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A study by a Cal State Fullerton professor showed that people addicted to facebook had similar fMRI readings to those who are addicted to other substances. PHOTO BY AUSTIN WALLACE, GRAPHIC BY MIKE TRUJILLO / DAILY TITAN

The Department of Mod-ern Languages and Litera-tures will offer a new Teach-ing English to Speakers of Other Languages certifi-cate to undergraduate stu-dents interested in teach-ing English in the U.S. or overseas.

The certificate program, which was originally offered to Cal State Fullerton grad-uate students, will be avail-able to all undergraduates and international students in Fall 2015.

The development of un-dergraduate certificate start-ed when the program’s fac-ulty discovered that the university criteria would not prevent undergraduate stu-dents from participating in the program, said Janet Ey-ring, Ph.D., a professor for the program.

The undergraduate pro-gram has been in develop-ment for up to two years, said Cheryl Zimmerman, Ph.D., another profes-sor for the certificate pro-gram. Zimmerman devel-oped the vocabulary for the program.

The undergraduate pro-gram will touch on teaching english to adults, but will emphasize teaching younger students, Eyring said.

The classes will feature hands-on experiences to give students the skills they’ll need to teach English.

Program offers teaching options

Bitter pill: Facebook addiction mirrors substance dependency

The jazz man plays to his own tune

English teaching program expands to undergrads

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Social media has become a force to contend with in today’s society, embedding itself in the home and be-coming a part of the cul-ture of many workplaces.

Undoubtedly, social me-dia is a versatile tool, but it’s also highly addicting, according to recently pub-lished research.

Ofir Turel, Ph.D., a Cal

State Fullerton professor of information systems and decision sciences, has studied the various effects of technology-related ad-dictions for the past six years.

His research analyzed a series of individuals, from students -to employees, and conveyed how this addic-tion can affect job perfor-mance as well as a user’s personal life.

Turel published his find-ings on Facebook addiction in 2014, detailing how he examined the brain systems of 20 Facebook users.

The examination pro-cess began by having par-ticipants engage with a

Facebook addiction ques-tionnaire. A week later, those same individuals un-derwent fMRI scans while completing Facebook-spe-cific tasks.

In a series of “no-go tasks,” participants were asked to hit a button ev-ery time they saw a traffic sign, and refrain from hit-ting the button every time they saw a facebook-relat-ed symbol. Other partici-pants were asked to do the opposite in a series of “go tasks.”

People who ranked high-er on a Facebook addiction scale tended to have faster response times for Face-book-related iconography

than they did for traffic signs, and women demon-strated stronger Facebook addiction-like symptoms than men, according to the results.

The findings also indi-cated that Facebook ad-diction has similar neu-ral features with gambling and substance addictions. Technology-related ‘ad-dicts,’ however, are ca-pable of preventing such behavior.

The behavior associated with a Facebook addiction is similar to that of a food craving, Turel said.

“As long as you are aware, ‘OK I need to stop drinking; I shouldn’t

eat this second piece of cake’—as long as you con-trol your behavior you are fine, but the moment you lose control and you are suddenly sucked into a particular behavior that has negative consequenc-es for your life, it’s a prob-lem that should be treated,” Turel said.

Along with researching the effects of social media, Turel studied the effects of information technology in employees. He was coauthor of The Dark Side of Infor-mation Technology, an arti-cle in MIT Sloan Manage-ment Review magazine.

At 53, Gary Gould may not fit the description of a typi-cal college student. Yet, the Cal State Fullerton graduate is recognized as a profession-al musician and lecturer, who teaches music part-time at the Orange County School of the Arts.

He has command of more than a dozen different wood-wind instruments and spe-cializes in live performance of smooth jazz, Irish penny whistle and klezmer, an East-ern-European folk music, to name a few.

Students may have noticed Gould practicing the clar-inet or saxophone on cam-pus. But, few realize Gould’s melodies echoed through the university more than two de-cades ago, when he attended CSUF.

For Gould, music has al-ways been a part of life and his professional career start-ed at a young age. While at-tending high school in Scott-sdale, Arizona, Gould was recruited to play tenor and

alto saxophone in an adult big band, The Bill Hunter Orchestra.

