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Volume 104 Issue 48

Sustainability in Fullerton

CSUF produced 3,000 tons of waste in 2017 The university is taking steps to limit the amount of waste sent to landfills.

SOMMER CLARK Staff Writer

Discarded seat cushions, chemical and detergent bottles, and bags of garbage tower over a bulldozer as it sweeps piles of debris up into its blade.

A cloud of dust hangs in the air as trash is dropped into a machine engineered to sort recyclable material in the Republic Services transport station in Anaheim.

This is where Cal State Fullerton’s waste and recyclables are sorted.

CSUF produced about 3,000 tons of waste and recyclables in 2017, said Danny Miranda Jr., a sustainable waste management specialist.

“It fluctuates give or take a few 100 tons, but it depends a lot on projects. Sometimes there is construction projects where suddenly they’ll generate extra tons we didn’t have the previous year,” Miranda Jr. said.

The waste that goes in the recycling or trash bins on campus is picked up by two designated types of trucks, a recycling front loader and two landfill trucks, that service CSUF in the morning.

From there, they go to Anaheim’s transport station to be

CAITLIN BARTUSICK / DAILY TITAN Cal State Fullerton’s trash goes to Republic Services, a transport station in Anaheim, where it’s processed and sorted.

sorted.

CSUF’s diversion rate, the amount of of waste diverted away from landfills, ranks in the “middle” compared to other

campuses, said Michael Lotito, associate director of planning operations, and the campus is attempting to bring those numbers up.

California state law specifies a 75 percent waste diversion goal, however the CSUs goal is to reach an 80 percent waste diversion by 2020.

“Our diversion rate was 55 percent last year. Our target is to get up to 75 percent,” Lotito said.

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Review: Smash Titans aren’t meeting Bros. bashes sales recycling standards ‘Smash Bros. Ultimate’ features everyone’s favorite fighting characters.

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When trash is placed into the recycling bins, the items in the bins are no longer recyclable.

A sustainability class at CSUF is working to improve regulations on campus.

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OMAR SANCHEZ Staff Writer

Students in Chemistry 492 found that Cal State Fullerton was having issues with recycling properly after auditing the university’s recycling program as part of their class projects.

The data for the students’

findings of the recycling project have not been finalized. The data looks promising but more work would need to be done in order to have a truly efficient recycling system on campus, said Scott Hewitt, professor of chemistry.

“We really weren’t recycling because people are putting their dirty trash into the recyclables, and that makes the recyclables no longer recyclable,” Hewitt said.

At least 500 billion plastic bottles are used each year

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worldwide, according to Plastic Oceans, a nonprofit organization focused on ending plastic pollution.

“The problem with plastic bottles is that the plastic doesn’t rapidly degrade in the environment so it ends up as little pieces in the ocean,” Hewitt said.

This semester, Hewitt is teaching Chemistry 492, sustainability projects, a class that focuses on sustainability on campus and in the community.

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One last character of hope stands among countless perished heroes.

In a snap, a slew of characters were met with their untimely demise; fighting till the last moments of their life, trying to save themselves and be the brave hero that saves the civilization around them.

No, I’m not talking about “Avengers: Infinity War” — this is about Kirby and Nintendo’s “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.”

Nintendo has released several hits compatible with its popular Nintendo Switch game system. These favorites include but are not limited to “Super Mario Odyssey,” which sold 514,000 copies locally, “Splatoon 2” sold 631,000 copies locally and “Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!” sold 552,000 locally.

But these sales are nothing compared to the estimated 1.3 million copies of “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” sold in Japan alone, making it the highest-selling Switch and Smash Bros. game within the first week of its release, according to Nintendo Life.

After several games within the Smash series were released, creators have finally listened to fans. This is the first Smash Bros. game to feature all of the characters in Smash Bros. history, including a few extras.

As of now “Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate” has a character roster of 74, if the Pokemon Trainer is counted as one character. Along with future DLC characters, the

roster may boost to an estimated 81 characters.

Enough with all the extra information that nearly every Smash fan already knew about prior to the game’s release, the real selling point is the gameplay.

But is it worth the almost $60 price tag?

The answer is yes, absolutely, 100 percent. It is the best reason to buy a Switch and binge through a game full of content.

Unlike “Super Smash Bros.” for Wii U, unlocking characters are much more challenging, adding to the binge-worthiness of the game. Playing “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” will bring gamers back to the days of rage quitting, screaming at the television and wanting to break that almost $50 wireless GameCube controller you bought specifically for Smash Bros.

But “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” encompasses more than the simple win-or-lose character-gaining scenarios, players are given another chance to fight against locked opponents they lost against the first time around in a feature known as the Challenger’s Approach.

Players no longer have to feel upset about being defeated by Villager from “Animal Crossing;” play this feature and no one has to know you lost against an overpowered little boy or girl, depending on skin changes.

“Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” is notorious for Friday night gaming, where every friend acts as the cocky, reigning champion in Smash Bros. — until repeatedly beating each other into a much smaller ego. But although most memories are garnered by the people one plays with, the developers made solo mode just as addicting.

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2 News

MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2018— THURSDAY DECEMBER 20,2018

Sustainability in Fullerton

OC Basin’s contamination level unclear In 22 Orange County cities, drinking water has been chemically polluted.

TYLER NELSON WENDY CHAVEZ Staff Writers

Fullerton residents voiced their concerns about water contamination in the Orange County North Basin and the risk it poses to the health of the community on Nov. 14.

The Environmental Protection Agency has yet to decide on whether it should place the basin on its Superfund National Priorities List.

“We proposed the site to be put on the list and we haven’t made a final decision yet,” said Caleb Shaffer, who is involved with Superfund remedial program for the EPA. “I do want to emphasize that all the drinking water that is served in Orange County meets federal and state safe-drinking water standards.”

The Superfund cleanup process is extensive, and stretches out to a nine-step process. The North Basin is still in the early stages of the process as the EPA is still investigating the contamination and

whether it should be put on the list, Shaffer said.

The contamination has affected groundwater that supplies up to 75 percent of the drinking water for 2.5 million people in 22 different Orange County cities, including the Cal State Fullerton campus.

Nahal Mogharabi, EPA’s Southern California spokeswoman, told the Daily Titan on May 9 that the contamination is believed to have existed for decades in some places.

Fullerton resident Kent Daugherty is concerned about the remedial process.

“I keep getting different information. Today they said 75 percent of the water. The guys testing the well told me we only get half of the water from the well.

I’m just a little leery of flow charts and presentations that tell you what the process is going to be,” Daugherty said.

The Environmental Protection Agency has around 100 Superfund sites in the state of California, Shaffer said.

“This is a common example of a site we would get involved in.

We have a number of sites similar to this in the San Fernando Valley and the San Gabriel Valley,” Shaffer said about the North Basin.

According to the the

The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating the Orange County water pollution.

Environmental Protection Agency, the groundwater is contaminated with several dangerous chemicals, including trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and 1,1-dichloroethylene (1,1 DCE), all of which are known carcinogens or substances that are capable of causing cancer in living tissue.

These chemicals have leaked from the soil into the groundwater through manufacturing and processing facilities.

Shane Borowski, who has lived in Fullerton for 15 years, said his

Waste: A look into CSUF trash CONTINUED FROM 1 Once the materials have been sorted at Republic Services, the recycling waste is either sold to other companies that turn it into another product, or moved from the transport station to the Olinda Landfill or Frank R. Bowerman Landfill.

Materials that are recyclable include aluminum (cans), glass, paper, cardboard (unless it is food covered) and plastics, according to Republic Services website.

Depending on the type of plastic, the material can be recycled to become another container,

playground equipment, picnic tables, lawn furniture, plastic lumber or even clothes, according to the American Chemistry Council, an enterprise that advocates for public policies that support the creation of products that improve lives and protect the environment.

Miranda Jr. said he expects there will be an increase in diversion rates with upcoming campus programs in place.

He said there are plans to start a composting program at the Fullerton Arboretum, and to recycle preprocessed food waste in the Gastronome.

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“Post-consumer is after students buy it, eat it and throw it in the trash.”

“This is all the cuttings from the kitchens, all the stuff that hasn’t been consumed yet, all the runoff and all that,” Miranda Jr. said.

In 2017, about 244 tons of paper were shredded and recycled, and about 600 tons of green yard waste were collected on campus.

“We’ve complied with the yard waste aspect but not the food aspect yet. So this is long overdue, and we’re getting that started,” Miranda Jr. said.

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three-year-old daughter may have been affected by the contaminated water as she has developed vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder that causes the loss of skin color in blotches.

“For my wife and I, it was devastating,” Borowski said. “(We have) no genetic links on either side of the family. We did some research and found out it can be environmentally triggered.”

Borowski said the Environmental Protection Agency and the Orange County Water District could not tell him if the contaminated

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water reached his tap water.

“The city couldn’t definitively rule it out, the county couldn’t definitively rule it out and the EPA couldn’t,” Borowski said.

The EPA has yet to make a final decision on whether to put the North Basin on the Superfund list, Shaffer said.

“We try often to make a decision within a year. It’s difficult to say because it ranges,” Shaffer said. “On a small site we can make it within six months and a larger site may take a little longer.”

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News 3

MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2018— THURSDAY DECEMBER 20,2018

Sustainability in Fullerton

CSUF looks to add more solar panels Campus works to produce 100 percent renewable energy by 2045.

ANTONIO LOPEZ MIGUEL HIDALGO Staff Writers

Cal State Fullerton currently produces 13 percent of its energy through several solar projects built around campus, which is a 9 percent increase over the last two years, said Janet Purchase, the utility and energy analyst, and Michael Lotito, associate director of physical plant at CSUF. The campus is steadily working toward the state goal of having 100 percent carbon free and renewable energy by 2045, Lotito and Purchase said.

Solar panels at CSUF have a total capacity of up to four megawatts of electricity.

When the university builds a new parking structure, those solar panels are expected to generate an additional megawatt of storage and 500 kilowatts to one megawatt of energy, Purchase said.

“We haven’t picked out specific locations yet, but you might see something, like there’s a new parking structure that’s going to be built on Eastside,” Lotito said.

CSUF contracted its solar projects through SunPower in

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the summer of 2016, a solar company that also works with Cal State Long Beach.

Trigen, which generates electricity from natural gas, currently accounts for over 70 percent of CSUF’s power, a number that has remained fairly consistent from 2016 to 2018.

On the contrary, Edison’s

electricity has been reduced considerably from 25 percent to 17 percent, Purchase said.

“We’re at about maybe 5 cents a kilowatt-hour for Trigen, about 9 cents for the renewable solar, and then we’re around 12 to 13 cents for Edison per kWh,” Purchase said, illustrating the price difference between the three

sources.

“We’re trying to figure out, how do we optimize the electricity coming in because we want to use the cheapest first.”

Another feature the university is trying to enforce with their central plant is the ability to switch power off from one source in a power outage.

This would allow the campus to run while one of its three sources is down, ensuring a seamless handoff.

“We have to put in some utility synchronization that would automatically synchronize to Edison and automatically close that breaker during the outage,” Purchase said.

“The system would have to do this in seconds. We’ve been dealing with a lot of consultants to help us figure out what the best plan is.”

Lotito said how necessary this technology can be with CSUF’s energy usage patterns changing to be in high demand during the evening hours.

“In the summer it was really hot, the air conditioning was going on and they would have to have more generation on hand to meet that demand,” Lotito said. “Now it’s kind of flipped.

Instead of being from noon to 6 p.m. it’s going to be 4 to 9 p.m.”

CSULB led all CSUs with 4.75 megawatts of solar in 2017, according to the CSULB website.

“I think as far as photovoltaic, we’re probably in the top two or three,” Lotito said.

Photovoltaic is the process of converting sunlight to energy.

With the campus looking to increase its solar capacity, it’s possible with the new structure and future projects that CSUF can lead all CSUs in solar production very soon.

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How CSUF removes hazardous waste on campus

the other hazardous waste that is collected, are stored at an undisclosed chemical storage area on campus.

Every three months, a contracted company comes to pick up the accumulated waste and dispose of it properly, Lopez said.

Staff at the sciences departments have been conscious about reducing the amount of hazardous materials used in the labs for several reasons, and are hoping to restrict how

much hazardous chemicals students are exposed to, said Barbara Gonzalez, Ph.D., chemistry professor at CSUF. “We’ve reduced the risk, part of it is that we use smaller amounts. They’re not quite complete what we call microscale, but we use the smallest amount possible so that we’re not wasting and we’re not exposing students to (hazardous materials),” Gonzalez said.

The Environmental Health and Safety Office at CSUF has

enforced a new barcoding system for hazardous chemical inventory to protect first responders in the event of an emergency.

The barcoding system is called Cyber Track, and was introduced this past summer as both a regulatory and safety-driven program.

“We barcode any hazardous material or chemical on this campus.”

“With that software, we can barcode the materials and say

that these chemicals belong to this professor. We generate that inventory and we keep it enacted,” Lopez said.

The new system regulates all chemical materials that come onto campus.

Before it reaches the designated departments, it must first be processed through Environmental Health and Safety then it can be delivered to the departments.

While the department doesn’t determine what materials are being purchased and delivered for educational and research purposes, they make sure everything is accounted for and logged.

In addition to the safety precautions taken outside of the labs with inventory and logging, Environmental Health and Safety also provides students and professors with in-class packages for contaminations.

In the event of an exposure, there are chemical spill kits in rooms that contain products to assist in cleaning and minimizing the threat.

These kits include absorbents, goggles, gloves, disposable lab coats, shoe covers, signs and a brochure with helpful steps.

For more information on safety training go to the Environment Health and Safety website: http://r mehs.fuller ton.edu / training.

Totonji said.

As a result, the class focused on possible solutions to help eliminate trash from going into recycling bins, such as putting signs of what needed to be recycled.

“This was always thought of as being an ongoing project, not one that was going to end at the end of the semester. I expect next semester, some of the students in my class will be on that same project again and will just take it further,” Hewitt said.

In order for the campus to recycle effectively, Hewitt said people have to make sure they check the recycling symbol and number

at the side of a plastic container or bottle.

“Any kind of plastic that’s (the number) three or higher, goes in the trash. The only thing that we want in the recycling bins are glass, cans and bottles that are two or lower (and) plastic that’s two or lower,” Totonji said.

Students in Hewitt’s class who were a part of the recycling team also had to develop the initial steps to create a student-led recycling program.

“First thing would be to figure how it’s going to be funded.

You could start it as volunteers but without a source of funding, pretty

soon, people aren’t going to keep on doing it,” Hewitt said.

Hewitt also suggested seeking external funding and mentioned that if the program was under Associated Students, they could partially fund the recycling program.

People outside the university who collect recyclables are also an issue when it comes to acquiring potential funding once the student-led recycling program comes to fruition, Hewitt said.

Scot Willey, captain of the CSUF University Police, said when people throw trash in the garbage or recycling it is open to the public to take. The department

has worked with the sustainability programs on campus in the past to find ways to minimize people’s ability to take recyclables, such as putting locks on bins.

However, Willey said it’s not the department’s first priority to take care of these types of recyclers.

Still, Totonji said there needs to be a full-level audit in the school’s recycling because it will affect the campus in years to come.

“Climate change is not politics, and this is what people need to understand,” Totonji said. “This is going to be the biggest human challenge of the 21st and 22nd century.”

Materials used in class are disposed of properly in hazardous waste vessels.

WILLIAM ROBBINS ALEC CALVILLO Staff Writers

As of September 2018, about 60,459 pounds of hazardous waste have been collected this year at Cal State Fullerton, said Leonardo Lopez, Environmental Health and Safety associate director.

Laboratory chemicals generate most of the hazardous waste materials produced on campus, Lopez said.

“A lot of people have the misconception that we only pick up waste from natural sciences and mathematics — chemistry, biology and all that stuff. That’s actually not the case. We manage the waste of the entire campus,” Lopez said.

Examples of other forms of hazardous materials that circulate through campus include oil, batteries, bulbs, tires, asbestos and medical waste.

The materials used in class are disposed of properly in what are called hazardous waste vessels, where hazardous waste is designated to several different containers depending on its chemical state.

These containers, along with

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The students were divided into three projects, one of which dealt with how efficiently the campus actually recycled.

Manar Totonji, a fourth-year biochemistry major at CSUF who was enrolled in the course, said he sifted through more than 100 bags of waste and has seen issues with recycling over and over again.

“You will be shocked to see what goes into the recycling bin.

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4 Lifestyle

MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2018— THURSDAY DECEMBER 20,2018

Student overcomes postpartum depression CSUF student Maricsa Secundo now advocates for awareness of the mood disorder.

OMAR SANCHEZ Staff Writer

Maricsa Secundo, a MAC makeup artist and biology major at Cal State Fullerton, was thrilled to finally find out the sex of her baby as she went in with her husband for an ultrasound at the Fountain Valley Regional Hospital on Oct. 4, 2016.

Secundo had a normal pregnancy up until her appointment at 19 weeks, and it was the events of that visit that completely changed her life.

“We found out that they couldn’t locate one of her bones in her pinky, and she was showing extra fluid on the left side of her brain. Immediately they were concerned, and they told us that those were markers for Down Syndrome,” Secundo said.

Secundo was told about the possibility of having an emergency amniocentesis, which is the procedure of taking a sample of the fluid using a needle that punctures through the uterus, but the risk of a miscarriage was high.

She ended up not going through with the procedure, and instead was consistently going in and out of the hospital every two days to monitor her baby’s condition because the fluid wasn’t going away.

During one of her visits at the hospital, Secundo discovered yet another terrifying detail. The doctors weren’t able to locate bones in four of her baby’s fingers.

“How much more is life going to throw at me? How much more can I take? Only so many bad things can happen to one person at a time,” Secundo said.

Caroline, Secundo’s baby daughter, was eventually born and diagnosed with Poland syndrome.

Poland syndrome is a rare birth congenital condition which affects one side of the body and can cause underdevelopment of chest muscles and webbing or shorter fingers on that side of the body.

As for Caroline, it’s only presented in four bones not forming at all, Secundo said.

However, it was the

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Secundo went through a difficult pregnancy, but is determined to be a strong role model for her daughter.

accumulation of these events and all of the stress that came with it that eventually led to Secundo’s postpartum depression.

Four months into her postpartum depression, Secundo, her husband and her mother noticed something was off. Secundo said she wasn’t happy, was irritated all of the time, was aggressive and cried nonstop.

“I’d get up at three in the morning and clean the house because I didn’t know what to do with myself. I just couldn’t turn off my mind,” Secundo said.

Brian Rivera, Secundo’s husband and a custodian, recalled her breaking point.

“She had gone into the restroom and you would hear her cry, but it wasn’t like when people (normally) cry, it was loud, like echoing into the room,” Rivera said. “That was when I knew she needed help.”

Rivera did some research and came across the OC Health Care Agency website. His call to them ed to the agency giving Secundo a quick survey to take in order to understand her symptoms.

The results came in and stated that she was showing signs of moderate to severe depression, and eventually was appointed to a therapist.

Rivera said he is always there to support his wife through any obstacle, and has made it clear that he’d always be there to push her through.

“Even if it was at 1 a.m. or even at 6 p.m. when I was working, I knew if she called I had to answer just to give her the support she needed during that time,” Rivera said.

Despite Secundo’s condition, through therapy and huge support from her husband and loved ones, she became an activist, a stronger woman and used her online presence as a platform to spread awareness.

Prior to her diagnosis, Secundo had been active on YouTube since 2014 creating beauty videos and makeup tutorials. By 2015, she had a following of 10,000 subscribers.

Because she already had a following on YouTube and Instagram, Secundo and her therapist

both agreed that Secundo should share her story on those platforms to educate her followers on resources that people living with postpartum depression could take advantage of, and to also eliminate any stigmas people might associate with the condition.

“I just started posting what symptoms you should look for in postpartum women not only if you’re pregnant yourself, but if you have a family member, or a girlfriend, or a wife, those are the things you should be looking out for,” Secundo said.

After posting numerous stories on her Instagram and a video on YouTube briefly explaining her story involving her depression, her daughter and her experiences going to therapy, she has received lots of support and positive feedback from the online community.

“I’ve gotten probably hundreds of emails and DMs of girls and women telling me that they’ve had similar experiences, or that they’ve also gone through postpartum depression, but they didn’t have anyone to talk to

because nobody really understood them,” Secundo said.

Above all, Secundo said she still prioritizes her family. Especially now with Caroline’s diagnosis potentially impacting the rest of her life as she grows older, Secundo’s goal is to overcome her depression and set a positive example for her daughter.

“I know that she is not gonna have an easy life with her differences, and I know that bullying is probably in her future. I have to stay strong and I have to get through this so that she has a strong mom that’s gonna help her get through what she has to get through,” Secundo said.

