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The California State Uni-versity Board of Trustees ratified collective bargaining agreements Wednesday for five unions that serve CSU employees.

A three-year contract was approved for members of the California Faculty As-sociation and California State University Employees Union, the union that serves CSU health care, operations, clerical, administrative and technical support employees. They will see a 3 percent raise in the first year and a 2 percent raise in the second and third years.

The second ratified contract

applied to the student ser-vices Academic Profession-als of California, which rep-resents counselors, advisors and financial aid officers. These employees will get the same deal as the Employees Union–a 3 percent raise for year one, followed by a 2 per-cent raise during the subse-quent two years.

The same contract terms were approved for the In-ternational Operating Engi-neers and trade workers at the Maritime Academy in California.

The agreement affecting the State Employee’s Trade Council and their building trades was ratified as a one year contract with a 3 per-cent raise in benefits and compensation.

The CFA agreement regard-ing fair faculty compensation

with the CSU system has been of particular importance to faculty members.

The previous board meet-ing in September saw sever-al CSU professors and staff members speak on the lack of raises in compensation and the fact that it has in-creased financial pressure on CSU faculty. The ratifi-cation of the contract pro-vides some relief for CSU employees.

These contracts were rat-ified quickly, without any issues from the chairmen present.

While members from each campus have the abil-ity to ratify the agreements at their level, the second stage in enacting the agree-ments includes sending them to the chancellor’s of-fice for approval.

You’re in the ocean with nothing but an oxygen tank.

Apart from the bubbles jetting out of your breathing apparatus, it’s peaceful and eerie.

You can see something deep down below moving in the depths of the water, and you start to feel uneasy.

Thirty feet below, a whale shark the size of a school bus glides past you. You feel insignificant.

You remind yourself to breathe as it slowly makes its way toward you.

Breathe. You move above it and

climb on top as it opens its wide, gaping mouth and takes in water.

Quickly, you snap a picture.

***This is not the ideal job for

many, but for professor and biomechanist Erin “Misty” Paig-Tran, Ph.D., it’s not just a job, but a passion to know more and to unlock some of

the mysteries that lie under the water—and it’s all for a greater purpose.

Paig-Tran has been study-ing large filter-feeders in places like Hawaii, Yucatán and Scotland.

A lecture she took as a graduate student sparked a question in Paig-Tran’s mind: How do very big

animals like manta rays, whale sharks, basking sharks and megamouth sharks sustain themselves by feeding on the small-est things in the ocean, like plankton?

She questioned the current theories about how the fish were feeding and something told her there was more to

it. Dissatisfied with the an-swers to her questions, she began to investigate.

That question has driven her not only to a career, but through years of innovative research both in the field and in the lab. It has prompt-ed more and more questions like how these filters can be used to benefit humans and

their environment. Paig-Tran films the inside

of the mouths of these larg-er-than-life wild animals as well as studying dead spec-imens in a lab. With the use of X-rays, CT scans or by taking casts of the internal structures, she uses 3-D im-aging and 3-D printing to create models of the filters,

including life-sized models and larger.

The 3-D printing method allows for the tiniest pores in the filters to show and Paig-Tran uses the 3-D pro-totypes to experiment with the way they work in a con-trolled environment, which is difficult to do with a live animal.

Paig-Tran has been work-ing on the use of the fil-ter-feeders’ powerful fil-tering technology for applications in wastewater treatment, or even water fau-cets and vacuums.

“Because their filters are so good at doing what they do because they don’t clog, we can now make man-made applications based on it,” she said.

Wastewater plants have primary and secondary treatments which remove large waste and biological content, then pumps the ef-fluent, or sewage, into the ocean. But Paig-Tran’s the-ory differs in that it uses the biomimetic manta filter to further purify the water, thus putting less harmful and dangerous sewage into the ocean.

Manta rays are a type of filter-feeder fish, whose biological mechanics can be used to purify water more efficiently. COURTESY OF ERIN PAIG-TRAN

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The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team continued their path toward the Big West Tournament championship Wednesday, downing UC Riverside 3-0.

Fullerton faced Riverside for the third time this season, and was looking for their first win against the Highlanders after having tied the two pre-vious matches.

The first game of the season between both sides ended in a 1-1 tie at UC Riverside Soc-cer Stadium, while the sec-ond game ended 2-2 at Titan Stadium.

Both matches were phys-ical affairs, with Riverside committing 49 fouls over both legs and Fullerton committing 48.

The game at Titan Stadi-um saw two Riverside players earning red cards.

Titan Alex Cannas also went off with a leg injury in what was his and 11 other teammates’ senior night. Can-nas has not played since.

After that game, CSUF for-ward Marc Fenelus spoke out about the disappointing tie.

“For me, it’s the biggest dis-appointment of the season be-cause we played for more than 10 minutes with two men up, so we should have definite-ly won the game. There’s no excuse about that,” Fenelus said.

However, the Titans did not disappoint Wednesday night.

Fullerton couldn’t have asked for a better start to the game.

Right before the fifth min-ute, Highlander Stephen Co-pley pulled down Fenelus as the Titan forward was gearing up for a one-on-one with UCR goalkeeper K.C. John.

The referee blew the whis-tle, awarding Fullerton the

penalty and sending off Cop-ley in the process.

Ian Ramos stepped up to take the spot kick and con-verted from 12 yards, giving CSUF the early 1-0 lead. The goal was the senior’s fourth of the season, and second in the last two games.

The Titans doubled their lead in the 12th minute. On the right flank, junior defend-er Colin Okirie played the ball forward to Ramos, who sent a cross to Fenelus. Fenelus struck the ball from 12 yards, putting the Titans ahead 2-0.

The Highlanders tried to re-spond two minutes later via a Hector Romo shot, but they failed to convert.

However, the Titans were whistled for a penalty in that same minute, giving River-side the opportunity to cut the deficit.

Michael Salazar stepped up to take the spot kick for the Highlanders, looking to put them back in the game. Titan goalkeeper Jeff Salt, however, had other ideas. Salazar took the shot, but Salt guessed cor-rectly and made the save.

The stop was Salt’s second penalty save in the last three games, having also denied Cal State Northridge last week in the regular season finale.

In the 27th minute, Romo tried again to put UCR on the scoresheet, but Salt came up big again and denied the Highlanders once more. Riv-erside tried to flurry in the next eight minutes, firing off five shots, but each time they were denied.

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Dozens of California State University stu-dents are planning to ral-ly at the Board of Trust-ees meeting Thursday to voice their opposition to campus-based student success fees, accord-ing to the Los Angeles Times.

The fees in question were put in place re-cently at a dozen cam-puses, including CSUF, to hire faculty and staff, in-crease course offerings and help support pro-grams that were crip-pled during state fund-ing cuts over a period of years.

Students are com-plaining that there has not been enough infor-mation given on how the fees are used, and that the student population did not have enough say in the fees before be-ing approved. The fees in question can range anywhere up to $800 per student on certain campuses.

A man with a gun-shot wound was found at the Fullerton Amtrak late Tuesday night in a suspected gang-relat-ed shooting, according to the Orange County Register.

Fullerton Police De-partment officers re-sponded to loud noise complaints at the 100 block of East Truslow Avenue around 11 p.m. Police dispatchers con-tinued receiving reports of gunfire at the same lo-cation as officers arrived on the scene.

No one at the home was found wound-ed, however, police were given reports of a wounded man at the Amtrak station two blocks away.

The 19-year-old victim was found on the south-bound platform with a gunshot wound to the back. He was transport-ed to UCI Medical Cen-ter in Orange with inju-ries that were not life threatening.

A space probe made history Wednesday when it successful-ly landed on a comet 310 million miles from Earth, according to CNN.

The probe, called Philae, is the first spacecraft to have a controlled landing on a comet. Other space-craft have crashed into comets before.

The landing is a part of the Rosetta mission, which launched 10 years ago. The Rosetta traveled over 6.4 billion miles before arriving at the comet in early Au-gust. Phiale later sepa-rated from the Rosetta at around 12:30 am lo-cal time, and complet-ed its landing seven hours later.

Three Cal State Fuller-ton business majors placed second overall in the na-tional TD Ameritrade “thinkorswim” challenge.

The thinkorswim chal-lenge, which focused on options and stock trad-ing, handed over a virtual $500,000 portfolio to 246 teams from universities throughout the U.S. and gave them a list of com-panies they were able to trade.

Thinkorswim wasn’t anything new for the team, and their familiarity lent the team an edge during the competition, allow-ing them to focus on mak-ing logical decisions and avoiding unnecessary risk, said Brandyn Young, a se-nior business administra-tion major.

The team, Tons of Fund, took an early lead, chang-ing strategy throughout the competition in or-der to stay ahead of their competitors.

The team began by first trading aggressively to move ahead, then taking a conservative approach while closely watching what their competitors were doing.

“The toughest part about this competition was con-trolling emotions and act-ing on a logical game the-ory to maintain our lead,” Young said. “If we decid-ed to play aggressively, the outcome may have changed for better or worse.”

Aside from their previ-ous experience with the trading platform, both Curtis Morrow and Young had experience as execu-tives in the Financial Risk Management Association,

where they discussed the markets and options trad-ing strategies with interest-ed students.

The team had a healthy lead for the majority of the competition, but that changed in the final few weeks of the contest when other teams began invest-ing in companies that had shown earnings, giving the competitors the chance to gain ground on “Tons of Funds.”

It wasn’t until the last days of the challenge that the competition really be-gan gaining on the CSUF team.

“I believe the people who came in third were pret-ty close to us for the last whole week,” said Morrow, a senior finance major. “The last week is when we saw the competition step up.”

The competition end-ed Saturday, with Tons of Fund falling into sec-ond place behind Team GoMeanGreen from the

University of North Texas at the last moment.

“In the end, the first place team had a perfect storm and ended up tak-ing the lead,” Young said. GoMeanGreen was able to generate over $600,000 in one day, after only being able to generate $400,000 throughout the competition.

