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Comm faculty support editorial

A murderous love for carnivorous plants

The journey from India toward Intel

The American pitcher plant (above) is just one of the campuses genus of carnivorous plants within the Biology Greenhouse Complex. The plant is a passive trap but when insects enter it, they’re sucked dry by digestive enzymes and exoskeleton.

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Faculty of the Department of Communications unani-mously voted Friday to adopt a resolution supporting the Daily Titan editorial “Trans-parency? Not at CSUF,” pub-lished April 23.

The resolution created by the Department of Commu-nications was to thank the Academic Senate for its sup-port of the Daily Titan and to voice their own support, said Jason Shepard, Ph.D., chair of the department.

The April 23 editorial called for a better exchange between CSUF’s Strategic Communications department and student journalists. The Academic Senate passed its own resolution April 23 sup-porting the Daily Titan and its call for increased trans-parency throughout the university.

“I think our faculty believe the office of Strategic Com-munications has demeaned, belittled and attacked our stu-dents for many years and we stand behind the Daily Ti-tan in letting the public know about the lack of transparen-cy they face on a regular ba-sis,” Shepard said.

Originally the idea of the resolution was proposed by Mel Opotowsky, a communi-cations lecturer and long-time journalist who, along with Shepard, brought it to the fac-ulty meeting last Friday.

Resolution shows support for more transparency

STEPHANIE GOMEZDaily Titan

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A rusted, covert side gate leads to the Biology Green-house Complex. The mis-sion—to fulfill a murderous love affair with the dozens of carnivorous plants nested within Cal State Fullerton’s campus.

Quietly, hundreds of va-rieties of flowers, shrubs and trees sit, unruffled, void of human life. Most don’t move without the help of wind, but

some don’t even need that.Found tending one of

CSUF’s few grown corpse flowers, Edward Read, the Biology Greenhouse Com-plex’s instructional support technician and manager of the complex prepares for another reeking bloom, the stench of a stinky cat, he described.

Read claimed he doesn’t talk to plants, but as he skill-fully guided the way through rows and rooms of the green-house, through plants he’s grown, traded or bred him-self, it’s easy to think other-wise. The first stop was the American pitcher plant, sci-entifically known as the Sar-raceniaceae, native to south-east U.S. all the way up to

Canada. Long tubular stalks shoot up from their pots. Some have burgundy blos-soms, some with different patterns of white and purple, vein-like openings where its handsome colors and pat-terns curl into a deadly, pen-dulous trap.

Passive is hardly the word to describe the pitcher’s trap. It produces a sweet nectar, from its glands to attract in-sects, luring them to the lid where downward pointing hairs nudge the bug closer to the opening and down into a waxy walled pitfall. The in-sects feet glob up with wax as they struggle to escape, plunging deeper into the stalk with the help of inward hairs, jamming them further

down into their demise. “For demonstrations, I

like to do a Sarracenia au-topsy,” Read said. Some-times, the plants green tube becomes almost black with all the insects it’s caught.

They get most of their energy through sunlight, “which is the coolest thing about plants,” but they use insects to supplement what they don’t get from their roots, Read said. Read has seen up to 100 or 200 in-sects caught in a pitcher. “Some of them get full of ants, you lose count, be-cause all you see is body parts ... ‘body part soup,’” he said.

Carnivorous plants feast on more than just sunlight

FIONA PITTDaily Titan

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Two cousins, Elango Dhanasekaran, 23, and Navina Rajendran, 21, are from a southern state near the tip of India called, Tamil Nadu. They left their hometown to pursue mas-ter’s degrees in comput-er engineering at Cal State Fullerton. Dhanasekaran makes computer chips and Rajendran wants to get into the business of cellphone signals.

The journey from Tam-il Nadu to Fullerton has the cousins missing certain hometown remedies, how-ever, the new Southern Cal-ifornia residents have been able to find a shimmer of familiarity in the air.

“I feel like I am in my hometown because we en-joy the same climate as here,” Rajendran said.

Mainly known for its climate, the cousins said Tamil Nadu has many tourists. Typically 40 per-cent of tourists from Aus-tralia go for the weather,

Rajendran said “You’ll find more flo-

ral. Its a greenish land and we have less pollution,” Dhanasekaran said about their hometown.

Climate wasn’t the only compliment the cousins had for their hometown. The variety of culture is even greater than the “melt-ing pot” California so often claims. One of the biggest differences Rajendran has

noticed since coming to Fullerton was the surpris-ing lack of diversity com-pared to her hometown, she said.

“We have more heritage and culture. We have a lot of temples, which have a history that goes back around 2,000 years 5,000 years back,” Dhanasekaran said.

In Tamil Nadu, there are approximately 100 different

cultures and more languag-es, Rajendran said.

“There, there’s more lin-guistics around me. Here I think English and Span-ish are the major languag-es, but back in my country there are a number of lo-cal languages,” Rajendran said.

Back in India, every-body is associated with family, here they are in-dependent, Dhanasekaran

said. Dhanasekaran’s fa-ther is a professor and mother a homemaker. He would practice cricket on his spare time back home but said that in India, stud-ies are the most important thing.

“In India (sports) is not a career it’s just a hob-by. Here it’s a career,” Dhanasekaran said.

Rajendran was also a volleyball player but

stopped to concentrate on her education. Sports are something to do only in spare time, she said. “In India (sports) is not our ambition,” Dhanasekaran said.

“Here the people can do anything. Anything means you can sing in the road at 12 p.m., but India it is not possi-ble,” Dhanasekaran said.

Two cousins take on new culture and new cuisine

RYAN TILLMANFor the Daily Titan

Navina Rajendran (center) is currently working on her master’s degree in computer engineering with her cousin.

