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Suspect threatens student, evades police Woman told UPD that man said he’ll “have to kill” her.

HAYLEY M. SLYE MICAH AUGIMERI-LEE Daily Titan A man allegedly threatened to kill a female student as he followed her from the Humanities Quad to University Hall around 4 p.m.

Wednesday, according to a University Police crime alert.

The suspect is still at large.

The suspect called the student his “beautiful angel” and said, “If I can’t have you, I’ll have to kill you,” according to the crime alert.

The suspect witnessed the student approach employees in UH to contact the police and left the area on his bike toward the corner of Nutwood Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue.

“She did a great job of reporting it right away,” said University Police Capt. Scot Willey.

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SEEKING SHELTER

Mercy House provides comfort, food and storage.

JASON ROCHLIN ROXANA PAUL Daily Titan

When you meet Alison Sanchez, assistant program manager at the Fullerton Armory Emergency Shelter, you would never know that she once called the shelter home.

She was living as an addict on the streets until seven years ago, when she was brought to the shelter. She has been in recovery ever since and has worked there for six years.

“I had a friend that worked here and he got me into it,” Sanchez said.

“It turned out to be exactly what I was supposed to do, so I stayed.”

There are 4,319 homeless people in Orange County.

Of those, 2,118 were counted in shelters, according to federal Housing and Urban Development data.

Mercy House Living Centers operates two emergency shelters in Orange County out of National Guard Armories in Santa Ana and Fullerton.

The Santa Ana-based nonprofit also provides assistance for the homeless in Orange County through

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Larry Stroup, 53, stores his clothes at the La Palma Check-in Center, a Mercy House Living Centers facility in Anaheim. When not stored at the check-in center, Stroup hauls all but his fishing pole in a sack. “I wish I could go fishing a lot, but I can’t afford it,” Stroup said.

transitional housing, permanent housing and support services.

The Santa Ana shelter houses “families with minor children only” and can hold 400 people, while the Fullerton shelter houses “adult clients only” and has a maximum capacity of 200.

Mercy House shelters helped place 128 men,

women and children into permanent housing, according to data collected by the nonprofit for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. Stories like Sanchez’s are not uncommon.

“I think that those people, the people we can hire who have personal experience with being homeless or a family member who was homeless, I think they

are assets to us,” Sanchez said.

Michelle Riggan, 28, has been a program coordinator for Mercy House for over a year. Like Sanchez, she was homeless once. She lived in her car for four years.

After falling into partying and drugs in high school and college, Riggan’s parents kicked her out of the house.

While homeless, she became

an alcoholic.

“I definitely thought that was going to be me for the rest of my life,” Riggan said.

“That’s just who I was. I just accepted it, and it just becomes a part of your identity. You don’t see that there’s the possibility for something better because it’s all you know, all you see.”

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Constituents hold ‘die-in’ at Royce’s office Indivisible CA District 39 rallies for health care.

DARYLESE SHOOK SARAH WOLSTONCROFT Daily Titan Around 100 constituents attended the Indivisible California District 39 “die-in” rally in front of Representative Ed Royce’s office Wednesday in opposition to his “Yes” vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) that passed in the House of Representatives Thursday.

CSUF alumna Sarah Goodwin, event coordinator, wanted to show Ed Royce what would happen if the AHCA passes in the Senate, repealing health care for over 24

million Americans.

“I remain concerned about the rising cost of health care for Southern Californians and am listening to the feedback I have received from my constituents on this bill,” Royce said through spokesperson Audra McGeorge in a May 3 email .

During the rally, 24 participants expressed reasons why they would die if they no longer had health care including a man with stagefour pancreatic cancer and a woman advocating for mental-health issues because her mother committed suicide.

Each participant gave their cause of death and then laid on yoga mats across the ground, holding a white flower.

CSUF assistant health science professor Shana Charles, Ph.D., was among the participants in

the demonstration.

“This is in honor of my two daughters both who were born with conditions that require them to take medication daily. I thank God that I have health insurance and can afford their medication and I have been able to since they were born,” Charles said in her speech. “If that were not the case, then I would have to choose between feeding them and paying for their medication. They very well could have died because they couldn’t afford the drug.”

A woman wearing a black cloak representing death rang a bell after each of the speeches and symbolic deaths, prompting three seconds of silence between each speaker.

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During Wednesday’s event, 24 participants shared why they would die if they lost their access to health care before symbolically dying by lying on the ground outside of Rep. Ed Royce’s Brea office.

Titan Rover club reveals new Mars rover model Year-long project celebrated before Utah competition.

TODD HADLER Daily Titan

After a full year of hard work, the CSUF Titan Rover club made its first public reveal of Atlas, its official Mars rover to family, friends, students and sponsors Wednesday at Anaheim Bottle Logic Brewing.

“This is the result of many, many, many tens of thousands

of hours worth of work between our whole team here,” said Byron Cragg, Titan Rover club science team lead and club director.

The unveiling comes before the University Rover Challenge hosted by the Mars Society. The University Rover Challenge takes place

from June 1 to June 3 at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.

The goal of the challenge is to create the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work in the field.

Out of 82 international teams, only 36 were chosen to compete at the Universal

Graduate shines through SHINE program

Abortion laws prevent safe procedures

Sara Haghighi uses her experiences as an immigrant and refugee to help students through the naturalization process.

Unconstitutional regulations are not allowing women to end pregnancies in a secure and inexpensive manner.

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Rover Challenge. This is the Titan Rover club’s fourth year submitting an entry to the competition and its second year getting accepted into the competition.

After complications at last year’s event, the club completely rebuilt its rover this year. The club’s goals include

a top-10 finish in Utah.

“This year we’ve definitely expanded our team a lot, we’ve expanded our fundraising,” Cragg said. “Our rover this year is much, much better, so we are looking at doing much better.”

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After getting a DUI, she was given the choice to either spend two weeks in jail or take a 48-day “Teen Challenge” Christian drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.

She chose to get clean, and after being told about Mercy House through a friend, she applied to work there.

“I really relate to the people that come, and when they start complaining about something, I know. I’ve been there,” Riggan said. “Really being there for someone, that’s what I love.”

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THE LA PALMA CHECKIN CENTER

Riggan primarily works at the La Palma Check-in Center at La Palma Park in Anaheim. The Mercy House-operated center is open year-round seven days a week, with shifts from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

During those hours, around 170 people can store or check out their belongings from the center said Marte Juarez, an Emergency Services Outreach coordinator for Mercy House. Juarez has been working with Mercy House since he graduated high school in 2015 and volunteered with the nonprofit since he was in junior high.

“I’m in emergency services, which essentially just means I work hand in hand with the clients,” Juarez said. “I work oneon-one with them.”

People who want to make use of the storage system are given up to three midsized plastic bins and can eventually upgrade to one big, wheeled and dark gray trash pail.

Their belongings are loaded into two beige shipping containers, one of which also serves as an office space for the workers at the center.

In order to keep their belongings stored, they need to check in weekly. If they don’t check in for over a month, their belongings are discarded.

Larry Stroup, 53, has been using a trash pail at the center to store his clothes for four months after a third-strike DUI put him in jail for over a decade.

Born and raised in Fullerton, Stroup worked as a seafood cook at a restaurant in Buena Park. However, he has not been able to find work since his release.

“It’s hard to find a job when you’re an ex-con,” Stroup said.

When Stroup’s belongings are not stored at the center, he carries them around in a sack alongside his fishing pole.

“Someone gave me that,” Stroup said of the pole. “I wish I could go fishing a lot, but I can’t afford it.”

Food is one of the other services the Check-in Center offers that Stroup and other clients make use of. Mercy House does not provide the food, but rather other organizations who bring food to the center at set times in the month.

People can sit and enjoy their meals at a spread of picnic benches underneath tents next to the two shipping containers.

One group that delivers food is Loving Others in Truth 318, or LOT318, a Placentia organization that gathers food to bring from local restaurants.

LOT318 director Letty Gali said the organization has partnered with Mercy House for the last five years to bring meals to the

center every first and third Wednesday of the month.

“We want them to realize they are not forgotten,” Gali said. “We all have a story, and I feel like this is what we were called to do - come and help meet some of those needs that they have.”

Gali hopes to convey to the clients at the Checkin Center that they can achieve and accomplish a lot if they work hard and feel they have a purpose in the world. They are thankful for what they can get, she said. “(LOT318) is one of the better ones,” Stroup said.

“They present a decent meal, nice and warm, wide variety on the food chain, beverages … That’s very good feeding right there.”

Besides storage and food, the center also has a charging station for clients’ electronics and administers questionnaires to interested individuals who may qualify for permanent supportive housing with Mercy House.

One of the most important services the center provides is transit to the Fullerton Armory Emergency Shelter when it’s open. At the end of the afternoon shifts, buses bring homeless individuals who use the center’s services, as well as those who do not, to the shelter so they have a place to spend the night.

THE FULLERTON ARMORY EMERGENCY CENTER

When people take the buses from the La Palma Check-in Center, they have priority admission to the Fullerton shelter. The shelter runs on a first-comefirst-serve basis and opens at 7 p.m.

“The reason for that is to try and persuade people to take the bus to alleviate loitering around the area of the shelter,” Sanchez said.

“There are some people who are going to just walk up no matter what, and we allow walk-ups of course, but I do think it helps.”

The shelter, housed at the National Guard Armory on Brookhurst Street and Valencia Drive, provides mats to sleep on, blankets, meals, showers and towels for up to 200 people a night.

Sleeping arrangements in the shelter are divided by gender.

“We definitely have more men than women so we try to section off the back of the women’s area so we

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Buses bring homeless individuals between the La Palma Check-in Center and the Fullerton Armory Emergency Shelter during armory season.

behavioral problems, like arguments that spring up when people roll into each other while they are sleeping, Sanchez said.

“It’s just a matter of trying to manage their behavior so as long as we can try and speak with them and calm them down, maybe move them away from the person they are having an issue with,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez said that staff is limited for managing the behaviors of everyone there.

“We only have four or five members a night for 200 people,” Sanchez said.

“Our primary goal is setting up the armory, making sure that everyone gets fed and showered and safe.”

While the shelter does not have a psychologist or other mental-health experts on staff, part of the training workers have to go through involves working with representatives from health-care agencies. Some agencies come to the shelter to provide services.

“We have the Mental Health Association (MHA) come and try to link people into mental-health services. We have social services agencies and health-care agencies in Orange County that also come in,” Sanchez said.

Once a week, the nonprofit CareerWise also comes to the shelter to help individuals put together a resume and search for jobs.

We want (the homeless) to realize they are not forgotten. We all have a story, and I feel like this is what we were called to do - come and help meet some of those needs that they have.

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LETTY GALI Director of Loving Others in Truth 318 can put men that don’t fit on the other side. I think that’s good for the couples that we have here,” Sanchez said. “We have some couples who are physically dependent on their significant other ... It is helpful for them.”

Most of the workers at the shelter are volunteers, and Sanchez said they aim to have around 15 a night.

“We have a really awesome staff that just steps up and takes care of things when we don’t have volunteers,” Sanchez said.

The hired staff members receive background checks, are tested for tuberculosis and receive about two weeks of sensitivity training to learn how to deal with a different population staying together in one place.

One of the more challenging things for workers at the shelter to deal with is

At night, clients staying in the shelter receive an evening meal. In the mornings, the shelter provides breakfast—usually “coffee, bagels, muffins, fruits and sometimes oatmeal,” Sanchez said.

The homeless who spend the night have to leave the shelter at 6 a.m. A bus will be there to pick them up and take them back to the La Palma Check-in Center if they want.

The 6 a.m. departure time does not work for everybody.

One mother of four used to sleep at the Fullerton shelter with a friend whose mother was paralyzed.

“They were really nice.

They’re very helpful, and I felt safe, but it was difficult getting up at six,” she said.

“When I was there, I was with a friend of mine and his mom was paralyzed, so getting her up and down

into bathrooms … It was difficult.”

The women, who became homeless in 2011 due to domestic violence, now live outside the Santa Ana Civic Center.

Probably the biggest problem facing the armory system is that the armory shelters are not open yearround. The Mercy House OC Armory Emergency Shelters are seasonal, usually open from November to April.

Cynthia Larson, who has visited the La Palma Check-in Center every day since it opened three years ago, said when the Fullerton shelter closes for the season, she “hits the dusty trail” and usually winds up camping out by freeways.

In the past, Larson traveled across the United States in just over 2 months and landed a job at a diner in Florida. After the diner closed, Larson moved back to California and stayed with her daughter when other living arrangements fell through.

She has been homeless for five years, unable to find work due to poor health and said the hardest part of being homeless is adjusting to changing conditions.

“My pappy told me a long time ago that only the strongest survive,” Larson said. “I don’t have a choice.

I’m stuck with this. This is reality.”

Riggan said she has no idea where the homeless go when it is not armory season.

She described the system as being “broken,” and feels there needs to be more of a collaborative focus on helping people become better equipped for a new lifestyle living off the streets rather than just looking for more “success stories” to tell.

“It’s really hard to try and get help. There’s a lot of people helping, but not a lot of people, I think, have seen it though,” Riggan said. “The collaboration among organizations needs to be a lot stronger.”

The 2016 Orange County Executive Office Assessment of Homeless Services in Orange County came to the same conclusion.

It found that county-wide resource coordination is fragmented and not easily navigated by those experiencing homelessness.

“Orange County has a large and diverse population, where services, housing availability and affordability and other resource barriers exist due to lack of regional and localized coordination,” according the Assessment.

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NEWS Rover: Club to face international talent

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The team spends a full academic year, including breaks, to design and build the rover.

“The day that we were heading back from Utah in the car from the last competition, we were already planning next year’s rover,” Cragg said.

The Titan Rover club raised almost $30,000 through various fundraisers and donations including $12,000 from the mechanical department on campus.

The club recently won first place in the school’s Engineering and Computer Science showcase for the second year in a row and was

announced as the winners of the Titans’ Choice Award at the CSUF Tuffy Awards.

The award is given to an organization that “embodies and exemplifies what it means to be a Titan.”

“There’s so many hours that went into this, and I can’t even express how appreciative I am of this whole entire team,” said Erik Holgersen, project lead and club president.

Awards were handed out to members of the team that put in extra effort to the project during the event.

“This means everything to me,” Holgersen said. “To show this off to our friends and family, it’s all we can hope for all year.”

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CSUF Titan Rover club presented its Mars rover for the first time at Wednesday’s event. The club is planning to enter their design into the University Rover Challenge, an international competition.

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Ralliers held signs that said “Bye Bye Ed Royce Time 2 Go,” “Block Trump Care, Shame, Shame, Shame,” and “24 million Americans will lose health care, don’t you care?” and a large banner that read “Royce’s border wall of shame.”

As a health-insurance and health-care expert of 20

years, Charles refers to the bill as “the death to American’s Act.” “There is scientific evidence that shows that if that act were to come through and be the law of the land, we can quantify how many people would die every year in direct response because they lost their health care,” she said.

The amount of people who

would lose their health care is about 40,000 people, almost equivalent to the Cal State Fullerton student body, Charles said.

After the “die-in” demonstration, they chanted “Ed Royce hear our voice” and “Repeal and replace Royce” as they marched to the corner of Brea Boulevard and Imperial Highway.

Robin Follman, chief

operating officer of Markall, a manufacturing company, refused to join in the protest as she walked by the rally.

Everyone should have a right to affordable health care but does not think it is the government’s responsibility to penalize organizations, companies and people to make sure that happens, she said.

“I think Ed Royce has

been an advocate for all people. I think he is in a very difficult position because he can’t please all people and that is going to be a challenge with any politician nowadays because we have gotten so far along on supporting platforms versus listening to people’s individual needs, that it makes it difficult for him to be popular no matter what,”

Follman said.

The Indivisible constituents said they felt like Royce did not listen to their voice.

“We want it to be clear to him that we are not going away. We are going to continue to rally. We are going to continue to visit his office. We are going to continue to make calls to fight for what we believe in,” Goodwin said.

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The suspect was described as male, around six feet tall and “possibly Hispanic” with a shaved head. He was also wearing blue Dickies pants and “possibly a blue windbreaker.”

The woman saw the

suspect change into a red Pendleton-style shirt after witnessing her contact authorities, Willey said.

“Career criminals have been wanted by the law before. They know that if they change their clothes real quick, that will throw off some of the officers that are

out looking for a certain type of individual,” Willey said.

University Police officers canvassed the area but were unable to locate the suspect.

Detectives are searching through campus surveillance footage, though the

cameras are in fixed locations, sometimes blocked by trees, so their search has yielded nothing helpful so far, Willey said.

It has not been confirmed if the suspect is a student, though Willey said it is highly doubtful.

“We don’t have a whole

lot to go on, so we’re hoping that the public and our community will come forward with any other information,” Willey said.

There were no witnesses, Willey said. The suspect could be charged with a criminal threat if found.

University Police asks that

the public call 657-278-2903 with additional information regarding the incident. People who encounter someone behaving like or matching the description of the suspect are advised to call 911.

Sarah Wolstoncroft contributed to this report.

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FEATURES Graduate refugee repays community PAGE 4 MAY 11, 2017 THURSDAY

Iranian immigrant finds purpose in teaching English.

KAROL PERDOMO Daily Titan

By giving American Language Program students insight to the English language, Sara Haghighi feels that she’s repaying her community for the invaluable help she received when immigrated to America.

“I believe if you receive help from someone, you can’t compensate it materialistically,” Haghighi said.

“You can’t write a check for them or something, you have to give it back spiritually to the society or to that person.”

This philosophy deeply resonated with Haghighi from the moment she stepped foot onto Cal State Fullerton in spring 2015.

After completing her undergraduate education in Iran at the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, Haghighi set her sights on completing a master’s program at CSUF as a TESOL major (teaching English to speakers of other languages).

However, Haghighi had to make some sizable cultural adjustments to do so.

Despite her mother and stepfather living in Pasadena, Haghighi said that her journey to the states was challenging.

“I think she’s especially sensitive to the needs of those people trying to adjust and become good citizens,” said Janet Eyring, Ph.D., a TESOL professor and Haghighi’s biggest help at CSUF. Haghighi traveled a long

road getting into to the United States as a refugee from Iran, Eyring said.

As a TESOL major, Haghighi said she wanted to give back to her community as she had once received.

By doing her required service-learning for her major, Haghighi ultimately discovered how she wanted to give back through Project SHINE. Project SHINE, initially titled “Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders” to help older immigrants, was broadened after realizing the demographics of non-native speakers involved in the classrooms, Eyring said. By allowing non-native speakers of all ages, SHINE volunteers helped immigrant communities learn and practice English in a comfortable environment.

Dawn Macy, director of Center for Internships and Community Engagement, said with Eyring’s help drafting the grant, she was able to implement SHINE at Cal State Fullerton in fall 2001.

“It’s a true collaboration and it’s one that stood the test of time, even once the funding ran out,” Macy said.

“That really let’s us know that one, there’s still a big need in the community and two, that our students and faculty find it valuable.”

One of those students was Haghighi. In the three semesters she devoted to Project SHINE, Haghighi said it further validated her choice to become an ESL teacher and filled her with a sense of purpose.

“I know how hard it is to learn English. I know how hard it is to find a place to live in the United States. I know how hard it is to find a job when you have no work

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Sara Haghighi gives feedback to a student in one of her many classes designed to help acclimate non-English speaking students to their second language.

history,” Haghighi said.

While volunteering primarily at North Orange County Community College District on the Wilshire campus, Haghighi said she assisted instructors during their lesson plans and helped students with any extra questions or clarifications.

Although SHINE revolved around teaching English, Haghighi said it also involved teaching certain life skills to individuals in the program. Volunteers would help inform them on how to apply for jobs, find a house and even fill out application forms.

Volunteering further helped Haghighi noticed

other difficulties immigrants faced when coming to the United States, she said. “(Immigrant students) had very good positions in their working environments in their own country but when they came here because they didn’t know the language, they lost everything, they lost their status,” Haghighi said.

Haghighi said that the job of the ESL teacher is to give the integrity and confidence back to students in the SHINE program.

“If I can explain something to them, if I can help them with something, if I can do something to reduce their stress or pressure that

they have in the class, those are important things for me,” Haghighi said.

By carrying her experiences of acclimating to life in the United States with her, Haghighi has shown considerable progress both in her field and personal life.

“I think she’s grown a lot from the first time when I met her where she was a little more timid,” Eyring said.

“She’s quite confident, and I think ready to use our degree out in the field and teach English to people who don’t speak English as a first language.”

Now as Haghighi does her practicum at CSUF for the American Language

Program, she hopes to get a job as an ESL professor in a community college after graduating this semester.

With involvements ranging from serving as a TESOL Club treasurer, student treasurer and outreach officer at Phi Beta Delta, Haghighi has kept herself busy giving back to the community that gave so much to her.

“I just want to make life easier even for one more one person, to say that life is not very difficult. Yes, we have so many countries, but after all, we are living on planet Earth. We are all the same. We are all alive,” Haghighi said.

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OPINION Unconstitutional abortion laws need reform PAGE 5 THURSDAY MAY 11, 2017

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State regulations show misogyny and disrespect.

ILANA LAGRAFF Daily Titan

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t’s ridiculous that in 2017, certain states have been hell-bent on taking away women’s rights to health care and bodily autonomy, all to prevent them from getting one particular medical procedure: abortion. This type of patriarchal governing needs to be regulated.

After the huge step forward for women’s reproductive rights with the famous 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, one wouldn’t think the nation would be continuously taking a step in the opposite direction.

In 1992, Planned Parenthood v. Casey almost resulted in the overturning of Roe v. Wade altogether. Although it narrowly avoided that fate, the decisions made during Roe v. Wade were irrevocably altered for the worse.

The introduction of the “undue burden” test was supposedly meant to stop states from creating restrictions that would create “substantial obstacles” for a woman seeking to get an abortion, but none of those terms were properly defined.

To this day, states continue to find loopholes to make the procedure extremely difficult to get.

In 2016, there were over

60 abortion restrictions enacted and since 2011 more than 2,000 were introduced, according to analysis by the Center for Re p r o du c t ive Rights (CRR).

Kentucky now requires that state-mandated counseling take place either in the physician’s office or via “realtime visual telehealth services.” Women who do not have access to a computer or a phone equipped for this service will have to make two trips to the clinic, something that can be difficult or impossible for low-income women.

South Dakota law requires hea lt h- ca re providers to inform patients that it is possible to “discont i nue” a medication abortion by not taking misoprostol, the second pill taken in the protocol for medication abortion, even though this is false information. The fact that doctors are told to inform these patients creates a bias and violates First Amendment rights.

Utah enacted a law that requires abortion providers to use fetal anesthesia on patients getting an

ab or t ion after 20 weeks, even when the woman does not consent to it, so that the fetus will not feel pain, according to a 2017 Center for Reproductive Rights

s t u d y.

This is propaganda to make women feel bad, seeing as evidence points to the fact that fetal perception of pain is unlikely before the third trimester.

“This new barrage of attacks shows that the anti-abortion movement has abandoned its pretense of protecting women’s health and safety,” according to the CRR report. “Women’s health advocates across the country are pushing back, and will continue to push back, against this extreme agenda.”

Louisiana is being sued for seven anti-abortion laws, one of which would ban the dilation and evacuation procedure that is regarded as the safest and most common method of abortion for women in their second trimester. This is forcing doctors to use an abortion method that has a higher rate of complications, according to the Huffington Post.

One part of Oklahoma’s 2016 “Humanity of the Unborn Child Act” would have required public restaurants, hospitals, schools and hotels to post signs in their restrooms urging pregnant women to carry to term. Thankfully because of protests, it has now been revised so that only the restrooms in abortion clinics are affected.

An Indiana bill was blocked in 2016 that prohibited abortion providers from doing their job if they knew that the reason for the abortion was solely due to “the race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex of the fetus, or a diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having down syndrome or any other disability,” according to Indiana General Assembly.

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a disability because they wouldn’t be able to properly take care of it.

However, the law getting the most attention is Texas law HB2.

Then-Sen. Wendy Davis tried to strike it down with an 11-hour filibuster, but where she sadly failed, the courts succeeded in the landmark 2016 case Whole Woman’s Health v.

Hellerstedt.

HB2 required abortion clinics further than 30 miles from a hospital to close down.

This was said to be for the protection of women’s health, but would actually do nothing for women’s health and everything for preventing women from having access to abortion clinics. It was predicted that this law would force 75 percent of the clinics in Texas to close, leaving some women with their closest clinic a day’s trip away.

Rightly so, it was found that this law created an “undue burden” on women seeking abortions, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned that targeted regulation of abortion providers, or TRAP laws, would not survive upon judicial inspection.

While the states are trying their best to create laws faster than the courts can strike them down, it is a good sign that the courts are at least trying to keep up and show a willingness to review the definition of an “undue burden” by finding these laws unconstitutional.

Women deserve the right to bodily autonomy, and that shouldn’t be in question just because women have wombs. State officials need to reread the Constitution and focus their efforts on things other than this patriarchal control of women.

Without fiscal stability, children pose challenges Becoming a parent at a young age comes with risky conditions.

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aving enough money to support a child is the main concern for people entering parenthood, especially for women in the workforce.

Women are stereotypically considered the primary caregivers of the

family. Now, 70 percent of mothers with children under the age of 18 are a part of the workforce, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

It is more expensive than ever to raise a child in the states. Families will spend an average of $233,610 from birth to age 17, according to CNN. With the absence of reliable support from employers or government, many women are forced to make the decision between keeping a job or caring for their children.

This means that women today are working full time while still responsible for feeding, cleaning, comforting and disciplining their children.

That’s a lot of work, and often forces the women

to choose between their career goals and their relationships to their families–and that’s if their money situation is not forcing them to work.

Women should ease some of their stresses by waiting to have children until they are older and their careers are established.

Many women are already catching on to this idea. Since 1970, the average age of first-time mothers has gone up from 21.4 years old to a record 26.3, according to a study by the National Center for Health Statistics.

This is partly due to a decrease in teen pregnancies and the increase in women having their first child at ages 30 to 34.

Hans-Peter Kohler, a professor of sociology at the

University of Pennsylvania, said in an interview with the New York Times that “when the economic picture is uncertain, people hold off all sorts of commitments, and having children is one of them.”

The economy is still unstable, and sometimes, merely waiting for a solid career is not enough to lift the economic burden of having children. With childcare costs higher than many can afford, a cultural shift in the American workforce is needed in order to prioritize policies that accommodate new parents and families.

Employers should consider having free or discounted daycare for their employee’s children, allowing parents to work from home when needed,

paid sick days and paid parental leave. Revamping policies for new parents would improve a family’s economic security, thereby improving their productivity because they’re not plagued by stress and guilt it would also benefit society’s overall economy.

Maybe then, women would be more confident about their ability to have a successful career and family life. The two definitely can be intertwined, some women just need a little extra help.

However, many women don’t want to wait for government or businesses to pull themselves together.

Putting a career first would give a woman the time to grow and find stability. The older a woman

is the better equipped she is emotionally and monetarily for the vast changes that come with raising a child.

It would be good to hold off on having a baby until student loans and credit– card debts are paid off and enough money is saved to better prepare for the costs that lie ahead.

