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The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Drag Show Thursday October 10, 2019

Fabulous performers took to the stage with heels, glitter and an infectious charm.

OLIVIA HAWKINS DANIEL VENEGAS Staff Writers

The stage was set and the lights gleamed white as the queens stormed the stage Wednesday night for the drag show as part of Cal State Fullerton’s National Coming Out Week.

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I love to perform and just being able to kind of put that out there with these students in such an accepting community

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MARIO MONREAL Theatre art major

Hosted this year by the LGBTQ Resource Center in association with the Housing and Residential Engagement, Resident Student Association, and Associated Students, the show brought students together in front of the Gastronome

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to indulge in the festivities.

The show featured several performances from veteran and baby drag queens alike. Students roared with excitement as the queens dazzled the crowd with glitter, heels and lip syncing.

The hype of the crowd did not go unnoticed by the queens. The audience even got in on the action with a lip sync competition.

Competing for tickets to next years DragCon in Los Angeles, students performed to songs

by Lizzo, Selena, Lady Gaga and more.

Mario Monreal, theatre art major, was crowned the winner after an overwhelming cheer of approval from the crowd.

“It was super exciting,” said Monreal. “I love to perform and just being able to kind of put that out there with these students in such an accepting community. It was really fun.”

As great as the lip sync battle was, queens battling it out on stage are what everyone came to see.

Aubrey Summers Divine, one of the queens who performed, explained there are few crowds that bring the excitement that CSUF brings.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Police Department is having trouble with recruitment and retaining the officers already on staff, said Capt. Scot Willey from University Police.

A recent string of crimes on campus have brought a renewed focus on safety from members of the CSUF community. This focus includes having a properly staffed police department.

University Police is in the process of hiring over 40 new community service officers, made up of student assistants and recruits, to help the officers with smaller tasks and events on campus.

“Quite frankly, it’s hard to hire police officers right now.

That’s not a job that a lot of people are trying to get into, unfortunately. We’re struggling a little bit getting the recruitment,” Willey said.

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Drag queens came together to show pride and unity at Cal State Fullerton.

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Men’s soccer Marine eases transition for veterans slump continues CSUF’s loss to Cal State Northridge makes it three straight defeats.

ADAM MALDONADO Asst. Editor

Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team kicked off Big West conference play on the road Wednesday night against CSU Northridge, dropping the match 1-0 to the Matadors.

CSUN came into the contest at 5-4-1 for the season before picking up the victory over the Titans.

The Titans, who started the season 8-0 and came into the contest ranked 24th in the nation, have yet to win in their last four outings.

CSUF’s loss on Wednesday marks its third in a row after two previous defeats from No. 17 James Madison University and No. 25 Maryland. CSUF tied with Loyola Marymount on Sept. 29 before the team’s losing streak commenced.

CSUF’s record now sits at 8-3-1 for the season.

Omar Grey gave CSUN the 1-0 lead in the 24th minute of the match with a header off a pass from midfielder Giovanni Aguilar.

The play was the result of a corner kick from midfielder Julio Rubio, who was also credited with an assist alongside Aguilar. Rubio leads the Big West with nine assists on the season.

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Veterans Resource Center leader Cameron Cook leads in reformed organization.

DANIEL STEELE Staff Writer

Marine Corps veteran Cameron Cook is now the director of Cal State Fullerton’s Veterans Resource Center, which aims to help “military-connected” students on campus with personal academic and career services.

Within a month of leaving the Marines in December 2005, four years after he enlisted in 2001, he was relearning how to be a student and adjust after his time in the military.

“It was just really a dark and lonely time,” Cook said.

But then he met a Vietnam veteran, a former medevac pilot who would become his mentor and boss through a work study job in San Diego county, Cook said.

“He just worked his tail off trying to take care of other vets and that’s just how he coped,” Cook said.

Cook said that helping other veterans eased his own transition during a time when veteran aid was “literally a slot in the wall” to submit paperwork with a phone number for questions.

Cook went on to work for Metropolitan State University of Denver as a veteran peer adviser while earning his degree in political science and public administration on the GI Bill.

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Cameron Cook, director of the Veterans Resource Center, was hired this year to help lead the center amid several new hires.

He then became the director of Veteran Student Services at the University of Colorado from 2009 to 2013.

At the University of Colorado, an Iraq war Army veteran came to Cook in tears. The veteran couldn’t understand why, after three combat tours, he couldn’t handle midterms.

Cook said the tours were likely why he struggled with school, and he gave the veteran help through counseling and resources. The veteran went on to become a documentary filmmaker.

From there, Cook moved to Houston, Texas to oversee over 3,500 veterans as an executive director for Veteran Affairs at

the Lone Star College System.

