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Pianist to perform at CSUF Volleyball’s tough schedule
Wednesday September 24, 2014
Eduado Delgado will be playing Sunday in the Meng Concert Hall
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Volume 96 Issue 13The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
‘Hearts Like Fists’ set to pack a punch
Int’l program sees big growth
Faculty feel parking pinchFaculty and staff share lots, and while some professors are concerned of growing staff squeezing out faculty, Provost Jose Cruz maintains that administration has not seen much net growth.
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Faculty at Cal State Ful-lerton are feeling the hurt from a parking shortage that has been an issue with students for years.
Faculty members spoke out to Provost Jose Cruz about the difficulty of finding parking on cam-pus at an Academic Senate meeting on Thursday.
“It’s been very tough,” said Mahamood Hassan, Ph.D., accounting profes-sor and president of the Fullerton Chapter of the California Faculty Asso-ciation. “On three differ-ent occasions already this
semester, I had to go park at the Marriott Hotel and pay $7 each time.”
Hassan is one of many faculty members who have had to resort to inconve-nient alternatives in order to get to work. He feels the problem lies in the lack of infrastructural growth at a university with a growing number of students, facul-ty members and staff.
“We’ve hired about 75 full-time people and an-other 50 part-time peo-ple, so there has been an increase in faculty,” he said. “The challenge is that the university is growing—they’re hiring more faculty, they’re hir-ing more staff, which is good. But the facilities are not keeping up … and
the university needs to do something about it.”
Academic senator Nan-cy Fitch, Ph.D., a history professor, also echoed the parking issue.
“I think the parking problem is really quite se-rious,” Fitch said at the meeting. “I wonder if it isn’t the large number of administrators and their staffs that we’re hiring that’s being put into the same parking spots that were available for faculty in the past.”
Hiring more full-time tenure track faculty, to re-duce the number of part-time lecturers taking up spaces may alleviate the problem, Fitch said.
Faculty complain of worsening parking situation, and lots that can’t keep up with growth
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Cal State Fullerton had its largest enrollment of international students on record during the spring 2014 semester.
Last semester, 1,541 in-ternational students from 76 different countries at-tended CSUF. That number comes after a 40 percent increase in international student applications.
The largest group of stu-dents were from India, which was nearly 19 per-cent of the international student population. Over 17 percent of students were from China, and about 12.5 percent were from Vietnam.
Other countries with substantial presence on campus include South Ko-rea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Taiwan.
Applications from international students increased 40 percent last year, the most on record
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Hearts Like Fists opens this Friday in the the Hallberg Theatre. The comic book-themed comedy deals with themes of love and courage and will feature choreographed fight scenes.
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With crime fighting scenes, superheroes, vil-lains and of course a love story, Hearts Like Fists offers a creative twist to an anything but normal comedy.
Hearts Like Fists, writ-ten by playwright Adam Szymkowicz, is a fast-paced and exciting con-temporary play that ad-dresses the issues of love, courage, sacrifice and fear in innovative ways.
The play is directed by Oanh Nguyen, the founder of the Chance Theater in Anaheim.
Nguyen has been di-recting for about 20 years and is excited that Hearts Like Fists at CSUF is the first university cast he has directed.
The play focuses on three crime fighters known as Nina, Sally and
Jazmin, who dress up as superheroes.
The three crime fighters have different personali-ties, which help them come together in order to stop the villain, Dr. X, from in-jecting lovers with a deadly serum.
Bailey Castle, 21-year-old fine arts major, is play-ing the role of Jazmin; a sassy, sexy and feisty crime fighter who enjoys beating up men.
Castle said she loves playing this role because she enjoys represent-ing a strong and powerful woman.
“We can accept love and give love in return while also standing up for our beliefs, our morals, fight-ing crime and looking good while doing it,” Cas-tle said.
Unlike other theater productions at CSUF, Hearts Like Fists called for a mandatory fitness pro-gram for the cast.
Department of Theatre and Dance kicks off this season with a sexy superhero comedy
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Among the most prom-inent majors chosen by international students, business administration represents the largest at 430 students. Other pop-ular choices include com-puter science, electri-cal, civil and mechanical engineering.
The international pro-grams department at CSUF collaborated with other campus divisions to ac-commodate the inflow of international students by providing additional work-shops to help students se-cure internships and jobs.
