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INSIDE:

-DOLCINI'S CLOSURE PG 3

-#YESALLWOMEN PG 2

-PERIODISMO EN ESPAñOL: LA ONDA PG 8

-DR. CORNEL WESTPG 6

-CSU BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE SUSTAINABLE FOOD POLICY PG 4

-REBRANDING CSULA PG 9

-METRO PRICES RISEPG 5

-ELIJAH COMES TO LUCKMANPG 10

-CSULA'S FOOTBALL TEAMPG 4

-MADE IN AMERICA LINE UPPG 6

Professor Yamamoto’s Comm 430 classPhoto by Pablo De La Hoya

The New School Starts With You: Communication Students Bring Google Startup Weekend into CSULA

CAMPUSMercedes BarbaContributor

When the students of Com-munication 430 entered Pro-fessor Mylen Yamamoto’s Dynamics of Organizational Communication class, they were instantly surprised when Professor Yamamoto decided to teach the curriculum with a more “hands-on” approach.

Stepping out of the “nor-mal” classroom setting, Ya-mamoto decided that her class will spend the quarter bringing a pilot event to campus called Google Startup Weekend. This event is something that the CSULA student community will witness for the first time.

Google Startup Weekend is coming to campus on June 27th, 28th and 29th and ac-cording to their website, Goo-gle’s Startup Weekend em-powers entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and Google prod-ucts. Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and the De-partment of Communication Studies, this non-profit event seeks to grow entrepreneurial communities, equip pursuing developers with skills and the resources to pursue their ideas.

The CSULA campus will devote an entire weekend and 54-hours to this entrepreneur-ship. This event will bring together a group of global, passionate future leaders who

are on a mission to inspire and educate. The event will see who would want to empower individuals, teams and com-munities. Startup Weekend’s mission will bring together different people of different career backgrounds like soft-ware developers, marketers, designers, and other enthusi-asts to inspire future genera-tions of entrepreneurs.

According to their press re-

lease, the teams are also pro-vided with the resources and guidance to launch a startup in the 54-hours presented to them. Google is the global pre-miere-sponsor of the event but it is up to the CSULA commu-nity organizer to reach out to surrounding Los Angeles.

Once the participants have

entered the contest, contes-tants will have 60 seconds to make a pitch. The pitches are then narrowed down to the top ideas and teams are formed. At the end of the weekend, the top creating teams demonstrate their idea in front of a panel of judges in order to potentially sell their product.

Professor Yamamoto sep-arated the students in this Comm 430 class into different departments in order to suc-cessfully plan out this event. Student and chair of the PR department for this event, Ter-ry Loaiza, 25, said the students are excited to bring this kind of event to the campus com-munity.

Loaiza stated, “Cal State LA is right in the middle of Los Angeles. Most people don’t know what this school can ac-complish or what we can do and how we can do it. But, we will do it.”

Professor Yamamoto said that she loves the idea of this type of collaboration.

“Half of my life is dedicated to a new media creative agen-cy I founded that was part-in-spired by Startup Weekend and the other half is a lecturer in the Communication depart-ment. With President Covi-no’s goals to ‘nurture new ideas’ on campus, I felt the collaboration was a good fit,” Yamamoto said.

Alumni of CSULA, Yama-moto said this type of hands-on experience will be useful for the communication stu-dents to learn.

“Especially at the 400 level, students need to build on top of theories that prepare them to succeed after graduation. That means applying the theories in real life scenarios. For exam-ple, if we’re learning theories on socialization into an orga-nization, what better way to do it then learning through the process of socializing an orga-nization like Startup Weekend into an organization like Cal State L.A. The process in-volves emotional intelligence, learning how to respect a hier-

archy, and learning how to del-egate work effectively. Comm students can learn about Orga-nizational Theory through the process. Plus, they now have a portfolio of actual work to show to future employers,” Yamamoto said.

The students of Commu-nication 430 are currently working on setting up multi-ple fundraisers to raise money for the Google Startup Week-end. One of the fundraisers will take place on June 10th at Slater’s 50/50 in Pasadena and students, and the public will be invited to support. They are to bring a flyer that they can pick up at the student union, and present it to Slater’s who will give CSULA Startup Group a certain percentage of sales.

Another fundraiser will take place June 19th at Shakey’s Pizza in Alhambra from 5PM to 8PM.

Google Startup Weekend will be open to students with a valid CSULA Id for $20 and open for $99 to the public. It will take place at Cal State LA on June 27th, 28th and 29th.

For more information, please follow CSULA Startup Weekend on Twitter and Ins-tagram @SWcsuLA and like their Facebook page at Startup Weekend CSULA.

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#YesAllWomen Spreads

Letter to the EditorsDear Editors,

People look at the Isla Vis-ta spree killings and wonder, “Why does this happen so of-ten?” I ask, “Why doesn’t it happen more?” It takes moral disengagement to perpetrate such acts. But moral engage-ment is more difficult than disengagement. One has to be more careful when respect-ing another’s rights than when not. It takes more training

and practice to respect others’ rights than not. Moral engage-ment costs more, like it costs more to transport a china tea-cup than the clay from which it was made. And killing is thrilling, so there is a payoff to acting violently. That’s why people morally disengage.

The other side of the coin is that if we allow murders to happen without consequences, it increases transaction costs.

People live close together so they can participate in mutual-ly beneficial commerce. If one is afraid of being murdered, one has to take precautions, which increase transaction costs and reduce profits. So as a society, we socialize our youth and punish offenders to deter crime. But it doesn’t al-ways work. There’s a balance that needs to be shifted.

Dean Wilber

What started out as a single tweet has turned into a power-ful social media trend. After the tragic shooting, on Friday May 23rd in the streets of Isla Vista near the University of California, Santa Barbara, some of you may have noticed a hashtag trending around twitter; #YesAllWomen.

The following day after the shooting many women, and men, started spreading the hashtag around. It plays off the “not all men” argument often used to counter feminist beliefs.

According to the Twitter user who started the hashtag, @gildedspine, the point is to share examples of what wom-en must fear from men even if not all men engage in those behaviors. The user also points out that while all men are not guilty of crime against wom-en, all women are affected by misogyny, a hatred or dislike of women or girls. According to World Health Organization, “Based on data from over 80 countries, 35% of women were found to have experi-enced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or

non-partner sexual violence.”

In the past 30 days since its inception, the hastag has been tweeted more than 2.1 million times, according to the track-ing service, Topsy. Many sto-ries of sexual violence, harass-ment, and fear have been told from across the world as many join in on the conversation.

