Wednesday November 28, 2018
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Volume 104 Issue 38
Migrants clash with authorities U.S. and Mexican border patrol responds to the arrival of thousands seeking asylum.
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U.S. authorities shut down the border entry before firing rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray from the U.S. side into Mexico.
As many as 5,000 migrants will continue to stay in a sports complex in Tijuana. DIANE ORTIZ HOSAM ELATTAR News Editors
Migrant mothers, children, fathers and several journalists were sprayed with tear gas at the San Ysidro Port of Entry at
the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, after a long day of waiting, marching and eventually running from authorities. “I saw a couple of women get hit, I saw a little girl fall down. That’s when things got a little more frantic because people were getting momentum with journalists, photographers, migrants running, riot police running,” said Ben Camacho, University of La Verne graduate and
freelance photojournalist who was at the border documenting the struggle. A caravan of about 3,000 people from Central America arrived at the southwestern border earlier this month after traveling 2,500 miles. Many of them say they are fleeing persecution, poverty and violence in their home countries and are desperately seeking asylum in the U.S.
In response to about 500 migrants rushing the port of entry, which is located on the San Diego-Tijuana border, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency fired tear gas at the migrants and shut down the border. The confrontation follows President Donald Trump’s vow to send additional troops to prevent the migrants, who he called “stone cold criminals,” from entering the border.
Alexandro José Gradilla, associate professor of Chicana/ Chicano studies, said the confrontation has been traumatic for some students at Cal State Fullerton. “Some of our students actually have gone through the migrant experience. As young children they came to the U.S. with their parents. SEE BORDER
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Lecturer doesn’t ‘weight’ for success Native women Whitney Leyva has taken her powerlifting strength to the U.S. Olympic team.
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Whitney Leyva is more than an educator at Cal State Fullerton. She has a laundry list of accomplishments to put on a resume and has no intention of stopping. Along with her title of parttime lecturer at CSUF, her alma mater, and Cal Poly Pomona, Leyva is finding other ways to stay involved on the Fullerton campus. She is the founder of the CSUF weightlifting club and has conducted physical evaluations with the Anaheim Ducks. But when she’s not lecturing about kinesiology and health science, she’s either logging hours as the Southern California director for the National Strength and Conditioning Association or studying at the International Olympic Academy in Greece. Leyva prides herself in her strength — both physically and mentally. Michelle Rivera, a co-founder of the CSUF weightlifting club, described Leyva as one of the most driven women she has ever met. “Being around Whitney is inspiring,” Rivera said. “She is so driven, it’s incredible.” Leyva describes herself as a Titan — through and through — even though CSUF wasn’t her first choice, rather another reason to leave her hometown of Fresno. “I knew I wanted to come to Southern California for school, but the school specifically that I wanted to go to was Cal Poly Pomona. This was not knowing a lot about the (kinesiology)
Thousands of cases of violence against indigenous females go unreported. AURIELLE WEISS Staff Writer
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Leyva guides a strength and conditioning work out with the CSUF cheer team in the TItan weight room.
programs. I knew I didn’t want to go to Fresno State, I knew I wanted to leave the Central Valley,” Leyva said. Urged by her fiance who was also planning to transfer to CSUF, Leyva submitted an application. When Leyva received her acceptance letter she didn’t know what to make of the news. “I was like ‘Wow, I got into Cal State Fullerton,’” Leyva said. Now, she’s a lecturer in CSUF’s
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kinesiology and health science department where she shares her knowledge with the next generation of students. At first, she was not very involved with activities on campus and said she tended to just go through the motions of school. “I was more of a commuter type of student that would just come for class and leave. It wasn’t until my senior year in 2012 that I got involved with the
kinesiology program more,” Leyva said. Leyva’s background is widely diverse. The time she has spent working with the CSUF kinesiology program is matched by the time she has spent volunteering with the Miss California Organization, where she won multiple competitions. SEE MUSCLE
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Native Americans experience significantly higher rates of domestic violence and survivors on reservations have access to fewer resources, said Lupe Lopez-Donaghey, a domestic violence court advocate and Native American speaker, at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women presentation on Tuesday. California ranks No. 6 with 40 cases of missing or murdered Native American and indigenous women and girls, according to a recent report by the Urban Indian Health Institute. Lopez-Donaghey, who has worked with the Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Hotline to create an additional line for indigenous Americans, said many of the resources that are readily available to others do not include Native Americans. “Victims are in our community and in our workplace, in our friendship circles. We should know about this,” Lopez-Donaghey said. The National Crime Information Center reported there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls in 2016. SEE CRIME 2 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM