2019-09-24

The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Tuesday September 24, 2019

Volume 106 Issue 12

Crime in Fullerton and CSUF:

Armed robbery on Orangethorpe Avenue burglaries, some vehicles,” Willey said.

He added that when he worked at Cal State Long Beach, they’d get eight a week.

Crimes committed during the month of September in the city and on campus.

Drug possession Campus police cited one man for drug possession and another for trespassing after they were found looking at bikes by the Juniper Residence Halls at around 8 p.m. on Sept. 12. Police searched a 39-year-old man and Sean Smith, 22, and found a box cutter knife, methamphetamine, heroin and needles, Willey said.

After Smith was cited, police barred the men from entering the university for seven days. Neither men were students.

If the men were to come back within the week, Willey said, “They’ll come up in the system as having been told not to come back, and then they can be arrested immediately for trespassing.”

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Major crimes committed in Fullerton this month include an armed robbery near campus, as well as multiple thefts, vandalism, drug possession and incidents of driving under the influence on campus.

Armed robbery On Sept. 21, a group of four robbed a retail store employee at gunpoint on Orangethorpe Avenue at around 3:20 a.m.

The suspects demanded cash from the employee at gunpoint and fled, according to a Fullerton Police Department post on Instagram.

An hour later, California Highway Patrol stopped the suspects for speeding, and police found a black bag with cash, a collapsible baton and the employee’s driver’s license. Police arrested them for possession of a deadly weapon.

Karla Lizette Leon, 20, Cynthia Valencia, 19, Dezon Haney, 24, and a 17-year-old juvenile were charged with kidnapping for robbery and conspiracy, according to the post.

Vehicle burglary On Sept.16, a Cal State Fullerton student parked his 2008 Ford Explorer in the Eastside Parking Structure around 10 a.m. Due to the hot weather, the student left his car window 3-to-4 inches down. Around 3:30 p.m., the student returned, and noticed his car alarm making a different noise and his backpack missing.

University Police Capt. Scot Willey said that the suspects can be linked toward flyer distributors, who use this technique as a disguise as they check for unlocked vehicles. The number of burglaries remains low on campus.

“Actually, for the entire year since January of 2019 until now, we’ve had eight

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Driving under the influence At 2 a.m. on Sept. 8, a BMW was pulled over for speeding in a 40 mile zone after failing to stop at a red light on State College Boulevard and Orangethorpe Avenue.

“It had been red for a long time, and the guy just blew through that and then increased to about 60 miles an hour, so it took them a little bit for them to catch up to him and he started weaving. The road speeds to about 80 miles an hour,” Willey said.

He added that the driver had symptoms of being under the influence. The driver was cited, as a breathalyzer found that he was three times over the legal limit.

“Most of our DUIs are not Cal State Fullerton students,” Willey said. “That could’ve been one of our students going through that intersection at that time, so luckily they got them off the road.”

Willey said ensuring the well-being of students becomes more challenging each year.

“I think (in) fall, (crime) is always probably more prevalent, especially this first month, because we have more freshmen that are just incoming, never been to college before, a totally new experience,” Willey said.

Hosam Elattar contributed to this article.

Art exhibits tackle climate change creatively New displays at the Orange County Museum of Art explore humanity’s relationship with the planet.

JESSICA RAZO Asst. Editor

Held in contrasting rooms of bright lights and dark shadows, six new exhibitions that showcase fresh perspectives on local and global climate impacts are now open to the public at the Orange County Museum of Art. Pacific Rim artists are in their third season of occupancy at the museum. Artists Carolina Caycedo, Daniel Duford, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Mulyana, Robert Zhao Renhui and Yang Yongliang highlight different areas of impact on climate and nature, and express concern about the changes facing the Earth.

Todd D. Smith, the Museum of Art’s director and CEO, said in a press release that the newly added exhibitions would help the public understand these changes, and examine the relationships we have with nature.

“For many, climate change is the single most pressing concern of our age,” Smith said.

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Mulyana’s collection, ‘A Man, A Monster and The Sea,’ depicts ocean life through multi-colored yarn puppets sprawled over the floor and ceiling.

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2 News

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Campus food provider under scrutiny

experience and environment on hundreds of campuses across the country,” said Karen Cutler, Aramark’s vice president of communications and public affairs, in a statement to the Daily Titan.

She said she was unavailable for a phone interview.

Cutler added: “Through our campus dining programs we employ tens of thousands of students across the country and offer corporate internship opportunities.”

CSUF freshmen Yeevyeni Lopez and Natalee Dorado were walking out of the Gastronome on Sept. 18 when they learned about Aramark’s controversy from a reporter.

“Concerning,” Dorado said.

Both agreed the university should end its partnership with Aramark.

At other colleges across the U.S., student protests this year

have put pressure on administrators to cut ties with the food service provider.