Women should wait to have kids because there are so many responsibilities that can be overwhelming at such a young age. People are still learning to take care of themselves, and it only gets harder when another human being comes into the picture.

While the decision to wait to have children is a personal choice that holds a personal impact, it is always smart to plan and be prepared for parenthood.

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SPORTS Big West champs aim to finish season strong

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Softball not going to take Gauchos lightly in last series.

ADAM CASTRO Daily Titan FULLERTON – Cal State Fullerton softball looks to continue its season-high nine-game win streak while finishing the regular season on the road against conference foe UC Santa Barbara this weekend.

“My main focus this week for the girls is to make sure we don’t overlook (UCSB),” cleanup hitter Lexi Gonzalez told the Daily Titan.

“Yes, we did clinch the Big West title but it’d be nice to go into regionals with three more wins under our belt.”

The Titans are coming off a three-game sweep against Cal State Northridge that saw them clinch their second straight Big West title. In their series against CSUN, the Titans outscored the Matadors 17-10, taking their fourth consecutive series win against a Big West opponent.

Fullerton sports a home record of 14-12 after its sweep, thanks in part to ace Kelsey Kessler, who won her third consecutive Big West

Softball Pitcher of the Week award. On the homestand, Kessler earned her 18th and 19th wins of the season, pitching a combined 14 innings while only giving up 2 earned runs.

With their season at Anderson Family Field finished, the Titans are looking to build upon their dominant 14-2 road record while in Santa Barbara.

UCSB (29-25) is one of four teams in the Big West with a 9-9 record in conference play, right below Fullerton’s Big West-leading 15-3 mark. Even though they are a potent team at home, going 14-6 at Campus Diamond, the Gauchos are only 6-10 on the road.

Last season, UCSB finished fourth in the Big West and had an overall record of 28-28 with a 13-8 record at home and a 5-9 road record.

Santa Barbara is coming off a 2-1 series loss against UC Davis and is 5-5 in its last 10 games.

The Gauchos are among the top three in the Big West in several offensive categories including batting average (.282), RBIs (180), slugging percentage (.392) and runs scored (205).

Offensively, the Gauchos are led by infielder Sierra Altmeyer, outfielder Jessica

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Junior infielder Shianne Brannan (left) is ranked second on the Titans with four home runs while posting a .277 batting average and a .412 slugging percentage.

Johnston and freshman Alyssa Diaz. Altmeyer is third in the Big West with a .364 batting average and has hit nine home runs. Johnston is eighth in conference hitting (.341) while Diaz has 32 RBIs. Though they possess a solid offense, the Gauchos are last in several pitching

categories in the Big West, including ERA (3.98), earned runs (203), home runs allowed (36) and hits surrendered (409).

Last season, the Titans took two out of three of their games against the Gauchos and are 6-3 against UCSB since 2014.

Fullerton (32-19) will start

its final regular-season series Friday at 3 p.m. against the Gauchos from Santa Barbara. Right-fielder Delynn Rippy told the Daily Titan the series is still important despite not mattering in terms of standings.

“Now that we clinched the Big West, these games are a way to practice the

skills that we need to practice,” Rippy said. “We need to come out and compete because they’re going to want to beat us … We can’t take them lightly because we do have postseason right behind us.”

Harrison Faigen contributed to this report.

Titans focus on not overlooking struggling UCSB

CSUF hopes to stay dominant at Goodwin Field.

BRYANT FREESE Daily Titan

FULLERTON – After a 4-3 nonconference victory over UCLA Tuesday night, No. 14 Cal State Fullerton baseball returns to Big West action Friday when it hosts UC Santa Barbara.

The Titans have the opportunity to close the gap on Long Beach State’s 3.5 game lead in the conference standings as the Dirtbags head to Minnesota for a three-game

nonconference series.

“It’s huge. Long Beach is playing well and we’re playing well right now. We can’t really focus on Long Beach and what they’re doing. We just got to focus on us and really play our game,” center fielder Scott Hurst told the Daily Titan.

CSUF will face a UC Santa Barbara team that is in a down year after making it to the College World Series last season. The Gauchos are in sixth place in the Big West with a 6-9 conference record and a 20-25 overall record, but the Titans aren’t expecting anything less than a hungry team.

“The teams that are below .500 are pretty dangerous, they play with nothing

to lose,” Hurst said. “If we look at their record and think they’re under .500, we can be in some trouble.”

Even though UCSB is having a down year, the Titans pitching staff will have to control first baseman Austin Bush from igniting the Gauchos offense. Bush ranks first in the Big West with 11 home runs and second with 39 RBIs. Fullerton’s pitching staff has stayed consistent throughout the season and returned to downright dominant form in recent weeks.

