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Students involved in Cal State Fullerton’s Gravita-tional Wave Physics and Astronomy Center are not merely stargazing.

Established in 2012, the center is the university’s primary hands-on research laboratory for studying the universe through the dy-namics of gravitational waves generated by cosmic events.

Geoffrey Lovelace, Ph.D. assistant professor in the Department of Physics at CSUF and one of the cen-ter’s founding professors, explained that knowledge about gravity and spacetime comes from light. Gravita-tional waves, can be used to make discoveries about the universe from a new per-spective, he said.

“The idea of gravitational waves is a whole new spec-trum of stuff, it’s like a new way to see the universe, ex-cept, I’d say, it’s a new way to hear the universe,” Love-lace said.

Sean Hatcher, a physics major and research assistant at the center, is working to-ward an academic career in physics. He explained that his interest in gravitational waves is bridged by his cu-riosity about the universe and a passion for research.

“(Gravitational waves) are a brand new field that noth-ing has been discovered in yet, it’s also an entirely new way to look at the uni-verse,” he said. “Everything we see is on the same spec-trum, which is electromag-netic, light, radio and mi-crowaves and gravitational waves are a completely dif-ferent spectrum that is not electromagnetic.”

Specifically, the center is the hub for researching the behavior of gravitational waves produced by one of the most immense, violent and distant phenomenons in the universe—black holes. More specifical-ly, students at center are hunting regions of space-where two black holes are colliding.

A black hole develops when a dead star collaps-es. This process creates a massive, invisible region of curved space with a grav-itational pull so powerful not even light can escape it, according to Lovelace.

“There are some things, though, that don’t emit light, that you can’t see—like a black hole,” Lovelace said. “It’s invisible, so how do you see it?”

He explained that sci-entists are able to hear the frequencies produced when two black holes col-lide. These frequencies, which Lovelace refers to as a “chirping sound,” can fluctuate in pitch, which can determine the size of a black hole and its proximi-ty to other massive objects in space.

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Bringing ‘Magic’ to campus

Softball mauled by Wolverines

Black holes lead to new research and discoveries

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The Cal State Fullerton softball team entered its Wednesday game against the University of Michigan looking for an underdog victory, but the Wolver-ines instead handed them a drubbing.

The focus of the Titans was containing the Wol-verines’ big hitters. “We knew they’re a good hit-ting team, so we were just going to keep the ball low and work the corners,” Fullerton Pitcher Desiree Ybarra said.

Head Coach Kelly Ford gave the nod to Ybarra in the circle, the redshirt ju-nior leading her team in earned run average at 3.57. Things started off shaky for Ybarra, as she gave up a double to center field and then walked Michigan’s

Sierra Romero. Catcher Kylie Padilla had to have some words with Ybarra to calm the pitcher’s nerves.

Ybarra responded with a strikeout of Tera Blan-co before the Fullerton de-fense closed out the top of the first inning.

Ybarra continued to pro-duce mixed results in the circle. She stuck out two more batters through the next three innings, but also produced three walks in the same timeframe. She seemed nervous in the cir-cle, Padilla having to leave home plate on multiple oc-casions to have words with her pitcher.

Magic Johson addresses students in the Titan Gym Wednesday. During his speech, the Lakers player turned businessman gave students advice meant to help them become successful in their own lives. He advised students to ask questions continuously and keep up a constant search for knowledge.

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Earvin “Magic” Johnson brought words of advice to Cal State Fullerton students Wednesday during “An Evening with Magic John-son,” part of Business Mad-ness Week.

Johnson addressed the students as “young people” throughout the night and em-phasized the importance of over delivering.

“I grew up poor—six

sisters, three brothers, my dad had to work two jobs his whole life to put food on the table,” Johnson said.

That upbringing, and the opportunity to make a better life, factored into his decision to sign with the Lakers, he said. Even after his time with the Lakers, he said, he had to decide how to use the money he had earned to help better others’ lives.

“I had to decide what I was going to do with the money that I had saved while play-ing with the Lakers,” John-son said. “So I decided I was going to invest in urban America.”

That decision led Johnson to open movie theaters in ur-ban communities—just one of the efforts Johnson made

to reach out to minorities, he said. He chose to open mov-ie theaters because urban mi-norities had been priced out of other events, including Laker games.

He went on to open six the-aters in various communities, including one in Harlem and another in Los Angeles.

His Los Angeles theater be-came a top-ten highest gross-ing Sony theater in the country within its first year, he said.

Taking a jump start to his business life, Johnson ap-proached Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, and told him about his idea to build Starbucks in places that in-vestors thought would not bring money.

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Communication meth-ods and legal representation were at the top of the Ful-lerton City Council’s agen-da Tuesday, when it decid-ed to retain its legal counsel through three different law firms and also took on com-ments from concerned citi-zens over its dissemination of information.

The council voted Tues-day to keep its legal rep-resentation of three sepa-rate firms—Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, Atkinson Andel-son Loya Ruud and Romo and Filarsky & Watt.