In July, American University in Washington D.C. ended its decade-long relationship with Aramark. According to the university’s student newspaper, The Eagle, this followed the company’s disputes with workers on campus and what students saw as unsatisfactory dining proposals.

“Our menus are created by our team of professional and certified chefs and are created based on feedback we receive from students,” Cutler said in her statement, adding that their food options feature a variety of fresh, low-calorie and healthy natural products.

New York University and Barnard College in New York City also broke ties with the company earlier this year, according to

both universities’ student newspapers. Both of these colleges, along with American University, switched to another food service company, Chartwells.

In 2013, the Daily Titan reported the Aramark-run Gastronome had a D food inspection rating for almost a year.

In 2016, allegations that the Gastronome was serving raw chicken prompted CSUF to conduct its own food inspection — through a university-run food safety department — that yielded an A rating.

According to PBS, Aramark’s role in public correctional facilities has drawn concern from those who say Aramark and other private companies are profiting off the U.S. carceral system.

“We understand and respect the passionate debate around this topic but we disagree with

how Aramark is being characterized and cast as part of the problem,” Cutler said, adding that at the direction of individual facilities. “Some offenders have the opportunity to work in the kitchen in exchange for a reduction in sentence, and/or as a way to earn money.”

Cutler said the opportunity is specified by the facility and is a way to reduce recidivism, or the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.

She added that “Aramark’s Corrections business is the target of criticism by special interest groups opposed to privatization,” and that “organized campaigns include many unfounded allegations about the quantity and quality of our services.”

People of color, namely African Americans, have historically been incarcerated at a disproportionately large rate in the U.S., according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Torrell Foree, coordinator for the African American Resource Center at CSUF, called Aramark’s relationship to for-profit prisons interesting.

“I have to do my own research into that, and probably digest and reflect on that to be able to give you a better answer,” he said.

CSUF junior John Argeris said Aramark’s history is “not a well-advertised fact” to students, and the university should break ties with the food company.

In the meantime, with no other student meal plan dining options on campus, Argeris said he’ll just have to eat the food.

“Essentially we have to support it without any alternatives, I guess,” Argeris said.

3,000 more students to live on campus, as well as create a 6,000 seat event center.

Zordilla said the progress of the master plan will depend on funding availability.

“If it does happen, this is how we’re going to grow. This is how we’re going to develop,” Zordilla said about the master plan.

Zordilla said any Environmental Impact Report that is released will take input from those in attendance of the event. The report will be updated with the comments through notes received from people who attended the event. The CSU Board of Trustees are responsible for creating the report.

He also said that the Environmental Impact Report covers a set of topics to study, like energy conservation and public services, that may have an environmental impact due to development.

“If there’s anything outside of that, that you think that we missed or we need to study, that’s what we’re soliciting today,” Zordilla said.

Danny Kim, vice president of administration and finance, said the master plan will have a tremendous impact on students, staff and faculty at CSUF. Kim said that while the master

plan doesn’t outline that there will be an increase of students it allows for that possibility.

“We are designing what the future of the university will look like over the next 15 years,” Kim said.

“If the campus enrollment increases during that period as the master plan identifies, then we would need to build more buildings, create more classrooms, create more faculty office spaces, create more labs and also administrative offices

as well for staff.”

Joyce Ono, president of the Osher Lifelong Institute at CSUF, said she came to the event because she is interested in the future of the facility as well as if the plans proposed are amenable for elderly people, especially those who have trouble moving around.

“I was a little concerned when I looked at the plans that transit centers and the parking was far from the current building that we

have right now,” Ono said.

She asks that those in charge of the master plan consider the demographic changes that are occurring in California.

Zordilla said the board of trustees has the final say on the Environmental Impact Report and that the report should be concluded by spring.

Adam Maldonado and Angel Ramirez contributed to this article.

Colleges across the country cut ties with Aramark Corporation, but not CSUF. BRANDON PHO Editor

Cal State Fullerton feeds students on campus through a Forbes-listed food company that has sparked outrage in other parts of the U.S. for a number of controversies, including cash contracts with hundreds of prisons and jails across the country.

Aramark Corporation runs the university’s only residential dining hall, the Gastronome, as well as a community market and late night cafe in the student housing area. The company, ranked one of America’s top employers by Forbes in 2019, is worth nearly $8 billion.

But the company has drawn nationwide scrutiny for its clientele of more than 500 U.S. prisons and jails, according to PBS, which reported large protests in 2017 in response to numerous complaints against the company over unsanitary conditions, drug trafficking, employee misconduct and sexual harassment. The company has denied these accusations.

Larry Martin, university chief of operations in Student Affairs, said the university’s contract with Aramark is worth about $7 million — $6 million for residential dining and $1 million for campus catering. The contract began in 2011, and currently runs through 2021.

“We have been a leading partner with Higher Education institutions for 65 years, helping to enhance the living and learning

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The Gastronome and other Cal State Fullerton food providers are run by the Aramark Corporation.

