Monday March 18, 2019

Monday March 18, 2019

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Volume 105 Issue 24

Officer-involved shooting sends man to hospital Suspect stood behind stolen vehicle in alleyway on 800 block of Harbor Boulevard.

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Officers secure the alleyway after the suspect was taken to the hospital.

On Friday, March 15, there was a shooting involving an officer in an alleyway near the corner of West North Street and Harbor Boulevard in Anaheim, according to Anaheim Police Sgt. Daron Wyatt.

Wyatt said two officers found a suspicious person in his 20s or 30s at 10:43 a.m. The police called for assistance, then radioed that they were in an officer-involved shooting. According to police updates, the suspect is currently in critical condition.

Desi Noriega, an Anaheim resident, said it happened in the alleyway behind Clinica

Medicina General and Pediatra or Good Samaritan Medical Clinic, on West North Street near Harbor Boulevard. Clinica Medicina General and Pediatra is a local clinic that treats general and infant health.

Noriega was at home cleaning when he and his mother heard sirens, then gunshots.

“I walked out and a block away from my house, I actually went and looked in one of the alleyways and they had a white car there. I don’t know if that’s the victim’s car or not but we did see the officers pull out a couple of semi-automatics and run towards that vehicle,” Noriega said.

The suspect was standing behind a stolen car, according to the Anaheim Police Department via Twitter. A later Twitter update stated that a handgun was recovered at the scene.

According to Wyatt, there

was one, not two suspects.

William Noxon, a resident who lived three houses down from the incident, said that an ambulance took the suspect from the alleyway.

Anaheim resident Yolanda Real received a call around 12:20 p.m. from her niece, who was at the clinic. Real ran over and officers let her cross the police tape to check on her niece.

“We see people that were scared because they hear a lot of shooting but everybody’s fine in there,” Real said.

The shooting is under investigation by the Orange County District Attorney’s office and the Anaheim Police Department Homicide detail.

The officers involved were wearing body cameras that were on and recording during the incident.

They will be reviewed during the investigation.

Titans collapse under Big West lights CSUF men’s basketball allowed UCI to shoot 61.8 percent from the field.

JORDAN MENDOZA Daily Titan

Poor shooting and UC Irvine’s efficiency from 3-point range ended the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team’s chance at becoming back-to-back Big West champions, as they fell to the Anteaters, 92-64, in the Big West Tournament Final Saturday night.

UCI’s 28-point victory was the largest win in Big West title game history, and led by as many as 32 points for the night.

“They came out and played exceptionally well tonight,” said CSUF head coach Dedrique Taylor. “We ran into a buzzsaw.

That team out there, they probably would’ve beat the Lakers.”

UCI finished the night shooting 61.8 percent from the field, compared to the Titans’ 41.2 percent.

Three-point shooting was the difference in the game, as the Anteaters made 10 of their 14 3-point shots (71.4 percent), while CSUF was 5-for-21 (23.8 percent).

The win was UCI’s third time beating the Titans this season,

Forward Johnny Wang puts up a hook shot from the key over UCI’s Elston Jones at the Honda Center.

and the Anteaters head coach Russell Turner said his team’s ability to stop the CSUF offense led to the season sweep.

“When we played this team this year, we’ve consistently dominated with our defense, so

there was nothing about what we did tonight that surprised me,” Turner said.

UCI’s Max Hazzard and Collin Welp led the game in scoring with 23 points each. Hazzard was named tournament

MVP, as he fueled an 11-0 run early in the game, making three 3-pointers during the stretch.

“I have a lot of confidence in my ability to shoot the ball.

I put in a lot of work and my teammates and coaches have

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a lot of confidence in me too,” Hazzard said.

CSUF senior guard Kyle Allman Jr. led the Titans with 16 points.

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Arboretum hosts annual fresh produce sale The 2019 Veggiepalooza offered 300 different plants in nursery fundraiser.