He also worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs before becoming the Veterans Resource Center’s new director at CSUF in January this year.

“Generations of student veterans fought for this space here, so I take that legacy very seriously,” he said.

Veteran Resource Center was established in 2008. That program then grew into a center with its own space in 2012, and later became the Veterans Resource Center in 2014 after successful programming.

The center moved to a bigger space in University Hall 244 last fall after student veterans

advocated for it, and the hiring panel felt Cook was the best person to serve as director.

“We could see the passion that he had for serving our specific population from his work that he did,” said Sean Moran, advising coordinator for the center.

Moran described Cook as “very strategic” and a “planner,” and as someone who considers other team member’s perspectives.

Melissa Romo, the center’s programs and services coordinator, said Cook is still learning how the center runs, but is “getting the hang of it.”

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Qualifications and pay seem to be the culprits behind an understaffed personnel, Willey said.

Hiring a new recruit is a process that involves lots of training and time. It begins with a fresh recruit being screened with a full background check that takes months, Willey said.

Once cleared, the recruit then goes through tests meant to check both physical and psychological state, and also take a polygraph test.

If they pass those tests, recruits are off to the police academy, where they spend around six months learning how to be an officer.

After completing the police academy program, a recruit can get hired at a department, where they will need to complete a field officer training program.

These programs can stretch anywhere from 20 weeks all the way to a year, depending on the department, Willey said.

“From the moment a police agency needs one police officer, you’re looking at a year and a half to two years,” Willey said.

A pool of 100 applicants can shrink all the way down to around 10, and that’s in a good year, Willey said.

The second issue facing the University Police department in regards to keeping staff is pay. University Police recently saw several officers move to

other departments with better pay, Willey said.

“We just lost one of our favorites, great dispatcher is leaving this week for UCI Police Department because he’s going to make more money there,” he said.

As a smaller police department, they can’t afford to pay officers the same as city departments.

This problem is exacerbated by the cost of living in Fullerton. Many of the officers can’t afford to live in the area, so many of them live in other cities that are less expensive, some as far as Menifee, California, Willey said.

Willey said recruitment is an issue affecting more than just

University Police.

“You know, everybody is trying to hire,” Willey said. “What we’re hearing from Orange County is everybody is hurting.

They are actually competing for each other’s people now.”

Police departments in Los Angeles County are also feeling the crunch, said Tony Cortina, who is a sergeant at the West Covina Police Department.

Cortina said that the department is taking new steps to help fix the problem.

“That is a big priority for us right now because we need to hire people. So we formed an ad hoc committee of not just, ‘Hey these three guys are gonna help recruit.’ It’s department wide,” Cortina said.

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University Police and other smaller departments struggle to offer competitive pay with other local departments.

In the few months their committee has been up and running, the department has hired 14 employees, Cortina said.

As one of the smaller departments in Los Angeles, going through the whole screening process to yield only a few qualified candidates still affects how quickly they can replace outgoing officers. It’s forced many of his officers to work a lot of overtime, Cortina said.

“If I fill that (position) with somebody who has ethics issues or things like that, that becomes 10 times worse,” Cortina said.

“There is always people going to retire or move on to different things. We’re doing our best to make sure we catch up so we’re not behind the curve.”

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University Police have multiple emergency call towers around campus.

Candidate brings ice cream truck to CSUF Josh Newman’s staff brought treats and heard from students on issues.

JESSICA BENDA Asst. Editor

A bright blue campaign truck for Josh Newman rolled onto the Cal State Fullerton central Quad late Wednesday morning, offering free ice cream sandwiches to passing students.

Josh Newman, a candidate for California state senator in the 2020 election, has been using the truck as a way to attract voters and make them aware of the upcoming primary election in March.

The ice cream truck has made stops in Placentia, Anaheim and Fullerton.

“We recently rolled out the ice cream truck program a couple weeks ago, and the idea is to bring it to every one of the 16 cities that are in our district as a way of engaging with voters and constituents,” said Angie Shaw, communications director for the Newman campaign.

Shaw said Newman wants to tackle the homelessness problem in the district, specifically by developing affordable housing.

She added that Newman wants

to make public education more affordable, an issue that is at the forefront of some democratic presidential campaigns.

“He legitimately just wants to serve people better, and if college affordability is one of the biggest issues that people are facing, then that’s an issue that we want to tackle,” Shaw said. “I don’t know exactly how we’re going to do that, but his whole thing is serving people better.”

Environmental issues are also on his radar, as there’s a lot of land in the district that he aims to preserve for public use, such as Chino State Park and Coyote Hills, Shaw said.

Newman was previously a California state senator, but was recalled in a special election in June 2018 by about 58% of the vote, according to the California Secretary of State website.

He was recalled after voting for a bill that would raise taxes on gas in order to fund bridge and road repairs and improve public transit.