Secundo is not afraid to show herself being vulnerable. She has posted her bad days and other symptoms publically on Instagram. However, she wants to get a message about depression across that she learned from another woman in the community with postpartum depression.

“We don’t choose to have this illness, it chooses us,” Secundo said.

“It’s okay to not be okay.”

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Opinion 5

MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2018— THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 2018

Students lack sufficient carpool options

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No change can occur if commuters don’t demand it.

MATTISON CANO Staff Writer

ALYSSA LOPEZ Opinion Editor

Cal State Fullerton has about 40,000 enrolled students, the second largest student enrollment in the CSU system, and a majority of these students are commuters.

Thousands of cars are coming in and out of campus every day creating an influx of air pollution, and the freeway running alongside the campus also

adds to the problem.

However, the university hasn’t been successful in promoting sustainable options for students who are environmentally conscious or interested in carpooling to campus.

The university needs to make a greater effort to provide better carpool options for students who could ultimately help the environment and alleviate parking congestion.

With the programs they do offer, there seems to be no appeal or substantial benefit for students or the environment.

Parking and Transportation Services offers a carpool system for students who live close to one another or who commute along the same route.

A minimum of two students are required to qualify for the pass with at least one applicant owning a valid parking pass.

Not only are there a limited number of spots available for students who carpool, but they

only have a four-hour window to get a parking spot.

Only 39 Student Carpool Zone spaces are offered and the hours are restricted from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on weekdays. After that window closes, the spots open up to all students.

Because the number of carpool spaces is significantly low, it is not going to make a significant difference in the air pollution created by cars.

While this dilemma for students who carpool may not seem critical right now, considering the parking shortage, if those numbers increase so will the competition for those spots, which may create even more parking problems.

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, for every gallon of gas a car uses, 24 pounds of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gases are emitted.

So assuming that all 39 carpool spots get used, at

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minimum only 78 students out of the 40,000 are helping to reduce their output of global warming gases.

While any help, however small, can be beneficial, the number of students who carpool could possibly be greater if the campus offered more spots with fewer time restrictions.

Neighboring campuses like Cal State Long Beach promote their Climate Action Plan for sustainable travel habits and plan to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

They use a carpool network service called Zimride where students can offer or request rides for commutes, trips or other events.

Its website offers a private network for CSULB students, staff or faculty to post their rides or requests.

CSUF does offer a variety of envi ron menta lly-susta inable options for commuters.

Those include biking, riding

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While these are all great options, it isn’t advertised to the students on campus as much as it needs to be.

These options can be found on the Parking and Transportation website, but a student would already need to be looking for alternative ways of transportation to come across all these services.

This type of advertisement isn’t going to make the carpool program become visible enough to the people who can utilize it.

Students need to hold their school accountable for making changes to help solve big issues that affect them, and that can only be done by speaking out and asking for those changes.

A better carpool program will not only help the environment but it may reduce some of the parking challenges students face every day.

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MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2018— THURSDAY DECEMBER 20,2018

Column: My dog’s journey to my heart

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Although Angeles started off aggressive, he has come to love and accept me and my family.

Looking back, my dog has transformed to become an essential part of my family.

BRIAN BECSI Opinion Editor

It was a cold, dark night in the Arizona desert. I was on my way to visit my girlfriend in New Mexico when I found a dirty dog begging for food at a McDonald’s drive-thru. It was a small, tricolor dog with pointed ears like a German shepherd.

I thought of the roadkill I saw on the highway and all the stray dogs I had already seen. I immediately opened the door, and he laid down on his back and presented his belly to me submissively. Not thinking twice, I scooped him up and put him in the back of my car.

When I arrived, my girlfriend wasn’t thrilled with me bringing a new friend. We set up an extra plastic dog house, padded it with blankets and tucked him in. I checked on him throughout the cold night; he was awake and

smiling. I named him Angeles after the city.

We bathed him together and she paid to take him to the vet. Our relationship didn’t last, but I still think of her everytime I look at him.

It wasn’t the most stable time of my life. I had skipped classes to go on my trip to New Mexico. My landlord did not want another dog so I decided to move back home.

I finished my finals but failed that semester — the following semester I dropped out for a while.

