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VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN Tuesday April 14, 2015 Volume 97 Issue 38 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Galarza dominant on and off the softball field Ferguson focus during “After the Blood Dries” News Sports 2 8 Entrepreneur lives by design, not by default Ybarra leading softball charge CSUF thwarts hacking attempts by the millions The junior has sacrificed for the better of the team KLARISSA ALCALA Daily Titan Willie Peng, assistant director for infrastructure services, explains the function of various machines in the data center on campus. SVETLANA GUKINA / DAILY TITAN As a freshman, she logged a Division 1 win in her first career start against Col- orado State. As a sopho- more, she had 13 multiple-hit games, plus five multiple RBI games. Currently, as a redshirt ju- nior, Desiree Ybarra contin- ues to be a strong threat for Cal State Fullerton’s softball team. Ybarra began her softball career at the age of five, fol- lowing the footsteps of her older sister and cousin, who played softball and baseball, respectively. At the age of nine, Ybarra began playing travel ball for the Corona Angels. She re- members the recruitment pro- cess being very overwhelm- ing, especially because she was so young. “There is a lot of pressure to perform and to do well, but I think if you just trust that you put all the work and you’ve done everything that you can, you just kind of let whatev- er happens happen and you’ll end up where you’re supposed to be,” Ybarra said. Ybarra did end up exactly where she wanted to be, land- ing at Cal State Fullerton due to the school’s location as well as the softball team’s coach- ing staff. “The coaches made me feel so welcomed and wanted here, and it was more than just softball; they really empha- sized school and all the aca- demic parts, but also the team chemistry,” Ybarra said. It was also important for Ybarra to stay close to her family, which plays a huge role in both her academic and softball career. Over the course of a year, Cal State Fullerton’s Information Security Of- fice addressed millions of hacking attempts, making CSUF one of the best-pro- tected campuses in the CSU system. From July 2013 to July 2014, CSUF blocked near- ly 59 million intrusion at- tempts, which targeted entire system and servers, and 152 million attempted email attacks, which target individual users, according to the Information Tech- nology Annual Report. Universities make ap- pealing targets for hackers because they have high- speed networks, large amounts of storage, many instances in which users are required to enter infor- mation and they tend to be open environments, said CSUF information security officer Kerry Boyer. Hackers are usual- ly looking to steal users’ identity and financial in- formation, said Rommel Hidalgo, assistant vice president for information technology and IT division financial manager. For example, there is a type of malware that cap- tures every keystroke that a user does, he said. If a user is logging into his or her bank account, the mal- ware can capture such in- formation as username, password and credit card number, even though the connection between the bank and the user is secure and encrypted. Once a user’s computer is compromised, hackers can use it to compromise other computers in the system. “My computer can talk to the computer in the next room,” Hidalgo said. “I can start sending out intrusion attempts from my computer without knowing it.” The university uses a lay- ered security system, com- bining software and hard- ware to protect student and staff information. CSUF uses a series of methods to protect information, includ- ing an encrypted connec- tion, firewalls and intrusion detection servers, according to a Daily Titan article pub- lished last year. This year, from January to March, management, faculty and staff received 74 million emails, and only 23 percent were clean messages. The rest were dropped because of security concerns, Boyer said. These numbers are fairly standard industry-wide, Hi- dalgo said. CSUF ranks number one or two in level and quality of information security among CSU campuses, Boyer said. Statewide, the university is in the top 10 percent and falls in the top 20-25 percent in the nation, he said. CSUF’s high ranking is due in large part to the campus and community size and the amount of re- sources invested in infor- mation security. CSUF ranks among top CSU campuses for security SVETLANA GUKINA Daily Titan SEE IT 2 SEE YBARRA 8 Twenty-eight-year-old alumna Jazmine Graza had the job of her dreams right out of college. She launched the UK- based beauty and fashion company, Toni & Guy’s, so- cial media platform from the ground up. The company is a major sponsor for New York Fashion Week and the job was everything she wanted in a career. However, the corporate world left Graza feeling as if she stopped growing per- sonally as well as career wise. She began questioning what else is out there and where she could find fulfill- ment in her life. By chance, Graza stum- bled into yoga and found it healed her. She began to meditate daily and focused on mantras such as “I am powerful,” helping her re- alize that the happiness she was seeking lied within her. After returning from her very own “Eat, Pray, Love” experience in Bali, where like Julia Roberts, she re- connected with her inner self, and taught art to young children. She returned to work in this weird and al- most foreign corporate world. She had been thinking about quitting for a while, and after three years in her structured job, she quit. On her last day, work- ing on a photoshoot, the re- sponse was ‘this is great, but we can’t use these photos,’” Graza said. “It was just so weird to me, coming from a place where there weren’t even cameras to create an awe- some photoshoot and they didn’t even think it was good enough.” At first the transition was difficult for Graza. Without any money saved, she found herself constantly scram- bling, isolating herself from her friends and eventual- ly hitting rock bottom, she said. “The transition is hard, but I think whenever you are true to yourself … or at least asking yourself questions, you will eventually find answers and you will get through that,” Garza said. This is where an idea for a giveback product called the Mantra Candle came from. It was an extension of her journey of yoga and af- firmation. Garza’s love for candles and need for a dai- ly reminder to mediate led to the creation of the prod- uct. Each candle had a man- tra placed on the outside of the jar and came with a meditation. Her idea needed money and she decided to take her project to Kickstarter. The Jazmine Graza decides to leave corporate life HEAVEN OCAMPO Daily Titan After plenty of self-exploration, meditation and even her own “Eat, Pray, Love” trip to Bali, Jazmine Graza has used her journey to “find herself” to help others. COURTESY OF JAZMINE GRAZA SEE ALUMNA 4