Gas taxes increased by 12 cents per gallon and diesel fuel taxes by 20 cents as a result of the bill, according to Voice of OC. Despite the recall, Newman is still looking forward to running in 2020, Shaw said.

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not just,” Shaw said. “From our perspective, all Josh did was take a vote to make our roads better and safer.”

Andrew Levy, College Democrats of CSUF president, helped bring the ice cream truck on campus after the campaign reached out to him.

“He advocates for everything that the democratic club here on

campus stands for. Improving public education, mental health resources, job creation — the list goes on,” Levy said.

The turnout of college voters has increased greatly in the past few years, according to a report

by Tufts University.

Shaw said she is hopeful about continually increasing voting numbers in 2020. More students

are politically aware due to national current events, but many people don’t even know the state Senate exists, Shaw said.

“We want people to pay attention to what’s happening in their own state and not just what’s happening nationally,” Shaw said.

Newman’s campaign will host a taco tuesday event at Big’s Restaurant on Oct. 22.

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Josh Newman’s ice cream truck has made stops all over Orange County in his run for state senator.

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USC professor delves into opioid crisis

Melissa Durham shares experience handling overprescription and overdose.

WENDY CHAVEZ Staff Writer

Melissa Durham, a professor of pharmacy at the University of Southern California, lectured Fullerton residents on the opioid epidemic, it’s gateway to illicit drugs and practices medical professionals have taken to help combat the widespread misuse of prescription drugs.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal State Fullerton hosted the lecture at the Elks Club on Wednesday morning as part of its medical series on the crisis of opioids.

Durham is a community pharmacist who works alongside patients who suffer from chronic pain and has done extensive research on the narcotic overdose crisis.

Drug overdose is the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. Between 2011 and 2015, 7,457 opioid overdose/abuse cases were treated in emergency departments in Orange County, according to a 2017 Orange County Health Care Agency report.

Some of the mechanisms that practitioners are applying to help reduce abuse is using combination therapy and multimodal therapy that is found to be as effective as opioid intake Durham

said.

These alternatives focus on restoring a patients functionality, and ease the processes of opting-out of taking certain medications.

Practitioners are assisting them with physical therapy and also focusing on patients’ emotions as one can become depressed, anxious and have sleeping disorders, Durham said.

Patients are now signing an agreement with their pharmacist acknowledging that they are only obtaining their medication from one pharmacy.

Other methods include a risk assessment where smaller quantities are prescribed and a monitoring exercise is done to patients where they’ll often have to undergo a urine drug test to prove that they are not abusing any other medications, Durham said.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, pharmacists are able to provide Naloxone to people who are taking opioids without the involvement of a physician. Naloxone is a nasal spray that is used to reduce the risk of harm and overdose of opioids.

Carol Thurk, the coordinator of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute medical series, said more money should be allocated to addicts to help destigmatize it’s crisis.

The rise of deaths caused by prescription opioids overdose began in the late 1990s and as of 2017 have caused over 72,000

deaths in the U.S., Durham said.

She said a vital contributor to it’s rise was the pharmaceutical company Purdue, that marketed valium as a non-addictive drug and as a result caused many patients to abuse.

Durham said that misleading information on narcotics circulated from a published article in the New England Journal of Medicine that featured a letter to the editor.

“A lot of providers and drug companies latched onto this letter to the editor saying less than 1% of people will get addicted to opioids and touted it in their advertising, referenced it in other articles and other publications,” Durham said.

With the progression of opioid addiction information being released by practitioners, the number of prescriptions reduced.

It did not reduce the number of deaths.

The restriction of access to opioids lead users to search for alternative remedies which often resulted in illicit substances, Durham said.

“Somewhere close to 80% of people who use heroin started on a prescription drug,” Durham said. “Prescription drugs tend to be a sort of gateway into the use of illicit substances.”

Judy Vroman, an attendee, said the focus should be on illicit drugs since they have become so prevalent.

An influx of heroin migrated

into the U.S causing the substance to decrease in its price and increase in its availability. Consumers were able to create their own synthetics known as fentanyl, which is 100 times more potent than morphine and used this substance to lace other drugs, Durham said. This leads to people overdosing within a shorter period of time.

Durham also attributes the rise of substance abuse with the economic downturn, stating that communities suffered in drug trade the most during this period.

“There’s a great amount of despair related to how people turn to use of these drugs to fill some kind of void, to cover up some kind of pain,” Durham said.

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Professor Melissa Durham shares experience battling the opioid epidemic.

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CONTINUED FROM 1 “He’s eager, he’s motivated and he’s always asking questions,” Romo said.