The question that still re-mains in people’s mind, was the killer’s act misogynistic? While the question can’t be answered, due to this tragedy a total of 7 people including

the murderer were killed and 13 others were injured. The victims were all students of UCSB, and were Cheng Yuan Hong, George Chen, Weihan Wang, Katie Cooper, Veronika Weiss, and Christopher Mi-chaels-Martinez.

Please keep those who de-parted from this incident and their families in your thoughts and prayers.

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On Wednesday, May 28th the Save Dolcini Coalition, an informal organization of stu-dents determined to persuade senior school administrators to renew Dolcini’s lease, met up with executive director of the university auxiliary services (UAS), Alma Sahagun. In the meeting, Sahagun disclosed the closing of Dolcini’s for “educational purposes” with no further description of what future operations may occur in its place.

The two students present at the meeting, who wished to remain anonymous, also stat-ed a secondary reason was for it being declared “unsafe and never meant to be a place of business,” again with the same vague element of the previous reason. Even if that may ap-pear to be the case, it clearly isn’t because Dolcini renews their lease every three years, thus guarantying a permit stat-ing the structural foundation is safe.

Second, if their food services is considered hazardous then why do they have an A-level grading from the public health inspectors of the state? Anoth-er important question remains, why after seventeen years has the Dolcini’s area been avowed as “unsafe”? The matter of simply stating Dolcini’s is un-safe is quite silly and insulting to the student body.

On a phone call to public affairs the University Times was told the Physical Sciences Buildings uppers floors were not earthquake safe, yet, the University still holds classes and managed to set up a newly installed Veterans Office o the first floor.

Generally, it comes down to what has been said by Saha-gun whose responsibility it is to oversee contracts by outside enterprises that assist and apply this educational institution’s mission towards scholarship, creative activity, and service.

Amir Babour, owner of Dolcini’s, has up held this es-tablishment for nearly two de-cades whilst supplying schol-

arships, employee interaction in business planning, provid-ing students with healthy food options and employment opportunities.

In the past it has been recog-nized that Dolcini’s and Star-bucks have had an unhealthy competition before when the previous President James Ross-er, under the insistence of Star-bucks, attempted to get rid of Dolcini’s, but their efforts were thwarted once a student-led group similar to today’s man-aged to obtain 5,000 student signatures.

History is repeating its fa-miliar tune by the same actions President Covino has been do-ing. Student consultation was overlooked in this assessment with Sahagun even stating, “[It is] a decision made too fast and so quick.”

This leaves the student body to observe how things are managed through a top-down approach, neglecting student services for the students. Fur-thermore, the unsettling and contradicting fact is that Sa-hagun foresees a future café in

that area that may go for “open bidding” and clearly does not support her latter response of its ‘educational function.’ It is no secret that large corpora-tions usually triumph in open biddings, like Starbucks.

After the meek break down of the given reasons for Dol-cini’s closing, it leaves the real motives behind this deci-sion in isolation and mystery. It is unfortunate that this uni-versity’s motto (Voice, Truth, Life—speak the truth as a way of life) hasn’t reflected on this situation. It should garner ex-tensive student attention to in-dicate that this institution must apply greater transparency and discussion with students.

As for the student employees who work at Dolcini’s, they have been given an unofficial personal promise by Sahagun to relocate their campus em-ployment. Conclusively, my message extends to every stu-dent and faculty member that we may feel disconnected with the day-to-day activities of this campus, but we need to pay greater attention because we may be gradually casted off.

On Friday, May 30th the Save Dolcini’s Coalition es-tablished two meetings with Lisa Chavez, Vice-President of the Administration and Chief Financial Officer. The first meeting was on May 19th and was cancelled due to dou-ble booking. Then the meeting was rescheduled to May 29th, but was canceled due to double booking (again). For the third time the Save Dolcini’s Coali-tion rescheduled the meeting until next Monday of June 2nd.

For the past month they have been requesting to meet senior administrators with no response by any, except for Sa-hagun and Chavez. Since May Day, there have been student signings of petitions and rallies supporting the renewal of Dol-cini’s lease and requesting an-swers for its initial termination.

At the end of the day, who do you want representing Golden Eagles when there is talk of tu-ition hikes and interdepartmen-tal changes: the student/faculty representative, or a senior ad-ministrator who still gets paid no matter the outcome?

Dolcini's Dodgey FateOPINIONGerardo AmezquitaContributor

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PRESS RELEASEMichael Clemson, CSU Chancellor’s Office

CSU Board of Trustees Approves State-wide Sustainable Food Policy

$20+ million to be devoted annually to local, sustainable farms and food businesses

Long Beach, CA – As the state of California struggled with record droughts and wildfires, last week the Cali-fornia State University Board of Trustees, including Gov-ernor Jerry Brown, approved a long-awaited sustainable food policy will govern the more than $100 million spent on food across the 23-campus system. Under the new pol-icy, each campus will have until 2020 to ensure that at least 20% of all food spending goes to farms and food busi-nesses that meet Real Food Challenge—a national student group advocating for just food systems—guidelines: local

and community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and/or hu-mane.

“The sustainable food ser-vice goal in the university policy demonstrates the power of student participation,” said Michael Clemson, Associate Energy Analyst at the Cali-fornia State University Chan-cellor’s office. “Trustees sup-ported student leadership on this issue and we at the CSU Chancellor’s Office are excit-ed to continue working with the Real Food Challenge.”

The sustainable food policy has been in the works for more than a year, and was adopted as part of a wider sustainabil-ity policy, which also includes sections on energy, water, buildings and transportation.

The food section of the pol-icy responds directly to the ad-vocacy of a student campaign,

“Real Food for CSUs.” In ad-vance of the May 21 vote, the group gathered petition sig-natures from more than 1,000 supporters across the state, coordinated actions on 8 CSU campuses and won endorse-ments from the Cal State Stu-dent Association and the Cal-ifornia Student Sustainability Coalition. The group has giv-en testimony at all five Board meetings this year.

“This is more than just a passing of a policy. Today the CSU Board is answering a call to change from students, fac-ulty, and community members alike, all across the state of California,” comments Kristin Ouimette, student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and a lead-er of the Real Food for CSU Campaign. “This vote is huge because students have a right to have access to quality food that not only nourishes our bodies, but also our commu-

nities.”

Already, many CSU cam-puses have developed models that will aid state-wide adop-tion of the policy. CSU Chico, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO and CSU Monterey Bay are now using the Real Food Calculator, a student-designed assessment tool to research what percent of their school’s current purchases meet the ‘real food’ or sustainable food criteria. Cal Poly Pomona has also developed a for-credit course for students to research and make recommendations about how their campus food service can improve.

The California State Uni-versity System is a leader in high-quality, accessible, stu-dent-focused higher education. With 23 campuses, almost 447,000 students, and 45,000 faculty and staff, CSU is the largest, the most diverse, and

one of the most affordable uni-versity systems in the country.

The Real Food Chal-lenge(RFC) is the largest national student organiza-tion working for a more just and sustainable food system. RFC’s primary goal is to shift $1 billion of higher education food spending away from in-dustrial agriculture and junk food and toward healthy, lo-cal, fair, and sustainable farms and food businesses. Every year, Real Food Challenge student leaders take action on more than 300 campuses. To date, 25 colleges and univer-sities plus the University of California system have adopt-ed RFC’s 20% by 2020 ‘real food’ policy. 150 campuses nationally use the Real Food Calculator to track progress towards their goals.

Football, Where Have You Gone?CAMPUSSergio ReynosoContributor

Have you ever wondered why Cal State L.A. doesn’t have a football team? Why is it that all these other universi-ties like UCLA, and USC have tailgates and we don’t? Why is it that we are missing out on a great college experience?

Cal State L.A. actually did have a football team from 1951 to 1977. Many will be surprised when they hear that CSULA’s football team won the 1964 national champion-ship as they ended the season No. 1 on the UPI poll. The team was also ranked No. 1 nationally, back in 1965.

In those two years, the teams

had two players who would go on to play in the National Foot-ball League. Howard Kindig was inducted into the CSULA hall of fame back in 1990. He was a part of the 1964 nation-al championship team and led Cal State L.A. with nine re-ceptions and four touchdowns catches in 1964. Kindig had a very successful career playing professionally in the NFL for 10 years and appearing in 112 games. He was a member of the only undefeated team in NFL history, the 1972 Miami Dolphins and won the Super Bowl.

Walter Johnson was the Cleveland Browns No.2 pick in the 1965 NFL draft. He was described by former head coach Dick Modzelwski as “the best defensive tackle

Cleveland ever had.” Walter played 12 seasons in the NFL and was a 3-time pro bowler. He was probably the best foot-ball player in CSULA history.

So why doesn’t CSULA

have a football team today? The answer is simple, money. Each football team is made up of a roster of 53 players. Each one of those players needs equipment, for example hel-mets, shoulder pads, uniforms,

traveling, etc. It is unfortunate that CSULA doesn’t have the budget that UCLA or USC does. However, with the mon-ey that the school isn’t spend-ing, the money still goes to good use, education.

California State, Los Ange-les students were invited to at-tend a private early screening of the newest comedy, A Mil-lion Ways to Die in the West, this past Wednesday night, May 28th, at the Montebello AMC Theater. Students were asked to show up early due to limited space. The event was private but included invitees. Fortunately, even though there

was limited space, everyone was admitted.

These exclusive event tick-ets were obtained through dif-ferent school organizations. Some students received their tickets through the Business and Economic Club, Golden Eagle TV and Golden Eagle Radio.

Sophomore, Lucy Zhang, Business Major received her ticket by following Golden Eagle Radio. Zhang said, “I

got my ticket through the last [movie] event, The Neighbors [early screening], and follow-ing Golden Eagle Radio on social media.” This was her second time attend an ear-ly screening through Gold-en Eagle Radio. Zhang went on to say, “I really like these [school] events.”

Once everyone was seated, the movie promptly started with no movie trailers before hand. The movie was approx-imately two hours. The mov-

ie’s event promoters/handlers made sure there were no inter-ruptions through out the mov-ie.

The movie is filled with adult humor. Surprisingly, it was not has funny as Seth MacFarlane’s last film, Ted, but still has some clever jokes. If moviegoers go with the high expectations and they might be disappointed. Overall, it was a good film and refreshing to see some not so new faces in a comedy. It was hard to see

the actor Liam Neeson, who is often seen as a heroic charac-ter, as the villain.

Do not be bummed out if you did not get to attend this early movie screening. There will be more to enjoy. Just keep your eyes open and fol-low some clubs through your favorite social networks.

A Million Ways to Die in the West was released on May 30.

ENTERTAINMENTJennifer CarrilloContributor

A Million Ways to Die in the West Sneak Preview

LA State College Diablos football team by CSULA Athletics

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Do You Have What It Takes?FASHIONRoxana HernandezColumnist

I recently met up with a friend of mine, Lidia Alvarez, whom I hadn’t seen in about a year. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, and came down to LA for a cou-ple of days. A topic that came up as we were conversing was the struggle of chasing our dream—it is seriously tough out there after graduating--or at least in the fashion industry in NYC.

You see, when Alvarez was in college here at CSULA she was very involved in anything fashion related. She would do anything that would help her learn and pump up her re-sume. Alvarez was preparing for life after graduation. As an involved President of the FADS club, member of Made in CSULA, and employee in a number of internships, she was feeling very prepared. In fact, she even landed an internship at Vogue Italy at Conde Nast Publications in NYC after graduation.

Let me tell you, for people like Lidia and I, a big move like that is a big deal. Without

family around her in NYC, Lidia found it difficult to find motivation and diligence, and who wouldn’t? Our family and friends are the ones who push us to do better and some-times we become attached to their support. Not having that around can really deprive the strength to go on. Fortunately, Alvarez was able to cope liv-ing in NYC alone for a few months, but as time moved on she began to feel the absence of her loved ones.

This is when it started to be-come a little more challenging because unfortunately, an in-ternship, no matter how lux-urious, cannot pay the bills. To afford living in NYC she had to rent a flat in Brooklyn, find roommates, and work as a sales associate, host, wait-ress…etc., in order to keep up with her big move.

After her internship, the hardest part came, and became quite tough to get right back up. Taking jobs at stores and restaurants, trying to pay the bills while trying to stay fo-cused and blog, write, apply for jobs, make cover letters, it was all part of the deal of be-coming an adult.

The transition into adult-

hood, is a difficult one. No mat-ter how much we try to avoid growing up, it has to happen at some point. The worst part about it is that it hits us when we least expect it, and once it hits there is no turning back. Alvarez, alone, in NYC--one of the fashion capitals of the world—was now unmotivated and uninspired. I kept contact with her through the year and noticed her change in pace and her change in passion. Alvarez hit rock bottom.

In an attempt to lift Alva-rez’s spirits, I tried to inspire her, motivate her, and even distract her from her current life situation. I’m not going to lie, it brought me down too. Hearing from my good friend, whom I admire, and look up to tell me that her passion was drifting, and her motivation disappearing, was a punch in the gut. If she, who was so in-volved and so qualified, found herself struggling, what was I going to look like in a year?

I may have neglected men-tioning that Alvarez is a go-getter, very passionate, and is quite extraordinary for that. She takes risks, she jumps in, she does whatever she needs to do to run (not walk) toward

her goal. That said, mov-ing to NYC to work in an un-paid internship for Vogue Italy was not surprising. Alvarez wants to submerge herself in the fashion industry, and she wants to do it NOW. Much like her, I want to work in the fashion industry for a fashion magazine. To reach that goal seems pretty far-fetched, but it is doable.

I believe in the power of networking, and finding con-nection. Alvarez’s advice to me—and all you for that mat-ter—is to never stop working on something. She assured me that dreaming big is good, but that we must find ground as well. We see ourselves achiev-ing big things so soon, and reality is it’s just not that easy anymore. There are people who want your job, and some-times they get it and we don’t. Sometimes, we need to work on more to impress more.

This brings me to MY ad-vice. The best way to impress more is to show that you have knowledge of the industry you want to get in. The way to do that is to learn, learn, learn, and sometimes school doesn’t cut it out. Get involved at CSU-LA, find clubs and orgs who

support your goal, who speak your passion, and who you can relate to. Truth is, you will be able to network much better that way, and we all know net-working is huge for success.

Students need to get in-volved, need to intern and gain as much relevant experience as they can. Students need to continually be motivated, in-spired, and passionate. For my fellow fashion classmates out there, stay together, because we are all going to need each other one day—in this case Al-varez and I stick together be-cause we both want the same things, we both can learn from each other, and one day we can help out each other out.

Today, Alvarez is working in various different settings, some involving the fashion industry, some not so much. One thing is for sure, each day she is closer to her ultimate goal because she continues to work for it. There is no stop-ping point. Even though she is slowly climbing that moun-tain, I’m confident that she will one day make it to the summit. Although precarious at times, Lidia definitely has what it takes to reach her goal, do you have what it takes?

LFESTYLETatiana MirandaContributor

Metro Prices Go Up

College students who use public transportation to and from school and as their main source of transportation may be affected by the latest fare increases. Last Thursday, May 22nd, board members from the Los Angeles Metropoli-tan Transportation Authority (MTA) voted 12 to 1 to raise bus and railway prices begin-ning in September.

One-way prices will rise from $1.50 to $1.75, day pass-es will increase from $5 to $7, and monthly passes will increase from $75 to $100. Even though prices will be go-ing up later this year, the MTA will be allowing two hours of free transfers before they take effect. Currently, riders must pay a new fare every time they board a train or bus.

The increases in fare prices

are an attempt to compensate for a $36 million dollar gap in the 2016 operating budget. Without the increase, over 1,000 workers would be laid

off. More than 100 frequent users of the Metro buses and railways attended this board meeting to try to convince members that there should be no change in fares. Out of the 13 board members, only one stood to oppose the motion.

L.A. supervisor Gloria Mo-lina believes that the budget should not be fixed by doing a disservice to those who use the Metro. Molina also proposed that the increase in prices be postponed for eight months so that staff could find a way to cut costs from next year’s bud-get. No one else agreed with Molina’s motion.

Students who are using public transportation may not have worry just yet. Los An-geles County supervisor, Mark Ridley-Thomas proposed that the fare prices stay the same for students until a panel of experts can take a closer look at the MTA’s budget and fi-nances.

CAMPUSGerardo AmezquitaContributor

LGBTQ Pride Mini-Cinema Fest

On Thursday, May 29th the Cross Cultural Center’s (CCC) of Gender and Sexu-ality Resource Center prema-turely celebrated Pride Month, traditionally celebrated in the month of June. In this series, they established an experi-mental mini-festival dedicat-ed to the gay, lesbian, bisex-ual, transsexual, and queer (LGBTQ) issues that affect our society.

Carlos Vidales and Andrew Garcia, program coordinators of CCC, managed their goal “to inform and educate [based] on the cultural basis of sexu-al orientation” to the student life since it is no longer part of the public’s perception of a taboo lifestyle. The 2nd an-nual CSULA Pride Mini Film Festival seemed to focus on the past, present, and future of LGBTQ culture.

Pride Mini Film Festival kicked it off with an 11AM showing of Bob Christie’s Beyond Gay: The Politics of

Pride (2009) that examined the importance of Pride Fes-tival celebrations in various international locations, partic-ularly those that opposed such events based on the coun-try’s political, religious, and/ or ideological climate. The film’s relevance extended to the portrayal of conventional sentiment over gay culture in Russia, which in hindsight has evolved into a homophobic locale that latently supports the abuse and neglect of its LGBTQ individuals.

At 2PM they showcased an award-winning documentary directed by David France ti-tled How to Survive a Plague (2012). It explores the strug-gle gay and lesbian individ-uals had to endure during the mid-1980s with the inactive response by the federal gov-ernment and pharmaceutical companies to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Vidales and Garcia covet-ed to demonstrate this film to exhibit the history behind the LGBTQ history and how gay and lesbians politics began to

rise to the national platform.

Lastly, to conclude the eve-ning they showed a feel good musical film called Were the World Mine (2008) directed by Tom Gustafson. It takes an ironic twist on Shakespeare’s Midsummers Night Dream in which the lead character, who attends your typical high school, concocts a magical po-tion from a flower that squirts a liquid that makes any boy fall in love with him. The re-sults end up wanting him to recall this newly found power and settles on a successful ro-mantic note.

The CCC took an innovative step to showcase the triumphs and tribulations the LGBTQ culture has experienced over the past decades through cin-ema. I encourage their effort and urge them to expand the Pride festival to more than one day. Overall, this appeared to be a successful model for fu-ture events.


Dr.Cornel West| Photo by Javier Maldonado

Budweiser's Made in America Line-Up Announced

ENTERTAINMENTMaria SalazarContributor

During Labor Day week-end, the Budweiser Made In America Festival is a massive musical celebration held over the Benjamin Franklin Park-way, Philadelphia. However this year, the Made In Ameri-ca Festival is going bi-coastal with simultaneous festivals in Philadelphia and Los Ange-les. Mayor Eric Garcetti, Jay Z, Budweiser and the United Way announced that the festi-val would invade Los Angeles downtown’s Grand Park and surrounding areas of city hall over Labor Day weekend, Au-gust 30th to the 31st.

This would include partial and full closures on major downtown streets including Main Street, Spring Street, Hill Street, Grand Avenues, Broadway, Spring, and 1st and 2nd streets. Scheduled at the same time as the festival in Philadelphia the two-day Bud-weiser made in America is ex-pected to attract 50,000 people to Grand Park.

This year festival attendees will be able to choose from three stages, a specialized food truck area, merchandise tents and a bevy of beer gardens. With dozens of top perform-ers and multiple stages on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Grand Park, the two-day music festival will be one of the year’s can’t-miss events.

Last year’s lineup was in-credible, with performanc-es from Beyoncé, Nine Inch

Nails, Public Enemy, Emilee Sandé, and Solange. The line up for this year’s festival has finally been announced and alternative rock, hip-hop and EDM will be well represented. The talent included:

Imagine DragonsJohn MayerSteve AokiJuanesAfrojackKendrick LamarRise AgainstWeezerSublime w/ RomeMetricCapital CitiesChance the RapperCypress HillGareth EmeryR3HABSchoolboy QWolfgang GartnerBorgoreDVBBS12th PlanetYGMute MathRita OraNipsey HussleDr. DogTerraplane SunZZ WardClassixxHit-BoyDJ MustardAb-SoulIsaiah RashadJay RockSZAYellow ClawGrits & BiscuitsWill SparksCut SnakeScavenger HuntA Tribe Called Red

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How can we prosper if we are not consciously aware of our oppression? How can we seek justice if we do not first seek truth, knowledge, and understanding? African Stud-ies is not only essential to people of African decent but it is essential to all human kind because injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. One man who is not free is a rep-resentation that slavery exists. We are free together or we are oppressed together. We rise as a whole or we suffer as a whole. On Wednesday night, May 28th faculty, students, and justice seekers were chal-lenged to think, engage, and reach for knowledge with Dr Cornel West.

Dr. Cornel West is a prom-inent intellectual in society. He is currently a professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and professor Emer-itus at Princeton. Dr. West is best known for his books Race and Democracy Matters and Brother West: Living and lov-ing out loud. The department of Pan African Studies proud-ly presented the 7th Annual Forum to celebrate 45 years of Pan African Studies but this was more than an event, it was a call for action.

This call for action started with the beating of the African drums, cultural dancing, and giving thanks to the passing of our mother, friend, and inspi-ration, Maya Angelou. When Dr. Cornel West took the stage an oar of energy captivated his presence and touched hun-dreds of people. As if there

was an understanding that he was not only going to preach but teach. Dr. West reminded us that if you think you can get an education without Ethnic Studies, you don’t know truth and justice.

His speech was not limited to one area but he connected the dominant social construc-tions of society and taught us the importance of being more than educated, but to be wise. He stood for truth and he was not afraid to call unjust actions to the floor.

It was also Dr. Abdullah, whose light could not be shad-owed that taught us values that we as individuals can hold on to, so we as a community can do better. “Dr. Abdullah’s speech was just as important as Dr. Cornel West’s speech. She taught me a lot of things I did not know. A lot of students come, we take our classes, and take care of responsibilities. So it was really essential to be at this forum.

I saw some professors there who also needed to hear the message. We needed to hear about the importance of eth-nic studies. You’re not coming just to hear a superstar speak. Dr. Cornel West was able to ascend because of the strug-gles of African Americans,” said Sahila Devoe, senior at Cal State LA. She continued, “We all owe a debt to the struggles of black people in America. Not only do we owe a debt, we can look to that ex-ample to liberate all of us no matter our race and no matter on what access of our identity we are oppressed. We can all learn how to get free from the African American Struggle,”

stated Devoe.

Dr. Abdullah as a professor, as chair of Pan-African Stud-ies, and as a leader to so many of us embodied hope and en-couragement that we may all learn from and grow. “I want people to understand the piv-otal role that Ethnic Studies plays. When we think about the ethnic studies battle and how as a community had to fight for it. We see the struggle is long but beautiful. It pro-vides the critical foundation for our intellectual growth and development,” stated Dr. Ab-dullah.

If you’re inspired by this beautiful struggle, take action. There are a number of ways you can be apart of a positive movement. Consider major-ing in Pan African Studies, which has a high success rate of graduates continuing their education in high institutions such as USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. There is also an op-tion to minor in Pan African Studies with the continuous help and support with class selections. Also, take Pan Af-rican Studies classes and be involved in the Pan African Student Collective. Which are a group of students commit-ted to the vision of Pan Afri-can Studies. In the Words of Dr. Armstrong, PAS lecturer, “Black studies is very import-ant if you’re concerned about the country, concerned about humanity, concerned about social justice, and its import-ant to know that this is a very important component to that.”

Pan African Studies depart-ment has a mission of not only bettering its students, but also bettering society.

Dr.Cornel West Speaks at the Pan-African Studies ForumOPINIONTrinity JosephContributor


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Bringing Back Broadway: DTLA Revitalized

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Downtown Los Angeles is bouncing back into the scene with the new proposal of the “Bringing Back Broadway” initiative, an ambitious 10-year plan to revitalize the His-toric Broadway corridor, led and launched by Los Angeles City Councilmember, José Huizar in 2008.

The initiative also aims to stimulate economic develop-ment and business assistance; resurrect inactive theaters; re-activate more than a million square feet of vacant commer-cial space; assist retailers and prevent further retail vacan-cies; implement infrastructure improvements; increase park-ing and transit options to bet-ter serve Broadway; encour-age cultural, entertainment and retail uses on Broadway that will sustain generations; create a sense of place and his-tory through urban planning, historic preservation, urban design, lighting design and streetscapes; and lastly, make the dream of once again riding a streetcar Downtown a reality.

The historic Broadway cor-ridor was once considered the retail capital of the United States, and served as the birth-place of cinematic entertain-ment in Los Angeles with one of the largest concentrations of theatres, and was an important booming west coast center for business and commerce.

Vaudeville stages were all the rage when the theatres were built and famous acts such as the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, Houdini, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Will Rogers, Charlie Chaplin, Eddie Cantor, Lena Horne, George Burns & Gra-cie Allen, Duke Ellington,

Judy Garland, and W.C. Fields. These actors all performed to the delight of Broadway audi-ences in Los Angeles. Broad-way was brimmed with exqui-site historic theatres and movie palaces, beautiful architectural gems, and true, charming An-geleno culture.

“Bringing Back Broadway” wants to link the past with the present, and ensure that the cultural character of Broad-way is preserved and reborn as a major entertainment and cultural destination.

“Bringing Back Broadway” has slowly brought the cor-ridor back to life with the ac-tive recruit of new business-es, such as the opening of the trendy and upscale Ace Hotel at the United Artists Theatre and Commercial building; the opening of Swedish fashion powerhouse Acne in Broad-way’s Eastern Columbia build-ing, one of two boutique loca-tions in the United States; the

opening of Urban Outfitters, which renovated the historic Rialto Theatre; renovations at the Grand Central Market which include the addition of DTLA Cheese, Eggslut, Olio Pizza, and more; the opening of the wildly popular Uma-mi Burger on Broadway; the opening of the L.A. Brewing Company serving beers on tap at the Chapman Building; and list goes on!

The proposed Downtown L.A. Streetcar entails an ap-proximate 4-mile urban street-car system that will run 7 days a week and up to 18 hours a day, attracting thousands of daily riders. It will serve areas including the Historic Broad-

way and the Historic Core, the Fashion District, South Park, L.A. Live and Convention Center, the Financial District, and other parts of the central business district. Streetcars not only attract new development and stimulate economic activ-ity, they’re eco-friendly! Sig-nage is a vital part of Broad-way’s architectural history.

The Broadway sign dis-trict, working actively in the revitalization of Broadway, is currently in the early stages of drafting an official form of promotion and acknowledg-ment in the continuing usage of Broadway style signage. This signage includes bright, colorful, and vibrant marquees on movie palaces, graceful-

ly lettered open panel rooftop signs, painted wall signs, and blade signs. $750,00 in grant funding is being awarded for the façade lighting on Broad-way buildings, which is meant to enhance the aesthetics of the district and support public safety.

Broadway will once again be a booming, well-known part of Los Angeles. Broad-way will be “California Cool” with its new nightlife options, cutting-edge chefs and restau-rants, new hotels, revitalized reputation and art and fashion street cred, and something new for kids our age to bask in and enjoy.


NoticiasPor Xanni Valentín Chavira Contribuyente

Planes para la semana:Escuela Y CulturaPor Martha OrellanaContribuyente

El derecho al olvido

NoticiasPor Israel E. CurielContribuyente

Érase una vez una sociedad donde ciertas acciones—ya sean tontas, difíciles, penosas, incomodas, o hasta incrimina-torias—tenían un periodo de “caducidad”. Una sociedad donde las personas tenían el privilegio del anonimato, pero más que un privilegio, se con-sideraba un derecho. El dere-cho al olvido.

Hoy en día, con el adven-imiento de la tecnología que ha dado lugar a la facilitación de información por medio de re-des sociales y otros medios, la información pública parece ser permanente. CNN en español declara que “uno de los eter-nos problemas en el Internet es la idea de que cualquier cosa que aparece se queda ahí para siempre. El contenido que de-sacredita a una persona -inde-

pendientemente de si es cierto o no, si está actualizado o no, si cuenta la historia completa o no- siempre puede surgir y ser traído a la luz pública.”

Hoy en día, personas han sido negadas ciertas oportuni-dades de trabajo, o hasta han sido despedidas, por su “histo-ria electrónica”. Como mues-tra, el Huffington Post ha pub-licado ejemplos de historias tales como la de una asesora en St. Louis, MO la cual fue despedida después de que su jefe descubriera un blog sexu-al “secreto”.

Igual de graves son los re-sultados de una encuesta re-alizada por Career Builder y Harris Interactive donde se revela que “alrededor del 37% de las empresas encuestadas revisan las páginas sociales de candidatos antes de decidir contratarlos, y un 12% planean implementar un sondeo en las redes sociales para ‘filtrar’ a

sus prospectos.”Pero ese paradigma de per-

manencia digital parece que muy pronto puede cambiar. De acuerdo a CNN, el tribu-nal principal de la Unión Eu-ropea (UE) falló en contra de Google, el motor de búsqueda más reconocido en el mundo, diciendo que “los operadores de los motores de búsqueda son responsables del procesa-miento que llevan a cabo de la información personal que apa-rece en las páginas web publi-cadas por terceros”. Esto sig-nifica que, en ciertos casos, el público podrá forzar a motores de búsqueda a “que retire los resultados y enlaces… al bus-car el nombre de una persona en una página web” añadió CNN.

No cabe duda que Google no está conforme con la decisión del tribunal ya que no sólo per-derá mucho dinero en su rama europea, pero también limita el flujo de información proveí-da por ella. Sin embargo, esta decisión da puerta abierta al debate que puede tocar temas como los derechos de de pri-vacidad en este país, el “dere-cho de ser olvidado” contra el “derecho de saber”, y también de los posibles cambios en la legislación de informática que, de poco en poco, se ha vuelto arcaica.

¿Tienes interés en continuar con la Maestría o el Doctorado en español? Entonces toma nota, el departamento de español ofrecerá información sobre el tema. La profesora Paola Marín con el apoyo de otros profesores organizaron un taller para hablar sobre los requisitos para ingresar a estos programas. Todos son bienvenidos. Habrá refrigerios.

La cita es el día 3 de junio de 3:10 p.m. a 4:10 p.m. en el edificio de Fine Arts, # 218.

Escuela Y CulturaPor Mindy GalindoContribuyente

¿Te gustaría saber más de Frida Kahlo? Si es así date prisa, el museo MOLAA tiene una exposición con más de doscientas fotografías encontradas en la Casa Azul coleccionadas por la gran pintora mexicana. La exhibición terminará el domingo 8 de junio. La entrada es de $ 9.00, estudiantes $6.00, niños menores de doce años gratis y los domingos la entrada general es gratis. El estacionamiento también es gratuito.

MOLAA está ubicado en 628 Alamitos Ave., Long Beach, 90802. Horarios de admisión: miércoles, jueves, sábado y domingo de 11:00 a.m. a 5:00 p.m. Viernes de 11:00 a.m. a 9 p.m.

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Incremento de tarifas en el transporte público

Por Xanni Valentín Chavira

El pasado 22 de mayo se llevó a cabo la votación del aumento de tarifas en las instalaciones de Union Station. A pesar del desconforme de decenas de protestantes y público de la auditoría, se elevaron las tarifas para los pasajeros angelinos. A partir de septiembre de este año, el pasaje sencillo aumentará 25 centavos, esto también se refleja en los pases del día, semanales y mensuales. La tarifa de viaje sencillo será de $1.75, el pase del día aumentará a $7, el semanal a $25, mientras que el mensual a $100. En la actualidad existen más de 500 mil personas que dependen del Metro como medio

principal de transporte, entre ellos estudiantes y la clase trabajadora.

Se prevé que el aumento de tarifas también afecte de forma negativa el medio ambiente debido a que los usuarios han optado por adquirir automóviles porque les resulta más “económico” y rápido. Los cambios conllevan al deterioro de la atmósfera y al calentamiento global, así como también propicia las enfermedades respiratorias. Por otra parte, nada garantiza a nuestras familias puedan encontrar los medios necesarios para solventar los elevados costos del transporte público. Pero, ¿Qué puedes hacer? La unión de pasajeros en Los Ángeles es una organización que lucha por los derechos civiles y humanos para que injusticias como estás que afectan directamente a nuestras familias no sigan ocurriendo. Infórmate y pasa la voz.

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Incremento detarifas en el transporte público


Cal State L.A. is undertaking a serious re-branding campaign to reconstruct how our campus will be represented around thae Los Angeles and campus com-munity primarily, then continue further worldwide.

Several focus group work-shops were held last week around campus in the Student Affairs building and the Applied Gerontology Institute. These were for students and facul-ty to attend and provide input about what kind of direction the re-branding campaign should go toward.

After the long Memorial Day

weekend, a workshop was held at 8AM on Tuesday, May 27th, where faculty members main-ly gathered and first discussed certain aspects of the university. They included topic like, what makes our campus unique? What first pops into one’s minds when they think of Cal State L.A.?

Although these workshops

were to discuss the re-trans-formation of Cal State L.A.’s

brand, individuals of Tuesday morning’s focus group dissect-ed the many components that create our university in a two-hour long conversation, spear-headed by members of the Pub-lic Affairs department.

While there were many great

things that those participants of Tuesday’s meeting capitalized on, one of the main topics of concern which was discussed was the level of engagement at Cal State L.A.

It has been argued many times in the past that the lack of en-gagement at Cal State L.A. has to do with the fact that the cam-pus is a commuter school.

During Wednesday after-

noon’s focus group session, a passionate conversation oc-curred among students from organizations on campus like Golden Eagle Radio and A.S.I.

Students spoke out about the many concerns on campus from the university mascot and logo, to the lack of pride that students have on this campus.

One of the main highlights

of Wednesday’s workshop was when Golden Eagle Radio Pres-ident, Nicolle Fedor, offered a

proposal to the table that would act as a solution to Cal State L.A.’s re-branding campaign.

Fedor has experienced many struggles in developing the club over the past year, so she offered a central airwave, or voice for the students. Her offer would help represent what Cal State L.A. is and assist in elic-iting a sense of Cal State L.A. Pride that is currently lacking.

Fedor advised, “Consider Gold-en Eagle Radio as part of the re-branding process.”

Associate Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs, Elena Stern, in turn ac-knowledged Fedor’s passionate remarks about the benefits of a working radio station on cam-pus and welcomed the idea of her proposal.

Last week’s re-branding workshops were the first of many. From this point on, the Public Affairs department hopes to hire a firm who will recom-mend what is best for the brand-ing of Cal State L.A. and hopes to have it finished within a year.

Re-Branding Sparks Campus InterestCAMPUSAngeline BernabeStaff Reporter

Students during the re-branding campaign meeting| Photo by Angeline Bernabe


PRESS RELEASECorinne Love

Storying Wyvernwood: A Community Exhibition of

Cultural Narratives

The undergraduate studies research panel presents “Storying Wyvernwood: A community based exhibition,” at California State University Los Angeles. The event is June 5th from 4 p.m. – 7p.m. located in front of CSULA’s Dolcini’s restaurant. The event is of no charge.

“Storying Wyvernwood,” is a multimedia event celebrating the historic Wyvernwood garden apartments located in the Los Angeles Boyle Heights. Recent plans for Wyvernwood’s re-development have led to petitions, protests and ongoing conversations about the quickly changing demographic of ethnic neighborhoods. In particular, Wyvernwood is listed under the Los Angeles conservancy as a historical site, with news outlets such as the Los Angeles Times producing opinion piece considering its future presence. “Storying Wyvernwood” documents

Wyvernwood as a center for the multifaceted narratives of identity, gentrification and space. The event explores the themes of globalization, business and the cultural impact that these changes pose on families and the individual within a sociopolitical context.

Modeled after the English project, “Storying Sheffield,” “Storying Wyvernwood” aims to encourage engagement between the Boyle Heights community and neighboring Los Angeles areas. Like its English counterpart, “Storying Wyvernwood” is a tapestry of narratives shared and woven through a multidimensional approach to research. A goal of “Storying Wyvernwood,” is to start communication about what does identity mean in relation to the spaces people inhabit? How are stories told and shaped by the communities that are lived in? How are these questions put into action? Is preservation crucial? To answer these questions, recipients of CSULA’s undergraduate studies research program have

created a myriad of expressions to bring the experience of Wyvernwood to CSULA’s campus. Furthermore, in bringing Wyvernwood to CSULA, community members will be in attendance sharing their experiences and stories. In addition, “Storying Wyvernwood,” will feature original spoken word and poetry, music by East Los Angeles-based band The Commons, authentic Mexican food and drink and much more.

As part of CSULA’s new initiative to embrace innovative techniques for academic research, “Storying Wyvernwood” embraces the community and exemplifies the link between research and community partnership. Storying Wyvernwood” is produced by the recipients of CSULA’s undergraduate studies research program along with the honors students and committee Esperanza. The event is sponsored by CSULA’s department of English and the Office of Service Learning.

Coming to theaters on June 6th is a movie adaptation of The Fault In Our Stars, a #1 New York Times bestseller by John Green. The film is guar-anteed to be a tearjerker was produced by 20th Century Fox and directed by Josh Boone, who officially released the trailer earlier this year.

The film which centers on two main characters: Hazel Grace Lancaster, a teenager living with cancer, and Augus-tus Waters, who has been in remission for over a year. The two cross paths in a cancer support group and mentioning anything else would just be a spoiler.

Shailene Woodley plays

the role of Hazel Grace and Ansel Elgort as Augustus Waters, have big shoes to fill with those who have read and come to love The Fault In Our Stars. Woodley, who made her on screen debut in 1999 in Re-placing Dad and can also be seen in episodes of The O.C., in the lead role of The Secret Life of An American Teenager,

was also in The Descendants in 2011. She was also the win-ner of the 2012, MTV Movie Awards for Breakthrough Per-formance. Ansel Elgort made his film debut, just recently, in the 2013 remake of Carrie.

While excitement builds

around the release of the film, there is always a concern with adaptation films. It is the ques-tion that always arises when popular books are made into movies: How true will it be to the novel?

The book itself was referred to by the New York Times as “A narrative without rainbows or flamingoes; there are no magical summer snowstorms … He shows us true love — two teenagers helping and ac-cepting each other through the most humiliating physical and emotional ordeals — and it is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach.”

While no one can really tell how satisfying it will be in comparison to the book until its actual release, the film is expected to draw in a large au-dience, especially many fans of the novel.

The Fault in Our Stars ReleaseENTERTAINMENTTatiana MirandaContributor

Elijah Lights Up LuckmanENTERTAINMENTAshley ParkerContributor

Cal State LA’s Music De-partment, along with the Mountainside Master Cho-rale, will present Felix Men-delssohn’s masterpiece orato-rio, Elijah, on Saturday, June 7th, at 7:30PM, at the Luck-man Fine Arts Complex.

The Chamber Singers en-semble, under the direction of Sebastien Vallee, Direc-tor of Choral Studies, will be featured in the performance as well as some select faculty members in the Music Depart-ment. The Chamber Singers are the principal choral en-semble on campus and have performed a variety of musical styles and genres at several concerts and choral festivals throughout the year.

This performance, however, will be collaborations between students, faculty, and the com-munity. The Mountainside Master Chorale is a non-profit

vocal arts organization com-mitted to excellence in perfor-mances of choral music. They believe that music can create enriching experiences for au-diences in the diverse com-munity of Los Angeles. The chorale is also dedicated to promoting new choral works, educating audiences, and pro-viding meaningful outreach to students.

Featured soloists will in-clude Cal State LA voice fac-ulty, such as soprano Vocal Professor, Dr. Susan Kane, and tenor Robert MacNeil. Other soloists include mezzo-sopra-no and Mountainside singer Tiffany Carmel, baritone Steve Pence, and treble Jacob De Los Reyes. In true Mendelssohn fashion, there will be over 150 artists overall to present the masterpiece.

The prominent scenes of Elijah follow the Biblical sto-ry of the prophet. Movements include the drought prophecy, the resurrection of a widow’s son, rival sacrifices and the ap-

pearance of rain in answer to Elijah’s appeal, Queen Jezeb-el’s persecution of Elijah, the sojourn in the desert, his dis-appearance in the fiery chariot, and the finale will reflect upon the meaning of the sacred nar-rative.

In an interview with Public Affairs, Professor of Music History Beverly Stein hopes that students are “moved by the idea of a prophet in the wil-derness, rejected by the leaders of society, yet persevering in his beliefs and actions.”

The performance will be on Saturday, June 7th, at 7:30 p.m. in the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. Tickets are $20 for the general public and $15 for students and seniors. The en-semble will also be performing in Pomona the next day, Sun-day, June 8th, at the Pilgrim Congregational Church. For more information, visit www.luckmanarts.org.


CalendarJUNE 2 - 7 WEEk TEN2 Monday3:15PM Monster's Chef: An Afternoon With Jervey TervalonSan Gabriel Room, U-SU

7PM The De-Stress Study Fest CSULA Library North Lounge

12AM Crackin' the BooksPhase II Lounge, Housing Services


3 Tuesday

5 Thursday12PM Finals FrenzyU-SU Plaza

4PM Storying Wyvernwood King Hall Walkway, In front of Dolcini's Cafe

6PM The Prize is Right with CSIFinal Showdown!U-SU Theatre

2PM CSULA Pride Mini Film Festival: How to Survive a PlagueAlhambra Room, 3rd Floor U-SU

3PM Women’s and Gender Studies ReceptionLos Angeles Room BC, 3rd Floor

4 Wednesday9AM 40th Annual Staff Appreciation BreakfastGolden Eagle Ballroom


7Saturday6PM A Musical Tribute to Maestro Lakshmi ShankarU-SU Theatre

7:30PM Mendelssohn'soratorio, ELIJAHLuckman Theatre

LIFESTYLEAngeline BernabeStaff Reporter

Her Campus at Cal State L.A.

8PM Moonlight BreakfastGolden Eagle Ballroom

6 Friday

STUDYFORFINALS

After months of constant e-mails and phone interviews, a Her Campus Chapter at Cal State L.A. is finally launching in the Fall Quarter!

Organized by yours tru-

ly and Yzzy Gonzalez, the co-managing editor of the fab-ulous, University Times, a Her Campus chapter will launch in the fall, and everyone is wel-come to participate.

So what exactly is Her Cam-pus?

Her Campus is regarded as the number one online com-munity for college women in the form of an online maga-zine with content on Life, Ca-reer, and Style (just to name a few) that is written by college journalists all over the coun-try. Her Campus was created by three Harvard Undergradu-ates, Stephanie Kaplan, Wind-sor Hanger, and Annie Wang, who proposed the Her Cam-pus idea in Harvard College’s Business plan competition and won in 2009.

Since creating the Her Cam-pus site, the organization ex-tends to over 230 campuses nationwide, along with several other chapters in seven coun-

tries – all created by college women who are regarded as “collegiettes,” or women who are on top of their game, to the Her Campus Community. According to the Her Cam-pus Mission, Collegiettes are also known as “strategical-ly career-minded, distinctly fashionable, socially connect-ed, academically driven, and smartly health-conscious, who endeavors to get the most out of her college experience on every level.”

What attracted Yzzy and

I to her campus was how the organization provided a sense of community among college women through their website. While Yzzy enjoyed the cur-

rency and interactive quality of the site and how relatable the articles were to anyone in college, I fell in love with the articles that Her Campus writers wrote about everything involving the college experi-ence.

Once we found out how

to create a chapter of Her Campus at our university, we seized the opportunity and embarked on a long process of filling out paper work, learn-ing how to distinguish be-tween Pacific Standard Time and Eastern Standard Time for several phone interviews, and constantly became in contact with people over at the Boston Headquarters who guided us

along the way. As members of the Universi-

ty Times who would like focus more on writing that isn’t so news-like and knowing more about other collegiettes at Cal State L.A., Yzzy and I are ex-tending a warm welcome to anyone who would like to join us in launching Her Campus in the Fall!

If you are interested in writ-

ing for Cal State L.A.’s Her Campus Chapter, please join Yzzy and I this Wednesday, June 4th from 3PM to 4PM at the University Times Office for our first meeting! Hope to see you there.

It’s almost time for finals week and most college stu-dents know what to expect. We already feel the stress slowly making its way into our bodies because we hate the thought of staying up late to study. The feeling of finals is bitter sweet because it marks the last days of school but also pose the fi-nal challenge of earning a sat-isfying grade. With different methods in teaching, every

professor has their own style final exam designed to test our knowledge about the class. We can expect a variety of final exams such as multiple choice questions, short answer, or even an essay.

Students have different opinions about each exam and have their own reasoning for exam preference. For ex-ample, many students prefer having multiple-choice exams because it allows us to use the process of elimination and in-

creases our chances in choos-ing the right answer. It’s more preferable because it’s one of the fastest exams to complete and we love the notion of step-ping out the classroom and not having to come back. On the contrary, many students are comfortable with open-end-ed exams because writing out responses enhances the possi-bility to get the question right and unlike multiple-choice exams open-ended answers aren’t limited to one specific answer. Teachers use this type

of exam to test memory and understanding of the key con-cepts studied in class.

An alternative exam, and arguably the worst, is writing an essay. Students shy away from essay exams because they are the most time con-suming and require the most work. Essay exams require analysis at greater depth, in the sense where knowledge about the class is converted into our own words, Lastly, some teachers may ask us to

submit a final group project. This exam option has the most work to accomplish and prob-ably the most extensive. This means teachers acknowledge the hard work and dedication of a group project, therefore some teachers may give us more time to complete that work. The benefit of a group project may be the cooperative effort. All exams have their own advantages and disadvan-tages, let us know which exam is the most preferable for you.

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