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Tuesday April 14, 2015 Volume 97 Issue 38The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Galarza dominant on and off the softball field

Ferguson focus during “After the Blood Dries”

News Sports2 8

Entrepreneur lives by design, not by default

Ybarra leading softball charge

CSUF thwarts hacking attempts by the millions

The junior has sacrificed for the better of the team

KLARISSA ALCALADaily Titan

Willie Peng, assistant director for infrastructure services, explains the function of various machines in the data center on campus. SVETLANA GUKINA / DAILY TITAN

As a freshman, she logged a Division 1 win in her first career start against Col-orado State. As a sopho-more, she had 13 multiple-hit games, plus five multiple RBI games.

Currently, as a redshirt ju-nior, Desiree Ybarra contin-ues to be a strong threat for Cal State Fullerton’s softball team.

Ybarra began her softball career at the age of five, fol-lowing the footsteps of her older sister and cousin, who played softball and baseball, respectively.

At the age of nine, Ybarra began playing travel ball for the Corona Angels. She re-members the recruitment pro-cess being very overwhelm-ing, especially because she was so young.

“There is a lot of pressure to perform and to do well, but I think if you just trust that you put all the work and you’ve done everything that you can, you just kind of let whatev-er happens happen and you’ll end up where you’re supposed to be,” Ybarra said.

Ybarra did end up exactly where she wanted to be, land-ing at Cal State Fullerton due to the school’s location as well as the softball team’s coach-ing staff.

“The coaches made me feel so welcomed and wanted here, and it was more than just softball; they really empha-sized school and all the aca-demic parts, but also the team chemistry,” Ybarra said.

It was also important for Ybarra to stay close to her family, which plays a huge role in both her academic and softball career.

Over the course of a year, Cal State Fullerton’s Information Security Of-fice addressed millions of hacking attempts, making CSUF one of the best-pro-tected campuses in the CSU system.

From July 2013 to July 2014, CSUF blocked near-ly 59 million intrusion at-tempts, which targeted

entire system and servers, and 152 million attempted email attacks, which target individual users, according to the Information Tech-nology Annual Report.

Universities make ap-pealing targets for hackers because they have high-speed networks, large amounts of storage, many instances in which users are required to enter infor-mation and they tend to be open environments, said CSUF information security officer Kerry Boyer.

Hackers are usual-ly looking to steal users’ identity and financial in-formation, said Rommel Hidalgo, assistant vice

president for information technology and IT division financial manager.

For example, there is a type of malware that cap-tures every keystroke that a user does, he said. If a user is logging into his or her bank account, the mal-ware can capture such in-formation as username, password and credit card number, even though the connection between the bank and the user is secure and encrypted.

Once a user’s computer is compromised, hackers can use it to compromise other computers in the system.

“My computer can talk

to the computer in the next room,” Hidalgo said. “I can start sending out intrusion attempts from my computer without knowing it.”

The university uses a lay-ered security system, com-bining software and hard-ware to protect student and staff information. CSUF uses a series of methods to protect information, includ-ing an encrypted connec-tion, firewalls and intrusion detection servers, according to a Daily Titan article pub-lished last year.

This year, from January to March, management, faculty and staff received 74 million emails, and only 23 percent were clean

messages. The rest were dropped because of security concerns, Boyer said.

These numbers are fairly standard industry-wide, Hi-dalgo said.

CSUF ranks number one or two in level and quality of information security among CSU campuses, Boyer said. Statewide, the university is in the top 10 percent and falls in the top 20-25 percent in the nation, he said.

CSUF’s high ranking is due in large part to the campus and community size and the amount of re-sources invested in infor-mation security.

CSUF ranks among top CSU campuses for security

SVETLANA GUKINADaily Titan

SEE IT 2 SEE YBARRA 8

Twenty-eight-yea r-old alumna Jazmine Graza had the job of her dreams right out of college.

She launched the UK- based beauty and fashion company, Toni & Guy’s, so-cial media platform from the ground up. The company is a major sponsor for New York Fashion Week and the job was everything she wanted in a career.

However, the corporate world left Graza feeling as if she stopped growing per-sonally as well as career wise. She began questioning what else is out there and where she could find fulfill-ment in her life.

By chance, Graza stum-bled into yoga and found

it healed her. She began to meditate daily and focused on mantras such as “I am powerful,” helping her re-alize that the happiness she was seeking lied within her.

After returning from her very own “Eat, Pray, Love” experience in Bali, where like Julia Roberts, she re-connected with her inner self, and taught art to young children. She returned to work in this weird and al-most foreign corporate world.

She had been thinking about quitting for a while, and after three years in her structured job, she quit.

On her last day, work-ing on a photoshoot, the re-sponse was ‘this is great, but we can’t use these photos,’” Graza said.

“It was just so weird to me, coming from a place where there weren’t even cameras to create an awe-some photoshoot and they didn’t even think it was good enough.”

At first the transition was difficult for Graza. Without any money saved, she found herself constantly scram-bling, isolating herself from her friends and eventual-ly hitting rock bottom, she said.