Cook said the center helps student veterans transition into the university, maintain engagement and move into the workforce. He said people underestimate how important a smooth transition is for student veterans, because all they get from the military is a two-week transition class.

“You go from all that structure, that whole lifestyle and identity, and then you’re just out here and you feel naked and you just don’t know where to go.

You’re lost,” Cook said.

The center is facing a transition of its own. The center has seen new hires after staff members left for positions elsewhere.

Romo said the center’s new staff are still learning how to work with each other and understand student needs.

“It feels like we’ve been in this transition for a while,” Romo said.

The center went half a year without a full-time director, and Romo said it was challenging to provide all the programming with the brand new staff.

She also now splits her time between her role and managing Tuffy’s Graduation Scholars.

The center had to put some programs on hold due to the new changes in staff,

though they have kept the key programming.

Romo said their team is doing well with what they have, despite the difficulty.

“It’s bittersweet, because the team before built all this,” Cook said. “It’s a big responsibility I take very seriously.”

Andy Romo, VetForward program coordinator at the center and Melissa’s husband, said Cook has focused on community outreach to

establish connections with more veterans.

Going forward, Cook is interested in putting together a community service volunteer program to give back to the surrounding community and to sustain the center’s new resources.

“My vision for the future is sustainability. Now that we have all this, just sustaining it and doing it and keeping that legacy alive,” Cook said.

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Diminish the outdated electoral college Reforming the voting system is vital for true representation.

ELIZA GREEN Editor

The electoral college is a system that has been in place since the birth of the nation, but it seems that many Americans don’t fully understand how it works. This comes as a surprise considering how much the electorate affects how candidates campaign, votes are counted, political parties acquire power and who wins elections.

This outdated and unfair structure has more power than the popular vote during presidential elections. The process is in desperate need of reform, but there is no quick fix to such a complex and long-standing system.

To sum it up, this system allots each state the same number of electoral votes as the number of congressional seats held by that state. This is simply the number of representatives and senators from that state added together. For example, California has 55 electors: 53 from the House of Representatives and two from the Senate. This is the largest electorate of any state.

Compared to states with a smaller population, such as Iowa, which only has six electorate votes, California should have significantly more power and be the epicenter of time and energy from presidential candidates. Unfortunately, this is not the case, due to the immense influential power given to the swing states.

The electoral college operates on a “winner takes all” system in most states, which means that if a Democrat won only 28 of the 55 votes from California, that candidate would receive all 55 votes. Since California’s voting record is consistently blue, candidates rarely spend their time campaigning in California because the chances of the majority changing is not likely. This leads candidates to focus all of their time and energy on swing states, where the vote could lean either way.

To win a presidential election, a candidate must receive at least 270 out of the total 538 electoral votes available. In 2016, President Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, but managed to get 304 electoral votes compared to Clinton’s 227 votes. This made Trump the fifth president in American history to win an election despite losing the popular vote.

This archaic law was put into effect by the founding fathers due to their distrust in the voting base to make decisions for themselves, especially considering the lack of literacy in a largely agrarian society. This essentially makes the electoral college an instrument to combat democracy, since it impedes the voter’s basic rights.

The first suggestion of possible reform to the electoral college would be to stop requiring a candidate to receive 270 votes and letting the candidate with the most votes win. Not only does the current system allow only two dominant opinions to be heard, but it also fuels the divisive and corrupt nature of a two-party system.

If the guideline was instead that the candidate who won the most number of votes is president, it would be possible to have a multi-party system that could more fully represent the views and beliefs of a variety of Americans.

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The second proposal, called the Congressional District Method, is also a plausible option for reform. Not only has this method been popular in the past, but it has also already been adopted by two states.

Nebraska and Maine, the two states that currently use this method, disregard the winnertakes-all system that the 48 other states use. Although the existence and use of the electoral college comes from the federal government, the way votes are counted is a state’s decision, leaving this model fair game for any other state to adopt as well.

The one flaw in this plan would be the disproportionate drawing of districts, known as gerrymandering. If electoral votes were counted by each district, the result would still have the potential to be skewed in states that have looser laws surrounding this partisan redistricting.

This leaves the last proposal, which would be a complete abolishment of the electoral college. If the Constitution was intended to grow with the society that it protects, then this reaction does not seem disproportionate, and is something that should have happened a long time ago.

Although this is the best option, it sadly is unlikely. To ratify this article in the Constitution, two thirds of the states must ratify. Smaller states and swing states may not want to surrender the power and influence given to them through the electoral college.

Despite this, some Americans support switching to a complete popular vote for the presidential elections through the National Popular Vote initiative, according to a Politico study.

This support adds a glimmer of hope to a landlocked issue, and hopefully serves as an encouragement to speak up and

express views on how to make this country a more fair and just society.