Concerns were brought up as the council discussed recommendations for its Communication and Out-reach Strategies, which are intended to improve public participation.

Cal State Fullerton senior and art major Shay Lar-by, during public comment, asked whether the council had plans to increase out-reach to the younger gener-ation and college students.

“The only reason I’m here right now is because of my political science class,” Lar-by said. “But that’s kind of a bad sign to me, because I didn’t even know about city hall meetings and public

community meetings.”The Community Devel-

opment Department works very closely with CSUF and the group is collabo-rating on the CollegeTown project and a student com-mittee, Community Devel-opment Director Karen Ha-luza said.

Councilman Bruce Whitaker added that stu-dents can find information regarding council meetings through the Daily Titan.

“I’ve found over the years that the Daily Titan does a very commendable job of covering all local events in-cluding city government,” Whitaker said.

Approval was also given to start plans for the Curb/Gutter and Sidewalk re-construction plan, and for a $20,000 budget transfer from the Sewer and Drain-age fund balance to the Curb/Gutter and Sidewalk project for 2014-2015 fiscal year.

The project will upgrade and replace damaged curbs, gutters, sidewalks, drive-ways and will also fund the installation of 13 new ramps at various locations throughout the city.

The Council meeting also included presentations from various community pro-grams and events.

Presentations were giv-en to the council about the upcoming Arbor day, Read Across America, Art Walk Anniversary and the Up with People event

happening in Fullerton. Arbor day will be held on

March 14 at Rolling Hills park and is an event where everyone in the community can come together and help plant trees.

The event had a turn-out of about 100 people last year and organizers are hoping to draw in more community members this time around.

The Art Walk will also be having its fifth anniver-sary Friday. More than 30 local galleries and venues in the downtown area, in-cluding the award-winning Fullerton Museum Center, will open their doors to the public from 6-10 p.m.

Up with People was an-other program brought to the council’s attention. The program consists of a group of 100 students from 20 different countries trav-elling around the world for six months to tour different cities.

They also do community service in the city they are touring in, and perform an international show in that city.

Up with People will be coming to Fullerton and Anaheim from March 9-16 and will be putting on their international show at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Tickets for the event are $20 for adult and $15 for stu-dents with I.D. Funds will benefit the Woodcrest Play-ground Park in Fullerton.

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The U.S. ambassa-dor to South Korea was taken to the hos-pital Wednesday after an assailant slashed him with a razor blade, according to BBC News.

Mark Lippert was attending a breakfast meeting in the Seoul when the attack-er slashed him on his face and left hand.

At the time of the attack, the assailant yelled out that North and South Korea should be unified.

It wasn’t immediate-ly clear whether North Korea had anything to do with the attack, but the alleged assailant has had a history of violent protests.

In a previous inci-dent, the assailant threw concrete at the Japanese ambassador to South Korea.

A former Buena Park resident was captured in the United Kingdom and is awaiting extra-dition on sexual assault accusations, according to the Orange County Register.

Roger Alan Giese, a former choir teach-er has been a fugitive since 2007 and is ac-cused of the sexual as-sault of one of his ado-lescent male students in 2002.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller did not provide details on how and when Giese was captured.

Giese was wanted for a number of charges that included lewd acts on a child under 14 as well as oral copulation of a person under 18.

He had been on the FBI’s most wanted list prior to his capture.

Islamic State fighters captured two Libyan oil fields and attacked an-other Tuesday, accord-ing to Time magazine.

The fighters at-tempted to capture the Dhahra oil field near the centrally-locat-ed Libyan city of Sirte, exchanging rounds of fire with guards there before eventually retreating.

The attack came af-ter Libyan officials confirmed that Islam-ic State fighters had captured the Bahi and Mabruk oil fields.

Published pic-tures from a Liby-an news organization showed wreckage at the oil field, including a charred pickup truck.

The report sug-gested that the Islam-ic State, which has gained pockets of con-trol in Iraq and Syria, is also beginning to earn the support of local mi-litias in Libya.

“It took us a while,” John-son said. “This is what’s re-ally important, young peo-ple—you have to always have your business going at the right time, you have to have everything in place.”

Johnson’s successful management of his theaters led to Schultz’s agreement to work with him and bring Starbucks to urban locales, he said.

Johnson reminded stu-dents to take advantage of their education while they can, using internships to gain experience.

“Don’t be caught up in being disappointed that you don’t get the first job that you want when you first get out of college,” he said.

Johnson then went on to answer questions from the audience.

One student asked where Johnson’s own inspiration had come from.

His first inspiration, he

said, came from his father, he said.

Johnson’s business inspi-ration, he said, came from the late Jerry Buss, Ph.D., a former owner of the Lakers.

He went on to say that the quality of asking questions constantly is one that stu-dents should adopt.

“That’s what I’m all about, being as smart as I can,” Johnson said. “You can learn something from a lot of different people … I’m going to listen to all the people because I want to learn.”

Once the question and answer session concluded, Johnson hushed the audi-ence before giving life ad-vice that students can take into the workforce.

“I’m a big believer in if you don’t dream it, you can’t become it,” John-son said. “You have to put yourself there and you have to work hard to get there, to make that dream

become reality.”Johnson’s concluding ad-

vice to students reiterat-ed key components of be-ing successful—a constant search for knowledge com-bined with the ability to dis-regard other’s opinions.

“A lot of times we get caught in things that don’t matter,” Johnson said. “Don’t let nobody squash your dreams.”

Johnson then ran to each side of the Titan Gym and gave the audience an

opportunity to take pic-tures with him.

Crowds of students flooded the center of the Titan Gym to take pho-tos with Johnson, but he was escorted out shortly afterward.

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The city council approved a continued partnership with three law firms Tuesday, despite the fact that all three firms increased their fees. The council also addressed community outreach.

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Magic Johnson addressed students Wednesday evening in the Titan Gym during ‘An Evening with Magic Johnson.’

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Candidates focus on outreach

On the lawn between the Student Recreation Center and the Titan Gym, Asso-ciated Students, Inc. Board of Directors candidates from two colleges came to discuss why they deserve to represent their respec-tive colleges.

The candidates are try-ing to represent the Col-lege of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of the Arts during the 2015-2016 academic year.

The three candidates running for the position of the Associated Students Board of Directors for the College of Natural Science and Mathematics include Phillipe Rodriguez, phys-ics major, Nardeen Gorgy, biology major and Laila Dadabhoy, physics major.

Only one candidate, Jo-seph Valencia, an art ma-jor, is running for an As-sociated Students Board of Directors position for the College of the Arts.

All four candidates de-bated specific issues with-in their colleges, but all came to an agreement that it was important to get stu-dents within their respec-tive colleges to become more engaged throughout campus.

Each candidate had his or her own goals for their colleges.

Valencia emphasized his desire to combine work in and out of the board room to help students understand how Associated Students serves them.

Dadabhoy had three specific goals for College of Natural Science and Mathematics— commu-nication, awareness and responsibility.

Dadabhoy wanted to communicate to the stu-dents within her college that CSUF has more to of-fer than what they see in McCarthy Hall and Dan Black Hall—that there are plenty of opportunities for engagement and interac-tion outside the buildings that students are most fre-quently in, she said.

Gorgy wanted to promote

the research coming from the College of Natural Sci-ence and Mathematics and wanted more events and outreach to come to the college, she said.

One of Rodriguez’s goals is to increase student awareness of the opportu-nities that Associated Stu-dents has to offer, includ-ing grants and research opportunities, he said.

Another concern ad-dressed was how the poten-tial candidates would han-dle requests for funds that come from student fees to fund large-scale events.

Valencia voiced his sup-port for spending to fund well-planned programs or events with a broad reach across campus.

Board members need to be responsible when con-sidering how the event will impact the students, Dada-bhoy said.

She emphasized that the expenditure should have a positive impact on stu-dent’s futures, specifi-cally regarding research grants.

Spending student fees on large-scale events should happen, as long as there are

limits and students benefit from it, Gorby said.

That spending is an in-vestment in students, espe-cially when it comes to re-search, Rodriguez said.

The candidates went on to emphasize the role of Associated Students, spe-cifically for the college of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Associated Students rep-resents students, and mak-ing decisions to address student concerns is a part of their job, Rodriguez said.

Dadabhoy, an active

member on the board, said being an advocate includes working to make the im-provements they feel are necessary.

Associated Students’ main focus is creating events, Gorgy said. Part of her goals is to encourage students to become more engaged and involved in those events, she said.

Voting will begin March 17 and last until March 19 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Stu-dents can vote in on-cam-pus booths or through their student portal either on or off of campus.

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Eye contact, a firm handshake and extra re-sume copies—all prac-tical things students are told will help them on the job hunt. However, some-thing that is not often dis-cussed but still import-ant during an interview is personality.

Melinda Blackman, Ph.D., professor of psy-chology at Cal State Ful-lerton, teaches industrial organizational psychology, which is the study of hu-man behavior in the work-place. Blackman gives stu-dents interview preparation and tips on getting that much closer to landing a job.

“We teach how to hire

the ideal employee, how to evaluate them, how to ass-es their personality during the job interview and we talk about types of tests to give them to select that optimal employee,” Black-man said.

There are two types of job interviews, one is structured, where they ask the same set of questions to each candidate, which is great for depicting in-dividual job performance, Blackman said.

The other type of in-terview is unstructured, where the interviewer comes up with spontaneous questions and takes the po-tential employee out to cof-fee or dinner—that’s the interview format that best predicts the job candidate’s personality, she said.

“They let down their guard with small talk and might reveal things that they wouldn’t normally say during a structured inter-view—that’s when you’ll

be able to see their person-ality and accurately assess it,” Blackman said.

Blackman prepares her students for future job in-terviews by reviewing questions that are applica-ble during the actual inter-viewing process, she said.

Blackman encourages students to practice inter-viewing in the mirror. Key factors students should pay attention to, she said, are watching their whole body; avoid toe-tapping or twist-ing clothes and to sit a cou-ple of inches away from the back of the chair, but al-ways to look relaxed.

Regarding personality, “It could just be something that they invertly reveal: they got fired from their last job, that they didn’t leave willingly—informa-tion such as that and you just kind of get a complete picture of what they’re re-ally like,” Blackman said.

Miguel Marti-nez, employment

relations specialist at the Career Center, follows the 60/20/20 model for inter-view preparation, which means, 60 percent is the student knowing their ex-periences and abilities, 20 percent is understanding the specific job that they are applying to and the last 20 percent is understand-ing the company, he said.

Different companies have different character-istics and needs. So when one is applying to that par-ticular organization, one needs to research and un-derstand the company’s de-sires; what do they want, what are they in need of and connecting your ex-periences and skills to the needs of the organization, Martinez said.

“You’d be surprised how many students come into a job interview and do not understand the job that they are applying to,” he said.

Martinez noted that

often times, students forget the position they applied to and then end up making up answers during the in-terview instead of actively preparing and really know-ing and connecting their past experiences to that po-sition, he said.

“They rush it,” Marti-nez said. “The nerves kick in and it’s like a race—the more information I give you and just talk, talk, talk without really listening to the question being asked.”

Once the interview com-mences, having a list of questions about the compa-ny and job position based on the interview and in-depth research is crucial, he said.

“A lot of (students) ask the same questions they saw (online) … the ques-tions really need to be based on the research you’ve done, the informa-tion that you received at the interview. That shows the employee that you were

paying attention and that you’ve done your home-work,” Martinez said.

Along with having pre-pared questions, a clos-ing statement is just as im-portant, he said, because this is where students can tell employers why they are the right candidate af-ter hearing the needs of the organization.

For Blackman, following up with a thank you note through email or a written letter is the best advice she can give to a student be-cause it will keep the stu-dents name in the employ-ers brain.

“I’m big on (students) getting to know them-selves. As educators we don’t take time to ask the students simple questions like ‘what did you learn … what values, what set of knowledge are you leav-ing my institution with?” Martinez said. “Having a student to really pin-point those things is critical.”

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Secrets lie beneath campus

From the 50-year-old electrical equipment in Mc-Carthy Hall to the state-of-the-art systems in the Trigeneration Plant, faculty traveled through time Tues-day, to view a side of the campus not often seen.

On a tour led by Willem van der Pol, director of Fa-cilities Operations, a group of about 20 faculty members explored the roof of McCa-rthy Hall and crept through small passages of the mas-sive ventilation system be-neath Dan Black Hall.

Van der Pol is intimate-ly familiar with the in-ner-workings of things most people on campus take for granted—hot water, cold water, ventilation and elec-tricity. He took the opportu-nity Tuesday to familiarize faculty with how the pipes and ducts beneath their feet keep the heart of the campus beating.

“It helps people to under-stand how a place works,” van der Pol said.

The first-ever “hidden campus” tour was organized by Barry Pasternack, Ph.D., a senator in the Academ-ic Senate and a professor in the Information Systems and Decisions Sciences Depart-ment. Pasternack worked with Deputy Provost Shari McMahan, Ph. D to organize the tour in order to build a sense of community among

faculty at what is notorious-ly considered a commuter campus.

The tour couldn’t have been a better day, van der Pol said. The clear skies bared a view of the distant Port of Long Beach and Catalina Is-land from the roof of McCa-rthy Hall.

On the roof of CSUF’s oldest building, faculty mar-veled at the “six-pack,” the steel-gray ventilators visible from the ground on the north side of the building. The six-pack sucks the air from fume vents used by students and researchers experimenting with chemicals on the floors below. A mask was required on the roof of this building 50 years ago, when chemi-cal vents puffed concoctions of chemical exhaust onto the roof.

Now, campus staff occa-sionally uses the roof to en-joy a nice sunset, said Dave Ostrowski, building services supervisor.

Another secret of McCa-rthy Hall—the escalators in the building only go up to the fourth floor because in the early days of the build-ing, the fifth and sixth floors were primarily labs and the number of people who used those floors was much lower than other floors.

To students today, the four floors of escalators is a cu-rious remnant of days gone by.

At Dan Black Hall, a grate in the grass is a small hint to the building’s chemical ventilation system. Through this grate, fans in the base-ment and on the roof create a wind-tunnel-like passage beneath the building. The

system cools the air before it enters the building and trav-els through vent fumes and carries chemical exhaust out through the six-story-tall, white, domino-shaped tower that juts above the building.

Next to Dan Black Hall, the Trigeneration Plant is essentially a huge machine with a cover over it, said Jay Bond, the associate vice president for Facilities Plan-ning and Management.

The plant gets its name from the three utilities it gen-erates—hot water, cold water and electricity. Hot and cold water is stored in the two large cylindrical white tanks next to the plant.