“The only days we weren’t in first place were the first day and the last day,” Morrow said. “We’re excited to take second, but we definitely thought we were going to get first, so it’s a little discouraging.”

Team “Tons of Fund” was awarded with iPad minis, $2,000 each in a TD Ameritrade brokerage ac-count and $20,000 toward CSUF.

The team hopes to donate the $20,000 prize to the Applied Securities Anal-ysis Program, where they manage the Mihaylo Col-lege of Business and Eco-nomics Endowment Fund.

Science fiction and golf come together frequent-ly in the Cal State Fuller-ton Golf Research Lab, and students will have a chance to take part during the lab’s open house Saturday.

A 3-D golf motion anal-ysis system will be on dis-play Saturday at the open house event.

The analysis is an op-portunity for students and community members to experiment with the ex-clusive, state-of-the-art technology that is being unveiled.

Since the Golf Research Lab is housed in the Bio-mechanics Lab, exclusive access to 3-D motion cap-ture technology gives golf-ers a cutting edge.

“Here at the Biomechan-ics Lab, we’ve been fo-cusing a lot on golf per-formance research,” said Robert Dudley, director of the Biomechanics Labora-tory at the Golf Research Lab. “We do 3-D motion capture analysis of the golf swing, we also mea-sure ball flight variables, we have a launch monitor where we can track indoors where the ball would’ve gone if we were outdoors.

Technology used in the camera motion-capture system is the same technol-ogy as the one used to cre-ate James Cameron’s film, Avatar.

“We can create a 3-D skeleton of the athlete hit-ting the golf ball. Using that, we can calculate a whole bunch of different things that simply looking at someone can’t do or sim-ply filming them in a 2-D aspect can’t do,” Dudley said.

Though the open house is free to the public and will offer free demos and swing analysis, 1.5 hour sessions are also available at a cost for students.

The Golf Research Lab is still finalizing its pric-es, but students can ex-pect a $200 price tag per analysis.

After making an ap-pointment, golfers will be able to have retroreflective markers attached to them as they test their swing.

The end of their interac-tive golfing session would produce a 16-page PDF

report, high speed video with 3-D overlay and ani-mations of their swing.

Recent simulator, projec-tor and computer donations from an alumni have al-lowed the golf analysis re-search to produce the state-of-the-art experience.

“We’ve had this technol-ogy in the Biomechanics Lab for a couple of years now, but the emphasis on the golf research has hap-pened probably in the past three years,” Dudley said.

Students and commu-nity members can attend the 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. open house by emailing csuf-golflab@gmail.com or vis-iting the CSUF Golf Re-search Lab Facebook page at Facebook.com/GolfResearchLabCSUF.

The lab is located on the lower level of the Kinesi-ology and Health Science Building in room 019.

Chris Harraka (left), Brandyn Young (center) and Curtis Morrow (right) took second place in the ‘thinkorswim’ competition.

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Group of business majors take second place in TD Ameritrade investing competition

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Students will have the chance to use the 3-D motion capture system to analyze elements of their golf game.

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Cal State Fullerton Stu-dent Health and Counseling Center is urging students to get their flu shots.

The center has partnered with the School of Nurs-ing to provide students with free flu shots, deploying two mobile units that visited the main campus, Irvine cam-pus and student housing over the course of two weeks.

The mobile clinics will not be returning to campus for the remainder of the se-mester, but vaccines will be available while supplies last throughout the semester at the Health Center. Appoint-ments can be made online or at the front desk.

The event, in its second year, vaccinated nearly 1,700 people against the flu—sig-nificantly more than last year, when fewer than 1,000 people were vaccinated, said Darany Hoang, health edu-cator at the Health Center.

The event last year sport-ed a Rosie the Riveter “You

can do it” theme. The cam-paign this year took the form of “Captain Fuller-ton,” adapted from Marvel Comics’ superhero Captain America. “He’s helping to shield your health,” Hoang said.

“Here on out, students will have to make an ap-pointment with the Health Center to get their free flu shot,” said Narayana Darst., Interim Director of Health Education.

The Health Center spent about one month publiciz-ing the program, Darst said. They used posters, flyers, LCD screens and word-of-mouth to reach students.

The Health Center and members of the nursing pro-gram hoped the event would help promote the importance

of taking protective mea-sures during this upcoming flu season.

The cold and flu season significantly affects students every year,” Darst said. “We have a large volume of stu-dents who come into the Health Center sick.

That particularly hap-pens around midterm and finals seasons. Students get stressed out and their im-mune systems get a little bit weaker.”

Flu seasons are unpredict-able in their timing, severi-ty and flu type, according to the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention.

“We want you washing your hands, using hand san-itizer, staying home when you’re sick and not com-ing to school or work,” said

Ariana Finchamp, a student in her final year of the nurs-ing program. “Definitely, the vaccine is going to help.”

Once vaccinated, there is a two week period before the vaccinated person is im-mune to the disease. This has led to some accusations that the flu shot does not work, but also that it causes those who are vaccinated to become ill.

“Many students will get their flu shot right before becoming sick or after, and that’s what leads to the myth that the flu shot will give you the flu,” Darst said.