As literacy, education and communication levels of society progressed, the need for the electoral college as a check to the popular vote became completely outdated. While reforming the electoral college is bolder and much harder to implement, it seems to be the best way to give Americans what the Constitution promises — a voice and a vote.

As a result of this obsolete system, the 15th and 19th Amendments, which were fought long and hard for, are diluted. Although voting is an important and meaningful act, the sanctity and power of it is tainted by an outdated system that adds little value to the election process. This system that was implemented as a means of protecting the American public has become a weapon that fights our intrinsic rights.

Earth’s solution rooted in climate strikes Greta Thunberg unites Generation z to fight for change.

MADELINE GRAY Editor

From Sept. 20 to Sept. 27, people spanning 185 countries came together to march, chant and hold handmade signs proudly in the air, bringing attention to the dangers of climate change and the very real impact it may have on the world if we don’t act soon.

The face of the movement is the inspirational 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, part-time high school student and part-time global climate activist. The Swedish activist began skipping classes a year ago to protest the laissez-faire attitude of politicians in regards to climate change.

Her arguments and actions have been unfairly belittled by politicians and their supporters, who only see Thunberg and her followers as ignorant kids that don’t possess the ability to change the government.

However, there are millions upon millions of children and students across the world who are present at these rallies. Directing their frustrations at politicians, they demand that something be done to save the planet from extinction.

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brief moment. Protesters show up, garnering the world’s attention and uniting their voices as one.

However, within a few months or even weeks, people return to their everyday lives, overlooking the long-term efforts toward the cause and the urgency of the movement due to lack of action from the government.

Thunberg has advocated for climate change on multiple

platforms, from her first strike sitting by herself outside of Swedish Parliament, to expressing her utter disappointment with the political leaders at the United Nations Climate Action Summit last month.

Her cause inspired kids from around the world to participate, including the 1.1 million students who were excused from school by the New York City Board of Education.

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Approximately 250,000 of those students took to the streets, chanting and protesting from the Battery Park stage to the south end of Manhattan.

Despite this, the younger generation has often been dubbed as lazy or narcissistic, only caring about their personal problems and having an inability to work hard.

Some politicians and adults have the nerve to criticize kids

for their supposed self-obsession and lack of concern, yet dismiss the same kids for speaking their minds and taking a stand for the issues they feel strongly about. Many notable figures have written off the climate protests as passing fads without any real benefit.

Others have even gone as far as name-calling, like conservative political pundit Michael Knowles calling Thunberg a ‘mentally ill child’ during a guest segment on Fox News.

The president of the United States also took a jab at the 16-year-old. President Donald Trump tweeted a sarcastic remark about Thunberg after viewing part of her speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York, calling her “a happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,” regarding her powerful and assertive speech.

Youth activism is not just for show. It has the potential to impact real change. Following the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students like Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg made their impact by visiting cities across the country to march for their lives and making calls to lawmakers demanding gun control legislation.

Their action has already created a significant impact, with a total of 67 new gun safety laws passed just last year..

Similar to Parkland students Gonzalez and Hogg, Thunberg possesses the power to create a tangible and lasting impact on climate change legislation.

Those in power should take the efforts of these youth activists seriously, as they bring attention to greater issues regarding the Earth’s climate. If people aren’t going to make a change for the less affected older generations, then do something for the concerned children with an unknown number of years left on the planet.

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Women’s soccer travels to face rival in Big West tilt Titans undefeated in eight straight games including their Big West opener.

MARIAH ROSS Asst. Editor

The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team hopes to continue its recent success in the Big West conference as they hit the road Thursday to face Cal State Long Beach.

The Titans are coming off their first win in conference play where they defeated the UC Davis Aggies, 4-0. Many shined in the matchup but it was senior Atlanta Primus who shined the brightest. The forward recorded her 20th and 21st assists in the game, not only breaking the school’s program record for assists, but cracking the top 10 in the Big West by tying it.

In the matchup that resulted in seven corner kicks and nine shots, freshman Meghan Schroh also earned her first goal of the season in the 27th minute of the game.

Primus finished with two

assists and her eighth goal of the season in the 31st minute of the match. Goals and assists from senior Maddie Bennett and junior Haley Brown helped to advance the Titan’s record to 8-2-1 on the season.

CSUF, who is currently ranked second in the Big West, face tough competition against Long Beach who finished in first place during conference last season with a 5-2-1 record.

The Titans fell to last place in the 2018 season with a record of 1-5-2 within the conference.

Fullerton has an all-time record of 12-8-3 against Long Beach State, going 7-3-1 on the road.

With 18 returning players, Primus leads the team with 26 points off of eight goals and 10 assists.

Fellow forward Bennett is also in the midst of a career season with 20 points off of eight goals and four assists. She has recorded at least one goal and one assist in the last two games.

