pursued to inform students about these laws and their purpose in order to permanently increase pedestrian safety.

But self-preservation is a human instinct and people can be relied upon to look after their own safety. People begin to put themselves, and others in jeopardy when they start rushing. When people begun to hurry is when they begin to endanger themselves. But it’s not pedestrians that are putting people in danger, it’s cars.

University Police started Operation PED with the goal of increasing pedestrian safety, according to a 2018 Daily Titan article.

To be clear, nobody thinks that increasing pedestrian safety is a bad idea.

However, the intersection at Nutwood and Commonwealth avenues is not a particularly busy intersection for vehicles compared

to other intersections around campus, even during peak hours when the typical delay is under 20 seconds.

Students who feel the need to make it across the street quickly aren’t to blame for safety problems. Time is a luxury not every student can afford and it’s easy to fall into a hurried routine. Students may be getting up incredibly early to get a parking spot on campus just to make it to class on time. They should not be having to worry about falling victim to a campaign that was designed to increase their safety.

These tickets are not just slaps on the wrists either. Minimum fines start at $197, according to a 2018 Daily Titan article. That’s nearly the cost of a parking pass, or approximately 20 hours of work (without taxes) on minimum wage.

It would almost be cheaper to miss a day of work because you spent the night in jail, than it would be to pay a ticket for jaywalking. Handing out citations is an added financial strain that students just don’t deserve.

During the second week of Operation PED, 50 pedestrians and 35 drivers were cited, according to a 2018 Daily Titan article. This is hypocritical. More focus should be on drivers making unsafe choices and jeopardizing the lives of pedestrians around intersections.

Ticketing students who may be facing financial burdens is unnecessary. Having a monitoring system in place, whether it be a crossing guard or cop, would suffice instead.

Investing in high visibility flashing lights for the intersection would also improve pedestrian safety. Solutions to the issue of pedestrian safety need to be resolved in ways that do not punish the pedestrians.

Students are going to be worried about paying steep fines instead of preparing for their first midterms all because the school wanted to avoid some liability – typical thoughtless and counterproductive policy from out-of-touch administration.

Titans Speak

We ask students to speak about topics that are important to them and put their voice directly in the paper. This week, we asked you to take a side: Dogs or Cats?

Dogs

Cats

Which do you like better?

“I believe dogs are better than cats because they are more loving, so they don’t scratch you. They are more interactive and like to be active.”

“I like cats more because they are more relaxed and they just want to cuddle with you. They are really sweet and cute.

They are not as energetic.”

Andrew Delgado Alonso: Firstyear, criminal justice major and Chihuahua guardian

-Sophia Lincoln, Third-Year, Business Management Major and Russian blue cat guardian

What is a favorite memory that you have with your companion?

“One Christmas, we got the dog a Santa hat and the dog would try to bite and chew it up, and run around with it.

Then he would get stuck in the hat ... he would run around and be a goofy little dog.”

-Alexander Muir: Third-year, business major and Jack Russell Terrior guardian

“One of my cats has actually stolen money from me before and I found it under my couch all ruffled up.”

-Melissa Castellucci, Fifth-year, kinesiology major and Siamese cat guardian

Cats and Dogs

“I love dogs and cats equally because I think that they both bring different things to the table as an owner. Cats are low maintenance, but they can still show you a lot of affection with cuddling or sitting next to you. Dogs are a lot more work, but it can also be a stronger bond.”

“When I was a kid, I used to have a golden receiver and I used to use him as a bed. He was a great dog to me, so I loved him. But also when I was younger I got a brand new kitten, and it was the greatest thing ever. I got to raise that kitten and keep it in my room. So I love both of them. “ -Zach Dove: First year, Theatre Major

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

‘White Boy Rick’ exemplifies the war on drugs

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Richard Wershe Sr., played by Matthew McConaughey, talking to his son Rick Wershe Jr., played by Richie Merritt, in the film.

New film tells the story of America’s youngest kingpin.

ALEC CALVILLO Staff Writer

It’s galvanizing and hard to fathom that in the 1980s, 15-year-old Rick Wershe helped the FBI bust drug dealers, “dirty” cops and the mayor of Detroit. Although it sounds like a plot along the lines of “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” the film “White Boy Rick” is actually based on a true story.

