The Student Athlete Ad-visory Committee started collecting coins Monday as part of a returning com-petition between Big West Schools to benefit various charitable causes.

The competition—the 8th annual Big West Coin Drive—runs through February.

During this time, the committee must set up a location on campus to col-lect coins for their chosen charity.

Three-quarters of the money raised will be do-nated to the school’s chari-ty, and the other 25 percent will go to the winning in-stitution’s charity, accord-ing to the Big West Confer-ence website.

Cal State Fullerton has

previously donated its funds to the Orangewood Children’s Foundation, which devotes its resourc-es to children who have suffered neglect, abuse or abandonment.

This will be the first year the committee donates funds to a different cause, the Pediatric Cancer Re-search foundation.

“I think that this year we wanted to expand the hori-zon of who we’re donating to, and cancer research—especially pediatric cancer research—found me close to home,” said Adriana Gjonovich, vice president of the committee.

Pam Newton, life skills coordinator for Titan Ath-letics, said the commit-tee wanted to support ad-olescents fighting cancer in the hopes of providing better opportunities for the patients. The connec-tion between a young can-cer patient and the athletes made the charity choice appropriate.

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Cal State Fullerton stu-dents will have the chance to network with CSUF through the CSUF Alumni Associa-tion’s new Dinner with 12 Ti-tans program.

The program encourag-es students to network and be mentored by alumni who have developed careers and a life after graduation.

The concept of the pro-gram was derived from the idea of Dinner for 12 Strang-ers and will give students and alumni the opportunity to come together and connect in a more intimate setting.

Dinner for 12 Strangers, a program that takes place at multiple universities across the country, brings university alumni together with students and faculty to create rela-tionships across generations and give students the chance to network with successful alumni.

The program will use $2,000 of the Alumni Rela-tions office’s $53,000 budget for the year.

The funds will be used for marketing tools such as flyers and banners to promote the program and encourage stu-dents to sign up. The alumni who will be hosting the din-ners will fund their meals personally, with food either catered or cooked by the host.

Dianna Lopez Fisher, ex-ecutive director of Alum-ni Relations, played a part in bringing the program to CSUF after she was involved in implementing similar pro-grams at UCLA and UC Irvine.

Fisher said she hopes the program will help expand the Titan community and give students the chance to get out and meet new people.

“There is something bonding about sharing a meal together,” Fisher said. “This type of event pro-vides a unique opportunity to get students out meeting new people from the Titan community.”

Fisher also believes this will give students the oppor-tunity to connect with alum-ni on a more intimate level with a home-cooked meal.

Although students may be hesitant to sign up to eat in a stranger’s home, Assis-tant Director of Alumni and Campus Communities, Jus-tin Gerboc, said the alumni hosts are feeling the pressure as well.

“It’s funny, they’re a lit-tle bit nervous,” Gerboc said. “It’s fun to allow for some of that human connection because I imagine as a stu-dent, going to alumnus’ home whom you don’t know, you may not know the other stu-dents who are there … all of that creates this unique atmo-sphere of vulnerability, but also then opens up the door for connection.”

Gerboc emphasized that the program’s main focus is to encourage students to build connections and relationships.

Visualizing nature through art

‘Dinner’ will bring Titans together

Gathering change for the better

New program will allow students, alumni to connect

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The “History of Botanical Illustration” class arranged by Cal State Fullerton alumna Tania Marien focused on plant documentatin and the appreciation of plantae in everyday life. Attendee, Dolores Fournier, above, sketches attentively.

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Nature is all around us and plants exist everywhere. But very few actually spend the time to learn more about the different plant speci-mens that populate the world around them.

Driven to make a change, alumna Tania Marien, is working to change how stu-dents visualize nature—through the process of il-lustration, science and interpretation. Moreover, Marien has made it her mis-sion to eradicate, what she refers to as, “plant-blind-ness,” which she describes as people being more famil-iar with animals than they are with plants.

On Jan. 29, Marien offered one of many classes to assist in her mission.

The “History of Botani-cal Illustration” class had 11 students with sketchbooks, ready and eager to learn about plant documentation.

Not everyone who attend-ed had experience with bota-ny, but all shared a common interest—a desire to learn about the plants around them.

The course consisted of an introduction to botani-cal illustration, followed by an exploration of the Fuller-ton Arboretum to sketch out different plant life within the gardens.

Marien led her class to a banana tree and gave them a demonstration on banana flowers and all their vari-ous parts. Students had the opportunity to walk along the paths and draw speci-mens that were unfamiliar to them. After becoming a botanist-artist-explorer,

students learned how sketch-es of plants are made into prints for field guides. Marien has a large array of field guides she has collect-ed over the years, which she displayed at the back of the classroom.

“There is an art ele-ment to all of my classes,” Marien said. “The objec-tive is to provide multiple points of entry to learn about plants and to use drawing to observe.”

Recently-retired forest ranger and resident of Yor-ba Linda, Steve Segreto, dis-covered the class through the Arboretum website.

“All my years of being in the forest, I never really learned to draw very well,” Segreto said.

Segreto explained that he has carried an inter-est in nature since he was a child, and hoped the class would help him learn more

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“To be able to support someone young that has can-cer that could possibly beat it and then be an athlete, maybe, or a doctor or whatever they choose was really a key point to wanting to pick the pediat-ric cancer foundation,” New-ton said.