HOSAM ELATTAR Daily Titan

Tomato, pepper, corn, eggplant, onion, bean and pea plants lined the tables behind the green house in the Arboretum this weekend for the 2019 annual Veggiepalooza fundraiser.

Veggiepalooza is the Arboretum’s third biggest fundraising event, usually raking in around tens of thousands of dollars

according to Greg Pongetti, the Living Collections Curator at the Arboretum.

“Veggiepalooza is our annual vegetable plant sale. We do it every year in spring.We grow 20,000 vegetable plants from seed here at the Arboretum. It’s grown by volunteers and staff, then we offer it in a big weekend plant sale,” said Pongetti.

The 20,000 plants were all organically raised in the Arboretum’s nursery with the oldest ones planted in December of last year, said Pongetti.

“Seeing all the people here is one of the best things about

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Veggiepalooza and I think they should come here because they should support their local gardens and get some really well grown, great produce,” said Derek Dobbs, a horticulturist at the Arboretum.

All the earnings from the event go towards maintaining the Arboretum. Pongetti said the goal for this year is to raise about $50,000. Each plant was sold at $3.50.

“It’s important to support the Arboretum because we are in a unique position in Orange County. We are the only botanical garden in the area and there is a

lot of different research and educational uses of the Arboretum.

We have over 150,000 annual visitors,” said Pongetti.

The Arboretum’s partnership with the city of Fullerton is set to end in 2020, which will result in a loss of $250,000 of funding that is not expected to be offset by the university.

Close to 300 different species of vegetables were sold to those who attended the fundraiser, with over 100 varieties of tomatoes and 70 varieties of peppers.

Forty-seven new plants were sold this year including the Trinidad Scorpion pepper and the Golden

Gem cherry tomato, according to the Arboretum website.

Veggiepalooza takes place in spring, but this year’s yield was undercut by harsh weather conditions.

“We have had the coldest February on record. It’s been a very rainy year also. Due to the cold and rain some of our plants have not grown to our desired size,” Pongetti said.

Dobbs who helped grow the vegetables said that they even lost some plants due to the cold.

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2 News

MONDAY MARCH 18, 2019

ASI campaign discusses platforms Tristan Torres and Alexa Flores share plans to improve campus resources.

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After the Associated Students Inc. executive team debates last Thursday, ASI is preparing for the election cycle over Tuesday and Wednesday, where the next board of trustees, board of directors and presidential team will be chosen.

Tristan Torres, the current board of directors chair for ASI, is running for president with former ASI executive office employee Alexa Flores as his running mate.

Torres has experience serving as the College of Natural Science and Mathematics representative on the board in addition to his current role. Flores is the executive director of the College Legal Clinic funded by ASI. One of their campaign’s primary goals is to increase on-campus recognition of ASI and its purpose.

“A lot of times people know ASI as the people with free shirts or the free food, and ASI offers so much more than just that. Making sure students not only know the names but they know what ASI is doing for them,” Flores said One of the cornerstones of their campaign is the idea of fiscal responsibility, with the hope of reining in extraneous spending. The president writes the first draft of ASI’s yearly budget before it is approved by the ASI Finance Committee.

“I just want to make sure that all the money is going into programs and resources that students need on campus and just reassessing current events and programs and making sure that they are successful in providing those resources,” Flores said.

Torres also brought up the importance of expanding awareness of available student growth opportunities on campus to

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Associated Students candidates Tristan Torres and Alexa Flores share their ideas about fiscal responsibility outside the Titan Student Union.

increase student involvement.

“I want people feel like they can get involved and have a home on this campus and develop and grow. I think I have had a lot of opportunities to grow as an individual through ASI and through my fraternity,.” Torres said.

The candidates also brought up the idea of expanding the resource centers offered on campus, increasing resources in those currently active and potentially adding new centers to the south side of the Pollak Library.

“I think I’m very passionate about having a SWANA (Southwest Asian North African) resource center, that’s something

that I see as a need on this campus. I feel like that’s something we can push for in the next couple of months if elected,” Torres said.

Flores also brought up the possibility of expanding the Veterans’ Resource Center that is currently in University Hall, which will be renamed as Milton A. Gordon Hall in Fall 2019.

“I know I would like to see the Veterans Resource Center receive a little more funding. I think it’s a really great resource for veteran students. I come from a military family so that’s something that really resonates with me,” Flores said.

With their proposed financial

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restructuring, Torres also brought up the idea of instituting an emergency grant as part of ASI’s future budget, allowing groups in need to apply for emergency funds.

“Last year we gave money to the Basic Needs Center just to get them started, this year there’s been talks about helping out Project Rebound. So I think something that maybe Alexa and I’ve established is more like an ASI grant for university resources on campus that need help maybe that year, just a thought though,” Torres said.

On top of increasing ASI grants, the candidates also hope to increase visibility and use of ASI scholarships that are

already available by examining the advertising tactics and possibly extending the deadline to encourage more students to apply to them.

“I think it’s an issue on maybe an advertising type of thing, because not many students are aware of all the scholarships that ASI offers, and that’s a big issue, because not enough students are utilizing that resource that’s there for them,” Flores said.

Torres and Flores are campaigning to increase ASI’s visibility, what it offers students, and improve and bring in more campus resource centers for students to utilize and enjoy while on campus.

Garden: more than 19,000 grown

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Residents peruse over 300 plants at the Fullerton Arboretum.

CONTINUED FROM 1 “We tried to mitigate it as best we could with tarps and various covering. All of our cucumber varieties did not make a lot and a lot of the peppers as well, both of which tend to like the heat a little bit more than the other things. Tomatoes tend to be able to take it a bit better,” said Dobbs.

About 25 volunteers helped grow the plants for the event and about 100 volunteers helped with the event overall, said to Pongetti.

Asha Bhattacharya, a student volunteer and president scholar said she volunteered to help out because she loved the atmosphere of the event.

“Everything at the Veggiepalooza is locally grown at the arboretum and there (are?) so many wonderful things that we have here,” Bhattacharya said. “It’s awesome they do this event every year and I think it’s a tradition that shouldn’t be lost in our changing times.”

Veggiepalooza has been happening in the Arboretum for over 13 years, said Pongetti.

For some attendees like Andy

Garcia, the Orange County Fair Blue Ribbon winner for largest zucchini, Veggiepalooza is a tradition.

“We’ve been coming for four years. The reason why we keep coming back is they have a good variety of plants that are well suited for this climate. We also like supporting the local universities,” said Garcia .

Garcia said he bought what would become his award winning zucchini at the arboretum last year.

Bhattacharya said that students would be heavily affected if they lost the Arboretum, a nature oasis on campus.

“It’s such a sacred spot here on campus and I think that’s what really separates Fullerton from other CSUs and other universities as a whole, that we have a spot that’s dedicated just to nature. Again I think that’s something that’s beginning to go away right now in our era,” she said.

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Opinion 3

MONDAY MARCH 18, 2019

Hate speech thrives within cyberspace

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Hateful rhetoric on the internet affects algorithms that collect data.

BRANDON KILLMAN Daily Titan

There needs to be more laws and regulations that bar the use of online hate speech, making it a free, open and diverse domain.

Mahatma Ghandi once said, “You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Even

today, that quote carries some weight when we look to the social trends of the World Wide Web. The web turned 30 years old last week, and its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, has some qualms about the nature of his own invention. Berners-Lee brought us into a new age of human interaction with the web, but he feels that his invention is now in a state of dysfunction.

To Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web has become a place that has given marginalized groups a voice, yet has also given a platform to voices that spread hate speech. He declared in an open letter, “The fight for the web is one of the most important causes of our time.”

The web has become an ongoing archive of the human experience and stream of

consciousness, and the amount of data being uploaded is increasing at a rapid rate. The data that is voluntarily uploaded is collected and stored in a way that can be used by algorithms, which in turn could reveal a unique truth about the current digital society.

