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Sports Thursday September 14, 2017
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
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Trump compromises on DACA
690,000 people might be allowed to go to school after all. BREANNA BELKEN Asst. News Editor
President Donald Trump, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer agreed to a compromise over dinner Wednesday that would protect Dreamers from
deportation, according to the Washington Post. The leaders agreed to legislation that would potentially protect an estimated 690,000 people allowed to work and go to school through the DACA
program, which is set to expire in six months. Pelosi said they plan to move the protections for DACA recipients into law quickly. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that
border security was also discussed but disputed claims that there was an agreement “excluding the wall.” According to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s spokesperson, Ryan reportedly
reiterated “that any solution needs to address border security and enforcement, which are the root causes of the problem. Discussions among the Republican conference will continue in the coming weeks.”
Milo visit nearly finalized
College Republicans club books TSU space for provocateur. JASON ROCHLIN News Editor
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Members of Students for Quality Education at Cal State Fullerton have taken a strong stance against Milo Yiannopoulos, citing his past of calling out undocumented immigrants at the University of New Mexico, as well as an agenda to directly expose undocumented students at UC Berkeley.
Milo could threaten 1,029 CSUF Dreamers Potential speaker’s past incendiary messages allude to the possibility of a threat to CSUF’s undocumented students. BRANDON PHO News Editor
Within the gallery of college campuses left fervent in Milo Yiannopoulos’ wake, at-risk undocumented students have found themselves especially spotlighted by the threat of the provocateur’s anti-undocumented message. With Yiannopoulos’ potential Cal State Fullerton appearance slated for Oct. 31, and the situation facing the 1,024 undocumented students at CSUF
increasing in peril, some students are left paralyzed by the notion that Yiannopoulos will turn that spotlight on them. “By outing these students, their lives are at risk,” said Students for Quality Education member Rebecca Hesgard. “They get threats. They get attacked. They are targeted at their campuses, so the threat to DACA students is very real and
very immense.” During his Jan. 27 visit to the University of New Mexico, Yiannopoulos splashed the Immigration Customs Enforcement hotline onto a big screen for the audience’s viewing, encouraging them to call the number if they suspected anyone of being an “illegal alien.” In a letter to the Berkeley College Republicans club, the Berkeley Office of Student Affairs detailed Yiannopoulos’ intentions to out undocumented students at his canceled Feb. 1 speech. “There are concerns that (Yiannopoulos) will be employing the strategies of using pictures and personal
information of Cal students during his speech,” the letter read. “Which, as you know, is simultaneously being livestreamed therefore making these images widely available and subsequently putting students at risk.” To Hesgard, the possibility of Yiannopoulos reattempting these strategies at CSUF is “not hypothetical.” “Milo poses a very real, tangible threat to vulnerable students in these communities because he has a history of outing them,” Hesgard said. Regarding Yiannopoulos’ past incitements, Student Life and Leadership Director Vincent Vigil said
student safety is the focus. “There have already been discussions in terms of what should we be doing to make certain that the event happens, but that everyone on our campus is safe,” Vigil said. In a Wednesday Instagram post, SQE’s official account accused the CSUF administration of urging student organizations to “stay away from collective events for they will only recreate the events of Charlottesville.” Vigil refused to directly respond to the accusation. “My office is reaching out to all the Inter-Club Councils to talk to them about free speech,” Vigil said.
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Volleyball nears conference
The Titans approach Big West as they enter last tournament weekend. KATHRYNE PADILLA KAILA CRUZ
Sports Editor, Asst. Editor
Cal State Fullerton volleyball will travel to Indiana to complete its final pre-conference tournament before entering Big West play. The Titans are aiming to continue improving their 4-6 record coming off of
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a weekend that saw freshman libero Savahna Costello earn the team’s first accolade, something that motivates the team as a whole to push each other to their full potential. “At practice when we
found out, we were all freaking out for her. She is one of the most humble liberos I’ve ever played with,” said outside hitter Madeline Schneider. SEE FINAL 8
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Developing lowcost hearing aids Professor researches assistive technology and educates youth.
Middle blocker Aniya Henry (16) takes the No. 1 spot on the Titans’ leaderboad with 26 single blocks overall in the season and ties in single blocks on Fullerton’s roster with six.
The CSUF College Republicans club has officially reserved the Titan Student Union Pavilion space for Milo Yiannopoulos’ appearance Oct. 31. Club president Amanda McGuire said that although the space reservation was finalized Friday, there are still “minor details” to work out with Yiannopoulos before they sign a contract with the speaker. “We’re ready to go with (the TSU), but Milo has yet to get right on board with it,” McGuire said. Interim Associate Director of the TSU Jeff Fehrn said the club first began the reservation process in May. The space has been reserved through the University Conference Center, but Fehrn said the amount of work they’ll be involved in from this point onward could vary. “The planning process is ongoing,” Fehrn said in an email. “For all groups we try to do as much as we can to make events in the Titan Student Union successful.”
Throughout his career, Cal State Fullerton associate professor Kenneth John Faller II, Ph.D., has always strived to combine the worlds of computer engineering and health care. Faller’s passion to help those with physical impairments can be traced back to his days as a graduate student at Florida International University where his master’s and dissertation advisor, Armando Barreto exposed him to the work that would soon become his passion. “I found it inspirational. Since then, I’ve always wanted to apply assistive technology to help people,” Faller said. This past summer,
Faller worked with Project RAISE, a Cal State Fullerton program for STEM transfer students, on the Silent Music Program, where they attached microcontrollers to motors to break down songs into bass vibrations which helps those with hearing difficulties to “feel the music rather than just listen to it,” as Faller said. At the start of the year, Faller began a research project to create low-cost hearing aids. Graduate student Amol Mane works with Faller on the project and said that most hearing aids only amplify sound rather than focusing on one particular conversation, which can become chaotic to people who use them. “We are trying to develop an algorithm which will remove all the chaos and it will only pick the sound or segregate the sound (the person) wants to hear,” Mane said. SEE FALLER
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