Students recieve their free shots by visiting the Health Center office or schedul-ing an appointment through the Health Center’s website, Fullerton.edu/shcc.

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The Student Health and Counseling Center partnered with the School of Nursing to offer free flu shots to students. The center will be offering flu shots by appointment while supplies last.

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Flu shots will be available by appointment in the health center for the rest of the semester

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We have a large volume of students who come into the Health Center sick. That particularly happens around midterm and finals seasons.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Su-san Smith, who works for the payroll, benefits and retirement services sec-tion of the Department for Human Resources, Diver-sity and Inclusion, elected to speak during the public comment section, remark-ing how proud she is to witness the benefits of the CSU employees working in unison.

She commented on her pride at the increase in

gender diversity which caused a round of applause from the room. Specifical-ly, she commented on the increase in number of fe-male presidents in the CSU system.

“This was my first cy-cle on the bargaining team and quite the learning ex-perience, and it has been an example of what can be accomplished in the CSU when we work together,” Smith said. “(The) system as a whole is changing, but change is gradual.

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“It’s really important, es-pecially here in Southern California because we have what’s called the ‘South-ern California bite,’ which means that all of our water recirculates. So whatever we pump out there gets re-circulated back,” she said.

Wastewater has become a big concern with the widespread drought. There are fears of not being able to supply water in the fu-ture to California’s 38 mil-lion residents.

According to Paig-Tran, the manta ray filters can work with the process of desalination, the process which removes salt from seawater to produce fresh water, because it is such a slow process.

Manta rays have a

cross-flow filtration system that doesn’t clog. The tech-nology that currently exists is not as efficient.

She is confident that these natural filters are a key to solving some of Cal-ifornia’s current water defi-ciency problems.

Paig-Tran has had many opportunities during her time at Cal State Fullerton to study rare specimens. Last year, she obtained a 14-foot oarfish weighing 250 pounds that died off the coast of Catalina Island to study.

“I wouldn’t come to Fullerton if I didn’t love teaching. I love teaching. I wouldn’t have come to Ful-lerton if they didn’t let me do research,” she said.

She has been in the mid-dle of the ocean during monsoonal conditions

while fishing boats were on fire and sailors were bested by 15-foot waves tossing her 20-foot boat around. Yet, she knows the work she is doing is important.

“If I’m in the wrong place at the wrong time, that whale shark gets on top of me, I’m not getting back up to the surface. If a manta hits me hard enough, I’m going to get knocked out,” she said.

Paig-Tran sometimes and she sometimes questions her sanity. Her job isn’t easy and can be dangerous at times. And even though getting slapped by a manta ray is not outside the realm of an impos-sibility, she still loves what she does.

“If I didn’t love it, I just wouldn’t do it,” Paig-Tran said.

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Manta: Fish to provide efficient water filtration

One way that Paig-Tran studies the manta rays is by filming the inside of their mouths. COURTESY OF ERIN “MISTY” PAIG-TRAN

Sneha Upadhyaya gets up to make her breakfast and turn on her comput-er every morning. It’s time for her to Skype her family that is 7,696 miles away.

Her home and family are in a place comprised of tall, robust and rocky structures. The Himalayas are sacred to this area and its people, and it’s where she picked up hobbies like hiking and photography.

Nepal is Upadhyaya’s home. She was born there, went to high school there and received her bachelor’s degree there.

She had never been away from her family before en-rolling in Cal State Ful-lerton’s Civil Engineering master’s program, and she doesn’t know if she is go-ing to go back home per-manently. She wants to continue with her educa-tion and receive a doctor-ate degree in the U.S. so that one day she can be a professor.

“Sometimes it’s bad, you miss home, but if you think you are going to do something and go forward, it’s not that bad,” Upad-hyaya said.

She has always been good at math and science, but she wasn’t always sure if she was going to study engineering.

“I like math and I used to think that if I don’t go into engineering, I’m prob-ably going to end up with a degree in math,” she said.

The Dwight David Ei-senhower Transportation

Fellowship Program, de-veloped by the Department of Transportation, was cre-ated for students pursu-ing degrees in transpor-tation-related disciplines. The grants are awarded competitively and funds the recipient’s education.

Five students from CSUF received the fellowship this year and Upadhyaya was the only woman.

The engineering field may be dominated by men, but Upadhyaya is too mod-est to reflect on what that means.

“In my classes, there are

only two to three girls … but I didn’t think it was that way,” she said.

Upadhyaya specifi-cally studies geotechni-cal engineering. This re-quires dealing with the soil and how to manipulate it with cement to withstand an earthquake. She runs shake-table tests that in-fluence soils and cement at different frequencies to see what percentage of cement should be added to soil so that structures can with-stand earthquakes.

“We’re basically try-ing to see if the shaking

intensity can be reduced by the use of such soil cement panels,” Upadhyaya said.

She is not a strang-er to earthquakes—Nepal is prone to them just like California.

She experienced a few earthquakes, but they weren’t too destructive, she said.

And, just like Califor-nia, people are always talking about a bigger one coming.

Although home is thou-sands of miles away, she has found a home in the labs and with her peers and

advisors. There have been times when she wanted to give up, but her faculty ad-visor, Associate Professor Binod Tiwari, told her to keep going.

Tiwari, Ph.D., said she has done a great job in a $926,000 project that col-laborates with Virgin-ia Tech, UC Davis and the University of Texas at Austin.

She guided high school and community college students who wanted to do an internship on the project that deals with reducing the effects of earthquakes

on structures. “She did a great job

guiding those kids and bringing the project into fruition,” Tiwari said.

Although there are good schools in Nepal, there ar-en’t very many opportuni-ties, which is why she de-cided to study abroad, she said.

Upadhyaya has taken some time off from the labs lately to finish her thesis.

Meanwhile, she is also waiting to hear back from doctorate programs in or-der to continue her educa-tion in the U.S.

Five engineering students received a scholarship to fund their education

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Fellowship award recipients are graduate students Sneha Upadhyaya of Fullerton; seniors Matthew Farrington of Mission Viejo and John Thurlo of Chino Hills; and junior Adrian Guzman of Anaheim.

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Finding your nicheCamera Absurda

The Camera Absurda Club on campus hopes to build a community through photography.

The club, whose name is a play off the term “camera obscura,” formed in 2009. They meet every other week to discuss photography in a fine arts context, current events in the photography field and help critique club members work.

The club also hosts art events on campus and members attend galleries together.

Club President James Doyle explains the club aims to build an organiza-tion and community within the photography department

on campus.Doyle, who is a double

major in creative photog-raphy and art history, also said the club has been a great way for him to meet people and build friend-ships. By being a part of the club, Doyle has met differ-ent photography professors and has even had his work shown in a gallery.

Araceli Figueroa, a cre-ative photography major with a concentration in art education, is the treasurer of the club.

She said she joined Camera Absurda as a way to learn more about photography.

“Coming into CSUF I hadn’t declared my con-centration as creative pho-to because you can’t actu-ally do that until you take certain courses, so Cam-era Absurda was a way for me to get a preview of what

the department was about,” Figueroa said.

Collaboration is a key concept of art and some-thing that Figueroa appreciates.

“In my previous years, I would just work by myself. I wasn’t involved in a com-munity of photographers or

specific creative thinkers, so it fostered this atmosphere of being involved with peo-ple who had the same inter-ests as I did,” she said.

Cal State Fullerton fine arts student D. Hill has been a member of the club since 2011.

“Camera Absurda is an

entity of the arts and club council, which helps us share our mission and vi-sion with other organiza-tions and clubs in the visual arts department,” he said.

Camera Absurda is also ingratiating themselves with the campus commu-nity by hosting a screen-

ing on campus of student video work for members of the club, and other photog-raphy departments as part of the Titan Art Walk next Thursday.

During the spring semes-ter, Camera Absurda will host a lecture by UCLA Professor of New Genres,

Andrea Fraser to speak to their club members.

Another focus of the club is active involvement in the photography community.

They aim to challenge their members to produce work and get more involved, Figueroa said.

That challenge has been well-received as Hill will be speaking at the Society for Photographic Education Conference in Burbank on Nov. 30.

The conference joins pho-tographic educators from different institutions, key-note speakers, students in the art community, and other artists to have intel-lectual discourse regard-ing art as well as presenting some of the work they’ve produced.

Hill said Camera Absurda has taught him many things and has allowed him to be a part of the photography

community.“It’s made me a part of a

community and share what I’ve learned. We’re here not only to talk about advancing our photography, but also to create a community within the photographic program,” he said.

Figueroa said the commu-nity is important to Camera Absurda.

“It helps you realize you’re not alone. Sometimes I would be in difficult sit-uations, where I wouldn’t know how to advance my photography or how to put my work out there, or even network,” she said.

Doyle said the club has about ten members who are active. Camera Absurda hopes to increase member-ship through advertisement and social media sites such as Facebook and Tumblr. They also host recruitment events for incoming freshmen.

The photography club on campus encourages students to be active in the field

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D. HILL Camera Absurda Club Member

We’re here not only to talk about advancing our photography, but also to create a com-munity within the photographic program.

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Being single and in your early 20s is simultaneously one of the greatest and one of the worst experiences.

I thoroughly enjoy drink-ing with my friends. I’m not promoting alcoholism, but I’ll admit that it’s fun to go to the bars when you should be studying for exams in-stead. It’s easy to write it off as part of the college experience, so I figure it’s best to embrace it.

On the other hand though, I am single and

in a time where half my friends are writing papers while hungover and stum-bling home from downtown Fullerton barefoot. The other half are planning fu-tures with their significant others.

Last week, I mentioned that my first love got en-gaged when I left for Eu-rope in March. What I in-tentionally neglected to mention is that he was go-ing to get married that weekend.

I want to make it clear that I carry no regret for the choices that I made when I

was 18 and am in no way ready for marriage.