The truth of our society was revealed in 2016, when Microsoft invented an artificial intelligence Twitter bot, Tay. Intuitive and whimsical, Tay’s first tweet stated, “Hello!” with a world emoji as the O. In just 12 hours, Tay was disseminating hate speech and racist rhetoric. A concoction of holocaust denialism, sexist remarks and neo-nazi sympathies were learned by the AI through its algorithms that replicated the behavior of other twitter users, and Microsoft was quick to take

down its invention.

The intent of Tay’s language programming was to assure that its responses came off as “conversational”, but the availability of diverse language in 2016 didn’t allow that function.

The AI systematically revealed a truth about humanity that otherwise would have gone unnoticed. If hate speech is not tolerated in the physical world, it should not be tolerated in the virtual world.

The beauty of an algorithm is that it is documented in a series of coding which allows the creator to program rules, much like laws, that operating systems must follow. Since we are barely scratching the surface of this technology, programmers must stay vigilant to assure that the morality of our social constructs

stay in tact.

The battle for a more just World Wide Web begins with making the web more available to diverse groups of people. If the data that we are uploading into the cybersphere is one- sided, then we will end up with an algorithmic bias.

There just won’t be enough data for a computer to know what diversity truly is if the program hasn’t learned who is diverse or where diversity comes from.

Programmers and lawmakers alike must strike a balance that protects freedom of speech while also assuring that a hateful agenda does not prosper under the nose of society. It’s now up to society to take action to assure that the web continues to stay free, available to everyone and fair for all people to use.

Column: CSUF advising is inaccessible With limited availability, academic counseling has many barriers to entry.

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If there’s anything that Cal State Fullerton has taught me to absolutely dread, it’s the necessary but frustrating process of going to advising during the semester.

Though my experiences only come from the College of Communications advising, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if students faced a similar impending doom in other departments on campus.

Getting an appointment for the College of Communications can be as grueling as humanly possible, even though it’s essential to one’s future.

Ultimately, this is a failure on the school for not being able to provide this basic necessity for students. Instead of alleviating students’ worries of academics or graduation, the advising process is an unneeded hurdle that many end up going through.

For the College of Communications in particular, there have been numerous times when I’ve seen a particular ill-fated routine occur.

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occupied, the room crowded by equally bored students. The clocks seems to slow down to an excruciatingly slow pace, almost as if the second hand is only moved by a student’s tears.

A literal tumbleweed could pass by at any moment, a symbol of everyone’s inevitable mental breakdown.

Once students are finally

given the opportunity to be advised, the clock seems to triple it’s speed. Before one can compose their thoughts, it’s over, and all pressing questions are thrown out of the sixth floor of College Park.

For the College of Communications, advising has appointments and walk-ins, yet it’s basically impossible to ever

schedule an online appointment.

No matter how many times one may try to book an appointment online, the calendar is empty, like a repeated slap in the face.

It should be pointed out that this isn’t the academic advisors’ fault for this series of unfortunate events. With only a few advisors to provide information for so many students, their time gets

filled quickly, leaving students frustrated but understanding.

What truly seems worrisome in these circumstances of academic advising is that in my time here, it feels like the norm.

Students expect this to happen and get frustrated yet these frustrations just get ignored. No significant changes have been made to improve academic advising and no aggressive message has been made to call out this all too obvious issue (well, until now).

As a whole, the university and College of Communications have to recognize the importance of academic advising, and the error in dismissing these prevalent issues.

Academic advising is impactful for students and it can contribute to the overall satisfaction a student feels towards a school, according to a 2011 study by the University of Nebraska.

It can serve as an essential support system, giving confused wanderers some much needed direction towards their path and reassuring those who just need to feel more secure.

Academic advising at the College of Communications at CSUF, and in extension, every department, must undergo a serious makeover with student feedback to try to alleviate current issues that frustrate students.

Instead of making it a long and tedious process that students like me absolutely despise, it should be an enriching, effortless supplement.

