The Chicana and Chica-no Studies Alliance (C@SA) hosted its annual Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration at Cal State Ful-lerton to commemorate the lives of deceased loved ones.

Falling on Nov. 1-2 of each year and coinciding with the Catholic All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day holidays, Dia De Los Muertos is celebrated from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2 through-out Mexico and America.

A colorful, adorned altar covered with flowers, food, beverages and photographs was displayed in front of the Humanities and Social Sci-ences Building. In Mexican culture, the food and bev-erages represent the favor-ite indulgences of the now deceased members being commemorated.

Adjacent to the altar, a cross and candles lay on the floor for students to pray, give bless-ings and celebrate the lives of those lost. A microphone was positioned in front of the altar for students to recite poetry.

“We are basically trying to remember our loved ones who

have passed in a celebration. Instead of seeing death as a mourning process, we want to see death as a natural part of life and just take this time to commemorate all of those that passed along,” said Mar-tha Contreras, co-chair of C@SA.

While the colorful altar adorned with sugar skulls may cause some students to confuse Dia De Los Muer-tos with Halloween, Con-treras wants students to understand the cultural sig-nificance and difference of the two holidays.

Rodney Anderson had dreams of playing in the National Basketball As-sociation, but after an in-cident that left him para-lyzed from the waist down, he found a new purpose for his life.

Anderson, 33, who re-ceived a full basketball scholarship to Cal State Fullerton in 1999, went back home to Los Angeles to see his mother one night after returning from a trip with the team his freshman year.

While hanging out in his old neighborhood in South Central, Anderson was shot in his back four times. He was 18-years-old.

“I never saw his face be-fore it happened,” Ander-son said. “After he shot me, my friends ran because he was still shooting at them too.”

When Anderson arrived at the hospital, he was rushed into surgery and was asked by a doctor if he wanted to stay awake or go to sleep. For Anderson, it was a no-brainer.

“I just wanted them to put me to sleep, because I didn’t want to feel anymore pain,” Anderson said.

Doctors believed that Anderson, who was in a medically-induced coma, wasn’t going to survive. They informed his parents

that they gave Anderson 24 hours to live, but An-derson continued to fight. The 24 hours turned into 72 hours.

Doctors couldn’t explain how Anderson was still living. They later informed his parents that while he was improving, there was damage done to his spine, and even if he did sur-vive, he would never be the same. Anderson was put on life support for about a week, but defied the odds and made it out alive. However, he was deemed paralyzed.

Anderson was forced to take an entire year off

from school for rehab. Playing basketball was

no longer an option. Anderson had a difficult

time coming to terms with that reality. His life at the time revolved around the sport. Everything, from his goals to the people he ad-mired, was tied to sports.

“It’s like everything you worked for your whole en-tire life has now been tak-en away,” Anderson said.

Anderson decided to use his experiences to help students who grew up in neighborhoods similar to the one he grew up in.

He is now the head coor-dinator of the Male Success

Initiative at CSUF. MSI is a program geared towards the academic and retention success of African-Ameri-can males at CSUF.

Anderson has become a mentor for students. His impact is evident.

Trajon Felton, a soph-omore and MSI mem-ber, considers him a huge influence.

“Out of all of the people I’ve met here, he’s prob-ably the humblest person you can meet. He’s a great guy to talk to about any-thing,” Felton said.

Felton recognizes An-derson as an inspiration because he was able to turn

his negative situation into a teaching experience for students.

Anderson has also im-pacted Demetrius Lykes, a CSUF senior. Lykes de-scribes Anderson as a role model and a great advisor.

“I think he is a big aspect to black students on campus and the black community … he’s just a great leader,” Lykes said.

Although he is an inspira-tion to many, Anderson said that his family is the source of his motivation. His wife, Monique, played an integral part in his recovery.

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A Cal State Fullerton sophomore is careening through the amateur sports car ranks at amazing speeds for a chance at climbing the ladder to professional driv-er status, all while keep-ing up with the demands of school.

Kenton Koch, a sopho-more mechanical engineer-ing major, whipped his car around corners and gunned it down straightaways in the 2014 Mazda MX-5 Cup on Oct. 3 to win $200,000 in scholarship money.

“When you work that hard and then you actually achieve what you’re trying to get–there’s no better feeling than that,” Koch said.

Mazda and Skip Bar-ber Racing School teamed up to create a series of rac-es where young adults be-tween the ages of 18-22 have the chance to win schol-arship money to continue competing with one thing in mind––being noticed in the racing world and eventually becoming a professional.

“Driving isn’t just about turning the wheel and push-ing the pedals, it actually takes some talent and effort and experience to learn how to do it,” Koch said.

After the Mazda MX-5 Cup, the U.S. National Sporting Association se-lected Koch to compete against drivers from 11 dif-ferent countries in the FIA Institute Young Driver Ex-cellence Academy regional qualifier for the Americas this past week.

“They could have chosen anyone. There are a lot of drivers in the U.S., but they chose me. It was cool to have been chosen,” Koch said. “To win basically says that I am one of the best drivers in the Americas.”

Koch triumphed over the 11 other drivers, surpassing them in psychological, fit-ness and speed tests. This victory has guaranteed him a spot in the Young Driver Academy, which will be held in five different European countries over five separate weeks, starting at the end of November and ending in July.

Koch has to balance his success as a driver with his responsibilities as a student. He explains that being on good terms with his profes-sors is key, but some pro-fessors are not always will-ing to let Koch make up his missing quizzes or tests, so he has to work hard on oth-er assignments to make up for it.

“Race car drivers have a shelf life,” he said. “If you don’t make a statement with-in that age bracket, people won’t really look at you. You get too old, and people won’t want to see you.”

Koch said he explained to his professors how racing isn’t only a hobby to him, but also a potential way of making a living.

Rodney Anderson is a counselor for the Educational Opportunity Program and the coordinator for the Male Success Initiative program to help raise graduation rates for African-American male students.

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Students stressed about midterms and studying got some furry relief in the form of puppy therapy this week.

When the CSUF Pre-Vet-erinary Club hosted its pup-py therapy sessions Tuesday and Wednesday, students had the chance to spend a few minutes destressing with the licks and nips of adorable puppies.

Arturo Muñoz, presi-dent of the Pre-Veterinary Club, said the club wanted to bring animals to cam-pus to benefit students and also bring awareness to the veterinary medicine profession.

“Dogs help relieve stress,” Munoz said. “They give that unconditional love. It’s a nice 15-minute break to play with puppies and just relieve some stress during all these midterms and exams going

on for students.” The puppies ranged in

age from three months to two years and were brought to campus by the German Shepherd Rescue of Orange County (GSROC).

The rescue puts on events all throughout the county in hopes of providing the dogs with loving homes, said Mera Zero, a CSUF alumna and volunteer for GSROC.

GSROC is a nonprofit or-ganization which rescues and finds homes for pure-bred German Shepherds. They host dogs as old as 12 years old that need homes.

“We just want to get them into a home so that they are comfortable the rest of their time here on Earth,” Zero said.

The puppy therapy event attracted hundreds of stu-dents wanting to cuddle the canines during the past two days. During the event, groups of 20 students were let in for three minutes to pet and play with the puppies.

The turnout was greater

than Muñoz could have imagined.

“We posted a picture on social media and it just blew up. It had 10,000 views and we were just amazed by it,” Muñoz said.

Pre-Vet club members, as well as volunteers from GS-ROC, were there to super-vise and handle the dogs.

The club launched in April of this year and start-ed with only six members. Since then, membership has expanded to 25 aspiring veterinarians.

“Since CSUF does not have a pre-vet program, I feel like it is really import-ant that we have a program or a foundation of a support team to help students who really want to pursue this interest at CSUF,” Muñoz said.

Each month, the club will host an event in hopes of further expansion of their membership. Muñoz wants to bring awareness to the veterinary profession by continuing to bring animals on campus.

Beginning this week, a MetroNaps EnergyPod will be in the Student Recreation Center for a two-week tri-al for students to test out and provide feedback on a possi-ble permanent installation of the pods.

The pod retails at $12,985, and is designed to lull users to sleep with a combination of soothing sounds and po-sitioning meant to take pres-sure off of the cardiovascular system.

The pod blocks out most light and sound, and when it’s time to wake up, the pod uses vibration, light and move-ment to rouse the user.

Bringing the pod to cam-pus for a trial-run is a col-laborative effort to promote student health and wellness between Titan Recreation and the Student Health and Counseling Center.

Some students had first seen the pods in the mov-ie The Internship, which starred Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, and sug-gested that the campus have something like that avail-able for students, said Keith Fonseca, Director of Titan Recreation.

The health center has been conducting multiple research studies on sleep and also of-fered sleeping programs, Fonseca said.

Lack of sleep has been an issue on this campus for quite some time, Fonseca said.

“One in 5 CSUF students report that sleep difficulties negatively impact their ac-ademic performance,” ac-cording to a 2014 Student Health and Counseling Cen-ter study.

Napping enhances infor-mation processing and learn-ing, according to the National Institutes of Health.

CSUF is just one of many campuses exploring the idea of napping stations for stu-dents. University of Michi-gan, Texas A&M, Harvard University and UCLA are also looking into purchasing the EnergyPods or installing a nap station.

The effort to encourage napping isn’t limited to uni-versities, either. Companies such as Google, AOL and

Huffington Post Media have pods in their offices to in-crease productivity.

“Harvard researchers es-timate that sleep depriva-tion costs America $63.2 billion in lost productivity every year,” according to the manufacturer.

At CSUF, however, one concern among students is hygiene and how the pods will be kept clean.

The SRC has disinfec-tant spray bottles and towels available for users as a sup-plement to the regular clean-ing by SRC staff.

“The goal here at Ti-tan Recreation is to bring in more wellness program-ming,” Fonseca said.

Results from feedback gathered from the nap pods may result in other solutions, like having a nap room with cots.

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The San Francis-co Giants won their third World Series in five years Wednesday when they defeated the Kansas City Roy-als 3-2.

Pitcher Madi-son Bumgarner was named the series most valuable player. He had a 3-0 record, with just one run allowed and 17 strikeouts in 21 innings pitched. Bumgarner is the first pitcher to win three games in a single World Series since Randy Johnson in 2001.

Bumgarner pitched five scoreless innings of relief Wednesday just three days af-ter pitching a com-plete game shutout in game five. His 52.2 in-nings pitched are the most ever thrown by a pitcher in a single postseason.

The Internation-al Group for Histor-ic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has an-nounced that the alu-minum sheet discov-ered on the island Nikumaroro in 1991 is a likely match for the patch which was add-ed to Amelia Earhart’s plane in 1937, accord-ing to NBC News.

The dimensions, proportions and rivet patterns appear to be a match for the patch which was a field modification made to Earhart’s Lockheed Electra plane in Mi-ami during her famous world flight.

TIGHAR has com-pared the piece, known as Artifact V 2-2-V-1, to a restored Electra plane. The pat-terns on the alumi-num also match pho-tos taken of Earhart’s plane after the instal-lations of the window patch.

The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to open seasonal homeless shelters in Fullerton and Santa Ana armor-ies. These shelters will open as early as Nov. 10 and stay open until mid-April.

Supervisors vot-ed to shift $500,000 from year-round shel-ter operations to sea-sonal shelters. In July, the board approved $3.6 million to pur-chase a building to serve as a permanent shelter, but Santa Ana City Council voted last week to put a 45-day moratorium on new homeless shelters in the city.

According to coun-ty data, an estimat-ed 12,700 people in Orange County were homeless in 2013.

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“We’re always getting compliments, especial-ly this year, it’s a little bit bigger than we’ve had it before. It’s always real-ly colorful and really in-viting,” Contreras said. “It also gets students asking questions like ‘What’s go-ing on, is this Halloween?’ Which is a perfect time to say ‘No Dia De Los Muer-tos is not Halloween, it’s a separate event that cele-brates life and death.’”

The celebration began with Danza Azteca (Aztec Dance), Ballet Folklóri-co (folkloric ballet), mask and face painting and end-ed with a mariachi perfor-mance and candlelit vigil.

Photos displayed on the altar hit close to home with Fullerton students and community members.

“Throughout the past week, we’ve been invit-ing people to bring in pic-tures, so it’s just cam-pus members who want to bring in their pictures and commemorate their loved ones,” Contreras said.

Dia De Los Muertos cel-ebrations will continue Thursday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with a Frida Kah-lo and Cesar Chavez al-tar dedicated by MEChA, face painting, piñata mak-ing, balloon decorating and performances by Ballet Folklórico de CSUF, Son Jarocho and Toyacan Dan-za Azteca Unidos.

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Ashley Williams, a business major, holds Elton John, a German Shepherd puppy, at the puppy therapy event. The Pre-Veterinary Club hosted puppies to allow students to relieve some stress.

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Along with racing and his classes, Koch gets hands-on experience with CSUF’s For-mula Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) by help-ing them build a car. Student teams collaborate to build an IndyCar-style vehicle from the ground up, and then race it in a competition during the summer.

“The Formula SAE car is pretty important,” Koch said. “It’s not just a club, it’s one of those things you can put on your resume.”

Koch’s role is to drive the car and then explain to the team what needs to be changed in order to make the car faster. The modifications are then redesigned on the computer. Finally, they build the new part at the machine shop in the engineering de-partment and install it in the

car for Koch to test out.“It helps to have a good

driver in the car to optimize all the hard work you put into building the car,” Koch said.

Koch has been racing for 12 years now, starting in the regional series, which is a stepping-stone in the ladder of races. He raced his way up the ladder, winning the 2012 Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro Challenge and the 2013

Skip Barber MAZDASPEED Pro challenge. Both champi-onships awarded scholarships for the 2014 races.

Next year, Koch will be running a prototype car in the 2015 IMSA Prototype Li-tes powered by Mazda. Koch said his race car will be much faster at 150 mph on straight-aways and 120-140 mph around corners.

“It looks like a Batmo-bile without the rocket on the back,” Koch said.

Once the Halloween cel-ebrations end, engineering students at Cal State Fuller-ton step in to get rid of left-over pumpkins in style.

Six CSUF clubs and 11 other college and commu-nity teams will partici-pate in the Seventh Annual Pumpkin Launch Saturday morning.

Last year, the CSUF So-ciety of Women Engi-neers (SWE) claimed first place at the event and will be looking to defend their title.

The second place award last year also went to a CSUF club, the Institute of Electrical and Electron-ic Engineers (IEEE). The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), another

CSUF club, tied for third.ASCE spent the past six

weeks modifying what they hope will turn out to be the winning device this week-end. The club hopes to have learned from the mistakes of their past.

“Two years ago we did a sling shot, it didn’t real-ly work. Last year, we had a fixed pivot catapult. It worked good, but it wasn’t very accurate,” said John Stapleton, a civil engineer-ing major and ASCE team member.

Stapleton said he believes the modifications made on their device for this year will bring them back to the winners stand.

“We just saw lots of ideas from last year and saw that this one worked a lot better than previous ones,” Staple-ton said.

ASCE’s trebuchet-style launcher stands about 14 feet tall. The device uses

the alignment of wood, the placement of wheels along with a weighted counter-balance system to launch a pumpkin far, but hopefully with accuracy as well.

To fund their launching device, ASCE received a donation from Inter-Club Council (ICC). They also recycled the wood from their device last year.

Uksun Kim, Ph.D., chair of the civil and environ-mental engineering depart-ment, said something need-ed to be improved from the launcher ASCE used last year.

Kim said he was im-pressed with ASCE’s ef-forts of balancing the bur-dens of school, while still having the time to improve their launching device from last year.

“I’m pretty sure just from looking at this part of it, there will be some im-provement compared to the

last few years,” Kim said. “They are so devoted ... I’m so proud, even with this kind of busy schedule they

have the passion to make that kind of thing.”

The Pumpkin Launch is a free event. In order to make

accommodations for guests, it is advised that attendees register in advance online at discoverycube.org.

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The Nov. 4 elections may only be a few days away, but the Orange County Registrar is still looking for hundreds of poll work-ers throughout the coun-ty to help election day run smoothly.

On election day, the OC Registrar will rely on about 6,000 people to work the polls, and about a third of them are students, said Neal Kelley, Regis-trar of Voters for Orange County.

A couple hundred work-ers are still needed, partic-ularly in Newport Beach and South Orange County, Kelley said.

The requirements to be-come a poll worker are simple: applicants must be U.S. citizens and be regis-tered to vote in California, or lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the U.S. Applicants must be an eligible high school stu-dent or older.

Also, poll workers must have transportation to their assigned polling location. In order to train for the po-sition, the prospective poll worker will need access to the Internet to take an on-line training course or at-tend in-class training.

They will offer class-es all the way through Monday.

“We will recruit people all the way through Sun-day night, possibly Mon-day morning. Because not only do we have in-class

classes that are 3-and-a-half hours long, but we have online classes as well,” Kelley said.

They are still looking for inspectors to supervise the polling places and clerks to work the polls.

Volunteering to be a poll worker gets people in-volved in their communi-ty by helping assist voters, and is another way to earn some extra cash.

All poll workers will be compensated with a sti-pend ranging from $75 to $175 depending on the as-signment. Those who are bilingual receive an addi-tional $15 if they are as-signed to provide language assistance to voters.

Those interested can volunteer by calling (714) 954-1901 or by visiting oc-vote.com/volunteer.

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John Stapleton, a civil engineering major, demonstrates how his trebuchet-style pumpkin launcher works as he prepares for the annual pumpkin launch which will be held Saturday morning.

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Left: Kenton Koch, a sophomore mechanical engineering major,in a Formula SAE race car. Right: Koch is pictured in front of Langsdorf Hall holding his racing helmet.

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• Ballots cast: 1 million

• Poll workers recruited: 10,000

• Polling place locations: 1,300

• Number of voting booths deployed: 11,000

• Vote-by-mail ballots printed, mailed and processed: 650,000

• Number of sample ballots delivered: 1.6 million

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Muckenthaler displays weavings

The Muckenthaler Cultur-al Center’s current gallery, Hispanic Weavings: The Romero Collection of Blan-kets from the Rio Grande Valley, Mexico and South America features Frank Romero’s collection of over 35 different weavings.

Romero, a prominent member of the Los Ange-les art community, was also a part of the 1970s Chicano art collective, Los Four. He and his fellow artists Carlos Almaraz, Beto de la Rocha and Gilbert Lujan helped to define and promote cultural awareness of Hispanic life in Los Angeles through murals, publications and exhibits.

Their historic 1974

exhibition at the Los Ange-les County Museum of Art was the country’s first show of Chicano art at a major art institution.

This exhibition was im-portant because it was one of the first exhibitions that showed Los Angeles art as “bright and celebratory,” said Matthew Leslie, di-rector of exhibitions at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center.

Leslie noticed the weav-ings while working with Romero on another show.

“He had a lot of these wonderful weavings out and he would point at them and say ‘I really love this,’” Leslie said.

It was then that Leslie de-cided to do a show exhibit-ing the weavings.

Romero has been collect-ing weavings for about 40 years and has traveled all over looking for pieces to

add to his collection, but he didn’t share this specific col-lection until it debuted at the Muckenthaler.

What is special about his collection is that it is not comprehensive of a specif-ic culture. Instead, it focuses on three distinct areas.

Although these weav-

ings have similarities, there are certain distinctions that represent the different cultures.

The first part of his collec-tion focuses on the Navajo Indian tribe, which consists of heavy blankets known as pound blankets, which are

made to keep people warm.The collection from the

Rio Grande Valley includes more current styles with dif-ferent kinds of patterns.

The third area focuses on weavings from Peru, which are brightly colored.

On Nov. 6, Romero will be at the center holding an in-

formal lecture where he will give a tour and walk through of his collections.

Allison Town, director of marketing at the Mucken-thaler Cultural Center, said the lecture is loosely struc-tured, but will start promptly at 7:30 p.m. with a meet and

greet with Romero. It will start with a brief in-

troduction of the exhibition, a question and answer seg-ment will follow and then Romero will speak about specific intellectual pieces.