Midway through Febru-ary, CSUF student athletes will raise awareness on the Titan Walk by educat-ing the student population about the research founda-tion, Gjonovich said.

Athletes will also be collecting donations from class-to-class in hopes of reaching their $5,000 goal.

“We’ve encouraged ath-letes to bring their buck-ets to their classes and ask their teachers if they can announce it, because we have 30,000 kids on this campus,” she said. “That’s potentially a lot of money coming from this school to not only have that pride in supporting your athletic

team in a competition, but also donating to a good cause.”

Cal State Fullerton has never raised more than

$2,000 in the eight years it has participated in the competition. That’s a low amount for CSUF, being one of the largest campuses in the Big West, Gjonovich said.

“There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be able to

raise more money than that, so we’re putting our efforts—kind of like the same effort we put into practice and school—we’re putting that into fund-raising for Titan athletics and for the Pediatric Can-cer Research Foundation,” Gjonovich said.

Newton said the Student Athlete Advisory Commit-tee is an important part of athletics because it’s the only voice the athletes have in order to make change.

“My energy and pas-sion says that we can do more—they wanted to do more—now I’m going to help be the voice to make sure that we get it out there and that people know that we’re here to support not only our athletic depart-ment, but also our charity,” she said.

Newton will have a deco-rated jar available in her of-fice in Langsdorf Hall room 219B for anyone lacking a direct connection with the athletic department who would like to donate.

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Hundreds arrested in sex sting

Congress to decide funding

Scam targets caregivers

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Police officials arrest-ed nearly 600 people and rescued dozens of victims nationwide as part of a sex trafficking sting that took place in the weeks leading up to Super Bowl Sunday, ac-cording to a Los Angeles Times report.

Between Jan. 15 and Feb. 1, 68 victims, in-cluding 14 minors, were rescued from men and women suspected of so-liciting prostitution. Most of the prostitution inqui-ries happened on sites like Craigslist and Back-page.com.

“They rescued several women who told law en-forcement they had been brought to Arizona spe-cifically to work as pros-titutes near the game,” said Thomas Dart of the Cook County, Illinois Sheriff’s Office.

Following last year’s Super Bowl, the FBI saved 25 children in New Jersey and filed crimi-nal charges against 45 people.

Congress may be headed toward a shut-down over funding for Homeland Security, ac-cording to the Los Ange-les Times.

The conundrum over funding has arisen as a result of President Barack Obama’s immi-gration plan. The plan, which was announced last fall, would defer de-portation for more than 5 million illegal immi-grants as long as they’re law abiding citizens.

House Republicans are willing to approve a $39.7 billion funding bill for the Homeland Secu-rity Department, under the condition that none of that money will be used for Obama’s immi-gration plan.

The Republicans hold the senate majority with 54 seats, though 60 votes will be needed to overcome a democratic filibuster. The Senate is set to vote today.

Online scammers posing as parents on the website Care.com leave potential baby sit-ters with an empty bank account and no job.

The criminals, who are writing from over-seas, sent fraudulent checks to nanny’s or sitters for a negotiat-ed price to cover their salary in advance be-fore the scammers “up-coming trip” to the Unit-ed States, according to NBC Los Angeles.

In some cases, the scammer sent a fraudu-lent check to the poten-tial caretaker with more money than was origi-nally negotiated.

The scammer then asks the caretaker to wire the excess money back. Since the checks are fraudulent, however, the caretaker is in reali-ty wiring their own mon-ey to the scammer.

The Fullerton City Coun-cil will be meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to appoint new members to its Citizen Boards and Commissions. Each of the four boards will get one new member.

The Bicycle User Sub-committee, Fullerton Mu-seum Board, Arboretum Commission and Parks and Recreation Commission will each have new mem-bers appointed by the coun-cil. The terms for each new appointee will last until Dec. 18, 2018, according to the city council agenda.

All the soon-to-be ap-pointees were interviewed by the mayor, mayor pro tem and chairs from the respective committees or commissions.

Remaining vacancies have been reopened for recruit-ment on the Citizens’ Infra-structure Review Committee, Transportation and Circu-lation Commission, Energy Resource Management Com-mittee, Community Devel-opment Citizens’ Committee and the Investment Adviso-ry Committee, according to a report from the city clerk’s office.

The council is also expect-ed to confirm a timeline to begin the application process for safe and sane fireworks stands for the Fourth of July, according to the city clerk’s office.

The council reinstat-ed the sale and use of safe and sane fireworks in 2012, and there is a city ordinance that prohibits the discharge of fireworks on all public property.

In 2014 the city approved of 30 applicants to operate the fireworks stands and held a lottery that selected 15 of them. The city is expected to select another 15 applicants

through the lottery again this year, according to the city clerk’s office.

Last year, Fullerton police responded to over 290 fire-work-related calls during the first four days of July, includ-ing 203 calls on July 4, ac-cording to a city report.

Fullerton police also used three units made up of two of-ficers each to respond specif-ically to calls regarding fire-works. The officers handled 100 of the calls received, and mostly informed the citizens that lighting fireworks in the street is prohibited, according

to staff reports. The sales of last year’s

fireworks generated a prof-it of $183,645 for Fuller-ton-based organizations that ran the fireworks sales stands from July 1-4, ac-cording to last year’s annual fireworks report.

