2019-11-05

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Tuesday November 5, 2019

Volume 106 Issue 33

Separation from immigration ASI to vote on food pantry

Discussing the effects crossing the border has on Latin American families.

MARIAH SANCHEZ Editor

The Titan Dreamers Resource Center partnered with the Chicana & Chicano Resource Center to host the “Families Belong Together” panel with several speakers from Cal State Fullerton on Oct. 28.

The purpose of the event was to shed light on the topic of immigration and its effects on families while also connecting students with faculty members who teach courses on the subject.

Host Dr. Julian Jeffries, a professor in the College of Education, greeted the audience and shared a solemn anecdote about an immigrant’s journey to America.

The story was about a woman named Rosa and her three children who fled from El Salvador to the United States in search of safety. The family was apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the border and spent 10 months in a long-term detention center in Texas.

At the end of their incarnation, Rosa was granted asylum and was reunited with her family in the U.S. Despite making it to the U.S., Rosa quickly learned that her experiences would continue to

Student leaders call for a permanent space to offer free groceries to Titans.

DANIEL STEELE Staff Writer

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The Titan Dreamers Resource Center partnered with the Chicana & Chicano Resource Center to host a panel discussion on the effects of immigration Latin American families face.

have a lasting effect on both her and her family.

Rosa’s youngest child spent a third of his life behind bars.

Once they were released, he continued to ask when they would return to room 109 where they had been incarcerated for 10 months.

The purpose of the story was to help frame the topics for discussion: the climate at the

border, detention centers and family separation.

Jeffries first addressed Ricardo Valencia, an assistant professor for the department of communications, asking him to provide some context regarding why there is a large movement of people to the United States.

Valencia, who is from El Salvador himself, focused his answer on inequality, violence

toward women, security and safety, and a culture of helplessness felt within the country. Valencia accredits the feeling of helplessness to the result of a civil war between Guatemala and El Salvador in the ‘80s. That feeling of helplessness, combined with other factors, drove people to the United States, Valencia said.

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Associated Student’s governance committee unanimously approved a resolution Thursday to establish a permanent food pantry on campus, bringing the possibility of a pantry on campus one step closer to becoming a reality.

The board of directors will vote on the resolution on Nov. 12. It must be approved by the board before Associated Students can take the first steps to implement a pantry.

Lorren Baker, the chair of the board, said the resolution does not specify where and how a pantry will operate on campus as it is still in its early stage.

“This is a really strong resolution, and it really has been amazing to see collaboration across the entire board,” said Isaac Gonzalez, chief communications officer.

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Titans to open season with trip to BYU CSUF men’s basketball will start season with threegame road trip.

JORDAN MENDOZA Editor

Fresh off their third-straight postseason appearance, the Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team will kick off the 2019-20 season Tuesday night when they travel to Provo, Utah to face Brigham Young University.

CSUF is coming off of a 1618 season, and despite the sub 0.500 record, the team went 10-6 in Big West play for the third-straight year. The Titans finished third in regular season standings, but made it all the way to the Big West Tournament Final, where they lost to UC Irvine.

Despite falling short of the NCAA Tournament, the Titans made the CollegeInsider Tournament, but lost to Cal State Bakersfield in the first round.

CSUF will move on this season after top scorers, Kyle Allman Jr. and Khalil Ahmad, graduated in the spring. Last season, the Titans averaged 71.7 pts per game, and the duo accounted for 35.7 of those points.

Allman Jr. and Ahmad also received conference honors last season. Allman Jr. making the all-conference first team and Ahmad making the all-conference second team, and both making the 2019 Big West all-Tournament team.

This year, the top returning scorer is senior forward Jackson Rowe. The Toronto native averaged 11.3 pts last season and led the team in rebounds, averaging 7.9 per game.

Rowe is one of four seniors on the team, as he is joined by guard Austen Awosika, forward Davon Clare and newcomer to

CSUF, guard Brandon Kamga.

Kamga is a graduate transfer from High Point University and comes to CSUF after spending the past two seasons with the Panthers. Last season, Kamga was second on the team in scoring, averaging 13.8 pts per game along with 5.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game.

While Kamga has NCAA game experience, he will be one of nine new Titans on the team.

However, the roster will not be the only part of the program with new faces, as head coach Dedrique Taylor has added two new assistants to his staff.

After former assistants Danny Sprinkle and John Smith left for head coaching jobs at Montana State and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo respectively, Taylor added Gus Argenal and Brandon Dunson.

Argenal and Dunson both come from Nevada, where they were part of the Wolf Pack, which won last season’s Mountain West regular season title and made it to the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Brigham Young University comes into the season opener after finishing last season, 1913, and went 11-5 in the West Coast Conference to put them in a tie for second with Saint Mary’s. However, the Cougars were knocked out in the first round of the WCC Basketball Championships by San Diego.

Tuesday evening’s game will be the Cougars’ first under new head coach Mark Pope, who spent the past four seasons at Utah Valley.

Brigham Young University will be returning with its top two scorers from last year — senior forward Yoeli Childs, 21.2, and senior guard TJ Haws, 17.8. Combined, the duo averaged 39 pts per game and the Cougars as a team averaged 79 pts per game. Childs also led the team in rebounds with 9.7

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Senior forward Jackson Rowe (34) shot over Daniel Venzant during the blue/orange scrimmage on Oct. 16.

boards per game.

This will be the seventh alltime meeting between CSUF and Brigham Young University, as the teams have split all six meetings, with the most recent game in November 1996, when the Titans won, 75-67.

In the preseason Big West media poll, the Titans were picked to finish fifth in the conference. In the past three

seasons, CSUF has never finished lower than fourth.

Away and nonconference games were weaknesses for the Titans last season, as they were 4-11 in true road games. In nonconference match-ups, the Titans went 6-12.

The game with the Cougars will be the first of a threegame road trip to start the season for CSUF. After traveling

to Brigham Young University, Fullerton will play at Stanford on Saturday night and at Wyoming next Wednesday. The first home game for the Titans will be on Nov. 16 against Stanislaus State.

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2 News

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Power cut in parts of state to prevent fires Utility companies across California have issued public safety power shut-offs.

ADAM MALDONADO Asst. Editor

With California under elevated fire risk during this dry and windy season, three utility companies across California have taken preemptive measures by de-energizing power in high-impact regions.

Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas and Electric have issued public safety power shut-offs throughout the state in response to recent fires that were sparked by utility lines serviced by the respective companies.

Pacific Gas and Electric’s actions cut power from around 940,000 customers at the end of last month, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Public safety power shutoffs are assessed when elevated weather conditions are prevalent. Although many customers are under consideration of losing power, shut-offs come into effect when imminent danger is present, said Susan Cox, a spokesperson for Southern California Edison.

“We recognize that weather and fire season is now year round,” Cox said. “This is all about public safety, we do understand that public safety power shut offs are difficult and can be a hardship, but this is about keeping customers and communities safe.”

Across Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino and Kern Counties, around 100,000 Southern California Edison customers lost power from Oct. 29 to Nov. 3.

Despite these efforts, Southern California Edison

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Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison power lines and equipment have been responsible for some major fires in the last few years.

announced Friday that the Maria fire, which took place in Ventura County over the weekend, may have been the result of a 16,000-volt power line being re-energized after it was preemptively shut off due to weather conditions. The fire is said to have occurred 13 minutes after power was restored. The exact cause is still under further investigation, according to Southern California Edison.

The fire near The Getty Center, which was sparked on Oct. 28, reportedly originated when a tree branch fell onto a nearby power line.

Southern California Edison power lines were concluded to be the cause of the fire that occured in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties in 2017. Pacific Gas and Electric has admitted to causing at least 10 wildfires this year alone due to their

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equipment, according to the Los Angeles Times.

A report from Pacific Gas and Electric on Oct. 24 indicated a broken jumper wire was found near where a fire in Sonoma started. It has not yet been determined if the broken wire was the cause of the fire.

The company has also been held responsible for the deadly fire that burned in Paradise in 2018, which has been recorded as the worst in California history. The company filed for bankruptcy in January of this year in the aftermath of this fire after estimating $10.5 billion would be paid in damages, according to the New York Times.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has been critical of the utility companies and their public safety power shut-off measures, writing a series of letters calling them out for being unable to coordinate

with first responders, the mismanagement of safety protocols and overall unsatisfactory service.

Newsom goes on to say that “the only consistency is inconsistency.”

“Public officials have acted in the public interest to mitigate harm, particularly to vulnerable populations,” Newsom said in a letter to the three utility companies. “Reduce the economic impact of your respective decisions and ensure that the public is informed and aware of the impacts and consequences of your public safety power shutoff decision.”

Newsom has also been a vocal advocate for rebates and reimbursements for customers who are impacted by these decisions. He has specifically demanded that Pacific Gas and Electric reimburse customers

after a widespread loss of power to over 750,000 customers that started on Oct. 9th.

Last Tuesday, Pacific Gas and Electric released a statement via Twitter saying that customers affected will earn credit for the inconvenience.

While citing Pacific Gas and Electric numerous times, Newsom has called the occurrence of statewide public safety power shut-off measures to be the product of “prioritizing profit over public safety” and the neglect of infrastructure.

“Californians are wary and skeptical of their electric utilities. Transparency and an adherence to your commitments to use power shut-offs only as the last resort are critical first steps to building trust with utility customers, state and local government, and emergency responders,” Newsom stated.

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Thousands of cybersecurity jobs up for grabs JESSICA BENDA Editor

Currently, there are nearly 37,000 cybersecurity jobs up for grabs in California, and over 300,000 jobs available throughout the nation, according to an article published by the California State University.

The internet is home to data, malware and a flourishing job market. But as the internet evolves, so do its problems.

Mikhail Gofman, director of Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Cybersecurity and associate professor of computer science, ties the growing demand for cybersecurity jobs to online breaches becoming more devastating and widespread.

“It has to do with the fact that the modern computing environments are highly complex,” Gofman said. “When something becomes complex, it usually becomes less secure, because any security breach is much harder to find.”

A typical operating system consists of millions of lines of code, and finding the flaw is comparable to finding a needle in a stack of needles, Gofman said.

The number of cybersecurity

jobs is expected to grow 37% per year through 2022 at the very minimum, according to Forbes magazine.

The number of job openings is projected to soon grow to more than one million, according to the CSU article.

Since the expectations of cybersecurity jobs can vary so vastly, there’s no such thing as a typical day, Gofman said. Cybersecurity employment can range from working as a network administrator for a small company to a top government hacker who defends the nation’s systems.

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If there’s one thing I can be sure about, it’s that cybersecurity jobs are definitely not going anywhere anytime soon

a hacker’s head, you can nip the cyberattacker at its core,” Gofman said. “Cybersecurity has to start in your mind and heart. It’s a very exciting field, you can do something new virtually every day.”

Rojan Rijal, a computer science major and president of the Offensive Security Society, is a hacker who seeks out flaws in systems.

“When I say that I’m a hacker, people think that I’m doing something negative,” Rihal said at a cybersecurity event.

“There’s more things that hackers are doing now that’s actually good within Cal State Fullerton.”

Rihal said that the

Department of Defense uses the same practice of hiring hackers to ensure their systems are top-notch.

Though a hacker is a potential career path in the industry, there are several other routes to take. Not everyone working in cybersecurity needs to be technically-minded. The field is seeking people who can write policy, educate others, draft legislation and a variety of other skills, according to the CSU article.

At CSUF, the Center for Cybersecurity strives to train the next generation of cybersecurity practitioners, providing education and security as the cyber world evolves. This

includes educating students on how to protect themselves from the dangers of the internet, such as malware and unwanted hackers.

The department has filed a proposal to add a cybersecurity concentration for students, which aims to be approved by 2021. Students don’t need to wait for its approval to start taking cybersecurity courses, some of which include cryptography and malware analysis.

“If there’s one thing I can be sure about, it’s that cybersecurity jobs are definitely not going anywhere anytime soon,” Gofman said. “If somebody wants job security, aim for a security job.”

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Employment opportunities in the field are on the rise in California and the U.S.

MIKHAIL GOFMAN Center for Cybersecurity Director

A popular job within the field is penetration testing, sometimes known as ethical hacking.

Instead of waiting for their systems to be attacked, companies often hire penetration testers to try to hack into their systems so they can build better defenses, he said.

“If you’re able to get into

Hunger: Decision to be made next week

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possible, but we’re not entirely sure how long it will take,” Baker said.

Associated Students members visited food pantries at other CSUs to gather data on how they run, aid their research on the resolution and get a better sense of how a CSUF food pantry can best serve its students.

But figuring out logistics, such as where to launch the pantry and who to assign to run it, among other details, is a completely different thing, Baker said.

She said if the board is incredibly ambitious, they may have something to show for a food pantry by next summer. She wants to at least have a temporary location for the pantry so they can get a little further into the process.

“There’s also a lot of red tape, where it’s just like you think you can do something, but no you can’t,” Baker said.

Since Associated Students is a corporation, Baker said it has a host of its own considerations.

The board must reach a consensus on matters such as food safety and sensitivity training, meaning these issues will take a long time to address.

“Everyone’s going to have their differing opinions, and sometimes it’s hard because everyone’s losing sight of the main goal,” Baker said. “Getting a food pantry and being able to help students.”

The same week the board of directors will vote on approving a food pantry, Associated Students will collaborate with the Basic Needs Center and TitanWell to promote Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, a nationwide event that addresses issues around basic needs.

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1 Mansi Kalra, Associated Student’s vice president, said starting a food pantry is one of the executive officers’ biggest goals this year. She said the resolution will “build on the efforts” of past Associated Students members and students who worked toward a permanent food pantry “and finally push this through.”

Two years ago, Cal State Fullerton created Tuffy’s Basic Needs Services Center to help students with basic food support, short-term housing and other essentials. The center provides some access to free food, as well as offering Titan Bites, a text messaging service which alerts its users about free food on campus, yet it does not offer anything as regular as groceries from a food pantry.

Kalra said there are students that still feel a food pantry is missing from the services that the center provides.

“We’ve definitely seen lobbying efforts for a while now,” Kalra said. “The issue with food insecurity, though, is that it’s highly stigmatized.”

She said not many students are willing to “aggressively demand” a pantry because it would publicly reveal the harsh reality of what they are facing.

A study on students’ basic needs, which was conducted by California State University in January 2018, found that 41.6% of students reported experiencing food insecurity within the last year.

Associated Students provides an occasional mobile food pantry, but CSUF is one of the last CSUs without a permanent food pantry, Baker said.

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4 Sports

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Cross country women win first Big West title

Samantha Huerta finished the highest across the men’s and women’s teams.

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The Titans had three runners finish in the top 10. Samantha Huerta was the highest-placed Titan. Huerta finished in second place with a time of 20:24.97,

narrowly finishing behind Cal Poly’s Miranda Daschian, who finished with a time of 20:20.62.

The other Titans had success as Trinity Ruelas finished in third

place with a time of 20:39.17, and Sarah Hollis’ time of 21:09.39 earned her 10th place. Not far behind with a time of 21:11.6 was Sandra Flores, in 12th place.

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Cal State Fullerton’s cross country team finished its season strong as the women’s team won its first Big West championship in program history. The men’s squad took second place, matching its second place finish in 1993.

The Big West championship was hosted by UC Riverside and was held at Riverside’s Ags/OPs Course.

In the 6K race, the women’s team recorded 44 pts, edging out the 50 pts from second place UC Davis and 51 pts from third place Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

This was the fourth first-place finish for the women’s team this season after it won the Mark Covert Classic, the Joe Piane Invitational and the UCR Highlander Invitational.

The first place finish in the tournament is the result of steady improvement from the women’s team over the past few years, as the team placed fifth in 2015, fourth in 2016, third in 2017 and second in 2018.

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Wendi Leos, Alyssa Block and Sarah Hollis representing CSUF at the Mark Covert Classic on Aug. 31.

Alyssa Block finished in 17th place with a time of 21:23.2.

The men’s squad finished with 53 pts, 9 pts behind first place Cal Poly, which won its fourthstraight Big West title and 17th overall. Behind the Titans was UC Santa Barbara in third place with 67 pts.