The Titans are also likely to look to midfielder Brown who has been aggressive on the field with 14 shots and five assists in the last three games. She has

Midfielder Sarah Davidson taking a throw in against University of Minnesota on August 25.

a shot on goal percentage of 0.486 and 16 points so far this season.

The 3-8 Long Beach State squad started its Big West conference play against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Santa Barbara. They succeeded in defeating Cal Poly on Oct. 3 in a 2-1 comeback win with two goals from sophomore Elysia Laramie.

Laramie currently leads the team with three goals and 6 points after recording the first multi-goal game of her career in the matchup.

Three days later on Oct. 6, Long Beach fell 1-0 in its second Big West game of the season to third place UC Santa Barbara. They recorded six shots and three corner kicks during the matchup.

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If the Titans go on to defeat Long Beach, it would elevate them to first in the conference with a current win percentage 0.166 higher than their closest competition.

They continue their string of conference matchups on the road, facing UC Riverside and UC Irvine before heading back to Titan Stadium to take on Hawaii Sunday, Oct. 20.

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Both team’s offenses battled back and forth in the first half with the Titans getting off six shots with two on goal. The Matadors put up seven shots while scoring their lone shot on goal.

The second half proved to be a shootout between both squads with the Matadors putting up 12 shots to the Titans eight. Despite both team’s efforts, neither squad was able to score in the second half.

Aguilar and Daniel Trejo led CSUN’s shooting barrage with five shots each in the match while Tre McCalla put up three shots for

the Titans.

Despite finishing the match a man-up after CSUN defender Alex Lara was ejected with a red card in the 76th minute, the Titans were still unable to get on the board.

CSUN’s goalkeeper David Preys held the Titans scoreless throughout the match recording five saves on the Titans five shots on goal. Preys recorded two saves in the first half and three in the second.

Although the Titans’ offense didn’t have much to show for the match, defensively the Matadors efforts were quelled by Titan goalkeeper Paul-Andre Guerin who saved all seven of Northridge’s

shots on goal in the second half, keeping CSUF within reach.

Guerin, who has had a stellar season thus far, currently leads the Big West with 52 saves on the season and a save percentage of .81.

Wednesday’s match wraps up a three-game roadstand for the Titans as they return home to continue conference play against UC Santa Barbara at home. UCSB currently leads the Big West with the best overall record at 8-2-2. They sit right outside the NCAA’s top 25 rankings tallying up 43 votes in the United Soccer Coaching poll.

The Titans are set to play the Gauchos on Saturday at Titan Stadium at 7 p.m.

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Sophmore Charly Anguiano getting a cross agianst Florida Gulf Coast.

Women’s tennis to open 2019-2020 season The Titans are scheduled to make season debut at the Long Beach State Invitational.

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Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis opens the season this Friday at the Long Beach State Invitational. The matches will be played at the Rhodes Tennis Center in Long Beach and the tournament will be held Friday through Sunday.

There are multiple teams participating in the tournament, including host Long Beach State, Cal State Northridge, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, Loyola Marymount, Washington State, Portland and Portland State.

To start the tournament, The Titans will play in four flights of singles and two flights of doubles.

Freshman Alex Kalachova and junior Eira Tobrand will face Alyssia Fossorier and Jenna Schlatter from

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UC Irvine in the first double at 10 a.m. This will be Kalachova’s first game as a Titan.

Only five Titan players from last year returned, including two-time All-Big West Singles player Genevieve Zeidan.

The second double will take place at 4 p.m. when juniors Jadie Acidera and Taylor Valenzuela play against the winners of the Washington State and Portland match.

After her double, Kalachova will play in the Titans’ first single against Emma Roenholt from Cal State Northridge.

Before her double, Acidera will play in the second CSUF-CSUN match of the day when she faces Victoria Santibanez. In her four matches from last year’s tournament, she won and lost both a single and a double.

To finish the singles for the Titans on Friday, Tobrand will play against UC Irvine’s Shreya Pavani and Valenzuela will face UC

Riverside’s Nicole Hitomi.

Both players competed in seven matches in last year’s Long Beach State Invitational. Tobrand won two singles and a double, but she also lost two singles and two doubles. Valenzuela had a harder time, as she won one single and lost in three singles and three doubles.

The Titans hope to continue their success at the Long Beach State Invitational after recording 12 wins during last year’s tournament.

Women’s tennis is coming off a season where they finished 15-6, with a 6-2 record in the Big West, placing them as the No. 2 seed at the Big West Tournament. They defeated Cal State Northridge in the Big West tournament quarterfinals, but fell to the eventual Big West champion Long Beach State in the semifinals to end their season.

The Titans next play at the ITA Regionals in San Diego, starting next Thursday Oct. 17 through Sunday Oct. 20.

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 10, 2019

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Rusty jars decorated with pink bows and filled with coins lined a table at Titan Walk on Wednesday to raise awareness and funds to combat domestic violence.

Each jar represented a Greek organization on campus and they competed to see how many points each fraternity and sorority could raise.

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Domestic violence can come in so many more forms — parental violence, sibling violence, all of that BECCA LAHR Alpha Chi member Dollars and silver coins were positive points for each jar, while pennies were negative points, according to Becca Lahr, junior transfer student and Alpha Chi member.

Members of Alpha Chi Omega hosted the event and passed out fliers on how to spot signs of domestic violence and support survivors.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness month. Domestic

violence is a crime that includes both physical and emotional abuse, and victims often suffer in silence, according to the Department of Justice.

“Our philanthropy is all about domestic violence, so we’re out here tabling today in order to raise some money with a fun little jar game, and spread awareness of our event,” said Kelly Petrovich, junior and Alpha Chi Omega member.

Alpha Chi Omega was the first sorority to tackle domestic violence by helping survivors, spreading awareness, and raising money for shelters across the country.

Petrovich said she was drawn to join Alpha Chi Omega because of her own experiences with domestic violence.

“I personally have been in a situation where an ex-boyfriend assaulted me,” Petrovich said.

“I also know some people, some friends, that have been in some pretty abusive relationships.”

Lahr said her mother was a victim of domestic violence and that the issue is near and dear to her heart.

“Her dad was a very abusive person. When a lot of people think about domestic violence, they only think about relationship violence, but domestic violence can come in so many more forms — parental violence, sibling violence, all of that,” Lahr said.

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or stalking in their lifetimes, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Petrovich said people can help victims of domestic violence by listening and being willing to step in.

“I think a lot of people are afraid, but being there for someone who’s going through it, whether they feel comfortable to report it or not,” Petrovich said. “I personally had a bunch of people kind of run away from me in that situation, and I think that it’s really important to just be that friend.”

Lahr said it’s important students learn the signs of domestic violence.

Extreme jealousy, verbal abuse, bad temper and possessiveness are among signs that a person is an abuser, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Other abusive behaviors include threats, humiliation, and intent to manipulate or have control over a person, according to the CSUF Campus Wellness Center.

The last reported domestic violence incident on campus was in 2016, according to the University Police department’s 2019 annual Clery security report.

The WoMen’s Center on campus, located inside Gordon Hall 205, offers violence prevention services for the CSUF community to support survivors and those affected by domestic violence.

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 10, 2019 Lahr said 1 in 4 college women are affected by domestic violence and college women are more at risk for domestic violence than the national average.

“I think a lot more people are affected by domestic violence than you can see,” Lahr said.

“It’s not always physical, so you’re not always seeing bruises, you’re not always seeing marks. It could be a lot of emotional and mental abuse.”

The Women’s Transitional Living Center in Fullerton also offers resources to survivors of domestic violence.

Students who have faced domestic violence can reach the center’s hotline at (877) 531-5522.

“Speak up when you need to,” said Petrovich.

Jessica Benda contributed to this article.

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 10, 2019

Escaping Vietnam to reform education Associate Professor Natalie Tran uses teaching to navigate her identity.

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Natalie Tran doesn’t see the ocean the way she used to.

When Tran was young, her family tried to leave Vietnam twice over a decade after the Vietnam War, she said. The first time, they were unsuccessful.

Tran’s journey toward becoming an education leader at Cal State Fullerton is marked by a dangerous escape from Vietnam, classes of bloodstained high school students in Los Angeles and racial profiling in the American midwest.

“I remember drinking a lot of seawater,” said Tran of her fateful boat voyage as a child as she talked with a small group of CSUF students on Wednesday.

The Asian Pacific American Resource Center invited Tran, now an associate professor, Secondary Education Department chair and director for the university’s National Resource Center for Asian Languages, to speak.

Lilian Nguyen, a fourth-year student and a resource center coordinator, said while she didn’t personally experience everything that happened to her parents, Tran, or other Vietnamese people who fled their home country during the Vietnam War, she does experience “intergenerational problems” — a shadow of the conflict that extends its reach past Vietnamese immigrants to their children.

Nguyen said that makes people like her “not just Vietnamese,” but “Vietnamese American.”

‘We nearly lost our lives’ How did a child in Hu, central Vietnam, become an American education reformer? To explain, Tran started from the beginning.

Her family in Hu kept a “very good record” throughout several generations living in the region, she said, adding that her grandfather — being one of the earliest families to settle in the area — owned a lot of land, and “was very well off and had a couple wives.”

Then came the war, which was fought from 1954 to 1975. Families around Tran “lost everything,” she said, adding that her uncles were sent to reeducation camps, “like many of the Vietnamese families.”

Tran said her mother was an elementary school teacher in Vietnam, and her father was a high school math teacher: “no surprise that I’m a teacher myself.”

In 1988, after the first unsuccessful escape attempt, Tran and her family crammed into a fishing boat, and traveled 20 days at sea along the coast of southern China. At dusk, the boat would pull inland and make the rounds at local fishing villages where Tran said she and her family would beg for food.

Tran described her family as one of the “lucky few” who made it. They were picked up by a larger ship near Hong Kong. From there, her family was sent to different refugee camps in the city, and later with extended family in the Philippines, where her family stayed for a year. During that time, Tran said she learned Chinese, English and more Vietnamese.

Eventually, Tran ended up in Orange County.

“That’s where I went to elementary school. Thinking about that journey, I felt like, in retrospect, I never had a formal elementary education because I was thrown from one refugee camp to the next one over the course of three years or so,” she said.

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Associate Professor Natalie Tran used her life story to advise students on grappling with identity and where they come from.

California, Los Angeles, where in her second year, she was presented with the idea of becoming an educator. It was in Watts, Los Angeles, where Tran said she realized, “OK, this is where I need to be.” So, she started teaching high school classes there.

But it wasn’t easy, she said — there was poverty, and gang violence.

“It’s a community that suffered a lot through the different decades,” Tran said. “It really opened up my eyes because, in a community that is tormented,” some of the events that happened in the community filtered into the classroom.

She said students would come to class with bloodstains on their shirts, and that the school got raided.

It made her think: “Why am I expecting my students — 14, 15, 16 year olds — to come into a classroom with school supplies, books, when they’re barely getting here and the fact that they

made it here this morning was a miracle? Is that a realistic expectation of my students?”

Tran said her students were teaching her more “about life.

About who I am. About understanding. About compassion.

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‘What are you doing here?’

To change an education she believed wasn’t serving young people adequately, Tran said, she needed to know more about policy.

With a basket of clothes in the backseat of her 2000 Toyota Celica, Tran said she drove cross country to the University of Wisconsin, Madison to pursue her doctorate degree.

She described the town of her college as “pretty white.”

One day, Tran said a police officer pulled her over, just outside her apartment in town. “‘What are you doing here?’” she remembers the police officer, asking her after she asked why she was being pulled over.

Tran said the incident was clearly “a profile.”

She went on to work at Cal State Bakersfield, eventually finding her way to CSUF. In 2014, Tran helped establish the National Resource Center for Asian Languages at the university — which received a $700,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education in 2018 — with the goal of improving the teaching and research of Asian languages in Orange County and across the U.S. Linda Halisi, another fourthyear student who works at the resource center, said she came to hear Tran speak because there aren’t “a lot of spaces that talk to you about how to navigate your identity.”

Halisi said she’s also experienced racial profiling, “because I’m visibly Muslim.”

According to Tran’s story, that was the point.

“It’s important to know who you are as a person,” Tran said.

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CONTINUED FROM 1 “I love it,” said Divine. “I love the Cal State Fullerton gigs. The energy here is the best, better than any club that I’ve performed at.

I don’t care if I get in trouble for saying that. It really is, you guys live for us, and that’s kind of what drag queens want. We want you guys to be entertained and actually be into it.”This was Divine’s second performance at CSUF. She was pulled into the fold by her drag mother who has hosted the show every year since its been on. With energy like tonight’s show, it’s no wonder she came back.

“It really makes you feel so good about yourself, because that’s literally what we crave is attention, when we get it we’re over the moon,” said Divine.

Divine’s drag mother was not the only CSUF alumni to return to and perform. Katalina De Isla is an alumni of the university and a new queen of the scene. Like Divine, the students’ applause did not fall on deaf ears.

“I had such a good time, everyone was living, and I feel like when the audience gives you energy, you just give out a better performance, just like today,” said Katalina.

New to the drag scene was a queen by the name of Ashes. Like Divine, Ashes shares a passion for drag and a connection with her fellow performers.

“So, what happened was that ever since middle school, I was in dance and cheer, and I’ve always had wigs, I’ve always loved wearing wigs. And I didn’t know what drag was until I graduated high school,” said Ashes.

After graduating high school, she took her passion for drag to the next level by moving in with two of the drag shows fellow performers.

“The show was really great, all the girls we brought were really amazing, some of the girls are new queens like myself, but everything was really good, the crowd was phenomenal. I loved it, definitely the best crowd I’ve had,” said Ashes.

The students’ energy at the drag show emphasized their appreciation for a week filled with events recognizing the LGBTQ community. If the crowd’s energy was any indication of the show’s success, then it was a triumph, and these queens will definitely be back for more.

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