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NEWS 3‘Mindful Mondays’ alleviate stressOPINION 5Devil’s Advocate: Delaying ‘last call’FEATURES 6Apartments house older studentsFITNESS 8Where to find healthy eats on campus

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Homeless programs granted $8 million

LOCAL | Funding

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Congresswoman Loretta San-chez announced Thursday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will award more than $8 million to help better the lives of homeless individuals in Orange County.

The $8 million grant is being dispersed for the fiscal year of 2012 to the Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance in Orange County. It will not be affected by the sequester meant to limit gov-ernment spending enacted earlier this month.

According to a press release from the congresswoman’s office, Sanchez was pleased to hear the amount of money Orange Coun-ty received for the Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance and how the funds will be used to help homeless individuals.

“Hundreds of families serviced by the Housing Authorities of OC, Santa Ana and Garden Grove will continue to benefit and grow from these resources for transitional hous-ing and a variety of supportive ser-vices for the homeless,” said Sanchez.

“This funding is especially im-portant in light of recent spending cuts to crucial programs for under-served communities. If the seques-ter is not dealt with, jobs will be eliminated and the devastating ef-fects of homelessness will continue to grow. We must continue to sup-port our community and fight for funds like these from HUD,” she said.

Gamer club braces for virtual battle

When it comes to natural and ar-tificial sugar alternatives, the battle over which one is the healthiest is the biggest question that needs answer-ing.

Splenda, NutraSweet and Sweet One, are just a few of the artificial sweeteners that have been made with less calories, to take the place of a regular white sugar packet.

Where as a natural sugar alterna-tive such as agave nectar for instance, contains sugar from all natural ingre-dients, yet may contain more calories than say a Splenda or Equal packet.

Although artificial sweeteners like Splenda have been made with low calorie ingredients, natural sugar al-ternatives, contain more nutrients than artificial sugar, and in return, have been proven to be the healthier choice.

For example, the natural sugars that come from both fruits and veg-etables, can also be beneficial in al-lowing a person to consume sugar, while also consuming other nutrients as well.

Foods can be sweetened with fruit juice instead of artificial sugar, and if both fruits and vegetables are cooked, it results in a much sweeter taste; if that is what one is looking for, can come from the cooked state, rather than the raw state.

Yet, besides the low-calorie aspect

of artificial sweeteners, flooding ru-mors stating that cancer could be a major factor in the consumption of artificial sweeteners, created the al-most recall of the artificial products.

Although according to research done by the FDA, the approved sweeteners such as Splenda and Nu-trasweet, found no scientific evidence proving that these artificial sweeten-ers, caused any type of cancer.

Narayana Darst, Cal State Fuller-ton’s interim director at the Student Health and Counseling Center, ex-plained the benefits of reducing sugar in one’s diet, while still being able to add some natural sugar to the mix.

“Artificial sweeteners are safe to consume and are not linked to an increase risk of cancer … Individuals who still wish to reduce their sugar intake and choose to avoid artificial sweeteners can reduce added sugars in their diet in other ways,” said Darst.

These other ways could be by using honey or molasses instead of regular sugar, which helps bring in both the natural sugars and their nutrients. This may in fact taste better than regular or artificial sugar combined.

Also, using natural sugar, and less of it while baking, can help reduce the intake of sugar, while also preserv-ing the taste of natural sugar in the baked item.

Hausmann explained how adding natural sugar such as honey to a food item, makes a person not feel the need for more and naturally makes them feel more satisfied based on the nutrients honey provides.

Loud shrieks echoed through the halls of the third level of the Engineering and Computer Sci-ence Building Friday evening.

The commotion sparked from the completion of the expert lev-el of Guitar Hero 3 on the Xbox

360. Video Game Design Club member Reza Nikoopour, 22, was shredding through career mode to unlock the song “Through the Fire and Flames” by Dragonforce.

Various members watched in awe as the virtual guitarist lined up hundred-note streaks effort-lessly. Upon completion of the game, Nikoopour celebrated and

taunted his fellow enthusiasts who had doubted his ability.

The members met for a 36-hour program-a-thon to prepare for the IEEE GameSIG competition on April 27 which will be held at UC Irvine, as well as the Micro-soft Imagine Cup on April 15 held worldwide through online submis-sion.

The weekend consisted of up-grading most of the programmers on to the Windows 8 platform. Although the club members did not experience problems upgrad-ing their software, the coding lan-guage in the Windows 8 programs DirectX and Visual Studios had slight variations in functions and coding. The variations set back the

team in terms of design and prog-ress.

Despite the setback, pixel artist Daniel Root, 25, said he was able to finish most of the animation of the main character he referred to as “The Wanderer” in his team’s game, Unmei.

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The sweet battle between natural and artificial sugar

CAMPUS | CommunicationFITNESS | Food

Are artificial sweeteners really a better alternative for those with a sweet tooth?

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CSUF Irvine campus installs emergency systemThe Cal State Fullerton Irvine Campus implements a new emergency broadcast system for announcements throughout campus.

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The public address system was brought to the forefront after the CSUF lockdown

ANDY LUNDINDaily Titan

The Cal State Fullerton Irvine Cam-pus recently implemented a new public address system to broadcast emergency announcements in the wake of the Ful-lerton campus’ Dec. 12 lockdown that depended on timely and large-scale

communication.The system will be able to broad-

cast the announcements out of speakers throughout locations across the campus, including classrooms, offices and open spaces.

It was put into effect through the efforts of Cal State Fullerton’s Auxil-iary Services Corporation (ASC).

According to Jim Alexander, direc-tor of property development for ASC, the idea to implement a new emer-gency system on the Irvine Campus

was already being discussed by school officials prior to the lockdown.

“I got involved when Dean Coo-per had mentioned that she had been looking at (a system) and trying to de-termine which would be the best way to go,” he said. “Then we had the op-portunity with the lockdown here on campus and that brought it to the fore-front with what we would do there. I got involved and got some information and we settled on a system.”

Bob Farrell, a property manager

with ASC, was also involved in im-plementing the system on the cam-pus. He said the lockdown was a big reason for the new system.

“That was kind of what really kicked things off even though it had been a concern of the dean and her assistant prior to that. So when all that went down everyone just kind of jumped on the bandwagon and made it happen,” Farrell said.

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LEFT: Daniel Root, 25, draws on a Wacom tablet, adding finishing touches to “The Wanderer.” RIGHT: Daniel Lyons, 29, troubleshoots on his computer Friday in the Engineering Building.JOHN PEKCAN / Daily Titan

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About a quarter of African-Americans living in Orange County who participated in a human relations study experi-enced discrimination, accord-ing to the Los Angeles Times.

The Orange County Human Relations Commission held “lis-tening sessions” at churches across Orange County encour-aging people to attend them.

African-American residents were able to address their con-cerns and past experiences where they faced discrimina-tion.

A collection of these stories is set to be released in a docu-ment and discussed at a public forum next week.

Although the report is not a scientific poll, researchers hope to make an impact as the public gets more diverse.

Brief by MICHELLE TUYUB

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found in OC

Treasurer requests investigation of school districts

State Treasurer Bill Lockyer asked California Attorney Gen-eral Kamala Harris to investi-gate school district’s deals with underwriting firms that provide political strategists to promote bond measures on Monday, ac-cording to The Orange County Register.

The deals in question were found to be in place at the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District.

School officials hired a bank named George K. Baum & Co. to sell bonds approved by vot-ers and the banks political con-sultants provided campaign strategies to the district when they were presenting bond measures to voters.

School officials and the bank have denied any wrongdoing.

Under California state law, it is illegal for public funds to be used by school officials to hire political consultants to pass bond measures.

School districts across the state have used political strat-egists paid for by their banks to manage their bond election campaigns.

Lockyer asked Harris to look at the legality of agreements between the districts and the banks in which the school awarded the bank contracts to underwrite all the bonds in ex-change for receiving campaign services.

Lockyer’s request comes amidst his public support of leg-islation that will limit school dis-tricts issuance of bonds, called CABs, which create debt-ser-vice payments for taxpayers.

Brief by LAUREN HARRITY

A new analysis by Southern California Edison reports that the San Onofre nuclear plant could run its Unit 2 reactor safe-ly for 11 months, according to the Orange County Register.

Edison proposed restarting Unit 2 at 70 percent power and the Nuclear Regulatory Com-mission (NRC) could decide on whether to allow it by late April.

The plant’s reactors have been offline since January 2012 due to issues with the four steam generators and a small release of radioactive gas from Unit 3.

Edison and the NRC have en-gaged in recent technical dis-cussions about Unit 2’s power capacity.

Edison concluded that Unit 2 could run safely at 100 percent power but suggests starting by running it at 70 percent for five months.

Environmental activists who oppose the restart plan have stated that the latest analysis is not convincing and they have concerns over whether the Unit 2 reactor can run safely.


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45 individuals arrested for DUI on Saint Patrick’s Day.

65 individuals arrested for DUI on St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

1alcohol-related traffic collision on the 57 Freeway near Chapman on March 16.

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St. Patty’s partying leads to 45 DUI arrestsThe City of Fullerton had no

DUI checkpoints scheduled for the weekend of St. Patrick’s Day, even with the holiday be-ing synonymous with alcohol consumption.

Instead, according to Fuller-ton Police Department Lt. Mike Chlebowski, police had DUI saturation patrols, which would place officers in certain areas to make stops for suspected drunk drivers.

Chlebowski mentioned that while no DUI checkpoints were scheduled for St. Patrick’s Day, the FPD did have a DUI check-point set up March 14.

Sgt. Jeff Stuart, public infor-mation officer for the depart-ment, was unable to release the arrest statistics from the DUI sat-uration patrols for St. Patrick’s Day, as the department was busy dealing with the shooting of a FPD officer shooting.

However, according to an Or-

ange County Register article, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department arrested 45 indi-viduals on suspicion of driving under the influence on St. Pat-rick’s Day.

The article went on to state that this amount of individu-als was not uncommon for St. Patrick’s Day, since 64 arrests were made the weekend of St. Patrick’s Day in 2012.

According to Capt. John Brockie, over the St. Patrick’s Day weekend Cal State Fuller-ton University Police dealt with two off-campus DUI arrests.

University Police was the first police agency to respond to a traffic collision on the 57 Free-way near Chapman Ave. on March 16 at 1:34 a.m.

“We were the primary re-sponse and then Fullerton Fire (department) and CHP came and later arrested the driver of the vehicle that hit the other ve-

hicle for DUI,” Brockie said.The incident was an agency

assist between campus police and the California Highway Pa-trol, so the names of the sus-pected DUI individual and the individuals in the other vehicle were not available.

The second DUI arrest of the weekend took place March 17 at 2:34 a.m., as a speeding vehicle was pulled over on Placentia Avenue, according to Brockie.

The driver, Fullerton resident Ygnacio Vargas, 41, was ar-rested for DUI after failing a field sobriety test. The two pas-sengers in Vargas’ vehicle were not arrested.

Brockie also mentioned that Vargas was cited and released from custody that same morning.

Brief by RAYMOND MENDOZA

GRANT: OC Partnership program plans to end homeless

Gene Gibson, regional public affairs officer for HUD, stated the amount awarded to each program is based on a competitive basis and the amount awarded to each state varies from year to year.

“This is a highly competitive an-nual federal grant program to help communities serve homeless per-sons and families,” said Gibson. “The amount a Continuum of Care receives depends on a number of rat-ing factors as specified in the Notice of Funding Application (NOFA).”

Among the programs assisted is the Orange County Partnership, found-ed in 1998 to provide education, job training and housing in order to end homelessness in Orange County.

Specifically, the partnership is part of Orange County’s 10-year plan to end homelessness.

While the $8.4 million was awarded to 42 different programs throughout Orange County, the OC Partnership would specifically receive $441,516 for the Homeless Management Information System Community Support Program and $58,130 for the HMIS Implemen-tation Assistance.

Karen Williams, chief operat-ing officer for the Orange County Partnership, explained that while the homeless programs in Orange County received $8 million in funds, the Orange County Partner-ship will receive less than 10 percent of the grant for the programs they provide.

“(The grant) goes to all of the different providers,” said Wil-liams. “A big piece of that goes to the Orange County Housing Au-

thority for housing vouchers.”The Orange County Housing

Authority was unavailable for com-ment in regard to the HUD grant disbursement.

The information gathered by the OC Partnership’s HMIS provides a report which outlines the programs, demographics of homeless people and the amount of homeless people being given aid in the county.

“So this next fall we’ll have su-per NOFA 2013, that’s the one that HUD is saying to plan across the board 5 percent cuts,” Williams said.

Williams added that the future sequester cuts would push certain organizations to either cut program services or look for private funding elsewhere.

However, HUD will also be providing additional funding for a small amount of programs in the form of a competitive fund at the end of 2013.

“Later in the year, we intend to make additional awards to the most competitive of these projects, per-

haps to fund new projects in com-munities or to provide additional funding for renewal programs,” said HUD spokesman Brian Sullivan. “These grant funds are competitive-ly awarded, so that suggests that (the programs) would have to compete for them.”

Sullivan said programs that will be considered for the competitive grant would have to demonstrate their success, services to the home-less and a history of success within their community.

He also mentioned that the funds would be available for any program willing to compete; no matter what county they serve as long as the pro-grams are making major strides to lower the national homeless rate.

“We have a national goal in this country: To end homelessness,” said Sullivan. “One thing we look at is whether you’re making headway in this. If (the programs are) doing new and innovative things to bring the numbers down because that’s what it’s about.”

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“Later in the year, we intend to make additional awards to the most competitive of these projects, perhaps to fund new projects in communities or provide additional funding for renewal programs.”

BRIAN SULLIVANHUD Spokesman

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After President Barack Obama supported a minimum wage increase to $9.00 in his State of the Union speech ear-lier this year, veteran senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, introduced a plan that would go even fur-ther, raising minimum wage to $10.10, according to NBC News.

The current national legal minimum wage is $7.25. Har-kin’s bill would increase the an-nual salary of a person working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year by $5,928.

A recent Gallup poll showed that 70 percent of the American public favors raising the mini-mum wage but some congres-sional Republicans may feel Harkin’s plan goes too far.

The National Restaurant As-sociation is opposed to the min-imum wage increase, stating at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that they fear the in-crease would lead to layoffs at businesses that are struggling to stay open.

In response to their con-cerns, Harkin cited studies that show other countries that raised minimum wage and had no job loss. George W. Bush signed the last minimum wage increase into law in 2007.


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Relatives suspected of OC thefts

Four relatives from Chicago are believed to be in an “orga-nized theft ring,” stealing most of the items from the Los Ange-les and Orange areas, accord-ing to the Orange County Reg-ister.

Suspects Austra Bauzins-kaite, 34, Adeliya Nassybullina, 30, Lukasz Karasinski, 37, and Przemyslaw Skiba, 31, were taken into custody by Torrance Police, while on a trip to South-ern California.

The trip was due in part to their court hearing from previ-ous theft charges.

The relatives are linked to $3 million in stolen electronics and merchandise and more than 17 commercial burglaries. Af-ter attaining the material, they attempted to ship their stolen goods out of state.

Suspects targeted stores like Apple and Microsoft stores, Best Buy, Costco, Petsmart, etc.

The suspects will be facing multiple counts of conspiracy to commit commercial burglary and grand theft.

Brief by MICHELLE TUYUB

South Korea has begun talks of developing its own nuclear weapons in the wake of threats from North Korea, according to CNN.

An idea that was once con-sidered taboo for the country, a recent poll showed that two-thirds of South Korean citizens support the idea.

“If North Korea is to attack the South with its nuclear weapons ... Kim Jong Un’s Regime will cease to exist on the face of Earth,” said South Korean De-fense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok.

South Korea’s attitude of little to no reaction against North Ko-rea’s threats has changed after South Korea blamed the coun-try for attacking one of its war-ships in 2010.

Although North Korea’s clos-est ally and economic sup-porter, China has also started targeting the country’s nuclear program by signing on to tough-er U.N. sanctions against the North.

The U.S. is set to defend South Korea against a nuclear threat under the nuclear um-brella.

Brief by ANDY LUNDIN

South Korea reacts to threats

Meditation alleviates stress at ‘Mindful Mondays’

Laying on your back, mindful of your breathing, both hands rested on your belly, legs stretched out, eyes closed. Three bells ring, followed by the sound of a voice guiding a medi-tation process geared at reducing the everyday stress of school and life.

“Mindful Mondays” is a place for students, faculty and staff to learn basic mindfulness skills, manage stress, increase self-awareness and re-duce negative emotions.

The weekly event is held from 11:15-11:45 a.m. at Pollak Library

North Room 130.Mindful Mondays was started a

year ago by Natalie Tran, Ph.D., a secondary education professor, and William Breitbach, instruction and information services unit head of Pollak Library.

Mindfulness is the practice of bring-ing awareness to the body, said Tran.

When people typically think about mindfulness or meditation, they think about someone who sits isolated in a dark and quiet room, she added.

“That’s sort of a misconception,” Tran said. “There are other forms of mindful practice such as mind-ful walking, mindful eating (and) mindful talking.”

Mindfulness is the ability to be in the present moment, Tran said.

Mindful Mondays also focuses on total relaxation (deep relaxation), a form of mindful practice, another way to help the body heal after being exposed to toxins and consumptions.

Toxins and consumptions not only include physical consumptions like food, but physiological con-sumptions like the media, said Tran.

“Our body also needs that time, that space, to heal,” she said. “The practice of total relaxation allows to do that, to come and to take care of our body.”

Resting is a condition of healing and deep relaxation that allows peo-ple get the opportunity to heal their body, said Tran.

She added that stress accumulates in the body by the way people eat, drink and interact with each other and that not all consumptions are wholesome or healthy.

Meditation is meant to bring awareness to specific body parts.

“Once you are able to send the energy, positive energy to certain body parts,” Tran said. “One is not only bringing awareness but also cultivating a sense of compassion for themselves.”

Marian Sherman, analyst for the University Business Institute, has at-tended the events since its inception.

Though she had not taken the time to meditate prior to her expe-rience, she is convinced there are many rewards.

“I think there are many benefits both physically and mentally with meditation,” said Sherman.

As far as an increase or decrease in stress, Tran said stress ebbs and flows for everyone depending on life cir-cumstances.

She noted that the last several

years have probably been stressful for many due to the economy; gen-erally, she said, she does not think life is more stressful than in the past.

Tran and Breitbach decided to start their own meditation session at Cal State Fullerton after meet-ing at a retreat on mindfulness for educators.

“Our hope is that if we can offer, even if its for a half an hour that sort of serenity and peacefulness,” Tran said. “That is a contribution that we can make on campus.”

Tran said they started out want-ing to support and maintain a posi-tive outlook because the campus is a stressful environment.

The duo would like to expand the meditation sessions to Wednesdays and Fridays.

“As long as we can cultivate a cul-ture that has understanding and com-passion beginning with ourselves, and then for other people I think our campus will be a much more healthi-er environment,” said Tran.

Natalie Tran, Ph.D., a secondary education professor, hosted the meditation session Monday. JOHN PEKCAN / Daily Titan

According to Alexander, prepara-tions to begin work on the project started in January before the actual work began.

“We started about a month before (Presidents Day), as far as getting quotes around and talking to some folks on campus what might be the best way to go,” he said.

One of the main objectives of the project was to implement the system without interfering with classes on campus.

With ASC, Farrell’s team worked during periods when there would be fewer students on campus, working 14 hours on Presidents Day and an-other 13 to 14 hours the following Friday.

“Because of the amount of time (installing the system) was going to take, it was going to take probably about three days of three or four guys working, and our time is lim-ited to around classroom time,” he said.

Prior to installing the new public address system onto the campus last month, Alexander said the school had been using an older phone system to broadcast emergency announcements, but equipment changes rendered its announcing system unusable.

“We changed out to a little bit more sophisticated phone and un-fortunately one of the things we lost in that process was the intercom, or the announcing system. So we had no announcing system after we re-placed the phones,” Alexander said.

Farrell described the speaker sys-tem as being very new, using none of the older announcement equipment that the school had used before.

“We ran wires basically in the hallways for the most part. Above the ceiling panels is open space that goes from like hallways and back into classrooms, so when you make an announcement you can hear it in all the classrooms,” he said.

Although the new public address system has officially been applied into the school, Farrell mentioned the new system is not completely finished. He said it is a work in progress and they are finding little places where they can tweak certain aspects.

They were finally able to test the new speakers once they were fin-ished, although they were uncertain how the sound was going to transfer

until after work on the system was complete. In doing so, however, they discovered that the library and TSU were not able to hear announce-ments as well as other locations.

Farrell said they have ordered two more speakers to go in the areas to make sure everything is covered and so everyone will be able to hear any-thing.

Alexander also mentioned that the system has a receiver that can connect with iPads or iPods, allow-ing those that manage the system to alternate with how the speakers are utilized.

“The receiver has the ability to have something plugged into it that would provide music in the hall-ways, and then whenever you make an announcement they’d shut the music off and be able to hear the an-nouncement only,” he said.

The Fullerton City Planning Commission has already given the plan for 52 new con-dominium units to be built on Orangetho-rpe Avenue the green light, selecting Brandywine Homes to be the developer, according to the Orange County Register.

They will be redeveloping the 2.7 acres of land at 1030 and 1110 W Orangethorpe Ave., pending City Council approval.

“Fullerton is a great central location where people want to live,” said David Barisic, vice president of Brandywine Homes, in an interview with the Register.

This particular location, close to South Euclid Street, was previously a car dealer-ship and parking structure, both of which have been vacated since 2009.

Brandywine Homes would be responsible for building 19 townhouse-styled units per acre of land, aimed at those seeking single-family living, according to the Register.

This would be their first project in Ful-lerton and have previously built the town-homes of Century Village in Garden Grove.

However, there is some concern that the main entrance to the homes would come off crossroad Citrus Avenue.

It is a single lane road that leads to other residential homes, but traffic delays are not expected to be excessive.

Model homes can be completed as ear-ly as November, according to Barisic, but must first wait for the decision by the City Council.

Brief by MATTHEW PIER

EMERGENCY: Improvements ahead for new system

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TRAN’S ADVICE TO RELEASE STRESS

BETWEEN CLASSES

Put down the books, phone and the computer for a few minutes and just focus on breathing. A few minutes focused breathing can re-ally rejuvenate, help you focus attention and help you become more aware of what is going on around you.

BREATHE

Do a walking meditation. In a walking meditation you coordinate your steps and your breadth. This is something you can do on your way to the next class but if you have time the arboretum is a great place for walking meditation as well.

WALK

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It’s country vs. country in global currency wars

Advanced industrial nations across the globe are groping for ways to improve their economies amid re-cord unemployment, slow economic growth and soaring deficits. The tra-ditional dual Keynesian elixirs of fis-cal and monetary stimuli have pro-duced only tepid growth, coming at the cost of unprecedented deficits that are driving many nations to-ward insolvency.

Now, the world’s central econom-ic planners have increasingly turned to outright money printing, often explicitly intending to devalue cur-rencies and promote international competitiveness. Thus begins the first salvos of the burgeoning inter-national currency war.

Central banks are ratcheting up monetary easing to promote the advantage that a cheap currency delivers to domestic manufactur-ing and international exports. For example, suppose the Mexican peso to American dollar exchange rate is 12 pesos per one dollar. If Mexico printed more pesos, the dollar to peso exchange rate would drop, so one dollar would buy, let’s say, 15 pesos. Since an American investor receives more pesos per dollar than previously, he is more inclined to open a factory in the cheaper cur-rency market using his dollars.

Since that business can also pro-duce cheaper products within a weaker currency, products sell at a lower price compared to a company operating in a stronger currency market. Therefore, a cheaper cur-rency promotes exports while im-ports from a stronger currency zone become relatively more expensive.

Nations with heavy reliance on trade and exports that lack a large domestic consumer base typically retain weak currencies. Meanwhile, large coun-tries with robust domestic consumer power usually possess strong curren-cies that encourage importation of natural resources and raw goods need-ed for production.

However, even nations with large domestic consumer bases now look to devalue their currencies to gain export advantage, prompting other countries to retaliate.

Against the backdrop of years of deflation, astronomical debt and economic malaise, Japan has emerged leading the vanguard of the currency devaluation war-riors. In order to create inflation, and supposedly growth, incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe swore to devalue the yen to prod spend-ing and consumer demand.

However, the subsurface ratio-nale of devaluation is the promo-tion of export competitiveness of Japan’s products, especially after suffering its first trade deficit in three decades in 2012. In reaction to Abe’s threats to end the politi-cal independent of the Bank of Ja-pan, the yen has fallen 18 percent against the dollar since Abe’s elec-toral victory.

Other nations are following suit. Even before Japan’s actions,

Switzerland pegged its strengthen-ing franc to the euro to stem its emergence as a monetary safe hav-en in the wake of the Eurozone de-bacle. Hungary’s forint fell after its government instituted policies de-signed to curb the independence of the central bank, while Brit-ain’s pound has fallen after news of further monetary easing plans. Meanwhile, the French Industry Minister railed against obstinate German central bankers and advo-cated a policy of euro devaluation in order to promote exports.

Of course, the world’s great-est currency debaser is closer to home—the U.S. Federal Reserve. Since 2008, the Fed has bought over $3 trillion of government bonds and mortgage-backed securities. While not explicitly identifying the objective for these asset purchases as to promote the dollar’s competi-tiveness, the Fed’s injection of mon-etary liquidity into the economy

uses the same methods as the banks of Japan, England and others who specifically identify devaluation as a policy goal.

This growing currency devalu-ation battle will stunt economies around the world as retaliatory devaluation crimps international trade and curbs exports.

Ultimately, competitive curren-cy devaluation produces the same results as protective tariffs, raising the cost of imports while promot-ing domestic industry. The world’s most destructive tariff war began after the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Act in 1930, which set off a cascade of retaliatory tariffs that plummeted international trade and deepened the onset of the Great Depression.

Secondly, devaluation increases the price of imports, including oil, therefore hurting industries and consumers reliant on foreign manufactures or raw materials.

Devaluation also allows profli-gate governments to unload their debt onto the citizens in the guise of inflation. After Britain left the gold standard in 1931, the pound plummeted by 30 percent, effec-tively leading to the monetization of a third of the national debt at the expense of consumers’ pur-chasing power. A similar scenario now looks to play out in a dozen countries with crushing debt loads and faltering economies.

Finally, devalued currencies and monetary easing often promote, along with inflation, speculative foreign loans that lead to crash-

prone and overpriced bubbles in real estate or industries, one of the major imbalances in many rapidly growing but unstable emerging economies.

Instead of devaluation, a wiser and more sustainable method to buoy economic growth is through tax and regulatory reform com-bined with the release of the massive amount of capital now sunken into government debt via restrained public spending and deficit reduction. Until those pre-requisites are met, economic tur-bulence and monetary tribulations will continue.

Money loses value, nations adjust and a ripple effect upends fiscal solvency

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In the last five years, the U.S. Federal Reserve has bought over $3 trillion in bonds and securities, following the lead of countries like Japan and Britain.Courtesy of MCT

According to the Los Ange-les Times, The AIDS Healthcare Foundation feels that creating its own health department for the city of Los Angeles separate from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health would only help with the proper care of current HIV/AIDS patients.

The AIDS Healthcare Founda-tion (AHF) feel because the county is so large, the care when it comes to HIV/AIDS patients is utterly atro-cious. Therefore creating a smaller health department would do noth-ing but benefit the current situation towards disease control.

“A lack of professional leader-ship and accountability in the Los Angeles County Public Health Department has led to rampant cronyism and a repeated refusal to adhere to standing state and feder-al laws,” said Michael Weinstein, the President of AHF, to the Los Angeles Daily News.

While understanding the frustra-tion that Weinstein has towards the County may help in understanding what the nonprofit group is going through, it still doesn’t take away the fact that the city of Los Angeles does not have the resources, nor the funds to be able to afford a separate health department.

The cities that currently have their own health department you can count on one hand. In other words, there are very few that practice this policy, let alone do it successfully.

Four California cities—Long Beach, Berkeley, Pasadena and Ver-non—all have their own public health departments, and the AHF want Los Angeles to be the fifth city with that title.

According to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the money the city has been provided is hardly paying for what is necessary now.

“In addition to the concern that an L.A. city health agency would duplicate county efforts, residents should worry about where we’d get the estimated $200 million a

year to pay for it, $200 million be-ing about the amount of the city’s projected annual budget deficit,” reads an editorial by the Press-Telegram staff.

Some things to think about: If the AIDS Healthcare Foundation did receive the funds to build the separate health care center, how would the employees be paid? How would the upkeep be kept up? Would the money be raised? With the budget clearly on edge, how can an added expense such as creating a separate health depart-ment benefit anyone?

There is simply no way it could. These are all things that could be possible, but would need a proper plan to be able to implement all the components that are essential to run a separate health department.

“It would be very difficult, if not impossible, for the city to get in the business of healthcare,” said Miguel Santana, city administrative officer, to the Times. “The city is simply not in the position to take this on.”

Santana also mentioned that the city is having enough trouble at-tempting to maintain police, fire and others during these times of budget cuts.

With that said, I strongly dis-agree with how the AIDS Health-care Foundation is going about this goal, by highly encouraging resi-dents to sign the 2014 ballot mea-sure. Instead of encouraging vot-ers to vote for the ballot, the AHF are encouraging the voters to help “force” the city of Los Angeles to create its own health department.

I believe there are other ways that would not only help with the votes, but also allow them to not burn so many bridges along the way. What would a presumed solution be? How about a separate health de-partment paid for through grants, or possibly money raised from fun-draisers or scholarships.

Even with this possible solution, the money raised still may not be enough, but I say if it’s worth it to them, it’s more than worth a try.

The AIDS Healthcare foundation has urged the city of Los Angeles to create its own health department, citing the county’s size as justification.

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Credit for online courses a boon

A new bill has been brought before the California Senate that would allow students to get credit for faculty-approved online courses taken at institutions other than where they attend. This is great news for college students who are struggling with tuition fees and overcrowded classes.

The bill was introduced to the Senate by President Pro Tem Dar-rell Steinberg, who hopes the bill will help students advance in their education by making more classes available to them. The bill would apply to introductory courses needed for general education, and would only be approved if the course was completely unavailable at their own university.

In the California State University system, only 16 percent of students graduate in four years. A major rea-son why it is taking students lon-ger to get their degrees is because there simply is not enough space in required classes. Some students are having to wait several semesters be-fore getting into a required course. With budget cutbacks, there is not enough money to supply more pro-fessors, textbooks or classrooms to accommodate the large number of students who are attempting to reg-ister for the courses.

Having students enrolled in col-lege for longer periods of time not only costs the students more, but costs the universities more to ac-commodate them.

With online classes, professors can accommodate a larger number of students. And since the new bill allows students to look outside their home university for them, more professors are available to handle the course load.

The bill would also apply to mas-sive open online courses (MOOCs), which are courses provided outside of the university system by private organizations like Udacity and edX. Many of these courses are offered for free because they do not have to

support a larger university system.Taking online classes can also

save students money. If the student is taking only online courses, he or she can save on room and board which, for a full time undergradu-ate student, costs $7,410 per school year on average. Online classes also help students save money on gas or public transportation because they can participate in the class from their home or office. Also, most on-line classes charge only for the class itself whereas traditional classes charge extra fees for lab, T.A. and equipment fees.

The option of taking online courses can also be beneficial to stu-dents who have to work, have chil-dren to look after or other responsi-bilities to balance with their school schedule. In 2010, 40 percent of full-time students and 73 percent of part-time students also held jobs according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

As a student who also works a part time job, I understand how difficult it can be to organize a class

schedule that fits in with my work schedule. Many of the required courses are offered during tradi-tional working hours and it can be stressful to race back and forth between campus and workplace. However, with online courses I am able to attend class while at home or on my breaks at my office, any time of day or night.

It is not only more convenient, but also I am more likely to be able to fully commit to the course with-out having to miss days that con-flict with my work schedule.

If the state Senate approves a bill that would allow students to get credit for a wider variety of online courses, then both the students and the university win. The university will save money on classroom supplies, and so will students. On top of everything else, students will save money on gas and have an easier time jug-gling their busy schedules.

More access to online courses is best for everyone and it is the way of the future.

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DEVIL’S ADVOCATECalifornia seeks to extend ‘last call’ in bars and night clubs

More time to drink won’t affect safety Drinkers on early morning roads are dangerousPRO: STEPHANIE MERCADO CON: AMANDA ZIVE

After the trial and error of California lawmaking regarding marijuana use, next on the list of government firsts is about revising standard alcohol consumption.

For the sake of avoiding a much more controversial issue of re-thinking America’s legal drinking age, California law is now trying to push bar service a full two hours forward, from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m.

I’d hope to see this go into ef-fect. Allowing this option to res-taurants and bars to continue serv-ing drinks passed the 2 a.m. norm would be a potential improvement toward lessening the dangers of drunk drivers and habitual binge drinking.

Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Fran-cisco) authored what is called Sen-ate Bill 635.

The current state law permits the sale of alcoholic beverages from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. in conve-nient stores and groceries for those planning to get their fill during off hours.

However, Leno’s proposal would only apply to nightclubs, bars and restaurants. Expanding the late night drink service may benefit in ways that may seem unlikely, but nevertheless, possible.

First of all, just as much as any other legal decision, this move can easily spur some fallacious over-reactions. Among these is that it would encourage alcoholism, but to consider that the action of serv-ing alcoholic beverages alone en-courages alcoholism, this way of thinking is a little overboard.

From a cultural perspective, Americans have been somewhat of late bloomers of 21st century society. European cities have long been perceived by Americans where alcohol is consumed since childhood and bars never close.

Coastal states have been looked upon as liberal and radical, yet considering change in societal practices—from marriage to thirst-quenching—they only re-flect the ways Europeans have been doing things for years with-out complaint.

Having travelled to these cit-ies where this legality is a cultural norm, I have to support the pro-posal. Without the pressure of go-ing out early enough to enjoy a good time, but late enough to not look too eager, having an extended bar service can allow for a more appropriated evening to get a good buzz and sober up enough to get home in a decent state.

Conservative and altogether paranoid America has enforced 21 as the legal drinking age to make sure that people will not be prone to belligerent drunkenness and substance abuse.

Even people 18 years old, con-sidered adults, are prohibited to drink.

We all know, despite the best of intentions, this doesn’t work.

Extending late hour last calls in bars and nightclubs can assist in weeding out those who become too intoxicated to manage, allow-ing them more time to settle down in one place before trying to head

home. This also breaks the temp-tation of wanting to get your fill before the place closes, passing drinks around maybe a bit too quickly for some to handle.

It’s not a rare case that people are often kicked out for closing time and forced to stumble out, still highly intoxicated, and fight-ing for a cab.

“Uniform closing times put significant stress on public trans-portation systems and the law enforcement agencies tasked with managing and disbursing large crowds of patrons when they all leave the clubs at 2 a.m.,” Leno said.

Extending drinking hours es-sentially can alleviate the tensions of trying to figure out a way home. The option of staying out until 4 a.m. has already given others the opportunity to head home and the rest to spend their peak drunken-ness in a bar or club instead of the streets and hopefully never behind the wheel.

“This legislation would allow destination cities like San Francis-co, Los Angeles and San Diego to start local conversations about the possibility of expanding nightlife and the benefits it could provide the community by boosting jobs, tourism and local tax revenue,” Leno said.

I hope that this legislation pass-es. It wouldn’t make it a require-ment for places, but an option that has more benefits which strongly outweigh the few disadvantages that it presents.

With the many people in Cali-fornia who begin their day at dawn, a 4 a.m. last call would put more drunk drivers on the road when they get kicked out of the bar as the innocent early birds start their day.

Weekday traffic gets steadily heavier at about 5 a.m.

The hours between 1 and 3 a.m. are known as the emerald gates be-cause there is very little traffic and lights will turn green quickly for cars stopped at intersections. This is the time of night when drunk drivers are less likely to affect in-nocent victims.

About three quarters of DUI accidents happen between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m., while about a quarter happen in early hours before 6 a.m. It’s a stringent timeline that is based around the current cycle of bars opening and closing.

If last call moves back two hours, this timeline will need to as well.

There will probably still be the high risk time around midnight, but then second wave of drivers hitting the roads from last call, which usually hits at about 2:30 a.m., will now be from about 4:30-5:30 a.m. In the 24/7 world we live in, there are always people heading to work.

The times when there are the least commuters on the road is from midnight to 5 a.m., then there is a spike followed by steady growth until the full-blown rush hour begins around 7:30 a.m.

To ensure drunk drivers are off

the roads in time for early com-muters to make it safely to work, last call in bars must remain at 2 a.m.

Strangely this proposed law goes after extending last call only in bars and nightclubs. Liquor stores and grocery stores would still have to stop selling alcohol at 2 a.m.

It’s strange because with the California public drinking laws, alcohol purchased at these stores must be consumed on private property. If someone is drinking in a home, there are many more possibilities to stay safe.

For example, people that want to purchase late night or early morning drinks, and stay in their homes or friends’ homes have a place they can sleep off the effects before getting kicked out onto the roads.

At a bar, typically there is a last call and within an hour patrons are shown the curb. A bartender may offer to call a cab for the drunks, but a bar does not assume the responsibility of people drink-ing there and then driving home.

The amount of time a person can spend alert in a day is re-stricted by how much their brain and body can withstand. For the average person on a diurnal body clock, at about 11 p.m. alertness and overall performance steadily decreases.

The time from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. is shown to be the most naturally alert time for diurnal animals, in-cluding humans.

If drunk drivers hit the roads

from 4 to 5 a.m. the people head-ing into work aren’t even fully alert yet and their driving performance might suffer. We might have masses of the second most dan-gerous drivers on the road already at those hours; the sleepy or not fully awake driver. Some people are ending their graveyard shift, while others are starting their early morning one.

Both of those scenarios, which effect everyone who has a late-night shift, make for poor driv-ing skills. Add a large amount of drunk drivers into that mix, and its begging for catastrophe.

The proposed law should at-tempt to extend store hours for liquor first, because those are the people drinking mostly in homes. If DUI rates rise dramatically from that, then it should be apparent that extending last call in bars would do the same.

The only way last call can safe-ly get extended or removed is if bars will take responsibility for the people leaving the bar. Most people that drive would rather not walk and may refuse to leave their car somewhere, so patrons would need reliable transportation to and away from their place of intoxica-tion.

With rare exception, bars and restaurants aren’t doing that, many hanging signs say no overnight parking.

Rather than paying for a cab and getting their car towed, a drunk leaving the bar is more like-ly to leave in the car they came in.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Video Game Design Club ranked No. 2 in last year’s GameSIG competition.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and their sub-branch SIG (special in-terests group) is responsible for running the intercollegiate game showcase.

The Microsoft Imagine Cup offers $50,000 for the first-place winners as well as $10,000 for sec-ond place and $5,000 for third-place.

The Video Game Club mem-bers would like to submit a single project to the Microsoft Imagine Cup; the rules of the tournament require a team limit of four par-ticipants.

As a result, multiple teams were assembled within the club and each will submit their own games to Microsoft based on the new Windows 8 platform.

Allen Hsu, 22, president of the Video Game Design Club, said despite the fact that the teams are technically competing against each other, the teams support each other.

“We are more allies than com-batants,” said Hsu.

Hsu, a fifth-year senior, expects to graduate this semester and pursue a career in software engi-neering for Google. Hsu has the knowledge of a programming lan-guage known as LISP.

LISP derives from List Pro-gramming and is the second old-est programming language used today. LISP began in 1958––only a year after Fortran. It is the pri-mary programming language used by companies responsible for tick-et sales such as KAYAK, Orbitz and Hotwire.

Hsu said he hopes his knowl-edge of LISP will elevate him above other applicants for jobs af-ter college.

“I don’t want to be another cog in the wheel,” Hsu said.

The club operates mainly off of open source programs to accom-plish their tasks. Some of these programs are: Blender, Cocos 2D, GIMP, Irrlicht Engine, PyGame,

Unity3d, Unreal Engine and XNA Game Studio 4.0.

The links to the free software can be found on the Video Game Design Clubs’ website.

Alumnus Daniel Lyons, 29, reg-ularly shares his insights into the industry and into the tech side of projects.

Lyons graduated last December and is eligible to compete one last time in the upcoming competi-tions.

Lyons applied to CSUF to pur-sue his ambition of video game design after making a decent earn-ing in a managerial position.

Lyons said he feels confident in his team’s ability to figure out the rotation, scaling and translation features with the use of gestures on the Windows 8 touch screen platform by the April 7 deadline.

Lyons admitted that these were new programming techniques they must master to bring the games to life.

Lyons explained the need to play various styles of games to get past a block of creativity.

“You go out and play games that are like yours or games that aren’t like yours,” said Lyons. “You have to play bad stuff as well as the good stuff to get inspired.”

Hsu said he is grateful to the Association for Computing Ma-chinery, Engineering & Computer Science and the Pencil Mileage Club which provide a lot of artist support.

The Video Game Club wel-comes all levels of experience and enthusiasm. For more information on how to get involved, visit Csuf-VGDC.com.

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Before the sun rose completely, I was woken up by loud chantings coming from a crowd of voices.

It was the week before Hallow-een last semester and as I stumbled out of bed to see where the com-motion was coming from.

As I looked outside of my cam-pus apartment window I saw a large group of students running in uni-son, military style, in costumes and yelling at the top of their lungs.

I couldn’t believe what I was wit-nessing that early in the morning. I was upset that I had been woken up out of my sleep by it.

But then a small voice inside of my head whispered, welcome to college life and living in campus housing.

I’m 24 years old going on 25, living in the university campus apartments.

And yes, let’s be honest, some-times I feel like an old woman giv-en that I’m surrounded by students

who are only 18 years old––fresh out of high school and barely cel-ebrating becoming legal.

I have found that not only am I not alone, but that I personally wouldn’t change this experience for anything in the world.

Max Erler, 23, a psychology major living in the campus apart-ments, has found living on campus to be about the actual experience more than the convenience or any-thing else.

He said he has decided to not let the fact that he’s older than his room and floor mates make him feel any different.

“Even if you are an older student like me, that doesn’t mean any-thing,” said Erler. “Everyone goes at their own pace and I never had that living on campus college expe-rience so I’m doing it now.”

Living life on campus, students cannot help but to be right in the middle of all the university action. From all the campus activities, and resident functions, students are at the center of it all, and the oppor-

tunities to meet other students are boundless.

However, living off campus can oftentimes be much less expensive than staying in the pricey campus apartments.

Kyle Matson, 24, a computer science major who lives on cam-pus, says that the costs of living in the dorms or in the campus apart-ments are only worth it because of the food plan included in the price.

“I’d only say it’s worth paying for it if there wasn’t a food plan,“ said Matson. “If the food plan wasn’t included then I’d say it isn’t worth it, at least for the single apartments.”

Matson isn’t the only one to ex-

press his frustrations with the high cost of living on campus. Many people view Cal State Fullerton as a commuter campus and they ar-gue that it makes it more difficult to build close relationships with other students.

As cheesy as it may sound, I sometimes find myself walking back home from a class and think-ing how lucky I am to be a resident on campus here at CSUF.

The fact that my apartment is literally five minutes away from my classes, and that I get to come back to what I feel is actually a nice looking apartment complex, makes me that much more appreciative of my living space.

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Picking up poor eating habits is not a surprising component of college life. While many students have been going to the gym to work on their New Year’s resolutions to get in shape, a healthy diet is still often neglected.

There’s the popular assumption that as long as one’s going to the gym fairly regularly, it’s okay to eat or drink what-ever is desired, including sugary, fatty and greasy foods.

Unfortunately, doing so only can-cels out all the hard work one put in at the gym.

According to Eric Ravussin, a pro-fessor at the Pennington Biomedi-cal Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., relying on exercise alone does not equate to effective weight loss simply because people often consume more calories when they exercise. Therefore, it is recommended that one should take in fewer calories than they burn as well as eating healthier.

Here at Cal State Fullerton, it can be a bit of a struggle to find healthier dining options. Almost everywhere you go, there’s a “fix” for just about ev-ery unhealthy food craving one could think of, whether it’s burger and fries, pizza and garlic twists, Chinese take-out, or sweets.

“There’s not really that much healthy places,” said Angelica Eleoury, 18, a biological science major.

However, there’s no need to feel a little overwhelmed by these un-healthy food choices if you’re look-ing for better options.

At the Student Recreation Center, one can find a plethora of healthy food choices at the Rec Express, located in the lobby. From salads, wraps, and sandwiches to specialty drinks and snacks, the Rec Express serves as a con-

venience to those looking for the best foods to eat as pre-workout and post-workout snacks.

Nearby at the Titan Student Union, there’s also the Fresh Kitch-en, known for its variety of panini sandwiches, flatbread sandwiches and sweet potato fries.

Alongside Fresh Kitchen is Baja Fresh. While many of its menu items are more than 800 calories, there’s a select few that are delicious and less calories, as well. The Mahi Mahi Taco is 230 calories and nine grams of fat; and the Baja Ensalada with chicken totals to 325 calories and seven grams of fat.

For college students, managing one’s money is extremely important, and some feel that the problem with trying to eat healthier as a whole is the high costs.

“I think the ones that are (healthy) are too expensive. Like, if I get a yo-gurt ... I bought a yogurt the other day because I wanted something healthy. It was $5,” said Selene Aguila, 22, a health science major.

For those looking to eat healthier on a budget, the Gastronome is the per-fect place.

Located across the street from the Engineering and Computer Science Building, the Gastronome offers fresh

and wholesome foods cooked from scratch, and better yet, it costs less than $10 to enter the all-you-can eat din-ing hall for lunch. Here, one can enjoy healthy, nutritious and well-balanced meals, like a chicken and melon salad, grilled vegetable pizzas, turkey burgers and garlic herb pork roast.

Last but not least, there is always the option of bringing your own lunch from home. By doing this, one would have more control over the types of food they choose, and there’s the free-dom to pack different items each day to spice up one’s weekly meal plans.

Billy English, 26, a computer sci-ence and Japanese double major, re-cently started bringing his own lunch from home and suggests others do the same as well.

“In the short run, it’s more expen-sive, but in the long run it saves you more money, and college students are always concerned about their money,” said English. “And there’s just so many better options that you could bring to school healthier than the choices in school.”

Eating healthy and keeping a well-balanced diet can be tough in college, but it is possible. It may take a little more self-control and effort in plan-ning your meals, but it’s worth it in the end to take care of yourself more.

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Work up a sweat without leaving home

The new craze for 2013 is get-ting the most out of fitness in the least amount of time. For some, this means going to a 30-minute gym class on Tuesday, for others it’s work-out DVDs.

People want to have the sum-mer-ready body, especially af-ter the new year starts. For most people, the problem is time. Not everyone can make it to a gym class and this can put people in a situation where they think they can’t get into shape, but they are mistaken.

Workout DVDs such as P90X are available to those who don’t have time to make it to the gym. They are less than the average gym membership, but give the same re-sults.

P90X is a one time payment of $119.85 plus shipping compared to 24 Hour Fitness membership of $24.99 a month.

Jeff Jelinek, a user of P90X, be-lieves in the results.

“P90X works, it’s good stuff,” Jelinek said. “The crossfit stuff is what it is all about. It takes a lot of patience and willingness to push

yourself to your limit.”The results are guaranteed due to

the time constraint placed on each work out and set of muscles.

These DVDs incorporate isola-tion of the muscles, crossfit exer-cises and muscle resistance to help shape the body all over instead of just one muscle set. They teach different types of exercises that can be used at the gym. While the gym does give results, it is easier to forget to work all the muscles because most of the time people are concerned with just one part of their body such as the stomach, back or arms.

Liz Walters, 20, a biology ma-jor, has placed her time and en-ergy into the gym, however, she struggles balancing school, work and gym time.

“I feel like there wasn’t enough time to do everything, but when I changed to also doing workout DVDs it helped me stay focused and on track,” Walters said.

She has been doing both the gym and the workout DVDs and has been sticking to it.

Sometimes these users of work-out DVDs have a great time with it and are able to stay focused with their goals. However, sometimes it poses the issue of motivation.

“I like the variety of the work-out DVDs offer because I can ap-ply what I learned to the exercises

I do at the gym,” Walters said. “But I do have days where I didn’t feel motivated enough to actually want to work out with the DVDs. Unlike the gym, there is no one there to push you or give you a motivational speech like you can do it or something like that.”

These workout DVDs are en-tirely self-motivated. There is no one pushing a person to go all out like a trainer would at a gym. The problem is a hard one to overcome especially if people are expecting to see immediate results even with the variety of exercises.

Mario Lopez, 23, a criminal jus-tice major, doesn’t believe in work-out DVDs. “I have tried them, but I didn’t want to do the exercises because I had to go out and buy the equipment. It was better for me to just go to the gym.”

The expensive equipment was rivaling the amount of the gym membership.

“I don’t see the point in having to be buying equipment when it comes free at the gym. I didn’t feel like I was accomplishing anything while trying the workout DVD,” Lopez said.

With both the pros and the cons of workout DVDs the bottom line is, if you can stay motivated and push yourself, they work and give the results that everyone wants. It’s a person’s mindset that will either make the DVDs work or not.

JENNIFER NGUYENDaily Titan

SUGAR: The battle between natural and artificial comes to a sweet endingCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

“You can do it in a natural way, and you don’t feel like you need more of it,” said Hausmann.

Joel Jelinoweiz, a manager at Moth-er’s Market and Kitchen in Hunting-ton Beach, explained how artificial sweeteners are not good for the body

per se, but how natural sugars benefit a person because one can find out the natural ingredients that are in it.

Also, Jelinoweiz explained how a person may want more sugar when it comes to artificial alterna-tives for example, yet, with natural sugars, the want for more is non-existent for most.

“I have heard that although it’s arti-ficial sweetener, it still promotes your wanting something sweet, so it doesn’t necessarily fulfill that,” said Jelinoweiz.

In general, when faced with the choice between natural and arti-ficial sugars, it’s always better to choose the natural sugar or natural sugar alternative.

Popular DVD workout programs like P90X bring full-body fitness home

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