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California’s higher edu-cation system will see major changes in the coming years, as 15 community colleges will begin participating in a program that will allow them to offer students bachelor’s degrees.

The program began its move to implementation last September when Gov. Jer-ry Brown approved SB 850, which gave the Community College Board of Governors the authority to establish a bachelor’s degree pilot pro-gram at 15 California Com-munity Colleges. The bill required degrees offered be unavailable at any of the CSU or UC universities.

Santa Ana College will be offering a bachelor’s degree in occupational studies, already a highly successful associ-ate’s program at the college, said Omar Torres, vice presi-dent of Academic Affairs for Santa Ana College.

“We were very passionate about moving forward in this particular direction for this particular field,” Torres said.

The Occupational Stud-ies program would be open to anyone interested in the topic, but Santa Ana College plans to specifically advertise it to its local associate level students.

Although many of Santa Ana’s students transfer to Cal State Fullerton, Torres said he does not believe the new program will create a huge change in the number of stu-dents that transfer to UC or CSU programs.

“This is a degree that’s cur-rently not being offered at any of the UCs or CSUs; it’s a unique degree that’s target-ing a particular population of students,” Torres said. “So unless you’re interested in ul-timately working in the oc-cupational therapy arena or serving as an occupational therapy assistant, you’re prob-ably not going to be interested in this particular bachelor’s degree.”

Sean Walker, chair of the Academic Senate, however, called the setup for the pro-gram “a fascinating lesson in how not to do something.”

During the most recent Academic Senate meeting, Walker brought up the issue of insufficient time to respond to the proposals from com-munity colleges, and possi-ble issues with future transfer students.

Discussion would be re-quired to decide how to trans-fer units from classes that will be part of the communi-ty college bachelor’s degree program as opposed to the currently offered associate’s degree classes, he said.

“We have transfer agree-ments with community col-leges for certain sets of things and I would imagine we’d have to work with the artic-ulation officers and sort out how it would work,” Walk-er said during the Academic Senate meeting. “That’s a big part of the discussion now.”

Cypress College will also be a part of the pilot program, and will offer a bachelor’s in mortuary science. The pro-gram will be one of only two mortuary science programs offered at public universi-ties in California, accord-ing to a release from Cypress College.

Teresa Barajas, an En-glish major at CSUF, trans-ferred from Santa Ana Col-lege and said she does believe a four year degree program in a community college will be advantageous to some students.

The program, she said will allow students to be able to maintain a network and rela-tionship with professors and other staff members at that school.

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Gerboc emphasized that the main focus of the program is to encourage students to create con-nections and begin new relationships.

Kristin Crelin, former board member and presi-dent of the Alumni Associ-ation, is one of the alumni who will be hosting a din-ner for this pilot program.

Crelin was notified about the program through com-munication with Dianna Fisher and a CSUF email.

After hearing about the program through Di-anna Fisher and a CSUF email, she decided to par-ticipate in order to contin-ue to be a part of the Titan community.

“It’s not your usual mix-er that you might be invit-ed to,” Crelin said. “This is something that was very different … this was some-thing intimate that I really liked.”

Crelin said she is look-ing forward to being a part of the first—of what she hopes will be many—dinners.

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Titans: Dinner fosters talks

All it takes is an interlocked wooden dance floor and an uplifting soundtrack with bongos, percussion and trum-pets to compliment the twists, turns and extensions the Salsa Club members made at the Ti-tan Walk.

A trophy from the 2012 Golden Salsa Awards for “Best Salsa College Club” sits next to the club’s shirt and banner, both with the club logo, displayed behind the makeshift dance floor at the Titan Walk. The name is in white letters, customized with an image of two dancers in the middle that symbolize the CSUF Salsa Club’s accom-plishment and pride.

Behind the amicable per-sonalities and sizzling dance moves seen at CSUF’s Days of Discovery, is a passionate club that has more to offer.

The CSUF Salsa Club was formed on Aug. 1, 2010 by co-founder and information systems graduate student, Joshua Mendoza, 31, and Ka-zumi DeVries, the “woman of

many hats,” as Mendoza de-scribed her. She serves as the club’s salsa instructor, coach and advisor.

“I have to thank my advisor. She helped me out, gave me personal growth … and really helped my academic develop-ment,” Mendoza said.

DeVries swayed into sal-sa Spring 2001 as a stress re-lieving activity that would al-leviate her from motherhood, work and the 20-unit semester at CSU Long Beach as an art major.

“I was under stress so I de-cided I needed one day to kind of let the air out, so I decid-ed to start taking a salsa class … if I finished all my home-work by the end of the week, I rewarded myself going out once,” DeVries said.

DeVries said she was ap-proached by Mendoza, who at the time became the new president of “Candela,” a small and unstructured sal-sa club that needed improve-ment. Mendoza reached out to DeVries at a dancing event he attended, requesting if she would teach the Salsa Club. After a few business talks, a new Salsa Club was formed.

The club now enrolls about 150 interested mem-bers per semester in an ac-tive club where salsa dancers and enthusiasts can join the

competitive team, or simply engage in the club to learn and have fun, Mendoza said.

