Wednesday October 25, 2017

Wednesday October 25, 2017

Volume 102 Issue 29

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Engineering and computer science Interim Dean Susamma Barua speaks on female representation.

Rough Sketch: Anime films can be mature without being demeaning toward women.

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CSUF men’s soccer has a rematch with 2016 Big West champion Cal State Northridge.

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ASI extends scope of resolution State

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Board of directors votes to remove Yiannopoulos from denouncement.

JASON ROCHLIN News Editor

The Titan Student Union Board Room was packed to the brim behind makeshift barriers Tuesday as the Associated Students, Inc. Board of Directors planned to vote on a resolution denouncing Milo Yiannopoulos’ Oct. 31 visit to Cal State Fullerton.

When the board first opened up for public comment, many members of the crowd raised their hands with the intent to speak. Each person was only given 30 seconds to share why they supported or opposed the resolution.

Even so, a break was taken in the middle of the 20 minutes of public comment to allow the deans of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Business and Economics to give their scheduled presentations.

After public comment closed, the board of directors took almost an hour and a half discussing amendments to the resolution before putting it to a vote.

Members of Students for Quality Education and others who supported ASI’s initial resolution left halfway through the discussion after all mentions of Yiannopoulos were amended

City officials gathered to celebrate reopening of major boulevard.

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When the ASI Board of Directors opened public comment at Tuesday’s meeting, so many members of the audience wanted to speak that the board had to restrict each speaker to 30 seconds. Supporters and opponents all took the opportunity to voice their opinions.

out of the text, taking their handmade signs and leaving a sizable chunk of the segregated viewing area empty.

Removing all mentions of Yiannopoulos was just one of the major changes the resolution underwent over the course

of the board meeting before being passed 16-0 with one abstention.

However, College of Humanities and Social Sciences director Jesse Rodriguez, who drafted the initial resolution alongside Elizabeth Jimenez

Perez, said this change took away the reason the resolution was written in the first place.

“I think knowing the origins of the resolution is important to be included in it, so I still feel Milo should have been mentioned, but I understand why

people voted differently,” Rodriguez said. “You can only have people learn to see your way so many times. So if they disagree, they disagree, and that’s just that.”

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CSUF represented in Fall Classic

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Now playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Justin Turner played in the infield at Goodwin Field between 2003 and 2006. Turner was drafted in the 29th round of the 2006 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft by the New York Yankees.

The Titans boasts two alumni in 2017 World Series.

YARESLY SANCHEZ-AGUILERA Sports Editor

KATHRYNE PADILLA Sports Editor

Cal State Fullerton is well represented in the 2017 World Series as former Titans line up on the major league rosters. Relief pitcher Chris Devenski from the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner face off for the championship.

But whichever team wins,

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either Turner or Devenski will become the third CSUF alumni to win a World Series.

Turner helped lead the Titans to the College World Series in 2003, 2004 and 2006.

He was a part of the last Titans team to win a National Championship in 2004.

Turner holds a spot in the

top 10 in both at bats and hits in Titans history.

In the Dodgers’ second win of the National League Championship Series, Turner hit a walk-off home run and his third homer of the postseason in game four. He’s posted a .667 slugging percentage in the postseason alone.

After transferring to Fullerton baseball in 2011 for his senior year, Devenski pitched in 15 games and helped lead the Titans to a conference championship. Following the end of the season, he was drafted in the 25th round by the Chicago White Sox. SEE WORLD SERIES

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As a freight train roared along the tracks overhead, Orange County officials celebrated the completion of the State College Undercrossing Tuesday, which allows traffic to flow separate from the railroad tracks.

“It keeps people moving through our streets … I know our residents will really appreciate that. It also is going to give them back time from the past where they were waiting,” said California Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva.

The ceremony not only celebrated the State College Undercrossing, but also the completion of the entire OC Bridges Program, which is a series of underpasses and overpasses along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway. The goal of the project is to improve safety and traffic flow along the BNSF Railway by allowing civilian traffic to pass underneath the railroad tracks to avoid delays.

“We have 70 trains per day that come through this corridor as we stand here today, and by 2030 that would go up to 130 trains a day, meaning a car would be stopped every 10 minutes by a train,” said Michael Hennessey, chair of the Orange County Transit Authority Board of Directors. “If you consider the need for moving first responders around the community, it’s really important.”