Town said that this is a unique collection of weav-ings that showcases sever-al different styles and en-courages inspiring artists to come look at Romero’s col-lection for ideas.

This is the only time that Romero will be at the center to elaborate on his collection.

The Muckenthaler Cul-tural Center is a nonprofit organization located in Ful-lerton which showcases mul-tiple cultures. The center tries to focus on one exhib-it a year that has a Hispanic background.

This center has sister cit-ies in Korea and Japan, and showcases art from these

different cultures through-out the year.

Along with showcasing art from around the world, the center focuses on lo-cal artists from Fullerton and Southern California to present a broad spectrum of art.

The house was built in the 1920s for the Mucken-thaler family who repre-sent three important found-ing families of Orange County. The family do-nated the house in the late ‘60s to the city and exhibi-tions opened in 1969.

The center also holds festivals, art classes and performances all year long.

The collection is current-ly on display at the center from Oct. 16 to Dec. 31. It is free to the public.

The gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday from 12-4 p.m.

Artist Frank Romero’s collection of Hispanic weavings are exhibited for public viewing

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He had a lot of these wonderful weavings out and he would point at them and say ‘I really love this.’

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Mentor: Faculty member shares story of perseverance“I had to be strong for

him. I didn’t want him to see my weak spots. I want-ed to give him the confi-dence that we were going to make it through that dif-ficult situation,” she said.

Anderson’s mother Mar-tha made sacrifices after he was shot.

She quit her job so that she could be by Anderson’s side throughout his stay at the hospital.

Martha also pushed him in his wheelchair to all of his classes his first two years back at CSUF.

“As a mother, I had mixed emotions. I was hap-py to be doing it. There was nothing else I would rather do than to see him walk to class, but just hav-ing me there was a blessing to me. He wasn’t a statis-tic, he was determined, and that made me determined to help him,” she said.

Anderson was deter-mined not to let the sit-uation define him as a person.

“My goal was to work hard,” Anderson said. “Some days I didn’t feel like going to therapy. Some days I cried through therapy.”

He received his bache-lor’s degree in human ser-vices with an emphasis on mental health, and received his master’s in counseling at CSUF.

Anderson’s mother was ecstatic to see her son graduate.

She sees the strength in her son.

“All the friends we have, they look up and tell Rod-ney he’s the strongest. He’s working like a man. He’s doing everything he would

of did if he was on his feet,” she said.

Anderson remains strong and hopeful.

“I never gave up hope

that one day I was going to be able to walk again. I still believe it until this day. It’s been 14 years, and every day I wake up I’m

disappointed I can’t walk, disappointed that it didn’t happen,” Anderson said. “The most consistent thing I do is try to move my legs

and hands more. I try to stay more active.”

He is currently working on his Ph.D. in education at USC.

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I was raised to view the world with a vintage mindset; men are expect-ed to act like gentlemen, homes should be filled with warmth, fresh baked cook-ies and love is everlasting.

Relationships are meant to begin through lingering stares across crowded cof-fee shops and moments of serendipity.

In that sense, I retain the same naïveté that I was raised with, because I still hold on to hopes that love begins that way.

I was in a relationship for two years with a won-derful man who taught me that romances aren’t al-ways created in whirlwind fashion.

Some are built while sitting side by side in sweatpants on worn out couches.

He showed me that date night isn’t always enjoyed at a candlelit table, some-times it’s spent eating pizza and fighting over who’s better at Star Wars: Battlefront.

He gave me a great love in the time we spent to-gether, but he also showed me that not all love is everlasting.

I spent the better parts of summer listening to Taylor Swift on repeat and mak-ing chocolate my main

food group. I was shattered, but once

July rolled around, I real-ized that I couldn’t wallow anymore. So, I decided to get back out there.

It’s 2014 and I’m 22 years old, so for my gen-eration, getting back out

there means downloading Tinder.

I mentioned in a previous column that Tinder is wide-ly recognized as a “hook-up” app, and I am in no way the “hook up” type.

I enjoy monogamy and all that it entails, but I

decided to give Tinder a chance with hopes that an-other user would be look-ing for the same thing that I was—something of substance.

The men of Tinder vary in type.

In my experience, the

majority of male users on Tinder are just looking for something to last for a night or two, but I did actu-ally come across some real-ly nice guys.

My problem was that I let the app’s reputation prede-termine the motives of the guys that I was planning to meet.

I assumed that because I met them via a “hook-up” app, all they wanted was to “hook up.” So I flaked.

I would make plans with a guy, and then a day or two in advance, I would come up with an excuse not to make it.

I enjoy the excitement that comes with the first time you go out with some-one you have a romantic in-terest in, but I didn’t like that I wasn’t sure whether my Tinder match’s inter-ests were purely physical, so I eventually deleted my account.

I was brought up with a traditional mindset, and I know that finding a man my age with similar values in the 21st century may be diffi-cult, but it isn’t impossible.

It didn’t seem fair for me to make plans that I couldn’t bring myself to follow through with, so I eliminat-ed the option.

For those who embrace sparking romances via technology, good for you.

It’s practical, and from what I hear, it is possible to make real connections that way, but it just isn’t for me.

I’ll stick to coffee shops and serendipity, and as naive as it sounds, a belief in love that’s everlasting.

A student shares her views on meeting men through the social media app Tinder

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I know that find-ing a man my age with similar values in the 21st century may be difficult, but it isn’t impossible.

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Americans took less va-cation days in 2013 than at any point in the past four decades.

While there are mul-tiple factors behind this trend that would make for a good Bruce Springsteen song, this is not something Americans should wear as a badge of honor.

Instead, they should take this as a wake-up call to put their lives into perspective.

The study, titled, “All Work and No Pay: The Impact of Forfeited Time Off” found that American

workers left 4.9 of 21 days of paid vacation on the ta-ble, which equates to $52.4 billion forfeited in paid va-cation collectively.

U.S. workers took 20.3 days of vacation each year from 1976 to 2000. That figure has dropped incre-mentally since then. To-day, the average American takes only 16 days of vaca-tion annually.

Whether the lack of va-cation time on the part of workers is voluntary or the result of pressure from em-ployers is irrelevant. The fact that Americans are taking less vacation time than ever has a variety of negative impacts.

Chiefly, workers are sub-stantially less productive when they’re overworked.

Mark Rosekind of

Alertness Solutions found that simply taking time off for a vacation can in-crease a person’s work per-formance by 80 percent and reaction time by 40 percent.

There’s also a substantial economic opportunity that

workers are missing out on, but could be capitaliz-ing on. The study conduct-edfor the U.S. Travel Asso-ciation indicated that $284 billion could be pumped into the U.S. economy if workers took their allotted paid vacation time.

Approximately $118 bil-lion would be spent on

travel and $166 billion would be spent in other places like restaurants and retail shops, according to the study.

Some companies have taken notice of this and now offer incentives to their employees to take

their vacation time, ac-cording to a study by the Society for Human Re-source Management.

Other companies have done away with the roll-over vacation days that al-low employees to accumu-late paid vacation days for several years as a way to ensure their employees are

not overworked. Just like there are com-

panies that see the benefits in their employees taking time off to be more pro-ductive, there are compa-nies that have taken a dif-ferent approach to reach the same goal.

MetroNaps, which calls itself a “fatigue manage-ment solutions” compa-ny, has been working on workplace sleeping pods since 2003. Their Energy-Pod chair is the first chair ever designed for employ-ees to take naps in the workplace.

Their official website has a section that brief-ly lists the four benefits of napping: increased alert-ness, productivity, well-be-ing and learning.

All four benefits, of

course, are made possible by their pod, which costs $12,985. Or you could save $13,000 by getting rest the way grandpa used to and leave the office.

It’s hard to blame Met-roNaps for trying to cash in on an existing niche market. The real problem lies in the fact that this company is a viable busi-ness. This speaks volumes of where we place our perspective.

It may seem tempting to not take vacation time, es-pecially for those who work in a busy atmosphere.

However, research has shown it’s better to live a lifestyle that’s the subject of a Jimmy Buffett song than a Bruce Springsteen one.

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SB 1210 a good first step for student equality

All work and no play is bad for everyone Americans taking less va-cation time is problematic in more ways than one.

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It’s better to live a lifestyle that’s the subject of a Jimmy Buffet song than a Bruce Springsteen one.

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The United States of America is a land that couldn’t exist as it does to-day without the contribu-tions of people from other parts of the world.

Throughout history, peo-ple of all different cul-tures, ethnic backgrounds and relgions came to this land in search of their own version of the “Ameri-can Dream,” which James Truslow Adams defined as, “Life should be better and richer and fuller for every-one with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.”

Unfortunately, in the 21st century, it seems that America’s immigra-tion-based history has been forgotten by many differ-ent groups.

As a nation built by im-migrants, there needs to be a serious and abrupt change in how we treat un-documented immigrants in our country today.

The passage of SB 1070, a law that subjects undoc-umented immigrants in Arizona to the searches and apprehensions simi-lar to those that criminals are subjected to, has made Arizona an unfriendly and unwelcoming place for im-migrants. These types of searches aren’t the only abuses undocumented indi-viduals have to deal with.

In California and across the country, we see immi-grants facing difficulties

on the educational front. Though undocumented

immigrants have the access to Cal Grants, there are fi-nancial gaps in education-al prices of up to $8,000 that some are unable to overcome.

Undocumented residents must be granted the same opportunities as the rest of us. We as Americans can-not logically expect some-one who does not have the same resources as U.S. cit-izens to reach the same level of success.

Fortunately, undocu-mented immigrants moved a step closer to having the

same opportunities on Sept. 28 when Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1210. SB 1210 will allow undocumented immigrants to receive college loans. This program will operate through the DREAM Act program, and will be im-plemented at all Universi-ty of California and Cal-ifornia State University campuses.

Linda Leu, California policy and research direc-tor for Young Invincibles, said she supports the ap-proval of the legislation.

“Higher education is critical for young people

looking to advance in to-day’s economy, but young undocumented Califor-nians haven’t had equal ac-cess to higher education,” Leu said.

