In order to help new and returning students become better acquainted with the Cal State Fullerton campus and the available services, the Titan Pride Center has created Titanmon.

Titanmon are a series of pseudo trading cards, whose name refers to the popular cartoon and trading card game of the 90s, Pokémon.

Titans can travel far and wide, like the Pokémon master Ash Ketchum, to various destinations to ac-quire these cards and to learn more about their campus.

The collection consists of six cards, each with an illustrated Tuffy the Titan who resembles signature Pokemon characters, leav-ing fans with a feeling of nostalgia.

They were illustrated and created by Bryan Patio and Lety Macarty, two of the Titan Pride Center’s design students.

Aside from the renditions of Tuffy, each card features a piece of Titan trivia to ed-ucate students about campus history. They also highlight

and incorporate the differ-ent services offered by the center, including Titan Re-wards Program and refer-rals for involvement.

Riter Heng, a CSUF in-formation systems major, was one student who was infected with the “gotta col-lect ‘em all” fever when he heard about it.

“I was always collecting cards, so I was like, why not collect some from the school that also provides in-formation about the school and the services they of-fer to the students,” Heng said.

Students can collect the cards by visiting various locations on campus such as the Student Recreation Center, Career Center and Titan Student Involvement Center.

“I enjoyed the process. It was kind of traveling all across campus … I would definitely do something like this again or other activities that involve going around campus finding out what’s available to the students,” Heng said.

Drew Wiley is the Leader and Program Development coordinator for Associated Students Inc. He oversees the Titan Pride Center and all of its operations.

Since 2011, Cal State Fullerton students have en-joyed free Windows 7 and Windows 8 upgrades, Mi-crosoft Office, Adobe and other software. This semes-ter, however, students will see a few changes.

Windows upgrades are no longer available. During ne-gotiations with CSUF, Mic-rosoft decided to unbundle Windows and Office and wanted the university to

pay full price for the soft-ware, said Amir Dabirian, Vice President for Informa-tion Technology.

CSUF was on a one-time funded pilot program with the companies and the soft-ware was going to be hard-er to obtain without suffi-cient funds.

“We couldn’t subsidize Microsoft or even Adobe for a long-term perspective. So last year the students passed the Student Success Initiative (SSI) to start pay-ing for some of the software for student use,” Dabirian said.

The Student Success Fee began this semester and

included funds to help pay for programs on campus, including free software for students. The manda-tory $181 per semester fee will be phased in over the next three years to help offset the cost of campus improvements.

Approximately six per-cent of the fee goes toward technology upgrades and software.

During the first two years of the three-year-phase in, funds will be allocat-ed from the fee for pro-grams like reduced-price software. These funds will start small and steadily in-crease until the fee is fully

implemented.Last year, the program

saved students more than $3 million on Microsoft soft-ware costs alone, Dabirian said.

“We want to save the stu-dents money and to give them the right tools. ... If we don’t make deals with the vendors, the students end up paying 10 or 20 times more than that for one copy,” Dabirian said.

With Windows 9 com-ing out in January, Dabirian hopes to be able to strike a deal with Microsoft in the coming semester.

When Karen Zapien met with her high school guid-ance counselor in 2010, she was told that she could not afford tuition at a four-year university because she was undocumented.

A lifelong honor student with a 4.0 grade point aver-age, Zapien had worked tire-lessly to attend UCLA, her dream school. She was either president, vice president or secretary of anything she was involved in, including––but not limited to––the Associat-ed Student Body, Key Club, Best Buddies Club (which she founded), CSF honors society and faculty committees.

Her counselor suggest-ed community college. She explained it wasn’t realistic

for Zapien to attend a four-year university because she would not receive financial assistance.

Despite these pessimistic comments, she decided to go ahead and apply to UCLA. To nobody’s surprise, Zapien was accepted––but her counselor was right. She just couldn’t af-ford it.

Her parents had emigrated from Mexico when she was a one-year-old. The family moved to Huntington Park in search of opportunity. Both of her parents worked overtime in strenuous jobs and earned minimum wage.

“They wished they could help me, but they just couldn’t,” Zapien said. “They didn’t have any savings––nothing.”

Her parents gave her two options.

“Either you work to go to school because we can’t help you, or you work like us.”

* * *When Zapien began school

at Cerritos College, she was determined to achieve her goal of graduating from a four-year institution. Higher education was her passion.

However, Zapien had a dif-ficult time accepting that de-spite her hard work, she wasn’t going to attend a four-year institution.

“I was depressed. I didn’t even want to go to school or work,” Zapien said. “I thought, this is so unfair, I’ve been here all my life, it’s not my fault.”

Through hard work and persistence, she was able to work two jobs to help pay for school and get straight A’s in her classes.

“My biggest setback––being

undocumented– –became my biggest strength,” Zapien said.

She attended Cerritos College for three years be-fore transferring to Cal State Fullerton for the fall 2014 semester.

A long-time advocate of immigration reform, Zapien was impressed by the new-ly established Titan Dream-ers Resource Center (TDRC) at CSUF and the university’s commitment to diversity. “I felt at home,” Zapien said.

* * *CSUF is the first univer-

sity in the CSU system to es-tablish a fully functional sup-port center for undocumented students.

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“Our goal is ... to pro-vide our students with en-terprise-level software at a reduced cost or no cost,” Dabirian said. “Students ... need to be familiar with all these tools so they can be more productive in their jobs

and in their futures, both on campus, when they are here and when they graduate.”

This semester, Student Technology Services is offer-ing Microsoft Office 365 for free, which includes Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The new version can be used on mobile devices.

Adobe Creative Cloud is new and also free. It used to be called Adobe Creative Suite and the Creative Cloud offers the same programs. The new version includes programs such as Adobe Reader, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and has a cloud storage option.

MatLab, AutoDesk, Front-DoorSoftware Laptop Loss and Recovery and SPSS for statistical analysis (which re-placed SAS) are all offered to students for a fee of $20.

Apps such as iTunes and iBooks are also free and can be downloaded through the Titan Bookstore.

Software: SSI aids offerings

Cal State Fullerton his-tory Professor Kristine Dennehy will be present-ing “Post-Occupation Ja-pan Through American Eyes” Tuesday at the Ful-lerton Public Library.

The presentation will be based on Dennehy’s own research as well as letters written by former CSUF English Professor Joan Greenwood and her hus-band John, both of whom lived in Japan during the 1950s.

Dennehy describes the mid-to-late 1950s as a “void” with a minimal re-cord of what took place in Japan. It falls between the end of the American led occupation in 1952 and the

beginning of a period of rapid economic growth in 1960.

Letters and airmail writ-ten by the Greenwoods, however, begin to fill that void. Over 100 letters writ-ten to John’s parents be-tween 1957 and 1959 while the Greenwoods lived in Kobe and Osaka, Japan,

make up the basis for Den-nehy’s presentation. Af-ter Joan’s sudden death in 2004, Dennehy became close friends with John, which gave her access to the documents.

“Eventually at some point, he told me about this

pile of letters that his par-ents, who lived in Vermont in the ‘50s, had saved when John got a job with Bank of America in Osaka,” Den-nehy said.

Dennehy’s own re-search into Japan focuses on this time period, albe-it not from an American perspective.

“My focus has really been more on ethnic Ko-reans and issues having to do more with domestic Jap-anese developments at that time,” Dennehy said.

The letters have giv-en Dennehy a different perspective, dealing with

Greenwood’s observations and experiences, includ-ing her work with Japanese students and her personal life.

By weaving together her own research and the in-formation in the Green-woods’ letters, Dennehy hopes to help fill a gap in a time and place that oth-erwise might remain rela-tively unknown.

She also wants her audi-ence to come away think-ing about community, Fullerton history and the influence of the transna-tional connections in the 1950s.

The lecture starts at 7 p.m. in the Osborne Audi-torium and will include a question and answer ses-sion following Dennehy’s presentation. For more in-formation on this lecture, visit the Fullerton Public Library website at Fuller-tonLibrary.org.

CSUF professor to present on letters written by American ex-pats after WWII

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Historic glimpse into post-war Japan

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During the Associated Student Inc. Lobby Corps’ first meeting of the year Thursday, political engage-ment, student advocacy and impacted classes arose as just a few of the topics the Corps will take on this year.

Lobby Corps Vice Chair Melissa Fryhling dis-cussed two events aimed at encouraging increased

student voter participa-tion. An Oct. 15 voter reg-istration day rally and an election day event will be held on campus to get stu-dents involved in the voting process.

Part of the challenge for ASI is simply getting stu-dents over the fear of pol-itics, said ASI Chief Gov-ernmental Officer and Lobby Corps Chair Kelsey Brewer.

“I think a lot of people get scared when they hear the word politics and they see it as a really conten-tious thing. But we try to demonstrate that politics is

really what you are passion-ate about,” Brewer said.

Women’s rights, stu-dent leadership and diversi-ty all came up as issues to

advocate for during a break-out session during the meet-ing. The committee can only advocate for students, however, if it gets input from them.

“We advocate on behalf of the students and it is very important for them to come to us. We try to go to them, as many as we can, because this is information that they need to know … because these things affect them,” said Strategic Com-munications Coordinator Annabelle Landry.

Difficulty enrolling in classes struck a chord with committee members.

Impacted classes came up during the meeting, an is-sue that Lobby Corps plans to tackle head on this year.

Their overarching goals, however, remain solidly fo-cused on students.

“The biggest goal for me would be to let the students that are here in the greater CSUF campus understand that they matter and that their voices matter, so they should raise it,” Brewer said.

ASI Lobby Corps meet-ings are in the Titan Stu-dent Union (TSU) Pres-ident’s Room 233 every Thursday at 1:15 p.m.

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Anaheim considers cop cams

EU mulls tougheningsanctions

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The Anaheim City Council will vote Tues-day night on wheth-er 250 video cameras to be worn by police officers will be pur-chased, according to the Orange County Register.

The cameras are meant to serve as a protective measure to both civilians and of-ficers. If purchased, Anaheim would be-come the first city in Orange County to re-quire police officers to wear such cameras.

Anaheim officers would be required to activate the cameras during traffic stops, dispatch calls and any other interactions with the public.

The police depart-ment’s camera policy is still being written.

The program’s im-plementation would begin as soon as No-vember, with full de-ployment expected by April 1, 2015.

The European Union has decided to endorse expanding economic sanctions against Rus-sia, according to the New York Times.

The decision came after sporadic fighting disrupted the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.

The sanctions in-clude restrictions on Russian energy com-panies Rosneft and Gazprom, with sanc-tions against Gaz-prom aimed at its oil affiliate.

Russian Prime Min-ister Dmitri A. Medve-dev responded to the new sanctions by say-ing that his government might respond by ban-ning Western airlines from flying over Rus-sian airspace.

The new sanctions will not be implement-ed immediately, as the European Union awaits to see if the ceasefire holds in the coming days.

Student advocacy arm of ASI encourages students to be-come politically engaged

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ASI Lobby Corps lays out year’s goals

ANNABELLE LANDRYStrategic Communications Coordinator

We advocate on behalf of the stu-dents and it is very important for them to come to us ... be-cause these things affect them.

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The Student Fee Adviso-ry Committee has created a subcommittee specifically to oversee implementation of the Student Success Fee (SSF).

A tentative schedule for the Student Success Initia-tive Fee Advisory Commit-tee meetings has been draft-ed, but is pending approval from committee members and Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García. Meeting times are subject to change, said Administra-tive Analyst for Student Af-fairs Victor Rojas.

Meetings of both com-mittees are open to students.

Last semester, the com-mittee voted to implement the SSF after gathering stu-dent feedback during weeks of forums and surveys.

Beginning this semester, the $181 per semester fee will be implemented gradu-ally through 2016. This se-mester, the fee adds $60.33 to existing student fees. Revenues from the fee will go to athletic programs, im-proving the campus Wi-Fi system, increasing library hours, expanding academic advising and other campus programs.

How the fee is distribut-ed per student for the 2014-2015 academic year:

Expanding advising, li-brary hours and course availability: $26.67

Career Center, intern-ships, service learning, learning communities and supplemental instruction: $11.67

Athletics and alumni ser-vices: $18

Titan student centers and athletics facilities: $20

Veteran, disabled stu-dents and diversity initia-tives: $9.33

Instructional software and technology upgrades: $20

Expanded Wi-Fi network, library technology, 24/7 technology help desk for students: $15

Total: $120.67

What: Student Fee Advi-sory Committee

When: Oct. 10 3-5 p.m. and Nov. 21 3-5 p.m.

Where: Langsdorf Hall 702

What: Student Success Initiative Fee Advisory Committee

When: Sept. 26 1-3 p.m. and Nov. 7 3-5 p.m.

Where: Langsdorf Hall 804 (Sept. 26), Langsdorf Hall 702 (Nov. 7)

Top and bottom: Student Fee Advisory Board members review data gathered from students during the Student Success Initiative. A new subcommittee has been formed to oversee implementation.

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Student Success Fee Advisory Committee formed to oversee implementation of new fee

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Committee formed to oversee SSI

Fee distribution

Tentative schedule

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Packback, a textbook rental startup company, is striving to put students back in control when it comes to how much they spend on textbooks.

College students can of-ten spend hundreds of dol-lars on textbooks and only use the book when they need to study for midterms and finals. Packback elimi-nates the need for that; they offer textbook rentals where students can rent digital textbooks for $3-5 daily, when they are needed the most.

Kasey Gandham, co-founder of Packback, and his other co-founders met during their time at Illi-nois State University, where they quickly established a business fraternity.

After realizing how well they worked togeth-er during their junior year, the team entered a busi-ness plan competition on campus.

They won first place for their concept and be-gan to develop larger plans for what would become Packback.

“The story of Packback on a high level is students are broke and there is over $1 trillion of student debt out there … unfortunate-ly, if you’re a student, when you buy a book, flat out … just purchase it, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to get full val-ue of that book.” Gandham said.

Gandham explains that textbook publishers get no revenue from used books being sold.

This forces publishers to raise prices in order to make up for lost revenue.

“With Packback, real-ly our vision is two-folded. For one, we’re really here to help to empower students to make the best decision

when it comes to their books,” Gandham said.

Through their business, publishers are reclaiming millions in lost revenue, Gandham said.

“At the end of the day, we are effectively putting an end to rising textbook pric-es,” he said.

When it comes to text-book prices, all students are affected.

Melanie Tong, a Cal State Fullerton public relations major, is always looking for deals on textbooks.

“It’s too expensive,” Tong said. “I got them used … (and) used is still pretty expensive.”

Rather than searching bookshelves for textbooks, she chooses to search for cheaper alternatives on the web.

“It’s a whole lot cheap-er … the bookstore charges overhead so I tend to go on-line and see if it’s a little bit cheaper,” Tong said.

Through Packback, stu-dents like Tong are being offered another option for buying textbooks.

Packback also offers a chance for students to learn necessary entrepreneur-ial skills by participating in their brand ambassador program.

“Obviously getting in-volved with a startup itself, like Packback, will teach you a lot about the indus-try. I’ve learned a lot from Kasey and from every-one involved … it’s real-ly cool to see all the work that everyone put into it to get to where they are now,” said Courtney Boman, a business administration student.

Boman, who serves as a CSUF Packback brand am-bassador, has been able to work with the company and spread the word about the brand on campus and exer-cise her business adminis-tration education.

Anyone who is interested in participating in their am-bassador program or renting textbooks can visit their web-site, Packbackbooks.com.

“Our promotion is intend-ed to connect students to re-sources and to back up that theme,” Wiley said.

While Titanmon has been successful among the student population, some were not entirely convinced that it would be during its inception.

“I was a skeptic. I wasn’t sure if students would re-spond well. I knew that there would be some stu-dents that would really love it. I didn’t imagine it would be this many students … but it seems like yeah, it’s been a great response,” Wiley said.

However, the true success of Titanmon will be revealed during ASI’s “Baby Got Block Party.”

The Block Party is an all day event provided by ASI, and will begin at 8 a.m. across the CSUF campus.

Students can enjoy free food and attend a resource fair where they can learn about programs, services and facilities.

During the event, Titan-mon fanatics can also collect the final sought-after game

card, whose design is yet to be revealed.

Joseph Valencia is one of the architects behind Titan-mon and serves as the Titan Pride Center lead.

Valencia said he takes his role of connecting Titans to their campus very seriously.

“Our mission at the Titan Pride Center ultimately is to connect students to different things on campus. But our core services, some of which include campus history and discovering that history of connecting students with events on campus … I think

that this promotion con-nects or falls into the realm of multiple of our core ser-vices,” Valencia said.

Students can expect to take a trip back to the ‘90s and enjoy food, fun and learning at the ASI Block Party on Sept. 18.

The TDRC provides stu-dents with academic and emotional support, referrals for financial aid and schol-arship assistance and in-formation about other pro-grams designed to improve retention and graduation rates among the campus community.

The center is designed to ensure that the students are emotionally and mental-ly supported so when issues arise, they can be connect-ed to the appropriate peo-ple who can provide expert assistance, said Henoc Pre-ciado, coordinator of the TDRC.

“One thing that we always have to remember is that when students walk through these doors, their identity as being undocumented has le-gal implications,” Preciado said. “We have to be very intentional and very care-ful about implementing and

facilitating because I certain-ly do not want to provide in-accurate information about a wrong form, go to the wrong person and get the student in trouble.”

Since August 2012, the U.S. Citizen and Immigra-tion Services (USCIS) began reviewing applications for a program called Deferred Ac-tion for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

Once approved, undoc-umented immigrants are granted a work permit, driv-ers license and a two-year re-prieve from deportation.

In order to be eligible for the program, candidates must have obtained a high school diploma or GED equivalent, be enrolled in school or have been honorably discharged from the U.S. armed forces.

Candidates must be un-der 31 years old as of June 15, 2012 and have a spotless criminal record.

They also must have lived in the United States before

their 16th birthday.Eligible applicants may

renew their initial two-year DACA permit when it ex-pires, to receive a reprieve of another two years.

With the two-year anni-versary of DACA in August, Preciado said the center is offering assistance with the renewal process.

Zapien, 22, applied for the renewal of her DACA grant earlier this month.

“We’re finally getting the opportunity to legally work which is what we really need and what we really want,” Zapien said.

Preciado said the TDRC will be piloting programs with different constituencies on campus in the next couple of weeks to gain feedback and improve the services provided by the center.

It’s up to the students to come in and we will do ev-erything else,” Preciado said. “All they have to do is make a phone call, send an email

and come through those doors.”

The TDRC is open Mon-day through Thursday from

9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in room 203 of Pollak Library North.

Startup company Packback allows students to rent text-books on a daily basis

JAMES LUNAFor the Daily Titan

Renting textbooks one day at a time

Titanmon is a promotion on behalf of ASI and the Titan Pride Center to gets students involved on campus. COURTESY OF ASI MARKETING & DESIGN

Tuffy the Tian is depicted as iconic characters from the hit Pokemon series. COURTESY OF ASI MARKETING & DESIGN

Titanmon: Tuffy meets Pokémon

Dream Center: Academic support for students

Titan Dreamers Resource Center (TDRC) at CSUF provides many services, like financial assistance. MARISELA GONZALEZ / DAILY TITAN

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TMZ’s video release of NFL running back Ray Rice’s brutal domestic al-tercation with his then-fi-ancé Janay Palmer in Feb-ruary was enough to force the Ravens to release the former Pro-Bowler from his contract Monday.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended the former Raven indef-initely based on the new surveillance.

Goodell was widely crit-icized for Rice’s origi-nal two-game suspension, proving that this incident was greatly mishandled from the beginning.

In an article published by the Chicago Tribune, David Haugh said the pun-ishment of Rice is too lit-tle, too late.

He said that people shouldn’t applaud the Ra-vens or the NFL for tak-ing an action that should of been taken months ago.

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon was suspended an entire year for smoking marijuana, but Rice was only suspended two games for knocking out his fiancé.

The discrepancy in pun-ishment for Gordon and Rice is baffling, to say the least. Failing a drug test is not as severe as domestic abuse, but that’s the indi-rect message Goodell sent with his decision.

Goodell publicly apol-ogized, admitting wrong-doing in the Rice incident, as well as implementing a new NFL policy for do-mestic abuse offenders.

First-time offenders will now receive a six-game ban without pay, and sec-ond-time offenders will receive a year-long ban without pay, after which a player can seek reinstate-ment. But there is no guar-antee a player’s petition will be granted.

While the new poli-cy shows positive strides by the NFL in cracking down on domestic vio-lence, it shouldn’t take a player abusing his fiancé

on camera to provoke this type of vigorous action by the NFL.

It is unclear whether the NFL would have came down harder on Rice had there not been such public outrage from organizations such as Domestic Violence and the Child Advocacy Center in Cleveland, Ohio and other women’s rights organizations.

Goodell and the NFL as a whole are all about revenue and protecting their brand, but right now Rice is about as good for their brand as Michael Vick would be for a PETA advertisement. Considering that women make up 45 percent of the NFL fanbase, it behooves them to show their female fanbase that they take do-mestic abuse situations se-riously and will punish accordingly.

Rice’s former coach John Harbaugh had supported Rice throughout the entire ordeal.

Harbaugh said that while he was disappointed in Rice for being involved in a domestic dispute, he was proud of how Rice handled

everything after and ac-cepting responsibility for his actions, according to an article published by ESPN in July.

Harbaugh held a press conference Monday, where he said he met with team owner Steve Bisciotti, President Dick Cass and Raven’s General Manag-er Ozzie Newsome. They

knew they had to cut Rice. While Harbaugh still of-

fered support for Rice, say-ing he stands behind him, he said he understands the Ravens had to cut ties with their former All-Pro run-ning back.

Even current and pres-ent NFL players spoke out against Rice. Broncos de-fensive lineman, Terrance

Knighton wrote on his Twitter account that Rice should not only be thrown out of the league, but im-prisoned as well. We’ll see if players like Knighton will have those same senti-ments if a fellow teammate or even themselves have run-ins with the law in-volving domestic violence or any other matter.

After initially being suspended for two games, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell changed league policies which increased Ray Rice’s punishment from two games to an indefinite suspension.COURTESY OF USA TODAY

Ray Rice and his wife Janay Palmer addressing questions at a Raven’s press conference.COURTESY OF THE BALTIMORE SUN

Ray Rice was cut from his team after Roger Goodell changes league policies

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Celebrities partly to blame for nudes

Internet should not be considered a utility

Internet users are about to get a whole new perspec-tive of the world wide web on Wednesday when multi-ple websites including Reddit, Wikipedia, Etsy and Netflix will participate in a “go slow” day.

The go slow day is in pro-test of the new FCC proposed “fast lanes.” These fast lanes would offer faster access to In-ternet sites, but only for those willing to pay for them.

So what about those who do not want to shell out the extra cash? If broadband be-comes regulated, the way most small websites operate could dramatically change for the worse.

Yancey Strickler, chief ex-ecutive and co-founder of Kickstarter, paints a pic-ture of sites being buffered to

death. She said that it won’t be enough anymore to have a great idea and to execute it well in her Washington Post article. Instead, money will be the main way to disseminate ideas which would ruin Inter-net competition.

She argues that instead of the usual elements of quality and service, Internet compa-nies would live or die based on if they would, or in some cases, could pay for the best deal.

When the Internet became accessible to the general pub-lic, it created a whole new connected world. Informa-tion, entertainment and com-merce were available on a whim. It’s a concept known as net neutrality.

Despite what the FCC pro-posed, the Internet should not be treated like a common util-ity and this is where the de-

bate comes in.The idea behind net neutral-

ity is that the Internet should be accessible to everyone,

and that particular users or consumers should not be fa-vored. In the past 30 years, the Internet has transcended beyond a communication me-dium; it is a vital and crucial means of free speech in mod-ern society.

Evan Greer, co-founder of Fight for the Future, an on-line pressure group fighting for net neutrality, warns peo-ple to prepare for dreaded “loading” wheels more often on certain sites because mo-nopolistic companies get to decide which sites and content is given a fast lane, according

to an interview with The Guardian.

That is what the big Internet entities hope to portray with the “go slow” day. The par-ticipating websites will slow down their servers in hopes to give an idea of what regulated Internet would cause.

Instead of the usual quick access that modern Inter-net access provides, load-ing signals and buffering will become a more common occurrence.

There has already been a lot of opposition to the fast lane concept. The FCC was

flooded with comments; so many that their systems collapsed.

In addition to immense public outcry, politicians are also getting behind the cause.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is one of many Democrats who supports net neutrality. She is one of the latest and highest rank-ing Democrats to explicitly state her opinion on the mat-ter, according to The National Journal.

“I oppose special Internet fast lanes, only open to those

firms large enough to pay big money or fraught enough to give up big stakes in their company,” she wrote in a let-ter to Federal Communica-tions Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler.

Hopefully Pelosi’s state-ment will carry enough weight to sway the opinion of her peers in congress.

The FCC should not put these fast lanes into effect. They would crush Internet competition, slow down infor-mation flow and completely demolish the whole concept of net neutrality.

Internet fast lanes pose a se-rious threat to the freedom of speech on the web

ALEX DOMINGUEZDaily Titan

NACY PELOSIHouse Minority Leader

I oppose special Internet fast lanes, only open to those firms large enough to pay big money or fraught enough to give up big stakes in their company.

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Private pictures of 101 celebrities, some of them nudes, surfaced on the image sharing website 4chan last week, after one of the site’s users purportedly hacked into and stole private imag-es from celebrities’ iCloud accounts.

The list of celebrities who had personal and sexually explicit photos of themselves leaked include well-known actors and entertainers such as Jennifer Lawrence, Au-brey Plaza, Jenny McCarthy and Rihanna among others.

Undoubtedly, the hacker’s actions against these celeb-rities are base and grotesque. The anonymous hacker is currently being investigated by the FBI, according to the Los Angeles Times, and it’s understandable why.

The hacker should be held accountable for his actions and prosecuted to the full extent of the law, but the ce-lebrities aren’t completely blameless for this breach in their privacy.

Celebrities should be ap-prehensive and ever-vigilant about violations of their pri-vacy. They are, after all, in the public eye and should anticipate the possibility of harassment.

Harassment may come in

the form of paparazzi follow-ing them with cameras or in the form of anonymous on-line harassers.

As social media contin-ues to become a larger part of life, celebrities need to be just as wary about their digi-tal life as they are with their personal life.

While neither form of

harassment is justifiable in any way, they are both un-fortunate tradeoffs that come with the ascension to fame.

These compromises have become increasingly rou-tine as a result of our celebri-ty-obsessed culture.

Selena Gomez was subject to such harassment in Jan-uary 2011 when a fast food

worker from England hacked into Gomez’s account to post negative comments about her then boyfriend, Justin Bieber.

Even the notably bom-bastic Donald Trump fell prey to hackers in Febru-ary 2013. Trump was “seri-ously hacked” when tweets of Lil Wayne lyrics which

derogatorily described wom-en appeared on his account.

Sadly, it has become a fact of life that celebrities’ per-sonal information has be-come a favorite target for hackers. This information can be, as proven by this leak, shockingly insecure.

In terms of security, there is very little difference

whether the hacking hap-pened on twitter or on iCloud, as both accounts are online and only require sim-ple login credentials. In fact, all a person needs to get into an iCloud account is an email address, a date of birth and the answers to two simple se-curity questions. It’s certain-ly not rocket science.

In an era when fandom reigns supreme and acces-sibility to contact celebri-ties can be done in seconds, it’s not particularly difficult to come across an email ad-dress or two that are purport-ed to belong to a celebrity.

Once that email is at-tained, a basic understanding of who the celebrity is and where they came from may be all that’s needed to come up with security question an-swers or passwords.

It’s time celebrities ad-dress that their fame sets them apart from the average person and makes them a more likely target for hack-ing. They should keep any and all private information in places guaranteed to be safe. Internet-based apps might not be the best choice for that purpose.

Celebrities should there-fore use some web or smart-phone savvy when upload-ing photos of themselves. A basic understanding of how third-party, web-based ap-plications like iCloud work could potentially save them from the perverted, all-see-ing public eye.

The celebrities involved in last week’s nude hacking scandal hold some responsibility

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The hacked photo were originally posted on the website 4chan. The photos were stolen from celebrities due to a breach in iCloud software.COURTESY OF 4CHAN

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HOROSCOPES

ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

This is not the time for a last-minute sprint to the finish line. You’ve got to make sure that you’re covering every last detail with care, which may be a drag. Things should get a lot better soon.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

You need to extend your vision a bit and see if you can get a fresh per-spective. Things are looking up, but you’ve got to understand what that one opponent is really thinking.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

You have to try things in order to see how they’ll work out -- you can’t just speculate. Today demands practical action, so do whatever it takes and then make sure you watch the results carefully.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

Expect a lot of confusion today -- people seem much more likely to misinterpret you. Things should start to get a little weirder after you push back, but it should resolve pretty quickly.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

You may be tempted to take quick action today -- but you need to really listen to what people are saying first! If you run off half-cocked, you’re sure to run into problems before long.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

Your great energy gives you the ambi-tion you need to get ahead -- at work or in some other part of your life. It’s a really good time to start a business or try some other crazy scheme.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

Your emotional state is a bit weird-er than you’d like -- but that doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy the day! Just try to take it easy and eventually things should settle down. Take your time!

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):

You should find yourself getting along really well with someone who has been a thorn in your side for far too long. It’s a good day for you to bury the hatchet and start working together.

SAGITTARIUS(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

Save yourself some stress and try to just chill out a bit -- there’s no need to get fully invested in whatever is making life weirder or darker. In fact, the more you pull away the smaller it seems.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

Your amazing energy makes today’s good news par for the course -- but it’s still a big deal. A new accomplish-ment should help you to show the right people just what you’re made of.

AQUARIUS(JA. 20 - FEB. 18):

You need to avoid the temptation to lash out at people who are just trying to help. It may come as a surprise to you that the folks who seem to judge you harshest today are those who love you the most.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

You’ve got a guardian angel watching over you, so make sure that you’re sufficiently grateful! You may not even realize what’s happening until it’s over, so keep an open mind.

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The Student Recreation Center at Cal State Fuller-ton offers a variety of op-portunities for students to participate in sports activ-ities on either a competi-tive or recreational level with their intramural sports programs.

While the level of compe-tition is not up to par with NCAA athletics, the en-vironment is more friend-ly, less intense and focuses more on the participant’s enjoyment of the game than the end result.

A majority of the sports offered are coed, while op-tions are available for com-pletely male or female teams.

This is meant to offer equal opportunity for any-one who is interested in playing a particular sport, but might not have had the opportunity before.

The leagues have grown in popularity in recent years, as many sports are able to field at least eight teams, which creates a more competitive and diverse set of games.

Playoffs are also incorpo-rated for some sports, bring-ing up the level of competi-tion as the season goes on.

Senior kinesiology ma-jor Masato Fukushima has participated in the intramu-rals in recent years, and has enjoyed the chance to play sports that he loves as well as others he was not so fa-miliar with.

“Having the opportunity to play such a wide variety of sports has been an awe-some experience for me, es-

pecially since it’s been with friends,” Fukushima said. “It’s an opportunity that I

feel I’ve taken advantage of over the years.”

Basketball, football, soc-cer, tennis, softball, bowl-

ing and even badminton are all available for current students, alumni, faculty

and staff with a valid pho-to I.D.

A valid form of I.D. will be necessary to gain access to all intramural games, or the participant will not be allowed to play.

While there is an ini-tial $10 fee to participate in these games, the one-time fee covers all sports.

A $5 late fee will be add-ed to the entry fee for any team entry accepted after the registration deadline.

Registration for the

leagues are processed on a first come, first served basis.

Captains are responsible for formulating their teams, which includes bringing in the players themselves be-fore giving them the neces-sary participation forms.

The team captain must also ensure that each of their teammates has paid the entrance fee, while also coordinating the times that their team is available each week.

An advantage that intra-mural sports have is that the team can be entirely com-posed of a group of friends, allowing for a unique bond to be shared between players.

“The best part about in-tramurals is being able to hang out with your friends while competing against others,” senior chemistry major David Lyu said. “I would recommend it to oth-er people because it helps build friendships, even if you had never met some of your teammates before the season started.”

The SRC also offers var-ious one-day tournaments throughout the semes-ter for just a $10 fee per participant.

For athletes interested in participating in intramural sports but don’t have a team to join, free agency is an op-tion in the leagues.

Students must sign up at the SRC front desk and then attend a designated “free agent meeting” for the sport they are interested in.

Any player that pays the $10 fee is ensured a spot on an open roster.

If enough unclaimed participants remain, they get formed into a separate team.

CSUF intramural sports aim to offer an opportunity for students to play a game they are interested in with-out having the pressure of typical athletics at the colle-giate level.

While the competi-tion level is still high with these games, the partic-ipants enjoyment of the game is the overall focus of intramurals.

The SRC offers 14 intramural leagues available to current students for a small fee

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CSUF offers several intramural sports

MASATO FUKUSHIMAStudent, 21, Kinesiology

Having the opportunity to play such a wide variety of sports has been such an awesome experience for me.

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The Student Recreation Center offers a chance for students to get involved with college athletics without the intensity of typical NCAA competition. Intramural athletics are meant to serve as a more laid-back opportunity for students looking to play sports, where the results are not as important as the experience. Students, faculty, staff and alumni are eligible to participate in intramurals for $10.

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