I wasn’t ready to be a wife, and truthfully I’m still nowhere near ready for that step, but I think that when you’re 22 years old and un-certain about your future, the natural reaction to your first love getting married is complete and utter panic.

When I saw his wedding pictures invade my Face-book newsfeed, my first thought was that I am go-ing to die alone, which may have been a slight overreaction.

Once I gathered my

emotions, I figured I should probably assess that re-action. What I came up with is that while he is my ex-boyfriend and ex-love, he is also my ex-almost.

He was almost my future. He was almost my forever, and he was almost the love of my life.

Perhaps some small part of me held on to that.

Maybe I thought that we would find our way back to each other, but I know now that we won’t, and while the 18-year-old girl inside me that used to love him is saddened by that, a bigger

part of me knows that I could have never been the kind of wife that he wanted me to be.

While I chose to be his support in a time when I probably shouldn’t have, I would have been expected to take a back seat to his career and his life if we had gotten married.

That’s not who I am.In a time when I am un-

certain about where I’m go-ing in my career and how I’m going to pay the bills, I am certain that I would be unhappy as a secondary character in my own life.

I hold no resentment about how things ended be-tween us. I chose to pursue my own dreams and he let me go. In all honesty, I’m truly happy that he found someone that wants the same kind of life he does.

I, on the other hand, don’t want a life that revolves around someone else. I’m realizing now that while being in your early 20s and planning your wedding might be wonderful, so is drinking too much beer and dancing atop bars.

I’m 22, single and I’m go-ing to enjoy it.

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This student has learned to enjoy her single life while some of her friends are getting married and throwing baby showers. MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN

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The Apollo 11 moon landing might be one of, if not the most, inspiring moments in human history. This single event inspired the world and showed us that we could achieve the impossible. The Wednes-day comet landing might very well have been anoth-er day that shapes our fu-ture, or at least it should be.

The European Space Agencies’ mission, known as Rosetta, which was de-signed to gain an intimate knowledge of comets, has reached its goal of land-ing on the comet known as Comet 67P/Churyu-mov-Gerasimenko.

While I might be more excited than most when it comes to space explora-tion, I’m certainly not the only one who feels that when something truly as-tonishing is accomplished, there is this sort of univer-sal awe that we can all take part in.

“To get the signal it had touched the surface was a major achievement––it was quite extraordinary. Philae is already taking measure-ments, sniffing the comet,” said ESA Lander System Engineer Laurence O’Ro-urke in an interview with CNN.

This marks the first time that a comet has been so closely examined and actually landed on by a human craft.

There isn’t much known about the surface of a com-et, so the long planning that went into this mis-sion and the precise exe-cution that was implement-ed so that this could be accomplished is no doubt incredible.

“Apart from the amazing scientific results, the sheer challenge and ambition of such a mission is outstand-ing and illustrates how our space exploration of the solar system has become more advanced and suc-cessful. It gives us much to hope for in future mis-sions,” said Daniel Brown, an astronomy expert at Nottingham Trent Univer-sity in the U.K., in a CNN interview.

It’s that sort of excite-ment that we need more of in this country. The moon landing for us was monumental.

The NASA website uses the phrase “the human race accomplished its sin-gle greatest technological achievement of all time by landing a man on the moon.”

That feeling of pride in our space exploration en-deavor is something that we, as Americans, still have today. In fact, on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the vast majority of Ameri-cans––58 percent––said they supported the costs of exploration.

However, despite the majority support from

Americans, NASA contin-ues to fight a wide variety of budgetary cuts which have made this kind of pur-suit more difficult.

The U.S. is falling be-hind, as other world pow-ers begin trekking into the forefront of space explora-tion and planetary scienc-es. Our country used to be very proud of our accom-plishments in outer space. It was something that no one else really had, at least

not putting a man on the moon.

As a country, we should have plenty to take pride in, and space exploration has always been one of those things. Since space travel and NASA receive less funding, the mystique and glorification of becom-ing an astronaut has faded, something that should be taken lightly.

This country needs a common interest and a

common goal that is unique to us. That sense of togeth-erness is what will help pick us up as a nation.

We should be investing in programs such as these that aim to push our civi-lization further and that aren’t afraid to dream and dive into the uncertain.

It’s been too long that our nation, as a whole, has felt a truly inspiring ac-complishment. Exploration across the centuries has

always instilled a sense of wonder and nationalistic pride. Whether it be a ship sailing for the New World or a manned moon landing, our nation needs some-thing to be inspired by.

The Wednesday com-et landing was one of those inspirational mo-ments as well as an indi-cation that we can achieve great things together as a nation, regardless of our differences.

In drought-stricken Cali-fornia, few things about the state’s water habits make sense.

California residents ei-ther continue to main-tain lush green landscapes reminiscent of the English Countryside, or try to repli-cate that feel with an artifi-cial equivalent.

Artificial grass land-scapes have been support-ed by public park adminis-trators, drought combatants

and other environmental-ists, who argue that an al-ternative system to water guzzling lawns is neces-sary. After all, the average lawn soaks up 10,000 gal-lons of water per year.

These environmentalists are right and wrong at the same time.

Granted, we should seek out alternatives to natural green lawns in California, especially when we’re fac-ing the fourth year of the worst drought in our re-corded history.

However, the use of arti-ficial grass is riddled with problems that make it a less optimal choice amid all the other options.

Early studies are ques-tioning whether there’s a possible correlation be-tween this type of greenery and possible illnesses, an issue of particular concern with landscaping that uses in-fill, or pieces of shred-ded tires.

A report from environ-mental organization En-vironment and Human Health, Inc. stated lab tests of in-fill or “tire crumbs” revealed that it has volatile organic hydrocarbons with carcinogenic potential.

Further studies are need-ed, but any indication that a substance we plan to use reg-ularly could be carcinogenic should be taken seriously.

It’s also important to talk about the negative safe-ty and environmental im-pacts of the substance. Studies have shown that ar-eas where artificial grass is planted have a tendency to be warmer on average than places where natural land-scaping is planted.

A National Public Ra-dio report chronicled work by Columbia Universi-ty climate researcher Stu-art Gaffin on that topic. He determined that exposure to direct and continued sunlight caused artificial turf to reach temperatures of about 160.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

Such research should

serve as an indication that the same substance would be an ill-advised choice for a person’s yard.

In addition to the heat ef-fect, there are various oth-er problems. One of them is that artificial grass can cause damage to its sur-rounding ecology.

Some types of turf have smothered organisms lo-cated in the subsoil be-neath them. Chemical run-off from the turf has been shown to pollute waterways where aquatic organisms live.

One of the best possi-ble alternatives to artificial grass is native and drought tolerant gardens.

Not only can the gardens be attractive, but they have the added benefits of lack-ing turf’s aforementioned problems. California na-tives require minimal ir-rigation beyond regular rainfall, according to the California Native Plant Society.

When we’re facing a steep and difficult drought, there’s no question that people want to do the best they can to save on water, and they should.

In this case, the best answer is to go back to what works: a return to a time when man didn’t try to impose his own vision upon the land, be it nat-ural or artificial.

The rubber-based turf seems like a good choice in a drought, but better alternatives exist

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This photo was taken by the Philae lander on its descent onto the comet, roughly 3 kilometers above the surface. The mountainous surface of the comet made it difficult for the spacecraft to land.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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Q: What does a shark like to eat with peanut butter?

A: Jellyfish!

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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

You will have to expect a few disturbances in the harmony that has reigned over the past few days, Aries. For example, your needs may not match those of your mate or close friends, or you may feel restless.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

As a person who embodies affection and tender-ness, Taurus, you may feel especially resentful about today’s mood. It will be difficult to charm a smile out of anyone or achieve any semblance of harmony.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

A longing for comfort and the small, simple pleasures in life is likely to cripple your initiative today, Gemini. Have you decided to withdraw from the career whirl for the time being?

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

For the past several days, Cancer, you’ve been fairly lucky in financial and material terms. But the day ahead will be an exception.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

The way you act when you first meet people is typical of Leo. What is it that you do? You try to teach them something. It seems that you always have a lesson to impart, making you prone to giving advice when it isn’t always wanted.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

Your philosophy of life comes naturally, Vir-go. Others need to study, listen to experts, or sign on to various allegiances. You, on the other hand, already have a profound outlook on life that you surely inherited from your past expe-riences.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

It isn’t because your new projects demand such precision that they’re causing you problems, Libra. You tend to think details keep you from having a global vision, but that simply isn’t true.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):

Yes, Scorpio, this is a good moment to abandon old beliefs and moral values. Your view of life has changed and, above all, you’re more aware of how your outdated, preconceived ideas sometimes poi-son your life. The past no longer concerns you.

SAGITTARIUS(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

f you aren’t careful to keep your eyes straight ahead and focused on the future, the past is likely to catch up to you, Sagittarius. Don’t look back, even if you don’t see anything in front of you. You must continue to move forward.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

This would be the moment to say yes to your destiny, Capricorn. You’re a little frustrated be-cause things haven’t been moving forward the way you’d like. But now that opportunities are coming your way, you find you’re holding things up.

AQUARIUS(JAN. 20 - FEB. 18):

Don’t expect to meet the partner of your dreams today, Aquarius. Rather, your romantic hopes are likely to meet with frustration. It would be better to devote your energies to something more realistic, such as your financial situation.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

There’s some likelihood that a recent meeting with an influential person has put a damper on your hopes for your projects.

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Neither side was able to generate much despite a few chances for the rest of the first half, and CSUF went into the break with the 2-0 lead.

The second half saw both sides exchanging shot after shot, but nothing came of it until the Titans scored their third goal in the 75th minute.

Fullerton freshman Diego Sanchez got on the end of a

Mark Vasquez cross and put the final nail in the Riverside coffin.

With the 3-0 win, the Ti-tans will head back to Irvine to take on UC Irvine at Ant-eater Stadium. The previous two games between Irvine and Fullerton ended in 1-0 wins for the Anteaters.

The Titans will look to cause the upset and win the Big West Tournament Cham-pionship on Saturday.

