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Tennis remains undefeated Titans are off to the best start in school history.

CHRISTOPHER SHEATS II Daily Titan The weather did not cool off the women’s tennis team as it swept UC Riverside in each of its matches to stay hot and push its overall record to 7-0; the best start in school history.

After an hour delay, the Titans began the day by claiming victories in doubles play.

Seniors Camille De Leon and Alexis Valenzuela defeated the pair of Karla Dulay and Tracy Van from UC Riverside.

“We played really good.

We came out strong and just finished it the way we wanted to,” Valenzuela said.

The duo and the other pairs on the Titans have not dropped a doubles point this season.

Coach Matias said the team was well prepared for

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Seniors Alexis Valenzuela and Camille De Leon have driven the Cal State Fullerton tennis team to a historic start to the 2017 season with an unblemished 7-0 record, including a 7-0 sweep over UC Riverside Saturday.

the rainy forecast thanks to facing similar conditions during last week’s match.

The Titans were also able

to handle business when it came to the single sets as they didn’t allow a single match to be won by the Highlanders.

“We set some goals for today’s match, and I felt like we accomplished them,” Coach Matias said.

The win gives Cal State Fullerton its first Big West Conference victory this season.

The Titans look to keep their win streak alive as they host Loyola Marymount Sunday at 11 a.m.

Mental health at Standing Rock Volunteers provide emotional assistance at pipeline protests.

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The Beyond 2016 anti-bullying and harassment training event was intended to allow minority groups to discuss their frustrations following the 2016 election. Groups talked about being an ally, inequality in the workplace or school and how to address hate crimes.

Creating anti-bully allies Beyond 2016 event sponsored by local Democrat groups.

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Concerned and impassioned individuals packed Alvarado Room AB Saturday, eager to learn about tools they can use to combat bullying and harassment and make a difference in their communities.

Beyond 2016, a program

aiming to address the concerns of minority groups following the 2016 election results was held at the Titan Student Union (TSU).

“I think the information is new for a lot of people.

They never really knew the distinction between bullying

and harassment and what a hate crime was and what hate incident was,” said Yasmin Ibrahim, project manager for Beyond 2016 and MiNDS, a family centered organization based in Orange County.

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Career fair offers networking opportunities

Nostalgia proves to be the best advertisement

Over 700 students attended the engineering and computer science fair held in the TSU Alvarado AB room Thursday.

With vinyls projected to reach $1 billion this year, it’s no question that comfort is becoming the best selling point.

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During her time at the Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Opposition camps in North Dakota, Laura Luna met a Lakota man who had been there for months. He called her out in the middle of a cold winter night to talk with him.

She said his boots were soaked from the snow. All he wanted was a dry pair of socks, but he was also struggling with an internal conflict.

He was putting his life on the line to protect the Earth and its resources, she said, but the drill site was still operating.

“What he needed was just someone to see him,” Luna said. “Somebody to realize what he’s doing is important, and that’s all I did.”

Luna is a learning disability and mental health specialist at Cal State Fullerton. At Standing Rock, Luna lived and worked out of a teepee. Along with several other volunteers with backgrounds in mental health, Luna said she provided 24/7 care out of the emotional wellness teepee for the “water protectors” in the camps just outside of the DAPL drill site.

“It’s not in the typical way that we think about counseling,” Luna said. “It’s really an emergency kind of crisis situation that we’re in over there.”

Luna said the Medic + Healer Council has been vital in providing various forms of medical assistance, including emergency medical services, mental health services and even a midwife yurt across the campsites.

“For me as a psychologist, there’s a lot of trauma that’s happened to the people that are there,” Luna said. “The support from the medic team is really important.”

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Fullerton basketball trashes the Beach

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CSUF outlasts rivals Long Beach State with help from leading scorer Tre’ Coggins and Khalil Ahmad.

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Recruiters seek students Engineering and computer science fair draws large crowd.

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Titans came dressed to impress with resumes in hand at the annual Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) Career Fair in the Titan Student Union Pavilions Thursday.

Over 700 students attended the career fair. Many waited in long lines to get the chance to talk to potential employers about their post-graduation plans.

Company representatives gave away business cards, company folders, key chains and candy to students that visited their booths.

Events, marketing and social media specialist Krystyl Nottage said the fair is targeted toward engineering and computer science

majors but everyone is welcome to attend. She said here were around 30 companies at the event “recruiting for both full-time, parttime and academic and paid internships.”

Some companies in attendance included PepsiCo, City of Los Angeles-Bureau of Engineering, Extron Electronics, Exsilio Solutions, Rapid Manufacturing, AutoCrib Inc., Neudesic, Sully-Miller Contracting Co., and Alcon.

Civil engineering associate Dominick Esposito from the City of Los Angeles-Bureau of Engineering said he graduated from Cal State Fullerton and was hired from an on-campus interview.

“We provide all of the engineering services for the city of Los Angeles,” Esposito said. “We want to recruit people right out of college. We want people to have nice long 30-year careers with the city.”

Travis Clausen,

operations manager for construction at Sully-Miller Contracting Co., said the company builds roads, handles asphalt and concrete pavements and underground construction.

“We’re looking for civil engineering students mainly, but I’m open to anything.

I just want somebody that’s going to work hard and is willing to learn,” Clausen said. “It’s a great company. I love what I do. My dad worked there for 30 years and (he) just retired. We have some employees that are third generation working in the company.”

Mechanical engineering major Philip Chiu said he visited the career fair to see which companies were in attendance and if there were any opportunities that he could take advantage of.

“I feel like people have a lot of expectations that they want the students to meet. They want the best of the best, so I guess that’s

kind of intimidating,” Chiu said. “I think post-grad life is nerve-racking because you’re not fully there yet.”

Arpit Patel, electrical engineering major, said he was not nervous to talk to company representatives because he attended the event last year. He will be graduating in May and is looking to join a company and gain experience.

The Career Center website said students who attend career fairs increase their chances of finding a job or internship and to network with future employers. The ECS Career Fair is held every year in the beginning of February.

“It’s competitive, but we always hear a lot of good stories about people getting interviews and sometimes even jobs from the career fairs.,” Nottage said.

“Sometimes it’s cool because the recruiters that are coming back have gotten a job because of the career fair.”

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The program offered anti-bullying and harassment training by mental health professionals, legal experts and community members.

The training included how to avoid bullies, what you can do if you’re being bullied or harassed and how to respond to hate crimes.

Beyond 2016 was co-sponsored by the Democrats of North Orange County and the CSUF Democrats.

K-12 and college students have had the most hate incidents following the 2016 election, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The program recognizes that hate incidents can

also occur in the workplace, therefore the program reached out to both parents and students alike to have a lasting outcome.

“It was very eye-opening for a lot of people. The increase in these incidents is making people more wary of what’s happening or going on with people that they are interacting with on a daily basis,” Ibrahim said.

Following the training, the attendees broke out into groups to address their frustrations and to discuss issues like illegal immigration and police brutality.

Some of the discussion topics included what it means to be an ally and some practical ways to act as an ally, what you can do

differently to better manage and overcome obstacles, how to address inequality in the workplace or school setting and how to ensure that the solutions to many of these issues include the people who are directly impacted and do not just reflect the views and experiences of the privileged and powerful.

Cal State Fullerton student Amy Santos heard about Beyond 2016 through her internship with Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, a community facility based in Fullerton.

“The information that was given was very informative. There is a lot of unknown and uncertainty, especially working in a community where it

is predominately Latino.

There is a lot of anxiety so it is important for us, as the ones that are getting an education, that have access to these resources to bring it back,” Santos said.

The attendees left with tools to combat bullying and harassment as well as referrals and access to legal experts and advocacy groups.

The next meeting will be hosted by Emmanuel Episcopal at the Church of Fullerton Feb. 25th at 2 p.m.

“Just having people here to learn this information means people genuinely care about what’s happening in their community and want to make an impact,” Ibrahim said.

‘Advocacy Day’ to allow lobbying

ASI will host event for students to speak on campus issues.

TAYLOR ENGLE Daily Titan

Various CSUF clubs will have the chance to lobby for legislative votes Wednesday concerning matters on campus, such as a proposed increase in the budget to avoid higher tuition.

“Sometimes, students don’t realize that they do have power to change things and they’re not politically engaged. They think it doesn’t affect them and they don’t know how to necessarily engage with the legislators or people that represent them. They think they don’t care or they’re not going to listen to them,” said ASI Chief Governmental Officer Amanda Martinez.

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(ASI) will host the “Advocacy Day” event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the central Quad.

While several issues will be discussed at “Advocacy Day,” the potential tuition increase is at the forefront.

If it goes into effect, next year’s undergraduates will have to pay up to $270 more per year, graduates will pay up to $438 and nonresidents will pay up to $396.

“Currently, we have one of the lowest tuitions in the state of California,” said ASI Chief Communications Officer Laila Dadabhoy. “The reality is that our campus is not meeting a lot of expectations. For example, we have a lot of deferred maintenance, faculty hasn’t seen a pay increase in more than five years … things like that are difficult.”

This is what brought the board of trustees to discuss the possibility of a tuition increase, Dadabhoy said.

“ASI has taken an official stance against (the tuition increase),” Dadabhoy said.

“They are working with other on-campus groups to help students protest against it.”

The topic of advocacy came in response to rallies that took place on campus Jan. 31. Students for Quality Education (SQE), ASI and faculty members joined together to inform students about the tuition increase and the recent executive orders, which may affect CSUF’s undocumented students, Martinez said.

The board of trustees will be voting on the budget March 21. ASI hopes that “Advocacy Day” will properly inform students about the vote in order to take action, Martinez said.

ASI banded with Dream Co-Op, the voice and supporters of CSUF’s undocumented students, to have a day on campus where students are informed about

issues and encouraged to voice their opinions to legislators through letters and tweets, Martinez said.

Other clubs focused on students’ rights will be in attendance, including SQE and the Cultural Center, Martinez said.

“Each table will have an issue or legislation,” Martinez said.

Martinez plans to make it simple. Fact sheets of the issues will be distributed, as well as postcards already filled out to legislators for students to complete with their personal message.

“The state legislator is responsible for upholding the promise they made in the California Master Plan, which is what created the CSU. In that, it says college is supposed to be affordable, accessible and have quality, yet all of those things promised in the 1960s are not in fruition today,” Martinez said.

For the Record In the “Protests end in altercation” story that ran Feb. 9, “Arab American Civic Council” was wrongly referred to as the “Arab American City Council.” There was also a reference to the Students for Justice in Palestine No-BanNo-Wall protest partially being held in opposition to the “Muslim ban,” which should have been referred to as the “executive order banning entry into the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries.”

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For the Record In the “Commission approves business center” story that ran Feb. 9, the second paragraph refers to a vacant lot “where all but the original Beckman Administration Building remains.” It should have instead read “where only the original Beckman Administration Building remains.”

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FEATURES DAPL: Pipeline protests inspire prayer PAGE 3 MONDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2017

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Lisa Grayshield, Ph.D., counseling educator at New Mexico State University, was one of the volunteers in the emotional wellness center at the Oceti Sakowin camp.

She arrived just before Thanksgiving and said she saw the movement grow from a solely indigenous group to a diverse and multicultural gathering of people.

“Fighting the black snake is prophecy,” Grayshield said. “They (the Lakota people) invited the world to show up and shared their prophecy with the world ... and the world showed up.”

As a member of the Washoe Tribe in Nevada, Grayshield said she, like many other Native Americans, grew up an activist.

Although she stood with Standing Rock in prayer at the onset of the movement, she didn’t feel the call to physically join until her daughter did.

“I wasn’t feeling the calling to go initially, just to stand in prayer but not necessarily to get into my car and use the gas and oil that it would take to go up and protest the pipeline,” Grayshield said. “It wasn’t making a lot of sense to me.”

During the week of Thanksgiving, some protesters who took part in direct actions reportedly were met with water cannons, tear gas and rubber bullets. While Luna was there during a lull in direct actions, she said that it was important to have mental specialists on the ground at all times because symptoms of trauma don’t always show up immediately.

“People go on these direct actions and things like that happen. And while they might not feel bad right away, a couple days later, that’s when all the trauma symptoms start happening,” Luna said.

When the “water protectors” weren’t dealing with militarized police along the border between the camps and the drill site, they faced extremely cold weather, small quarters and separation from loved ones. These hardships led to the culmination of stress within the camp, Luna said.

Originally, Grayshield wanted to stay in the camps for two weeks but ended up staying for seven weeks.

“I had no idea why I ended up staying that long,” Grayshield said. “One of the biggest reasons is that my feet were on the ground and I was experiencing a movement.”

Nanoor Shahin, behavior analyst at California

Psychcare, said that as a part of the Emotional Wellness Center, she helped reduce stress and find peaceful resolutions to interpersonal conflicts.

“I was expecting that even before getting there, because it’s kind of a stressful situation in general,” Shahin said.

Luna said that for the most part, the “water protectors” occupying Standing Rock were peaceful. They didn’t have weapons or battle gear while she was there, but they faced militarized police, buzzing helicopters, drones and lights around their campsites that made nighttime just as bright as day.

For many, the most powerful resistance to their hardships came in the form of prayer.

“The traditional values of Lakota people are all about prayer,” Luna said. “For me, that’s really what has given this movement so much connection and collaboration and the strength that comes with that.”

Every day from 10 a.m. to noon, people packed into one of the structures to be a part of prayer circles.

“The power of prayer was awesome,” Shahin said. “I honestly never experienced that before in my life.”

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I want to encourage people to get involved and to organize and to stand up for what you believe in...

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LAURA LUNA Learning Disability and Mental Health Specialist It was during a prayer circle that Luna met Brooke Smiley, a dance teacher at UCSB. While Smiley wasn’t part of the Emotional Wellness Center, she said she helped with day-to-day chores including insulating teepees, chopping and delivering wood and cooking. But Smiley said she was also able to contribute her art to the cause by being a part of ceremonial drum circles and sweats and holding her own dances on the frozen Missouri River.

“I came to dance and I came to be a part of and contribute my prayers to the water there and all the people there,” Smiley said.

Smiley comes from a mixed heritage that she has only recently started to reconnect with. Her grandfather was part of the Osage tribe and her grandmother was a homesteader in South Dakota. Though she hadn’t been fully immersed in the

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Brooke Smiley (above) spent her time at the Dakota Access Pipeline opposition camps helping with everyday tasks. When she wasn’t gathering wood or insulating teepees, she danced on the frozen Missouri River.

native community for most of her life, she recalls being taken to a powwow by her father when she was younger.

“I just remember watching the feet,” Smiley said.

“I was so young and low to the ground, all I could watch was the feet on the earth.”

Part of the reason why DAPL has been so devastating for the people of Standing Rock is because it’s an area that has faced numerous challenges and struggles for generations, Grayshield said.

“It’s about indigenous people standing up for our rights,” Grayshield said.

“Our right to clean water, clean air, to our traditional homeland and to be able to live in a way that is honorable.”

What people are fighting for in Standing Rock encompasses a wider issue about sustainability, Luna said. When she was there, she realized that much of the movement was younger people and that the problems being faced today will become their responsibility in the future.

“I want to encourage people to get involved and to organize and to stand up for what you believe in, and this is the time to do it,” Luna said.

Standing Rock provides a chance for people to reflect on their own lives and how they live affects the environment, Grayshield said.

“What’s happening at Standing Rock now, I’d say it represents one of the healthiest movements that’s happening across the country, and that is to take a stand for our environment; for Mother Earth,” Grayshield said.

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The emotional wellness teepee provided 24/7 care for those in need. Protestors engaging in direct actions often paid a visit to the teepee after encountering forceful opposition.

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OPINION Nostalgia sells comfort

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Romanticising the past makes for great marketing.

ASHLYN RAMIREZ Daily Titan Every person, young and old, has experienced nostalgia. People love holding on to their old stuff. Novelties one that would’ve thought to disappear with time have continued to thrive, all on the acutely human sensation of nostalgia.

Whether it’s old school video games, stretchy rubber chokers, lumberjack flannels or movie remakes, people latch onto things that give them a sense of comfort or stability.

Because of this, nostalgia has become one of the most influential money-making sentiments in the world.

Research by the Journal of Consumer Research shows that advertisers use nostalgia in order to sell anything from toys to food. In 2014, the University of Chicago also released research regarding the enormous effect that nostalgia has on consumers.

The report explained that “Nostalgia may be so commonly used in marketing because it encourages consumers to part with their money.”

With such a mystical allure, it’s no wonder that nostalgia has become such a driving force in the commercial market today. In the past, nostalgia was considered a disorder by a 17th century Swiss physician, according to the New York Times.

Thanks to this purely emotional drive, vinyls, which have become somewhat of a cult classic, are set to be a $1 billion industry in 2017, according to Deloitte, a company that predicts major business trends.

This is the first time that vinyl has gotten this much hype since about 1981, when the vinyl market was at its peak.

And vinyls are not the only thing being propelled by the

power of nostalgia.

Interest in games like “Pokemon” never seem to die out.

A franchise that is two decades old still has enough pull to make Nintendo $280 million, along with 500 million downloads of the new app, according to Business Insider.

Nintendo’s recent release of “Pokemon GO” hit a throwback cord with millennials, with over 40 percent of app downloads coming from adults over the age of 25, according to data from StartApp. Shawn Betschel, a CSUF junior majoring in education, was not only sporting a Pikachu (Pokemon) shirt on campus, but had a Pikachu tattoo on his body. For him, nothing compares to the things he grew up with as a child in the 90s. “(Pokemon) has just been one of the best ideas for kids and for adults since our time.

All these new ideas coming out just aren’t as fun and interesting as the Pokemon world,” Betschel said.

Along with Pokemon, the “Star Wars” franchise is something that people will never get tired of gravitating

to, considering it is nearly a $10 billion industry, according to Forbes.

While new movies tend to be bland and often lack originality, remakes of classic stories are a norm in Hollywood. Over 137 titles are in the works for a remake from 2016-2020, according to IMDB. Some of those remakes include “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “The Crow” and the popular 2006 Japanese anime “Death Note.”

But once something so good is out there in the world, it’s really, really hard to top it.

Students like Betschel revel in nostalgia so much that remakes don’t cut it.

“Movie remakes aren’t honestly my favorite, I like the originals the best. I think it’s just because of what I grew up on, so it’s something I stick to,” Betschel said.

Some of the biggest franchises will continue to piggyback off of the feeling for the sake of dollar signs.

Nostalgia will always overpower something shiny and new, and familiarity sits well with older generations who might not be into using Apple Music.

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Why the new president makes sense Trump’s heavy hand is a result of Obama’s timid policies.

FREDERIC ABOUJAOUDE For the Daily Titan Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, according to Newton’s Third Law of Motion. President Donald J. Trump is simply the reaction to the discontent felt by millions of average Americans toward the previous administration; the reason why close to 63 million Americans, including myself, voted for Trump.

For more than a year, people have vociferously voiced

their criticism of Trump.

Outspoken opposition started when Trump was still a candidate–one who wasn’t taken seriously in the first place– and only grew louder when he became president.

Protesters have expressed on more than several occasions why they refuse to accept that a real estate mogul and television personality has become the leader of the free world. What a lot of these anti-Trump demonstrators failed to understand was the reason why Trump rose into power so swiftly within the Republican primaries and in the general election.

During the eight years of the Obama administration, President Barack Obama’s policies went too far to the left at times, becoming ineffective when real action was needed. This may be why so many voters, some of whom, had backed Obama in the past, according to the Washington Post, opted for the anti-Obama candidate.

The terrorism threat created by ISIS surprised the Obama administration, which underestimated the strength of the group.

It was not until after at least two years of chaos in Syria that the Obama administration intervened with drone strikes, according to the International Business Times. This was too little too late, which is why the Islamic State Group was capable of surviving longer while influencing terror attacks on the West.

Terror attacks in France and Belgium echoed fear in the U.S., and considering the Pulse Nightclub massacre in Florida that happened after, it is no surprise that Trump’s promise to destroy ISIS would be preferred over Obama’s hesitant foreign policy.

In regard to immigration and Mexico, Obama implemented a “catch-and-release” policy at the border, whereby people who crossed

the southern border illegally may not be arrested at all.

Illegal crossings were also responsible for three quarters of federal drug sentencing in 2014, according to data from the United States Sentencing Commission.

This caused much concern about border security, especially after a San Francisco woman was killed in 2015 by an illegal man who was released several times under Obama’s watch, as reported

by CNN. A more robust border policy was needed.

In regard to overseas immigration, a State Department official from the Obama administration said to NBC that he would raise the number of refugees admitted into the U.S. to 110,000 in 2017.

This is a 30-percent increase from 2016 and a 57-percent increase from 2015, according to NBC. This meant providing housing, education and health services for these asylum-seekers with taxpayer

money while more than 1,200 veterans in Los Angeles alone are homeless and still in need of housing in 2017, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Therefore, it is no surprise that many blue-collar workers would want to see that refugee policy reversed. This is aside from the possibility that terrorists may infiltrate the refugee plan in order to enter the United States, like how a refugee from North Africa entered Europe and ended up being behind the Berlin Christmas market, according to The Guardian.

In short, a temporary travel suspension on refugees from terror-prone countries is sensible.

Economic policy was the most important issue to American voters in 2016, according to a 2016 Reuters poll.

Even though the Obama administration was successful in creating 11.6 millions jobs, according to CNN, 67

percent of those jobs however, were filled by newly arrived immigrants–both legal and illegal, according to the Washington Post.

Trump’s appeal to “buy American and hire American” led to a higher ratio of voters expressing trust in Trump to improve the economy, according to CNN. Trump’s policy of putting America and Americans first is hardly one that should be deemed xenophobic or racist.

Trump’s messages resonated across the country in places like Grays Harbor County in Washington, which had not voted Republican since 1928.

Understanding why these messages resonated with many voters is key to providing clarity for why Trump’s policies make sense at the end of the day.

Written by, Frederic Aboujaoude a graduate student majoring in civil engineering at CSUF.

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SPORTS Second-half explosion powers Fullerton

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Big nights from Coggins, Ahmad help Titans beat LBSU. HARRISON FAIGEN Daily Titan

Titan players used their speed and athleticism to pick off passes and get out on the break for easy baskets. It was the style of basketball Cal State Fullerton Head Coach Dedrique Taylor envisioned for his team, and on Saturday night, it resulted in a 7469 win.

“When we do share the basketball, we have plenty of options and plenty of weapons, spearheaded by these two guys (Khalil Ahmad and Tre’ Coggins), who can score at any level they want to,” Taylor said. “If we can continue to share the basketball and move it from one side of the floor, I like our chances to be able to have some success on offense.”

When Long Beach ripped off a 12-2 run in the first four minutes of the game, things didn’t look so rosy for CSUF.

While Coggins’ shot wasn’t falling efficiently in the first half (2-5), the Titans’ leading scorer turned it around in the second, knocking down five of his next seven looks to finish with 22 points.

The rest of the team showed new energy by jumping in passing lanes and diving on top of loose balls for steal after steal. The Titans’ efforts paid off as they converted 13 points off turnovers in the second half. The defensive intensity transitioned over to the offensive side of the ball as the team shot 68 percent from the field in the second.

Sophomore guard Khalil Ahmad used his speed to power through contact and make acrobatic finishes around the basket. Ahmad’s aggressive play earned him a team-high 23 points on 14 shots, with 19 of his points coming in the final 20 minutes.

Late in the game, CSUF was holding on by a thread with a five-point lead when Titans center Arkim Robertson swatted Roschon Prince’s shot. Rowe snatched the rebound and sunk both free

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“To be honest, at the beginning of the year we did a photoshoot where we practiced that type of stuff so we kind of just put it into play there,” said sophomore guard Khalil Ahmad of Jackson Rowe’s lob pass to him on the fastbreak.

throws following an intentional foul to give the Titans a seven-point lead. Despite a late three from Justin Bibbins, the small cushion

proved to be enough to win the game for Fullerton.

Next, the Titans will play at UC Riverside this Thursday, and while they have

struggled on the road (2-7), their recent play has left them feeling confident.

“I feel like every away game, we were in (the game),”

Coggins said. “We’ve just got to keep the same mentality and take control of the game, play at our pace and trust each other.”

Sunday CSUF began the first of three games with a 4-2 victory over North Dakota State, notching its first win of the season. Gonzalez, who led the Titans with 45 RBIs last season, started the year where she left off by finishing 2-3 at the plate with three RBIs, including a two-run homer in the first inning.

The remaining two games on Sunday didn’t go so smoothly. The second game of the day continued from where they left off on Friday night against Pacific before the rain delay occurred with the Titans trailing 2-0. The deficit only grew for CSUF as the Tigers pulled away in the fifth inning on a threerun home run by Samantha

Owen to give Pacific a 5-0 advantage before eventually closing out the Titans 6-0.

Game two against Pacific didn’t go any better for the Titans. In the first inning with two outs and runners on first and second, Kelsey Kessler, a first-year transfer who has only been with the Titans since Feb. 8, gave up a three-run home run to Cassidy Gustafson.

“It’s timely hitting that we fell short on,” Ford said.

“We have to do some pressure practice and really put them in situations that they’re practicing driving those RBIs in.”

CSUF will head to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for the Puerto Vallarta Challenge, which begins Thursday against Texas Tech.

Softball stumbles to start season BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton softball didn’t have the start to the season it had hoped for, finishing the Easton Invitational 1-3 and dropping two straight games on Sunday to the University of the Pacific.

“Overall throughout the weekend, we had some glimpses of greatness, we definitely had some frustration creep into our game,” said CSUF Head Coach Kelly Ford. “We really struggled getting it going and I’ll take that on. I got to find camaraderie or some

chemistry in the lineup to get the flow going.”

Friday The Titans were slated to play a doubleheader Friday against Pacific and Ole Miss. However, in the third inning of the first game against Pacific, rain started to come down at Anderson Family Field, forcing the game to be delayed until Sunday and the Ole Miss game to be canceled.

As the rain started to pour heavily in the third inning, pitcher Sydney Golden showed visible signs of being thrown off by the weather. Catcher Lexi Gonzalez approached the circle with a hand towel for Golden to wipe her hands dry.

However, the effort proved futile.

Just one batter later,

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Overall throughout the weekend, we had some glimpses of greatness, we definitely had some frustration creep into our game.

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KELLY FORD Titans Head Coach Golden gave up a two-run RBI to Sydney Lahners. Before another pitch could be thrown, the umpires decided to end the game due to the continuous rainfall.

Saturday Fullerton faced off against Utah State for its first complete game of the season. Sophomore Trisha Parks made her debut in a Titan uniform after transferring from the University of Arizona. However, it was not an ideal homecoming for the Chino Hills native. Parks went just 0.2

innings, walking two batters and giving up three earned runs.

The Titans made a valiant effort at a comeback, including a two-run third inning when a run crossed the plate after Gonzalez reached base on a fielder’s choice. Fullerton, however, was unable to stifle Utah State’s batters, eventually losing the game 7-3.

“We had a lot of opportunities to learn tonight,” Ford said. “The outcome wasn’t what we wanted, but boy, there was some glimpses of greatness that I’ll take.”

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SEX Norms differ over time, across cultures

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Traditionalism has taken a back-seat role regarding sex.

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In a world where a hookup is a click away, and men are able to prescreen their escorts on Backpage, it may not be surprising to find that contemporary culture is more sexually permissive than that of previous generations.

Still, American society, by definition, is not culturally homogeneous, and people who work alongside one another may share highly differing perspectives on this very touchy subject.

Modern American society has been widely labeled as the “hookup culture.” Recent research reports that premarital sex is at an all-time high, and sexual stigmas are at an all-time low. But that doesn’t mean stigmas are nonexistent. Wherever there is cultural traditionalism, there is sexual stigma.

Michela Santostefano, professor of Italian at CSUF, is a member of the Baby Boomer generation who grew up in the predominantly Catholic culture of 1970s Italy. She painted a picture of a typical dating situation in her home country as largely unaffected by the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and ‘70s.

“Back then, in the 1970s, in Italy, it was understood (that) you were a child until you went out and got married,” Santostefano said of her upbringing in Italy in the

latter part of the ‘70s.

This meant that a person’s parents had the last word on major life decisions, like who a person dated and eventually married.

When Santostefano moved to the U.S. in 1980, she said she was taken aback by the standard dating practices of her new home.

“When I moved here and was asked out by a man, my future husband, I didn’t know what to think.

Where I came from, you did not just ask somebody out who you never met before. It wasn’t done,” Santostefano said.

One may think that the predominantly Catholic culture of 1970s Italy wouldn’t have much in common with the heavily Buddhist Vietnam, but Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Ph.D., assistant professor of Asian-American studies, reported a very similar experience.

Nguyen grew up in the U.S. from the time she was 7 years old but was raised under traditional Vietnamese conventions. “(My parents) didn’t let me date until I was in college,” she said.

In stark similarity to Santostefano’s experience, Nguyen also reported that her parents were not allowed to date without an “escort” or chaperone present.

With Nguyen being a Budd Gen-Xer born in 1979, having an experience that is so strikingly similar to a person born on the other side of the world, roughly 20 years earlier than herself, speaks volumes about cultural traditionalism.

These similarities in culture over time run parallel to the advent of

television in the mainstream, according to research reported by the Kinsey Institute of Indiana.

“As early as the 1920s, with the rise of automobile use and novel entertainment venues throughout North America, traditional models of courting under parental supervision began to fade,” according to a 2012 study by conducted by the Kinsey Institute on “Sexual Hookup Culture.”

One may come to the conclusion that with the way modern American culture is, rates of teen pregnancy and the spreading of STDs would run rampant, and for a time, it did. However, education has proven to be the strongest preventative measure against the unwanted consequences of a sexually permissive culture, Nguyen said.

“As people learn more about sex, you tend to have a leveling off of the diseases and things like that,” Nguyen said.

While modern culture may be permissive when it comes to premarital sex, it doesn’t take too kindly to extramarital affairs.

“Between the 1970s and the 2010s, American adults became more accepting of premarital sex, adolescent sex and same-sex sexual activity but less accepting of extramarital sex,” according to 2015 paper published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

That is to say, a proclivity toward sexual freedom does not equate to an overall loosening of ethics. It just means that, in the modern day, people may permit one another to be a little more human.

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Clery report provides statistics, guidelines.

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Jeanne Clery was 19 years old when she was raped and murdered in her Pennsylvania campus dorm.

Now, because of Clery’s story, college campuses all over the country are held to higher safety standards.

The Clery Act requires every college and university in the country to publish their own Annual Security and Fire Safety Report (ASFSR) containing information on policies and programs, crime statistics, available resources for students and instructions on how to report a crime on or around campus.

In 2015, there were four

sexual offenses, four cases of domestic violence, two cases of dating violence and seven cases of stalking, according to the 2016 Clery Report.

CSUF has several resources available to help students who have been sexually assaulted. Anyone can report an incident that either happened to them or that they witnessed, and they have the option to say as much or as little as they prefer.

Depending on the circumstances of the case, the person reporting can even request to remain anonymous as long as the university can still properly report the case.

“Talk to somebody. Get some help, or get this off your chest. Get some advice. See what’s out there for you,” said University Police Captain Scot Willey.

The best place to report a

crime is the University Police department. Campus Security Authorities include professors, employees from the WoMen’s Center and Housing and Health Center and athletic coaches. They are trained to guide people in the right direction and are required to give University Police information they receive.

“There is no shame.

When something like this has happened to you, you didn’t bring it on. You didn’t ask for it. It isn’t your fault,” said Mindy Mechanic, psychology professor at CSUF who also researches trauma from sexual violence.

The victim should not bathe, shower, smoke or clean the area where the assault happened so evidence can be preserved and collected, according to the Clery Report.

A university officer can take a survivor to the sexual

assault examination unit called “Safe Space,” which is located next to Anaheim Regional Medical Center Emergency Department.

This facility is the only one like it in Orange County.

Willey said that “Safe Space” is meant to be as comfortable as possible, so survivors won’t be afraid, frustrated or feel awkward when they come forward.

An interview by an officer or detective about the encounter, as well as examinations, are usually conducted there. If desired, law enforcement will then go through the legal actions to prove guilt, Willey said.

Survivors are not required to have evidence collected or take legal action if they don’t want to.

A University Police officer can still take them to the nearest hospital if they

need medical assistance, as well as check for pregnancy and/or sexually transmitted diseases. The Student Health Center also provides these services.

Mechanic said it is important to not blame oneself.

“The very act of not sharing and holding it all in becomes like a toxic waste dump inside and can create lots of other problems in life,” Mechanic said.

Alyssa Avila, the Confidential Victim’s Advocate and Violence Prevention Educator from the WoMen’s Center, said in an email that part of her job is giving survivors the information necessary to make an informed decision with as little stress as possible.

“Either way, what I want victims/survivors to know is that we’re here for them,” Avila said.

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Opinion: Millennials tend to swipe left on sex Sexual activity normalized with the help of technology.

RISHU BHARDWAJ Daily Titan With tension around politics and school starting to pile up, it’s normal to get stressed out. Rather than

having sex to clear the mind, millennials seem to have smaller libidos and bigger phones.

In a 2016 study published by the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, it was found that millennials “were more likely to report having no sexual partners as adults compared to GenX’ers born in the 1960s and 1970s.”

The Archives of Sexual Behavior surmised that this is likely because millennials are either too busy to have sex, often living with parents for longer periods of time and thus not having the opportunity to or simply not interested in sex as much as previous generations.

This latent desire for sex could be increased by the emergence of technology.

Young adults could be seeking a more platonic relationship and wanting to be more involved in growing individually rather than seeking a partner.

Hunter Hargraves, Ph.D., an assistant professor of cinema and television arts at CSUF, said that the advancement of technology has certainly impacted the way that younger generations view and treat the topic and idea of sex.

“Digital culture was powerful for bringing sex to be a more personalized subject,” Hargraves said.

Millennials have grown up seeing some sort of sexual activity on either television or the internet their whole lives. Millennials have normalized sex, a sentiment that Hargraves attributes to being part of a generation “for whom privacy has never been protected.”

The idea of privacy went away as soon as Mark Zuckerberg sprang up.

Younger generations now have access to find practically anything on the internet.

They use apps like Tinder to get something that used to take years to get.

Now there are two ways to see this situation: one, that millennials are mature and

have realized that they don’t need sex as some driving force. Or two, that millennials have become this existential being, too busy to figure out the reason for sex and existence to even commit to having sex in the first place.

However, there is a way to conclude that there are both things going on in this generation. Millennials have been thrown into this cyber world that gives them way too much information way too fast and the thought of having to stop in the middle of it all is daunting.

In reality, the fact that this generation is the least likely to have multiple sexual partners within the last few

generations, with an average of eight partners, according to 2015 research by Jean M. Twenge at San Diego State University, shouldn’t bring anyone down.

Millennials are also responsible for the rapid decline of teen birth rates setting it at a record low, according to a 2016 study from Pew Research Center; all while increasing the acceptance of premarital sex, according to the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Millennials aren’t as quick to jump into bed as other generations, but are more likely to want a reasonable, Holden Caulfield-like relationship.

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Opinion: Knowing LGBTQ lingo

Open-mindedness helps to understand different identities.

ZACK JOHNSTON Daily Titan Many aspects of a person’s life exist within a spectrum; political affiliation, taste in music and–contrary to some beliefs–sexual and gender identities.

The concepts of sexual orientation and psychological gender are not always rigid binaries, but rather nuanced spectrums.

Understanding these nuances is crucial to developing a dialogue about them.

While the most common points on the identity and orientation spectrums include male, female, gay, straight and bisexual, many individuals identify themselves with less common titles that still deserve attention.

Certain people consider their sexuality to be fluid, which is a kind of sexual attraction that fluctuates between genders: male, female or otherwise. Some consider themselves to be gender-fluid or genderqueer, meaning they fluctuate psychologically and don’t necessarily think of themselves as exclusively male or female.

Queer has also been sometimes used as a flexible term for describing one’s gender,

sex or sexuality.

This idea of fluidity is important to understanding these parts of identity as spectrums.

“We’re inventing words all the time to try and capture the incredible diversity and this range of differences that are appearing,” said Karyl Ketchum, Ph.D., associate professor in the women and gender studies program and queer minor program.

Transgender is another term used for an individual whose psychological gender is not in alignment with their physical sex (their body parts and hormones).

This can be different than transsexual which can relate more to biological sex, and it is different from transvestite, which is an individual who dresses in the opposite gender expression for a number of reasons.

Another point on these spectrums is for those who experience little to no sexual attraction or connection with a gender identity. These folks are asexual and agender, respectively.

Along with all this is a spectrum of romanticism. For example, a person could experience sexual attraction but no emotional attraction. This person might describe themselves as aromantic.

These examples only scratches the surface of the possible kinds of identities that deal with an individual’s gender, sex, sexuality and romantic capabilities. There are many other terms that get used to describe the further nuances that exist.

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understanding them is being respectful and open-minded.

To put it simply: Do your homework. Stay engaged in the social issues which these groups face and why they matter.

Many people ask about what words or acronyms they can and cannot use. The all-encompassing acronym has seen some changes as well as some confusion: LGBT, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA+, etc.

People want to be sure they are being inclusive and not offensive when talking about this diverse group of people.

The fact that more letters have been added shows a sign of progress, Ketchum said. It shows that more identities are becoming visible and understood, despite the acronym being somewhat inefficient.

Despite this, making sure to use a perfectly crafted acronym is less important than truly understanding what the letters themselves really mean.

More often than not, “the queer community” is a sufficient enough term.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions as long as they are respectful. It is okay to ask what a word means, or what an individual prefers to be called. As long as the question is purely inquisitive and does not come from a place of judgment or inappropriate curiosity, then it is acceptable.

The key to gaining understanding is open-mindedness and open interaction between all the different points on any and all spectrums of identity. Only when this happens can we truly learn about what makes us different, what makes us similar and that, at the end of the day, it doesn’t always have to matter.

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Trump administration takes aim at Affordable Care Act. KAROL PERDOMO Daily Titan Shortly after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, a Republican-controlled Congress got to work. In his first action as president, Trump signed an executive order setting in motion the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

During his presidential campaign in 2016, Trump criticized Obamacare on Twitter calling it a “total disaster.” He promised to repeal and replace it if elected. The executive order directed federal agencies to minimize the economic burden of the program, but didn’t specify how.

Obamacare was signed into law in 2010 and upheld in the Supreme Court two years later, aiming to provide coverage for those who

lacked it. In addition, the law required a range of preventative care services to be included in insurance plans at little to no cost.

These FDA-approved preventative services include methods and devices like diaphragms, birth control pills, IUDs, Plan B, sterilization procedures and patient education and counseling, according to HealthCare.gov.

A 2016 Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation report shows that under Obamacare, about 9.5 million women uninsured are estimated to have gained coverage.

Issues surrounding Obamacare have resulted in conservative criticism of its policy and questioning of its constitutionality.

Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma-based chain of craft stores owned by a Christian family, objected to Obamacare’s contraceptive provision. Company owners claimed that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Obamacare “burdens the exercise of religion.” A Supreme Court decision in

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With some Republicans looking to reverse Obamacare, Donald Trump’s presidency aims to prevent costly services, which may include contraception programs that offer diaphragms, birth control pills, IUDs, Plan B, sterilization procedures and counseling services.

favor of Hobby Lobby also opened others to seek exemption from the rule, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Scott Spitzer, an associate professor of political science at Cal State Fullerton, said that conservatives find fault with the ACA and its provision concerning contraceptives and abortions.

If health care is mandatory, companies aligned with a particular faith should be able to opt out of certain offensive aspects of the law, conservatives say.

“So when religious freedom comes into conflict with access to health care, those are the two kinds of conflicting values and its hard to decide which is more important,” Spitzer said.

The conservative base

that surrounds Trump argues over the restrictions Obamacare imposes and its necessity to be provided cost-free.

Vice President Mike Pence, who attended the March for Life in Washington in January said “life is winning again in America.” Pence, who introduced a bill titled the Prohibition Act in 2011, aimed to cut family-planning funds from reaching Planned Parenthood or other organizations that perform abortions.

Tom Price, Trump’s pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said in an interview that Obamacare “has the power to be able to determine what is the definition of health care and health coverage for you

and your family, me and my family and every single American and that’s simply wrong.”

Shana Charles, an assistant professor of health science at CSUF, has co-authored an analysis based on a bill proposed in California entitled SB 999. The proposed bill gave women more access to birth control methods by providing a yearlong supply of birth control pills.

Charles found that it led to more self-advocacy for women and reduced unintended pregnancies.

“Yes, health insurance companies do end up paying a little more for pills, but society as a whole pays less cost and there are huge benefits,” Charles said.

The Trump administration could privatize health

care, allowing companies to opt out of cost-free preventive care. It could gut funding toward facilities that provide these measures too, but no actions have been taken yet in those regards.

“I think (women) are being affected by scare tactics from the left. Trump’s not going to take away anyone’s birth control. He’s not going to go into CVS and say ‘No, no more on the shelf guys! No more pills, no more, all of this stuff has got to go.’ It’s unrealistic and ridiculous,” said Christopher Boyle, junior and president of the CSUF College Republicans club. “There’s a difference between wanting to take away contraceptives and disagreeing over the way it should be paid for.”

Understanding consent and when it’s given SARAH WOLSTONCROFT Daily Titan As of 2014, California passed one of the strictest consent laws in the country, requiring all public schools who receive funds for financial assistance to adopt a “yes-means-yes” standard.

“Up until our current legislation, the belief was that the absence of ‘No’ was an implicit ‘Yes,’ and that is not the case,” said CSUF criminal justice professor Jarret Lovell.

SB-967 states that school policy must be structured around affirmative consent, which is defined in the bill as “affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.”

While it may be common sense having sexual relations with someone who is asleep, unconscious or mentally incapable to communicate is non-consensual, not all components of the law are as widely understood.

Consider this scenario.

Two people are at a party and have had one beer each and both decide to engage in sexual acts together. The next day, one decides that they were not in their right state of mind to agree to the act. Was it consensual? The answer is no.

“Any alcohol is too much.

You have already passed the threshold for consent,” said Cal State Fullerton University Police Captain Scot Willey.

What may seem like a small amount of alcohol for some, can affect others differently, Willey said.

“I believe that it would not be fair for the other

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Consent can be withdrawn or revoked at any time. Once a sexual act has begun, you may have consented for that part of it, but you can withdraw that stand at anytime.

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Public universities must adopt a “yesmeans-yes” standard.

SCOT WILLEY University Police Captain person that they are probably going to accuse,” said junior Spanish major Alex Bangan. “I feel like it should be taken into consideration if she said yes and then regretted it afterwards.”

Willey said the police department takes false allegations into consideration, but its main concern is investigating the claims being made.

“We treat every survivor of a sexual assault the same and that is that we believe their story, and we’re going to investigate the story as

much as possible and to the greatest extent that we can,” Willey said.

Imagine two people agree to start kissing, but the act starts progressing to touching and then to sex without a verbal confirmation that both people are comfortable with moving to the next step. Was it consensual? The answer is no.

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“Consent can be withdrawn or revoked at any time. Once a sexual act has begun, you may have consented for that part of it, but you can withdraw that stand at anytime,” Willey said.

Willey said revoking consent can be in the form of words, actions or even inactions.

“When we were in the ‘no-means-no’ place a few years ago, there was a lot of ambiguity on what ‘No’ would mean, so there was different forms of saying ‘No’ whether that was verbal or in a gesture,” Willey said. “Now it is very clear that it has to be ‘Yes,’ it is informed, it is an affirmative conscious decision.”

Political science professor Rob Robinson said that this approach moves the burden from the victim to the potential aggressor.

“Sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes. Our numbers are low, but we are not naive, we know that there are more unreported cases,” Willey said.

Willey said that if a student is a victim of sexual assault, they can seek resources on campus including help from Counseling and Psychological Services, the WoMen’s Center, Title IX and the University Police department. These resources can offer advice, assistance and victim confidentiality.

“At the university, there are so many issues that come up, especially with alcohol and other drugs, that consent is always the biggest issue,” Willey said.

“They have moved to a good place where it has to be very deliberate and conscious effort to agree to sexual activity.”

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LIBRA

(Sep. 23 - Oct. 22)

You seem to be in touch with your inner artist, bolstering your confidence in aesthetic endeavors.

Cultivate your creative side today, whether that means settling in with a sketchbook, playing your guitar, or just styling yourself in a way that reflects your mood.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23 - Nov. 21)

Your quiet confidence can be intimidating sometimes, but today holds an opportunity to temper your ambitious intensity with a dose of congeniality and charm. The regal Leo Moon turns your 10th House of Status into her throne room, demanding recognition for your efforts.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22 - Dec. 21)

You want to tell the world about your big ideas and youʼre in a perfect position to know your subject inside and out.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19)

Your professional future looks bright as your aspirations and values are in harmony. The puzzle pieces seem to be fitting together and youʼre hopeful that things will keep going in this direction.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20 - Feb. 18)

A cosmic link is established between your future plans and your present self. You see where you want to go in stunning clarity, and you can almost feel the wind at your back, blowing you to your destination.

PISCES

(Feb. 19 - Mar. 20)

While others appear to constantly strive toward receiving personal accolades, you often feel quite differently about the definition of success.

Paying it forward can often be more gratifying for a compassionate Pisces than any number of compliments.

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