“Because we have more demand for workshops, we do offer more,” said Cris-tina Garcia, student em-ployee at the International Programs office. “Every semester, we’ve increased the number of workshops that we can present.”
The International Pro-grams Office offers inter-national students help with employment, health insur-ance, scholarships, main-taining visa statuses and more.
International students should be aware of the dif-ferent international offic-es on campus, Garcia said. CSUF currently offers as-sistance through the In-ternational Admissions
office, American Language program office, Interna-tional Student Services of-fice and the International Program office. Each of-fice works together, albe-it with their own specific focus.
In addition to the in-ternship and employment workshops, additional ré-sumé workshops help stu-dents compete in the job market by creating pro-fessional presentations of their experience.
The internship work-shops are a collabora-tive effort between the In-ternship Center and the Office of International Programs.
Pre- and post- Comple-tion Optional Practical Training workshops are offered for international students to help find em-ployment. This is only of-fered to actively enrolled students and alumni with-in one year of graduation. The workshops allow in-ternational students to op-timize the resources avail-able after they’ve earned their degree.
“We explain how they can obtain a work per-mit for one year after they graduate,” said Jessie Shin, international student ad-visor. “A lot of students come to that workshop be-cause they do want to stay
here for one year at least to do internships … ”
International students are not allowed to work off-campus, and these tools are offered to assist them during school and post graduation.
In collaboration with the Career Center, the Interna-tional Programs office is presenting the “Working in the U.S.” series for interna-tional students on Oct. 10 from 1-2:30 p.m. This job fair prep will be located in University Hall 244, and will focus on giving inter-national students tips on creating an elevator pitch, dressing for success and interviewing techniques.
Students can also attend the International Coffee Break, a weekly gathering that meets 2:30-3:30 p.m. every Wednesday at the Aloha Java coffee shop lo-cated between the Human-ities and University Hall buildings. The gathering is designed for interna-tional students to meet on campus to exchange sto-ries, ideas, establish new friendships and meet Inter-national Program advisors and Volunteer Internation-al Peers.
International students can seek more advisement at the International Pro-grams office in University Hall 244.
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No end to Ebola outbreak
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Syrian state media confirmed that the U.S. warned the Syrian gov-ernment of its intent to bomb Islamic State mil-itant targets, accord-ing to the Los Angeles Times.
The attacks were not coordinated with the Syrian government. There was also no no-tification at the military level, nor any indication of when certain targets would be struck.
Syria had previous-ly warned that any un-authorized airstrikes would be viewed as an “act of aggression,” however there has yet to be any direct con-demnation from Da-mascus regarding the U.S. bombardment.
Assad’s loyalists fear that these initial strikes could lead to a U.S. at-tempt to topple the cur-rent regime.
The Ebola outbreak may never leave hu-mans due to its slow-mutating abili-ties, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Epidemiologists be-lieve that because this illness is slow to mu-tate, it will continue to increase its length of life in humans. An esti-mated 64.3 percent of people who are strick-en with Ebola and are admitted to a hospital will not survive.
The virus is now be-ing considered an en-demic to West Africa, with over 20,000 cas-es expected to occur by early November. The speed of the Eb-ola outbreak is most-ly blamed on the lack of control and re-strictions placed on the ill victims, which causes the disease to spread.
Somali pirates have finally freed Ameri-can journalist Michael Scott Moore after holding him captive for over two years.
Elders of Somalia’s Mudug region were in-volved with negotiating Moore’s release, re-ported the region’s gov-ernor, Ahmed Muse.
Moore had been re-searching illegal Eu-ropean fishing’s pos-sible effects on the increase in Somali piracy.
Moore’s web edi-tor at Pacific Stan-dard Magazine, Mi-chael Todd, noted that the magazine wanted to write about Moore’s capture, but they were advised against it by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Department.
After his release, Moore boarded a plane at a Soma-lian airport, but Muse did not release his destination.
Special Olympics to visit Fullerton
Fullerton was announced as one of 100 host cities for Special Olympics athletes. The dorms at CSUF will be used to house the participants and coaches.
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The city of Fullerton has been selected as a Host Town for the 2015 Los An-geles Special Olympics World Games. As one of the host communities, Ful-lerton will house 100 in-ternational athletes and their coaches for three days in the Cal State Fullerton dorms.
More than 7,000 athletes from 177 different countries will be arriving in South-ern California, and will be staying at some of the 100 cities participating in the Host Town program.
Other host cities will in-clude Long Beach, Thou-sand Oaks, La Mirada, Fountain Valley and Hun-tington Beach.
Over the course of the
three-day program, the mayor and city council will show the athletes and their coaches around town to in-troduce them to the city.
The Host Town program started in 1995 and allows the athletes to come to the country ahead of the games to adjust to the time dif-ference and participate in cultural exchange. Steven Vanderpool, senior vice president for communica-tions for the games, said the purpose of the Host Town program is for cities to connect to the games on a more local level.
“It allows communities, such as Fullerton, or Thou-sand Oaks or Santa Barbara to have the ability to con-nect with the World Games since the competitions are going to be held closer to downtown Los Angeles,” Vanderpool said.
To become an official Host Town for the World
Games, a city must be able to house the athletes and express a strong interest in the Special Olympics.
CSUF dorms will be used to house the athletes and coaches during their stay in Fullerton. The cam-pus was chosen over a ho-tel in order to keep the ex-perience equal for athletes in every city, Vanderpool said.
“We want every athlete that is coming here to have a like-experience,” he said. “We are looking for a lev-el playing field, for exam-ple the athletes in Long Beach will be staying at CSULB.”
After their stay on cam-pus, the athletes and coach-es will relocate to the ath-lete villages at USC and UCLA. The 2015 Special Olympic World Games will take place from July 25 through Aug. 2 at 25 ven-ues in Los Angeles.
CSUF will house 100 athletes and coaches participating in the 2015 Los Angeles games
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Cruz denied the number of administrators is having an impact on parking.
The number of faculty, administrators, staff and
students is “pretty much the same,” Cruz said at the meeting.
He did suggest that some of the crowding in parking lots may be caused by how the campus community
schedules their work. “That’s a conversation
we need to have,” Cruz said. “It’s very hard to make a case for additional parking if, on Fridays, we have 90 percent of parking available.”
This semester, accord-ing to CSUF Parking and Transportation Services, the demand for faculty parking spaces at CSUF has been high between 9 a.m until 2 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays.
Faculty members are ad-vised to take advantage of the stack parking service in the student section of lots A, E and G.
Hassan added that aside from the glaring lack of parking, faculty members still have to pay $13.50 a month in parking fees, something he feels is thor-oughly unfair.
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It’s very hard to make a case for ad-ditional parking if, on Fridays, we have 90 percent of park-ing available.
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The office of the Vice President for Student Af-fairs hired a new associate VP last week. Vijay Pen-dakur will be the new as-sociate responsible for the Student Retention Cluster. Pendakur will be replacing Roger W. Sorochty, Ph.D., who filled the position as interim VP since January.
“I felt like I was ready to take on a larger scope of responsibility and this job was just really compel-ling,” Pendakur said.
He finished his doctor-ate in 2013 and spent the last eight years working at DePaul University’s Office
of Multicultural Student Success (OMSS), 6 1/2 of which he served as the director.
Students from less priv-ileged backgrounds, in-cluding first generation students, students from low-income families and students of color are the target demographics for DePaul’s multicultural of-fice. First generation stu-dents made up 33 percent of DePaul’s freshman class in 2013. Students of color made up 39 percent, and transfer students made up 40 percent of DePaul’s new degree-seeking students.
Cal State Fullerton is considered a Hispanic, Asian-American and Pa-cific Islander serving in-stitution. Only 27 percent of its student population
identifies as white or cau-casian. Roughly half of the students enrolled at CSUF are first generation students.
These facts excited Pendakur.
“Those are the students I am passionate about serv-ing,” Pendakur said. “I think that if we provide them with a robust educa-tion, a challenging educa-tion and support them so they can actually gradu-ate immediately, they be-come difference makers, not just for themselves, but for their families and communities.”
Pendakur was instru-mental in the development in faculty mentoring pro-grams and peer assistance programs like the Marillac Fellows, a cohort program
for incoming students fac-ing significant challeng-es, which may affect their ability to succeed, said As-sistant Director Eric Mata, who is directly responsible for the Men of Color Initia-tive at DePaul.