Soccer: CSUF in championship

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Sophomore defender Mitchell Bell slides to kick the ball away from Romario Lomeli in the 3-0 win over UC Riverside.

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The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team is entering the 2014-2015 sea-son with high expectations despite a sixth-place finish in the Big West last year.

CSUF opens with Santa Clara University, who they handily defeated 86-73 at Titan Gym last season, be-fore heading to New Mexi-co to take on the perennial powerhouse Lobos.

After an up-and-down year for Dedrique Taylor, the energetic second-year head coach believes his players are more familiar with his system, and thus better prepared for the sea-son this time around. He has instilled a more fo-cused mindset in the team, as they seek to steadily bring the CSUF program back to prominence one year at a time.

The absence of last season’s leading scor-er Michael Williams will certainly be apparent, es-pecially in the early-going. Senior Alex Harris is ex-pected to build on his 15.6 points per game from last season and step into more of a leadership role this year, while also taking on a leading role on the offen-sive end.

Several new faces are joining the Titans program in 2014, as they have wel-comed eight new faces to the squad, only five of which are eligible due to

NCAA transfer rules.With new faces comes

new reason for optimism in Fullerton, but also means more players who must adapt to Taylor’s coaching style.

Veterans like Harris and fellow seniors Steve Mc-Lellan and Moses Morgan have helped bridge the gap for newcomers, teaching them what is expected out of each as a member of the CSUF program.

All signs pointed to a strong, cohesive unit in the Titans exhibition match against Caltech on Satur-day, as CSUF pulled away

in the second half of an 84-53 victory. While the Bengals are not as athlet-ic or deep as the Division I teams that the Titans will face in the regular sea-son, it was a positive sign for Taylor and his squad. Seven players scored nine points or more, showing the balance and depth that Taylor expects throughout the season.

Fullerton faces a brutal stretch right out of the gate, facing seven road games in their first eight games of the season. Three of those opponents: UCLA, USC and New Mexico feature

prestigious histories along with extremely difficult arenas to play in.

Regardless of the chal-lenging opening slate of games, the Titans have confidence that they will come together early and use the experience when Big West Conference play begins in December.

The main goal remains constant for the Titans, and that is to earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament. With one of the deepest teams in recent history for CSUF, this could finally be the year the Titans return to the Big Dance in March.

Titans open regular season

Daron Park faces alma mater Sunday

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Cal State Fullerton wom-en’s basketball Head Coach Daron Park will lead his team against his alma ma-ter, Montana State, Sunday at the Titan Gym.

The Great Falls, Montana native served as a manager for the Bobcats from 1990-94 under Head Coach Mick Durham. He got his bach-elor’s degree in health en-hancement from Montana State in 1994.

CSUF is 2-1 all-time against Montana State. The teams first met in 1981 when the Titans beat the Bobcats by 25 points in the Cali-fornia Invitational. They didn’t meet again until

2005 when CSUF narrow-ly beat Montana State 85-84 at Titan Gym. The Bob-cats redeemed themselves the following year and blew out CSUF by 23 points in Bozeman.

Montana State dominat-ed their exhibition game against Minot State at the Worthington Arena. Five Bobcats scored in dou-ble-figures, and they col-lectively shot 42.9 percent from the field. They shot 40 percent from 3-point range with three of those shots coming from Kalli Durham, daughter of former coach Durham.

The Bobcats jumped to a 16-point lead at halftime, but Minot State refused to go away easily. The Beavers scored 35 points in the sec-ond half and Christina Boag had a game-high 30 points on just 17 shot attempts.

The Titans did not fare so well in their exhibition game against Cal Baptist, losing 64-56 at Titan Gym. Four Titans scored in dou-ble-figures with Amanda Tivenius scoring 13 points in her CSUF debut. Fresh-man Daeja Smith scored 12 points as well as senior point guard Chante Miles. Saman-tha Logan contributed 10 points and nine rebounds.

The Titan starting lineup in the exhibition featured: Miles, Tivenius, Logan, Lakyn Gulley and Smith. Junior Hailey King start-ed 26-of-30 games last sea-son, but was absent from the starting lineup in the exhibition. Also notably ab-sent was Kathleen Iwuoha, the Titans leading rebound-er last season. However, it was just an exhibition and the lineup Sunday could be completely different.

CSUF did not start the season well last year. They opened the season with a 1-9 record with their only win coming against Columbia.

But after the dreadful start, Park’s squad won five- of-six games and finished the season with an 8-8 Big West record beating every team in the conference with the exception of Cal State Northridge.

The Titans finished the regular season with a blow-out win over Hawaii on se-nior night, but had a disap-pointing showing at the Big West Tournament, losing to Long Beach State in the opening round.

The schedule is not as challenging as last year, but the Titans will need to bring their best to the court every game if they wish to have the first winning season at CSUF since 1991.

The women’s basketball team hopes for a better start than they had last season

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The Titans hope to begin the season strongly with a win against Santa Clara

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Alex Harris hopes to lead the Titans to their first Big West Championship since the 2007-08 season.WINNIE HUANG / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO