The Cal State Fullerton softball team defeated Grand Canyon University 9-7 Wednesday night in a thriller at Anderson Family Field.

Wednesday was the Titans’ second game of an absolute grind of a home-stand in which they play seven games in just five days.

The Titans (13-7) hoped to build off of their win over Loyola of Illinois on Tuesday where sophomore center fielder Paige Kisling hit a walkoff single for a 3-2 win.

Sophomore Jasmine Antunez started the game in the circle for the Titans. In the first inning, she al-lowed a two-out solo home run to junior shortstop Kelsey Barak, the sixth she’s allowed this season.

The Titans answered in

the bottom of the first in-ning. Sophomore third baseman Missy Taukeiaho led off the inning with a single and then stole sec-ond. After advancing to third on a fielders choice by senior catcher Ariel Tsuchiyama, she scored on a single by sophomore Eliza Crawford.

Antunez powered through the second in-ning and didn’t allow a baserunner.

The Titans failed to cap-italize in the bottom of the second. Senior left fielder Lauren Mario reached base on an error by senior third baseman Stephanie Smith.

At a young age, Jocelyn Rierson knew what she wanted to do with her life. Her devotion to children and adults with disabili-ties began after stepping onto a basketball court with Shooting Stars for the first time.

Shooting Stars is an in-clusive program designed for children and adults ages 5 to 22 with a variety of disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome and other physical and mental disabilities. They learn how to play basket-ball in a fun, non-competi-tive environment.

It was also the pro-gram that grounded her in working with those affected by autism and eventually led her to be-come the president of Cal State Fullerton Autism Speaks U chapter.

“I fell in love with the program,” Rierson said. “I ended up doing the whole

season and I went back ev-ery year since then.”

Rierson, a child and ad-olescent studies major, was paired with a 6-year-old boy named Travis who was completely non-ver-bal. He hated the sun and had a tendency to bite his fingers extremely hard.

She said the first season was chaotic.

“If the sun was shining, it creates lights on the ground, and he didn’t like that so he would take off; he didn’t like that so he

would run,” Rierson said. Non-verbal cues, hand

gestures and consistently motivating him for snack-time after basketball prac-tice got her through the first couple weeks until he began to talk to her.

Rierson said you even-tually learn to communi-cate to them without ac-tually talking.

Four years later, Rierson is still Travis’ biggest fan.

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Kiran George, an associate professor of computer engineering at Cal State Fullerton, assists Micheal Vavro, 28, a junior majoring in computer science, with a robotic arm on Feb. 27. The device moves the wearer’s arm and hand through facial expressions.

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Bands of black plastic and velcro encase the stu-dent’s arm as multicol-ored wires swirl down to small silver clamps around his fingertips. A match-ing band wraps around the back of his head and extends plastic tentacles across his forehead.

The entire system was de-veloped with a deceptively simple function in mind: to

robotically move the wear-er’s arm and hand.

Although this initially seems like a scene straight from a science fiction show, it is the result of months of work done by a group of students at Cal State Fullerton.

As Micheal Vavro, a ju-nior computer science ma-jor, opens and closes his hand, he showcases the culmination of that work. Vavro said the device rec-ognizes brain waves creat-ed when a person looks at a certain stimulus and uti-lizes those to move the ro-botic arm.

“(We) can use this natural phenomenon that occurs

in your brain as a way to understand when you’re looking at that stimuli and we can use that to control anything,” Vavro said. “The whole heart of it is the fact that we’re taking advantage of those phenomena to un-derstand what’s going on in your brain and then use that to make a movement.”

While the device seems like a well-oiled machine now, it has taken almost a year of planning and proto-types to make it complete.

The team started work-ing on the robotic arm during the summer of 2013. The initial planning, Vavro said, had much to do with finding the right

control technique.“There are so many ways

to extract a small signal, the one that you’re looking for, that needle in the hay-stack, from all of that hay,” Vavro said. “With several ways to do that, it’s a matter of figuring out which way you want to do it.”

As it currently func-tions, the system uses fa-cial expressions from the user to function the arm, said Hayden Donze, a se-nior computer science major. While this system works, he said, it’s one that requires training, which makes it difficult for a new wearer to use the arm right out of the box.

Moving forward, he said the team is working to im-plement a system called Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials (SS VEP). This particular system re-quires the user to focus on a flashing light to move the arm, rather than relying on more subjective facial expressions.

“(SS VEP) doesn’t re-quire any training; it makes the arm far more robust,” Donze said.

The change to a more universal system is not the only improvement in the works either.

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In 2013 there were only 69 reported incidents of bike theft on campus, a 44 percent decrease from 2012, according to recently-released crime statistics from the Cal State Fullerton University Police.

While the reports in-dicate a big improve-ment, the numbers are still double what they were in 2009. University Police officers are active-ly working to decrease these numbers as much as possible.

Throughout 2013, of-ficers studied the trends and hotspots with the most theft and used that information to help pre-vent more incidents. Capt. John Brockie said directing patrol units to needed areas, as well as security cameras, have helped to reduce the number of thefts.

He advises students to be careful when using their bikes and take ev-ery precaution to keep it safe while locked up and to also be aware of the features on your. Wheels are are easily stolen and need to be locked along with the frame.

“Use a quality lock. I recommend a metal ‘U’ type lock,” Brockie said. “Cables and chains are generally easy to defeat.”

Brockie said University Police has a plan of ac-tion to continue to low-er the number of bike thefts.