Gould’s father, had a dif-ferent set of plans for his son and expressed that he did not expect him to pursue mu-sic as a professional career. Moreover, his father wanted his son to help run the fami-ly business, which was an op-tometry practice.

“I had an interesting con-versation with my dad, one day … he asked me if I would become an optometrist and join him in business,” Gould said. “I was disappointed, be-cause I did not want to be an optometrist … I didn’t even think about it.”

He declined the offer. However, his reaction to his father’s proposal served as a defining moment in his life as a young musician.

“I said, Dad, I never thought you were happy as an optometrist, I always thought you wanted to do something else,” Gould recalls. “And it was the first time I ever saw my dad cry,” he said. “He said, ‘you’re right. I wish I had done something else.’”

Gould knew he wanted to pursue music as a career and he got his first ‘real job’ as a saxophonist on a cruise ship. He was making an honest living as a musician, but still being pressured to pursue an

academic degree. Finally, to honor his fa-

ther’s wishes, he enrolled at CSUF as an advertising ma-jor and left music behind.

“I quit music to do this,” he said. “This was my deal with my dad, I was going to quit music and go into ad-vertising. Kinda like, ‘okay, I did the music thing for a while, and now I’m going to do what a responsible adult is supposed to do, that was my attitude.’”

After a few months as an advertising major, Gould re-members visiting the music department; unaware every-thing was about to change.

“I could immediately hear in the distance that a band was playing,” Gould said. “I opened the door and stick my head in, and a voice says, ‘Gary Gould, what are you doing here?’”

Gould had just random-ly reunited with a former bandmate from the Bill Hunter Orchestra, who had moved to California and become a professor of engineering at CSUF. The professor then intro-duced Gould to the univer-sity’s jazz band director, and Gould’s relationship with the music depart-ment began.

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A passion for music, education and performance

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Gary Gould, who is a professional musician, can be found practicing jazz and other styles of music on campus. Gould is currently an undergraduate, working toward his master’s in jazz performance.

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ISIS takes town,kills 40

Virginia train blaze continues

Body foundon O.C. beach

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An Iraqi official con-firmed reports that ISIS burned up to 40 people alive in the town of al-Baghdadi Wednesday, according to a CNN report.

Militants from the terrorist group seized most of the town—lo-cated nine miles from Ayn al-Asad airbase, where 400 American military personnel are stationed—last week.

Among the victims of the burnings were police officers and tribesmen.

ISIS, which routine-ly releases images of its killings, had not published any as of Wednesday night.

Pentagon spokes-man John Kirby said he had heard of the incident and seen imagery, but could not provide further comment.

Residents of a Vir-ginia town relied on trucked-in bottled wa-ter after a train carry-ing crude oil derailed Monday, causing a fire that continued burn-ing through Tuesday, the New York Times reported.

Fears that the oil had contaminated the Kanawha River led to the closure of a treat-ment plant in Mont-gomery. The plant was reopened Tuesday after tests showed levels of crude oil in the river were undetectable.

West Virginia Amer-ican Water neverthe-less advised its 2,000 customers to boil wa-ter before using it, after aerial photos showed oil in a nearby creek.

Of the 109-car train, 26 tankers derailed and 19 were involved in the fire.

Police and fire of-ficials discovered a man’s body in knee-deep water at Shell Beach 10 days after an 18-year-old Las Ve-gas man disappeared from a rocky alcove in the same area, ac-cording to the OC Register.

The body was reported to offi-cials around 4 p.m. Wednesday when a homeowner who lived above the beach dis-covered it.

There was no word from officials on whether the body could be that of An-thony Parnell, a Neva-da resident who was swept away by a large wave when explor-ing the beach with his friends Feb. 8.

Summit focuses on strength in solidarity

Students Advocating Civ-ic Transformation will be hosting this year’s Social Justice Summit Saturday to hammer out a message of cooperation in the face of adversity.

This year’s theme of Sol-idarity: Breaking Down Barriers will address a myriad societal difficulties including homelessness, human trafficking, eco-nomic injustice and Islam-ophobia through speaker sessions and workshops.

The theme for this year’s event grew out of a fall protest when more than 30 people—includ-ing students and faculty—marched from campus to the Fullerton Police De-partment in protest of the acquittals of police offi-cers in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, said Berlin Edmond, who han-dles fundraising for Stu-dents Advocating for Civic Transformation.

Edmond, who was a part of the protest, was impressed by how people overlooked race and oth-er characteristics to ral-ly together for a common cause.

“It was just a really beautiful thing,” Edmond said. “And in light of that, we have decided that it wouldn’t be right not to keep pushing forward with this movement.”

The summit aims to be more interactive this year to bring home the impor-tance of working together to foster positive change, he said.

That interactive com-ponent will be carried out

through the summit’s pro-gramming, which will in-clude roundtable discus-sions and interactive talks, said Student Life and Leadership Coordinator Alisia Kirkwood.

The event will also in-clude segments that bring attention to efforts made by students and community members to combat injus-tices, Kirkwood said.

In addition to talks and workshops, the film School-ing the World, which ex-amines the impact of mod-ern education on the world’s remaining indigenous cul-tures, will be shown at the summit.

The keynote speaker for this year’s summit will be Amie Breeze Harper, author of the Scars: A Black Les-bian Experience in Rural White New England.

Harper will be discussing

her experience as a vegan in order to dispel different ste-reotypes about vegan cul-ture, Kirkwood said.

Harper will also be intro-ducing other speakers and their presentations at the event.

Summit organizers are hoping to draw hundreds of people to attend the event, Edmond said.

“We’re hoping that the Social Justice Summit is a lot more involved than the ones previous,” he said. “We want people leaving with a sense of solidarity, of course, and we also just want to educate the com-munity that their actions do not have an impact just solely on themselves but a global impact as well.”

The summit will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday in the Titan Student Union.

Social Justice Summit is set to tackle variety of issues Saturday

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What it is

• The Social Justice Summit will address problems with homelessness and prejudice among other topics when it comes to the TSU on Saturday.

Types of Talks

• Round table discussions, lectures and interactive talks will be a part of the summit. There will also be a film screening presented.

More information

• More information can be found by visiting Fullerton.edu/Volunteer/Summit

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Turel said he became in-terested in information sys-tems and the impact they created on businesses and individuals during his doc-toral program. After read-ing about informational technology effects in the media, he began research-ing the issue on his own.

In Turel’s study on orga-nizational mobile email us-ers, 46 percent of employ-ees showed medium to high addiction-like symptoms to workplace technologies.

Not only do employees use these technologies at work, but they also spend an average of 23 minutes per day responding to work emails at home.

One day during the week-end, employees spent an average of 42 minutes re-sponding to work emails and 43 minutes each vaca-tion day. They also spent 12 minutes while commuting.

His research shows that this kind of addiction in-creases a user’s workload, which reduces the user’s level of organization. Not only can this addiction de-crease productivity, but it can also increase work-fam-ily conflict by using more work-related technology at home.

Users became more mo-tivated to control their in-ternet use after watching an educational video about the risks of internet overuse, one of Turel’s studies found.

Facebook: Studies show addiction

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Amie Breeze Harper, author of Scars: A Black Lesbian Experience in Rural White New England will be presenting as the keynote speaker at Saturday’s Social Justice Summit.

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Nwosu is the associate vice president for aca-demic programs.

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“We will do little research projects, we’ll do service learning, in some cases stu-dents will interview real teachers and also observe students,” she said. “We’re going to get them ready by the end to be able to stand up and teach.”

It will take an undergradu-ate student at least two years to complete the program, Eyring said.

The program requires stu-dents to complete either two years of non-native language courses in high school, or a year of language courses in college, passing with at least a B minus.

The program allows stu-dents to take prerequisites simultaneously with the cer-tificate courses, but requires undergraduates to take

Linguistics 106, a course that counts as a prerequisite.

Undergraduate students should begin with Linguis-tics course 300 and 351—the first classes presented in the Fall 2015 semester. Students must pay the tuition fees for the program like any other undergraduate program, she said, Eyring said.

The certification will so-lidify the student’s opportu-nity in teaching abroad and the courses will count as the requirements needed in obtaining an English Lan-guage Development teaching credential to teach in high schools, Eyring said.

International and non-na-tive english speaking appli-cants must pass an addition-al series of tests, including The English as a Second Language exam or the Inter-national English Language

Testing Systems, with cer-tain required scores.

The undergraduate cer-tificate program increases more opportunities for stu-dents, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languag-es’ club president and gradu-ate student Sonya Kim Park said.