Three banks of solar pan-els atop the eastside Parking

Structure, the Clayes Per-forming Arts Centers and the Kinesiology and Health Science building generate one megawatt of electricity for the campus. CSUF gen-erates about 70 percent of its own energy, using power from the solar panels and 4.4 megawatts of power from the Trigeneration Plant.

Current utility rules pre-vent the university from op-erating independently from the power grid. Eventually, van der Pol hopes the uni-versity can fall back on its own energy grid, and sell en-ergy back to the grid, in an emergency.

“Ultimately we would like to start selling energy back to Edison and become a

generator of power as well,” van der Pol said. “We could cover this whole campus with photovoltaic systems ... and make money off the whole thing.”

Chris Lyons, Ph.D., an assistant math profes-sor, described the tour as “overwhelming.”

“It’s amazing to see how much (the campus) does to keep themselves running,” Lyons said. “They’re gener-ating their own power and doing things to save money that ultimately goes back to the school. I appreciate it.”

Dipankar Purkayastha, Ph.D., said the tour gave him an insight into the work Facil-ities Operations does to keep the campus functioning.

“We never appreciate what these guys do, we only get worried if things don’t work,” Purkayastha said. “We should appreciate them more.”

Pasternack has plans for additional tours explor-ing different sections of the campus. Next week, Bill Meyer, professor and tech-nical director for the De-partment of Theatre and Dance will lead a one-hour tour behind the scenes of the Performing Arts Com-plex. Tour-goers will get a look at how scenery is de-signed and made.

In the future, Pasternack would like to provide tours of the Pollak Library and the nursing facility, he said.

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“It turns out, if you were to plug a speaker into a gravitational wave detector, for the kind of waves that we are likely to find, they are actually at the same fre-quency you can hear,” he said.

But what do gravitational waves have to do with black holes?

Lovelace explained that the reaction of two merging black holes can produce the universe’s top-tier research material. He credited Ein-stein’s gravitational theo-ries as the foundation for current research. Published in 1915, Einstein’s dual the-ories of relativity found that the more mass an object has, the more gravitational force it will exert. For ex-ample, the earth rotating around the sun.

“One of the most promis-ing sources of gravitation-al waves are black holes crashing into each other,” he said. “We want to bet-ter understand how gravity

works in the most extreme conditions, because this is the situation where Ein-stein’s theory of gravity is largely untested,” Lovelace said.

Lovelace referenced an example of ripples in a pond to illustrate how

gravitational waves move through the universe.

“Imagine throwing a rock in the pond; and the rip-ples come by, and anything that’s in the water is going to be disturbed a little bit. But, if you’re really clever and you measure the details of those ripples, you might be able to learn something

about the rock you threw in—like how heavy it was, how fast it was moving, or what shape it was,” Love-lace said.

Einstein also found that space and time were in-terconnected forces that curved around massive ob-jects in space; making time closer to a massive object run slower. His research also lead to the discovery that light travels at the same speed, regardless how fast the observer is moving, as defined by the research pa-per, On the Notion of the Measure of Inertia in the Special Relativity Theory.

Now, nearly a centu-ry after Einstein’s theo-ries were published, his re-search serves as the basis for some of the most signif-icant advancements in mod-ern technology. In fact, the Global Positioning System, commonly known as GPS, is technology that utilizes Einstein’s theory of curved spacetime in order to accu-rately send information be-tween Earth and orbiting

satellites, some of which can be travelling more than 15,000 mph, according to NASA.

“If you didn’t know things like time on the sat-ellites ticks faster than the clocks closer to the earth, that Einstein’s theory of gravity predicts,” Love-lace said. “GPS would start building up errors so fast, that in minutes it would be useless.”

Haroon Khan, 22, elec-trical engineering major, with a minor in physics said he became interested in the center through a summer internship at the center.

Although he was accept-ed into UC universities, Khan said CSUF was the right fit for him, because with the encouragement from Lovelace, he was able to become a research assis-tant at the center.

Khan’s ultimate goal is to work in satellite communi-cation systems and avion-ics, specifically for space-craft, and wants to work for NASA’s Jet Propulsion

Laboratory, he said. As new technology leads

the way to advancements in space exploration, aero-space is shaping into pri-vately funded billion dol-lar businesses that the next

generation of physicists, like Hatcher, and engineers, like Khan, will explore.

“This whole space age this is super exciting, be-cause that means there are more jobs,” Khan said.

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Housing needs to be diversified

CSUF needs to cater to special diets

The life of a college stu-dent is a whirlwind of pa-pers, classes, internships and work.

Being constantly on the go doesn’t always allow stu-dents to eat at the most op-portune times.

This often leaves campus eateries as the only option for grabbing something nu-tritious before rushing off to class.

Unfortunately for stu-dents with special diets, such as vegetarians, vegans

and gluten-free, the choices are limited. Veggie-friendly items are a minority when it comes to the typical meat-filled menus.