The housing area, which previously had the highest number of inci-dents than anywhere else on campus, is now home to the University Police’s Crime Prevention Unit.

“This gives us a per-manent home in Housing which will increase the police presence,” Brockie said. “Coupled with our campaign to increase the bicycle registration program, we think bike theft will be reduced in Housing.”

Despite the number of bike thefts in previous years, some students still seem to feel safe leaving their bikes on campus. Cameron Hernandez, a psychology major, said he rides his bike to class every day, even for his evening classes.

Hernandez uses two separate locks to ensure the frame and tires are properly secured.

“I still ride my bike just so I don’t have to park,” he said.

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Cal State Fullerton stu-dents have a new reason to put pictures of their food on Instagram. The Titan Food Challenge started this week, and it’s designed to get students in the kitch-en and cooking something healthy.

Hosted by the Peer Health University Network (PHUN), the three-week cooking and photo chal-lenge will feature a week-ly ingredient that students must incorporate in their recipe. Participants must then go on Instagram to upload their concoction for the week.

Throughout that time, PHUN representatives will post interesting facts about

the ingredient of choice and why it is beneficial to the body.

PHUN is a campus-based group now affiliated with the CSUF Student Health and Counseling Center (SHCC) as of this summer. They hold events through-out the school year promot-ing health and wellness for students.

Due to the social media trend of posting pictures of food, Jordan Jenkins, a se-nior student who organiz-es PHUN events, said she thought it would be a great idea to take the event on-line. She originally came up with the idea to inspire students to cook with new ingredients while also pro-viding them with nutrition-al information.

“I wanted to get stu-dents thinking about cook-ing and get them inspired to cook for themselves,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins said she noticed students’ lack of cooking

skills and sought a way to change that. Students fre-quently choose the conve-nience of fast food between or after classes in order to save them the hassle of cooking. Jenkins said she hopes that if students learn to cook for themselves, they will be more likely to eat healthy.

Daisy Gonzalez, a fresh-man psychology major, agreed. Gonzalez said she packs a lunch each day to avoid bad foods and unnec-essary spending, but she still gets tempted some-times. Gonzalez said pro-moting this type of pro-gram will make students more interested in healthy eating and cooking.

“I definitely feel like peo-ple should start cooking for themselves,” she said. “It’s more beneficial money wise and health wise.”

Students are encour-aged to join the Titan Food Challenge by either follow-ing “TitanFoodChallenge” on Instagram or liking their Facebook page. The special ingredients can be found on both sites, and pe-riodic updates will be post-ed as well.

The competition will run Monday through Sunday each week through March 24, and everyone who par-ticipates will be given a small gift. By the third week, those who partic-ipated continuously will be entered into a drawing to win a Trader Joe’s gift card.

To keep things interest-ing, not only will the ingre-dients change, but recipes in later weeks will also re-quire the previous week’s ingredient. A few students have already made their way to the kitchen, and Jenkins is hoping to have plenty more as the weekend approaches.

Justin Ibarra, a health science major, has already gotten involved in the chal-lenge. He made sweet pota-to ramen Monday evening to go with the weekly in-gredient, and he was satis-fied with the results.

Ibarra said the challenge is a great way to get stu-dents involved. “I’m not really good at cooking for myself so I figured it would be a good experience to learn how,” he said.

This is one of many events PHUN has in store for the semester. They will also host CSUF’s first cook-ing class on campus, which should take place in the near future.

For more information on the Titan Food Challenge or other events, contact the SHCC at (657) 278-2800.

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The division of stu-dent affairs will host the final open forum to gather student in-put on the proposed $240.50 student suc-cess fee Thursday at 4 p.m. in Ontiveros ABC in the Titan Student Union.

Following a short presentation, feed-back forms will be distributed to gath-er student opinion on how the funds should be used.

Feedback on the Student Success Initiative will be ac-cepted until March 9 through an online form accessible via the Student Portal.

The Student Success Initiative is currently going through an alter-native consultation process, and feed-back will help shape spending priorities.

The College Board is making major chang-es to SAT examina-tions, according to the Orange County Register.

Some of the revi-sions include mak-ing the essay portion on the examination optional, having the choice to take the test on a computer, the re-moval of some obscure vocabulary words, such as “sagacious” and only allowing a calculator for some parts of the math ex-amination, instead of the whole section.

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Gov. Jerry Brown met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday to seal an economic pact between California and Israel to pro-mote trade and joint research, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The meeting was held at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.

California and Israel hope to join forces and tackle major issues they are both current-ly dealing with, in-cluding water scarcity, cybersecurity and cli-mate change.

This is the newest in-ternational agreement signed by Brown, who recently established a pact with Peru, led a mission to China last year and plans to visit Mexico this summer.

Michael Leighton, an engi-neering major, said he is not comfortable leaving his bike for an extended period of time. Like Hernandez, he is careful to lock both the tires and frame to be safe.

“I know it happens a lot, but I make sure to lock my bike up every time,” he said.

Hernandez and Leighton are two of the many students that rely on their bikes to get to class every day.

Bikes are not always re-covered, but they can only be returned if they are regis-tered with University Police. Otherwise, there is no way for University Police to iden-tify the owner. Stolen bikes that are found frequently end up never being returned be-cause of this.

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Marketing students at Cal State Fullerton hope pair-ing sports teams with chari-ty will prove to be a winning combination.

Students enrolled in a sports marketing course taught by associate profes-sor Howard Forman, Ph.D., are tasked with the best way to get consumers interested in buying tickets to a specific Los Angeles Clippers basket-ball game.

For one student group, rather than trying to entice buyers with discounts or ex-tras, the benefit is different: a portion of the ticket proceeds will go to the Big Brothers and Big Sisters charity.

James and Ryan Fratzke, 23-year-old twin broth-ers majoring in business marketing, are part of that group.

“Business needs to be more than just a corpora-tion,” Ryan Fratzke said. “It needs to incorporate every-body and be beneficial.”

The two were inspired to use sports as a way to further good causes when they at-tended a Pittsburgh Steelers game a few years ago. They noticed the pink accessories players sported in support of breast cancer research and awareness every October.

As the years passed, they observed how the partnership between the National Football League and Susan G. Komen for the

Cure expanded, and later branched out to incorporate camouflage-styled accesso-ries supporting veterans in November.

“You’re taking these big brands and you’re then slap-ping pink on there or slap-ping camouflage on there,” James Fratzke said. “It’s that ‘cause’ marketing where now it not only gets the people more excited for the team or the company or what-ever, but it also gets people involved.”

Student groups are given 50 tickets to market in any way they wish to, provided they obey applicable rules and regulations, Forman said.

“They’re free to use their marketing knowledge and creativity to write a market-ing plan,” he said.

Some marketing strate-gies include partnerships with local churches and ju-nior sports leagues. However, this semester is the first case of students working directly with a specific charity.

“(The group) had asked me about it, and I said it was a really good idea,” Forman said. “When consumers are buying tickets, if they know that some of the money is going to a charity, they’re a little (more likely to buy the tickets).”

The Fratzke brothers have been involved with chari-ty in the past. They creat-ed a Facebook page titled “Fratzke & Fratzke Present” to market their endeavors. They previously partnered with the Komen charity by donating 10 cents to Komen for every Facebook “like” during a video campaign.

Emerging technology is

also something the broth-ers want to explore. They saw others broadcast them-selves playing Super Mario Bros. games online for 24 hours and soliciting dona-tions for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, and they were inspired to experiment with live online broadcasting themselves.

In the future, the two hope to host a “creative lockdown” and have artists work togeth-er in a locked building for 24 hours while streaming the proceedings online.

The project would encour-age viewers to make dona-tions and possibly bid on

the work the artists make during the lockdown. The brothers plan to partner with the Orange County branch of the Alzheimer’s Association.

“You’d have painters, you’d have sculptors, you’d have people with graphic art, you’d have bands come in,” James Fratzke said. “Basically, it would be like a telethon, but online.”

The Fratzke brothers said they became interested in the Big Brothers and Big Sisters charity, which pairs volunteer mentors with chil-dren in need, because one of their friends and fellow CSUF

students is a “big brother” in the program.

“These are children that don’t have positive adult role models,” James Fratzke said. “And when they get involved in this program, it gives them an opportunity to learn life experience and put them on the right track.”

When the projects con-clude, each group presents their findings and results to the Clippers in the team’s corporate offices. Forman said the partnership ben-efits the Clippers, because it helps them develop their own strategies and get ideas for market research.

“They’ve implemented some of (the student strate-gies),” he said. “They’ve hired some of my students right out of (college after they graduated).”

The Clippers game the students are market-ing is a game against the Sacramento Kings at Staples Center, scheduled for April 12 at 12:30 p.m. A deadline to buy the tickets has not been finalized, but is estimated to be April 1.

To purchase tickets from the student group associat-ed with Big Brothers and Big Sisters, visit facebook.com/CSUFClippersTickets.

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After 16 days, thou-sands of people beat Pokémon Red on a Twitch.tv stream called TwitchPlaysPokemon.

Using controller inputs that were typed into the stream’s chat, the com-mands were translated into actual game inputs.

What ensued was a fan-tastic social experience of what happens when a large group of people set out to complete an objec-tive: chaos.

It seemed most play-ers were fighting to co-ordinate with each other to make progress in the game. Others were there to create disorder and constantly typed “start,” which caused the game to c o n s t a n t -ly pause and hinder other players.

It’s hi-larious to just watch the chat. S o m e t i m e s a stubborn-ly persistent person would work so hard to man-age among the chaos. Writing in caps to get the most attention to his or her noble cause, when a bunch of trolls were just spamming the left com-mand over and over with-out any rhyme or reason.

Chaos among the mass-es is not uncommon. Anything with an anon-ymous community input such as forums, Reddit and wikis all have prob-lems with Internet trolls.

There will always be a majority that wants a project to succeed, but then there are some who just want to watch it burn.

While other endeavors with community input have moderators to keep the evil doers in check, Tw i t c h P l a y s P o k e m o n seems to be set up to revel in the chaos.

Even if all of the trolls were removed, completing Pokémon through Twitch would still be a testament to human patience.

An example of this would be the delay caused by the large amount of inputs.

After some time, a com-mand can take up to 40 seconds, depending on the amount of people watching the steam, to be registered.

A few sections of the game become agonizing to watch as progress is impeded by “accidental-ly” releasing Pokémon and jumping down cliffs.

Regardless if it was in-tentional or not, watching the game tediously devel-op is simultaneously frus-trating and fascinating.

A few spinoffs have sprung up with more Pokémon games and oth-er streams where the Twitch chat room is the controller of a differ-ent classic game. Most notably is the stream R N G P l a y s P o k e m o n , where Pokémon is played through a computer

p u n c h i n g in random inputs.

RNG and Twitch may be difficult to compare. RNG is play-ing Pokémon Crystal and not the orig-inal Red ver-sion, but ran-dom button presses are still to this day trudging, almost pain-

fully, through the game. To make progress fast-

er, the game has been sped up to 600 percent speed and, after 360 days worth of game time so far, have collected 10 out of 18 badges.

The experience of either steam is akin to watch-ing monkeys on type-writers slowly typing out Shakespeare.

Sure, eventually the play is written, but it’s certainly not the most ef-ficient way to do it.

It reminds me that sometimes community in-put isn’t always the best way to go.

Once in a while, to make progress you have to follow your own vision and ignore others.

Tw it ch Play sPokemon shows us that humans in large groups are a danger-ous and hilarious combi-nation. And sometimes, they can even complete objectives.

Though I suppose Congress has been a prime example of that for decades.

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In 1848, the gold rush began in California. Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to California in search of wealth.

California became an official state in 1850, and has quickly risen to the most populous state in the nation, housing about 38 million people.

But times have not been nearly as good for the state since then.

California is estimated to be at $307 billion in debt, the highest amount of debt than any other state, according to the research group Pew Center on the States.

However, State Budget Solutions has reported that California ranks sixth on the list of states that have the highest debt per capita.

This magnitude of debt is the pri-mary reason that Tim Draper, a venture capital investor, has pro-posed that California be broken up into six smaller states. Breaking up California into six separate states is thought by some to help with the current economy.

However, it will have the opposite effect.

Draper’s proposal calls for six new states: Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California (which would in-clude Los Angeles) and South California.

Earlier this week, the initiative re-ceived approval for signature col-lection with the chance of mak-ing it onto the statewide ballot in November. Draper needs to collect 807,000 signatures by November.

This proposal is entirely based on throwing out the whole system of government in California and start-ing over from scratch. This would replace a state and structure that is over 150 years old.

“Sacramento is a monolith. We’re out of touch with it,” said Draper in an interview with the Los Angeles

Times. “By creating six states, we have the ability to become closer to our government.”

California, however, is not the larg-est state in accordance to square footage. If other larger states such as Alaska and Texas are representing their citizens, then so can California. Splitting up California would not be the answer to the problems.

California has long thrived on its economic diversity, an economy that incorporates agriculture, entertain-ment, manufacturing, technology, tourism and so on.

One of the big “pros” that Draper is pushing is that the proposed new six states would share common economies.

West California would be large-ly centered on the entertainment industry, Central California based around the agriculture and farming that occurs there and Silicon Valley would contain giant tech companies, including Apple and Facebook.

Draper has ties to Silicon Valley, which would coincidentally become one of the richest states of the pro-posed six after the split.

On the other hand, Central California would instantly become one of the poorest states in the na-tion, according to the nonpartisan

Legislative Analyst’s office.On the surface, the proposal

seems to be an easy decision to help California out of its daunting debt, but the result would be the complete opposite.

The proposed six smaller states would not be able to handle large encompassing issues that face California frequently, such as water appropriation.

“Six states can have compacts be-tween each other with regard to wa-ter and all these other issues,” Draper said in an interview with the LA Times regarding this issue.

All these other issues? He cited de-tachment from the state government in Sacramento as a reason for the split, but he does not understand the grand nature of “all these other is-sues” that California faces.

If the proposal won the state vote, Congress would have to approve the initiative––adding 10 senators and five more stars to the American flag. This decision by Congress would be unlikely.

Creating six whole new states is not the answer to California’s prob-lems. California and its citizens need to reevaluate the structure of the state government in order for it to be-come more in tune with local issues.

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Americans have made progress toward collective equality when it comes to racial, religious or sexual orientation preferences.

But this past week has provided a little perspective on how slow-moving this re-ality may actually be.

Boy Scouts of America (BSA), one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, have banned “open and avowed” gay adults from being scout leaders.

By doing this, the BSA is giving reasonable cause for its adult leaders to fear

coming out and being confi-dent with who they are.

The BSA is an organi-zation mainly comprised of children, but there are also other youth organiza-tions that promote self-ex-pression, individuality and tolerance.

Disney World announced that BSA has until Jan. 1, 2015 to change its policies on openly homosexual leaders before it cuts the funding it provides the BSA, according to HotAir.com.

Disney’s decision makes a bold statement, and if the BSA does not change its pol-icy, it will account for a $4.8 million loss for the BSA.

“Disney doesn’t direct-ly donate to the Boy Scouts, but plans to stop allow-ing employees to do volun-teer work through Disney’s VoluntEARS program in ex-change for cash donations to the Boy Scouts of America,” according to CNN.

The decision made by Disney World will most likely

cause other organizations to change its policies that dis-criminate against homosex-uals and other marginalized groups.

The BSA said it is “disap-pointed” with Disney World’s decision, and contacted Disney World in hopes of re-solving the issue, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The BSA should be a role-model organization for the young boys it leads, not teach them to discriminate at such a young age.

If the young boy scouts have a gay leader, it doesn’t mean that they will all grow up to be homosexual. It just means they will learn to be more open minded and toler-ant of others.

On May 23, 2013, the BSA’s resolution statement stat-ed, “the approximate 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council approved a resolu-tion to remove the restric-tion denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual

orientation alone.”This means gay youth lead-

ers are still permitted to lead in the Boy Scouts, but the ban on gay adults still remains.

This sends a confusing message that it’s OK to be gay as a youth but some-how it becomes wrong as an adult. Because the BSA is a private organization, they are free to do as they wish and implement policies that they believe in, but the Walt Disney Co. and other compa-nies/organizations are also free to cut funding for these organizations.

“We’re never happy to see Scouting suffer as a result of the BSA’s anti-gay policy, but Disney made the right deci-sion to withhold support un-til Scouting is fully inclusive,” said Zach Wahls, the Eagle Scout and Scouts for Equality co-founder.

This is the time for change, and as long as there are poli-cies promoting discrimina-tion and inequality, progress will be halted.

Not allowing gay adults into the BSA sends the wrong message

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I was packed and ready to go. I drove down to Los Angeles International Airport, said my goodbyes and soon flew over a vast ocean to a country I had never been to in my life.

I am studying abroad in South Korea on a four-month journey to explore the country and learn about video production and edit-ing for my communications major. I always wanted to study abroad and I picked this particular program two years ago.

As I stood in line at the security checkpoint, I watched my friend have a five-pound jar of peanut butter taken away by the Transportation Security Administration. That amount of peanut butter is apparently not allowed on a plane.

I met up with the rest of the students that were trav-eling with me and boarded the plane in a trance. I was preparing for the 14-hour plane ride ahead of me.

While on the plane, I pulled out the tray-table in front of me and was in and out of consciousness for the first four or five hours of the trip. I only woke up to wipe the drool from the side of my mouth and eat the com-plementary food the hostess brought to me.

To take my mind off of the long plane ride, I listened to music, edited videos and watched Korean films. The plane was showing one of the greatest Korean mov-ies I have ever seen; Hope in English and 소원 in Korean, which translates to “wish.”

I thought it was a well-do-ne movie, but extremely sad. I had tears running down my eyes and was hoping the guy sitting next to me didn’t notice I was crying.

A few tear drops and short naps later, I had ar-rived in South Korea. The group of students and I got off the plane and waited in the airport for our bus. I was traveling with Dean Kazoleas, Ph.D., the direc-tor in charge of making the trip and everything else possible, and the other Cal State Fullerton students who are studying abroad

with me. After sitting through a

long bus ride, I arrived at the school I would be at-tending for the next four months, Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts (DIMA).

We arrived in South Korea on Feb. 23 and went to an amazing opening ceremony for DIMA the next day. Four exchange students and I sat among thousands of Korean DIMA freshman students.

I sat, staring at the large stage light up with an ar-ray of colorful lights. DIMA students were using dozens of cameras to broadcast the

show live on the internet. Two ceremony hosts pre-

sented and cracked jokes, although I had no clue what they were saying, but I smiled anyway. This was shortly followed with a performance by a famous K-pop band called Block B, and then an illusionist who created the illusion of turn-ing a digitized bird on an iPad into a real living bird that flew around the stage and then returned back to the digital realm.

At one point during the ceremony, a spotlight was put on us and we were in-troduced to thousands of students. It was kind of em-barrassing, but amazing at the same time.

I came back to my dorm that night, jumped in my bed and stared at the ceil-ing. I realized I was over 5,700 miles away from home, in a country where I can’t really speak the lan-guage, but loved it.

Since then, it has been one adventure after the next, so much has already happened, and there are many more stories to tell.

Moving into the future

A different approach to the world of Autism

ExploringIn South Korea

Student embarks on four month journey

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RTVF major begins his venture as a foregin exchange student

Adrian Iniguez is the sole mechanical engineer on the team and is largely respon-sible for the physical mech-anism of the system. In the coming months, Iniguez said, he hopes to fine-tune the movements in the arm to allow for movement of the individual fingers.

“It’s tough, but it’s also … good because it plays a lit-tle more to my skills, and a little more towards what I have to do in the future,” Iniguez said. “And also, be-cause I did that, other peo-ple learned what I had to do, and I learned what oth-er people had to do.”

The crossover of a vari-ety of disciplines offered an opportunity to learn infor-mation that would not have been taught in his normal major course, Iniguez said. The students comprising the team have majors that range from computer sci-ence to mechanical engi-neering and each skill set was required to get the project to where it is now.

“(Working with a varied group has) been incredibly helpful,” Donze said. “It’s the same thing when you bring on an electrical engi-neer and all the other disci-plines, now you have more people who can do more specific things.”

The group is led by asso-ciate professor of computer engineering Kiran George, Ph.D. One of the aspects of this project that makes it both incredibly valuable and important, George said, is the fact that it has the potential to provide a service to a group of people who would receive tremen-dous benefit as a result.

“This is a real-world problem, this is not a text-book problem,” George said. “Say, for example …

patients with ALS can re-ally use the system … so this is our way to give back to the community, the society.”

George said he is wast-ing no time in getting his team ready to tackle those real-world issues. The team will meet with patients suf-fering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

ALS is a degenerative dis-ease that affects nerves in the brain and spinal cord, eventually causing paral-ysis as the brain becomes incapable of sending motor signals through the spine and to the muscles, accord-ing to the ALS Association’s website.

George said working with the ALS Association is one way the group can use the project to give back and how it’s going to help peo-ple. The partnership would also provide the students with some real-world con-text to their work, to add to the lab work that the proj-ect demands so much of.

“My goal for them (for be-ing involved with the asso-ciation) is to get a context of what they’re doing, be-cause otherwise it’s just a lab project,” George said. “I want it to go beyond that because only then can they (understand) why they’re doing it, how it’s going to help somebody.”

As the group starts work-ing with patients, however, development on the project will continue.

While mechanical arms currently available can range from $10,000 to $15,000, George said his ultimate goal is to have a device that is both afford-able and widely accessi-ble for patients around the world.

“What I envision is a … product, probably less than $500, that anybody could

afford,” George said. “Our goal is to have the design available for use across the globe, such that the design can be printed using a 3-D printer and assembled for

use immediately.”While fully robotic suits

may remain in comic books and movies, CSUF now has its own piece of working science fiction on campus.

Throughout the rest of high school, Rierson be-came involved in other non-profit autism programs such as Best Buddies and Circle of Friends.

Best Buddies is an orga-nization that creates in-tegrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and opportunities for one-to-one friendships. Circle of Friends establishes friend-ships between students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers.

Rierson was president of Circle of Friends, so nat-urally by the time she en-rolled at CSUF, she was more than ready to take on the position of president for Autism Speaks U.

Autism Speaks is the na-tion’s largest autism science and advocacy organization. It is dedicated to fund re-search into the causes, pre-vention and treatments for autism.

Launched in 2008, the program is designed to sup-port college students in their awareness, advocacy and fundraising efforts for Autism Speaks.

The chapter held nu-merous events for autism awareness, such as bowl-ing nights, car washes, pub crawls and organized char-ity-driven walks.

The overwhelming suc-cess the events have yielded has been a particularly re-warding aspect for Rierson, and seeing new faces com-ing out for the cause en-courages her to continue to strive to do whatever she can for Autism Speaks.

The events and fund-raisers give those who come out a chance to really

understand what it means for someone to be affected by autism, how the disorder ranges from person to per-son and the fact that not ev-ery person who has autism is violent or mute.

“Autism is a spectrum disorder. I feel as though a lot of people think that it’s the same, that everyone is the same, and I feel like if people have that view, which a lot of people might, it distorts the whole image of who these people are,” Rierson said.

Autism is a disorder that affects people differently by affecting their ability to communicate or vocalize their thoughts or emotions, according to the CSUF Autism Speaks U website. The disorder impacts them socially so they might not

be able to have the most typical social development with their peers or with their behaviors.

The CSUF chapter is made up of over 65 mem-bers. Many of the members do work that helps educate children and adults about autism.

The board’s vice pres-ident, Tiffany Aschas, a communicative disorders major, said she is familiar with work involving chil-dren. She is the author of a children’s book, titled Most Exceptional, M.E.

Aschas said the book is geared towards those af-fected by autism and for those with special needs. It is intended to be motiva-tional and practical.

Despite Autism Speaks U’s effort in promoting

awareness, many peo-ple with autism remain misunderstood.

Chelsea Krueger, the vol-unteer chair of Autism Speaks U, said it’s important to make others understand that autism isn’t a “disease,” and it is more of a blessing because these children and adults have a different ap-proach to the world than we do. Sometimes their ap-proach is more beautiful than ours, and sometimes we need to step out of our boxes, Krueger said.

With Autism Awareness Month coming up in April, the chapter hopes to orga-nize exciting events to en-gage the CSUF community, and continue the tradition of lighting up CSUF with blue lights for the “Light It Up Blue” event.

Adrian Iniguez, a mechanical engineer, hopes to fine-tune movements of the robotic arm.

MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan

Volunteers from a variety of majors work together to produce an affordable robotic arm that would be accessible world-wide.

MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan

AUTISMContinued from PAGE 1

ROBOTContinued from PAGE 1

Four students voyage to South Korea to take classes towards their majors at Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts.

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The sign above a bakery in downtown Fullerton reads, “Hapa Cupcakes: Alcohol-infused desserts.”

The bakery, known for creating traditional treats with a twist, is now making its mark in the popu-lar Fullerton area.

Hapa Cupcakes is owned by Akemi Lee, 28, and Hanayo Martin, 27. Growing up in bi-racial fami-lies, the pair wanted to embrace two different cultures by creating a business that applies two different elements.

Lee said they wanted something different, but still about the both of them. “Hapa means when you’re a mixed race; both of our moms are Japanese and both of our dads are Caucasian,” she said.

Since their parents are best friends, the two grew up together and have been best friends since childhood.

Lee and Martin created their company in 2011 and moved their store to downtown Fullerton in January 2014. Business has been good for the owners so far.

The busiest days of the week for the bakery are Fridays and Saturdays, but mostly Saturdays when they get over 160 customers. On other days of the week, they get around 80 customers.

The duo rely on each other’s skills to make the bakery successful.

“Hanayo is really the brains be-hind the baking and the creat-ing,” Lee said. “She came out of her mom’s womb with a cupcake in her hand; she’s been baking her entire life.”

Martin used to make desserts for her girlfriends on any holiday and on “girls’ nights.”

Lee and Martin, both Cal State Fullerton graduates, put their

passions together to build the company.

Lee graduated from CSUF in 2010 with a business degree in fi-nance, and always wanted to own her own business. Martin, who graduated from CSUF in 2011 with an advertising degree, handles the social media and advertising as-pects of the company.

The idea of creating alcohol-in-fused cupcakes started when they thought of mixing alcohol into the treats—all while drinking champagne.

“I feel like you actually go to get a cupcake. These are really fluffy, so you get the original cupcake,” Lee said. “Cupcakes and cakes are very different. A cupcake is supposed to be very light and moist and fluffy; cakes are more dense.”

Lee and Martin bake in a

commercial kitchen where they first started their company in Anaheim. They put the alcohol in the batter right before it’s put in the oven, so there is a small amount that stays in the cupcakes once they’re ready for sale.

Hapa Cupcakes also offers non-alcoholic cupcakes. The alco-hol content in the other cupcakes is insignificant and is not enough to make someone intoxicated.

“I always get a hint of it at the very end,” Lee said.

Hapa Cupcakes also makes sea-sonal cupcakes that have alco-hol in the batter as well as in the frosting.

Available in March, the Bailey’s Cupcake will have Bailey’s Irish Cream liqueur frosting. For St. Patrick’s Day, a new cupcake will be offered that has Guinness

beer in a chocolate cupcake with Bailey’s Irish Cream liqueur frost-ing on top.

“We did it last year, and every-body loved it, so we’re doing it again this year,” Lee said.

Starting a business can be the most difficult in the beginning, so it requires a lot of work and time.

Anna De Anda, 22, the store’s cake decorator, has worked at Hapa Cupcakes since it opened in January.

De Anda makes about three to five cakes a week and hundreds of cupcakes a day. She does most of the decorating for the cupcakes and makes all of the cakes and also makes custom orders, front-of-the-house cakes and the finishing touches.

Although De Anda spends a lot of time making cupcakes, she said

she loves working at the store.“It’s something different because

it’s not just cakes, it’s cupcakes too. It’s not just your typical cupcake, it’s alcohol-infused cupcakes,” De Anda said. “It’s going really great so far.”

Lee and Martin, along with two other workers and the cake decora-tor, stay up late to bake and deco-rate through the night and some-times wake up at 4 a.m. to start.

Lee said business has been bus-ier since their move to downtown Fullerton.

“Valentine’s Day was crazy. Typically, every time there’s a hol-iday, it gets busier,” she said. “With cupcakes, I feel like people always celebrate for anything.”

For more information on Hapa Cupcakes and its flavors, visit HapaCupcakes.com.

One of the alcohol infused cupcakes, called “Will you Remember Me in the Morning?” is made with cinnamon sugar and Kahlua coffee liqueur.AMAL ROCKN / Daily Titan

Bakery serves up unique treats in downtown Fullerton

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Hapa Cupcakes is owned by CSUF gradutes, Akemi Lee and Hanayo Martin

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Kisling followed the error with an infield single to put runners on first and sec-ond with one out. However, senior pitcher Stephanie Pesqueira fought her way out of the jam to keep the game tied at one.

Antunez ran into trouble in the third inning. Junior left fielder Kayla Henry reached on a bunt single. Junior center fielder Haley Walker reached on an error by sophomore second base-man Samantha Galarza. It was Galarza’s first error of the season.

Freshman second base-man Camree Wartman sin-gled to advance the run-ners and Barak reached on a fielder’s choice that drove in Henry. Junior first base-man Lauren Regester hit an RBI single, which prompted Head Coach Kelly Ford to pull Antunez.

Ford gave the ball to freshman Christina Washington. She was able to get out of the inning with minimal damage but the Antelopes had a 4-1 lead.

The Titans rallied back in the bottom of the fourth in-ning. Freshman first base-man Melissa Sechrest led off the inning with a dou-ble down the left field line. Mario hit a two-run home run, which was her second of the season.

After a single by Kisling, Antelope Head Coach Ann Pierson gave the ball to freshman Taylor Nowlin. Senior left fielder Leesa Harris hit a triple that drove in Kisling. Taukeiaho hit a two-run home run to give the Titans the 6-4 lead.

“I really just told myself that I want to get a pitch,” Taukeiaho said. “I was just looking for a fat one and wasn’t trying to do too much.”

Pierson pulled Nowlin af-ter failing to get an out. She gave the ball to sophomore Kelly Regester. Tsuchiyama followed with a single and Crawford hit a triple to drive her in. The Titans came out of the fourth in-ning with a 7-4 lead.

Business picked up in the sixth inning. After walking Kailey Regester, Washington allowed three hits in a row that brought

in two runs. Ford turned to sophomore Monique Wesley to get the Titans back on track. Wesley got out of the inning only al-lowing one inherited run to even the game at seven.

Regester walked Taukeiaho, who advanced two bases on wild pitch-es. Crawford hit a two-out home run to put the Titans on top 9-7.

“Tonight I was just look-ing for all outside and fo-cusing on getting my front arm through and just hit-ting it,” Crawford said.

Wesley shut the Antelopes down in the top of the seventh and the Titans picked up their sec-ond win in a row.

“I’m so excited right now. These two back to back games before the Judi Garman were 10 times more worthwhile than two prac-tices,” Ford said. “The girls got back on track and a lot of obstacles were thrown at them the last 24 hours, and they just handled it.”

The Titans will open up the Judi Garman Classic against San Jose State Thursday night at Anderson Family Field.

Titans hope Hawai’i provides paradise

CSUF seeking higher seed for tournament

Softball blasts their way to a win over Grand Canyon

SOFTBALLContinued from PAGE 1

The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team will look to continue its recent success and finish the regular season with some mo-mentum as they prepare for the final two games of its season against UC Irvine and Hawai’i.

The Titans (11-17, 6-8 Big West) are win-ners of two straight after defeating Cal State Northridge and Long Beach State.

Senior guard Michael Williams, the Big West Conference Player of the Week, has played an integral role in CSUF’s strong fin-ish to the season.

Williams, who leads the Titans in scor-ing with an average of 17.9 points per game, was key in the last two victories. Williams is averaging 25.5 points, including a 28-point performance against the 49ers as the Titans rallied from a double-digit deficit on their way to a win.

Junior forward Steve McClellan will be key against opponents who are strong in the post. Averaging 6.3 points and six rebounds per game, McClellan will have to avoid foul trouble to help his team on both ends of the floor.

After a tough start to Big West play, the Titans have played well as of late, winning four of their last six games. As a team, CSUF averages 68.4 points for the season, but over the last six games, has averaged 75.3 points.

First up this week for the Titans is a show-down with Big West leader UCI on Thursday at 7 p.m., the last game at Titan Gym this season.

UCI (20-10, 11-3 Big West) comes into the matchup on Thursday having won seven of its last eight games. Freshman guard Luke Nelson leads the Anteaters in scoring with 12.1 points per game. Backcourt mate Chris McNealy is second on the team with 11.6

points per game while averaging 4.6 assists.One player that will not be hard to miss

is freshman center Mamadou Ndiaye. Standing at a towering seven-foot-six, the center from Senegal will pose a challenge for the Titans in the post.

Averaging 8.4 points and six rebounds in 21.1 minutes per game, Ndiaye leads the Big West with a 73.2 field goal percentage and is a force defensively, leading the conference with 3.1 blocks per game.

Earlier this season, the Anteaters hand-ed the Titans a 72-54 defeat. CSUF trailed by 16 at halftime and was never able to get back into the game despite 18 points from Williams. UCI dominated the points in the paint, holding a 38-18 advantage.

The Anteaters have won four straight against CSUF.

On Saturday, the Titans will travel to Hawai’i for their final regular-season game. Tipoff is scheduled for 9 p.m.

The Rainbow Warriors (19-9, 8-6 Big West) have lost two of their last three games and are looking to position themselves for a good seed in the conference tournament.

Defense will be key for the Titans as Hawai’i is the highest scoring team in the conference, averaging 79.9 points a game.

Hawai’i is led by Christian Standhardinger, who is averaging 17.8 points per game. The German forward also leads the team on the boards with 8.2 rebounds per game. Sophomore forward Issac Fotu comes in averaging 15.4 points per game on 59.8 percent shooting, good for third in the conference.

Earlier this season, the Titans lost to the Rainbow Warriors 83-30 in their Homecoming match. After CSUF led for most of the game, Hawai’i made a run late in the game to take the lead. Alex Harris scored a game-high 29 points but his potentially game-tying three-pointer was off the mark as time expired.

With their win last week over rival Long Beach State, the Titans clinched a spot in the Big West Conference Tournament, which starts Thursday March 13 at the Honda Center in Anaheim.

The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team wraps up its regular sea-son this weekend with games against UC Irvine and Hawai’i.

The Titans (11-16, 7-7 Big West) are coming off a vic-tory over rival Long Beach State.

A career performance by junior forward Kathleen Iwuoha contributed to the win.

She had a career-high 25 points to go with 12 re-bounds after shooting 69 percent from the field.

UC Irvine (14-14, 7-7 Big West) enters the week tied with CSUF and Long Beach State for fifth place in the Big West Conference.

The Anteaters are 8-2 at the Bren Events Center and are 5-1 in conference play at the arena.

The Anteaters are led by senior forward Camille Buckley, who recently surpassed Titan senior guard Alex Thomas as the Big West scoring leader during conference play.

The Loyola Marymount transfer is averaging 21 points per game in con-ference play and has won Big West Player of the Week three times this sea-son. Buckley also leads the conference with 11.2

rebounds per game.The Titans rank last in

the conference in points per game with 61.6 and the Anteaters rank second in that category with 72.9 points per game.

The Titans also rank last in the conference in field goal percentage and three-point shooting percentage.

The two teams met ear-lier this season at Titan Gym where the Titans won 75-58.

The Anteaters struggled shooting in that game, only making four out of 22 three-point attempts.

Senior guard Jennifer Tsurumoto was the only Irvine player who had double figures, with 18 points.

The Titans shot an im-pressive 50 percent from the field and 38.2 percent from three-point range in the win.

Junior guard Tailer Butler made a season-high six three-pointers, and Thomas led all scorers with 22 points.

The Titans wrap up their regular season Saturday night against Hawai’i at Titan Gym.

Hawai’i (15-11, 9-5 Big West) sits in third place in the conference, and has a chance to pass Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to move into second place with two wins and a Cal Poly loss.

The two teams played earlier this season at the Stan Sheriff Center.

The Rainbow Wahine beat the Titans 65-52 in that game.

The Titans failed to make a three-point shot in that game on 14 attempts.

Iwuoha had a game high 10 rebounds and Thomas had a game-high 25 points.

The Rainbow Wahine shot 45.5 percent from the field in that game.

They were led by fresh-man guard Briana Harris who scored 14 points and shot a perfect five-for-five from the field.

The Hawai’i bench scored 23 points com-pared to the Titan bench that scored one point.

Hawai’i is second in the Big West in rebounds during conference play with 42.4 rebounds per game.

Senior forward Kamilah Jackson leads the team in rebounding with 9.7 re-bounds per contest.

Thomas is 21 points shy of 1,000 for her career.

The senior guard is aver-aging 20.9 points per game in conference play, which is second in the Big West.

The Titans will hon-or their three seniors: Thomas, Mya Oliver and Brianna Barfield before the game Saturday against Hawai’i.

It is the team’s last game in Titan Gym be-fore starting the Big West Tournament next week at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach.

For more informa-tion on the CSUF wom-en’s basketball team and all Titan Athletics go to FullertonTitans.com.

JOHNNY NAVARRETTEDaily Titan

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