“For the undergraduate certificate, it’s really use-ful for a lot of students who want to go overseas,” Park said.

Had the program been of-fered when she was an un-dergraduate, she said, it would have impacted her de-cisions moving forward.

“Having this would prob-ably would have done so much more for me,” she said.

The undergraduate cer-tificate program, she said, strengthens undergraduate

students’ desire to pursue the same graduate program in the future.

Park also encouraged un-dergraduates to approach the club for any advice or ques-tions that will shift students to the indicated Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages’ faculty.

Students are encour-aged to contact Juan Car-los Gallego, Ph.D., program coordinator, to start the certificate enrollment doc-umentation that will noti-fy admissions and records of their contribution to the program, Eyring said.

More information is available on the program’s site, HSS.Fullerton.edu/MLL/Academics/TESOL or by calling the Depart-ment of Modern Languag-es and Literatures at (657) 278-3534.

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International and non-native English-speaking applicants

• Must pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exam with 573 points

• Must pass the Internet-Based Test (iBT) with a score of 89

• Or pass the International English Langauge Testing System with 7.0 rating

• Or pass the Pearson’s English test with a sum of 65 points

International students• Must pass the TOEFL iBT talking category with

26 pointsEnglish-speaking students

• Must complete two years of non-native high school language courses

• Or pass a year of college language courses with a B minus

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Teaching: Program options expanded

Council approves budget review

The mid-year budget re-view was approved by a unanimous vote by the Ful-lerton City Council during Tuesday’s meeting.

The budget review fea-tured a $1.32 million in-crease in appropriated funds, the largest increase of which would go to $450,000 increase in legal fees.

The budget had previous-ly been rejected by a 2-3 vote during the Feb. 3 meet-ing, and chose to postpone a decision on the budget to provide more time to garner public input.

The council also appoint-ed new applicants to various boards.

Mayor Greg Sebourn, Councilman Doug Chaf-fee and Councilman Bruce Whitaker gave their ap-pointments for the Citi-zens Infrastructure Review Committee and the Energy and Resource Management Committee.

Mayor Pro Tem Jennifer Fitzgerald chose to hold off her vote until after a discus-sion regarding combining the two committees.

Fitzgerald did, howev-er, appoint a new member to the Design Review com-mittee and the Planning Commission.

Director of Parks and Recreation Hugo Curiel was also present to address the Hillcrest Park Improve-ments, which council ap-proved in a 4 to 1 vote to be-gin phases one and two.

The initial cost is

estimated at $300,000 dol-lars for the beginning phases, Curiel said.

Sebourn did not vote in agreement with the oth-er councilmembers and ex-pressed concern over the park funds.

“Park funds are very hard to come by and when you do, they’re earmarked in such a way that’s very cumbersome to use,” Se-bourn said.

One of the funding as-pects Sebourn took is-sue with was the installa-tion and upkeep of a set of wooden stairs in the park.

The stairs, which will be made of heavy, pres-sure-treated timber, would help maintain drainage and wildlife, Curiel said.

The safety of bicycle rid-ers, pets and children was also brought up during pub-lic comment.

The proposed improve-ments include a bridge near a slope that reaches Har-bor Boulevard, creating a possible scenario in which children running across the bridge reach the slope and can’t stop.

Sebourn also raised con-cerns over the bridge that will be constructed in the front of the park and a plan to widen the sidewalk.

The location of a creek

in the park makes the wid-ening unreasonable, he said.

“I really don’t have any palette for raising that much money on a bridge, I much rather see that money used on maintenance and other facilities within the park,” Sebourn said.

Chaffee and Council-woman Jan Flory agreed that many of these ques-tions will be more easily

answered after execution of the engineering and draw-ings to see how it all works out.

“I am very excited about it, and the reservations that my colleagues on this coun-cil have expressed, I think will be addressed when we have a bona fide plan. This has been in the works for long time and it’s time to kick it in the rear and get going on it,” Flory said.

City council also addressed Hillcrest Park improvements

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A crowd observes a previous city council meeting. The council approved a mid-year budget review unanimously Tuesday. The council also addressed planning for a reconstruction and improvement project that will implement changes to Hillcrest Park in Fullerton.

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As part of the rally against hate, students participated in an interactive demonstration by sharing their messages of hope to fight prejudice against minority groups.