“The transition is hard, but I think whenever you are true to yourself … or at least asking yourself questions, you will eventually find answers and you will get through that,” Garza said.

This is where an idea for a giveback product called the Mantra Candle came from. It was an extension of her journey of yoga and af-firmation. Garza’s love for candles and need for a dai-ly reminder to mediate led to the creation of the prod-uct. Each candle had a man-tra placed on the outside of the jar and came with a meditation.

Her idea needed money and she decided to take her project to Kickstarter. The

Jazmine Graza decides to leave corporate life

HEAVEN OCAMPODaily Titan

After plenty of self-exploration, meditation and even her own “Eat, Pray, Love” trip to Bali, Jazmine Graza has used her journey to “find herself” to help others.

COURTESY OF JAZMINE GRAZA

SEE ALUMNA 4

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Rubio announces 2016 bid

Police claim accidental shooting

Hundreds of artists enter exhibit

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Florida Sen. Mar-co Rubio announced his bid Monday for the 2016 presidential race, the New York Times reported.

Rubio, 43, is the youngest candidate in the field so far, and has cast himself as a forward-looking lead-er, contrasting himself with Hillary Clinton, who announced her own presidential cam-paign Sunday.

He presented him-self as a breath of fresh air in the Repub-lican party, and some Republican supporters hope his Cuban-Amer-ican background will draw the Hispanic de-mographic to the Re-publican party.

Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky have also announced their can-didacies, and will face off with Rubio for the Republican nomination.

A Tulsa police offi-cer accidentally killed a crime suspect after mistaking his gun for a taser and firing it, CNN reported.

Robert Bates, 73, appears to have un-intentionally shot Eric Courtney Harris after fellow deputies had Harris in handcuffs.

The chase occurred following an under-cover sting in which Harris attempted to sell a firearm to the undercover officer.

Bates told other of-ficers he was going to pull his taser, but it was evident in the body camera footage that Harris was shot by a bullet.

Bates, who apolo-gized, was placed on administrative leave and now faces man-slaughter charges.

The annual Made in California art exhibit at the Brea Gallery hit its 30 year anniversa-ry recently, according to the Orange County Register.

Approximately 800 artists submitted their art pieces, but only 88 were showcased. Forty-three of the art-ists who presented their work are Orange County residents.

First place was awarded to Conversa-tion at the Beach, an acrylic painting of two women dressed in swimming gear chat-ting. It was painted by Malibu resident Danie-la Schweitzer.

The exhibit will re-main on display in the Civic Center gallery until May 8.

Last year, IT department spent around $280,000 on layered security implementa-tion used to protect the cam-pus, Hidalgo said in an email. Next year, he expects the cost to be about the same, he said.

In a layered security sys-tem, all content is processed and analyzed using a combi-nation of hardware and soft-ware on several levels be-fore it is allowed to enter the system.

A security software that just detects viruses’ signa-tures—their “DNA” or “elec-tronic fingerprint”—is only 33 percent effective, Boyer said.

A better protection requires a software that can do heu-ristics, a logical progression of what a virus can do, and sandboxing—isolating and executing the file to see what it really does, he said.

The system CSUF uses, called FireEye, performs both those tasks, using signatures

to perform heuristics and sandboxing to filter web con-tent, Boyer said. The system costs the university $50,000 a year, he said.

Boyer said many users fall victims to phishing, when an email with a banner of a

legitimate organization con-tains a malicious link, and the users are asked to click on it.

A legitimate organization, such as CSUF, would never send out emails asking us-ers to click on the link and type in any kind of personal

information, Boyer said. No matter what he or the

university does, it is still up to each individual user to take care of his or her security, Boyer said.

“If the person there is reck-less and doesn’t pay attention

at what they’re doing, then they are going to get compro-mised,” he said.

If students have virus or malware problems on their laptops, they can refer to the IT help desk at the Pollak Li-brary North.

IT: System repels hacking threatsCONTINUED FROM 1

The data center (above) houses CSUF’s computing resources, including FireEye, the university’s security system. SVETLANA GUKINA / DAILY TITAN

Ferguson shooting focus of presentation

An associate professor of ethnic studies at the Univer-sity of Colorado at Boulder recounted her experience and research during the protests following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last year.

In August 2014, offi-cer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager. During the following months, residents of Ferguson, Missouri held protests and vigils. Protests continued after Wilson was acquitted by a grand jury in November, and the events sparked national conversa-tion about police violence.

Hillary Potter, Ph.D., spoke Monday at “After the Blood Dries,” an event focused on law enforcement and com-munity action in Ferguson following Brown’s death.

Potter focused her presen-tation on some of the narra-tives and misperceptions sur-rounding the shooting and the community action that followed.

Potter told the audience that she was in Ferguson with some other professors from around the country to conduct research on the ac-tivists and participate in the demonstrations.

As an activist-schol-ar, her role in the research was to speak with the

African-American women of the community, particularly mothers of black males, she said.

Potter touched on the po-larized narratives of the Mi-chael Brown shooting.

“(We) have to remember, it’s about the broader issue,” Potter said.

She reminded the audi-ence that much of the aggres-sion and frustration in the community went beyond the shooting.

The report from the De-partment of Justice on Fergu-son included statistics which indicated the presence of in-equalities faced by the Afri-can-American population in Ferguson.

African-Americans ac-counted for 85 percent of vehicle stops, 90 percent of citations and 93 percent of arrests, despite making up 67 percent of the Ferguson population, according to the report.

“I think regardless of your political affiliation ... that across the board, that most people, if not everybody, would say that our justice system here in the United States need to change,” Pot-ter said.

Potter pointed out that the report demonstrates that Brown did reach into Wil-son’s car for something, as the recently-released report indicates that Brown’s DNA was inside Wilson’s patrol car. Despite that, lethal force was not warranted, Potter said.

At this point, a member of the audience began to repeat-edly interrupt Potter. “What’s

your best guess as to what Michael Brown—fresh from that strong-armed robbery—was going to do when he was trying to get the gun from the police officer? What do you think he was going to do with that gun?” the man asked.

Potter said that she had no way of knowing. Three to five students began to tell the individual that they wanted to finish the presentation.

Reciting a narrative that, she said, social media helped to perpetuate throughout the country, Potter said, “The so-called protesters are noth-ing more than thugs, rioters, looters and jobless dregs of society.”

That perception, however, was inaccurate, she said.

“Many of those women are working full time. Many of them have college degrees,” Potter said.

The national media didn’t report on a major as-pect of the protests, which included people within the groups of protesters train-ing other protesters how to handle individuals who were looking to damage property in the community, Potter said.

Particularly, they all felt that an older Afri-can-American women would be best to confront an agitator, she said.

“You just try to talk some sense into them, basically,” Potter said.

Potter said she was tear gassed when she and oth-er protesters were trying to stop an agitator from throwing a chair through a cafe window.

Presenter discussed research into Michael Brown shooting

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Hillary Potter, Ph.D., an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, gave her presentation at “After the Blood Dries,” Monday.

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Hundreds of students stood in a line with an estimated four-hour wait to purchase $10 Spring Concert wrist-bands Monday, April 13.

The Associated Students, Inc. Productions spring con-cert for 2015 will feature Tyga and Wiz Khalifa. Previ-ous Spring Concert headlin-ers have included artists such as Jeremiah and Waka Flocka Flame.

“I feel like to see Tyga and Wiz for $10 only, it’s a one time opportunity,” said fresh-man student Sarah Markoff.

The $10 wristband for students includes entry to the concert, one meal and access to carnival games and rides.

This year’s concert will take place at 5 p.m. Satur-day, May 2 at the Intramu-ral Field.

Wristbands for the con-cert sold out as of 10 p.m. Monday.

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The process behind black hole collision will come to life at the U.S. Capitol when a Cal State Fullerton phys-ics student brings his com-plex research to audiences there.

Haroon Khan, 22, an electrical engineering major

and physics minor, was cho-sen to present his research on gravitational waves to select members of Congress April 23.

Khan will give members of Congress an overview of the research he has found on black hole collisions and the gravitational waves emitted from them.

Khan will also give them a simple explanation of oth-er day-to-day operations about work done at re-search centers and why it is important for society, phys-ics and science.

The event is hosted by The Council on Undergrad-uate Research, which picked the best research efforts from undergraduate stu-dents across the country.

Khan is one of five stu-dents chosen from Califor-nia to present his research in Washington D.C., and one of 79 students chosen nationally.

“I feel really honored to represent my school, the state and be an advocate for science,” Khan said.

Geoffrey Lovelace, Ph.D., assistant professor

of physics and leader of the team of graduate and under-graduate students—which conducts research on black hole collisions—under-stands how difficult it can be to share research find-ings, he said.

“This is really techni-cal stuff and it can be a challenge, especially when you’re just learning it your-self as a student to explain it to people,” Lovelace said.

However, Lovelace had no worries about Khan’s ability, he said.

“One of Haroon’s real

strengths is being able to keep his composure and put it into words so the public can understand what it is he is doing,” Lovelace said.

Khan’s main area of ex-pertise lies in making visu-alizations to make sense of all the data received from black hole collisions, he said.

“Every second we get thousands of data points, so what I do is take that data and turn it into something that we can see and under-stand,” Khan said.

His electrical engineering

major surrounded by phys-ics majors has helped him get to where he is, Khan said.

“A lot of my engineering background with the pro-gramming, knowing how to use the supercomputer, the problem solving skills all plays into it … I feel like it has given me an edge,” Khan said.

Khan has always had a passion for astronomy and someday hopes he can fol-low that passion and work for NASA or Space Explor-ers, he said.

Haroon Khan will present gravitational research to Congress

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Students wait for concert wristbands

Student to take black holes to Capitol Hill AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN

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Unfortunately, she did not raise enough money before it closed.

“What I realized through being unsuccessful with Kickstarter is not that I needed all this money to start whatever I was doing,” Graza said. “What I needed was the confidence to pro-mote whatever I have going

on in my life and it’s not necessarily candles right now.”

Charlesetta Medina man-ager of the Small Business Institute in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Institute at Cal State Fullerton believes the pursuit of entrepreneurship is difficult, but the positives that stem from it are worth the journey.

“You can create some-thing that you are truly pas-sionate about,” Medina said. “Often times we are work-ing for companies and busi-nesses, and it’s great, we have great co-workers and all that, but are you really passionate about what you are doing? And the answer to that often is no, not really, it’s a job.”

Now, Graza’s energy has

shifted to an online course she’s created called, Man-ifest + Move, which helps people live a lifestyle by de-sign not by default. It isnt the candle project, but incorpo-rates everything the candle stands for.

The workshop will help attendees find dharma, or your purpose in life, and in-corporate mantras that focus on happiness, sustainability,

helping others, being grate-ful and becoming closer to the universe.

Graza said the course is per-sonal development meets ad-venture. The tour of this proj-ect will begin April 26 and will be shown in Los Angeles, Orange County and Hawaii.

With a ocean view, the workshop begins with a hike, followed by meditation, brunch along a course lecture

and ends with paddle board yoga.

“My piece of advice would definitely be to, even though it sounds really, really scary, let your decisions of what your career and life is not be led by money,” Graza said. “Money will actually follow with whatever you are doing. And that takes a lot of time because we are so culturally focused on money.”

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Alumna: Uncertainty was her blessing

A disc jockey, a janitor, a reporter, a luggage sales-man and a steamboat wait-er are some of the jobs Cal State Fullerton’s professor of communications Doug Swanson has held during his life.

“All of these crazy jobs, in each one of them, I learn something about how to re-late to people and ultimate-ly thats what it’s all about,” Swanson said. “We’re here on this planet so that we can relate to other people and make life better for other people.”

Swanson, who came to CSUF in 2010, is now vice chair of the Department of Communications and su-pervises PRactical ADvan-tage, the student run adver-tising and public relations agency. He has always had an interest in communica-tions, he said but was never exactly sure of a focus.

One thing he was sure about was his love for the desert, which led him out of California from the San

Fernando Valley, where he grew up, to Portales, New Mexico to study at Eastern New Mexico University for his undergraduate degree.

As a broadcast jour-nalism student, Swanson worked as a disc jockey at a local commercial ra-dio station. In his last se-mester, Swanson took a course in newspaper writ-ing, which led him into a position as a reporter for the Roswell Daily Record in New Mexico.

“For the years imme-diately after I got out of school, I never had to go looking for a job, the job always came looking for me,” Swanson said.

Swanson was at the Ros-well Daily Record for less than a year before be-ing offered a position at a small AM country radio station.

During that time, Swan-son met his wife and got married while still in school. His first son was also born less than six months after graduating.

For supplemental in-come, Swanson always had a second job. But money aside, Swanson craved new experiences.

“I did nighttime janitori-al, I pushed a janitor’s cart around an office building

and emptied trash cans and cleaned toilets at night,” Swanson said. “I’m always spinning two plates at the same time.”

CSUF Professor Diane Witmer, Ph.D., and Swan-son have worked togeth-er in the college for a few years. “His only prob-lem is that he says yes too many times,” she said.

Witmer describes Swan-son as the go-to person when something needs to get done and she’s not sur-prised by the many random jobs he’s had over his life, she said.

“He’s self innovated and willing to do what it takes to get a job done, if that’s what he needed to do, that’s what he did,” Witmer said.

While working for a TV station in New Mex-ico, Swanson got laid off along with others in the television business. Lucki-ly, his college advisor from ENMU got in contact with him about an opportunity to get his master’s, live in student housing and work as a graduate assistant.

Working as a graduate assistant sparked a new in-terest and passion in Swan-son—teaching. He then went on to get his doc-torate at Oklahoma State

University in order to gain stability working as a fac-ulty member and be in a tenure track position.

Pamela Caldwell, facul-ty internship coordinator at CSUF, has worked closely with Swanson and said his sense of humor makes him unique as a professor.

Caldwell remembered when he was chair of the department. Every day he would put up a new

“thought of the day,” either a quote or in cartoon form, for faculty and students to read.

“(He would use) quotes and humor to make people think about what’s going on in their immediate life,” Caldwell said.

Although Swanson was making a good living as a professor in Wisconsin, he also spent summers work-ing on a steam boat.

“I loved my job on the steam boat, I really did. It is hard work,” Swanson said. ”It was fun to hang out around people that work hard and don’t make a lot of money.”

Throughout his life, Swan-son has learned the impor-tance and value of hard work.

“I enjoy working. I get a lot of value out of it and it helps me learn,” Swanson said.

Home is where their art is

Communicating his pride to work

Inside Aaron Jones’ workspace, seven large sketches hang on three walls. The sketches will re-main untitled until they are all completed for his show-case. This workspace is not only a sanctuary for the art-ists inspiration, it’s also his home.

Ten miles south of Cal State Fullerton is the CSUF Grand Central Art Center, a center that provides an art and housing community for the College of the Arts graduate students.

“You get to learn different aspects of your own work and then different people’s work, and also the busi-ness aspect of it, like what are you going to do after grad school and how do you continue working?” Jones said.

The 45,000 square foot building located in downtown Santa Ana is an art gallery, a housing complex for the cen-ter’s Artist-in-Residence Pro-gram, a flamenco studio, a 70-seat theater and even a woodshop.

The artists part of the

Artist-in-Residence Pro-gram are CSUF students who have been accepted into the university’s Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts visual and performing arts programs.

Xavier Robles, who works at the center, grew up in Santa Ana. Being from the area, Robles feels as though he has seen many changes that have taken place in the community.

“I feel like this opportu-nity has given me the con-nection that I need in or-der to be able to engage the community more into art,” Robles said.

His work at the center gives him the opportuni-ty to start developing pro-grams that allow people to come in and try to engage more with the space he said. He enjoys delivering a so-cial connection to the com-munity through art.

“Sometimes there is a dis-engagement within the area, specifically the residents, the existing communities that live here, so I feel like this space has opportuni-ty and potential to engage more people,” Robles said.

A r t i s t - i n - R e s id e n c e , Jones, working on the sev-en large sketches, is in the CSUF Master’s of Fine Art Drawing and Painting Pro-gram. He’s been drawing since he was a child and a

resident of Grand Central for about two years.

He described his style as “low-brow art” with el-ements from comic book illustration, animation, graffiti and elements of classical figure drawing with new approaches of analytical figure draw-ing and count composition drawing.

“The Artist-in-Residence

come and go. They come in every two months and have different projects, some of them come from different countries, some come from across the United States,” Jones said.

Clare Shadduck, anoth-er Artist-in-Residence and Master of Fine Arts draw-ing and painting gradu-ate student, teaches begin-ning drawing and painting

classes three days a week. “It’s really nice to have

my living space and my work space in the same lo-cation, it makes it conve-nient,” Shadduck said.

Shadduck was original-ly a nursing major as an undergraduate, but during her third year in commu-nity college, she took a ce-ramics class that changed her career path. Shadduck

credits this change to the ceramics professor as a ma-jor influence in deciding that art was really what she wanted to do.

The Artist-in-Residence Program will continue to house artists like Jones, who fill more walls with works in progress. Creat-ing a dwelling where artists merge their work, studies and living.

Artists lay their heads and sketchbooks in a Santa Ana studio

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TED talk properly spotlights the dangers of cyberbullying

Numerous online articles have covered Monica Lewin-sky’s claim to fame, shaming the choices she made when she was 22 years old.

Now 41, Lewinsky has turned her public shaming in 1998 into a call for action toward a safer and more compassionate social media environment.

Last month, she delivered her thoughts and experiences in her TED talk, “The Price of Shaming.”

“What that meant for me personally was that overnight I went from being a complete-ly private figure to a public-ly humiliated one worldwide,” Lewinsky said. “I was patient zero of losing a personal repu-tation on a global scale almost instantaneously.”

Lewinsky expounds on the idea that the internet has be-come a hostile place, rife with

bullying among Internet users, especially younger ones.

She’s absolutely right. The advancements in technology and social media have opened the door for private individuals to become victims of hacking and cyber bullying.

The age of technology has allowed bullying to move away from a physical environment into a virtual one, where there is a lower chance of justice be-ing served. “Cruelty to others is nothing new, but online, techno-logically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained and per-manently accessible,” Lewinsky said.

Fifty two percent of teenagers have been harassed online and 95 percent have not reported ha-rassment according to NoBully-ing.com, an online forum edu-cating individuals on the issues of cyber bullying.

Seventy percent of young adults ages 18 to 24 have expe-rienced some form of online ha-rassment, according to the Pew Research Center.

That’s a scary statistic, know-ing the younger generation is consistently exposed to larger amounts of bullying than ever

before. 81 percent of young people believe bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person, according to DoSomething.org.

“Gossip websites, paparaz-zi, reality programming, poli-tics, news outlets and sometimes hackers all traffic in shame,” Lewinsky said. “It’s led to de-sensitization and a permissive environment online, which lends itself to trolling, invasion of privacy and cyberbullying.”

Without proper regulation of anonymous comments, hackers and hostile online interactions, these numbers will continue to rise dangerously.

Media today has allowed for online harassment to become a common occurrence with young people.

The best way to become more conscious of online ha-rassment is to report threats and comments when they are seen, check privacy settings on all so-cial media outlets and keep in mind that everything said on-line will remain there forever.

Be mindful and compassion-ate to the people and lives who are on the other end of the com-puter screen.

Monica Lewinsky advocates for change in the cyber world

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Monica Lewinsky delivers a TED talk intending to change the social media environment and prevent an ongoing epidemic of childhood cyberbullying.

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Cable companies are worth saving

In the golden age of the Internet, content and me-dia has become increasing-ly digitized these past few years, most notably affecting television viewing.

In the past, every-body gathered around and watched the same prime-time viewing programs as a family.

Watching television was a household affair. Nowadays, gathering around the small screen for a proper sit-down viewing seems as antiquated as listening to the radio for fun.

The lack of television en-gagement is most notable in younger demographics. From 2011 to 2014, weekly viewing by 18 to 24-year-olds has fallen by more than 27 percent; more than one-quarter of this age group’s traditional TV viewing time has migrated to other activities, accord-ing to the latest Nielsen report.

It seems Americans, and youth in particular, are straying away from televi-sion, and that’s bad news for

cable companies.Cable companies have

been a source of irritation for many customers due to increasing prices, messy net-work negotiations and poor customer service.

For the most part, Ameri-cans are starting to feel like they don’t need cable televi-sion anymore.

It’s easy to see why tele-vision viewing has dropped; just look at all the options available with a click of the mouse.

Since the introduction of Netflix in the late 2000s, streaming content over the web is now the new normal.

Tweens continually seek out YouTube content in their spare time, mak-ing the YouTube star a new phenomenon.

High school and college kids watch Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Instant Video for their media needs.

Each streaming service costs less than $10 a month; a steal compared to an aver-age monthly charge of $63 for expanded basic cable.

But there is hope for ca-ble companies. They can steal back the audience if they focus on serving the needs of the average cable consumer.

By offering customers the option of creating custom packages, people would be

a lot keener on subscribing to cable.

The hundreds of chan-nels out there all strive to appeal to every demo-graphic possible.

Cable companies should take note and apply that same niche-oriented con-centration and apply that to their business model.

Nobody wants to be

paying for channels they don’t watch.

Also, nobody wants to be straddled to a fixed schedule.

Television shows air at certain times every week and although the DVR has solved time restraint issues, it still isn’t enough when consumers are constantly on the go.

That’s why streaming ser-vices are so successful.

The services allow viewers the ability to watch cable pro-gramming anytime, from any-place they can access the In-ternet and for a monthly price lower than the cost of lunch.

Television is a wonderful medium, providing a portal to the world beyond your back-yard, informing, inspiring

and entertaining audiences for generations.

It’s not a medium I’m eager to see disappear.

Cable companies need to salvage their reputation and start addressing today’s dy-namic audiences.

If they continue on the stub-born road they’re on, televi-sion will soon be a thing of the past.

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Like many college students, I have used quite a few apps during my tenure at CSUF. Some apps have definitely been more productive than others. While some have been funny, amusing, helpful in romantic endeavors or just used to listen to music, no app has affected me as much as Yik Yak.

I support Yik Yak because of their commitment to privacy, freedom of speech and their dedication to building a positive community on college cam-puses. Yik Yak is an anonymous proximity-based message board available on smart phones. Users can post messages for other users to reply to, up-vote, or down-vote. In a way, it can be compared to an anonymous Twitter.

As the campus representative for Cal State Fullerton, I have been spotted passing out mer-chandise for Yik Yak, taking pictures with stu-dents in full Yak-Attire and I’ve done my part in monitoring the app for less-than-savory materi-al. I am glad to be a part of such a collaborative and constructive project that brings students to-gether to help further our high-spirited campus community.

No app promotes privacy and freedom of speech as much as Yik Yak. The anonymous setting

allows users to feel comfortable in sharing what’s on his or her mind. This provides for an excellent free flow of ideas without a limit, which is some-thing that all free spirits and free thinkers should be in favor of. From this free flow of ideas, any-thing is possible.

Students who’ve never met have used Yik Yak to meet up to study. People have used the app to hang out. There has been a slew of advice posted on every topic, ranging anywhere from succeed-ing in romantic endeavors to how to approach a teacher that isn’t a fair grader.

The feed is localized to a two mile radius, so as you relocate from CSUF to Disneyland, the feed will change. In NYC, the feed will be different than in San Francisco. When you use Yik Yak at CSUF, you are seeing posts almost exclusively from other students at CSUF.

Yik Yak users are typically light hearted or sar-castic and post things they find funny. It’s not the hateful, sexist, racist environment it’s been made out to be by a few. In fact, those posts get voted off very quickly. The overwhelming majority of posts resemble these Yaks from CSUF students:

“Brb, crying, I got a 24/25 on my essay D:”

“Someone ordered pizza while waiting in line for Spring Concert tickets and it was delivered to them! O_O”

“People don’t even ask for numbers anymore, they ask if they have Instagram!”

“If I look at a girl and she smiles, that means she thinks I have good grades and she’s looking for a tutor, right?”

While the app promotes freedom of speech, non-savory posts are not tolerated. If a post gets ‘down-voted,’ the post is removed. If a post is ‘flagged’ and reviewed as inappropriate, the post is removed. The point is, while the app promotes privacy and freedom of speech, it does not neglect the fact that unsavory individuals will inevitably try to abuse the app, and when this happens, the community quickly removes the post, keeping the app clean and friendly. Yik Yak is a self-sufficient and efficient project.

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“My family hasn’t missed a game since I’ve been here,” Ybarra said.

The Titan pitcher has also shown her resolve since her freshman year. Ybarra had to learn to manage her time between school, practice and physical therapy for an el-bow injury to her pitching arm that she was carrying when she arrived at CSUF.

Ybarra came on to CSUF’s team under then-Head Coach Michelle Gro-macki, but current Head Coach Kelly Ford said it was easy for her to see why Gromacki took a chance on Ybarra despite her injury.

“That’s one that you prob-ably just go, ‘Yeah we know that there’s an injury,’ but even at 70 percent she is

darn good,” Ford said.Ybarra has also seen a tre-

mendous improvement in herself physically, but also mentally.

“I’ve improved a lot phys-ically, but really understand-ing the mental part of the game has helped me to ex-cel and keep calm on the mound, even when things are getting to be more in pressure situations,” Ybarra said.

As a pitcher, Ybarra feels that her relationship with her catcher is crucial. Catcher Kylie Padilla has been a big influence on helping her im-prove and push herself.

“She expects a lot of me, so then it makes me expect more out of myself and re-ally to push myself and to continuously be better,“ Ybarra said.

To Ybarra, the benefit of the team, not the individu-al, is what matters most. She currently holds the team’s lowest earned run average at 2.68, largely because she gave up batting in order to preserve her body and pitch more consistently.

“There’s more to her game,” Ford said. “There is much more to her game, but for the greater good of the team, she’s preserving her body ... That’s the ultimate sacrifice of a team player.”

Despite her many accom-plishments and hard work ethic, Ybarra feels she has not reached her proudest moment.

“I don’t think I’ve reached that moment yet, just be-cause I know, individually and as a team, we’re capable of more.”

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Ybarra: Junior pitcher sacrifices individual glory

Continuing on their sea-son-long nine-game road trip, Fullerton heads into Westwood Tuesday look-ing to improve on its roller coaster season.

UCLA comes into this matchup ranked No. 3 in the nation, according to Baseball America. Fuller-ton, however, is undefeat-ed this season in matchups against teams ranked by Baseball America, holding on to a 4-0 record.

UCLA will be the third Pac 12 team the Titans will face this season. Fullerton has a 1-3 record this season against the Pac 12, as they dropped their home opener to USC and lost two out of three against Stanford ear-lier in the season.

The Bruins come into this game red hot, hav-ing won 15 of their past 18

games to compile a 25-7 overall record and a Pac-12-leading 12-3 conference record. UCLA is also 15-4 at home on the season.

Fullerton enters the game with a 19-15 overall record. The Titans took two out of three games in Davis this past weekend, in which they scored in double fig-ures in both their wins.

The Titan offense will look to continue producing with the hot bats of hitters Josh Vargas and David Ol-medo-Barrea. Vargas leads the Titan offense with a .341 batting average, scor-ing 20 runs on 31 hits with eight runs batted in. Olme-do-Barrea leads the team in RBIs with 27 and has scored 23 runs on 32 hits.

The Bruins’ offense is led by infielder Kevin Kramer and outfielder Ty Moore.

Moore leads the team with a batting average of .375, while scoring 28 runs on 45 hits and 34 RBIs. Kramer has been hot lately as well with a batting aver-age of .374, scoring 34 runs on 49 hits and 20 RBIs.

A win against the Bruins

could really help the Titans move back up into the na-tional rankings. The Titans

have the edge in the overall record against the Bruins at 65 wins and 30 losses, with

two ties. Fullerton has also won the previous two meet-ings against the Bruins.

First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Jackie Robin-son Stadium.

CSUF can make a splash if they beat the No. 3 UCLA Bruins

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Titans seeking upset over UCLA Bruins

If the Cal State Fullerton baseball team can upset the No. 3 UCLA Bruins Tuesday at Jackie Robinson Stadium, they will have momentum going into the weekend series against No. 24 Maryland and a good chance of getting back into the national rankings.

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Teammates motivate Galarza

It was the bottom of the sixth on March 30, 2014 at Anderson Family Field. The score was tied at sev-en, and Cal State Fuller-ton was up to bat. Run-ners were on second and third when redshirt senior Gabby Aragon came to the plate.

UC Santa Barbara pitch-er Shelby Wisdom inten-tionally walked Aragon to load the bases. Sec-ond baseman Samantha Galarza, a sophomore at the time, was now at the plate.

Up to this point, Galar-za was 0-for-3 with two fly outs and a strikeout. With the bases juiced, Galar-za made UCSB pay with a booming shot that would not come back.

She hit the game-win-ning grand slam, empty-ing the bases and giving her team the four-run lead. Galarza finished the game 1-for-4 with four runs bat-ted in and one run scored.

This was her first career grand slam. It was her only hit of the game, but it came at the perfect time.

“That was pretty unreal. I actually was struggling that game. They walked a batter intentionally so that they could get to me, so it was basically saying, ‘Let’s pitch to her because

we know she’ll be an out,’” Galarza said.

“I just took it as, ‘There’s always a plan,’” Galar-za said. “So I just have to stay in the present moment. I can’t focus on what’s in the past. It was pretty amazing.”

Galarza began her career playing baseball at four years old with her three el-der brothers.

“I wanted to do what they were doing,” she said.

She continued to play

baseball for four years un-til she was introduced to softball.

Galarza measures achievement in staying positive despite playing a sport where failure is a constant reality.

“This sport is a sport where you fail a lot and so it’s easy to get caught up in negativity. Just to be able to stay positive and get up the next morning and be-lieve that you’re going to get the job done is a great

accomplishment to me,” Galarza said.

In her tenure at Cal State Fullerton, Galarza has earned accolades on and off the field.

On the field, she has received: 2014 All Big-West Conference Sec-ond Team, 2014 College Sports Information Direc-tor of America Academ-ic All-District Team, 2013 Cal State Fullerton Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year and 2013 Big West

Sportsmanship Award. Off the field, she is a

president’s scholar and has received a Dean’s Schol-arship from the College of Communications.

“(Accolades) feel good; it makes you feel proud of yourself, but at the same time I have to focus on the present moment and the present task at hand,” Galarza said.

While many amateur ath-letes look up to profession-als for inspiration, Galarza

is more motivated by her teammates.

“Everyone has something that they inspire me with,” Galarza said.

Outside of playing soft-ball Galarza enjoys leisure-ly activities.

“Whether it’s going to the arboretum or going to the beach. It doesn’t take much to entertain me. I can go to a public place and just people watch, just sit back and observe. I just love life in general,” Galarza said.

The second baseman finds success both on and off the field

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Junior second baseman Samantha Galarza tosses a ball during warmups. Galarza is driven by her teammates to succeed. Galarza notes her grand slam against UC Santa Barbara last year as one of her most memorable moments as a Titan. The Moreno Valley native has received accolades for her achievements on and off the field.

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Junior pitcher Desiree Ybarra (right) chats with catcher Kylie Padilla (left). The two push each other and have high expectations for each other. Ybarra is leading the Titan pitchers with a 2.68 ERA.

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