It’s difficult to find a cre-ative way of staying on a healthy vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diet when the options are so narrow.

There needs to be a larg-er range of healthy options to fulfill and satisfy the di-verse student body.

Sometimes, a green juice from Juice It Up is just not enough to take away that veggie burger craving.

According to PETA’s youth branch, peta2, Cal State Fullerton does not meet the criteria for giving students enough choices for a vegan or vegetarian diet.

Eateries on campus need

to give at least one option for special diet students.

Some limited examples are a build your own burrito at Baja Fresh Express or the spicy tofu and eggplant en-tree at Panda Express.

The only decent options for vegetarian and vegan

choices is the Fresh Kitch-en, located in the Titan Stu-dent Union food court. The menu includes vegan chili, salads with chickpea frit-ters, and tomato and cheese

paninis. Many of the animal products used in the recipes can be removed to the cus-tomer’s dietary needs.

The Grill at College Park also serves a veggie burger as well as The Habit, which offers a veggie sandwich.

Starbucks provides a lim-ited number of vegetari-an food options, including a brown rice and hearty veggie salad, a tomato and mozzarella panini and a grilled cheese for reason-able prices.

They also offer a soy milk option for their coffee, however, at a 60 cent cost increase.

Those who have glu-ten-free diets have even nar-rower options.

Carl’s Jr. advertises bun-less burgers and says those

are gluten free. LH Express recently be-

gan carrying Almond Pops snack brands, which are bite sized almond and dried fruit snacks that claim to be completely vegan and gluten-free.

However, these are not acceptable substitutes to replace the exempted pro-tein, and the prices for these meals aren’t cheap either.

Having to request meals with the meat taken out with no alternative protein leaves dishes incredibly unsatisfying.

Offering a veggie patty, tofu or portobello mush-room option would give stu-dents a healthier and more filling meal on the go.

Major food companies that assist in campus dining,

such as Marriott and Ara-mark, can take suggestions on how they can boost prof-its from offering other op-tions to students, according to the Physicians Commit-tee for Responsible Med-icine. Through the dining administration, companies such as Boca can bring their meatless options to the stu-dent body.

CSUF needs to step up and ensure they’re address-ing the needs of the dynam-ic and ever-growing student body.

Allowing students with special dietary needs the option of grabbing some-thing healthy and satisfy-ing during the day is the very least students can ex-pect from a proper universi-ty campus.

Californians are all too familiar with the images of poverty; it’s quite easy to travel from the opulence of one city and end up in the ghettos of another.

In areas with a high con-centration of low income residents, the logic often follows that low income housing should be nearby in abundance.

While low income hous-ing is an important aspect of America’s government assistance programs, its concentration is on histor-ically poor neighborhoods, particularly in metropol-itan areas, undermining the purpose of affordable housing.

Out of the ten largest metropolitan districts in the US, seven were found to have significant clus-ters of low income hous-ing—the top two culprits being New York and Los

Angeles—according to an article written by Casey Dawkins, Ph.D in the Jour-nal of the American Plan-ning Association.

By building vast quan-tities of affordable hous-ing in impoverished areas, it leaves the poor with few options to live in the city outside of the areas with high poverty—and even fewer opportunities.

The scattered placement of low income housing throughout a city’s metro-politan district helps break up areas of rampant pover-ty and provides individuals with a far wider range of opportunity.

There are many reasons why developers decide to build affordable housing, but the most significant factors stem from careless policies regarding place-ment of housing and the specific targeting of poor minorities.

The driving force behind the construction of low income properties is the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, the nation’s larg-est subsidy for low income housing.

Surprisingly, the Low

Income Housing Tax Cred-it is not administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development—even though they share similar goals.

This lack of oversight may contribute to the ex-istence of well meaning, but ultimately detrimental, provisions of the Low In-come Housing Tax Credit that mandate the construc-tion of low income hous-ing in areas considered by the census to be Qualified Census Tracts and Diffi-cult Development Areas.

Dawkin’s analysis found these designated areas to have a significant impact on the likelihood of Low Income Housing Tax Cred-it clustering, but census data outside of these cri-terion also contributed to their clustering.

Independent of a neigh-borhood’s Qualified Cen-sus Tracts or Difficult Development Areas desig-nation, socioeconomic and racial characteristics often drove the clustering of Low Income Housing Tax Cred-it properties—particularly poverty levels, the census tract percent of Blacks and

the census tract percent of Hispanics.

The mission of Housing and Urban Development includes a desire for “cre-ating neighborhoods of choice, affirmatively fur-thering fair housing laws and fighting the scourge of

concentrated poverty,” ac-cording to Hud.gov.

As long as Low Income Housing Tax Credit pol-icies undermine the mis-sion of Housing and Ur-ban Development, the two departments will contin-ue to be at odds with one

another. It’s time for Housing

and Urban Development to step in and correct the mis-aligned policies of the Low Income Housing Tax Cred-it, providing equal oppor-tunity to all citizens, re-gardless of class.