The film depicts the life of Rick Wershe, also known as “White Boy Rick.” It is set in

Michigan where Rick Wershe Jr. (Richie Merritt,) Richard Wershe Sr. (Matthew McConaughey) and Dawn Wershe (Bel Powley) live in a rundown area of Detroit.

Viewers quickly learn that the Wershe family is a dysfunctional family struggling to keep themselves on their feet. Richard and Rick Wershe attend gun shows to hustle and buy guns at a low price and subsequently sell those assault rifles and handguns to drug dealers for huge profits.

Rick Wershe helps his father sell illegal guns to drug lord, Johnny Curry, who he befriends. Soon after becoming a part of the gang and gaining Curry’s trust, the FBI takes

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been executed better if they had clearly shown Merritt’s role in Curry’s gang. The movie could have also touched on Rick Wershe’s long-time battle with obtaining parole.

Serving 29 years in prison before he was granted parole in 2017, Rick Wershe has the record for longest serving non-violent prison offender in Michigan history.

All in all, the film does a great job highlighting the bond between the Wershe family despite the fact that certain events do not always unfold in their favor.

It’s non-fiction roots also shed light on the extent of U.S. obsession with the war on drugs. sp

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is Matthew McConaughey. He delivers a phenomenal performance all while resembling “Ninja” from the South African group “Die Antwoord” with his mullet. His comfort level in this role may have been due to his time playing Ron Woodroof in the 2013 film “Dallas Buyers Club.”

The biggest surprise, however, came in the form of Richie Merritt, who played Rick Hershe.

Although Merritt has never acted in a film before, he leaves no sign of being a rookie. In an interview with IMDb, Merritt talked exactly the same way his character (Rick Wershe) did in the film.

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notice and threatens Rick Wershe to reveal the inner workings of the gang’s network.

The boy eventually gains the trust of the FBI, but doesn’t desire to help them. He receives threats for withheld information and cash compensations for intel.

Although Rick Wershe plays an illegal drug and firearm dealer, he’s still a character that viewers can sympathize and root for.

Much of the illegal activity he commits is done to provide for his low-income family, so it’s clear that he deeply cares about his family and is willing to go to serious lengths to make sure they survive.

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George Kuntz , Cal State Fullerton head coach, communicates to players on the field as they battle the St. Francis Red Flash Sept. 23 in a 2-2 double-overtime draw.

met was in 2013. to 1976, there has never been a have played this season.

For Fullerton to keep up its The Titans will travel to The Titans hosted Mary- scoreless tie between CSUF and In the last CSUF men’s soc- offensive momentum as they Sullivan Field to face Loyola mount, and the game ended in LMU. cer game against Saint Francis, take on Marymount, they will a 0-2 loss.

On average there have been the game went into double over- have to capitalize on the Lions Marymount University.

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Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team will take on Loyola Marymount University today.

The last time these two teams

CSUF also fell to the Lions in 2012, 0-1, when they played at Marymount.

At home, the Titans hold a 7-3 record against the Lions. Fullerton is just as dominant when they play on the Lions’ home territory, where they have a 6-1 record at Sullivan Field.

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three goals scored per game.

The Titans have scored a total of 44 goals against the Lions.

Marymount has responded to those 44 goals with 19 goals of their own.

So far this season Titans have an overall record of 2-25. CSUF has scored a total of 10 goals in the nine games they

time and ended in a 2-2 draw.

The goals for CSUF came in the 42nd minute by Daniel Adoo and the 79th minute by Edward Salazar.

CSUF showed its offensive power with 14 shots on goal and four shots on frame, forcing the goalkeeper for St. Francis to come up with two saves.

inconsistent goal scoring.

A team that has a record of 2-6-0, the Lions have not been able to take home wins.

So far this season, LMU has scored an average of one goal per game.

The Titans will play against Marymount on Thursday at 7 p.m. at Sullivan Field.

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Head coach Demian Brown during a practice Sept. 26 at Titan Stadium.

Fullerton went on to compete in the Big West Tournament Both teams had three loses in and ended the season as chamconference play, but the Titans pions. Long Beach finished came out with one more win fifth in conference standings than the Beach (who had two and did not participate in the ties to CSUF’s 1). tournament.

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