No dance skills? No prob-lem. The club has a salsa dance teacher that will start teaching members from the basics.

Four year CSUF Salsa Club veteran Kalia Asato, 21, said the club offers two different dancing sessions for member-ship. One of them being the Wednesday beginners ses-sion, which costs $35 a semes-ter, and the Friday interme-diate sessions that costs $35 monthly, providing more one-on-one learning with a salsa instructor.

The club meets every Wednesday at 7 p.m., Asato said. The first meeting will be held on Feb. 4 at the Titan Stu-dent Union building, and will then relocate the meetings to the Kinesiology building.

CSUF Salsa Club presi-dent Jazmine De La Cruz, 22, said the salsa club is more than a dancing club. It’s a club where members from diverse backgrounds become a community, where members obtain respect, do activities together, compete in competitions and gain meaningful friendships.

“A lot of people think that Salsa Club is just to dance, and it’s not just

about dancing, it’s about learning about culture and getting to break barri-ers of racism … not only that, but we hang out as a group, we bring you into our family, we treat each other with courtesy and we want to have fun, we want to compete and we want to have a friendly atmosphere and that’s our goal,” De La Cruz said.

DeVries’s ultimate goal was to create a safe envi-ronment for students where drama and alcohol is pro-hibited and members can focus on the essence of sal-sa dancing rather than the image of “the nightclub scene.”

Members also have the chance to give back to the community during club conducted canned food drives and by feeding un-derprivileged citizens, DeVries said.

Not only are members learning about salsa danc-ing, but the salsa culture it-self. Members learn about the existing ethnic diversi-ty in society, as seen with-in the large club, DeVries said.

“We have a lot of Indone-sian students, we have a lot of Iranian students, many international students join

the club so it’s very di-verse,” she said.

Titans who enroll in the club membership will auto-matically get 10 free class-es for joining.

The free classes may be a generous bonus, but the assertiveness, friendship and education is what real-ly makes the Salsa Club go a long way.

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about the native plants in the area and improve his plant sketching abilities.

Mission Viejo resident Kathy Bellas discovered the class through a friend who read about it in the Los Ange-les Times. Bellas immediately knew that this class was per-fect for her.

“I’ve always been inter-ested in art, plants and na-ture,” Bellas said. “I want-ed to get together with nature

again and see the beautiful Arboretum.”

Marien’s classes are part of her larger project, Inter-pretPlants, through her web-site, ArtPlantae.com. Since its launch in 2002, Marien’s web-site has grown from a newslet-ter to a place for botanical art and environmental education, for both formal and informal educational environments.

“I have always had an inter-est in plants,” Marien said. “I could not tell you why, it has been something I have always

been drawn to. I took my first botanical illustration class in 2001 and everything just clicked.”

Within the next 10 years, 50 percent of botanist will be re-tiring, according to the Botan-ical Capacity Project. Many colleges and schools have cut back significantly on their bot-any programs.

Marien believes it is import-ant to educate people about the importance that plants play in daily life, and to encour-age young people to pursue

botany. Marien has a master’s

degree in biology from Cal State Fullerton in biology and student learning and is currently completing a pro-fessional certification pro-gram in interpretive plan-ning and design of learning environments in informal settings.

Marien will be offering her next class at the Arbo-retum on Feb. 19 called, “Discovering the Arbore-tum Potting Shed.”

Botanics: Drawing awareness

When some students think of internships, they might imagine desk jobs where they will be shuf-fling papers around all day without pay for the hours they put in.

Employers think about internships quite different-ly according to a survey conducted by The Chroni-cle of Higher Education.

A Chronicle of Higher Education survey of em-ployer evaluation standards for new graduates, found internship and employment experience carried more weight than a graduate’s major, grade-point average and even the relevance of the graduate’s coursework to a given job position.

Yet, before students jump headfirst into an intern-ship, it is important to un-derstand that not all intern-ships are created equal.

In 2014, The Gallup-Pur-due Index surveyed recent graduates and discovered that 71 percent of gradu-ates, who believe they ap-plied what they learned in school to their internship, were currently employed full-time.

Compared to the 56 per-cent of graduates employed full-time, who believed they had not applied what they had learned in their internship.

Luckily for Cal State Fullerton students, the campus provides myr-iad tools to help place

students into internships that are both rewarding and engaging.

The bulk of the CSUF’s internship placement ap-paratus is headed by the Center for Internships and Community Engagement, located in LH-206, which screens employers for spe-cific criterion so as to pro-vide CSUF students with ideal internship partners.

According to Dawn Macy Ph.D., director of the Center for Internships and Community Engagement, there is an intense process for screening employers.

“We screen on the ba-sis of what duties they’ll (students) be performing, what sort of training and mentorship they’re going get and what they’re going to walk away with,” said Macy said.

Although some business-es may be wary of the vet-ting process, the Center for

Internships and Communi-ty Engagement has secured over 3,000 partners, which translates to thousands of jobs for students.

For students who are re-quired to take an intern-ship to graduate, they will be able to work closely with the center in order to find the internship that is right for them.

For students who have majors that require no in-ternship, they can visit the Career Center located in LH-208, which focuses on placing students into paid internships.

This offers many advan-tages, as students can find ways to support themselves through paid internships where they may not have previously had time for an unpaid internship.