In the 8K, three Titans finished in the top 10. Erik Gonzalez finished in fourth place with a time of 24:39.4, behind first place Jake Ritter from Cal Poly, who won his second consecutive individual title in the championship. In second and third place were UC Santa Barbara’s Nick Randazzo and UC Riverside’s Jonathan Lee. For the Titans, Jacob Smith had a time of 24:52.0, which earned him sixth place and Alexis Garcia took 10th place with a time of 25:00.4. Anthony Alfaro took 14th place with a time of 25:12.9 and Jorge Sanchez finished with a time of 25:28.2 for 19th place.

The men’s squad has shown steady improvement over the past few years after it finished in third place in the championship for three-straight seasons coming into this year.

The Titans will play in the NCAA West Regionals in Colfax, Washington. The meet will take place Nov. 15 at 11:30 a.m.

Women’s soccer star earns monthly award

Senior midfielder Atlanta Primus was named CSUF student-athlete of the month.

MARIAH ROSS Asst. Editor

Women’s soccer leader Atlanta Primus was named Cal State Fullerton’s student-athlete for the month of October.

Statistically, Primus had one of the best seasons in program history with a total of 10 goals and 12 assists, bringing her point total to 32 on the season. In October alone, Primus racked up three assists and three goals in seven games.

The midfielder earned her 12th assist against Cal State Northridge and subsequently broke the record for second-best total assists from any Titan in a season. Primus’ 23rd assist of her collegiate career helped senior Maddie Bennett score the first Titan goal of the game.

The Titans won the coveted Big West championship on Nov. 3 after a game-winning goal from junior Haley Brown in the 77th minute of the matchup. It is the program’s ninth title and the first since 2015.

The championship win is a part of a 14-game unbeaten streak that the Titans began in early September for their matchup against Houston. Primus played a huge role in maintaining the unbeaten record, totaling eight of her 10 goals and seven of her 12 assists since the game against Houston.

The senior from London, England made headlines in early October after breaking the women’s soccer program record with 21 career assists, surpassing 2015 alumna Rebecca Wilson, who held the previous record at 19.

Primus is currently in a sixway tie for fifth in the nation in assists with James Madison’s Haley Crawford, Massachusetts’s Ansley Frazier, Clemson’s Renee Guion, Oklahoma State’s Jaci Jones and Memphis’ Stasia Mallin. She leads the conference in assists, followed by fellow Titan Brown with eight.

Primus is also in the top half of the standings of goals and points for conference play, coming in second only to UC Santa Barbara’s Shaelan Murison. She

is in a three-way tie for 20th in the NCAA for points per game with NC State’s Tziarra King and Santa Clara’s Kelsey Turnbow.

Bennett and Brown take second and third in the Big West in shots with 61 and 55, respectively. They follow at third and fourth in points, while Bennett is tied with Primus on goals with 10 on the season.

Brown has tallied five goals in the 14-game streak, while Bennett has seven. Both players have been named Big West offensive player of the week, with Bennet awarded twice this season.

On the defensive side of the ball, goalkeeper Noa Schumacher was named Big West defensive player of the week of Oct. 28 after allowing only one goal after 200 minutes of play against UC Santa Barbara.

The Titans are scheduled to host the Big West Tournament kicking off Thursday, Nov. 7 and finishing Sunday, Nov. 10 at the Titan Stadium.

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Atlanta Primus has collected three goals and three assists in the month of October.

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The power of spoken palabras is in the story

‘Mi Cultura Cura,’ or ‘My Culture Cures,’ discussed Latinx poetry and artists.

After acknowledging several more influential Latinx poets in the community, the presentation concluded with a video of Afro-Dominican poet Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe reading her spoken word poem entitled “Undocumented black boy.”

Hernandez shared the importance of Del Orbe’s work.

“This spoken word piece is really important because it truly is embodying a really big issue within the Afro-Latinx community and the Latinx community in general. And the erasure of Afro-Latinx folks, whether that context be specifically with immigration or just the erasure of their identities in general, they’re very overlooked,” Hernandez said.

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This spoken word piece is really important because it truly is embodying a really big issue within the AfroLatinx community.

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Tucked away in the Diversity Initiatives & Resource Centers, a creative lesson took place on the power of spoken palabras, or words, which educated students on the characteristics of spoken word poetry and how it can be used as a platform.

