Volume 104 Issue 36
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Tuesday November 27, 2018
InSight Lander reaches Mars Pedestrian killed in car collision
‘Evening on Mars’ was held at the Anaheim Central Library to reflect on the landing. CAITLIN BARTUSICK Managing Editor
TYLER NELSON Staff Writer
A six-month 300-mile journey to Mars has come to an end for NASA’s InSight Lander and for it’s operators in Pasadena, California who erupted in cheers with the mission’s success. It is the first Mars landing since NASA’s Curiosity Rover touched down on the red planet in 2012, and the first liftoff to another planet from the West Coast at the Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc. In wake of the landing on Monday, NASA Solar System Ambassador, John Hoot, hosted an “Evening on Mars” event from the Anaheim Central Library to inform around 100 curious adults and children about InSight and its mission to Mars. “I was excited for the people who put so much work into the project. They succeeded in getting their instruments to Mars,” Hoot said. “Mars is hard. About half of all missions have failed historically. I think our batting average has gotten better but it’s still technologically a tremendously hard challenge.” The landing signals the start of a two-year mission to study the interior of Mars for clues as to how the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago. NASA has spent $814 million on the robotic lander. InSight will drill into the planet’s interior and take
A man was struck by a 2015 red Nissan Versa and a 2015 blue Nissan Rogue. CAITLIN BARTUSICK Managing Editor
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The landing signals the start of a two-year mission to study the interior of Mars.
measurements with a seismometer to study potential marsquakes or meteorites hitting the surface of the planet. It will also record its temperature to determine if Earth and Mars are similarly made. It is the first time the planet has undergone a “thorough health
checkup,” according to NASA. With past Mars missions, rovers have only been able to get through the first few inches of the planet’s crust, only scratching the surface, Hoot said. He said the InSight will provide an opportunity to learn more about what hasn’t been explored
beyond its crust. After hearing about the successful landing, Louis Vest, president of the Titan Rover Team at Cal State Fullerton, which constructs an analogous Mars rover, described feeling inspired. SEE NASA
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A male adult pedestrian was killed Saturday at around 5:15 p.m. after two cars struck him as he was walking northbound on the 200 block of West Orangethorpe Avenue outside the crosswalk. Fullerton Police and investigators said drugs or alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the collision and the investigation is still ongoing. Officers performed life-saving measures on scene but the pedestrian was soon pronounced dead by Fullerton fire personnel. The coroner has not released the identity of the pedestrian yet, said Sgt. Carin Wright from the Fullerton Police. The pedestrian was struck by a 2015 red Nissan Versa and a 2015 blue Nissan Rogue, which were traveling westbound. No one was injured in the two vehicles, Wright said. Fullerton Police closed down both directions of Orangethorpe Avenue from Harbor Boulevard to Highland Avenue due to the fatal collision. The roads are now open.
Students prepare for exams Review: ‘Battlefield
V’ is visually striking
The controversial game may have its faults, but its gameplay is unparalled. WILLIAM ROBBINS Staff Writer
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The Peer Health University Network Club set up on Titan Walk to engage with students about destressing.
‘Rest Before the Test’ encouraged Titans to adapt habits that relieve stress. JESSE LIMA Staff Writer
With finals less than three weeks away, the Peer Health University Network Club held a “Rest Before the Test” event yesterday to promote healthy
sleeping habits and tips on how to relieve stress levels. The main focus of the event was to inform Titans on how to properly rest before finals week, said the club’s Sleep and Relaxation chair Rienne Medina, who was in charge of the event. “We want everyone to know their symptoms of test anxiety, stress levels and the ways to bring those down,” Medina said.
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The Peer Health University Network Club is a community outreach club that mainly focuses on holding presentations and events about sleep and relaxation, alcohol, marijuana and other drugs, nutrition, and sexual health. It hosts four different health topic events throughout the year, said Lynnette De Los Angeles, the club’s co-president. SEE FINALS
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The attention to graphic detail and cinematic gameplay that “Battlefield V” has makes it a leading representative of modern-day gaming, but its apparent lack of development at launch makes it feel like it’s still at the beta phase. The game is the newest installment from EA DICE’s “Battlefield” franchise since its first-person shooter, World War l based game “Battlefield 1” in 2016. Following the success of its predecessors and a year after the world war installation for “Call of Duty,” “Battlefield V” hoped to dominate the market of historical war shooters with its World War ll setting but fell short. In addition to the in-game bugs that affect competitive multiplayer lobbies, there are multiple game modes at the home screen that are unavailable to players at this time. But players are still able to see the greyed-out modes that are coming soon, much like unlocked characters in a platform-based fighter series. The developing team at EA DICE also received a lot of criticism for attention to historical authenticity in pre-release footage and teasers of the game, particularly with the introduction of female characters in customization and story mode. This criticism prompted the #NotMyBattlefield trend on
social media, but developers stood defiantly by their decision to include playable women in their game modes. DICE general manager Oskar Gabrielson took to Twitter to defend the company’s stance. “The Battlefield sandbox has always been about playing the way you want. Our commitment as a studio is to do everything we can to create games that are inclusive and diverse. We always set out to push boundaries and deliver unexpected experiences,” Gabrielson said. But despite all of its shortcomings at launch, EA DICE sure knows how to make one hell of a game. Veteran Battlefield players are familiar with the game’s masterful ability to create a vast world of conflict around the player. Buildings, fortifications and safety are ripped away from every angle. Vast, dynamic battlegrounds cave and crumble to the chaos of war with every objective. Unlike many first-person shooters, “Battlefield V” allows for an incredibly large multiplayer map, with servers that host up to 64 console players. While blatantly dominating team members can determine the outcome of a match in other games, the open multiplayer gameplay of “Battlefield V” gives the impression that a single player’s attempts are futile and insignificant. It takes the cumulative efforts of the entire team, often a lobby of strangers, to heave their way across the sectioned objectives on the map to a well-earned victory. SEE WAR 5 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM