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Students protested outside the Office of the Chancellor in Long Beach Wednesday in response to the vote on a California State University system-wide tuition increase. Board members reluctantly approved the increase, but called for the state legislature to offer additional funding for the universities.

TODD HADLER SARAH WOLSTONCROFT Daily Titan The Cal State University Board of Trustees elicited student outrage Wednesday after it voted in favor of a tuition increase across all 23 California campuses.

The board voted 11-8 to raise tuition effective fall 2017. The last time tuition increased was in the 20102011 school year.

“Don’t feel dejected by today’s vote. This was historic in many respects because we finally had a real debate here at the CSU about tuition,” said Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom to students protesting outside following the meeting.

“I do not know why we keep being so predictable, and I do not know why we continue to take all the pressure off the (state) legislature.”

The increase for undergraduate students is $270, $312 for credential students and $438 for graduate students.

“Across the system, we have very robust financial aid packages,” said Michael Uhlenkamp, CSU interim senior director of Public Affairs. “The students who are the most needy in terms of financial aid would actually be insulated from a tuition increase.”

Uhlenkamp said those considered “most needy” are students with a family income of less than $70,000 who would be covered by grants and waivers.

“With grants, I think the really big issue is the potential of reducing Pell Grants because of the federal

budget that might come out.

That, I think is going to really have an effect on our students,” said Tonantzin Oseguera, CSUF associate vice president for Student Affairs.

She said she attended the meeting to support students, ensure their safety and educate them on the official meeting process.

Students shared their stories of how the increased cost would affect their quality of life during public comment. Many speakers said they have to work multiple jobs to pay for school.

“Today, I want to tell you how I feel about this trend of forcing the burden of cost on the backs of students,” said CSUF SQE member Ashley Rojo during public comment. “There is this idea that the more we pay for our education, the more we will value it, meaning that is only a privilege if you are warranted. However, this costly investment for our own likelihood should not be something we have to suffer for.”

Board members in support of the tuition increase said that a lack of state funding brought them to make a difficult decision, despite student opposition. In the past 10 years, state funding for the Cal State system has dropped 12 percent, according to the CSU budget.

Board member Peter J. Taylor said there was “zero joy” in discussing a tuition increase.

The 2017-2018 CSU Support Budget proposed a state investment of $324.9 million. However, California’s 2017-2018 budget proposed allocating $157.2 million to CSU, leaving a $167.7 million gap to be covered by the university system.

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Undergraduate costs raised $270 on all CSU campuses.

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I don’t bring this forward with an ounce of joy, but I bring it out of necessity.

TIMOTHY WHITE California State University Chancellor

state has consistently and persistently underfunded this institution, and it is embarrassing that we are stuck with this awful choice between access and quality,” Taylor said.

became fully funded by the state legislature.

The committee said the increase will generate $77.5 million in net revenue.

“I don’t bring this forward with an ounce of joy, but I

“The plan would be to hire about 400 more faculty members, add 3,000 more courses and add more advisors,” Uhlenkamp said.

Tuition rates would also increase for the three doctoral programs offered by CSU. The Doctor of Education program will increase by $720, the Doctor of Nursing Practice program by $930 and the Doctor of Physical Therapy program by $1,048.

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The Board of Trustees approved the tuition increase in an 11-8 vote. Members of the public that were present started booing and chanted “shame, shame, shame.”

Taylor voted “Yes” to increase tuition.

Appointed trustee Jane Carney recommended two amendments to the CSU Finance Committee that were added to the motion prior to the board’s vote. The amendments concerned transparency and a repeal of the tuition increase in the event that the CSU system

bring it out of necessity,” said CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White.

Part of the money will go to student success initiatives, like CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025, which aims to increase the rate at which CSU students graduate, including raising the four-year graduation rate to 40 percent.

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Students share stories of character development, cultural appreciation and lasting, artistic perseverance.

The meeting was met with large pushback from the Students for Quality Education (SQE) organization, which has clubs on many of the CSU campuses. Students who could not fit into the public section of the meeting room continued protesting outside during the meeting.

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Coming off its eighth consecutive win with a 9-2 blowout victory over San Diego, No. 5 Cal State Fullerton baseball (15-5) heads to Long Beach for a three-game nonconference weekend series against the rival 49ers.

The Titans have won 11 of their last 12 games with the last defeat coming at the hands of Gonzaga in a 1-0 loss on March 10.

Fullerton’s bats have been inconsistent throughout the season but have woken up recently. The Titans have improved from a .220 average in February to a .263 average thus far in March.

In Tuesday night’s thumping of the Toreros, CSUF put up nine runs on 10 hits, including home runs from senior outfielder Hunter Cullen and freshman infielder Zach Weller.

“It was a good win for us. This San Diego team is a good one, we put together some great at-bats tonight,” said Head Coach Rick Vanderhook in a text message after the game.

Weller, who is a graduate of Coronado High School in the San Diego area, had a homecoming party in just his third appearance of the season with three RBIs in two at-bats for the Titans.

“It feels great. It wasn’t too long ago where I played on this field. My last high school game was here,” Weller told Cal State Fullerton Sports Media Tuesday. “I’ve had good mojo so I was really comfortable and I was really glad I got the start here, just good memories here.”

While the Titan bats have come alive as of late, the pitching staff has shown its dominance throughout the season. Fullerton’s pitching finished 2016 with the lowest ERA in the country at 2.22 and have improved upon that mark this season with a 2.05 ERA, ranking third in the nation.

Junior southpaw John Gavin has been an anchor for the Titans on the mound. In his four starts, he has recorded a 3-0 record with a 1.65 ERA and 29 strikeouts.

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Student protesters led chants of “Chancellor White, do what’s right” outside of the board of trustees meeting Wednesday morning. Board members Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (above) and Lateefah Simon also spoke to the crowd after the meeting.

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SQE members led chants during the meeting of “What about the students?,” “Chancellor White, do what’s right” and “The more we pay, the longer we stay.” Many of the members wore graduation caps and gowns with signs around their necks that read the amounts they owe in student debt.

The students’ fervor continued outside the CSU Chancellor’s Office with members of SQE chanting “No justice, no peace, no tuition increase” and “Shame, shame, shame.”

Cal State Fullerton SQE member Liz Sanchez said they were “devastated” by the Board’s tuition decision but were positively surprised that more members than usual supported their goal.

“SQE is already prepared for the next battle,” Sanchez said. “It happened, but we can fight for free higher education.

We can fight to lower the costs essentially. Just keep pushing. All these entities have to work together.”

Along with Newsom, board member Lateefah Simon joined the crowd of protesters to take a turn on the megaphone. She referred to the students as her “boss” because she said they are the constituency she serves.

“This movement that you all have developed, keep moving,” Simon

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Cal State Fullerton Students for Quality Education member Ashley Rojo said during public comment that she felt the students were taking the brunt of university funding.

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This movement that you have developed, keep moving. The creativity and the beauty and the diversity and the struggle of these students are what is going to save the institution.

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said. “The creativity and the beauty and the diversity and the struggle of these students are what is going to save the institution. Thank you for lobbying and encouraging and pushing us to think differently … There is no power like the power of the students.”

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CSUF University Police officer Katie Cappuccio (left) and Communications supervisor Brian Barnes (right) listen for calls in the University Police dispatch center. Dispatchers in the center monitor over 200 on-campus cameras that have helped catch suspects in the past in the act of committing a crime.

CSUF dispatch center helps catch criminals ASHLEY HALEY ADRIANA HYMOVITZ Daily Titan The Cal State Fullerton University Police dispatch center may be housed in a 40-by-20-foot room, but inside, a team of 11 dispatchers respond to all of the university’s 911 calls within a 1-mile radius of the campus.

In 2012, the threat of a shooter on campus caused 800 calls to come into the University Police dispatch center in a couple of hours, said CSUF University Police Capt. Scot Willey.

“We were throwing everybody we could in there to help answer phones,” Willey said. “Sometimes when there’s an emergency they just get inundated with calls.”

Every call was answered that day and there were no reports of anyone that was not able to get through to the center, Willey said.

When calls come in, dispatchers provide communication services between campus police, community service officers, parking officers in the field and outside emergency agencies.

Willey said that in 2016, dispatchers in the center answered 33,663 phone calls.

Ninety-eight percent of those calls were answered within California’s state goal of 15 seconds, said Dispatch Communications Supervisor Brian Barnes.

Willey said the dispatchers answer calls in 4.5 seconds on average.

Dispatchers have to know what calls to prioritize, manipulate technology to scan cameras, monitor radio systems and alarms, Barnes said.

When a 911 call is received, dispatchers are responsible for sending officers to the scene, Willey said.

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(Dispatchers) do a tremendous job of juggling all the different calls and different processes that they have to do on each and every call.

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Eleven dispatchers facilitate emergency response.

SCOT WILLEY University Police Captain The dispatch center consists of six fulltime dispatchers and five part-time dispatchers. Dispatchers monitor primary radio channels for the city of Fullerton and Placentia.

The center operates 24/7 year-round, Barnes said.

While calls are one way that dispatchers are alerted of crimes, in other situations simply keeping an eye on the over 200 cameras placed throughout campus helps dispatchers lead officers to a potential suspect.

On the morning on Feb. 17, Barnes said he was talking to Lieutenant Carl Jones when he noticed a male exhibiting “interesting” behavior. Seconds later the suspect pulled wire cutters from his backpack

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and started to cut the lock off of a bike.

“It’s one of those, ‘I can’t believe I’m actually witnessing this’ (situations) and that is when we dispatched our officers to respond to it. They caught him a short time after that,” Barnes said.

Barnes said all of the information the dispatch center receives is logged, recorded and saved to the computer-aided system where it can’t be manipulated. It can later be used in court, through a discovery request, with the confidence that it wasn’t tampered with, he said.

Another component of the job requires dispatchers to sort through witness statements, which sometimes conflict, and relay the information, Willey said.

He said the police department is in constant communication with responding officers on scene to give new information.

In larger dispatch centers in California, dispatchers are dedicated to just one function of the dispatch center. In a smaller agency like Cal State Fullerton’s center, dispatchers are expected to perform multiple tasks at one time, Barnes said.

While performing all of these tasks, dispatchers prioritize separate 911 calls and are responsible for contacting other responding agencies, Willey said.

“They do a tremendous job of juggling all the different calls and different processes that they have to do on each and every call,” Willey said.

History The CSUF dispatch center started as a security company but quickly upgraded after the Allaway shooting in 1976, Willey said.

Edward Charles Allaway, a former CSUF custodian shot nine faculty members in the library, killing seven in a matter of five minutes. Allaway was later diagnosed as schizophrenic and required to live in a mental health facility after pleading insanity.

The shooting was one of the largest mass murders before the Seal Beach hair salon shooting. This lead to the development of full-time police departments and dispatch centers on all California State University (CSU) campuses, Willey said.

Medical aid calls The dispatch center frequently receives medical aid calls on campus, Barnes said.

When a medical aid call is placed, dispatchers ask for basic information such as the location, age, consciousness and breathing status of the person in need of assistance.

CSUF dispatchers are not trained to give medical instructions, therefore, the call is transferred to Metronet, a dispatch agency for fire departments in North Orange County.

Calls to the fire department Willey said the fire department can end up on campus multiple times a day because of fire alarms. A majority of the alarms are false and often triggered by burnt food, construction and steam from showers in housing, Barnes said.

When the dispatch center receives the alert, they locate the building, floor, room number and device where the fire alarm was activated and transfer that information to Metronet, Barnes said.

Concerns regarding the cost of having the fire department come to campus every time an alarm went off motivated Willey to make a deal with the battalion chief for Orange County Fire. The Fullerton/Brea Fire Department does not plan to charge a fee for responding to calls, Willey said.

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FEATURES Both sides represented on abortion PAGE 4 MARCH 23, 2017 THURSDAY

Opposing groups say they are each pro-woman.

SARAH EL-MAHMOUD Daily Titan Whether it be out of curiosity, anger or in the spirit of discussion, students interacted with a large display at the Titan Walk at CSUF March 2 posing a question to the campus: “Do we need Planned Parenthood?”

“On campus, talking about abortion is obviously a very emotional topic,” said Camile Rodriguez, the California regional coordinator for Students for Life of America. “To just be that ear that somebody might need for somebody to listen to them, even if it’s somebody yelling at us or mad at us that we are there.”

Rodriguez spoke to students at their display and regardless of the various stances on healthcare and abortion, she said they just want to show support for women. Rodriguez recalls talking to a variety of students that day about their concerns and experiences.

As House Republicans work to “repeal and replace” Obamacare with their proposed healthcare plan, they proposed a freeze on funding for Planned Parenthood. The women’s health service has been around for over a century and offers healthcare to 2.5 million people in the U.S. each year.

CSUF Students for Life, an active anti-abortion club on campus, supports the alternative of Federally Qualified Health Centers. The club is a local chapter of the largest youth national anti-abortion organization,

Students for Life of America.

Brooke Paz, communications student and president of CSUF Students for Life, said they work to help pregnant and parenting students get the resources they need through their support. They recently threw two baby showers, one for a pregnant CSUF student and one for new parents living in Long Beach.

Paz said they have 15 active members and around 150 people on their mailing list.

“We are here to offer actual practical resources and support for women. We are here to be a friend to them, to provide that shoulder– that sense of community– to know that they’re not alone and we’re going to support them during their pregnancy and afterwards,” Paz said. “We give them the reality–the fact that abortion causes harm to women.”

Students for Life directs students to pregnancy resource centers, counseling agencies and adoption centers, Paz said.

Paz and Rodriguez said in an email that they support Federally Qualified Health Centers because they are more prevalent throughout the country than Planned Parenthood, with 1300 facilities nationwide and they offer many health services. While federal funding is not allocated to pay for abortions, Students for Life believes that taxpayer dollars indirectly fund abortions for Planned Parenthood because the services are provided in the same facility.

CSUF health science professor Shana Charles supports Planned Parenthood from a public health perspective. Charles studied

public policy and health services at UCLA, focusing on researching political issues surrounding health care.

“It’s really difficult to find anyone in the public health community, and I’m talking the thousands of people who belong to the American Public Health Association, which has existed for over a hundred years, who would say that Planned Parenthood isn’t a good organization. It’s really one of the long standing, premiere organizations and one of the only ones that focuses specifically on women’s health,” Charles said.

Charles said she supports Planned Parenthood because it provides a basis for women to get health care who cannot access it in different ways and in communities that can’t otherwise provide many facilities for women. She also said Planned Parenthood has offered confidentiality to women if they’ve been victims of domestic violence and don’t want to inform their spouse or family about receiving health services.

Students for Life believes that Planned Parenthood’s focus is much more tied to abortion than the organization lets on. Rodriguez found that Planned Parenthood’s objection to President Donald Trump’s proposal to continue their funding if they stopped offering abortions showed that the practice is a main component of the organization.

“Offering money to Planned Parenthood to abandon our patients and our values is not a deal that we will ever accept.

Providing critical health care services for millions of American women is

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non-negotiable,” said executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Dawn Laguens to the New York Times.

Charles said she views the defunding of Planned Parenthood as a way for the legislature to take away funding specifically aimed to women elsewhere. She

thinks that setting aside Planned Parenthood because they practice abortions is a simplistic perspective that limits women’s choices.

Students for Life said feedback at CSUF has been positive for the students as long as they distinguish themselves from a different off-campus group that

has previously “disgusted” students by posting gruesome fetal pictures around campus.

“Even people who disagree with us will end up saying ‘thank you’ because we promote this really positive message,” Paz said.

“We just want to promote this message for love, for life and for women.”

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John Bennett

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Kristina Arabaca

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Brandon Ruiz

After meeting a security guard, John Bennett decided to dedicate his life to helping others.

Illustration major and transfer student Kristina When he’s not focusing on character design, Arabaca continues to find her artistic style.

Brandon Ruiz spends time with the Filipino club.

Sitting by himself in the central Quad with the sun beaming on his face, John Bennett, a junior criminal justice major, read his book with black shades on.

The book is a required text for his crime and delinquency course and a necessary step toward his end goal.

“I want to be able to help other kids like myself who are going on the wrong path,” Bennett said.

In his hands, “All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence” outlines the criminal lineage of a child and his family while it simultaneously unpacks the historical context of generational neglect and violence, according to its Amazon synopsis.

For Bennett, it also displays a father’s attempts to rectify his own criminal behavior.

An Anaheim native and one of five siblings, Bennett found himself in minor trouble at 15 years old when

Filling in and slightly erasing drawings in her sketchbook, Kristina Arabaca hunched over on a metallic bench and pondered at her illustrations across from the Clayes Performing Arts Center.

As an illustration major and second-year transfer student from Fullerton College, Arabaca is beginning to find her own footing on campus.

“It’s been interesting. Fullerton College is like a smaller, way, way smaller campus,” Arabaca said. “I knew a lot of the faculty and students at Fullerton and so here it’s I’m like starting over.”

Although she’s still adjusting and getting occasional assistance from faculty, her passion for illustration has persevered since she was in kindergarten, no matter

he met a security guard by chance at a store.

“When I was younger, I did some stupid stuff and this guy said, ‘Hey, turn your life around and you can change it, you can be good with yourself,’” Bennett said. “That inspired me to become an officer, to change other people.”

The security guard admitted to Bennett that he faced major missteps in his own life. By not changing things, he ended up stuck in a “deadend job” unable to reach his own goal of becoming an officer.

“His regret, I could see in his eyes,” Bennett said. “I didn’t want that to happen to me too so he kind of set me on the straight and narrow.”

Since then, Bennett said his coursework this semester has been good for him by learning some of the “reasons to the madness,” as discussed in the Bosket family’s story.

Bennett hopes to someday work as an Orange County sheriff to help others.

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the location.

“It’s been a long time,” Arabaca said. “I started taking it seriously probably in high school.”

With family encouragement and the skill to back it up, Arabaca made the decision to pursue it as a career. Her current sketch revolves around an action-adventure story she read as a child titled “Journey to the West” as part of a book-cover assignment for class.

“I was really into old myths and mythological stories so (‘Journey of the West’) caught my interest. The length of it and the different characters, it was really eye catching,” Arabaca said.

With a canvas and papers surrounding the edge of the bench, Arabaca continued to silently look over the work before her.

Practicing underneath the shade of the stairs behind the bookstore, Brandon Ruiz laughed as he stood among peers with his colorful malong sash.

“I’ve made a lot of great experiences and met a lot of great people,” Ruiz said.

“I’ve also embraced more of my culture as well, learning new things about it that I never knew.”

As a first-year animation major with a concentration in character design, Ruiz found himself away from his immediate family.

Since moving last summer away from Daly City in the Bay Area, Ruiz was comforted upon joining the Filipino club on campus.

“I wanted to be a part of something over here on campus,” Ruiz said. “They’ve (the members) been like a second family to me.”

Being part of the club since last semester, Ruiz also admits he’s picked up on the different traditional cultural

dances and stories behind aspects of his culture.

With a cultural night event on Saturday quickly approaching, Ruiz and members have been practicing for their second “hell week.”

Ruiz has spent the past week relentlessly practicing for the event but not without some downtime.

Outside of learning modern dance routines, Ruiz has met with fellow Filipino club members to socialize. Taking time to drink boba at Sharetea or grubbing on some Korean barbecue, quality time has also ruled his days.

“It’s been a lot of fun so far,” Ruiz said. “A lot of my close friends right now are from the club.”

Even as Ruiz starts embarking on animation software next semester to pursue his passion in drawing to ultimately work for Disney or Pixar, he still plans on sticking with Filipino club throughout his college career.

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‘Sesame Street’ welcomes new friend Children’s show takes important step in spreading awareness.

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n a world full of bigotry, people can still count on “Sesame Street” to provide inclusive and progressive education for young children.

“Sesame Street” is on a mission to help parents and neurotypical kids understand different aspects of autistic behavior, interact with children on the spectrum and accept other children general differences from each other.

This will be done through the introduction of their first autistic Muppet, Julia.

There are not many dynamic autistic characters on television, and when there are, they are geared towards teens and adults, such as the characters Connor from “Degrassi: The Next Generation” and Max from “Parenthood.”

While it is necessary to represent more autistic characters in shows

aimed toward teens and adult audiences, there is a significant lack of representation of people within the spectrum on children’s shows.

One in 68 children are on the autism spectrum and autistic children are five times more likely to be bullied than neurotypical children, according to a 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.

If anyone needs an autistic character to learn from, it’s impressionable children. This is why “Sesame Street” is delighting parents of autistic children across America–including the puppeteer tasked with bringing Julia to life, Stacey Gordon.

“The ‘Meet Julia’ episode is something that I wish my son’s friends had been able to see when they were small. I remember him having meltdowns and his classmates not understanding how to react,” said Gordon in an interview with the Associated Press.

Gordon also used to be a therapist for children on the spectrum.

“We heard a call to use our expertise and characters to build a bridge between the autism and neurotypical communities,” said Jeanette Betancourt, Sesame Workshop’s senior vice president of U.S. Social Impact, to A P.

“We’re modeling the way both children and adults can look at autism from a strength-based perspective–finding things that all children share.”

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind “Sesame Street,” has spent over five years of research working with over 250 organizations and experts within the autism community in order to “address an increasingly prevalent condition,” according to a March 20 press release.

Julia’s development is three years in the making, with extensive consultations with organizations, experts and families within the autism community in order to decide on what autistic traits she should have.

While she represents the full range of children on the spectrum, Julia is meant to be “unique” just like every other child, with or without autism, Betancourt said in an interview with AP. Julia demonstrates qualities many children with autism identify with and neurotypical children will recognize such as shyness, flapping her hands, noise sensitivity, and slow comprehension and response.

“I would love her to be (a major character). I would love her to be not Julia, the kid on

‘Sesame Street’ who has autism. I would like her to be just Julia,” said Christine Ferraro, one of the shows writers, to “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl.

The response to Julia will hopefully be overwhelmingly positive so she can be welcomed back to the show for more than two episodes.

(And hopefully the rumors that Donald Trump is planning on trying to defund PBS are false, or else that his proposed plans are not ratified.)

Other children’s TV shows should take note and follow in “Sesame Street’s” footsteps by adding autistic characters to their shows, or even creating shows featuring an autistic child as the main protagonist.

Autism is referred to as a “spectrum” for a reason–there are many different traits and degrees of functionality.

Television shouldn’t rely on Julia to be the only example of what a child on the spectrum can manifest as.

The more far-reaching representation becomes, the more neurotypical children and their parents will understand how autistic children process and execute tasks differently. Julia teaches that autistic children are still worthy and deserving of friendship and understanding. The need for diversity, especially in television, is absolute.

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olitical polarization in the U.S. has deeply affected the way we discuss politics and interact with one another. This divide is evident not only in news and among everyday citizens,

but also in the entertainment industry.

But instead of denying celebrities the right to speak publicly about politics or issues of concern because of their fame, allowing them to spread positive ideas is important for national dialogue.

With more celebrities speaking up in favor of liberal candidates and issues, conservative news outlets like Breitbart and Conservative Post have been dismissing their political comments by using the term “Hollywood elite”–as opposed to “hard-working American people,” according to Refinery29.

On the other hand, with the anger toward President Donald Trump rising, conservatives in Hollywood are also facing severe backlash for their political views. The movement to silence

celebrity input on politics, on both sides of the political spectrum, is not productive in the long run.

Hollywood’s political history dates all the way back to its early beginnings. For example, Charlie Chaplin used his films to directly express his political views to his audience, along with the folk music revival in the 60s and 70s that expressed the dissatisfaction with the establishment, called “Political Folk,” according to allmusic. com In the 1920s, the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Louis B. Mayer, worked with Republicans by educating them on how to use film, radio and movie stars to their advantage, bringing Hollywood and politics together for the first time, according to the Huffington Post.

Companies today continue to lobby the government to push for legislations that would benefit their businesses. If Hollywood is criticized for their involvement in the government, then other entities involved should be criticized as well.

Those who are against the “Hollywood elite” urge celebrities to stick with entertaining rather than speaking out on issues that would not affect them because of their status.

However, arts and entertainment have always been used as a means of social and political commentary.

Art, in all forms, is an integral part of understanding society throughout human history and provides social commentary on those times. Art pieces such as Picasso’s Guernica and Banksy’s Walled off Hotel are

politically driven and shed light on contemporary social ills.

Celebrities have the opportunity to bring attention to issues that may not receive the coverage needed to mobilize support. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez and Oprah Winfrey, who all came from humble beginnings, are just a few celebrities that are able to speak to that experience.

Recently, Ashton Kutcher testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the steps to eradicate modern slavery. Kutcher referred to his acting career as his ‘day job’ and credited his status as the reason he is able to shed light on the issue and help.

Even Youtube stars are using their wide audience and influence to talk about political and social issues. Youtuber Jerome

Jarre posted a short video across his social media accounts to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in East Africa, coining the hashtag, #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia, which went viral.

Thanks to the attention and awareness brought to the subject, Turkish airlines to agreed to send supplies like food and water to devastated areas.

It is easy to forget that, despite their status and privilege, celebrities are still citizens of the United States of America. They have the same rights as non-celebrities, and they too are affected by new policies. If a celebrity chooses to use their platform to speak out on social and political issues, they should be able to do so.

After all, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump were celebrities, too.

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In his last outing, Gavin pitched eight scoreless innings while giving up two hits and striking out a career-high 14 batters.

Following his performance, Gavin was named Big West Pitcher of the Week. One day later, he received an even higher— and unexpected—honor as the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named him the National Pitcher of the Week.

“I was feeling, I don’t really know, my girlfriend was the one who told me at coffee, I had zero clue,” Gavin said to the Daily Titan in a phone interview.

“I actually didn’t have any idea I was Big West Pitcher of the Week until someone had told me. It was just

kind of a weird feeling, I didn’t really know what to do.”

Gavin and the rest of the pitching staff will now have to prepare to take on Big West foe Long Beach State (10-9), which has won four of its last five games.

Fullerton split the homeand-home series with Long Beach last season, dropping two of three games at home in the first nonconference series before avenging the losses by winning two of the three on the road in the conference series.

The two sides have faced similar opponents this year in San Diego State and Arizona State. Fullerton lost to SDSU 5-4 in the fourth game of the season and defeated Arizona State in a two-game mid-week

matchup with a combined score of 23-8.

Long Beach lost both of its matchups with the Aztecs in a combined score of 18-7 and were swept by Arizona State 3-0.

The first game of the series against the 49ers is Friday night at 6 p.m. with junior Connor Seabold slated to pitch. Sophomore righty Gavin Velasquez is the projected starter for Saturday afternoon’s game with Colton Eastman out one more week with tendinitis in his throwing arm.

Gavin rounds out the group in his typical Sunday starter position.

While it is a nonconference series, the atmosphere won’t be anything less than a typical rivalry game.

“I’m really excited ... it is a huge weekend. It is

third in strikeouts (92).

The Titans struggled offensively against Texas, scoring just four runs across three games. Senior outfielder Delynn Rippy has cooled off from her scorching February run where she posted a .407 batting average with 10 RBIs. Rippy so far has hit a respectable .311 batting average in March while only getting one RBI. Behind Rippy are junior outfielder Samantha Vandiver and senior catcher Lexi Gonzalez. Vandiver enters the series with a .329 batting average while Gonzalez leads the team in doubles (7), home runs (3) and RBIs (18). Like Rippy, both Vandiver and Gonzalez have seen a dip in batting average in the month of March.

CSUF will look to reverse

its offensive struggles against LMU. The Lions have a team ERA of 4.91 with only sophomore Hannah Bandimere having an ERA of under 5.00. Bandimere has a 5-3 record with a 2.69 ERA. After Bandimere are starting pitchers Andy Wellins and Rachael Farrington with ERAs of 5.22 and 5.59, respectively, combining for a record of 7-13.

LMU has a slight edge on offense, posting a .273 batting average while the Titans have a .263 average.

The Titans will have to look out for LMU outfielder Amanda Dirks who leads the team in hits (29), runs (20) and home runs (4). Dirks was recently named West Coast Conference Softball Player of the Week.

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Cal State Fullerton baseball boasts the best record of any team in the Big West, as well as the best ERA (2.05) in the conference.

not your average nonconference weekend,” Gavin said. “There’s going to be a

lot of energy, there’s going to be a little bit of heckling from each side, but

it’s going to be a lot of fun, and I think we’re ready for the challenge.”

CSUF set for last nonconference series Softball seeks to improve offense entering Big West play.

TODD HADLER Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton softball (14-15) will aim to reach .500 when it faces Loyola Marymount(12-16) for a three-game series Thursday and Friday.

Last weekend, Texas ended a four-game Titan win streak. Fullerton pitching, including Kelsey Kessler, struggled with control at times.

Despite the setback, Kessler remains one of the more dominant pitchers in the Big West as she is fourth in ERA (1.71), third in wins (10) and

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Cal State Fullerton softball has faced issues at the plate, ranking second-to-last in the Big West in hits (97) and RBIs (89).

LMU has had success against the Big West Conference this season, beating Cal State Northridge, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara thus far.

Fullerton is leading the all-time series against LMU with a record of 13-3.

The teams last played each other in the 2014 Easton Tournament with CSUF

winning the game 9-0.

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