Of those 63 percent with paid internships in the for-profit marketplace were offered jobs after

graduation, compared to 37 percent of unpaid in-ternships, and 35 percent of graduates who had not taken an internship at all, according to the 2014 In-ternship and Co-op Survey, conducted by the National Association of College and Employers.

The Career Center at CSUF shares a joint com-munity partner account with the Center for Intern-ships and Community En-gagement, adding an even greater number of employ-ers for students to choose from, giving students a greater chance to select the internship that will fit perfectly with the skills they have gained from academia.

For those who are look-ing for a more meaning-ful internship that can be currently offered by the for-profit landscape, stu-dents may turn to the

Gianneschi Center for NonProfit Research.

Susan Cadwallader, the director of the Giannes-chi Center for Nonprof-it Research, organizes the program to include a fo-cus on academia as well as training.

“The Gianneschi Cen-ter for Nonprofit Research was founded with the in-tention of providing ser-vices and training for the non-profit medium and small non-profit communi-ty in Orange County,” Cad-wallader said.

During the spring and fall semesters, the Gianne-schi Center provides stu-dents with classes and in-formation to prepare them for work in nonprofits, but the Gianneschi Center’s crown jewel is their sum-mer school program.

“We want students to come to our Gianneschi Center Summer School for

Nonprofits,” Cadwallad-er said. “There, they have the opportunity to interact with nonprofit leaders, to learn about nonprofit man-agement, and that service, this year, will be offered at no charge to the student.”

For students who may be unsure of themselves when networking, or merely wish for more guidance during the summer school pro-gram, faculty may accom-pany attending students for a minimal fee.

“Our job is to get these folks (students) in front of business professionals, and get them networking with each other,” Cadwallader said.

Every student may face the challenge of entering the job market, but with the help of the many in-ternship programs pro-vided by CSUF, students can have the confidence to stand out and succeed.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education surveyed employers to determine what they deem as most important when it comes to experience versus academia when hiring recent college graduates.

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Survey shows employers value work over academics

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CSUF Salsa Club is not just about slick swings and snaps

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Maira Luna, 19, practices her salsa moves at the Titan Walk with dance partner Joshua Mendoza, CSUF Salsa Club founder.

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Superbowl 2015 champions the New England Patriots upset reigning champions the Seattle Seahawks in an action-packed, toe-to-toe Sunday showdown.

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Super Bowl Sunday, one of the most-watched and anticipated live television events of the year, was met with much enthusiasm this past Sunday.

It’s not just any oth-er sports game; it’s the main event to kick-off the new year.

Hosted in the desert environs of Arizona, defending champions, the Seattle Seahawks look to have a “RePete” against the New En-gland Patriots.

The Seahawks, hav-ing one of the stron-gest defenses in the league along with the cool, calm and collect-ed quarterback, Russell Wilson gave the Patriots a run for their money.

The Patriots start-ed strongly, proving they were not ones to be frowned upon after the controversial “de-flate-gate” scandal.

Overall, either team was worthy enough to raise the Lombardi trophy—one with the strongest defenses, and one that was equipped for the short passing game.

With just minutes left in the game, Seattle blew the biggest oppor-tunity of claiming back-to-back Super Bowl championships.

Russell Wilson tried to throw it into the end zone, only to be picked off by Patriots’ Malcolm Butler with seconds left within the game.

Probably one of the worse play calls in Su-per Bowl history, Wil-son tried to be the hero of the game instead of using running back Marshawn Lynch to run the ball within a couple yards.

Lynch, who had some enormous runs and plays for the Seahawks all game and season long, could have easily bulldozed through the Patriots’ defense for an easy six points.

The decision to throw it into the end zone defi-nitely cost the Seahawks their second champion-ship ring.

Halftime show per-former, Katy Perry, roared into the Univer-sity of Phoenix Stadi-um riding atop a mag-nificent golden lion while donning a fiery costume.

Perry, singing from a diverse catalog, brought playfulness in each per-formance—whether it was with a ponytail hair flip or dancing with sharks and palm trees.

Enhancing her perfor-mance, Lenny Kravitz joined her onstage, pro-viding an electrifying rendition of I Kissed a Girl.

The real showstop-per was rapper Mis-sy Elliott, getting her freak on with her clas-sics and debuting a com-pletely new look—from her hair, make-up and weight loss.

Performing her hip-hop classics, it took all the ‘90s kids back to the beginning of their hip-hop roots.

But not everything about the Superbowl was playful and exciting.

The commercials are what the majority of viewers anticipate for the game.

Advertisers shell out millions for those cov-eted 30 seconds on television.

This year’s commer-cials had a more serious tone, with several PSA’s involving domestic vi-olence and childhood death.

Others were full of the expected cuteness of puppies, fun Break-ing Bad references and plenty of woodland creatures.

With the dramatic vic-tory of the Patriots, the playful halftime show, and noteworthy commercials, Superbowl XLIX definite-ly did not disappoint.

Superbowl goes out with a smash

Electronic cigarettes: safety still unknown

As many people and stu-dents can agree, the con-version from regular to electronic cigarettes hasn’t really changed anything.

It’s not rare to see a puff of vapor, usually accompa-nied by a fruity smell, when walking through campus.

This new fad, com-monly referred to as vap-ing, has stirred quite the controversy.

Electronic cigarettes were first introduced in the United States between 2006-2007, according to the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alterna-tives Association. E-ciga-rettes continue to grow in popularity every year, ac-cording to Reuters.

While many peo-ple insist that e-ciga-rettes can be used as a

smoking-cessation aid, oth-ers are more than willing to refute this claim, includ-ing plenty of healthcare professionals.

An argument in favor of electronic cigarettes is that they help transition smok-ers into non-smokers by controlling and limiting the amount of nicotine the user intakes.

Different e-cigarette cap-sules can contain varying amounts of nicotine, so they have that benefit over traditional cigarettes.

However, the real life re-sults of this argument have been widely speculated.

On the other spectrum of the e-cigarette debate, an article published in The New York Times about the unregulated manufactur-ing of e-cigarettes in China produced concerning infor-mation about e-cigarettes.

The article remarked on the “flawed” or “sloppy” manufacturing which could possibly be the reason for various harmful com-pounds found in the elec-tronic cigarette, including

carcinogens, which are the very substances e-ciga-rettes claim to help people avoid.

Some of the ingredi-ents found in these e-cig-arettes have been prov-en to be more dangerous than the traditional tobacco cigarette.

People need to know what goes into the electron-ic cigarette and how they are made before deciding to vape.

The question then arises: Should vaping be banned from smoke-free areas and campuses? If the harmful effects haven’t been prov-en, then it shouldn’t be banned.

But the benefits and risks of using e-cigarettes is still up for debate. Not enough research has been conduct-ed, so there’s no concrete answer yet.

Based on the informa-tion that is distributed, anyone interested in jump-ing on the vape bandwag-on should read up on what they’re going to be putting inside their body.

Before deciding to vape, know what’s going into your body

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Superbowl XLIX was a whirlwind of triumph and emotion

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Health media distorts body image

Waze tracker poses threat

Trustees make right move on success fees

A hot, slim, muscu-lar woman with beauti-ful makeup wearing a re-vealing outfit to showcase her perfect body; a young, shirtless muscular man; colorful fonts and catching phrases.

These sound like the cov-ers of typical fashion mag-azines, which can promote anorexia and set unrealistic standards of beauty.

But no, these are often the covers of health maga-zines today, which are sup-posed to promote health and awareness.

Health-related media and, in particular, health maga-zines are supposed to edu-cate the public and promote a healthy lifestyle.

But what they really do is promote an unhealthy im-age of what is beautiful un-der the label of health.

Perfect-looking people

who pose for health maga-zine covers might be in per-fect health.

It doesn’t mean, howev-er, that people whose body is not “perfect” (slim and muscular), are unhealthy.

Such limited portrayal of health in the media is unfair and misleading.

Health does not equate to slenderness.

The topic of human health belongs to the med-ical field, to doctors and health professionals.

Celebrities and life coach-es are usually amateurs and enthusiasts in this sphere, yet more often than not, they become the beacons of what exercise routine to fol-low or what diet to begin.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a body mass index calcula-tor available to everyone at Cdc.gov.

By comparing a per-son’s weight with his or her height, it determines whether his or her weight is healthy.

The range of healthy weight for each height is a staggering 35 pounds. For example, a healthy weight

for a woman 5-foot-3-inches tall is between 105 and 140 pounds.

Consider a famous fit-ness instructor like Jillian Michaels, who weighs 115 pounds at 5 feet 3 inches.

With her height, accord-ing to the CDC’s BMI cal-culator, she can weigh up to 140 pounds and still be healthy.

Of course, if she was 140 pounds, her body would look a lot different.

And because of that, she would likely not be photo-graphed for health maga-zine covers, even though she is a perfectly healthy woman.

Peter Cosmakos, a CSUF health science professor, estimated that in order to look like Michaels, one needs to exercise at least three hours a day and six days a week, which is quite a bit of work.

“I think it sets an unre-alistic goal for people to try to achieve,“ Cosmakos said.

“98 percent of the pop-ulation can’t look like that … and how much work did she put in to look like

that … Most of us can’t do that.”

At least 30 minutes of physical activity every day is enough to stay healthy, Cosmakos said.

Putting a “health” tag on a “perfect” body is also misleading because there are other factors that re-flect health besides physi-cal appearance.

People who read health magazines should be aware of this. A human being is so much more than just a body.

Jackie Blyleven, adviser and lecturer at the CSUF Department of Health Sci-ence, thinks health is very multidimensional.

“It’s not just eating right, exercising and looking good,” she said.

It’s also about staying stress-free, maintaining your emotional, spiritual and financial health, Bly-leven posits.

Who knows what is hap-pening inside those perfect people?

Are they stress-free working out for hours ev-ery day? Are their lives emotionally fulfilling? Are

they happy?A healthy body allows

for a healthy spirit. Before it invades the body, health must invade the mind.

A person with a healthy mind must have a healthy

view of oneself and healthy expectations.

If the media really wants to help the public, then the worship of the body must be replaced with the worship of the mind and spirit.

Health media is misrepresenting what healthy looks like

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Stanford and UMass Study found:• 70% of women feel worse about their appear-

ance after reading women’s magazines.The National Eating Disorders Association:

• Male body dissatisfaction has grown from 15% to 43% over the past three decades

• Over 42% of 1st-3rd graders want to be thinner.