Doing so won’t be easy, but if the university wants to deliver quality resources to benefit students, then it has to do better by turning a dreadful process into a more satisfying and positive experience.

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4 Sports

MONDAY MARCH 18, 2019

Welp: UC Irvine books ticket to March Madness

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The Titans compose themselves prior to the tipoff against UC Irvine.

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CSUF starters huddle up during the Big West Conference Finals on March 16.

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Gaurd Austen Awosika (10) speeds past UC Riverside’s Ar’Mond Davis (1) in the Big West semifinals.

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UCI did not let up their hot start, making 10 of their first 13 shots to give them an 18-point lead with 11 minutes left in the first.

The Titans attempted to claw back into the game, getting the deficit down to as much as 11 with under five minutes left in the half. However, CSUF would once again go cold, making only one of their final seven shots to end the half and not scoring in the final three minutes.

The Anteaters finished the first 20 minutes shooting 57.7 percent from the field, while CSUF shot 34.5 percent.

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The Titans’ bench watches the Anteaters en route to a 28-point win.

UCI made five of their seven 3-point attempts in the half, with four of them from Hazzard. The Titans were 2-for-13 after missing their first eight attempts from behind the arc.

The Anteaters made their first four shots to open up the second half and took a 29-point lead with 16 minutes left.

CSUF struggled to chip away at UCI’s lead, then the Anteaters went on another scoring streak, with Welp making five out of UCI’s six straight shots. The Titans made five of their final seven shots to finish the night.

As UCI punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament last night, CSUF will decide later if they’ll participate in any postseason play.

“I’m not sure yet. I know there has been some preliminary discussions,” Taylor said. “That’s for our administration and for us to gather and figure out what we want to do next.”

With Allman Jr. and Khalil Ahmad being named to the all-tournament team, Taylor felt his seniors deserved the award, and that they have changed his program.

“They have completely changed the face of Titan basketball forever. Their legacy will be etched in history, and I couldn’t be more proud of what they’ve done for our program,” Taylor said. “I’m super, super excited to see what their next role will be in life.”

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Titans take tourney wins in stride CSUF softball outscored opponents 19-6 during the Easton Invitational over the weekend.

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Cal State Fullerton softball was met with sunny skies, warm temperatures, and a ballpark eager for the Titans to showcase their skills in their final tournament of the season as the host team at the Easton Invitational.

The Titans spent the stereotypically Californian weekend playing against teams from across the nation in the comfort of their own backyard, to the tune of a 3-1 record in weekend play.

Kicking things off the right way, the Titans fought the Boston University Terriers on Thursday in the Easton Invitational opener, defeating the visitors 3-1.

The Titans got off to an early lead against the Terriers, scoring all three of their runs against Boston within the first two innings.

Freshman Alexa Neil and junior Ireanna Siofele anchored the Titans offense with a combined three runs, four hits, and an RBI. The tag-team effort of freshman right-hander Dani Martinez and three-year veteran Sophie Frost that limited the Terriers to just one run and eight hits over the course of the game.

However, that wouldn’t be the extent of Frost and Martinez’s work over the weekend, as the two switched roles the following day against Harvard as Frost earned the start.

The Titans were neck-and-neck with Harvard in a pitching battle between Frost and left-hander Katie Duncan, with both teams scoreless through the first three innings.

The Crimson opened the scoring when freshman Teagan Shaw notched a double to left field to score Kaitlyn Schiffhauer.

The rest of the inning did not get any better for Frost, who gave up a two-run homer and afforded Harvard an emphatic 3-0 lead, but the Titans’ defense closed out the remainder of the inning without allowing any runs.

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Pinch runner Jasmyn Vigilante (3) scored the Titans’ first run on a RBI single by left fielder Irie Siofele in the bottom of the second inning.

overcome Harvard’s one run lead as both teams got shutout in the seventh.

Titan fans who came to catch CSUF take on DePaul University the following day saw a thrilling performance.