The Chicana & Chicano Resource Center hosted the second installment of the “Mi Cultura Cura,” or “My Culture Cures,” series on Monday, focusing on Latinx poetry.

“The ‘Mi Cultura Cura’ is part of a self-care art series that was initiated last spring semester ... initially to talk about more Latinx artists,” said Ariana Mora Mero, the coordinator for the Chicana & Chicano Resource Center.

The television was lit with strong hues of purple and pink as Marisabel Hernandez, lead of social justice education, presented the audience with information ranging from the origins of spoken word poetry to present-day Latinx poets.

Marc Kelly Smith, or Slampapi, is credited with starting the poetry slam movement as a response to his view of academic poetry, which he described as too stiff and structured, Hernandez said.

One poet highlighted was Jazmin Soto, Titan Dreamers Resource Center social justice educator, who is currently working on publishing her first

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Marisabel Hernandez, lead of social justice education, gave a presentation on spoken word poetry and influential Latinx poets in the community.

poetry book.

Another featured poet was Elizabeth Acevedo, an Afro-Dominicana writer who

incorporates Dominican bolero into her pieces and shares stories of her experiences as a daughter of immigrant parents.

Hernandez’s love of poetry began to grow after Del Orbe’s performance at Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month in September.

“I found I related to a lot of the things that she talked about.

And it was very, very powerful.

Just the way that she was able to move an entire room of people in such a way that embodied solidarity but also resistance,” Hernandez said.

Once the presentation

concluded, students were provided with a notebook and encouraged to write their own poems, while spoken word videos by artists such as Yesika Salgado and Denice Frohman played in the background.

Monica Lomeli Garcia, a psychology major, shared her love of poetry, “You basically just spill out your feelings into a poem and hear everybody talk about their feelings, whether that’s regarding their identity or past relationships. It’s really inspiring.”

Lomeli Garcia’s interest in poetry began to grow after her performance at the CSUF Speak Yo Truth Open Mic Night.

Hernandez wanted to not only introduce students to spoken word, but also encourage them to explore poetry on their own.

“I hope that they learned about spoken word and how it’s different than the traditional concept of poetry. And I hope that it made it a little bit more accessible as a resource. And ideally, they would go off and write some poetry,“ Hernandez said.

Mora Mero said that students can find power in poetry and its ability to provide them with agency over their own stories.

“By focusing the artwork and the self-care activities that we do through the ‘Mi Cultura Cura’ series, our Latinx students and our Latinx community can sort of reclaim those stories, reclaim the ownership of their own communities, and at the end of the day, it’s them telling their stories for themselves and not having stories be told about them,” Mora Mero said.

Album

The Growlers: ‘Natural Affair’ is a natural let down

REVIEW

The highly-anticipated album failed to alter the band’s redundant style.

KRISTINA GARCIA Editor

Indie-garage band The Growlers released their sixth studio album “Natural Affair” on Oct. 25 — a week before their annual SoCal Beach Goth celebration.

Last year’s album featured a tracklist of beach goth-style music, which pairs bouncy beats with raspy, sorrowful vocals and lyrics. But this year’s album, “Natural Affair,” throws its style back to 2014’s breakout groove used for the song “Chinese Fountain.” The album kicks off with the disco styled title track “Natural Affair.”

The song “Natural Affair” takes The Growlers back five years to the start of their

disco-funk excursion, featuring melodic resemblances to tracks like “City Club,” “I’ll Be Around” and “Chinese Fountain.”

Although it’s a new album, the disco inspired melodies splattered across the tracks make them feel less refreshing. Most tracks don’t particularly stand out and the presence of recycled tunes feels redundant.

Aside from the repetitive tunes, the album still fosters songs that save it from being too dull. During a first playthrough of the album, the songs that stand out most are “Social Man” and “Tune Out.” “Social Man” makes an impact on the album with the use of futuristic synths layered over soothing vocal harmonies, which are paired with Nielsen’s gruffy voice to pack the song’s punch, SEE TUNES

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Tunes: Few songs leave a lasting impression a few of the individual tracks have slightly notable elements.

“Pulp of Youth” was released in September as the fourth single for the newest album, coming after “Natural Affair,” “Foghorn Town” and “Try Hard Fool.” The track captures memories of young love with its tune and the meaning behind it.