Friday’s starter Connor Seabold is fifth in the Big West with a 2.81 earned run average and is tied for first in the conference with Long

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Beach’s Darren McCaughan with 80 strikeouts. Seabold has earned a victory in each of his last four starts.

“It just gives us more confidence to know that they are going to throw zeros,” Hurst said.

Relievers Blake Workman and Jack Pabich have also elevated their games heading into the final stretch of the season. After being named Big West Pitcher of the Week last week, Workman was moved to the starting rotation for last Sunday’s game against Hawaii.

Workman pitched five innings while giving up seven hits but just one run.

Pabich, on the other hand, remained in his typical reliever position

to give the Titans starters much-needed backup. Pabich pitched in three consecutive games, coming in for relief Saturday and Sunday against Hawaii and against UCLA Tuesday night. The right-handed pitcher struggled on short rest against the Bruins, giving up two hits and two runs in 0.2 innings of work.

Closer Brett Conine has been the standout in the bullpen all season for the Titans but wasn’t his usual self against UCLA Tuesday night, giving up his first earned run in 19 appearances dating back to March 4 against Houston.

The sophomore closer almost allowed a Bruins comeback but was able to

hold on to the lead and record his Big West-leading 11th save of the season.

While both Conine and Pabich both had issues against UCLA, Head Coach Rick Vanderhook thought they pitched well for the Titans down the stretch.

“Those guys got banged around for a while, that was more of what they did earlier in the year, and that’s perfect. That’s what we need, is to come out of the bullpen and throw a few pitches where you want them to go, it gets batters out,” Vanderhook said after Tuesday night’s win over UCLA. First pitch of the threegame series against UCSB is set for 6 p.m. Friday at Goodwin Field.

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SPORTS Record-setting Edberg has LPGA plans PAGE 8 MAY 11, 2017 THURSDAY

Golfer looks to future prior to NCAA nationals.

TODD HADLER Daily Titan

There are a few things Martina Edberg will miss about Cal State Fullerton after a historic four-year run.

She’ll miss the relationships she’s built with her teammates. She’ll miss the size of the campus and how there are always things to do She’ll miss the availability of the trainers whenever she needs them.

“Throughout the four years, you get to know a lot of fun people and it’s going to be hard to leave that,” Edberg said.

In her four years, Edberg was named to the Big West Conference First Team for four straight times. She also won seven Big West Golfer of the Month awards, which puts her second all-time in the Big West.

Starting her freshman year, Edberg set the CSUF single-season scoring average and then beat her own record each year after that, including senior year in which she lowered her scoring average by almost two points from 73.35 last season to 71.38 this season.

Edberg, who hails from Glumslov, Sweden, says her success is due to getting used to the United States after having a difficult time adjusting initially.

“It was a rough first year getting adapted to the culture and school and golf,” Edberg said. “I’m getting used to California, I’m getting used to golf courses.

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In each of her four years at CSUF, Martina Edberg was named to the Big West Conference First Team for four straight years. She also won seven Big West Golfer of the Month awards, which puts her second all-time in the Big West Conference

about my own game.”

After being named the Big West Women’s Golf Player of the Year and winning her second Big West Conference individual title, Edberg is set to cap off her senior year with a trip to Illinois for the NCAA National Championships after finishing tied for second in the Albuquerque Regional.

Edberg was optimistic about her chances in Albuquerque a few weeks before the tournament due

to her familiarity with the course.

“I’m happy that it’s a course that I’ve played before because the more times you play the course, the better it is,” Edberg said.

“If you’ve seen the course more times, it’s always an advantage.”

The chance to compete for the National Championship is the final one for Edberg, who failed to make it past the regional round the last two years. Due to the timing

of the nationals coinciding with graduation, Edberg saw her opportunity as a “winwin situation” whether she made it to nationals or not.

“If I don’t go to nationals, I get to be at my graduation, and if I go to nationals and miss graduation, then I get to play against the top people in the country,” Edberg said.

Edberg’s parents and grandmothers are flying to the U.S. and will attend nationals with her, but

would’ve went to her graduation if she hadn’t earned the trip to Illinois.

Despite that she’ll miss a few things, Edberg is ready for life after CSUF and has one goal in mind: playing on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour. After she turns pro on May 25th, Edberg plans to compete in the LPGA qualifiers in Palm Springs in August.

Edberg said she’s torn between wanting to play in Sweden, her home country,

and wanting to play in the U.S. Even though she said she would rather play in the U.S. because it’s where the best players are, Edberg has considered qualifying for the Ladies European Tour as well.

“I’m ready to take the next step because four years is also a long time and I don’t know if I would want to do this for another year,” Edberg said. “If I play like I do now, then it shouldn’t be a problem.”

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