Master plan accomodates expansion The Enviroment Impact Report will look at the effect of proposed changes.

STEPHANIE DELATEUR Asst. Editor

HOSAM ELATTAR Editor

The Environmental Impact Report for the Cal State Fullerton campus master plan was presented in the Pollak Library last Thursday.

The master plan, which is required by the California State Universities, outlines the upcoming expansions and needed improvements that CSUF will receive in the next several years.

However, it does not show the university acquiring more land and that any development shown in the plan will be on currently owned land, said Emil Zordilla, director of planning and design.

“Today’s meeting is a notice of preparations, basically telling the public we’re going to study the environmental impacts related to that suggested development,” said Zordilla.

One of the primary goals of the plan is to expand CSUF housing.

The plan is looking to accomodate

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Fullerton community members look at the proposed master plan.

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Organization aims to end homelessness, not manage it.

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Artists nited host Udiscourse on housing insecurity Editor

People from around Orange County — currently in the middle of its own regional homelessness problem — came to Cal State Fullerton to hear about the local situation in an event sponsored by Artists United, a global movement using artists’ work to advocate for social change.

A Temple University and Wisconsin HOPE Lab study last year found 36% of university students were housing insecure and 9% were homeless nationwide.

Homelessness has become an increasing problem not only in the country and the county, but in the city itself, according to the city of Fullerton website.

Lorren Baker, Associated Students’ Board of Directors chair, attended the event and said she believes housing insecurity is an undiscussed issue students face.

“What I’ve noticed is that it’s something students don’t really want to talk about or disclose about themselves,” Baker said.

Baker said there is a taboo around the issue of homelessness that she hopes can be dissolved and addressed.

Introduced as Precious, a human communications major and singer at CSUF, she opened the event by singing songs from artists such as Stevie Wonder and Carole King. Singer Megan Greenough followed with a song she wrote about her own experience with homelessness.

“There was a lot of waiting, a lot of having to sleep from couch to couch, even in my car a couple nights just to be able to get in and pass a bunch of tests, drug tests and all these medical exams and all these other things to be able to qualify to stay in a place,” Greenough said.

Greenough said she became

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Attendees helped themselves to wraps offered at the event in Mihaylo Hall.

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a single mother nine years ago when she fled a violent relationship with her two kids and lived on the street seeking shelter.

One by one, various speakers came up to talk about homelessness.

Tyrone Stokes, founder of Dope Spot Studios in Pomona, talked about his influence on future artists and helping them have a safe space for creating music with affordable living on the same land as the studio.

Lee Ballinger, a co-founder of Artists United and published author, handed out flyers explaining that Artists United to End Homelessness is a network of Southern Californian artists whose goal is to end homelessness and humanize homeless people through their creations.

Another flyer that was handed out at the event alerted students to available free to low-cost services on campus like Tuffy’s Basic Needs, which offers students temporary emergency housing for up to two weeks on campus.

David Snow, professor at UC Irvine, offered additional data on the population of homeless people in the county with the research he and his graduate students came up with after talking to over 250 homeless people.

Snow said that while most people think drug use and alcoholism are the main causes of homelessness, mental illness, veterans with no family, re-entry of citizens and people fleeing abusive relationships are also large factors.

Greenough said there is not as much help for vulnerable people as the public might think.

Marques Jones, an Artists United member, said the county’s Social Services Agency is failing people and that’s shown by the issue of homelessness in the first place.

“I’ve been through the homeless plight. I have been failed by the department of social services,” Jones said. “The system is not set up to help people. It’s really more or less to pigeonhole you and have you dependent. But there is nothing to depend on.”

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4 Sports

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Women’s golf starts strong in Boston Freshman Nodoka Honda leads Titans individually with a score 4-over par 148.

KASON CLARK Asst. Editor

Cal State Fullerton women’s golf finished in a tie for first after the first day of the Boston College Intercollegiate in Canton, Massachusetts at Blue Hill Country Club on Monday.

Along with Seattle University, the Titans shot a score 20-overpar 596 for the first two rounds at the 72-par Championship Course. Both teams finished one stroke ahead of third-place University at Albany.

Freshman Nodoka Honda led the Titans and finished the day tied for third, only two strokes behind University at Albany’s Helga Einarsdottir and St. John’s Laia Barro. Despite hitting a triple bogey on the second round’s 12th hole, her five birdies on the day helped her finish 4-over-par 148.

Honda has improved her performance in this tournament compared to the Hobble Creek Fall Classic, where she ended the

first two rounds tied for 43rd before finishing the tournament tied for 38th.

Senior Elsa Lundquist shot two birdies along with six bogies in her first round. She performed better in the second round where she shot three birdies and five bogies to finish the day 6-over-par 150 and tied for ninth.

Freshman Brittany Shin is tied for 22nd in the tournament, despite a rough first round. She shot a triple bogey on the first hole before shooting a double bogey and eight bogies the rest of the round.