With charming lyrics such as “Drink to the pulp of youth / Til our time is due / I’ll be on the vine with you / As it was in the pulp of youth,” the song triggers a nostalgia for young love that won’t ever die.

“Truly,” the seventh track, begins with a melancholic organ which blends with the sound of longing, gloomy guitar strums.

Toward the end of the track, the song switches to an absence of instruments to highlight

CONTINUED FROM 5 As the song continues, there is a variation in the melody.

The variation, especially after the line “Social Man must remember how to disconnect,” demands appreciation considering its diverse chimes, musical modifications and catchy lyrics.

Introducing the song with notes off a children’s toy piano, “Tune Out” is a homage to childlike innocence as the lyrics teach a lesson about leaving reality for a minute. With lines such as “Tune out for a little while, just to see it from afar”, the track encourages listeners to forget about the adult responsibilities and decisions the future may hold.

Although the overall album doesn’t have an original tune,

heavenly harmonies as Nielsen sings, “You know that no one’s perfect now.” The shifts in the song leave an impression on the album, as it shows the minor versatility that The Growlers have the potential to produce.

Ending the album on a funky note, the 12-track record finishes with “Die and Live Forever.”

Nielsen sings “Love together, suffer together / Laugh and cry together / Live and die remember / Die and live forever.” With cheerful guitar chords, drumming and xylophone keys, The Growlers don’t turn their backs on their typical sound.

With difficult to interpret lyrics, varied gloomy-to-dancy beats and mildly artistic song production, The Growlers leave the ending of their album open to interpretations forged by the

listener.

Although this was a highly anticipated album for The Growlers, the outcome fell short of impressive with only a handful of songs making the album worth listening to. For those who are longtime fans of The Growlers, this album may seem like a repeat of other albums.

Nonetheless, “Natural Affair” still has its share of prominent tracks that eventually grow on the listener, even if it’s not a favorite the first time around.

But for those who are first time listeners of The Growlers, “Natural Affairs,” along with “Hung At Heart,” “Chinese Fountain” and “City Club,” show different sides of a band that fans can grow to enjoy, and can help them recognize the band’s potential to grow.

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Tropes: Racial destigmatization “We always believe immigration is an individual decision, and when we see all these masses of people we realize it’s not individual that people take the decision based on the context,” Valencia said. “But I think the helplessness is the last factor of that, of these masses of immigrants coming to the United States.”

Edwin Lopez, an assistant professor of sociology, discussed what larger social forces contribute to the movement and attraction of immigrants to the United States.

Lopez said that a few pull factors are the education system in the United States, family reunification and employment.

“The United States economy literally would not be maintained in any sort of way if it wasn’t for immigrants,” Lopez said. “A lot of U.S. citizens, a lot of Americans don’t want to do the dirty, dangerous jobs. Some of them also feel that those are immigrant jobs.”

Lopez said that large companies like Walmart rely on lowwage workers and disposable labor. In addition, he said that Americans will not do these kinds of jobs because they are not sustainable to live on.

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Maria Malagon, an assistant professor of sociology, Ph.D., said society is allowing the inhumane separation of families.

Malagon said it’s because people do not care enough about the issue and the perpetuation of racialized trope.

“It’s nothing new, migration is very natural. Animals do it, we’ve been doing it. But there is something very unnatural about migration in the last couple hundred years,” Malagon said.

Malagon said racialized tropes are how people think about racialized populations as less

than human, which is not a new concept.

She said the idea that the United States has been facing racialized anxiety, where white people feel as though they are losing control, is not true, but the fear of contamination has been prevalent for the past century.

“We allow it to happen, we don’t do enough to address it,” Malagon said. “We just don’t care enough and that’s fed through these racialized tropes.”

As requested by the community, Titan Dreamers Resource Center representatives listed “action ideas” for people to get involved in. The organizations they suggested volunteering with were Border Angels, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights and the Korean Resource Center.

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World Cup surpasses all sporting events The beautiful game creates unity through emotion.

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The wide spectrum of emotions that are drawn out from both positive and negative standpoints make the FIFA World Cup the greatest sporting event to watch. This event brings countries together, whether they have a mutual history or not, to celebrate the victories of their respective countries.

