Wednesday October 2, 2019
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Volume 106 Issue 17
Accident on Nutwood
TitanWell normalizes sex talk
There were no serious injuries sustained in the two-car collision. BRANDON PHO Editor
TitanWell presenters Zoe Hollister and Brittney Bonfield demonstrate how to use a condom and other protective barriers.
SOPHIA ACEVEDO KIM PHAM Editors
Condom demonstrations and makeshift dental dam tutorials took place on the second floor of Gordon Hall as a small group of students listened to presenters from TitanWell talk about birth control and sexually transmitted infections. A detailed pre-test kicked off the event to assess the general knowledge of the room. Though that most students
possessed basic knowledge on birth control and safe sex practices, the presentation served to remind them of the healthy practices that are usually forgotten about or ignored. “Whether they’re having a lot of sex, or whether they’re having no sex at all, it’s just being more knowledgeable about birth control and their barrier methods,” said Frankie Guevara, a peer educator for TitanWell’s sexual health team. While there wasn’t a huge crowd, the few people who did take an hour of their day to learn about sexual health became much more knowledgeable about different barrier methods and STIs. Leading the sex discussion
was Guevara, teammate Zoe Hollister and graduate assistant Brittney Bonfield.
“curable STIs are not all but they’re all treatable and livable
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Students learn about the importance of safe sexual behavior to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
ZOE HOLLISTER TitanWell sexual health team peer educator Through extensive research, lots of rehearsing and referencing up-to-date information from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the three speakers turned a typically uncomfortable topic into a necessary one.
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“Talking to your partner about whether they’ve gotten tested, talking to them about their birth control methods, about those barrier methods and normalizing sex. That’s kind of our whole goal, is to normalize sex,” Guevara said. This presentation took place at the request of the Women’s Adult and Reentry Center to preface their domestic violence week. “We have this little tagline, ‘STIs are not all curable, but they’re all treatable and livable,’ and I think that’s really important, especially for college students who don’t want to get tested because of fear,” Hollister said. SEE LATEX
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Alumnus speaks on his identity African American Resource Center Coordinator advises and helps students. LYDIA KELLEY Asst. Editor
Since last April, Torrell Foree has held the position as coordinator of the African American Resource Center. As students come to the center, he noticed that they tend to gravitate towards the black student welcomes and film discussions. Especially being in Orange County, where there are not many black students. Bethany Whittaker, a senior communications lead for the center, said that the center focuses on making sure the student comes first. The center ensures that each student is provided with resources where they can feel that they are excelling academically as a black student on campus, Whittaker said. Foree said that the center consistently collaborates with other resource centers on campus to
Torrell Foree, the African American Resource Center coordinator, working at his desk.
help students that have multiple identities and plan events with along with them. One of his goals is to plan upcoming events with other coordinators from the other resource centers. The center currently has events planned with the Chicana and Chicano Resource Center as well as the Asian Pacific American Resource Center.
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Foree said it’s better that now all of the resource centers are located in the same area and that students are able to define what they want for themselves. “Students can move in and out of centers to explore their identities and to explore their communities. To me, that’s dope to see that I don’t have to stick to one
A two-car accident in front of the College Park building at Cal State Fullerton left no serious injuries or road closures on Tuesday afternoon. A Hyundai Santa Fe and Kia Optima collided at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Nutwood Avenue. Warner Peter Gustav witnessed the accident while waiting for the Route 26 Orange County Transport Authority bus to Placentia and ate a few poke bowls “that somebody bestowed me with across the street,” he said. He said he was on his second poke bowl when the two cars collided and called Fullerton police. Although not a student at Cal State Fullerton, Kyle Cotrain, the driver of the Kia, had just dropped his girlfriend off to campus. “I was going in the far right lane because I was going to merge on the freeway. The middle lane was full of cars, and the intersection had a few cars in the middle of it as well, and the other driver just turned left right in front of me. I didn’t even see her, and last-minute, slammed my brakes,” Coltrain said. Coltrain said he didn’t have any serious injuries. The driver of the Hyundai declined to comment. Gustav said the traffic light at Nutwood Avenue needs to have “full left turn phasing and not this doghouse configuration, but as you know, it takes somebody dying first before they’ll spend the money to do an upgrade.” Another car accident happened two weeks ago at that same intersection, where one driver received minor injuries to her arm and was helped at the scene. Hosam Elattar and Sophia Acevedo contributed to the article.
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place,” he said. “You don’t have to be boxed into any particular identity. You get to define what that is for yourself.” Foree gave three pieces of advice for African American students at Cal State Fullerton struggling with identity issues. SEE DIRC
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The Kia Optima was damaged.
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