Low income housing needs to be more regionally diversified

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Men’s basketball has the opportunity to break their seven-game losing streak when they face the UC Ir-vine Anteaters and the Uni-versity of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.

Fullerton is 9-20 over-all and 1-13 in conference play, and will finish in last place at the Big West Con-ference. Their last two games to close out the sea-son hold non-playoff poten-tial and will have no effect on the standings for the Ti-tans, but they will surely be playing for pride to close out the season.

This is only the fourth time in 40 years the team will not appear in the post-season. Its last absence from the playoffs was in 2002, when the team went 5-22 overall and 2-16 in conference.

Needless to say, it has been a tough go for the Ti-tans this season. Despite their conference record and standing, they can still fin-ish the season with a pair of wins, but they are not going to come easy.

Thursday’s contest against UCI will be a road game. UCI (17-11 over-all,10-4 Big West) is sitting tight in second place in the Big West, two games be-hind UC Davis. The Ant-eaters have only lost three home games the entire season.

The last meeting between Fullerton and Irvine ended in a 63-58 win for UCI. Senior Anteater forward Will Davis II led the game with 21 points and seven rebounds.

Davis provides the of-fensive firepower for the Anteaters, averaging 12.9 points per game and grab-bing an average of 6.5 re-bounds per game.

Saturday’s game, the last game of the season for the Titans, is a home matchup against Hawaii. The Rain-bow Warriors are currently fifth in the Big West.

Leading the charge for the Rainbow Warriors (19-11 overall, 7-7 Big West) is sophomore guard Aar-on Valdes, averaging 13.6 points and 5.3 rebounds per game. Following Val-des in scoring are sopho-more center Stefan Jankov-ic (10.8 points per game) and senior guard Garrett Nevels (10.6 points per game).

The last matchup be-tween the Titans and the Rainbow Warriors ended in a Fullerton defeat. Ful-lerton was only down two points going into halftime, sinking 13 out of 26 shots. However, the Titans froze in the second half, making only 7-of-30 shots and be-ing outscored 41-23.

Overall, the Titans shot 35.7 percent from the field, going 20-for-56. Hawaii’s bench was superior, pour-ing in 25 points compared to Fullerton’s 12.

Before the game, a spe-cial senior night recogni-tion will be held. The five seniors that will be finish-ing their Titan careers Sat-urday evening are guard Corey Walker, guard Josh Gentry, guard Alex Harris, forward Moses Morgan and forward Steve McClellan.

Tipoff for the Irvine game is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Bren Events Center. The Titans’ season finale will take place in-side Titan Gym at 5 p.m. and will be streaming live on ESPN 3.

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Michigan got on the scoreboard in the top of the fourth inning. Rome-ro walked to first base and then reached second on a fielder’s choice to get in scoring position. Romero then advanced to third off a sacrifice fly from Lauren Sweet, before Kelsey Susal-la’s hit to center field drove in Romero to give the Wol-verines the 1-0 lead.

Romero was again walked to first in the top of the fifth inning, moving Kelly Christner, who got on base with a bunt single. Thankfully for the Titans, their defense once again produced the outs to prevent any runs.

The Fullerton bats, mean-while, were connecting, but Michigan pitcher Haylie Wagner—who entered the game with a 1.79 ERA—limited the hits to most-ly grounders that her in-field easily handled. The lone bright spot for the Ti-tan bats was freshman Sa-mantha Vandiver, who con-nected on all three of her at-bats.

Fullerton could not cap-italize on Vandiver’s hits, though, and by the time Wagner stepped up to bat in the top of the sixth in-ning, Michigan had the bas-es loaded.

Wagner hit a single down left field to record an RBI and extend her team’s lead. The ball bounced off third

baseman Missy Taukeia-ho’s foot, allowing Lind-say Montemarano to cross home, putting the Wolver-ines ahead 2-0.

With the bases loaded once again in the top of the seventh inning with no outs, Ford opted to sub out Ybarra—who has had trou-ble closing games through-out the season—in favor of Washington.

Washington, howev-er, could not contain the damage as the floodgates opened on the Titans.

Washington gave up four hits as the Wolverines scored seven more runs in what remained of the sev-enth. Fullerton could not respond at the bottom of the inning, and they were

handed a humbling 9-0 loss.

“You can’t let fear dictate your performance,” Ford said. “You can’t be all in only if it looks like we’re going to win; you have to be all in every single pitch.”

The Titans will look to get back to winning ways when they return to action Thursday against the Ari-zona State Sun Devils for the Judi Garman Classic. First pitch is at 6:30 p.m. at Anderson Family Field. Ford stresses that their lat-est loss should be a driv-ing force for success in the tournament.

“A loss better motivate you,” Ford said. “I hate to say it, but that’s motivation in itself—getting our butts kicked.”

Softball: CSUF shut out by No. 3 Michigan

Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis were caught flat-footed in their match against No. 41 UC Irvine as they were swept 7-0 at Anteater Tennis Stadi-um on Wednesday.

The Titans came into the match against the Anteaters (9-3 overall, 3-0 Big West) with hopes of turning their Big West Conference record around, but instead found a determined UCI squad.

UCI came out firing, taking the doubles point with sisters Ali and Kat Facey winning 8-2 over Fullerton sophomore Camille De Leon and senior Megan Sandford in the No.

1 slot. Meanwhile, the No. 3 pairing of Andrea Duva and Vivien Dvali overcame Titan sophomore Emily Borkowski and senior Kalika Slevcove, 8-4.

“I think we just got pushed back in doubles. I think I came out a little timid and I wasn’t going for my shots like I should have been, especially at the net,” Sandford said.

The Anteaters carried that momentum into singles play, earning seven of the first eight singles sets that put the Titans deep in a hole they would not recover from.

Coming into the day, Ful-lerton’s sophomore singles No. 1 Alexis Valenzuela had won the past four singles match-es in which she participated, while UCI No. 1 Sarah Gong had lost her past four. Both streaks ended on Wednesday, as Gong earned the point for UCI, beating Valenzuela in

straight sets 7-6, 6-3.The Anteaters ran into a bit

of bad luck themselves when Ali Facey rolled her ankle while celebrating on match point during her No. 4 singles match against freshman Dan-ielle Pham.

The lone match victo-ry for the Titans came in the No. 2 doubles match where Valenzuela and Pham defeat-ed UCI’s Gong and Arisha Ladhani, 8-2.

Titan senior singles No. 6 Kalika Slevcove battled back from dropping the first set, 6-4, to win the second set, 6-4, forcing a tiebreaker with Duva, but ultimately came up short, 10-8.

“It was a really tough loss,” Slevcove said about her hard-fought singles defeat, which she played while carrying two sprained ankles, a strained abdominal muscle and a hand not fully healed from

a fracture. “... It was a good fight, lots of long rallies. The balls just started getting too low and we started having lit-tle wars inside the court.”

The Titans (5-7 overall, 0-4 Big West) will look to catch their breath and re-turn to form before hosting two non-conference matches against Loyola Marymount (2-7) on Saturday at 11 a.m. and Southern Illinois Uni-versity Edwardsville (4-5) on Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Titan Tennis Courts.

Five seniors will end their Titan career on Saturday, but junior center Kennedy Esume will be returning next year for CSUF.

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With the offense final-ly surging, the Titans base-ball team looks forward to this weekend’s series against the Red Raiders of Texas Tech University, ranked No. 5 in the nation by Baseball America.

The Red Raiders come into this week on a hot streak with a 10-1 record. The Red Raiders’ offense is swinging the bat well, led by junior in-fielder Eric Gutierrez, who is coming in with a .389 batting average to go along with 10

runs batted in. Through their first 11

games of the season, the Red Raiders have generated a to-tal of 125 hits and scored 85 runs. Meanwhile, their pitch-ing has been average, giving up 98 hits and 38 runs, equat-ing to a team ERA of 3.23.

Texas Tech has been ranked 22 consecutive weeks and its No. 5 ranking is its highest since the 1997 sea-son when they were the top-ranked team in the country.

Another standout on of-fense for the Red Raiders is junior infielder Cory Ra-ley, who comes in sporting a .419 batting average and six RBIs.

Meanwhile, Fullerton is coming in with a four-game winning streak off a sweep of the Baylor Bears last

weekend and a midweek win against Pepperdine Tuesday. In the Baylor series, the Ti-tan offense exploded with 28 total runs. Fullerton hopes to continue the hot offense this weekend.

The Titans will need to de-pend on their starting pitch-ing in order to contain the strong Texas Tech offense. Junior Thomas Eshelman is expected to take the mound Friday night. Eshelman earned his first win in a 10-1 blowout of Baylor last Friday, but his 1.77 ERA will be test-ed by the Red Raiders.

The Titans’ other ace, Jus-tin Garza, hopes to rebound from a somewhat shaky out-ing against Baylor on Sunday, where he gave up two earned runs on nine hits and a walk in four innings pitched.

Sophomore first baseman Josh Estill stood out with a pair of game-winning RBIs against the Bears, which earned him Big West Field Player of the Week. The Pur-due transfer bumped his bat-ting average to .389 with a team-high 11 RBIs.

Texas Tech will get their first taste of the road this season after a hot start at home.

The Red Raiders hope to keep their offense rolling in this series. Texas Tech has had the luxury of not facing any ranked opponents so far this season. Their only loss of the season was to Nevada. The Titans will be a test to their No. 5 ranking.

The first game of the series is set to start Friday at 7 p.m. at Goodwin Field.

CSUF baseball to host No. 5-ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders

RYAN WHITEHEADFor The Daily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton baseball team is riding a four-game winning streak after sweeping Baylor and winning a midweek clash with Pepperdine. They now set their sights on upsetting the No. 5 Texas Tech Red Raiders this weekend at Goodwin Field.

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