Building up to the World Cup finals are the qualifiers from the six regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, North, Central America and Carribean, South America and Oceania.

The 2018 World Cup held many memorable moments, such as Mexico stunning the World Cup holders Germany in the first match of its group, and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a hat trick in the first match against Spain to make sure his country stayed competitive.

The match between Germany and Mexico saw the German champions apply most of the pressure, but it was welcomed by plenty of counter attacks from the Mexico team. This style of play demonstrated the strengths of the North American country as they had plenty of pacey attacking players who make counter attacking plays much easier.

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goal. In Mexico, the uproar created from celebrations caused the ground to shake so hard that it set off earthquake detectors.

This was also followed by the fans in Mexico’s major cities singing the popular song “Cielito Lindo” in solidarity and happiness for their victory. This is only one example of the World Cup causing an overflow of emotions.

Mexican fans celebrated the victory of South Korea over Germany, and they did not do so by simply drinking and partying within themselves. Instead, many Mexicans traveled to the South Korean embassy and waited for Byoung-Jin Han, the South Korean ambassador, to come out and celebrate with them.

Han joined the celebration and started dancing with the locals, drinking from a bottle of tequila as he was surrounded by a sea of Mexicans.

In a video captured by New York Times reporter James Wagner, Han is shown drinking while Mexicans fans are jumping and celebrating around him, chanting “Koreano, hermano ya eres Mexicano” which translates to “Korean, my brother you’re now a Mexican.” This just goes to show that raw emotions and hysteria can bring different countries together, creating a uniting bond.

When Ronaldo scored a remarkable hat trick to tie with Spain, emotions filled the crowd.

The Portuguese had to be damn near perfect as his performance was the only thing that kept his team in the match against the strong Spanish matchup.

While this did not evoke the same degree of emotions as Mexico’s win, it was still an impressive match. Ronaldo has done plenty to cement himself as one of the greatest competitors in the world as well as constantly show his country just how integral he is to their success, with

the World Cup being the greatest stage to showcase his legendary status.

Ronaldo is a shining jewel from Portugal, and his hat trick in this game was enough to earn him the Man of the Match award.

He also joined elite company as he became only the third Portuguese player to score a hat trick in the World Cup. Many positive emotions have been tied to the World Cup, but that does not mean that this event only elicits positivity. If there is someone enjoying a game’s result, that means the other side must be going through a difficult time.

There is no better example of this than the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, where the host country lost to Germany 7-1 in the semifinal, or the 2-1 defeat suffered by the Columbian national team to Brazil in the quarterfinals.

Columbia was going through a stretch where it seemed like they felt as if they could defeat anyone due to the rise of James Rodriguez. He became the star for his country, but was unfortunately not able to provide enough for his country, as the Columbian team was eventually knocked out by the Brazilian hosts.

Rodriguez was inconsolable after the match and members of the Brazilian team, Dani Alves and David Luiz, were quick to come to his side trying to change his mood. One of the most iconic pictures of

this entire tournament was of the two Brazilians embracing the young Columbian and giving him a standing ovation with the help of their home fans.

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they did not stop them from consoling their opponents.

Moments like these exemplify how important the World Cup is to the countries that compete in the event and how much emotion the players and their fans go through.

But Brazil experienced their own set of woes, as their World Cup came crashing down when they were dismantled

by Germany, the eventual winners, with a devastating score of 7-1. The hosts were outclassed in front of their home fans and were left hopeless as the European powerhouse took apart a Brazilian team that did not face much resistance on their way to the semifinal.

The faces of defeat were worn by players and fans alike, and the photos after the match between Germany and Brazil illustrated that this tournament is more than just a game to Brazilians.

The World Cup is about more than just the individual games that take place, it’s about showcasing the pride and talent within a given country to the rest of the world.

It is not just the greatest sporting event, but it is the most incredible event to take place in general.

The wide spectrum of emotions experienced by both plays and fans demonstrates the depth that this tournament carries, and the importance it has on the culture of each country. This event, which brings numerous countries together, continuously demonstrates the critical impact the World Cup has on the human experience.

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