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Haze clouds smoking ban Questions remain two years after smoking ban

ALEX GROVESDaily Titan

Nearly every day classes are in session at Cal State Fullerton, puffs of smoke fill the air from multiple students gathered outside the Humanities Building to smoke cigarettes and e-cigarettes.

It’s been a common scene for multiple semes-ters despite the fact that a smoking ban was imple-mented on campus nearly two years ago, in August 2013.

Smokers on campus ha-ven’t been given tickets, they haven’t been fined and they haven’t been put on probation for smoking violations.

Rather, Cal State Fuller-ton has relied on a system of outreach efforts by using organized groups of stu-dents to spread information about the ban and about various smoking cessation programs, said universi-ty spokesman Christopher Bugbee in an email.

Programs such as the Fresh Air Advocate pro-gram have been in place since the ban began.

The peer enforcement program uses a dedicated group of students who walk the campus, take notes about smoking violations and distribute materials such as gum packets and brochures, Bugbee said.

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Rajendran and her cousin, Elango Dhanasekaran’s hometown of Tamil Nadu, India. The cousins said the state is rich with history, languages, heritage and temples.

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The Governor of Maryland has de-clared a state of emer-gency and imposed a curfew in Baltimore after protesters vi-olently clashed with police Monday, CNN reported.

Gov. Larry Hogan activated the Nation-al Guard after the pro-tests sparked by the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died in police custody last week of a spinal inju-ry, turned violent, with protesters throwing rocks at police.

The riots erupted on the same day as Gray’s funeral.

Video shows rioters looting stores and, in one case, setting fire to a CVS Pharmacy.

The riots came af-ter Baltimore Police received threats that gangs in the area had planned to work togeth-er to attack officers.

A Long Beach family is calling for a U.S. Depart-ment of Justice investi-gation into the death of their family member, an unarmed man shot and killed by Long Beach police, the LA Times reported.

Hector Morejon was killed Thursday in Long Beach, after an officer thought he was pointing a gun at police during a trespassing and vandal-ism incident. Morejon’s family is calling for an in-vestigation to determine why he was shot.

Long Beach police reported that they re-ceived calls that multiple people were trespass-ing and vandalizing a va-cant apartment, and re-sponded to find a man inside the apartment. Po-lice say the man turned toward them and the of-ficer thought he had a gun.

There were no weap-ons found at the scene.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested on sus-picion of murder after a firebombing of a South El Monte tire shop killed three and injured a fire-fighter, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Roberto Fuentes was taken into custody by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies Sunday.

The fire started at Cheque Tires Saturday after someone reported-ly threw a Molotov cock-tail into the business and then drove away.

There had been a par-ty at the shop the Friday before the firebombing, and detectives are at-tempting to determine whether there is any connection between the party and the fire.

Fuentes was arrested after detectives viewed footage from a security camera near the shop.

Both say this is the first time they recall a resolution like this being created.

The document titled “ Res-olution in Support of the Dai-ly Titan” listed several state-ments including:

• Whereas the faculty of the Department of Com-munications believes that more cooperative engage-ment by university admin-istrators with student jour-nalists will result in better public relations for the university.

• Whereas the faculty of the Department of Com-munications has provid-ed the university adminis-tration with many pages of documentation of rude, dis-missive, hostile and evasive treatment of its students by the office of Strategic Com-munications dating back to at least 2010.

The previous department chair, Diane Witmer, Ph.D.,

spent significant amounts of time trying to resolve the is-sues between students, facul-ty and Strategic Communi-cations Shepard said, and the faculty were provided docu-ments of the attempts to re-solve these issues.

Documents including mul-tiple emails from Christopher Bugbee, Director of Media Relations, were considered when faculty were creating the resolution. One email sent from Bugbee to a student re-porter said, “It’s not your tone, or your angle or your edge that I find problematic. It’s your in-competence as a reporter.”

Concern for the poor treat-ment of student journalists and poor quality of public relations from the Depart-ment of Strategic Commu-nications were among the reasons the resolution was created, Shepard said.

During the meeting a sug-gestion was raised to name a committee to monitor President Mildred García’s

response to these issues and follow up if necessary, Opo-towsky said.

“I hope the resolution sends a clear message that the department of commu-nication values strong inde-pendent student journalism and proactive strategic com-munications from the uni-versity,” Shepard said.

The faculty was over-whelmingly supportive of the Daily Titan bringing these issues to the public’s attention, Shepard said.

“I think this not just a problem for the Daily Ti-tan but it’s a problem for our image at the university. We should be open and the pub-lic has a right to that infor-mation,” Opotowsky said.

Opotowsky’s hope is that García will make signifi-cant changes in direction and personnel, and that uni-versity officials will be given direction to provide request-ed documents and answers from the media.

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Communications: Department passes support for editorial

Forums begin in search for Arts dean

Dale Merrill, currently dean of the College of Performing Arts at Chapman University, spoke Monday during an open forum as a candidate for the new dean for the College of the Arts. Merrill is the first of four candidates being considered for the position. Each candidate will present this week.

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The first open forum for the new dean of the College of the Arts was held Monday, and featured Dale Merrill, the current dean of the College of Performing Arts at Chapman University.

Merrill is the first of four candidates for the position, all of whom will be visiting throughout the week.

Merrill said he was re-ferred for the position by dean of the College of the Arts at Cal State Long Beach, Cyrus Parker-Jeannette.

Merrill is interested in working at Cal State Fuller-ton because it has a larger and more diverse student body than Chapman University, he said.

It is important that CSUF continues the legacy of lead-ership as one of the top high-er education institution for the visual and performing arts, Merrill said.

“There is legacy here, and people know about it,” he said. “Promoting that legacy would be really important to me.”

He said CSUF should

engage in not only develop-ing innovative practices, but also sharing them with oth-ers to expand its community involvement through devel-oping new partnerships and relationships.

He also mentioned that, as dean, he would look into up-grading facilities and technol-ogy at CSUF and would like to work to bring attention to the achievements of the uni-versity’s College of the Arts.

During the Q&A session, Merrill was asked to describe his management style.

Merrill said he believes in collaboration and transpar-ency among employees, and strives to use data to drive de-cision making, he said.

During his presentation, Merrill spoke about the issues art students and faculty face. In particular, he discussed the problem of validation and assessment.

He said art students often don’t get enough recognition for the work they do, because it is assumed to be fun and easy.

“The thing about validation and assessment is this mis-taken assumption that study-ing arts in college is fun and easy and anybody can do it,” he said. “It is fun, but it takes an incredible amount of work and incredible amount of passion.”

He also emphasized that

education should not be per-ceived as simply a way to get a job, but should be viewed as a life-long endeavor.

“You’re learning how to learn, you’re learning how to research, you’re learning how to critically think, and that’s going to last you your whole life,” he said.

Merrill said, right now, stu-dents’ success is measured by their effective employment. Instead, he said, it should be measured by important things like knowledge, com-prehension, application and analysis.

Jim Taulli, Interim Dean of the College of the Arts, said the College of the Arts has been on the same road for many years, and it has been a very successful practice. It is time for the next step, he said, and bringing in a dean from outside CSUF could allow the college to reap the benefits of a fresh perspective.

“I just believe, from my per-spective, it is time for some-one who has a brand new en-ergy, a brand new innovative (way of) thinking who might be able to take the college to a brand new place,” he said.

The search committee will continue holding open forums Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2-3 p.m. in Steven G. Mihaylo Hall room 3230 for the remaining three finalists.

First candidate is current faculty member at Chapman

SVETLANA GUKINADaily Titan

The university spent roughly $30,000 during the first year of the ban, a num-ber that then fell to $15,000 during the current academic year.

The initial expenditures included startup costs for the program to put up campus signage and provide a web link for students to report instances of smoking viola-tions, John Beisner, director of risk management for the Department of Environmen-tal Health and Safety, said in an e-mail.

From the start of the 2015 until April 8, 11 smoking vi-olations have been reported on the website. More than 70 violations have been made over the near-two year pe-riod the website has been available to students.

Beisner said such meth-ods have proven effective, but declined to elaborate about how.

Daniel Contreras, 20, a music major, is one of many students who smoke outside the Humanities Building. He said he has never been approached by a Fresh Air Advocate.

Contreras isn’t alone. All student smokers inter-viewed on a single day in the area behind Humanities said they had never been told they couldn’t smoke behind Humanities.

Contreras comes to the back of the Humanities build-ing on a daily basis to enjoy a cigarette and the area can get busy when he’s there; on a regular basis he’ll see any-where between five and 20 people lighting up, he said.

Kevin Tran, 23, an English major said he finds the smok-ing ban regulations unclear and thinks the area behind Humanities is an appropri-ate location to smoke, since it doesn’t appear that anyone enforces the ban there.

“At first I was kind of iffy because I thought it was banned and that they would regulate it or some-thing,” Tran said. “But after a while, smoking by myself, I thought, ‘I don’t think they

really care.’” Tran said he asked oth-

er smokers behind Human-ities if it was OK to smoke and was assured by students and teachers alike that it was OK and that the ban was not enforced.

Reyes Fidalgo, Ph.D., a Spanish professor and chair of the department of Modern Languages and Literature, said she is not against a ban but oppos-es the ambivalence of of-ficials when it comes to enforcement.

When the ban was first be-ing proposed by the Academic Senate, Fidalgo stood against it when others said it would be beneficial to students and staff. She said she worried about the funding of the ban and its ef-fectiveness. The ban was ulti-mately approved unanimously by the Senate.

“My main concern then was I did not see how we could reinforce the ban,” Fidalgo said. “To do that, first of all, you cannot just punish the people; you have to give them programs that make them aware of the dangers of smoking.”

Fidalgo, who said she would like to see a clear-er enforcement body in place for the ban, has stood against proposed enforce-ment alternatives, such as probation for students who are caught smoking, she said.

Fidalgo believes that for the ban to be effec-tive, there needs to be a conversation about what could make it better and follow through to make it happen.

“If we went so far as to put this together, what are

we going to do next?” Fidalgo said. “Because to have it only in title, makes no sense.”

Beisner, who took more than a month and a half to

answer questions directly after first sending the Dai-ly Titan to Media Relations Director Christopher Bug-bee, declined to answer Daily

Titan questions about wheth-er there is a need for expan-sion of programs as well as questions specific to the situ-ation behind Humanities.

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Students smoke behind the Humanities Building. Some student smokers said they thought the area was an appropriate space to smoke, or that they were unaware of the ban.

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Smoking: Enforcement questionedCONTINUED FROM 1

March 4, 2015• Daily Titan news editor Alex Groves

requests an interview with John Beisner, executive director of risk management for the office of Environmental Health and Safety on the smoking ban that went into effect in August 2013.

March 4, 2015• Christopher Bugbee, Cal State Fullerton’s

director of Media Relations, asks Groves to send him questions and begins to faciliate Groves’ inquiry.

March 9, 2015• Groves submits questions to Christopher

Bugbee. March 9, 2015

• Bugbee tells Groves to not expect answers until March 13 or following week.

March 24, 2015• Answers to questions have still not

arrived. Groves asks about status of answers, as almost three weeks had passed since initial interview request.

March 24, 2015• Bugbee tells Groves answers likely will

come that week.

April 6, 2015• Answers have still not arrived. Groves

requests status update regarding answers to his questions.

April 6, 2015• Bugbee tells Groves answers will arrive by

April 7 or 8. April 8, 2015

• Still no answers by end of business day. Groves emails Beisner directly and copies administrators.

April 8, 2015• Groves receives answers to questions from

Bugbee one hour and 44 minutes after email to Beisner and administrators. Answers are short, lack context and are provided with disclaimer, which states that answers, “may neither be quoted nor attributed to specific individuals without negotiation case by case.”

April 8, 2015• Groves requests attribution from Bugbee. April 8, 2015• Bugbee tells Groves he must identify the

material he wishes to quote and attribute.April 9, 2015• Groves requests attribution to a specific

individual and Bugbee denies him that.

April 9, 2015• Groves requests in-person interview

with Beisner for “reaction quotes,” in accordance with Strategic Communications’ policy.

April 9, 2015• Bugbee states Groves must submit

questions by email. April 10, 2015• Groves submits questions. April 13, 2015• Bugbee states it will be Tuesday or

Wednesday before Beisner can review questions.

April 24, 2015• Beisner returns responses via email “in

interest of time.” He tells Groves he will not be available for interview until April 29, 2015. Beisner declines to answer questions about: Student perceptions that area behind the Humanities Building is an appropriate location to smoke, professors telling students it is OK to smoke and whether there is a need for expansion of Fresh Air Advocate Program.

April 27, 2015• The story is published.

Timeline of smoking ban information requestsThe Daily Titan spent nearly two months attempting to acquire information for this story

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The surprises they’ve encountered have no ef-fect however, on what they came here to do. Rajendran dream’s job is to work for Intel. The cousins both plan to apply to internships next year for a position at Intel or another well-regarded com-pany like, Boeing.

The pair chose CSUF be-cause of the respected fac-ulty research in their field of computer engineering, Dhanasekaran said. Both bubble with energy as they describe the nuances of their field. Designing com-puter processors and signal receivers that will power smartphones of the future is

a project that Dhanasekaran works on.

Rajendran’s studies con-cern signal design for cell-phones. She said that in-ternships are mainly hiring signal designers.

“Its a part of communi-cation,” Rajendran said. “For communication wave-length, signal is the base.” They both find classes here easier than the structured exam patterns back in India. There, they explained, is a standard pattern, and the grades are mostly based on one final exam.

“Here patterns are le-nient—it depends upon the professor,” Dhanasekaran said.

The leniency and

friendliness at CSUF has made Dhanasekaran and Rajendran fans of Fullerton.

“Everyone is quite friend-

ly and also the professors are more dynamic,” which Rajen-dran jokes was the same an-swer to her visa question. “The main reason (to come) was for the research. When I com-pared to other universities, the research was quite different.”

Only, nothing is like the

comfort of home. “I miss my parents, my

family,” Dhanasekaran and Rajendran both said in unison.

A close second the cous-ins miss from India was the food.

“We give more impor-tance to spices. Here we are not using that much spice,” Rajendran said.

Normally they cook food with a lot of spices and not

just one food, lots of vari-ety, they said. For dinner they consume more than 10 varieties of food in small quantities.

“Our food is like our medicine. Turmeric in ev-ery product of the food and turmeric helps ... it’s like a medicine,” Dhanasekaran said.

Dhanasekaran and Rajen-dran commend CSUF’s good standard of education as they sat down to engage in a game with fellow international stu-dents during a weekly hour- long coffee break outside Aloha Java. With them, Jean Hotta, the international stu-dent advisor, brings different international board games for all to play.

The meet-up also serves as a place for students wanting to travel abroad get a feel for other coun-tries, Hotta said.

Tamil Nadu may sound far to those who have nev-er been to India. But the similarities these two in-ternational students found between a far away state in Southern India and Ful-lerton, California are small things—the weather or a friend. Being able to dance in the streets and engage in projects, not just tests, have the two cousins smil-ing and happy to be carry-ing out their graduate stud-ies at CSUF. Now we just need to help them get their hands on some turmeric.

Plants: Chemistry’s ‘body part soup’Another passive trap, the

tropical pitcher plant, or Ne-penthes, native to Southeast Asia, has a slippery opening and “a pitfall,” as a conse-quence to its tempting nectar. Bees, wasps, moths, lizards, mice, rats, birds, have all fall-en victim to this passive, but mortal plant as it can grow to the size of a rugby football.

“Its full of liquid. So it’s like a mug,” Read said about the tropical pitcher. “They call it a monkey cup because mon-keys will drink out of them, supposedly.”

The active traps in the greenhouse are the Venus fly traps, or Dionaea muscipu-la, the “underappreciated,” aquatic butterwort, as well, the sundew, part of the Dros-eraceae family.

The pink, worm-like stems of the sundew curls around to catch its prey when its tenta-cles sense movement. A sun-dew in the complex recent-ly took down a moth which was, aptly besieged in the sun-dews “pretty” flowers, Read described.

“It almost makes them like an animal,” Read said.

The Venus flytrap has a pseudo-memory. It has trig-ger hairs that, if touched twice within two seconds, will close. “It’s all chemistry,” Read said.

“I would have to say the Ve-nus flytrap is still one of my favorite plants because it’s so bizarre,” Read said.

Read has trekked through jungles in Brazil, places where only scientists are al-lowed to venture. He went hunting for carnivorous plants on the tabletop mountains of Brazil, called the Tepuis and saw a new type of sun pitcher, endemic to the tabletops.

He’s also been to Mexico where they found a new spe-cies of butterwort.

“When you’re a biologist you dream of going to all these different ecosystems and the jungle was one that always attracted me,” Read said.

Read’s fascination with the carnivorous plants goes back to when his mom bought him his first Venus flytrap from a department store when he was

about five. Read’s father had a green-

house and propagation room. When told to clean the over-growth, while in high school, Read thought to himself, ‘What am I going to do with all of this?’ And right at that moment, he looked down to an empty pot. He picked it up and the label on it read, “Ve-nus flytrap.”

“It was that pot from that first plant that I got when I was a little kid. And that was a curse because after that, I went to the nursery and I bought one,” Read said. “I went to the library, bought some books, saw how many species there are, and found out, I had the collector’s bug.”

Read soon accumulated a collection of carnivorous plants by buying them, propa-gating them and trading them in the urban area of Haw-thorn. After being told about CSUF’s collection of carniv-orous plants, Read met Leo Song, the past manager of the greenhouse who got him in-volved in tissue culture, clon-ing plants in test tubes, while he was still in junior college.

“When I heard Leo was go-ing to retire, I loved this place as a student, I applied,” Read said.

Now, Read grows edibles. “I like plants that pay the rent,” Read said. Things that are expensive in the store, or things that will taste better, like tomatoes.

Into the self-sustained movement, Read hopes to one day have his own orchard or plants with a purpose, like medicinal plants.

CSUF has a program called Urban Agriculture Communi-ty-based Research Experience which studies sustainabili-ty and grow nutrient-dense foods like blueberries, for those who otherwise can’t af-ford more expensive fruits and vegetables.

Co-director of the U-ACRE program, Joel Abraham, called it a way to “support self-efficacy.”

Though it depends on how one grew up, there’s been a disconnection to the natural world, Abraham said.

“And there’s evidence that

it’s important,” Abraham said. Something he teaches in urban ecology is, “there’s a number of papers that show people’s recovery times from illness if they have a win-dow facing a forest versus a window facing inside or no window.”

Having exposure to nature changes how we heal ourselves and how we interact with the world, Abraham said.

“It’s never meaningless to engage in life,” Abraham said.

Carnivorous plants move, their colors and sculptural de-sign is a confident touch to in-terior design and they’re use-ful for a multitude of reasons. Set a sundew next to a bowl of fruit, make sure to keep it quenched and see why.

Read will be having an in-troduction to carnivorous plants on Wednesday, at 11 a.m. in the Fullerton Arbo-retum. Visit www.fuller-tonarboretum.com/Carnivo-rous-Plants/ to apply.

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The Venus flytrap, or scientifically known as Dionaea muscipula is one of the more commonly known carnivorous plant. Its pseudo-memory allows it to sense when an insect lands upon its leaves then clamp down to begin the digestive process.


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A caravan of roughly 30 people followed a dusty trail that led to a desolate side of the mountain, away from the hustle and bustle of the 57 freeway. Dan Baird, 31, Cal-ifornia Survival School in-structor, led the adventurers through the rough terrain in the Fire Scout Reservation in Brea, California to instruct them on how to survive in the wild.

Dan Baird and his young-er brother Michael Baird, 28, take adventurers to anoth-er level by teaching others how living off the land can be useful, educational and en-joyable. They have advised survival trips in numerous parts of the world like Mexi-co, jumped out of helicopters without a parachute and even sunk a ship. The sur-vival school, is family-run and the largest in California, according to their website.

The caravan split up into two classes, Core Survival Skills and Ancient Artisan Tools.

The Core Survival Skills class covers what they call the “sacred order,” which are the body’s basic needs to sur-vive in the wild or emergen-cy situations. The class teach-es how to assess those needs, along with how to prioritize needs between shelter, wa-ter, fire and food—and prop-erly satisfy them in a scare environment.

“About 80 percent of peo-ple who die in the wilderness don’t plan on being out over-night … you might be driv-ing somewhere far away and your car breaks down, you never know. For that reason, I think it’s pretty important”, Brett Lockhart, instructor of the Core Survival Skills class said.

The second class, Ancient Artisan Tools, instructed stu-dents on surviving in nature with minimal supplies. They crafted ropes from thin pieces of fiber resembling twain.

Dan easily demonstrat-ed how to twist and braid the rope that ensures it secu-rity. Ancient Artisan Tools

focused on advanced projects, like making animals traps.

“You go from the begin-ning of the class where you have no idea what to do with-out modern tools, to the end of class where you can produce a high dead ball trap completely with materials gathered from your area,” Dan said.

The school started three years ago after Dan and younger brother Michael weren’t happy with their of-fice desk jobs. Dan was a full-time accountant for about a year and Michael worked at a brokerage.

From a young age, the brothers were involved in nu-merous outdoor activities which was something their father and grandfather had in-stilled in them, Michael said.

As an expression of their love for the outdoors, the Baird brothers want to get young people excited about being outdoors, which Mi-chael said is a beautiful thing. All the resources available if one knows what to do.

“If they’re not going to panic, all of a sudden life be-comes a lot less scary and a lot more more room for op-portunity,” Michael said.

Learning what it takes to survive by doing just that

DEVIN ULMERDaily Titan

Baird brothers train for outdoor survival skills

Veterans share their stories

Dan Baird demonstrates how to twist and braid a rope in way that ensures its security. Dan and his younger brother, Michael Baird, believe, “The more you know the less you need to carry.”

DEVIN ULMER / DAILY TITAN

Soon-to-be Cal State Ful-lerton graduate Esmeral-da Isordia is not your typ-ical college senior. She’s a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Navy and is now one step closer to earning her bache-lor’s degree in criminal jus-tice. Isordia, who graduates in May, was one of many student veteran speakers who had the opportunity to address friends, family and fellow veterans on Satur-day, at the 8th Annual Vet-eran’s Appreciation Night.

The Titan Student Union Pavilion was packed on Saturday night to acknowl-edge student veterans, like Isordia, who spoke on overcoming adversity, and credited the support of her family.

Isordia was just one of the many graduating CSUF student veterans honored during Veteran’s Appreci-ation Night, which was or-ganized by the Student Vet-eran Association and the Veteran Resource Center.

Veterans have gained an enormous amount of expe-rience through their mil-itary service, said Jessica Harvey business major and Student Veteran Associa-tion president.

“We’re strong, we’re re-sponsible and we have goals and dreams, and we came back to school and we are … not going to stop,” Harvey said.

Isordia is one of those veteran students who has

not stopped as she contin-ues to progress towards her own dreams.

She was born in Colima, Mexico. Her father, who was living in the United States at the time, passed away when she was 5 years old. A few years later her mother decided to take her back to the United States, Isordia said.

She lived in the United States and went through high school as an undoc-umented citizen. She later applied to become a U.S. citizen., a process that took about five years. While the petition was in process she

decided to join the U.S. Navy.

After 10 years of ser-vice in the military, she came back to school and attended Mount San Anto-nio College to get her as-sociate’s degree. After that she transferred to CSUF to get her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.

“I want to be a victim ad-vocate,” Isordia said. Vic-tim advocates work with and help children or adults that are victims of sexu-al assault or domestic vio-lence. “That is something that I would really love to do.”

All along the journey her family was there to support

her, Isordia said during her speech. The transition from the military to academic life was not an easy one. Her family, she said, were her only friends.

It wasn’t until she met Catherine Ward, the Veter-an Resource Center coordi-nator, that she felt like she belonged, Isordia said.

Later, she decided to join the Student Veteran Associ-ation where she made many friends and also met her fi-ance, Kien Do, a CSUF business major alumnus and veteran.

Isordia wasn’t the only Titan that gave a speech that night telling a story of her journey and experiences.

Robert V. Bobby McDon-ald, is a U.S. Navy Vietnam war veteran who graduated from CSUF in 1975 with a degree in kinesiology and a minor in business. McDon-ald played basketball for CSUF.

He also gave a message about perseverance, hard work and abilities of stu-dent veterans.

McDonald has been help-ing the veteran communi-ty for years. Recently, Mc-Donald has been discussing with others about the Fed-eral VACA Act, which waives additional out-of-state tuition fees for vet-erans, Director of the Vet-eran Resource Center Lui

Amador said. He has engaged with

many people, including As-semblywoman Young Kim of the 65th district, in order to help expedite California legislation AB 13 for com-munity colleges and AB 27 for California State Univer-sities, which needs to pass in order for the VACA act to work, Amador said.

They sang the nation-al anthem, had a moment of silence for prisoners of war, gave out scholarships and recognized the entire community as a whole. The message of the night was to show the hard work of student veterans and to showcase their place in the

community. At the end of Isordia’s

speech, she talked about how the Veteran Resource Center became her second home.

She urged the veterans that night to educate peo-ple who don’t understand veterans and see them as a stigma.

“It is up to us to show them who we are. We owe it to ourselves and to our fallen brothers and sis-ters,” Isordia said. “Only then will people know that we are resilient, hard working and will face any challenge that comes our way, but ultimately no dif-ferent than them.”

Veterans share trials abroad and are proud to be back at CSUF

ALEX FAIRBANKSDaily Titan

Esmeralda Isordia gives a speech at the 8th Annual Veteran’s Appreciation Night Saturday, thanking her family and telling her story about her journey and transition from being enlisted in the military back into academic and civilian life.

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JESSICA HARVEYStudent Veteran Association

We’re strong, responsible and we have goals and dreams ... we came back to school and we are ... not going to stop.

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To the editor:

Your editorial on Thursday is a terrific exam-ple of giving a governmental body plenty of time to ponder a misguided policy before resorting to a front-page response.

The Daily Titan has a long history of defending the principles of open government and a vigorous student press.

In the late 1980s, there was a brouhaha over a series of articles about the accreditation of one of CSUF’s larger schools. Daily Titan funding was threatened.

In the early 1980s I was the Daily Titan’s manag-ing editor and was nearly arrested when I refused to leave a student government meeting that was being closed in violation of the state’s Ralph M. Brown Act. The meeting stayed open.

More than a decade earlier, bundles of The Daily Titan were illegally seized by state officers because Governor Reagan’s administration objected to the coverage of student protests on campus.

Because the student body is virtually replaced every five or six years and the university relies on adjunct faculty who may not have lengthy service at CSUF, even recent lessons in campus openness quickly dissipate. This is a reminder that the CSU system is a government body, and an important one to every Californian. Open government has to be more than a slogan.

I congratulate The Daily Titan’s editors on a thoughtful and measured response to this threat

to the public’s right to know. Congratulations also to The Daily Titan’s adviser, Bonnie Stewart; the Communications Department chair, Dr. Jason M. Shepard; and the dean of the College of Commu-nications, Dr. S. Irene Matz, for fostering an atmo-sphere in which these student journalists felt that they could air this important matter.

No doubt they’ll hear from President Mildred García. If President García is the smart person I think she is, that inevitable meeting will give her an opportunity to announce that henceforth journalists seeking interviews with campus officials will be ac-commodated on the record by either the requested official or a direct manager.

Make no mistake—corporate communications departments play an important part in both private and public organizations. College sports, for exam-ple, have long embraced sports information direc-tors as a valuable way to disseminate information to the reporters. However, even in the tightly con-trolled world of NCAA athletics, sports information directors rarely prevent reporters from talking di-rectly with students or coaches. Locker room and post-game interviews are bedrocks of sports report-ing, and those chats often run at tangents to the ac-tual game.

No journalist or reader wants filtered or var-nished information with no independent way to directly attribute or verify it, or to follow up with additional questions. Journalists deal directly with sources so that the public can be sure that important questions are answered candidly and expertly in a

timely fashion. Cal State Fullerton is crammed with experts in their fields who should be able to speak for themselves or, if they freely choose, decline to do so—administration, faculty, staff and students alike.

Likewise, no graduate student would attempt to publish a thesis using information filtered through corporate communications, with no access to origi-nal sources; no faculty member would permit such a venture. Why are the Daily Titan’s student journal-ists any different?

To the students who invest much of the their fu-ture income in pursuit of a Cal State Fullerton de-gree: Support The Daily Titan in print and electron-ically. You chose to attend a public university—an outstanding one, at that—and so you have a right to know where your money and your fortunes are go-ing, and that your personal safety is secure during your time on campus. That’s the Daily Titan’s job.

To President García: The good news is that you’ve got some fearless and talented Daily Titan editors who are ready for the job market. I can’t think of a downside to that; can you?

And to the alumni, the trustees of the Califor-nia State University and the public: Why is there no system-wide CSU goal to reflect the spirit of open government? Must faculty senates and the state legislature prod the trustees? Or are 458,897 students and $17 billion not enough for the public to care about?

Walter R. Baranger, CSUF ‘86

In Response to “Transparency? Not at CSUF”

Letter to the Editor

Taking selfies promotes self-love

Peace signs, smiles and sil-ly faces are among the many facial expressions that acces-sorize the camera lens in cell phones.

The selfie craze has become a national pastime in the age of smartphone technology.

Despite the craze, there are many who aren’t too fond of the activity. Some believe tak-ing selfies is vain and atten-tion-seeking, but that’s over-generalizing. Although selfies are fun, they can be a very per-sonal form of self expression.

Fifty-five percent of mil-lennials have uploaded selfies onto social media websites, more than any other genera-tion, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center survey.

A total of 26 percent of the American population have taken selfies for virtual shar-ing on photo or social media sites. These statistics should increase in the future. Despite some criticism, people should take more selfies because it’s a freedom of choice and positive

self expression. Taking selfies facilitates

self and identity explora-tion, according to Psychology Today.

These photographs allow you to see how others see you. It offers a different perspec-tive of your image. The per-son who takes a selfie is con-ducting their own photoshoot, knowing every angle, emo-tion, flaw and message to dis-play. It may look like a simple act, but it’s an effective way of expressing yourself.

People upload their self-ies online or share them with friends and family because he or she feels a sense of con-fidence. Why should anyone look down upon the positive emotions someone felt at the time of the photo?

People who take selfies have a pride in their quirky, serious and beautiful facets of their personality. It allows great in-sight into the things we’re in-terested in and the emotions we feel.

Because taking a selfie is so easy and intimate, they mean more than having someone else take the photo. There is no need to shy away from selfies due to a fear of criticism.

Taking selfies is an enjoy-able activity that captures your self worth. And if we do not

love ourselves, who will? Al-though selfies are taken for fun, it’s an easy way of in-creasing one’s self esteem by learning to be comfortable in one’s skin.

People have the liberty of taking selfies in any form they want. If others don’t like it, they can avoid them.

Cell phones and computers come with built-in cameras to allow users the freedom to

capture whatever they desire.If snapping selfies encour-

ages self acceptance, then there shouldn’t be a reason to stop taking them.

People should continue to embrace themselves and re-spect others’ identities.

This will allow us to ad-vance toward a more tolerant and peaceful society. And for that reason, the selfie craze must continue to thrive.

Personal portraits help increase self-esteem for all

MARICELA GOMEZDaily Titan

Sam,

It takes courage to publish an editorial that is critical of those (and their staff) responsible for facilitating your education. I hope this editori-al brings about some positive change that pro-motes an open dialog between the Daily Titan and the CSUF administration. So much can be learned and gained from an exchange of infor-mation if both sides are willing. It’s unfortu-nate that an administrator would employ delay tactics to that exchange. As you aptly point out, it begs the question, what are they hiding?

You will likely face pressure to do some-thing contrary to your ethics from a variety of sources. Stay the course.

Sincerely,Greg Sebourn, PLSMayorCity of Fullerton

In Response to“Transparency? Not at CSUF“

Letter to the Editor

Taking selfies promote positive self expression and fosters an awareness of one’s identity. Let the selfie trend continue.

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The Fullerton baseball team is in the middle of a three-way battle for first place in the Big West Conference, but will have to take a quick detour as it heads back to Los An-geles for the second time this season.

While Tuesday’s non-con-ference game may seem some-what meaningless, it will serve as an opportunity for revenge, as the Titans head up the I-5 to battle the Trojans of USC. This will be the second match-up between these two teams this season.

In the first matchup, the Trojans spoiled the Titans’ home opener in a 6-4 win. USC has been tearing this sea-son up with a 30-12 overall re-cord, including an 18-6 record

at home. The Trojans also went undefeated in their first 12 games of the season.

USC currently stands at No. 13 in the Baseball Amer-ica rankings, having dropped from the No. 10 spot after two losses to Oregon State. CSUF has fared well against ranked opposition this season, but the last match against a ranked opponent didn’t go the Titans’ way as they fell to UCLA in a 7-2 loss in Westwood.

Fullerton comes into the game riding a 22-20 overall record after taking two out of three in their weekend series win over UC Irvine. The Ti-tans are now tied for second place in the Big West along with UC Santa Barbara, with both teams posting an 8-4 conference record, albeit hav-ing played three fewer games than the Big West-leading Anteaters.

Junior Josh Vargas cur-rently leads the Titan offense with a .356 batting average to go along with 10 runs batted in and 25 runs scored, while

fellow junior David Olme-do-Barrera leads the team in RBIs with 29. The offense was stellar in the Irvine series as the Titans scored seven runs in both of their victories.

The Trojan offense is lead

by junior outfielder Bobby Stahel, who comes in with a .404 batting average to go with three home runs, 25 RBIs and 43 runs scored. Senior catcher Garret Stubbs is also having a spectacular season with a .365

average with 20 RBIs and 39 runs scored.

The Titans are in the heat of the Big West race as the season heads into the final months. After Tuesday’s game, the last 12 out of 13 games remaining

for Fullerton are against Big West opponents.

First pitch against the Tro-jans is set for 6 p.m. at De-deaux Field with the game being broadcasted on the Pac-12 Network.

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In terms of strokes, day two of the Big West Golf Championships was an

improvement for the Titans.The team shot a collective

296 on Monday, four strokes better than their first round. However, Fullerton still could not move up in the score-board, stagnating in seventh place after two rounds with a plus-36 (596).

Freshman Mark Cobey and junior Nico Mendoza were the first two Titans to finish

on Monday. Cobey shot a plus-three (73) and Mendoza shot a plus-eight (78).

Cobey is tied for 30th in the individual leaderboard with a 151 and Mendoza is tied for 38th with a 155 after two rounds.

Senior Ryan Tetrault shot a plus-two (72) and sophomore Kyle De Silva shot a plus-four (74) for the day.

Tetrault leads the team with a score of 148 and is currently tied for 17th on the individual leaderboard, up 10 spots from Sunday.

De Silva and senior Josh Park, who shot a plus-seven (77) Monday, are both tied after two rounds with a plus-nine (149).

Leading the pack is David Gazzolo from UC Riverside

and Pete Fernandez from UC Irvine, who jumped up 10 spots, both shooting plus-one (141).

It’s a three-way tie for third, with UC Davis’ Luke Vivolo and Mike Brocking-ton, along with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Justin De Los Santos, all posting a plus-three (143).

UC Davis is on top of the

team leaderboard, up one spot from Sunday. UC Irvine and UC Riverside, the leader after day one, are not too far behind. They are both trail-ing by two strokes.

Tee time for the third and final round is 7:30 a.m. Tues-day. The 2014 Big West champion Titans will need to gain a lot of ground if they want to regain the title.

The Titans improve on first round, but fail to move up leaderboard

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CSUF men’s golf stays put at seventh after day two

Titans seek revenge over USC

Vandiver works way into starting lineup

Cal State Fullerton baseball will head to LA Tuesday for a rematch against USC. The Trojans bested the Titans 6-4 back on Feb. 17, but CSUF will want to split the season series. The Titans will look to juniors Josh Vargas and David Olmedo-Barrera to lead them to victory over USC.

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If you ask freshman soft-ball outfielder Samantha Vandiver about her first sea-son in the Titan blue and or-ange, she’d giggle and call it “nothing like I ever imag-ined.” Vandiver was recruited to play at Cal State Fullerton after graduating from Hun-tington Beach High School, where she was a four-year varsity letterwinner. “I had no idea it was going to be like this at all,” Vandiver said.

But just because Vandiver had a successful high school career does not necessarily mean earning a starting role with a Division I softball pro-gram as a freshman would be a breeze. At the end of the fall season, the coaching staff pinpointed some little things that kept her from earning a starting spot.

“Sometimes I would notice

that she would hold back a lit-tle bit and she wouldn’t dive for some balls or run some things out,” Assistant Coach Jorge Araujo said.

Araujo attributed Vandiv-er’s conservative play to pos-sible intimidation of playing on a bigger stage. After fall ball concluded, Araujo was straightforward with Vandiv-er, telling her to put it all out on the line and go for it. He encouraged her to push her-self and work toward earning playing time.

Winning a starting role as a freshman is by no means an easy task. “It was tough in the beginning, I’m not going to lie,” Vandiver said.

But nothing worth attain-ing comes without determi-nation, and such is true when it comes to No. 3 for the Ti-tans. Vandiver played without hesitation and worked harder, which eventually led to her becoming a starting fresh-man among seasoned upper classmen.

She currently sits in the national top 20 of offensive performers in all of NCAA Softball, not to mention she’s

only struck out four times all season.

Despite high praise, such as winning Big West Soft-ball Field Player of the Week honors or breaking the CSUF hitting streak record at 24 games, Vandiver refuses to let success in the 2015 cam-paign faze her and remains humble, Araujo said.

For a person with so much success so early on in their collegiate career, she epito-mizes humility. When asked about her success, she only speaks about working harder to earn a starting spot, which she has already done this season.

Much of this determina-tion to always be better can be attributed to another Titan outfielder, Courtney Rodri-guez, whom Vandiver sees as a role model. Rodriguez has a reputation of being a hard worker, someone who is not afraid to work “overtime.” Vandiver looks to Rodriguez as someone with whom she can talk to about past experi-ences and about what it takes to work her way up through the rankings.

Vandiver’s calm nature on the diamond and profession-alism off the field has been something she’s carried over ever since Araujo first re-cruited her in her senior year of high school.

“She doesn’t get caught up

in the hype. She’s a profes-sional,” Araujo said of his young outfielder.

There’s been plenty of hype when it comes to the left fielder and her success is ob-vious; just take a look at her numbers. Even so, Vandiver

doesn’t take her freshman season for granted.

“For me, just have that mentality of ‘you have not earned that starting posi-tion yet’ because you nev-er know what can happen,” Vandiver said.

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CSUF freshman outfielder Samantha Vandiver has remained humble despite finding success early in her collegiate career. Vandiver set a new school record with a 24-game hitting streak.

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