California has taken steps in helping immi-grants attain an education by allowing undocumented immigrants who have grad-uated from California high schools to be eligible for Cal Grant scholarships, as well as in-state tuition.

The signing of SB 1210 will only benefit Califor-nia. With this bill imple-mented, undocumented im-migrants can get a college

education easier. Then,they can become contribut-ing members to society by helping out their commu-nity or our nation with the skills they have acquired from college.

“This bill will grow our college-educated work-force and make good on the promise that a college degree is possible for all hard working California students, regardless of im-migration status,” Sen. Ri-cardo Lara said in a state-ment to the Sacramento Bee.

This bill will prompt un-documented immigrants to

look at college as a finan-cial possibility, and it gives them the hopes of provid-ing a comfortable living for themselves in the future.

Business major Martin Licea, 22, is the son of two undocumented immigrants. He said there are positive benefits to making educa-tion more accessible to un-documented students.

“Immigrants will always be grateful towards the U.S. because this country gave them an opportunity and they will be able to come back and help,” Licea said. “The more people that are educated in this country, it really can’t hurt. In the long run, I think it can help out the economy.”

SB 1210 will cost UCs $3.6 million and CSUs $1.5 million annually.

The state general fund contributes matching amounts to both funds, ac-cording to an analysis from the Assembly Appropria-tions Committee report-ed in the San Jose Mercury News.

There are limitations to SB 1210. No student will be able to exceed the fi-nancial need of more than $4,000 within any academic year. Students will also be barred from receiving more than $20,000 at any one institution.

Refusing undocumented immigrants the right to uti-lize loans to better them-selves is unfair consider-ing they came here for the same reason that our ances-tors did; to attain a better life. SB 1210 might not be perfect, but it’s a great start for evening the educational playing field.

The measure will allow undoc-umented students to procure loans for their education.

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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

It’s a really good time for you to make new connections and try to get others to share their perspectives. Your great energy is sure to make life more interesting for at least one person from far away.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

You may not quite understand what’s going on logically, but your subconscious mind is sure to have a few ideas. Listen carefully -- you may only be able to figure this stuff out metaphor-ically.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

A coworker or acquaintance surprises you with a comment or idea that is perfectly in line with your thinking. This may be the start of a much richer relationship for you two! Embrace it.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

A former coworker pops up with a request -- or maybe an offer. Take your time to consider it carefully, as your energy is a bit tapped out and you may need to ask for more time.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

Something big is changing -- and you think you like it! It could be almost anything but you’re sure to be the vanguard of embracing this new way of living or thinking about things.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

You’ve got to discipline yourself at least a little -- otherwise, things are sure to get weird fast. You may need to try something totally new and untested, but you should be able to make that work.

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The Cal State Fullerton men’s soccer team suffered their fourth loss in Big West Conference play Wednes-day, succumbing to UC Ir-vine 1-0 at Titan Stadium.

The game was a tale of two halves. Fullerton con-trolled the proceedings in the first half by dominating play on the wings.

However, Irvine came out as the aggressors in the sec-ond half, stretching the field by moving the ball around well.

“They made their shots, we didn’t. That’s it. We had plenty of chances to finish these guys easily, and we didn’t,” said CSUF Head Coach George Kuntz. “We kept them in the game and they finished a shot. They made the play.”

The first offensive ac-tion of the game came by way of Titan midfielder Ian Ramos.

In the second minute, he collected on the left and performed a series of ste-povers to create space.

However, his shot from 18 yards went straight at UCI goalkeeper Michael Breslin.

The Titans were on the offensive once again in the third minute when Ama-ra Soumah created space down the right flank.

His cross into the box found the head of teammate Ritchie Gonzalez, but the unmarked midfielder head-ed the ball wide of the net.

Marc Fenelus was ac-tive in the 14th minute. He controlled the ball down the left side and picked out Gonzalez toward the center.

Gonzalez let loose from 25 yards, but Breslin dived

low to slap the ball out of danger just in time.

Fullerton continued to pile on the pressure.

One minute before the end of the first half, Ramos sparked a counterattack from the Fullerton half.

He passed to Dyllan Ste-vens on the left side of the pitch, but Stevens could only fire straight at Bres-lin after dribbling into the box.

The first half ended with not many clear-cut opportu-nities for either team.

The Titans did manage to

hold the Anteaters to two shots, none of which trou-bled Fullerton goalkeeper Jeff Salt.

The Anteaters came to life in the second half.

In the 54th minute, the UCI offense moved the ball around uncontested in the Fullerton box.

Midfielder Eduardo Cal-zada received the ball, but fired over the crossbar af-ter three CSUF defenders closed him down.

Salt was forced into a save in the 71st minute off a shot by Cameron Iwasa,

who fired a bullet from 25 yards out.

The ball seemed destined for the back of the net, but Salt leaped off the ground to palm it over the crossbar.

The game quickly got physical, and the Titans were on the wrong side of many officiating decisions, which upset Kuntz.

Despite the question-able officiating, the game continued.

Tempers escalated both on the pitch and on the sideline.

The breakthrough goal

finally came in the 84th minute when UCI’s Noah Gaines crossed to Gerar-do Gonzalez from the right flank. Gonzalez chested the ball down to Mario Ortiz, who surged unmarked into the box off the late run.