The State College Undercrossing is the final project of seven similar projects constructed in the last five years to separate railroad tracks from street traffic.

The program involved construction in Anaheim, Fullerton and Placentia.

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Placentia Avenue Kraemer Boulevard Tustin Avenue/Rose Drive Orangethorpe Avenue Lakeview Avenue Raymond Avenue State College Boulevard

The State College Undercrossing project, which began in 2014, is a combined effort with the city of Fullerton and the OCTA. SEE UNDERPASS

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The Titan Student Union Board Room was packed with supporters and opponents of the resolution being voted on by the ASI Board of Directors. Many stuck around for the entire meeting, which lasted around two and a half hours.

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Groups like Students for Quality Education who supported the initial resolution denouncing Milo Yiannopoulos brought handmade signs to the board meeting. Some of the signs, like one saying “Students can’t hear outside speak up,” were written on the spot.

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The amending process initially began with Rodriguez, who moved to change the first two revisions of the resolution on behalf of the directors wanting a resolution with more “long-term” implications.

College of the Arts director Mackenzie Sheppard succeeded in moving to vote to change both of Rodriguez’s amendments, making their wording more generalized.

“I think a lot of our previously passed resolutions that are supporting the marginalized groups on campus are more general about the conversations we’re having on a daily basis, and I think that’s what we should be going for,” Sheppard said.

After the amendments were altered, they were both passed, removing Yiannopoulos in place of generally not supporting hate speech for “productive discussions” for the first resolve and removing specific support for the Unity Block Party in place of supporting all events that promote diversity for the second resolve.

Once the statements within the amendment were changed, multiple votes were taken on changing the overall title of the resolution to better reflect its new goals. In the end, it was changed from “A resolution denouncing Milo Yiannopoulos’ appearance at CSU Fullerton” to “A resolution denouncing hate speech and supporting diversity at Cal State Fullerton.”

College of Health and Human Development director Jason Bonney then moved to strike a statement from the resolution about the College Republicans hosting Yiannopoulos’ “Troll Academy Tour” at CSUF, which passed in favor of generalizing the overall stance.

Bonney also motioned to remove all the remaining statements referencing Yiannopoulos, which passed with a 10-3 vote after five

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College of Humanities and Social Sciences Director Jesse Rodriguez was one of the writers of the original resolution, which received a number of major amendments throughout the meeting.

directors abstained.

“It was more for equality for all students, and not necessarily for College Republicans or SQE in general,” Bonney said. “It’s the fact that because we are a campus with diverse groups and we are a marketplace of ideas, we wanted to basically allow equal platform for all of our student-recognized groups here on campus to hold events without ridicule.”

Another major change came from wanting to include a definition of “hate speech” within the resolution since it was added to the title.

Despite Bonney suggesting the board might not be ready to define hate speech for this resolution, they chose to use the official definition of hate speech from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “Speech that is intended to insult, offend or intimidate a person because of some trait (as race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin or disability).”

“It’s hard to say what that means for the future if ASI is now defining what speech is ruled hate speech,” College Republicans club president

Amanda McGuire said in a text message.

Once these amendments were applied, Rodriguez tried to have the Yiannopoulos statements stricken by Bonney’s earlier motion put back into the resolution, as it refers to the origin of the document as a whole.

Sheppard questioned Rodriguez on whether the point of the resolution was to call out Yiannopoulos or provide a groundwork for future stances, and Bonney said adding the statements back would go against a majority vote of the board.

Rodriguez’ motion to amend the statements back in failed, and soon after the board voted on the overall resolution, now void of all mentions of Yiannopoulos and the Unity Block Party.

When the resolution passed, board members broke into applause.

“Through the vote, I think in an effort to find compromise we also established a stance,” Rodriguez said.

“I think that captures a lot of what our values and priorities are as a student government.”

After the vote on the

resolution, McGuire said the College Republicans want to continue cautioning ASI against limiting students’ right to speak.

“While they refrain from denouncing our group or Milo, they open a door to limiting speech that is protected under the First Amendment,” McGuire said in a text message. “Our community around us is what matters most, and in order to appreciate it we need to allow all voices to be heard.”

The meeting ended with various members of the board congratulating one another on tackling the subject of Yiannopoulos’ visit and the controversy surrounding it in a civil way.

“I think it’s been a topic we have been constantly addressing for a while. This was the meeting we could finally relieve some of those discussions,” Rodriguez said. “It allowed us to become a little more progressive in terms of allowing us to discuss difficult subjects and not just characterize ASI as the fun aspect of college.

We do these things because they’re important to students as well.”

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Fullerton Mayor Bruce Whitaker cuts a banner commemorating the opening of the State College Underpass. The construction signals the completion of the OC Bridges Program, which Darrell Johnson, the CEO of the Orange County Transit Authority, said will hopefully ease traffic and lessen delays caused by train activity.

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“State College, in particular, is a very busy street — lots of traffic, lots of volume of cars, and obviously a very busy rail line,” said Darrell Johnson, CEO of OCTA. “So the goal here was to ensure that we could separate the trains from the cars while at the same time keeping all of the traffic flowing the way it used to flow beforehand.”

While the State College Underpass cost $96.9 million, the OC Bridges Program cost a total of $663.9 million.

Most of the money paying for the project comes from federal and state funding. However, $157.7 million is coming from Measure M2, the half-cent sales tax appropriated for transportation improvements passed by Orange County voters in 2006.

The State College Undercrossing will be open for public use Nov. 1.

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The OC Bridges project cost a total of $663.9 million over the four years it was underway. Most of the money came from federal and state funding, but Measure M2, passed in Orange County in 2016, also covered $157.7 million.

Dean addresses lack of female representation OLLI event focuses on College of Engineering and Computer Science.

RAYMOND PELAYO Staff Writer

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continued its “Tales of a Great University” series with a presentation by Susamma Barua, Ph.D., who emphasized increasing female success in the college.

During the presentation, the Interim Dean of engineering and computer science addressed the lack of representation of women within science and technology-oriented professions.

Currently, within the United States, women comprise 25 percent of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics field, Barua said.

“When you narrow it down to engineering and computer science, that number drops down further,” Barua said.

Improvement in representation starts with education, Barua said. The college aims to provide the support needed for female students to feel empowered as well as the resources to help them graduate, Barua said.

Right now, 844 students in the college are female, which comprises about 17 percent of the college, according to Barua’s presentation.

By 2021, Barua hopes to increase the amount of women in the College of Engineering and Computer Science by 30 percent.

“Even though 30 percent in about four or five years doesn’t seem to be high, it’s going to be quite difficult to achieve,” Baura said.

Although elementary school

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Interim Dean Susamma Barua spoke about encouraging female success in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

students show interest in the STEM fields, girls usually lose that interest as they continue on with school, Barua said.

“As they work through their junior high and high school years, something happens and we can actually see a withdrawal symptom in them and that’s when the difficulty actually starts,” Barua said.

Community events like the annual STEM Expo are held to inspire girls to get involved in math and science.

“We want to do the outreach at a very early age,” Barua said.

“We want them to have an understanding of science and math and engineering and computer science.”

Barua emphasized the importance of female students seeing her as a role model for success within the engineering and computer science world.

“The female students in our college are seeing a female leader being in charge of everything that happens in the college for the first time,” Barua said.

OLLI member Merri Schloffer said she was glad to hear Barua address female representation within the college because women can bring a different

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perspective on projects.

Barua’s presentation also addressed the college’s goal to meet the rapid pace of technological advancement and its effect on the workforce.

“Engineering and computer science are extremely dynamic fields. What we teach today may not necessarily be valid a year from now. It becomes obsolete very quickly,” Barua said.

To meet these demands and provide students with practical experiences, the college requires students to work on a design project for one year in their capstone class.

Barua said student-led projects often combine all disciplines within the college in a team setting.

OLLI member Don Smith said he thinks hands-on experience with the projects will benefit students.

“I thought it was good that the students get some hands-on experience and that everything wasn’t simply book learning, because when you go out into the community, when you go out into the workforce, if everything’s been book learning, you’re going to hit the ground,” Smith said.

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4 LIFESTYLE Rough Sketch: Drawing conclusions about anime women

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25, 2017

Animators can portray women without objectifying them.

KALEB STEWART Freelance Writer

There is a strange habit among artists to idealize the female form in ways that satisfy a troubling lust for unrealistic perfection. While on the flip side of the spectrum, there are some artists who attempt to depict women as they actually are, regardless of whether or not their work is considered stylized.

Two animators couldn’t be more reflective of these two approaches than Ralph Bakshi and Hayao Miyazaki, both of whom are considered pioneers within the field of animated feature films.

Both directors’ older fantasy works have a lot in common when it comes to basic storytelling. Miyazaki’s “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” and Bakshi’s “Wizards” take place on Earth in the future with fantasy and science-fiction elements in their storylines.

The similarities end between “Nausicaä” and “Wizards” with how their male and female characters are portrayed. Both the primary protagonist and antagonist of “Nausicaä” are female, and both are portrayed as courageous leaders of their own people while both the primary protagonist and antagonist are men in Bakshi’s film.

In “Wizards,” Princess Elinore is a half-fairy, may raise some parents’ eyebrows as she wishes to learn magic from an old wizard in order to become a fullfledged fairy. Her design leaves very little to the imagination, her clothes resembling a g-string swimsuit more than anything someone could travel in.

Elinore is often used throughout the film as something desirable for both the viewer and the characters to gawk at as the quest unfolds. She even gets the dubious privilege of being an old wizard’s lover by the end of the movie. It feels more like the attainment of a trophy for the main character than the beginnings of a real relationship between two fleshed out characters.

In a world that is filled with narrative and artistic opportunity, Bakshi drenches his one important female character in sexy clichés.

Elinore’s homogeneous bust, large pouty lips and ditzy demeanor prove so distracting that it undermines the more intriguing aspects of his work. If she didn’t feel plucked from a stoned 16-year-old boy’s wet dream, “Wizards” could be easily recommendable to just about anyone with a taste for the bizarre. It certainly isn’t a great film, but it is an important artifact from animation history. It also feels far seedier and sleazier than it needs to be.

This is especially true when films like “Nausicaä” prove that an animated fantasy can be empowering to women without making much of a fuss about it. Our hero, Princess Nausicaä, is not portrayed anymore sexually than many of her male counterparts. She is pretty and youthful, but is more

characterized by her tenacity and selflessness than by her outward appearance. Not once throughout the course of the movie, even when she is captured, is Nausicaä considered a prize or trophy to any man.

In fact, a subplot in which Nausicaä joins forces with a boy from another nation could have easily blossomed into a cliché romance if the film were handled by a lesser talent. Instead, Miyazaki uses the opportunity for Nausicaä to serve as an inspiration to the young man.

Love doesn’t grow, but there is a building of mutual respect and understanding. It is sad how rare it is to see two characters near the same age and of opposite genders share ideas and feelings without the filmmakers feeling obligated to have them kiss.

Miyazaki has a habit of favoring strong female characters in his works, and while some of his films include love stories such as “Howl’s Moving Castle” and “Princess Mononoke,” they feel like a natural extension of characters and circumstances rather than a fulfillment of the artist’s own personal fantasies.

“Many of my movies have strong female leads, brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart,” Miyazaki said in an interview with the Guardian. “They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.”

While Bakshi does not discuss the approaches he takes in portraying women within his films in many interviews, his approach to animation is significantly different from Miyazaki’s.

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Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’ has a female protagonist who soars past the over-sexualized and cliché animated women found in films such like ‘Wizards.’

“The art of cartooning is vulgarity,” Bakshi said in an interview with Metroactive. “The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you’re Disney.

Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music.

Vulgar but believable, that’s the line I kept walking.”

This is where I think the key difference between an artist like Miyazaki and Bakshi really lies. Bakshi’s work feels far less constricted by narrative whims or preconceived notions of right and wrong. They often feel greasy and discomforting. It feels so grimy that you can run your finger across your TV set while one is playing and be able to peel a layer of mold away. While there is certainly charm to

this approach, and most animation enthusiasts know that “Wizards” does have moments of pure “WTF?!” joy, that still doesn’t justify the way in which Bakshi constantly objectifies women through his work.

From “Fire and Ice” to “Fritz the Cat” to “Cool World,” almost every female character in Bakshi’s work can fall in line with Princess Elinore. Busty, clad in something skimpy and always hypersexualized.

Yet an artist like Miyazaki, whose vision has managed to thrive despite a Japanese animation industry that often uses sexualized anime girls to sell shows and movies, looks at his work as less of a caricature and more of a direct expression. His inspirations for the women in his films are an extension of how he sees women in the

real world.

“I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio,” Miyazaki said in an interview with the Telegraph. “Half the staff are women. You don’t need so many samples. All the role models I need are around me. But they don’t realise it’s them in the film. I use their essence rather than their physique or their faces.”

If there is a message to be gained by this comparison of two influential artists, it is that I’m glad that in an animation landscape where the word “for adults” often means “it has tits and blood,” someone like Miyazaki is a miracle. He proves that you can make truly mature and artistic animated films without having to demean women in the process.

It really isn’t that hard. It really isn’t.

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OPINION 5 Trump administration ignores contraception uses WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25, 2017

Preventing pregnancy is not the only thing birth control is for.

SOPHIA ACEVEDO Asst. Opinion Editor

President Donald Trump’s administration decided earlier this month that it would hack off yet another important part of the Affordable Care Act: Women’s birth control. Employers will no longer be required to cover contraception for women.

However, like with most significant issues, the Trump administration has little knowledge of how detrimental its actions are to the public. In an effort to please the Republican base, the women who are actually affected once again go unheard.

The Trump administration has stated “religious beliefs and moral convictions” as reasons for denying this coverage – poor justifications for such a negative impact on women’s lives.

If the administration was more aware of the gravity of the situation, it would recognize that exemptions against contraception that are based on morality are derived from outdated beliefs of women’s sexuality.

The double standard for women has always been that they should be pure, innocent angels who don’t have sexual desires, while remaining sexually desirable to men, who can do whatever they please.

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With employers not being required to cover birth control which women benefit from greatly, the presidential administration shows how unequipped it is to make decisions that would improve innumerable lives.

The birth control pill, along with other methods of contraception, finally started to even out this discrepancy as it liberated women from sexual repression by finally allowing them to protect themselves from the life-changing event of having a baby and giving them the power to properly plan for a family.

However, the idea of women taking control of their bodies is such an offensive thought to the Trump administration that it’s willing to use fallacies and subjective morality to justify its beliefs.

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Essentially, setting women back to a social climate akin to before 1960, when the pill was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and mass produced.

As if it isn’t obvious enough, birth control helps prevent pregnancies. One would think that all the vocal anti-abortionists would want to keep women who don’t want to get pregnant from getting pregnant, but alas nothing about this administration makes sense.

If Republicans aren’t particularly fond of the idea of birth control, they will be

less fond of increasing abortion rates as a result of unwanted pregnancies. Despite personal beliefs, Roe v.

Wade still stands.

The Trump administration overlooks the fact that birth control also has numerous health benefits for women that have nothing to do with preventing a pregnancy.

Of all birth control pill users, over half of them report using it for “any noncontraceptive reason,” according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Women use the pill to clear up acne, reduce the possibility of anemia,

infections in the ovaries, fallopian tubes and uterus and to ease painful menstrual cramps, according to Planned Parenthood.

Many women, in this case, aren’t using a birth control pill for its explicit intentions, but because they want to reap the health benefits in order to make their day-to-day lives a bit more manageable.

Rather than clinging to the definition of birth control that serves its interests instead of the public’s, the Trump administration needs to be re-educated on everything birth control is used for

and learn how to put constituents’ lives first.

This is an issue that will affect millions of women, and it’s women who have to stand up and demand their rights to sexual liberty as they have time and time again. But if that’s what it takes to have a measly pill covered by employers, then it’s necessary action that should be taken.

Trump and his cronies will surely regret this decision after they hear the roar of women everywhere demanding coverage for contraception.

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6 OPINION

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25, 2017

Letter to the Editor In response to: ‘Visit from Milo Yiannopoulos is a learning experience for CSUF students’ published Oct. 23 Roll up their sleeves, and go to the library to do research? I wonder if this was a deliberate attempt at trying to be condescending or if this is just the accidental offensive language that happens when white men don’t understand systemic oppression (and how they are allowing it to happen). Doug, may I call you Doug? Dr. Doug, your op-ed this week was not only dangerously misguided, but it was an assault on the very values that we are trying to promote on campus.

Forcing students to abandon their very real and valid sense of fear and anger to do extra class work seems contrary to the environment that CSUF is trying to cultivate.

I agree that this can be a teaching moment, but I do not agree with the idea that this must be a teaching moment for students who are feeling threatened.

Students shouldn’t be expected to go out of their way to do extra work to address their cognitive dissonance or discomfort. They should expect to be in a university that acknowledges the importance of their safety.

Oppressors (accidental or purposeful) in a system often place expectations like this on the oppressed in order to effectively silence their discomfort. If we reposition your argument into other contexts, I think it’s easy to

see how absurd and offensive it is (perhaps, we can also turn domestic violence into learning opportunities for women, Doug?).

At the same time, you are seemingly trying to hold up and empower students, you are using different oppressive tactics to reinforce a narrative that dismisses and systematically silences any dissent.

It is very easy for a person with your intersection of identities to be blind to what some students are experiencing, but the language being used to contrast this narrative is far from productive.

When you talked about “getting our collective panties in a bunch,” I also understand that you are likely not trying to be as misogynistic as you are. Again, it is easy to be a white male and be blind to how you (and I) contribute to ongoing systems of oppression.

It’s extremely problematic when a professor holds up academic elitism while using femininity as synonymous with emotional/ out of control/something to be changed or disdained etc.

When you write that students are experiencing “angst,” this is not the same as what my students are reporting to me, which is fear, safety concerns, anger and betrayal.

Angst is for Simple Plan and My Chemical Romance. Fear is for the students whose identities are being directly attacked by the very campus they call home. The betrayal is for professors like yourself who implicitly or explicitly allow your students to be targeted.

You end your piece by noting that you are too busy to take in what Milo Yiannopoulos is saying anyway. That is great, but I’m concerned that that sort of thinking is missing the point of the discussion.

It isn’t about if you want or don’t want to listen to the upcoming speaker. The concerns students have are not about whether they can make time to receive this talk.

They are concerned about the implications and consequences of having a speaker come to campus who has attacked individual students and groups of students before.

Ultimately, even if you were free, I doubt you would be harmed anyways. You are, after all, not the intended target. Perhaps we should all learn to speak with instead of for our students.

Written by Justin Huft, an adjunct faculty in the psychology and sociology department at CSUF.

Environment deserves better than Pruitt Climate change denial hinders any advances to protect the earth.

RISHU BHARDWAJ Opinion Editor

With President Donald Trump’s cabinet falling apart piece by piece, it’s troubling that the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator, Scott Pruitt, is still roaming around denying climate change and science itself.

Government scientists were supposed to meet Monday to discuss climate change and present research that could potentially further the fight for a cleaner environment. However, the Trump administration pulled the meeting last minute without any substantial explanation.

The public response to this–as it is with anything the Trump administration does–was outrage.

Protests erupted near the site of the forgoed meeting Monday, with students and teachers alike holding signs expressing their opposition to the EPA’s decision to remain silent.

A clear and harrowing explanation for this political interference is that the administration prefers to keep the EPA and the public hidden from any possible updates that would go against their backwards,

cl i mate- cha nge- den ier thinking.

The meeting would have given scientists an update on the changing of climates in ecologically vital areas, like the Narragansett Bay, New England’s largest estuary, stands as a vital geographical location for Rhode Island both economically and environmentally.

This act is almost cartoonish in how obvious the administration is being. To cancel the meeting just before it was going to happen and not give any reasonable explanation, while also having Pruitt head the EPA is incredibly transparent.

The nation’s biggest threat in the fight for improving climate is denying scientists the right to advance.

In a 2016 study by the Pew Research Center, 67 percent of Americans relied on climate scientists in decision making for global climate change, while elected officials were supported the lowest at 44 percent.

It seems odd that elected officials would be careless enough to silence the scientists who people rely on so much, and who the officials themselves should rely on.

It’s even more troubling to think of the significance of the scheduled meeting.

The meeting was intended to give a status update on the bay that could lead to further revelations on climate change and advancements in methods of combating it.

However, this problem isn’t solely for the EPA to handle. It’s up to the administration. But seeing as how they just removed the words “climate” and “change” off the front page of the EPA’s website and took away multiple links to research and

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By canceling a meeting of Environmental Protection Agency scientists, the Trump administration and Scott Pruitt expressed how against climate change they are. Denying the facts and not allowing advancements in environmental protection will only hinder the future of a healthier climate.

information on the subject, a change doesn’t seem to be coming in the slightest.

A report by the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative analyzed the changes made on the website and highlighted the fact that the information on the site had been cut over 200 pages.

Even the administration isn’t trying to keep their narrow-mindedness a secret.

All this investigation into Pruitt and Trump doesn’t do a whole lot of good for anyone. They still have the power to silence what was really the best step forward in the

fight for a healthier climate.

However, not all hope is lost. And in a time like now, when the Federal government is majority Republican, a strong voice and active opposition is vital.

Protesters gathered outside of the meeting location in Rhode Island Monday with signs reading “denial is not a policy” and “un-gag EPA.” While the meeting has already been canceled and that opportunity lost, the opposition to the cancellation can be just as impactful.

It’s clear that Pruitt is the problem in this entire debacle. Since day one, he’s

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been opposed to believing in — let alone fixing — climate change and has actively thwarted any real chance at advancing any global initiative.

Back in March, when Pruitt made comments that questioned the relationship between climate change and human activity, the public flooded his voicemail and email with concern and opposition to his remarks.

Now, that didn’t really end with anything productive besides silencing Pruitt for a couple weeks and hopefully allowing the administration to consider Pruitt’s place in the EPA, but that

doesn’t mean people should be discouraged.

If such an overwhelming majority of the population has a problem with an administrator, it would be in the government’s best interest to remove said person.

Thankfully, the EPA website didn’t take everything important away.

Here’s Pruitt’s office number: 202-564-4700. With enough concern and annoyance by the public, there’s no way the administration can ignore what a tremendously horrid job Pruitt has been doing at protecting the Earth, you know, the place where we all live.

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Devenski was first added to a major league roster in 2016, when he was invited to spring training for the first time by the Houston Astros, where he played his rookie year.

The Houston pitcher pitched 4.1 perfect innings Aug. 1, 2016 against the Toronto Blue Jays and struck out seven consecutive batters, which broke records his rookie year.

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innings with 83 strikeouts and 12 walks and won the Astros Rookie of the Year and Pitcher of the Year awards given by the Houston chapter of the Baseball Writer’s Association of America. That same year he broke

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Titans goalkeeper Paul-Andre Guerin has been able to keep opposing shots out of the net, and it shows on Big West leaderboards. Guerin currently stands in first place for fewest allowed goals, only letting in 16 for the season.

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After finishing last week undefeated in conference play, Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer will head to Cal State Northridge Wednesday at 7 p.m. for its penultimate regular season match.

The Titans (3-3-2) are currently in second place in the Big West’s southern division and a win against CSUN (4-2-2) would leave the two teams tied atop the grouping.

“We need to win against CSUN. We want to come out and play really hard,” said Titans midfielder Nicolo D’Amato.

The match will be the second time the Titans meet CSUN in the Big West Conference this season. In their first match, the teams walked off the field with a 0-0 draw Oct. 11.

Coming off of a Big West Offensive Player of the Week award, Titans forward Samuel Goni will face CSUN’s goalie Henrik Regitnig, the Big West Defensive Player of the Week.

Goni is sure the Titans can break through to the back of the net this time if they turn their focus on completing shots.

“We played against them here and we tied ... Because we missed chances. I think we have to keep working on our finishing,” Goni said.

He is in a five-way tie for third-most goals in the

conference with seven, while the Titans have scored the fourth-most goals in the Big West (12) since entering conference play. CSUN has managed only 10.

The Titans have also done a better job sharing the ball than the Matadors, with 11 assists since entering conference compared to CSUN’s seven.

Emmanuel Usen Jr. leads the Matadors’ attack, as his season total of eight goals ranks second in the conference. His 19 total points are also the second best in the Big West.

The Matadors have shined in not allowing shots through the goal posts. The team ranks first in the Big West in conference play in average goals against (0.7) while also allowing the fewest total goals (6), half of the 12 the Titans have let in.

The Matadors are on a three-game winning streak heading into their matchup with the Titans, a streak that began right after the two last faced off. Since that game, the Matadors have defeated UC Irvine 3-2 and UC Riverside 1-0 before

once again taking down UC Irvine 4-1.

Titans Head Coach George Kuntz said every game means more for the Titans with just two left in conference play. The Titans will have to prove themselves as the better scorers to snap the Matadors’ winning streak and prevent them from securing a second consecutive title in the Big West south division.

“It becomes epic. Every game becomes more amplified. We like to do things the hard way. So yeah, bring it,” Kuntz said.

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