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Research makes synthesisadvance

UC Irvine scientists have made a discovery that could have significant impact on the future of cancer re-search—and they did it us-ing an egg.

Scientists from UCI Weiss Lab discovered a way to har-vest key proteins used in pharmaceuticals over 100 times faster than modern day techniques currently allow.

As a side finding to the main research, the scientists took boiled egg whites and returned them to their un-boiled state. The discovery, however, has a much more significant impact than help-ing chefs who’ve overcooked an egg.

Proteins are used in many pharmaceutical applications, including insulin production and specialized proteins de-signed to seek out and iden-tify early stages of cancer.

Previous to the discov-ery made in one of the fast-est methods of synthesizing protein was done by filter-ing a solution through lab animal kidneys, a process known as dialysis.

That process takes be-tween four to five days, but the researchers have cut that down significantly, said Gregory A. Weiss, Ph.D., a chemical biologist and head of the Weiss Lab at UCI.

“Minutes,” he said. “Liter-ally two to five minutes.”

When it comes to the practical application of the findings, Weiss said he has a specific goal in mind.

“I really want to try and use this to express pro-teins that are associated with cancer and cause can-cer,” Weiss said. “Then use those proteins to help us identify hooks that will grab onto those proteins and make it possible to di-agnose cancer early.”

Discovery has implications for cancer research

MATTHEW HADDIXDaily Titan

Former Funniest Wins game show contestant Jen-ny Zigrino will bring her unique comedic stylings to Cal State Fullerton Sunday afternoon.

Zigrino, 27, is the first of three comedians sched-uled to perform on campus this semester as part of the Associated Students, Inc. “Sunday Funday” events.

The hour-long spe-cial will begin at 5 p.m. at the Housing Piazza near the dorms with free admission.

A stand-up comedian by trade, Zigrino finished as the runner-up in the TBS

series that ended in August and has performed across the country and on several college campuses, although CSUF is her first collegiate venue in California.

The comedian describes her style as “sassy, brassy and classy,” according to Zigrino’s website.

The New York native is not afraid to make plus-sized jokes about herself, or talk about a range of topics like dating, cruises or her earlier employment at the Renaissance Faire.

Zigrino is in the midst of a collegiate tour as she’s slated to perform next at Texas A&M Universi-ty-Commerce on Feb. 12.

Zigrino, who is repre-sented by Joey Edmonds Presents, was booked by Brandon Ngo, the Associ-ated Students Sunday Se-ries coordinator.

Funniest Wins’ Jenny Zigrino to perform at piazza

DREW CAMPADaily Titan

Part of Associated Students, Inc.’s “Sunday Funday” events, comedian Jenny Zigrino will be performing her routine at the Housing Piazza on Sunday. She is the first of three comedians coming to Cal State Fullerton for the Sunday events.

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Two Cal State Fuller-ton professors filed separate lawsuits last month against the CSU Board of Trustees, alleging gender discrimina-tion after discovering that they were paid less than their male counterparts.

Eve Himmelheber and Ev-elyn Carol Case, both pro-fessors in the department of theater and dance, are requesting compensation for loss of wages, employ-ee benefits and mental and emotional stress, accord-ing to the case filed with the Orange County Superior Court. There was no specific amount requested in the case documents.

The case alleges that the alleged pay disparity violat-ed California Labor Code 1197.5, a code that requires employees with equal work be paid at the same rate without regard to gender.

In 2013, Himmelheber earned $69,976 and Case earned a total of $53,892,

according to the State Work-er Salary Database from the Sacramento Bee.

University officials de-clined to comment on the cases.

“It is not our practice to comment on specific pend-ing litigation,” said CSUF Chief Communications Offi-cer Jeffrey Cook in an email statement. “Diversity and equity are core values of Cal State Fullerton, and our counsel will review and re-spond to the complaints.”

Vincent Howard, attor-ney for both Himmelheber and Case, was not avail-able for comment before publication.

Himmelheber has worked at CSUF since 2004, and Case was hired as an adjunct professor in 1992 and lat-er added as a full time lec-turer in 2001. In June 2013, Himmelheber found through a website listing state em-ployees’ wages that male employees hired around the same time they were, and for similar jobs, were being paid at a higher rate, according to court documents.

The men used as a com-parison by Himmelheber and Case were not named in the lawsuit.

Professors allege wage discrimination

Theater and Dance faculty members file lawsuits

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Eve Himmelheber began working for CSUF.

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Evelyn Carol Case hired as an adjunct professor.

Evelyn Carol Case added as a full-time lecturer.

Himmelheber and Case found through a website listing state employees’ wages that male employees hired around the same time they were and for similar jobs were being paid at a higher rate, according to court documents.

Himmelheber and Case, along with a group of other female faculty, met with Joseph Arnold, Ph.D., then-dean of the College of Fine Arts who agreed that there appeared to be disparity in their pay. He then told them he would take the issue to Jenny Faust, former vice president for faculty affairs. They never received a reply to their complaint.

Evelyn Carol Case, Ph.D, and Eve Himmelheber, Ph.D, professors in the College of the Arts, began working at CSUF in 1992 and 2004, respectively. In 2013 the professors discovered that their pay was less than that of male colleagues and have since filed suits against the CSU alleging wage discrimination.

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Weiss had a reason to be particularly passion-ate during this research—his father died from cancer over a decade ago.

“I’ve never made peace with it, I want to kill that f*****g thing,” Weiss said. “That’s what makes me run to work every day.”

For Weiss and his col-leagues, the next step is to

expand the discovery for commercial use. Yet, re-gardless of commercial ex-pansion, Weiss hasn’t lost sight of his goals.

“Starting a company is great, but really what I want to do is try to lessen heart-ache like mine, like yours and like so many others that have to suffer with can-cer,” Weiss said.

The discovery got its start when Weiss traveled to Australia and met Colin Raston, Ph.D., professor at Flinders University. Raston invented the vortex fluidic device, the centrifuge-like machine used in the UCI discovery.

“It was sort of a meet-ing of like minds,” Weiss said. “Yet we realized very quickly that we were in to-tally different areas, he’s

a synthetic chemist, I’m a chemical biologist.”

Part of the Weiss Lab’s success could be attribut-ed to a positive environ-ment in which scientists and students alike could work in, said Weiss’s for-mer research partner, Cal-lum Ormonde, a doctor-al chemistry student at the University of Western

Australia. Ormonde’s re-search focuses on nano-technology and cancer drug delivery.

“Greg’s passion is conta-gious, and I love that,” said Stephan Kudlacek, a chem-istry major at UCI who took part in the experiment. “His famous phrase is … ‘go do

something that is going to make you run to work.’”

The Weiss Lab isn’t plan-ning to slow down—re-searchers are already work-ing on new ways to apply their discovery to larger and more complex proteins, opening the door for further advances.

Nutwood sees set of burglaries

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I’ve never made peace with it, I want to kill that f*****g thing. That’s what makes me run to work everyday.

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Cal State Fullerton ex-perienced its first vehicle burglary incidents in 2015 when two cars in the Nut-wood Parking Structure were broken into and the students’ parking permits were stolen.

No suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made in connec-tion with the crime, a Uni-versity Police official said.

Both car thefts took place shortly before 10 a.m. on Jan. 23 in the Nutwood Parking Structure, accord-ing to the CSUF daily po-lice log.

The victims of the thefts, both CSUF students, re-turned to the parking struc-ture to discover their spring

semester parking passes had been stolen, a Universi-ty Police official said.

The windows from each car—a Nissan Altima and a Hyundai Accent—had been shattered in order to take the passes, a University Po-lice official said.

Semester parking per-mits cost $229, according to the CSUF Parking and Transportation Services website.

The first incident was re-ported to the CSUF Police Department at 11:45 a.m., and the second was report-ed at 12:44 p.m., according to the CSUF police log.

One victim came to the police department to report the incident, while the oth-er victim called the police using an emergency phone tower, a University Police official said.

The frequency of bur-glaries from vehicles on campus have decreased pole the past six years, ac-cording to CSUF’s police

crime rate statistics. Burglaries from vehicles

reached a high in 2009, with 49 reported cases. The number reduced slightly to

45 reported cases in 2010. In 2011, the cases de-

clined again to 20 reported incidents, and the number of burglaries from vehicles

dropped again with no re-ported cases in 2012. In 2013, there were five re-ported incidents.

Vehicle burglaries are

prevented when vehicles are secured with their win-dows fastened and no valu-able items in sight, a Uni-versity Police official said.

Burglars smashed windows to get to parking passes

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Researchers have unboiled an egg, a small part of research that has implications for cancer treatment.

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Both women then took their complaint to Joseph Arnold, Ph.D., then-dean of the College of Fine Arts, according to the case files.

They, along with a group of other female faculty, met with the dean in July 2014, and Arnold agreed that there appeared to be disparity in their pay.

He then told them he would take the issue to Jen-ny Faust, then-vice pres-ident for faculty affairs. However, according to the case documents, they nev-er received a reply to their complaint.

This case comes more than two years after one

filed by former soft-ball coach Michelle Gromacki.

Gromacki accused uni-versity officials of retal-iating against her after she brought up complaints about the discrepancy be-tween resources available to the baseball and soft-ball teams, according to a March 2013 CSU Board of Trustees agenda.

She filed her case two weeks before her three-year term was set to expire.

The case was settled and the CSU paid Gromacki $100,000 before appoint-ing her to an 18-month research position, accord-ing to the Board of Trust-ees agenda.

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Jordanian officials threatened a harsh punishment against Islamic militant group ISIS after the group released a video showing Jordanian pi-lot Muadh al-Kasasbeh being burned to death, according to a report from The Guardian.

In a response to the video, the Jordanian government sched-uled the execution of five terrorists asso-ciated with the Islam-ic State, including Sa-jida al-Rishawi, who the group originally wanted to trade for now deceased captive Kenji Goto.

In a formal state-ment, Jordan’s King Abdullah II decried the killing of al-Kasasbeh and said the Islamic State as a group did not represent Islam or its tenets.

Campus groups are planning a pro-test Wednesday in re-sponse to a recent email sent out by Uni-versity Police, which included advice on how to avoid sexual assault.

The Women and Gender Studies As-sociation, the Queer People of Color club and other organiza-tions will hold the ral-ly at 1:30 p.m. in the Humanities Quad, ac-cording to the OC Weekly.

The “Stop Rape Cul-ture” rally will be tak-ing issue with the emails, which some say blame the victim of assaults.

The emails con-tained tips including “be aware of your sur-roundings” and “walk with your head and eyes up.”

Orange County’s Hoag Hospitals are do-nating medical equip-ment to two clinics in Uganda, where physi-cians are forced to de-liver babies and per-form brain surgeries without adequate tech-nology, according to an OC Register report.

Executive Operations Director Marcy Brown organized the dona-tion, which includes 22 hospital beds, an EKG machine, portable X-ray and ultrasound machines.

This will be the first time that the doctors in the clinics of Soroti and Midigo will be able to perform ultrasounds on pregnant women.

Brown said she was eager to send equip-ment after meeting two doctors from Uganda who talked about the numerous women that die during childbirth.

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Professor of Theater and DanceHired 1992

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‘Pizza’ offers a chance to connect

Students on Cal State Fullerton’s Irvine Campus will be able to enjoy a slice of pizza with a side of in-formation when the dean of CSUF’s Irvine campus will be on hand to answer questions.

Susan Cooper, Ph.D, dean of the Irvine campus and other faculty mem-bers will make them-selves available to an-swer student’s questions during Pizza with the Dean Friday.

The event is not a for-mal Q&A, but more of an opportunity for students to gain familiarity with

school officials, said Rob-ert Flores, assistant dean for student affairs.

“This really brings awareness to the fact that there is a dean for the Ir-vine campus, and that she’s here to support the stu-

dents,” Flores said.One of the ways Cooper

will be demonstrating her commitment to students, Flores said, is by ask-ing them questions in an

effort to provide a one-on-one environment and learn more about them.

The event, which is part of a monthly series that has been taking place for the past six years, is expected to draw 100 to 150 attend-ees, Flores said.

“It’s kind of grown over the years, where students know once they see that we set up for the event, so once they see that the ta-bles are out and the signs are out, they start lining up before 5:30 p.m.,” Flores said.

The dean makes an attempt to change the date and time of the event monthly to make herself and others available to students who may not be able to attend due to scheduling, Flores said.

“We want students to feel like this is a place where they can come to and if they have concerns, that they can be

addressed here,” he said. The event will be spon-

sored by Associated Students,

Inc. and will take place from 5:30-6 p.m. on Friday in the IRVC Lobby.

Faculty and students to come together during monthly

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Students can pose questions to from Susan Cooper, Ph.D., dean of the Irvine campus (top) at Pizza with the Dean.

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Plans This Week?

Joe Lawton, Mike LeVan and the Docs will return to the stage Saturday for this semes-ter’s Jazz Series at Steamers Jazz Club and Cafe in Down-town Fullerton.

Each week, the group will play songs centered around a theme and will then discuss the history of the artist or time period.

The show this week, which begins at 12:30 p.m., will con-sist of songs from Mel Tormé, also known as “The Velvet Fog.” Torme was a popular composer, singer, arranger and musician. He is famous-ly known for composing the music for the heartwarming classic holiday tune, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.

There is no cover charge for the series and it is a fam-ily-friendly event. A reason-ably priced lunch menu is also available for attendees to par-take in.

The Jazz Series is a collab-oration between Cal State Ful-lerton’s Osher Lifelong Learn-ing Institute and Steamers. Osher Lifelong Learning In-stitute is an organization that provides active, retired adults with opportunities to continue

higher learning and partici-pate in activities in a university setting.

The group of musicians consists of three highly trained professional musicians and three local physicians.

The group started when re-tiree Dr. Joe Lawton dusted off his saxaphone after 50 years of not playing and decided to

play again. In an effort to expand his ex-

perience, Lawton approached Osher Lifelong Learning In-stitute to create a group of jazz musicians to perform an edu-cational series. After speaking with Steamers’ owner Terence Love, the group began to play Saturday afternoons for fel-low Osher Lifelong Learning Institute members and jazz

enthusiasts. “Osher Lifelong Learn-

ing Institute is really very re-sponsible for the success of it,” Lawton said. “It has been very stimulating.”

Lawton met pianist Mike LeVan, a CSUF graduate, at the venue after seeing the pi-anist perform with his own trio. The doctor proposed that

LeVan join the group of musi-cians and soon after began the series.

“Sometimes they have a vocalist every once in awhile that comes in and sings,” Le-Van said. “It’s a nice thing for people to go to … it’s pretty hard to find live jazz anymore.”

For upcoming shows, please visit OLLI.fullerton.edu.

OLLI members to jazz up Steamers

Titans prepare for ‘Madness’

Jazz Series to kick off with tribute to Mel “The Velvet Fog” Tormé

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Associated Students, Inc. and the Alumni Asso-ciation have teamed up to make sure this week falls nothing short of uber fun with pregame festivities, basketball action between Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside and a live perfor-mance by hip-hop artist Ty Dolla $ign.

The Chalk Off Chal-lenge kicked off the week on Sunday, Feb. 1, with about 12 organizations that came out to create a mural in honor of homecoming week.

The Chalk Off Judging continued the next day, giving Titans the chance to come out and vote for their favorite chalk mural, and be entered in a raffle to win Titan gear.

At the end of the Chalk Off Judging, the CSUF Health and Human Devel-opment InterClub Council was the winner of the most creative mural. The Titan award, which best repre-sented Titan pride, went to the Association for Inter-Cultural Awareness.

Yesterday, another day filled with food and enter-tainment for Titans took place during Titan Taco Tuesday. The women’s bas-ketball team, alongside

coaches and staff, came out to the Central Quad and served tacos to stu-dents. Every student wear-ing CSUF gear received one free taco.

Today the fun contin-ues with an Orange Out Scavenger Hunt from noon to 1:30 p.m. on the lawn

between the Student Rec-reation Center and Titan Gym.

Four different stations will be set up around cam-pus, starting from the Cen-tral Quad and ending in the Titan Gym. As titans hit each station, they will re-ceive free items like a tote bag, stickers, rally tow-els and a t-shirt—making the ultimate spirit pack for homecoming, said Titan Tusk Force Director, Lau-ren Vivanco.

On Thursday, the home-coming pep rally will take place from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Becker Amphitheater. There will be a live performance by Captain Nomad as well as free food and giveaways.

On Friday from 6-11 p.m., there will be a three-point and dunk contest between members of the men’s and women’s basket-ball team.

Following that, will be the second round of As-sociated Students Produc-tion’s Battle of the DJs, between artists Father Knature and DJ Cascio. The winner will perform at the Associated Students Spring Concert in May.

To close Friday’s event, there will be a special guest, hip-hop artist Ty Dolla $ign.

Vivanco said this is the first time CSUF has had a big artist on campus before the Associated Students Spring Concert.

The idea of having a big artist play at the homecom-

ing rally stemmed from a conversation between As-sociated Students and Ti-tan athletics, when brain-storming how to increase attendance for the big game.

“Ty Dolla $ign is defi-nitely the event that I’m most (excited) about, but

it’s all because we want to make sure we sell out the game and everyone is there,” Vivanco said.

Concluding homecoming week will be a homecom-ing pregame festival con-sisting of family-friendly activities.

The event will be on Sat-urday from 3-6 p.m. on the Student Recreation Center lawn.

Festivities will include carnival games, balloon artists, face painting, as well as a Pink’s Hot Dog food truck.

After enjoying the pre-game festivities, students can make their way into the Titan Gym for the big

game. Tipoff is at 6:05 p.m.“I think for me, I want

all students to feel a sense of Titan pride. Because you know, we have this stig-ma on campus that we are a commuter campus. But there is so much to do and so many different ways to get involved, so taking part in homecoming week is a really great way to kind of get your feet wet,” Vivan-co said. “We’ve worked re-ally hard and I am excited to see what the turnout is like.”

For more information on Orange Madness, visit the Associated Students website at http://asi.fullerton.edu.

Ty Dolla $ign set to play this year’s homecoming rally

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Homecoming week kicked off Sunday with the Chalk Off Challenge. Following that was the Chalk Off Judging on Monday and a Taco Tuesday event and a scavenger hunt Wednesday. Thursday will have a pep rally and Friday will be Orange Madness with Ty Dolla $ign.

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LAUREN VIVANCOTitan Tusk Force Director

Ty Dolla $ign is definitely the event that I’m most (excited) about, but it’s all because we want to make sure we sell out the game.

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• Three-Point Dunk Contest

• ASIP Battle of The DJs (Final Round)

• Ty Dolla $ign

ORANGE MADNESS

The concert series at Steamers Jazz Club and Cafe will feature jazz performances from OLLI members and artistic discussions.

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Cal State Fuller-ton Professor Eduar-do Delgado will be the first artist to perform at Chapman University’s annual President’s Pia-no Series on Feb. 5.

The President’s Piano Series presents interna-tionally renowned pia-nists and ensembles to perform solo and cham-ber music recitals.

Delgado was invit-ed to perform in the se-ries after the Director of Keyboard Studies Grace Fong, Ph.D. heard him play a recital.

“Eduardo is a special artist,” Fong said. “He speaks through his mu-sic from the heart, from emotion and this is how I believe music should be delivered and ulti-mately shared.”

Fong heard about Delgado’s reputation for many years and at-tended a CSUF recital, where he performed.

Fong was incredibly touched and inspired by the recital, which brought her to tears at the end.

“There are many good pianists, good fin-gers, good technicians. However, for an artist to bring the music to life in the way that Edu-ardo does is a rarity,” Fong said.

Fong receives hun-dreds of requests each season from manag-ers asking to hire their artists for this recital, which makes it a diffi-cult choice when filling the three spots.

Delgado was one of the hundreds that stood out for his brilliance and intensity during his piano recitals.

“I feel very honored because it’s a very im-portant series,” Delga-do said. “They choose very few artists during the year.”

Delgado first began playing piano at the age of five, under the influ-ence of his mother in Argentina.

A quick learner, Del-gado performed his first recital with 25 memo-rized pieces at the age

of seven.From there his piano

career took off winning competitions in Argen-tina, receiving scholar-ships to travel and per-form in Italy and New York.

Delgado played and taught piano in four continents.

As an ambassador for music, he has received a medal of honor by UN-ESCO of Buenos Aires and also from the mayor of his hometown in Ro-sario, Argentina.

Delgado’s music style spans from Bach to modern artists. For the concert on Thurs-day, he will be playing works from a range of artists like Beethoven to Argentinian composer Pedro Sáenz. Delgado hasn’t written any piec-es of his own, but in-stead likes to improvise at times.

His upcoming recital will last about 80 minutes, performing 40 minutes in the first half and 35 min-utes in the second.

The series begins this season with Delgado on Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Salmon Recital Hall at Chapman University.

Professor to take part in piano series Pianist Eduardo Delgado to play at Chapman University

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Ngo, a 21-year-old ki-nesiology major, said he was looking for a change of pace.

“As a Sunday coor-dinator, I was actually given the opportunity to kind of fluctuate what-ever events I wanted to do,” Ngo said. “I saw what all the other co-ordinators did and I no-ticed that none of them

actually did comedian shows.”

Zigrino won’t be the last comic on campus, Sunday Funday will feature two additional comedians, Jonny Lo-quasto on March 15 and Lauren Ashley Bishop on April 26.

“I created more of variety for my event, my series,” Ngo said. “There was no actual restrictions for what I

could possibly do, so I have concerts and bar-becues and good come-dian acts, and I’m actu-ally screening a movie this semester.”

Sunday Funday will not be held on Feb. 15 in ob-servance of the President’s Day holiday weekend.

The indie electric band, Jetpacks and La-ser Guns will perform in concert Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. in the Piazza.

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CSUF professor Euardo Delgado has been selected to perform in the President’s Piano Series, which recognizes internationally renowned pianists.

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When distraught 17-year-old Kristina Coignard en-tered a police station in Longview, TX, her inten-tions were unclear.

When she left the po-lice station, her intentions didn’t matter: just sever-al gunshot wounds and subsequent death; anoth-er hapless victim of police killings.

Although reports of her mental health vary, ample skepticism draws attention to the findings of an inves-tigation conducted by the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Tele-gram; almost half of the 375 to 500 victims of po-lice killings each year are mentally ill.

The inability for some

police departments to properly assess and ser-vice the mentally ill can be largely blamed on a lack of training, but it’s a symptom of a darker reality—the mental health apparatus is unraveling, and we aren’t putting it back together fast enough.

In the wake of the 2009 recession, many states drastically cut funding for mental health services, and would continue this trend until 2012.

In subsequent years, the majority of states would in-crease their mental health funding, including states like Oregon and Minneso-ta, which have been laud-ed for their mental health programs.

This uptick in spending is often seen as a response to the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School and other violent acts linked to individuals with mental illness.

Less states have decided to continue the increased

spending on mental health that marked 2014., ac-cording to recent findings by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

In states where mental health services are unable to adequately service their mentally ill population, po-lice officers end up filling the void as de facto mental health workers.

Exacerbating the situa-tion, states cutting fund-ing from mental health are often facing budget short-falls, leaving little money to be left for training po-lice departments the proper protocol when dealing with someone who appears to be mentally ill.

There is a solution that requires no funding, no slashing of one service to give to another, no bureau-cratic quagmire—it’s us. We are the solution.

One in four adults have a mental illness and nearly half of all Americans will develop at least one men-tal illness in their lifetime,

according to findings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Most Americans have had experiences with men-tal illness, either person-ally or through personal relationships with friends and family.

Because this affects our loved ones, we are prone to treat them with a modicum of patience, inclusion and communication.

On the other hand, we no longer have the luxury of drawing a distinction be-tween how we treat friends and family who have men-tal illnesses, and how we treat complete strangers with mental illnesses.

There are many chal-lenges the mentally ill face beyond their own condi-tion—social ostracization in particular—that can have a damning effect on a person, regardless of one’s mental health.

However, the oppo-site can be said about so-cial inclusion, which are

tranquilities everyone de-serves that can mend the heart and calm the mind.

By adorning ourselves in the mantle of patience, we can open up lines of communication and under-standing towards the men-tally ill, and in doing so, shield them from violent or unlawful impulses that could bring them before a police force ill-equipped to service the mentally ill.

To some this may seem idealistic, and expecting the majority of Americans to suddenly develop a pro-nounced sense of empa-thy might be asking too much, but it has to start somewhere.

Compassion is its own de-terrent to mental illness, but sometimes compassion also requires courage.

Courage to do what others will not, courage to set an ex-ample for others to follow and courage to bring about a new dawn to understanding men-tal illness when it afffects so many loved ones around us.

The U.S. government squanders its time and re-sources when it attempts to shut down elusive sites like The Pirate Bay and other peer-to-peer file sharing websites.

The fact is, the moment these sites are shut down, new sites will spontaneous-ly emerge to take their place.

Peer-to-peer file sharing is an unstoppable force be-cause it is driven by a glob-al culture that feels entitled to have the ability to share and download music, mov-ies and software for free.

In December 2014, a main headquarter for The Pirate Bay located in Swe-den was raided by Swedish police, according to Tor-rentFreak, a website that reports all peer-to-peer file sharing related stories.

After the raid, The Pi-rate Bay and many oth-er peer-to-peer servers went offline, according to TorrentFreak.

The millions of peo-ple who use The Pirate Bay no longer had access to the site, so this seemed like a huge loss for the peer-to-peer file sharing advocates.

Then, less than a week ago, The Pirate Bay re-turned, having hardly lost any of its data, maintaining the majority of its services, barely missing a beat.

Originally, The Pirate Bay had a pirate ship for

its logo, but when the site came back online, it had a phoenix symbol as its logo, defiantly saying it had re-turned and risen from the ashes.

This is evidence of the elusiveness and resilience of these torrent sites.

They have servers all over the world and data are held in many locations. It would take a huge, coor-dinated international task force to even make a dent in these sites.

However, such a coor-dinated attack on illegal downloading seems very unlikely and is a waste of government funds.

Another option to thwart

illegal downloads is for governments to create stricter anti-piracy laws and stronger enforcement powers to go after not just website hosts, but normal

citizen downloaders as well.

Even now, a U.S. citizen that illegally downloads copyrighted content can be sued by the publisher up to $150,000 for each copy-righted material.

If convicted, the govern-ment can add an addition-al fine up to $250,000 and send that person to jail for up to five years, according to USA.gov, the official site of the U.S. government.

Yet millions of people

still download and share copyrighted material in the U.S.

Greater punishment and enforcement against cit-izen downloaders would only lead to extreme back-lash and outcry against the government.

Furthermore, tracking down and punishing mil-lions of downloaders would be extremely costly.

Peer-to-peer download-ing advocates are pas-sionate about the ability to download and upload copyrighted files.

Many of the advocates online have an ‘us versus them’ mentality.

One of the top comments on a TorrentFreak article about the return of The Pi-rate Bay was written by a commenter named Posi-tron, sharing this sentiment about peer-to-peer file

sharing: “We are TPB. We do not

forgive censorship. We do not forget the denial of our free rights as human beings. We have bidden our time, oper-ating in the shadows, adapt-ing our tactics and honing our abilities. The future belongs to us,” Positron wrote.

Regardless of whether peer-to-peer file sharing is right or wrong, with the current global culture, trying to stop it is next to impossible.

It’s not up to the U.S. gov-ernment to take on this enor-mous task of stopping ille-gal copyright downloads, but rather the movie and music industries.

The best thing the movie, music and other affected in-dustries can do to reduce the number of illegal downloads is to find ways to make their products less expensive and more easily accessible.

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Mental health is everyone’s issue

BitTorrent shutdowns are a waste of time

Millenials say ‘I don’t’ to marriage

Millennials are paving the way to saying “I do” much later in life.

Twenty year olds are probably more excited about the idea of owning a dog than tying the knot.

Americans have steadi-ly been choosing to get married later on in life or not at all, and millennials are at the forefront of this decision.

A 2014 study conduct-ed by Pew Research Cen-ter found that 20 percent of Americans above the age of 25 had never been mar-ried, compared to 1960, when that number was a measly 9 percent.

There no longer appears to be a push to get married at a young age in order to establish some sort of eco-nomic stability together.

A good majority of the people getting married to-day wait until they’re fi-nancially stable before set-tling down.

It’s smart that millenni-als are waiting longer to get married.

This provides a better chance to have “it” all togeth-er come newlywed time.

“Though marriage was once a stepping-stone to economic stability, young adults now see financial stability as a prerequisite

for marriage,” Claire Cain Miller said in an article for The New York Times.

Miller is completely right.

It has become impressed upon the minds of millen-nials to go to college, grad-uate, start a career and just get it together—whatever “it” is..

They have been mold-ed to believe a potential

marriage partner wouldn’t even consider marriage as an option if he or she is un-employed and financially unstable.

It has become common-place for two individuals getting married to have already established iden-tities in the workforce, then mashing their two, completely separate, root-ed lives into one twisted

mess. There might even be

some correlation between this mashing and the dra-matic increase in di-vorce rates within newer generations.

In comparison, older generations, such as those from the ‘60s, wed at a younger age before build-ing up individual lives for themselves.

The decision to get mar-ried before establishing a distinct path in life allowed those couples to pave their lives together.

Although this method may have allowed a more cohesive marriage in the beginning, it hindered indi-vidual growth.

But if two established, individual paths come to-gether in harmony, with

mutual support for indi-viduality as a key to filling potholes in the relation-ship, then a couple has the framework for a successful marriage.

Since many couples are no longer coming together for financial security, they must be coming together for something anyone can favor—pure, honest love.

Waiting before marriage is a good idea for everyone

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Younger generations are choosing to wait before marriage, preferring to focus on financial and professional stability before settling down. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN

The Pirate Bay shutdown proved futile and wasteful

ALEXANDER FAIRBANKSDaily Titan The fact is, the moment these sites

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Mental health issues have been neglected for far too long.

MATTHEW HADDIXDaily Titan World Health

Organization finds:

• Mental illness is most common disability topiing cancer and heart disease.

Nami.org reports:

• States cut over $1.6 bil in mental healthcare since 2009.

CDC.gov reports:

• Depression most common mental illness in the U.S.

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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

Your drive to explore new territory is countered by uncharacteristic feelings of self-doubt today. An inner voice reminds you to be sensitive to other people’s needs over your own.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

You just might save the day by inventing the amazing plan that everyone has been dreaming about. Ironically, your stroke of brilliance could come at the very last minute.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

You are flying at top speed today, yet you still feel something weighing you down. The feeling of carrying too much baggage may be associated with an unpleasant memory that raises issues of self-doubt.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

You want to express your emotional needs as forthright as possible today, and you expect people to sit up and take notice of your clarity. There might even be one particular person you hope to impress.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

Helping others is a primary concern today, but you prefer to do it sight unseen while the Moon is still visiting your 12th House of Invisibility.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

There is no reason to take the fall for someone else’s erratic behavior. If a coworker does some-thing that catches you off guard today, just do your best to take it all in stride.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

You might step away from the spotlight today because you know you’re not in control of others while the Sun aligns with unpredictable Uranus in your 7th House of Relationships.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):

You might feel as if there’s no way out of your pre-vious commitments. You’re willing to resign your-self to do what you said, even if you’re unhappy with how things have developed.

SAGITTARIUS(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

Fitting into the standard constraints of a tradi-tional relationship is nearly impossible now that your emotions explode with brilliance in their own unique way.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

You are in direct touch with your feelings now as you attract highly emotional people into your or-bit. You often avoid revealing too much vulnera-bility, but you might be destabilized enough today to open up.

AQUARIUS(JAN. 20 - FEB. 18):

You might believe you’re headed for a major conflict today, when out of the blue everything dramatically improves. Don’t try to rein in any-one’s behavior because your fear of a negative outcome could actually coax it into manifesta-tion.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

It could be safer than you think to jump into the abyss of the unknown today, as long as you trust that everything will work out for the best.

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CSUF prepares for homecoming

Titans hit the road to right the ship

The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team is looking to rebound from its six-game losing streak this week when the Titans host Cal State Northridge Thursday and UC River-side Saturday for the annu-al homecoming game.

The Titans (8-13 overall, 0-6 Big West) have start-ed off Big West Conference play tied with their sec-ond-worst record in team history after coming un-raveled at the end of the fourth quarter and overtime against Long Beach State 91-85 last week.

CSUF, currently in last place in the Big West Conference, is averag-ing 65.1 points per game while shooting 41 percent through their 21 match-ups this season. During this six-game slide to start conference play, the Titans have been averaging 65.5 points per game, which is a sign of improvement de-spite the fact that they have not been able to pull it all together for a Big West win just yet.

Senior Alex Harris leads the Titans with 15.9 points per game and four re-bounds per game, which is good enough to make him the sixth-ranked scorer in the Big West. Harris had a strong outing in the Ti-tan overtime loss to Long Beach State, where he put up 28 points and dished four assists in 35 minutes.

Also leading the squad is senior Steve McClellan, who is averaging 6.8 points per game and a team-high 8.2 rebounds per game, good for second this sea-son in the Big West in rebounds.

Looking to bounce back out of the Big West cellar, Fullerton is preparing to face the CSUN Matadors (6-17 overall, 2-6 Big West) on Thursday, who are cur-rently on a four-game los-ing streak and are 1-10 on the road this season.

This is the first matchup between the teams this sea-son after splitting the sea-son series last year. The Matadors are led by both Stephen Maxwell with 15.6 points per game and 7.9 rebounds per game, and Stephan Hicks with 16 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game. Col-lectively, the team has the highest free throw percent-age in the Big West Confer-ence at 76 percent.

The annual homecoming game Saturday will see the UC Riverside Highland-ers (10-11 overall, 3-4 Big West) attempt to be party crashers for the Titans.

This season, the High-landers have three starters averaging double figures and are led by junior Tay-lor Johns, who is averaging 16.5 points per game and 7.9 rebounds per game and put up 29 in the last meet-ing between the teams. Ac-cording to the Big West website, the Highlanders are the leading rebound-ers in the conference with a +2.3 average.

UC Riverside is current-ly 1-9 on the road this sea-son. After already losing to the Highlanders this sea-son off a valiant effort, in which the squad overcame an 18-point first half deficit only to fall short in over-time, the Titans are looking for redemption.

Tipoff on Thursday is at 7:05 p.m. at Titan Gym with free rally buffs for the first 600 students in attendance.

Before the homecoming game, the annual Home-coming Festival will take place at 3 p.m. At halftime, CSUF President Mildred García will honor the Titan Dance Team for winning its 14th National Champi-onship on Jan. 18.

Men’s basketball is still in search of its first Big West win

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The Titans will rely on senior guard Alex Harris to carry them to their first Big West Conference victory of the season this weekend. Harris leads Fullerton with 15.9 points per game this season.

MATT CORKILL / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO

A road swing is on the horizon for the Cal State Fullerton women’s basket-ball team this weekend, as it travels to UC Riverside and Cal State Northridge.

The Titans (9-10 over-all, 3-3 Big West) travel in-land Thursday to the Stu-dent Recreational Center Arena in Riverside looking for the season sweep of the Highlanders (13-8 overall, 4-3 Big West). The sweep won’t come easy, with Riv-erside on a 3-game win-ning streak and boasting an 8-1 record at home.

The Titans enter the game stumbling a bit of late, losing three of their last four contests. The road has presented mixed re-sults for Fullerton, yielding an average 5-5 record.

The key for Fullerton will be containing River-side guard Brittany Crain, the Big West Conference’s leading scorer with 24 points-per-game. Crain is lethal from long range, draining over 40 percent of her 3-pointers. In their first matchup of the sea-son, a 58-49 CSUF win, the Titans kept Crain in check with 18 points off of 6-of-21 shooting from the field.

Fullerton Head Coach

Daron Park has made it a point all season to shut down the opposing team’s leading scorer and force supporting players to pro-duce points. Given the suc-cess of the strategy in the teams’ first meeting, Park will surely continue to roll

with the same game plan.The Titans will count-

er with the second lead-ing scorer in the Big West, Chante Miles. The senior guard is averaging 19.7 points per game and is coming off a 25-point ef-fort against Long Beach

State. Miles was equal to Crain’s 18 points in the first matchup, but will look to best the conference leading scorer Thursday night.

Fullerton will also need Kathleen Iwuoha to step up if the Titans are to

find success this week-end. Iwuoha is the leading rebounder for the Titans, grabbing 6.6 boards per game. The senior forward missed three games after suffering a concussion, but has produced double-digit scoring efforts in the two

games since her return to action.

Two days after playing UC Riverside, the Titans head to the Matadome to spar with the Matadors in their first meeting of the season. Coming into the weekend, the Mata-dors hold a 14-8 overall re-cord and a 4-4 conference mark.

Northridge will prove to be another tough road test for Fullerton, as the Mata-dors are 8-2 at home. Last season, Northridge swept Fullerton.

Ashlee Guay is the top scorer for Northridge with 15 points per game, but if the Titans focus solely on her, the Matadors will strike with the rest of their balanced attack. Fuller-ton should be wary of the Northridge 3-point threat, Cinnamon Lister, who is shooting 39.8 percent from behind the arc.

The road swing comes at a pivotal time of the sea-son, giving the Titans a chance to move their re-cord to over .500 and climb back up the Big West lad-der. Fullerton is on a quest to become the first Titan women’s basketball team to have a winning record in the past 24 years. Miles will likely shoulder the load of the team and help the Titans find their win-ning ways.

Tipoff against River-side is at 7 p.m. Thurs-day, while Saturday’s game against Northridge begins at 4 p.m.

Women’s basketball can climb over .500 with a pair of wins

TAMEEM SERAJDaily Titan

Second year Head Coach Daron Park and the Titans are looking to become the first Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team to have a winning record in 24 years. Fullerton currently holds a 9-10 record, staying in the hunt to break that unseemly streak.

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