Ortiz feinted left, but shot low and to the right, beat-ing Salt and his defenders in the process.

With the win, UCI now has a three point advantage in the Big West South Divi-sion standings.

The Titans still have a chance to rise to the top of

the standings.“Our goal is still to be the

top team in the conference,” Kuntz said. “That team can still lose to the next two teams that they play.”

The Titans need to re-bound quickly for their Sat-urday matchup with UC Riverside.

“We’re gonna come out stronger than we did to-day,” sophomore Mitch-ell Bell said. “We’re gonna come out tougher, definitely more organized at the back. We’re gonna be more fo-cused, that’s for sure.”

The Titans dropped to third place in the Big West South Division after falling to UCI

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The Titans struggled offensively in their first game against the Rainbow Wahine, failing to score over 19 in a set and hitting just .077.YUNUEN BONAPARTE / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO

Ian Ramos attempts to get the ball past UC Irvine midfielder Eduardo Calzada (25) in the 1-0 loss to the Anteaters Wednesday at Titan Stadium.WINNIE HUANG / DAILY TITAN

CSUF begins fall baseball

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The Cal State Fullerton baseball team will play its first fall baseball game against UC Santa Barbara Sat-urday afternoon at Goodwin Field.

The Titans and Gauchos will play a nine-inning game followed by three or four innings of various situations.

CSUF will pitch Tyler Peitzmeier, Chad Hockin, Con-nor Seabold, Henry Omaña, John Gavin, Max Gibbs, Willie Kuhl, Miles Chambers and Kyle Murray in no par-ticular order.

Peitzmeier has a 1.63 earned run average in 67 ca-reer games. Kuhl had a 1.37 ERA in 18 games out of the bullpen last season.

Gavin and Seabold are members of the 2015 re-cruiting class which was ranked No. 10 by Collegiate Baseball.

Late goal stuns CSUF men’s soccer

Cal State Fullerton wom-en’s volleyball returns to Ti-tan Gym after a two-match road trip to play the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine Saturday.

The two teams previous-ly met at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu on Oct. 3. CSUF was swept in three sets.

The Titans came out firing in the first set of that match and took a 7-1 lead.

CSUF was up 11-8 when Hawaii went on a 12-1 run and never looked back.

The Rainbow Wahine won that set 25-18, and the Titans failed to score over 20 points in any of the three sets.

No Titan player had dou-ble-digit kills and Holland Crenshaw led the offense with seven kills.

CSUF had an abysmal .077 hitting percentage com-pared to the Rainbow Wahi-ne, who hit .296 with eight service aces.

The Titan team that Ha-waii played is different than the team they will encounter Saturday.

It was on the Hawaii trip that Head Coach Carolyn Zimmerman informed soph-omore McKenna Painton that she would be moved to outside hitter in the near future.

“It got to the point where we worked the same peo-ple in the same position over and over again and when you don’t see the result changing, it’s time to make a change,” Zimmerman said. “McKen-na is a warrior. I pointed to her in Hawaii and said, ‘Be ready, the next change is you moving to outside hitter’ and she understood.”

Painton has thrived in her role as outside hitter and had four consecutive dou-ble-doubles, a streak that was just broken last Satur-day at UC Irvine.

She has led the team in kills in four out of five matches since getting rid of her libero jersey.

Her teammates deserve a lot of credit for her success at outside hitter, a position

she played in high school before becoming a libero at CSUF.

“My teammates helped me a lot as far as position-ing and making sure I was comfortable on the outside,” Painton said.

The Titans are coming off a 3-1 loss to UC Irvine, another match where they jumped on their opponents early but were unable to maintain their offensive suc-cess throughout.

CSUF hit .222 in the first set, but finished only hit-ting .099 for the match. Niki Withers led the offense with 17 kills.

Hawaii is on the verge of returning to the top 25 of the NCAA RPI rankings.

They are currently ranked 30 in the nation after back-to-back Big West Confer-ence wins.

Hawaii was ranked No. 20 when the two teams previ-ously met.

Legendary coach Dave Shoji leads the Rainbow Wa-hine. He is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I women’s volleyball history and has won four national

championships during his 40-year reign as head coach.

The Rainbow Wahine are in second place in the Big West standings largely due to their blockers.

They lead the conference in blocks per set with 3.02.

The duo of Olivia Magill and Kalei Adolpho are among the elite in the Big West in blocks per set with 1.47 and 1.17, respectively.

Hawaii also serves very well. They have 111 service aces on the season, com-pared to the Titans who have 97.

Tai Manu-Olevao and Tay-ler Higgins lead the confer-ence in service aces per set.

The Titans are in second to last place in the Big West, only ahead of UC Riverside.

But they are better at Ti-tan Gym than on the road. They hit .176 in their 11 home matches, compared to .153 on the road, and have 12.73 kills per set in Titan Gym.

Fullerton needs to pick up their play in November if they want to climb the Big West standings and avoid fin-ishing in the bottom two.

CSUF hopes to avenge their 3-0 loss to Hawaii on Oct. 3 Saturday at Titan Gym

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