“(Pendakur) challenged me to create a program that was different … that is multi-tiered, multi-dimen-sional that meets students at different aspects of their careers,” Mata said.
Andrea Arzuaga, anoth-er assistant director at De-Paul’s OMSS, is in charge of Empowerment and Stu-dent Success. She de-scribed Pendakur as sup-portive and engaged.
“He pushed me to try new experiences, new leadership opportunities, to be innovative with my
programs, or to really just strive to take my career to a whole new level,” Arzua-ga said.
Privately, Pendakur is for hire as a consultant and speaker regarding topics of diversity and social justice. He has presented at a num-ber of universities includ-ing Dominican University, Oregon State University and Swarthmore College.
Pendakur holds two un-dergraduate degrees in American History and East Asian Studies from the University of Wiscon-sin-Madison, his master’s in U.S. History from Uni-versity of California, San Diego, and most recently his doctorate in Curricu-lum Studies from DePaul University.
Chief of Operations for
the Office of the Vice Pres-ident for Student Affairs David Forgues, Ph.D., ex-plained that the student af-fair office began its search for a new AVP for student retention in January when the former AVP left for an-other position.
The search committee tasked with hiring a new AVP was made up of fac-ulty appointed by the Ac-ademic Senate and the search was spearheaded by Interim Dean of Extended Education Kari Knutson Miller, Ph.D. The univer-sity employed the execu-tive search firm Keeling & Associates to advertise and initiate the hiring process.
Vijay Pendakur will be-gin at CSUF the first week of October.
Vijay Pendakur comes from DePaul University with new ideas for retention cluster
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Acclaimed pianist Edu-ardo Delgado will be performing at Cal State Fullerton at the Clayes Performing Arts Center (CPAC) in the Meng Con-cert Hall.
The recital will take place on Sunday, Sunday-from 4-6 p.m.
Advance tickets are on sale for $13. Same day tickets are $15 at the box office located on the south corner of CPAC.
Delgado was born in Ro-sario, Argentina and began playing at a young age with his mother.
According to the Los Angeles Philharmonic As-sociation website, he con-tinued training with Sergio Lorenzi in Venice, Vicente Scaramuzza in Buenos Ai-res, Dora Zaslavsky of the Manhattan School of Mu-sic and Rosina Lhevinne of the Juilliard School.
He has received many awards including the Vlad-imir Horowitz Award, and
grants from the Mozarte-um Argentino, Martha Baird Rockefeller and Con-cert Artists Guild.
He was also awarded the UNESCO medal for his
musical contributions.Delgado has done his
part in paying his tal-ents forward by founding The Castle Green Histor-ic and Cultural Society in
Pasadena as well as estab-lishing the Alicia de Lar-rocha scholarship fund for talented pianists in tribute to renowned pianist Alicia de Larrocha.
“To help endow the scholarship, he performed an inaugural recital with Madame de Larrocha at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda,” according
to Delgado’s website.The New York Times
called Delgado “a talent to reckon with.”
In addition to his many musical contributions, Delgado also contributes a great deal to Cal State Fullerton. Not only is he a musical genius, he uses that genius as a professor of music at CSUF, passing down his knowledge and expertise to students.
Delgado is well trav-eled and has brought the sounds of his music to the major music capitals over four continents including Europe, South America, North America and Asia.
He has a knack, bril-liance and contagious sen-sitivity in pianism.
“Through the wide span of Delgado’s repertoire from Bach to modern com-posers, audiences immedi-ately feel and hear that mu-sic affects him very deeply and that he shares these profound and personal emotions freely with every listener,” according to Del-gado’s website.
Delgado is in constant demand and will once again be setting the stage on CSUF’s home turf.
The Los Angeles Podcast Festival is returning with its third year of fan fun.
This year, the fest will be held at a new location at the Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills for a three-day pod-cast extravaganza.
The event will take place Sept. 26-28.
Tickets are now available at $99 for the entire week-end, $29 for Friday, $59 for Saturday and $49 for Sunday.
An online service fee
will be charged to all tickets.
If those prices are too steep, or you just can’t make it to the event, it will be broadcasted live on the LA podcast website for $25.
If that’s not enough, the weekend will also be available to view online for three weeks after the festivities.
The podcast festival brings the broadcaster and the audience together in an event that is sure to leave your cheeks sore from laughing.
In addition to possible meet and greets that will take place, there will also
be a huge stand up show on Saturday called “The Standup Podsmash.”
The lineup for the night is still to be announced, but comedians from the past years include Marc
Maron, Wil Anderson, Jake Johannsen, Dana Gould, Greg Fitzsimmons and Kumail Nanjiani.
“The Standup Pods-mash” show is the only event that cannot be viewed from home with the
live internet broadcast.The festival’s website
promises “no filter, no gatekeepers and no rules,” with live podcasts, parties, panels and special events.
Attendees could meet
their favorite podcaster in the Squarespace lounge.
Podcasters can also go and record their own pod-casts right from the festival in the Squarespace Podcast Lab.
The podcast festival this
year is presented by Gra-ham Elwood and Chris Mancini of Comedy Film Nerds as well as Dave An-thony and Andy Wood.
Some of the special guests include Horatio Sanz, Tim Miinchin, Whit-ney Cumminings and Hal Sparks.
Also on the agenda are live podcasts from WTF with Marc Maron, Guy on Girl with Aisha Taylor, Who Charted? with How-ard Kremer and Kulap Vilaysack and This Week with Larry Miller.
These casts and all oth-ers are subject to change.
Comics, podcasters and fans from all over will be
in attendance to enjoy ev-erything the LA Podcast Festival has to offer.
“It’s a celebration of podcasts, podcasters and most importantly, of the fan. Especially the fan who likes to spend mon-ey,” according to the LA Podcast Festival website. “We wanted to start the LA Podcast Festival to shove podcasters and fans to-gether in a small enclosed space. To meet. To mingle. To love.”
The schedule for each day as well as any other infor-mation regarding the three-day event can be found on the LA Podcast Festival website, lapodfest.com.
Brilliant pianist and CSUF professor Eduardo Delgado to perform in Meng Concert Hall
KRISTINA HILLIARDDaily Titan
Award-winning piano player and CSUF Professor of Music, Eduardo Delgado, will be performing in the Meng Concert Hall. In addition to being an acclaimed pianist, Delgado is the founder of The Castle Green Historic and Cultural Society in Pasadena.
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The Los Angeles Podcast Festival will be held at the Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills. The three-day event is presented by Graham Elwood, Chris Mancini, Dave Anthony and Andy Wood. The festival will feature a stand up show, meet and greets and podcast labs for recording.
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Tongue and Groove comes to downtown Fuller-ton’s Continental Room on Sunday at 7 p.m.
The Los Angeles based show will host notable au-thors and beginner writers such as Ron Carlson, Sa-mantha Dunn, Lisa Alvarez and Shawnacy Kiker.
These professionals will be reading segments from their own writings during the show, which will consist of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and slam poetry.
Musician Jimmy Camp will perform at the event.
Tongue and Groove has thrived in LA for 11 years, hosted by Conrad Romo who initially thought of this idea after hearing a story on Minnesota Public Radio about a reading series at a bar in New York called the KGB bar.
The way the reporter on air described this series made Romo want to dis-cover a similar program in LA.
While several places in LA hosted reading series, Romo was not able to find a program with the same en-ergy as the New York se-ries; and so began Tongue and Groove.
Romo was fortunate enough to host a reading at the KGB bar.
He was happy to read at
the bar that first inspired Tongue and Groove.
His role in Tongue and Groove is what he considers “a good waiter,” because of his facilitating duties.
Romo prefers to keep the spotlight off of himself while restricting his on-the-stage job to only introduc-ing each reader.
Romo works with profes-sional writers, and also so-licits and receives requests
from publicists, which is how he can guarantee al-ways having readers for his show.
“Sometimes I’ll just look in the paper, or I’ll just see what writers ... are coming to town,” Romo said. “I’ll take the initiative some-times to contact writers, or maybe I’ll read a re-view about an author and it sounds like a book that I would like to read …
maybe I’ll find something of theirs online so I could see what they sound like. So I use a little bit of my salesmanship.”
Romo’s co-producer, Cynthia Romanowski, met Romo two years ago when she did a reading for him at the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival in Silver Lake.
Fullerton’s show will be the first Orange County production for Tongue and
Groove. Their traditional LA lo-
cation is called the Hotel Cafe, which was chosen for its mellow vibe.
Finding an Orange Coun-ty venue with the same feel was not an easy task.
“We looked at a lot of places and it took us a while to find the Continen-tal (Room), but I think it has the same vibe, kind of like a classic lounge type place.
They have a booth with the vinyl red seats and a big stage with a red curtain and all the little things like the Hotel Cafe, so we’re excited about doing it there,” Roma-nowski said.
Tongue and Groove is a free event at Continental Room in downtown Fuller-ton, and goes from 7-8:30 p.m.
Potential attendees can RSVP at conradromo.com.
The program was creat-ed in order to prepare the cast members and “ninjas” (the crew members dressed in all black who lift cast members) for the fight scenes. Part of the pro-gram focused on healthy eating habits and strength training.
Christopher Yu, 21-year-old fine arts major plays the role of Peter, a doctor who tries to construct an artifi-cial heart to help those who have been hurt before.
Yu thinks this play is different because there is a lot of stage combat, in-teresting lighting and the whole play is unexpected. He hopes people walk away with hope that love can tru-ly exist.
Hearts Like Fists opens Friday and runs through Oct. 19. Tickets are $11 at the door and $10 with an advance Titan discount.
For more information, contact the Clayes Per-forming Arts Center at (657)-278-3371 or visit ful-lerton.edu/arts.
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The cast and crew of Hearts Like Fists put on the finishing touches before opening night on Friday. Tickets can be purchesed at the Clayes Performing Art Center Boxoffice.AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN
Tongue and Groove will make its Orange County debut at The Continental Room in Fullerton
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Tongue and Groove reading series will be held at The Continental Room in downtown Fullerton this Sunday. The Los Angeles based series is hosted by Conrad Rono and is making its Orange County debut.
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Humans and chimpanzees have been around for cen-turies. The debate on how much we truly have in com-mon with them feels even older.
It appears that chimp-on-chimp violence comes as a natural behavior for them, according to a study pub-lished in Nature.
This homicidal tendency is hypothesized to originate from a competitive evolu-tionary standpoint.
By killing a foreign chimp, it provides the survi-vors a reduced risk to their own lives, as well as great-er access to food and mates. It sounds like we’re not that different after all.
The study also aims to disprove the notion that such violent behavior in chimpan-zees stems from certain hu-man activity like removing the chimpanzees’ natural habitats or disturbing their natural order.
“It’s a natural behavior–it’s not something we’ve induced by disturbance or intervention,” said Univer-sity of Manchester evolu-tionary biologist Susanne Shultz, Ph.D., in an inter-view with BBC.
I sure don’t think chim-panzees were holding hands and singing songs before we became the disruptive neighbors.
That is a nice thought, however.
It’s amazing to see such fa-miliar behaviors in non-hu-man species.
Besides a love for vio-lence, chimpanzees live in tight-knit communities in which male chimpanzees act as security and patrol the pe-rimeter of their location.
We as humans hold up in cities and urban areas, and have strict regulations about where and when bor-ders end and so on.
The results of this study also brought up questions about the origin of human vi-olence, and whether or not we
can learn from chimpanzees. The lethally violent in-
teractions recorded in the study are believed to hap-pen the most when each chimp in the attacking group had the most to gain, and the least to lose.
This motivation is one of the main drivers behind natural selection.
Natural selection has led
chimpanzees to kill their competitors so that their own community has more access to resources such as food and territory.
While this sounds eerily similar to the logic behind how humans approach war, politics and even economics, this still isn’t any reason to look toward chimpanzees to understand our own follies.
Joan Silk, Ph.D., from Ar-izona State University hopes that this study gets rid of the notion that violence in these animals is due to human interference.
“Humans are not destined to be warlike because chim-panzees sometimes kill their neighbors,” Silk said in an interview with BBC.
I completely agree with
that statement. It’s an un-fair assumption to think of modern day chimpanzees as good indicators of our own behaviors.
The old saying that what separates us from animals is our civility, holds true.
John Mitani, Ph.D., a be-havioral ecologist at the Uni-versity of Michigan and one of the study’s authors, also has
an opinion on the matter. “There is considerable
variation in rates of kill-ing by chimpanzees living in different populations, so even in chimpanzees kill-ing is not inevitable,”
Mitani said in an inter-view with BBC.
So it’s also not fair to single out chimpanzees as inherently violent crea-tures as well, seeing as how they too have their ups and downs.
“And, of course, we are humans and not chimpan-zees. We have the ability to shape and alter our behavior in ways that they can’t,” Mi-tani said.
However, others such as Robert Sussman, Ph.D., an anthropologist at Washing-ton University, is dismissive of the study and still feels human activity is something to consider.
He claims the statistics don’t say anything, and that the authors of the study did not establish a lack of hu-man interference.
The idea that by studying behavior in chimpanzees, we will be able to get some in-sight about our own behavior is a far-fetched one.
Michael L. Wilson, Ph.D., the study’s prima-ry author, said that people have long been interested in chimpanzees as a way to better understand the evo-lution of our behavior.
Of course this is true, many people look at the way nature express-es itself and use that as a sort of measure for self reflection.
I think such reflection is healthy and appropriate, however, I wouldn’t read too far into it.
The debate on whether the violent behaviors in animals are similar to our own acts of violence shouldn’t be a debate at all.
We aren’t subject to such hard and primitive lifestyles the way most animals are.
We have culture that is founded on more than just vi-olence and male dominance.
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JOHN MITANIBehavioral ecologist at University of Michigan
We are humans and not chimpanzees. We have the ability to shape and alter our behavior in ways that they can’t.
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Your deeply charming ways are mak-ing life sweeter for practically ev-eryone in your life. Make sure that you’re not just saying what they want to hear, though -- you can make this work with sincerity.
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You need to spend a little extra time getting to the root of today’s issue or big problem. It’s easier to com-prehend, but it is sure to take more time than you had realized. Take it seriously.
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You need to clean up around the house or the office -- it’s the only way to get anything done. It may feel like a waste of time at first, but you should soon see that it’s actually for the best.
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You’re coming on a wave of great en-ergy, and now is a good time to think through your future plans and adjust them a bit. You may be able to get more of what you want, or just get a bit more realistic.
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Your amazing energy gives you the impetus to start something new -- so get on with it! Your ability to move past obstacles has never been stron-ger. Keep moving and you can do anything.
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You’ve got too many details to keep track of running through today’s projects. That’s okay! Just focus on what’s most important and leave the rest for some other day. Things get better soon.
SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):
It’s a great day to help a friend or a stranger -- your energy needs an out-let. If you can rack up some bonus karma, so much the better. That’s sure to come in handy in the near future!
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You can tell that your energy is a bit out of favor today -- so do what you can to just hunker down and keep yourself whole. It’s easy to remain hidden. Don’t ask for any special fa-vors!
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):
You make almost unbelievable prog-ress today -- as long as you’re work-ing on something practical. Creative stuff is fun, but it may be harder to push that kind of work where it needs to go.
AQUARIUS(JA. 20 - FEB. 18):
You’ve got to look deeper below the surface today -- things aren’t making much sense at first glance. You need to make sure that your close friends or coworkers are ready for the real version of event.
PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):
You just can’t seem to figure out what’s really going on -- so don’t worry about it! All the details should start to make sense in a few days, and that’s as good as it’s going to get. En-joy!
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The Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team opens Big West Confer-ence play this weekend with matches against Cal State Northridge and Long Beach State at Titan Gym.
The Titans (6-7) are com-ing off a roller-coaster per-formance at the Fullerton Classic last weekend, where they endured a disappoint-ing loss to Yale, a gritty win against Georgetown and a respectable performance against the No. 20 UCLA Bruins.
Unfortunately for Head Coach Carolyn Zimmer-man’s team, the schedule does not get any easier.
CSUN is 9-3 this sea-son and are the defending tri-champions of the Big West.
The Matadors finished 2-1 at the competitive Universi-ty of San Diego Invitational last weekend.
They swept Eastern
Washington and then earned an upset win over the No. 19 ranked USD Toreros in four sets.
They wrapped up the weekend with a loss to No. 1 Stanford, but that did not spoil the Matadors’ success-ful tournament run.
CSUN is on the verge of cracking the American Vol-leyball Coaches Association Top-25 Poll.
They received two votes after their performance in the USD Invitational, and have received votes in the poll every week of the sea-son besides one.
Senior Casey Hinger is one of the leaders of the Matadors.
In the opening match last weekend, she became the 11th player in school history to reach 1,000 career kills.
Her teammate Natalie Allen is also in the histo-ry books with 1,123 career kills, which is seventh in school history.
Junior setter Steffi Miller sets the table for the dynam-ic Matador offense.
Her 10.44 assists per set rank third in the Big West. Northridge is a
well-rounded team offen-sively, with five players tal-lying over 80 kills.
The Titans were swept in both matches against Northridge in 2013.
The Matadors dominat-ed both games and only one Titan recorded double-dig-it kills against them last season.
The Fullerton offense is much different from the one they put out in 2013.
Freshman Niki With-ers leads the team with 194 kills and is second in the Big West with 3.96 kills per set.
Junior Holland Crenshaw is also in the top 10 in the conference with 145 kills.
The Titans as a team are third in the conference in kills.
After a tough match-up against CSUN, the Ti-tans will play Long Beach State.
The 49ers enter the week-end with a 10-4 record.
It is the first time they have won 10 non-conference games since 2010.
Jenelle Hudson is the set-ter for the 49ers and leads the Big West in assists with 502.
The Iowa State transfer was 34th in the nation in as-sists and had five 50-assist matches last season.
The 49ers have three play-ers with over 100 kills with junior outside hitter Alex Reid leading the way with 138.
Reid also contributes de-fensively, where she is third
on the team with 126 digs.In order for the Titans to
be successful in Big West play, they will have to cut down on their errors.
Fullerton has the sec-ond most errors in the con-ference, with only UC Riverside making more mistakes.
They had a glaring 35
errors against Yale in the Fullerton Classic and it caused them to lose a win-nable match.
The Titans won just four Big West games in 2013.
They hope to steal a tough win this weekend and kick off the Big West Conference season on a positive note.
Cal State Fullerton’s cross-country team will look to build off of their success last weekend as they head to the Coyote Classic this Saturday in San Bernardino.
The men’s team was im-pressive in last week’s Mus-tang Challenge, finishing second out of 19 teams who
competed. The CSUF women’s
squad placed fourth in the same competition held in Santa Clarita.
Sophomores Danny Ramirez and Jose Penaloza finished second and third, respectively, coming in with times of 26:00 and 26:02.
Senior Brandon Perry was the next best Titan, fin-ishing in 24th place with a time of 26:37.
The Fullerton men’s team had six of the top 30 run-ners in the event.
The fourth-place women’s
team was led by Emily Tay-lor, who finished in 13th place with a time of 18:52.
Senior Katie Bathgate was next in line for the Ti-tans, coming in with a time of 19:02, good for 20th place.
Coachella native Ana Valdovinos rounded out the top three Titans by fin-ishing the event in 21st place with a time of 19:03, just one second after her teammate.
The Coyote Classic in San Bernardino will be another tough test for the
Titans, who are looking to build off of their impressive finishes early in the sea-son before heading to Law-rence, Kansas for the Rim Rock Farm Classic on Oct. 4.
Fullerton will also have a tall task at the Highlander Invitational just two weeks later, where their Big West Rival, UC Riverside, will host the highly-competitive event.
CSUF will once again host the Titan Invitation-al on Oct. 24 at the Titan Track Complex.
Following the Titan In-vitational is the Big West Championships in River-side, where runners have the opportunity to qualify for NCAA West Region-al spots as well as poten-tial NCAA Championship appearances.
Fullerton has performed extremely well in the ear-ly-going, but they are hop-ing to place better in both the Big West Champion-ships and NCAA West Regionals.
Last season, the CSUF men’s team came in sixth in
the Big West and 24th in the NCAA West Regionals.
The women placed fifth in the Big West and 29th in the NCAA West Regionals.
If the team is going to have more success against top competition this season, they will need to continue to develop continuity be-tween the runners and per-form at a consistent level.
With the NCAA Cham-pionships just two months away, those improvements will need to come quickly if any CSUF runners are going to qualify.
CSUF has a tough schedule ahead of them with Big West foes headed to Titan Gym
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The Titans look to have runners qualify for the NCAA West Regionals this season
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CSUF cross-country hits the road again
Titans gear up for Big West playThe Titans have struggled against top competition this season, and they will need to find more consistent play as the Big West season starts. CSUF faces Northridge and Long Beach State this weekend.
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