Shin bounced back in the second round with four birdies, including three on the last five holes.

Along with Shin, sophomore Lisa Djerf finished the day tied for 22nd. Djerf shot two birdies in the first round, but also shot five bogies. Her performance declined in the second round when she only shot one birdie and again shot five bogies and a double bogey.

Out of the 80 players in the tournament, none of the Titans finished lower than tied for 25th as senior Texie Petchel finished 10-over-par 154. In the first round, she shot two birdies but recorded nine bogies. Petchel improved in the second round,

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where she again shot two birdies but only shot five bogies.

The Titans finished the first round in fourth place, but thanks to the stronger performances from Lundquist, Shin and Petchel in the second round, the Titans fought their way to a first-place tie.

The Titans were 10 strokes behind first-place Rollins College and only one stroke ahead

fifth place Fairleigh Dickinson and St. John’s. The Titans passed Albany, which is in third place just one stroke behind CSUF and Rollins College, which is in fourth place six strokes behind the Titans.

Seattle University is tied for first with the Titans because of the performances of Krystal Hu and Keisha Lugito, who are both tied

reach above 2,000 once in the 4,000 capacity Titan Gym. Empty stadiums are something administrators would not want to see, and it gives no benefit to a team playing in a ghost town.

College football without a doubt is a sport that will always thrive in the U.S., but it won’t work at CSUF. With little fan support and money, the school is better off focusing on the sports it currently has, and putting away that helmet for good.

Titan Stadium only has room for 10,000 people and does not have the financial backing for a football team.

Football is not a need at CSUF

for third with Honda. Lugito leads the Redhawks with eight birdies on the day while Hu recorded six birdies in the first two rounds.

The Titans finish the third and final round of the Boston College Intercollegiate on Tuesday. They are looking to win their second consecutive tournament after they won the Hobble Creek Fall Classic on Sept. 10.

OPINION

Titan Athletics has more to lose than gain with a football team.

JORDAN MENDOZA Editor

With college football set to wrap up its first month of the season this week, teams all across the country are vying to make it to a bowl game, or even better, a spot in the College Football Playoff and a national championship.

Reaching the College Football Playoff is not the goal for every football program in the country, as there are over 778 colleges and universities offering football throughout the NCAA’s three divisions and the NAIA. Despite the high number of football programs, many schools don’t offer the chance to put on the helmet and pads, and one of those schools is Cal State Fullerton.

Although no football team currently call Titan Stadium at the CSUF campus home, Titan football once existed, beginning in 1970 under the direction of former Pittsburgh Steelers assistant Dick Coury. The program had its ups and downs, reaching as high as an 11-1 season in 1984, and as low as going 5-29 from 199092 before the program was shut down that year.

Since the Titans’ final game, groups have been made on social media to reminisce about the program and to advocate for the return of a CSUF football team.

It’s no doubt that CSUF’s run with a football team was shortlived and could have gone on longer. Efforts have been made to bring the team back to life, but in all honesty, this school does not need a football team, and it never will.

When the football program was dropped by the school in 1992, then President Milton A. Gordon said that CSUF would aim to bring football back in two years as a Division I-AA school, but it never came to fruition.

One of the main issues why the team was never brought back was because of monetary issues, yet the school was set to spend less money since they would be in Division I-AA, the lower division of college football to Division 1-A, the Titan’s previous division until its end.

Bill Shumard, who was athletic director of CSUF during this time, estimated that the school was spending $1.2 million a year on the football team, and moving to Division I-AA would cut the costs less than half of what it had spent annually.

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much it spends on athletics. According to the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, CSUF spent a total of $18.37 million in athletics in 2017.

Out of the 23 California State Universities, five have football programs: Fresno, San Jose, San Diego in the NCAA Division I-A Football Bowl Subdivision, and Sacramento and San Luis Obispo in the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Subdivision.

Of those with football, the spending figures for athletics surpass those of CSUF. On the Football Bowl Subdivision level , which is now known as Division I-A, Fresno spent $44.12 million in athletics, and of that money, $13.4 million was spent just on football.

On the Football Championship Subdivision level, San Luis Obispo spends $27.91 million in total, and almost $4 million just in football.

If CSUF were to have a football team back and if it were on the level of Cal Poly SLO, nearly 22% of CSUF spending would be on football, which would put other athletic programs in jeopardy of having to be ended.

Another issue that CSUF would face is that if a team is out in the field, there needs to be supportive fans in the stands to buy tickets, concessions and support the school which is hard to come by in California.

In the 2018 version of the NCAA’s annual attendance report, none of the Californian schools made the top 30 of average home attendance in the Football Bowl Subdivision or Football Championship Subdivision, with the University of Washington being the only school in the Pacific Standard Time zone on the list.

Of the six California schools, only three schools averaged over the national average of 41,856 attendees: Cal Berkeley, UCLA and USC. If CSUF were to play at Titan Stadium, which has the capacity for only 10,000 people, the team would play in front of small crowds or the school would have to invest in more seating.

Adding more seats would not do much either, as Titan Stadium has spent most of its time empty rather than full. The highest attendance recorded was in 1997 during a CSUF soccer game against UCLA, drawing only 4,762 people to the stadium.

Despite having the largest enrollment of all the CSUs, school pride in athletics is anything but above average at the dubbed “commuter school.”

Anderson Family Field, home of the softball team, saw a record crowd of 1,227 to watch a game last season. The only problem was that CSUF was not on the field, as it was a game between powerhouses UCLA and Florida.

Last season, the basketball program only saw its home attendance

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Brass rubbings tell history in Pollak Library ‘Lord and Ladies in Black and White’ brings European traditions to campus.

STEPHANIE DELATEUR Asst. Editor

Graduate student Gareth O’Neal recalled a class with the late Ellen Caldwell, Ph. D., an English and comparative literature professor until her death in August, in which a brass rubbing of an English knight left him in awe.

A month later, brass rubbings filled the Pollak Library’s Atrium Gallery as part of the “Lords and Ladies in Black and White” exhibit, which O’Neil curated and dedicated to Caldwell.

The exhibit displays traditional British brass rubbings, which are plaques with image displays that “depict the deceased in the prime time of their life,” according to the Pollak Library website.

O’Neal describes the exhibit as “a work of love,” and finds “the human element” of the rubbings fascinating.

“Just seeing people how they wanted to be seen ... and this is all we have, we have a name, a date, a face that might not have even been their face. But there’s still that human connection, that connection to memory, that connection to hopes and belief and I just find them so amazing in their somber beauty,” O’Neal said.

Roberta F. “Bobbe” Browning and Dolores J. “Grandma Dee” Roche have plaques dedicated to them on one of the walls in the exhibit. Browning’s plaque reads that brass rubbing became a hobby for her after she spent a year in England, and that she had worked at Cal State Fullerton since 1970.

She helped start the CSUF WoMen’s Center, and

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majority of it is authentic.”

“To me, personally, I definitely love their aesthetic. I knew very little about their history until I got involved in this project and as far as they are representative of medieval art, I think they’re absolutely beautiful,” said assistant curator Emilee Gibbons.

O’Neal said the “Lords and Ladies in Black and White” embody “our relationship with ourselves and our mortality,” and his exhibit shows students that there is still much to learn from history. “It’s very rewarding. It’s like piecing a puzzle together, but you don’t know what the pieces look like when they’re finished,” O’Neal said.

Brass rubbings of knights, noblemen and other figures honor the dead in the Atrium Gallery.

Browning’s husband donated her rubbings, totaling CSUF’s collection to 52.

Roche’s plaque reads that her love for brass rubbings as a hobby started in the ‘70s while residing in Brussels. She bought replicas of rubbings and made her own from the real ones.

“This was just something that I needed to do,” O’Neal said. “This was a project that I started on with (Caldwell), and this is dedicated to her and, of course, Bobbe Browning and Dolores Roche.”

O’Neal said he had to select nine rubbings from the huge collection, describing it as “extremely hard.”

He said the dates of these items range from 1300 to 1650, including a Victorian era rubbing, though the dates are just an estimate.

“I came into the masters program in history with this in mind,” O’Neal said. “I was going to be cataloguing them, and I was working on them while I was still earning my masters in

English.”

O’Neal said brass rubbings are not widely discussed, and described his objectives for the exhibit.

“The goal was just to show the public these, that they are a part of the collection in the library and that we have these,” O’Neal said. “These are primary resources from the middle ages.”

O’Neal pointed out what he called “an example of an early speech bubble” depicted in one of the items. There is a scroll with words coming out of a woman’s mouth, which he translated as “Jesus Christ, son of the living God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

On a window in the exhibit is what O’Neal described as a “printout of a stained glass window that is in Hereford Cathedral in England.”

Sticking to the cathedral vibe, church music played in the background. O’Neal said that some of the songs are “modern reimaginings of medieval and renaissance songs, but the

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Thomas Goodrich, Bishop of Ely, is portrayed in a brass rubbing at the exhibit.

Earth: Artists speak volumes about nature CONTINUED FROM

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Throughout the day, all artists had scheduled talks with visitors to discuss the significance of their work, displayed in several mediums: printed images on silk, paintings on canvas, plasma TV installations, yarn figurines, solar panels and much more.

Cassandra Coblentz, senior curator and director of public engagement, facilitated three of the six exhibits. She coordinated Caycedo’s “Wanaawna, Rio Hondo and Other Spirits,” Garrido-Lecca’s “Spectrums of Reference” and Duford’s “Underworld Stories Told in Tree Time.”

These collaborations, as well as the use of certain mediums for the first time — such as solar panels for Garrido-Lecca’s Spectrums of Reference — included lots of research and planning, Coblentz said.

“This notion of the Pacific Rim is something that speaks to both our local and a global perspective, and so by bringing in artists from all of these different parts of the world and also sometimes some local ones, there’s this opportunity to learn about the world we live in,” Coblentz said.

Duford’s exhibit consisted of canvas paintings with historical interpretations, and a performance installation of bread-making, for which a table with bread-making ingredients was present.

Garrido-Lecca’s works included colored solar panels with repeating patterns, and an electric installation of Colombian ceramic pots attached with LED lights.

Caycedo had a different approach when it came to her “Water Portraits” gallery. She edited images of river bodies, such as the Santa Ana and San Gabriel Rivers in California, and had them printed onto cotton fabric. One piece in particular was a mixed fabric composed of cotton and silk.

“Bodies of water are not simple, natural resources for humans to exploit, but actually are social subjects with political agency and have been victimized by different kinds of violences against nature. It has to be repaired, and it has to be compensated,” Caycedo said.

John Silvis and Melanie Ouyang Lum were guest curators who facilitated Zhao Renhui’s, Mulyana’s and Yongliang’s galleries.

Zhao Renhui’s “Effect” gallery focused on insects as one of his installations included 120 tiny ethyl-alcohol-filled jars, each containing an insect found on car windshields.

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Carolina Caycedo’s collection ‘Wanaawna, Rio Hondo and Other Spirits’ featured river and waterfall images blended into cotton fabric replicas.

were made of yarn-like sock puppets. Her artwork was displayed in an oceanic environment, with pieces hanging from the ceiling and lying on the floor.

Yongliang’s “Eternal Landscape” gallery occupied the rest of the first floor. An absence of light in certain areas of Yongliang’s pieces fostered the use of technology, such as plasma TVs and a virtual reality piece.

The VR experience helps visitors feel immersed in the artist’s piece and understand what may happen if the planet isn’t taken care of, said Griselda Ruiz, an Orange County Museum of Art employee who’s worked there for eight months.

“I think (with) them being able to see the different mediums, they can be inspired. The sky’s the limit ... they can incorporate technology, and also a way to have their art have a bigger meaning. It could be something bigger than them,” Ruiz said.

Orange County Museum of Art hosts several collections of contemporary artwork, both permanent and temporary, and this third season of temporary inspace exhibition will be on display until March 15, 2020.

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Daniel Duford’s collection of ancient storytelling is depicted in paints, prints and drawings.

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

‘All the Feels’ Striking chords with fast-paced beats Album

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Lively and catchy tunes embody Fitz and the Tantrums’ new LP. BILLY HUYNH Asst. Editor

Indie-pop band Fitz and The Tantrums returns with their newest LP “All The Feels,” a stimulating experience that will have listeners yearning for more.

The LP was released Friday, and is comprised of 17 songs with high-tempo productions and a modern indie-pop sound as themes of self-belief and perseverance are reflected in the feelgood lyrics of each track.

“All The Feels” opens the album with a production that exudes high energy, complementing the song’s triumphant message.

The lyrics strike chords of determination and persistence: “We dive right into the deep end / You win, you lose / You get back up and try again.” Yet, in spite of the message, the song is an adequate, if not unspectacular, introduction that does not properly encapsulate the LP in terms of production.

“123456” is similar with its thematic discourse, yet it succeeds where “All the Feels” could not. It has pop vibes that exhibit a more original sound and create a needed liveliness. The track is a fun, catchy listen that will assuredly have listeners mumbling along to the lyrics.

Continuing with more adventurous production, “I Just Wanna Shine” is another pleasant experience spurred on by a positive message and an upbeat sound.

With a mix of guitar and saxophone, the song doesn’t overdo the instrumentals.

The lyrics are enthusiastic

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and well-meaning, but lacking in complexity: “I just wanna shine like the sun when it comes up / Run the city from the rooftops / ‘Cause today’s gonna be my day.”

Both “Ain’t Nobody But Me” and “I Need Help!” are consistent with the uplifting spirit of the album, but different enough that they avoid sounding too similar to the other tracks.

“I Need Help!” is particularly interesting because of its inclusion of electronic dance music elements in the production.

The dynamism and energy of the track is more than enough compensation for the limited lyrics.

“Don’t Ever Let Em” is a misfire from the band, with a plain

sound that is easily forgettable upon the song’s conclusion. The lyrics are hokey and typical of a song about perseverance: “You keep your head up / Keeping your pride on / Go live forever.”

“Basement” differs thematically from the other songs on the album, which is to its benefit. It emphasizes the concept of escape and leaving behind all of the chaos: “Wanna get away from all the conversation / Just think about nothin’ / Get a little faded.”

The message contributes to the listening experience by providing a fresh sound, eliminating the feeling of a rehashed tune.

A consequence of having a consistent theme throughout an LP is that certain tracks may

feel stale. “Ready or Not” suffers from this, as its lyrics feel repetitive and indistinguishable from the other tracks.

Fitz and The Tantrums are at their best when they vary their production and mix up their sound. “OCD” is a vibrant and dynamic standout from the album. The track feels alive, and it’s easy to envision getting lost listening to it for hours.

“SuperMagik” and “Belladonna” are electric songs, thanks to a stellar production. The instrumentals are the star of the show for both tracks and creates an exhilarating listening experience.

The success of both songs comes with the forgoing of a traditional vocal chorus. In its place

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is instrumental bass, guaranteed to make one’s heart beat.

“Stop” is another spirited production from Fitz and The Tantrums, which flourishes due to its enthusiasm. The passionate vocals support the instrumentals in establishing a jubilant tone.

After a string of fast tempo songs, “Dark Days” arrives with a slower vibe and a heavy piano feature. It’s a needed breather that maintains powerful vocals, allowing for a strong impact.

Despite the somber title, the track preserves the album’s emphasis on determination and persistence: “Oh, all that pain that I picked up on the way / I just let it go, let it go.”

“Hands Up” and “Kiss The Sky” are the two most unique songs on the album. There’s a groovy and funky quality to the tracks that displays the band’s indie roots.

In particular, “Hands Up” is the perfect combination of engaging indie-pop sound and entertaining lyrics: “If you’re feeling kinda crazy, put your hands up / ‘Cause the future’s getting shady, but we’re not done yet.”

The drum instrumental of “Maybe Yes” is a defining characteristic of the song, with a smothering intensity that benefits the listening experience.

“Livin’ For The Weekend” serves as an excellent conclusion and is emblematic of the second half of the album, as it is an intense modern production that doesn’t do anything too sophisticated with the lyrics, but still maintains its catchiness.

Fast-paced production, complemented by the usual feel-good lyrics of Fitz and The Tantrums, makes “All The Feels” another satisfying entry into the band’s catalog, and proves that they’ve still got the magic touch.

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Brett Kavanaugh

Not an over-sensationalized media tool Ignoring allegations of sexual misconduct halts #MeToo progress.

SOPHIA ACEVEDO Editor

A sexual misconduct allegation made against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by his Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez has reignited a media storm and political party quarrel that first began before his confirmation about a year ago.

Looking beyond political party clashes and the uproar created by The New York Times, it’s important that neither sexual misconduct allegations nor the #MeToo movement be seen as an over-sensationalized media tool.

Despite the allegations made against Kavanaugh, Republican supporters should not place the blame elsewhere, because if they do, then not only will the importance and impact of this movement be dulled down to a

difference in political perspective, but any progress made may be halted.

Unsurprisingly, the new controversy came from the opinion section of a newspaper. On Sept. 14, The New York Times published an essay for its Sunday Review, a part of the newspaper’s opinion desk, that detailed Yale culture in the 1980s and revealed further details about the sexual misconduct allegation against Kavanaugh.

Following the publication of the article, a callous and inexcusably vulgar tweet was posted by The New York Times opinion section, which was later deleted.

James Dao, deputy editorial page editor for the paper, addressed the tweet in a Q&A published in The New York Times

on Sept. 16, saying that the usual writing and editing process did not occur for the social media tweet, and that the situation was being reviewed to avoid future errors.

Members of the Republican party can easily point to the errors made by The New York Times and ill-advisedly confirm its own bias, referencing the era of fake news as a dunce cap by The New York Times.

“Now the Radical Left Democrats and their Partner, the LameStream Media, are after Brett Kavanaugh again, talking loudly of their favorite word, impeachment.

He is an innocent man who has been treated HORRIBLY. Such lies about him. They want to scare him into turning Liberal!” tweeted

President Donald Trump.

However, despite its errors — namely the dreaded tweet — The New York Times made the right decision in wanting to publish Kavanaugh’s recent allegation. In doing so, the paper upheld the sentiments brought by the #MeToo movement, and with further information was able to stand by the essay it published.

The New York Times, alongside other media outlets, have the loaded responsibility of seeking the truth, a job that is not taken lightly. While the editing process failed them, the paper’s intention was far greater than an over-sensationalized moment.

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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Column: Argentina beauty standards embrace naturalness

Living in America, I feel pressure to appear flawless.

MELISA RYBALTOWSKI Asst. Editor

Unlike the beauty standards of Argentina, the standards of the United States set girls up for failure. Beauty companies might advocate positive self-image and natural beauty, but they also promote an unnatural beauty ideal that seem to only further distort the perceptions women have toward themselves.

I was born into a lower-class family of Slavik descent in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

At the age of three, I began to split my time between the U.S. and Argentina, returning home as often as possible.

It was in Argentina where I formed my perceptions of the world and the beauty within its confines. Yet, most of my experiences confronting the harsh realities of this world and its ideals occurred in Los Angeles.

I was eight years old when I first stood in front of a full-body mirror and stared at my thick legs, wishing they were thinner, and I was twelve years old when I was weight shamed by popular middle-school girls.

In Argentina, beauty standards are generally tailored to embrace a woman’s natural shape and complexion. It’s uncommon to

see women walk the streets of Buenos Aires with a full-face of makeup, and it’s even more uncommon to see them contouring their faces like Kylie Jenner. Plastic surgery is shunned and considered a vain effort to fool society and distort one’s self.

In Argentina, beauty finds its source in reality. Girls are raised to embrace who they are, how they look, where they come from and how they think.

Every time I go back to Argentina, a switch goes off and suddenly tinted-moisturizer and mascara are enough to make me feel unjustifiably self-confident. However in California, I can hardly leave the house without feeling the need to perfect my complexion and rid myself of my insecurities with makeup, and still, it doesn’t guarantee that I’ll feel comfortable in my own skin.

On social media, I see girls with flawless skin and I catch myself dreaming about the day I’ll have flawless skin as well, forgetting that those images have most likely gone through a screening process of editing and filters before being posted.

It’s a vicious beauty cycle, in which women will want what they don’t have, and pretend to have it, provoking other women to want it too. For example, some girls with light skin want tans while some women in India bleach their skin for a lighter complexion.

Even though positive self-image and natural beauty seem to be promoted virally in the U.S., natural beauty is still manipulated by those who want to flaunt their best angle or invest in lip fillers and microblading.

Lisa Eldridge, Lancôme’s global creative director and renowned celebrity makeup artist, has often promoted the “no-makeup” cosmetic look. While the concept of this style has helped shift the beauty paradigm, and enhances one’s natural features, it fails to resolve the self-deprecating tendencies that dominate the media.

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is wrong, solely because no one would feel the need to cover or distort natural features if they felt that they were accepted within society.

Weight shaming, colorism, acne and cellulite-related worries underline the harsh reality of the beauty industry that wreaks havoc on the self-esteem of men and women around the world. The reality is that

beauty is standardized by unrealistic expectations and false accounts of perfection.

Bodies and faces cannot be subject to one standardized idea or image. People must not fall for these masochistic tendencies, in which many alter their behaviors and jeopardize their mental health, all in the name of striving for an unattainable ideal image.

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Whether it was to their knowledge or not, The New York Times writers reminded everyone of the effect the #MeToo movement has had on society, and the need for victims to be heard and taken seriously.

Media outlets, no matter their political preference, have to be willing to follow this sentiment and treat every statement seriously.

Sadly, not all news media have followed suit. Here and there, media outlets have criticized the #MeToo movement due to this recent allegation by filling their opinion sections with poorly articulated arguments plagued by motivated reasoning, proving that individual reporters can fall prey to their own bias.

Rob Robinson, Cal State Fullerton associate professor of political science, said supporters of a political party may view an issue in a way that protects their own side.

“There are certainly people who would go after someone from their own party, because the issue is important to them,” Robinson said. “That said, I think in general, just like we saw with Trump, people just tend to not believe things that attack people they want to get elected.”

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accountable if they believe it’s necessary, and if the public is to believe otherwise, then these naysayers need to do some more browsing.

Whether people would like to believe it or not, Republicans have been more skeptical of women who have made sexual misconduct or sexual assault allegations than Democrats.

According to 2018 data reviewed by FiveThirtyEight, 54% of Republicans agreed with the sentiment, “women who complain about harassment often cause more problems than they solve.” Only 17% of Democrats stated that they agreed with this sentiment.

Political parties had very different beliefs regarding the #MeToo movement; while 75% of Republicans thought that the movement went too far, only 21% of Democrats shared this belief, according to a collaborative 2018 study between Ipsos and NPR. While this certainly isn’t the case for all, Republicans are having an unfavorable reaction toward the #MeToo movement, which can be alarming.

“These sort of things should be bipartisan, whether it’s due process for the accused, or whether it’s taking the victim seriously. I think these things should be done in a way to transcend the party lines. So I

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hope that the Kavanaugh hearing doesn’t lead to that or the Trump presidency,” Robinson said.

If victims feel like their words won’t be taken seriously, or worse, reinforce victim blaming and the expectation of being the perfect victim, then the progress following the #MeToo movement will truly lose itself and become yet another of the many issues that political parties disagree on.

In the essay published by The

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New York Times, some arguments unfairly stated that the account shouldn’t have been published because Ramirez did not want to be interviewed, and others stated that she did not remember what happened. However, as Dao pointed out, the investigation led to other sources that did support information given by Ramirez.

To better understand the actual amount of sexual misconduct that goes unreported, there needs to be a shared sentiment

between political parties that sexual misconduct will be noted and heard respectfully.

In order for greater action to take place in other fields, like campuses or the workplace, the #MeToo movement needs to be taken seriously across the political spectrum. No matter political leanings, it’s necessary to remind everyone that situations like Kavanaugh’s allegations should not misshape or distort one’s idea of the #MeToo movement or sexual misconduct.

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