Aside from a run which DePaul nabbed to open the scoring in the second inning, the Titans’ concert of explosive offense and steadfast pitching joined to take DePaul out by four runs when the match came to its conclusion.

Martinez handed out six strikeouts, five hits and a run over the course of nearly a whole game, save ⅔ innings which Frost kept scoreless.

The Bellflower, California native now has five games under her belt pitching six or more innings. To her credit, Martinez has gone 3-2 in those games, something the Titans will surely bank on as the freshman progresses throughout her inaugural season and her career at Cal State Fullerton.

Martinez was not the only freshman to

impress on Saturday however. Utility player Alexa Neil went a career high three for three for the Titans on Saturday, with a home run and two RBIs to boot.

Fueled by a decisive win against DePaul, the Titans again looked confident against College of Charleston, their final opponent of the invitational and of the weekend.

What eventually became a 7-1 blowout at Anderson Family Field began with a tenacious Titan effort at the plate that paved the way to a definitive win.

Siofele helped open up the scoring, sending a trademark single dribbling down the middle of the field that fell right under the glove of Charleston shortstop, Kelly Sinclair, giving Jasmyn Vigilante enough time to touch up at home for the game’s first run.

The following inning, Siofele hit a double just after teammate, Deshea Hill, hit her own, both of which contributed to the four Titan runs in the bottom of the third.

Siofele had a hand in two of the four runs, stealing home after her two-base hit to end the scoring for the inning.

Siofele held that being the aggressor made all the difference in the Titans’ rejuvenated hitting as of late, stating that, “We weren’t waiting for our pitches to come, we were just going after them.”

And the numbers seemed to back her up. Two CSUF hitters went two for two at the plate and of the Fullerton lineup who had more than one at bat, only one could not muster a hit on the afternoon.

It came as no surprise that Frost took the circle a day after Martinez had gotten the start, the two were inseparable and interchangeable throughout weekend.

“I rely so much on my defense just because I know if they have my back, I don’t have to worry about anything,” Frost said after a game in which she and her defense allowed one run, one error, and nine strikeouts.

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6 Lifestyle

MONDAY MARCH 18, 2019

Soy Yo Festival encourages inclusivity

A strong sense of Latinx culture was expressed with food and activities.

CHRISTIAN AGUILAR Daily Titan

Tamales, pupusas, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos with warm nacho cheese sauce and creamy horchata — who wouldn’t be hungry with that combination?

The Chicana & Chicano Resource Center celebrated its second annual Soy Yo Festival on Thursday, March 14 at the Becker Amphitheater.

The Soy Yo Festival catered to a variety of different groups, said Citlally Contreras, graduate student assistant at the Chicana & Chicano Resource Center and the moderator of the event.

“The theme of this year’s festival is intersectionalities within the Latinx community, so we have activities about being Afro-Latino in Latinx, being Asian in Latinx, about different genders within the Latinx community,” Contreras said.

Students were given an activity card, which permitted them to visit booths and participate in educational activities.

At each booth they were given a signature, and once students visited five booths they had access to free food.

They chose from chicken, cheese or beef tamales, and either lemonade or horchata.

If students visited eight activities, they were entered into a raffle.

Ballet Folklórico de Cal StateFullerton performed as students learned about different resources offered on campus.

“This is an opportunity for Ballet Folklórico of Cal State

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Danielle Rosales, member of Ballet Folklorico de Cal State Fullerton, spreads awareness on the Latinx culture through dancing.

Fullerton to come out and just let everybody know that we’re here and also, to continue supporting what we believe in, which is to continue spreading the awareness of the culture through dance, through folklórico,” said Bianca Gonzalez, a child and adolescent major and Spanish minor.

Alex Loza, theater major, said his favorite part about the Soy Yo Festival is the folklórico.

“I like dancing and dancing is just a form of art to express oneself and Mexicans do it with their nice beautiful dresses, the colors of the Mexican flag, a cowboy hat, cowboy boots. It just brings Mexican culture really live. Makes it real,” Loza

said.