Psychology Today reports:• A woman 18-34 has a 7% chance of being as

thin as a catwalk model, 1% as a supermodelDoSomething.org reports:

• Over 58% of college girls feel pressue to be a certain weight.

National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders found:

• Around 24 million Americans of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder.

Health Media Facts

Popular navigation app Waze has introduced a new feature allowing users to notify others of police sightings. Instead of benefitting drivers, some say this feature has inadvertently endangered police offiers in the wake of police brutality protests.

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The free community-based map, traffic and navigation app Waze, has added a recent update: a police tracker.

The Israeli based naviga-tion app differs from other traditional navigation apps by bringing in a communi-ty-based support system.

Drivers commuting on streets and freeways have the ability to notify other app us-ers of traffic conditions and possible dangers such as pot-holes, car crashes, and road obstructions.

The police tracker addition to the app has raised concerns regarding the potential safety of police officers.

Waze users are able to pin-point the location of a po-lice officer on a street or free-way who is monitoring traffic or measuring the speed of vehicles.

With a recent uprise in the controversial issue of police brutality involving the deaths of African-Americans includ-ing Michael Brown of Fergu-son, Missouri, and Eric Gar-ner of New York, this tracker could be a potential threat to police officers.

The drivers within the area post a marker where a police officer has been spotted in or-der to notify other users to stay aware and cautious.

Because of recent events

nationwide and locally in Ful-lerton involving police brutali-ty, the police tracker could be abused in a vengeful way.

Local and national protests against police brutality could ignite a series of violence against police officers.

An angry family member could use this tracker in order to gain some sort of revenge against any officer from a lo-cal force that harmed a friend or relative.

Law enforcement have gen-erally been irksome for most because of potential tickets, leaving a path of danger for officers.

Because this is a commu-nity-based update on traffic, crashes and police sightings, not all officers stay in the area they were originally pinpoint-ed to.

Users can update locations or even delete the locations where police officers were pre-viously spotted.

This feature could also ex-pose those who are going out and hunting down officers in public, leading to arrests of potential suspects.

Though originally creat-ed to avoid potential con-tact with officers, the police tracker could now be used to exploit officers’ safety instead.

Not all police officers do harm, most have served and protected their communities across the nation.

It takes only a few cor-rupt and negligent officers to bring a bad reputation to the police force and endan-ger all other officers that are lawfully doing their job.

Waze’s new police tracker may endanger officers in field

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A change has been made to the way Student Success fees are implemented.

As of Wednesday, the CSU Board of Trustees now requires a student vote before success fees are implemented.

In addition to this, CSU campuses without student success fees must get new implementation of fees ap-proved by the Chancellor’s office first.

It’s about time. When the fees first

emerged, there was no ma-jority vote by the students or faculty to implement the fees, or how much the fees would add up to.

Students felt cheated. I felt cheated.

It didn’t make any sense that CSU students were charged with these new fees without first put-ting the proposed fees to a vote.

When my journey as a CSUF student began in 2011, an agreement had been reached not to raise tuition.

However, with the

implementation of the suc-cess fees, it’s as though the students and administra-tors who worked so hard to reach that agreement, did so for nothing.

Although tuition has re-mained at what has been deemed an “affordable” $6,315 per year for the last four years, campus fees have risen from $648 a few years ago to $843 in the 2014-15 school year, ac-cording to a report by the California State University budget office.

While individual CSU campuses cannot alter tu-ition fees, each campus is able to set the amount of fees students are charged. At CSUF, these

fees amount to $181 per semester.

Students shouldn’t have to pay for these fees, but unfortunately, that isn’t the case.

Not having our tuition raised doesn’t feel as nice when those dollars and cents are being charged elsewhere.

It is nice to know stu-dents are now able to vote for or against the fees, but the CSU Board of Trust-ees should realize it’s quite clear to everyone that the student success fees are undoubtedly a tuition in-crease, whether the fees are voted on or not.

CSUF’s student success fees should be put to a vote

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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

You’re concerned that time is running out and you still have a lot of unfinished business on your plate. Even if you have a plan to complete your work prior to the weekend, it’s still a good idea to limit your activities so you can fulfill your obligations.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

You have plenty of ideas about your future, but can’t decide on a single course of action when there are so many choices. It’s challenging now.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

You may be so restless today that you’re ready to leave the safety of your world in order to step into an adventure.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

You’re bouncing off the walls today and might have trouble calming your feelings. Fortunately, others can’t see past your smokescreen of com-placency

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

Your high standards at work make for unrealis-tic expectations that are difficult to meet now. You can understand why your associates are act-ing as they do.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

You have ambitious objectives and probably have already lined up a variety of interesting activities for the day. But the separate events might not unfold as expected.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

It feels as if you’re on a roller-coaster ride today as your emotions rise and fall and rise again, leaving you with a queasy feeling in the pit of your stom-ach.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):

Your emotions seem raw today but you’re still capable of moving through powerful transforma-tions very quickly.

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Although you might think you can cleverly step around an emotional swamp today, you may still become enmeshed in someone else’s drama.

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You’re tempted to employ a heavy-handed ap-proach at work today, but your attempts will like-ly fall short of pulling it off successfully.

AQUARIUS(JAN. 20 - FEB. 18):

Your strategies are changing so fast now that it’s hard to make long-term decisions. Cerebral Mercury is backpedaling past the Sun in your logical sign to rev up your mental activity.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

You can’t wallow in discouragement today, even if you encounter resistance from someone at work. Although an old issue may rear its ugly head again, you can deal with it from a position of strength.

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Get your head in the game

When people think of sports, they focus on the physical aspect of the game. However, the mental side separates good athletes from elite athletes, and that’s why teams hire top sports psy-chologists like Cal State Fullerton’s own, Ken Raviz-za, Ph.D.

Ravizza, a leading au-thority on providing men-tal skills training for peak performance, has experi-ence working with some of the best athletes and coach-es in the world. In addition to working with the CSUF Titans and Long Beach State Dirtbags, Ravizza has worked with the Los Ange-les Angels of Anaheim, LA Dodgers, LA Galaxy, New York Jets, Tampa Bay Rays and the Toronto Argonauts.

Try this: place your hand on your stomach and take a slow, deep breath through your nostrils and allow the breath to push your hand

away from your spine. When your lungs are full of air, gently allow the air to flow out of you through your mouth. As you ex-hale, release excess tension in your body to relax your muscles.

Repeat two more times.This is one of the tac-

tics Ravizza teaches in his stress management course at Cal State Fullerton and in his book Heads-Up Base-ball. He states that the ex-cess tension in the muscles can hinder a player’s perfor-mance. The breathing exer-cise, however, is one way to

bring back focus and allow an athlete to perform at his or her best.

The subtitle of the book, Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time, is one of Raviz-za’s most important philos-ophies. He emphasizes that in order to be successful, an athlete must simplify the game and live in the present. Ravizza said he acts as the facilitator for the athletes in order to help them figure out how to get to the next pitch in their own unique way.

“The time is now, the place is here,” Ravizza said. “It doesn’t matter how you feel, because some days you

have your A-game, some days you have your B-game, some days you have your C-game. You still got to per-form and get it done.”

Even with the success of his methods, Ravizza stress-es that it’s not magic. The outcome of the game is still dependant on other factors, but, Ravizza said, the only thing an athlete can do is to put him/herself in the best position to succeed by “con-trolling what you can con-trol, (which is) the next mo-ment of the game.”

Mental strength can make or break an athlete.

“When you lose, it hurts. But when you go to bed at night, if the opponent beats you, you can sleep. But when you beat yourself, that’s when you stare at the ceiling all night,” Ravizza said.

Ravizza cites the 2004 CSUF baseball team as a team that epitomized the “one pitch at a time” phi-losophy. The team that had such high expectations go-ing into the season started with a 15-16 record, until Ravizza used an unortho-dox method to get the ath-letes to flush away their distractions.

He placed a miniature electronic toilet, complete with an actual flushing noise, in the dugout for the players to symbolically flush away any negative thoughts they had during the game.

The strategy worked. The Titans finished the sea-son with a 47-22 record and

a national championship. When the champions lined up to take a team photo, Ravizza stood next to the photographers until for-mer athletics director, Brian Quinn, demanded him to get in the photo.

“Every person on that team had a role, and every person embraced their role, whatever it was. It was truly special,” Ravizza said.

Augie Garrido, the coach sitting in the opposing dug-out of the 2004 champi-onship game, was the one to kickstart Ravizza’s ca-reer and put his name on the map. Garrido, a legend-ary CSUF coach, had heard

about Ravizza’s effect on the women’s gymnastics team and subsequently brought him in to work with the Ti-tan baseball team in 1979.

After the Titans won the 1979 and the 1984 Col-lege World Series, the big leagues took notice. Former Angels pitching coach Mar-cel Lachemann contacted Ravizza about working with the team, and Ravizza spent the next 15 years as a con-sultant with the Halos.

Ravizza never lost touch with the college game, how-ever. He remained at CSUF for 37 years while also working with pro organiza-tions. The reason for staying

at CSUF: his passion for teaching.

“The thing I love most about working at Cal State Fullerton is working with the students. I’ve learned so much from my students,” Ravizza said. “It’s fasci-nating to see the chang-es students go through in college.”

With retirement loom-ing over the horizon, the 66-year-old heads into his last semester as a professor at Cal State Fullerton with a positive attitude.

“It’s going to be a lot of tears, screaming and laugh-ter. We’re going to have a blast,” Ravizza said.

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Ken Ravizza, Ph.D., is teaching the stress management course in his last semester as a Cal State Fullerton professor. During his 37-year tenure at CSUF, the 66-year-old Ravizza has worked with Titan Athletics as well as professional organizations such as the LA Angels of Anaheim, LA Dodgers, LA Galaxy, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Jets and Toronto Argonauts.

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CSUF professor teaches the mental side of sports

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Ken Ravizza, Ph.D., is a renowned sports psychologist and the author of the successful book Heads-Up Baseball. In his book, Ravizza writes about how to take the game “one pitch at a time.”

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KEN RAVIZZACSUF Professor and Sports Psychologist

Some days you have your A-game, some days you have your B-game, some days you have your C-game. You still got to perform and get it done.

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