Afterwards, I took Angeles with me everywhere, just roughing it and living the life. At first, my parents only tolerated the dog while I was figuring out what I wanted to do.

Considering that he was a bit of a ruffian, he actually got along with our other dog Kona, a very simple, peaceful golden retriever who just recently passed away last year. Angeles was smaller, but he was definitely the dominant one.

Life at my parents’ house was pretty good for me and Angeles, and I think that got to his head a little bit. He became possessive

of me, and began nipping aggressively at my friends when I wasn’t looking. My uncle, a fellow dog person, tolerated several of his provocations.

I would eventually get into some trouble of my own, and it fell on my mom to care for him.

After I made it back home, she and Angeles had begun to develop a bit of a bond, except for his aggression.

Even when I took him on walks, he would bark ferociously at other dogs — sometimes at other people.

It could’ve been disastrous. The gardener where I lived was cool and knew how to frighten him out of biting, but one time he got out in the yard and bit an elderly electrician. It was actually pretty scary.

It was definitely too much for my mom to handle on walks.

She talked to some of our family and my dad found a dog trainer online. His name was David, and he had a lot of experience working with dogs that’s had a rough past.

David knew the key to fixing

behavioral issues in animals was earning their trust. Fundamentally, Angeles didn’t trust my mom to look after herself.

He was aggressive because he was protective.

My mom took to the training enthusiastically, tolerating nips and bites with much more grace than I would’ve managed. She recognized that she was afraid of Angeles, and David helped her overcome that.

I remember David working with Angeles in the living room.

He had Angeles’ leash in his hand and was giving him commands.

When Angeles growled at him, he asserted control using the leash.

Angeles nipped and David pulled the leash tight and popped him firmly on the nose.

It scared him so badly that he urinated right there on the floor.

Mom was nervous but she trusted David and realized that he wasn’t going to hurt Angeles.

If she was going to earn Angeles’s trust, she knew she needed to command his respect.

She picked up on the confidence and learned to command the dog’s

attention and the results were transformative. He stopped barking and shaking his head furiously at other dogs when they were out on walks.

She worked with him every day, and he quickly stopped challenging her commands.

Pretty soon, Angeles and my mom were the closest members of our family.

He gave her his undivided attention, following her everywhere around the house. My mom would even put him on leash when family members were around and he would tolerate them in his space.

To clarify, his space includes our cars, couches, beds and, most significantly, our hearts. As I write this, he lays under the glass table in our living room.

Angeles is about 10 years old.

Fortunately, Australian kelpies tend to live long lives, so I’m hoping he will be around to see me graduate college.

It’s tough to imagine life without him, but he’s taught me so much about gratitude and devotion that it would be impossible to imagine never having met.

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The game’s adventure mode, World of Light, follows Kirby, everyone’s favorite pink fluff ball, as he explores the enormous map and fights through foes and locked characters in order to awaken the rest of the roster.

Adventure mode is complete with obstacles that make certain areas closed off until gaining a Spirit is used to remove the barricades blocking the paths.

Spirits are a new element in the Smash series that aren’t just used as collectible trophies.

Spirits are utilities spanning across Nintendo’s history of countless games.

In “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate,” the Spirits are unlocked and used as perks to help fighters in their journey.

Although the Spirits are used to help players, the weaker the player’s Spirit team the more rewards the player wins at the end of

every battle won.

This gives players the ultimatum of an easy win with less reward, or a difficult win with more rewards to pocket.

“Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” almost sounds too good to be true, but the game does have its flaws.

Its online gameplay has severe connection problems and lagging.

But at the very least, the same lag is experienced by all players in the match, although this doesn’t mean it makes playing online any less irritating.

Players have also had trouble being placed in matches within the rules they’ve chosen, with many getting thrown into random matches, which throws preferences right out the window.

“Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” may need work online, but overall the game features excellent gameplay and leaves gamers with constant room to continue expanding their play time.

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MONDAY DECEMBER 17, 2018— THURSDAY DECEMBER 20, 2018

CSUF athletes motivated to reach success Players are determined to reach the professional level in their fields.

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Most college athletes have the desire to become professional athletes but only a small number actually break through and accomplish that dream.

Dustin Garneau, current member of the Los Angeles Angels and former Titan baseball player, is one of the Cal State Fullerton athletes that was able to make it past the college stage and work his way up the ranks.

Garneau was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in 2009 after playing for the Titans for four years.

“Man, the minor leagues makes a man out of you,” Garneau said. “Learning how to deal with (travel) and learning how to show up on time and be a professional is kind of on your own. There is no one looking over your shoulder, so your career is literally in your own hands.”

In major league baseball, players have to work their way through multiple levels of the organization to actually make it to the highest ranking leagues within the sport.

“There is luck involved in it.

You need to be lucky enough to be put in an environment, you need to be lucky enough to do good when you get a chance and a lot of it is skill,” said CSUF baseball head coach Rick Vanderhook.

In the competitive environment of sports, it takes a lot more than just talent to make it into professional leagues.

“What you do is you need to be able to function at the highest level, off-of-the-field performance is attributed to at least 50 percent of a player’s success,” Vanderhook said.

For women’s sports, the same mentality has to be met to make it to the professional level.

The gap between each stage, from playing in high school, college and the professional leagues is separated by qualities of discipline, dedication and teamwork.

“There are a lot of good D-I players, but to get to the level after that you have to go above and beyond just being good on

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your team.

You have to do everything, the extra inch, and that is what is going to set you apart from the other people competing at the same level as you,” said women’s basketball senior Lauren Nubla.

For Nubla, basketball runs in the family with her oldest brother being her original inspiration

to start shooting hoops. After her, she is followed by her younger brother and sister who have also decided to join the sport.

Nubla’s teammate, Hannah Thompson, also has basketball in her blood with her dad and older brother also playing the game.

For Thompson, the main

lessons learned throughout her career are the ones off of the court.

After graduating, the next step for some players is pursuing their career and pursuing higher-level education programs like law school and medical school.

The objective for college students to graduate and receive

a diploma after their time with the university is something stressed by Vanderhook to all of his players.

“The most important thing is that one day they are not going to be able to play baseball, but that piece of paper that they get from going to college goes with them to their grave,” Vanderhook said.

Titans extend win streak with 77-65 win

Women’s basketball guard Carolyn Gill sets a careerhigh 20 points in one game.

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Guard Carolyn Gill’s career night catapulted Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball past the University of Antelope Valley on Friday 77-65, pushing its win streak to five games.

“I think we are the type of team that can just continue and just get better. We’re not even at our peak yet of how good of a team we are,” Gill said.

Gill set a career-high 20 points while matching her season high of 16 rebounds.

Before the loss against CSUF on Friday, the Pioneers had won four-straight road games.

With no Pioneers over 6 feet tall on the roster, center Daeja Smith, the tallest player on the court for the Titans, was aggressive at the basket.

To start the game, the 6-foot 3-inch center scored 8 of the Titans’ first 10 points and finished with 22 for the night from the field.

The start was crucial as the team felt they were in a slump despite being on a winning streak, Smith said.

“Everyone had the mindset to do better than our last game,” Smith said. “I think tonight, we just proved it.”

Smith’s presence was felt on the defensive side. Her length forced the Antelope Valley

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On Dec. 14, center Daeja Smith scored 22 points during CSUF women’s basketball matchup against the University of Antelope Valley.

offense to settle for shots from the perimeter.

As a result, the Pioneers made only eight successful shots out of 25 attempts.

CSUF had success with ball movement to find an open player as the 18 assists of the night were above the 15.6 season average.

Titans head coach Jeff Harada was pleased that the team

committed less that 15 turnovers versus Antelope Valley, which was its goal heading in.

“Hopefully we realize that when we get stops like rebounding and taking care of the basketball, it’s going to make things a lot easier for us,” Harada said.

It was a close contest between these two teams through the first 30 minutes, as no team had a

lead larger than 5 points. However, the Titans put up 29 points in the fourth quarter to pull away.

A 3-pointer by forward Amiee Book capped a 10-0 run in the final quarter for Fullerton to force Pioneers head coach Deon Price to use a timeout.

Book was inserted into the starting lineup for the first time in her collegiate career after

coming off the bench in every game this season.

She replaced guard Hannah Thompson, who has been struggling to find her footing on the offensive end.

Thompson has scored just one field goal or less in four of the last five games she has played.

William Robbins contributed to this article.