The LGBT Queer Resource Center had students play Lotería, which is a Mexican bingo game, but did not include its traditional pictures.

Instead of a man holding the world, a woman did, and while usually a female mermaid is displayed on the card, the game included a male mermaid.

Also instead of a regular flag, the card displayed an LGBTQ pride flag.

“That game can be offensive to some people. Like you see the Lotería game with naked people or with people wearing the gay pride colors and you’re like, ‘I don’t really agree with this, but all right.’ I’m open to it

because it’s part of our culture now. You have no choice,” Loza said.

Another activity included relaxing while coloring in pages of powerful women.

“Honestly, my favorite part was the coloring part because you learn the different women that have made an impact in the Latino community, and they can be African Latino, LGBTQ Latino, there’s like so many different ones,” said Karina Bataz, a communications major with an emphasis in entertainment and tourism.

After colorism conversations, students were asked to answer questions about colorism within the Latinx community such as,

“How have you perpetuated colorism onto others, do you assign a high value to folk with a lighter complexion and what will you do to interrupt colorism?”

Colorism is “the privileging of light skin over dark” according to Time magazine.

“I like that it keeps you thinking. A lot of these activities have you question and make you think a different perspective, especially the colorism in the Latin community.

I think it’s something that we don’t really talk about, but it’s really prominent in the Latinx community,” said Randy Garcia, a human services major with a minor in sociology.

Women’s Club of Fullerton organizes charity The club started in 1906 and is one of the oldest chapters in the organization.

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When Pallavi Patel saw the Women’s Club of Fullerton volunteering for a fundraiser on a 103-degree-Fahrenheit day in October, she knew she wanted to be involved.

“I saw all these women; they were bubbly, they had a smile on their faces and they were still working hard. I thought this is something I want to join and see what they do,” Patel said.

Like many of the members, Patel said she admires what the Women’s Club of Fullerton does for fundraisers, charities and volunteer support.

The Women’s Club of Fullerton started in 1906 and is one of the oldest chapters of the organization. Surrounding cities such as Orange, Yorba Linda and

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Women’s Club of Fullerton members meet for general meetings monthly.

Garden Grove also have their own Women’s Clubs.

Shanthi Ramesh, the chair of Helping Hands and international affairs, said the Women’s Club meets once a month to discuss new charities they are going to

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support and help fundraise for.

“We meet once a month to decide the course for the month and then we then talk to other members because obviously, 40 women, we’re all going to have different opinions,” Ramesh

said.

New membership fees are $65 and include a pin and name badge, according to the Women’s Club of Fullerton website.

“You just have to come and be ready to volunteer and be social.

You make a lot of friends,” Ramesh said.

Mary Torres, vice president of the Women’s Club, said her favorite memory was getting to give donated funds to the Fullerton Cares for Autism.

“Raising $20,000 for that nonprofit was amazing. Really amazing. They do such good work here in the city of Fullerton it was just really a prideful moment that we could be so helpful to them to accomplish their goals,” Torres said.

Ramesh said fundraising is accomplished through different volunteer acts of service, raffles and even fashion shows.

“We do gift baskets, pick a prize and everything is donated and everything is volunteer hours. There is no cost when we do these fundraisers, other than

paying the club to use their facility and the food,” Ramesh said.

Michael Manchester, a member for about two years, said she joined the Women’s Club so she could get involved with her community after retirement.

“I was desolate because I didn’t have anything to do anymore. The Women’s Club was recommended to me by one of the Women’s Club members and I also joined a bunch of other things,” Manchester said.

Manchester said she loves the ability to fundraise and have a strong sense of comradery with the women in the group.

“Anytime I can be of service.

All the things that I’m involved in, I’’m of service in one way or another and that’s what drew me to it,” Manchester said.

Torres said she finds it rewarding to help the community and several charities.

“We all are very giving women of our time and efforts and are just glad that we can be of help to someone much more needy than we are,” Torres said.

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