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Tunnels of Oppression stands united against hate

Club connects all cultures

Despite majoring in ad-vertising, Gould was still highly involved within the university’s music depart-ment. In fact, as a member of the CSUF Jazz Orches-tra, Gould received CSUF’s Most Outstanding Jazz Mu-sician Award in 1989. Ad-ditionally, in 1995, Gould won the Southern Califor-nia Saxophone Competition hosted by John Tesh and the Jazz radio station KTWV

“The Wave.”Now, having returned to

his alma mater, Gould is in his second semester of un-dergraduate studies for the master’s program for jazz performance, at the new-ly-distinguished School of Music. Gould’s aspirations toward continuing his educa-tion are motivated by his pas-sion for music, and his goal to share his musical expertise at the collegiate level.

Gould’s classmate, Josh-ua Phillips, 21, is seeking his

bachelor’s of music in clas-sical clarinet performance. Phillips met Gould last se-mester and explained that Gould has become both a good friend and mentor. Phil-lips said Gould’s natural abil-ity to teach allows him to reach the students on another level, something that Phillips has tried in his own lessons.

“Gary’s virtue is patience ... he’s able to get the student to come alive with the music and open up, through the mu-sic. To learn by having fun,

because of the music,” Phil-lips said. “That’s what I’ve tried to do with my students, and its worked.”

Charles Tumlinson, Ph.D. professor of music and co-di-rector of the Jazz Studies Program at CSUF in his 14th year, said he knew Gould professionally, long before he was one of his students.

“I’ve known Gary for most the time I’ve been here,” Tumlinson said. “We’ve played together profession-ally and he did let me know

very early on he was a grad-uate of CSUF, from another department.”

Gould’s case is unique, but he understood that the pursuit of education will enable him to accomplish his true pas-sion, which is teaching, Tum-linson said.

“Not every dimension of what he has done is typical, but it is not unusual for some-body to have reached a cer-tain point in their life and de-cided they really would like an education in something

they didn’t have,” Tumlinson said. “And I think also for Gary, I know there are some teaching opportunities he can have.”

It was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the historic American poet who famously remarked:

“Music is the universal language of mankind.” To Gould, however, music can be characterized as a universal compass, continually leading him to education, happiness and CSUF.

Gould: Reaching an educational coda

A free cosmic bowling event sponsored by Red Bull was held in the Titan Bowl on Tuesday night. Members of the We Speak English Project spent a few hours together to share laughs, make friends and knock down a few pins.

“Our motto is to connect cultures through English; for international students we want them to feel com-fortable with their English speaking skills,” Matt Hanrahan president of the We Speak English Project said.

The club specializes in acclimating international students at Cal State Ful-lerton into American cul-ture and language through social experiences and events, Hanrahan said.

“This is an amazing group, because you get to know about different cul-tures and different peo-ple,” said Mit Dalal, 24, CSUF computer engineer-ing major.

We Speak English Proj-ect joined the CSUF club scene February of last year. Since then, the proj-ect has steadily welcomed students from all over the world and helped them find comfort speaking the En-glish language.

“There are a lot of oth-er members from different countries other than Ko-rea, India or Saudi Ara-bia. It’s really fun to know each other and share cul-tural things,” said Kyung Jae Shin, an internation-al business major from Korea.

Shin joined the club Fall 2014 after being ap-proached by We Speak English Project represen-

tatives at CSUF’s Days of Discovery.

“The staff members are really fun and friendly to other international stu-dents. They approached us first, that’s the most inter-esting point in this club, this is really good for in-ternational students like us,” Shin said.

The club consists of stu-dents from Holland, India, Germany, Vietnam, Bra-zil and Japan, among many other countries.

“I think it brings to light the fact, just how large of a population of internation-al students we have,” said Helen Chavez, represen-tative for the Association for InterCultural Aware-ness for We Speak English Project.

We Speak English Proj-ect’s foreign students were

enthusiastic about being in a new atmosphere, meeting new people and learning new things that may not have been easily accessible in their native country.

“Two to three years be-fore, I didn’t know how to bowl, and right now I’m in second (place), so it’s amazing,” Dalal said.

The club creates an al-ternative learning envi-ronment for internation-

al students without feeling ashamed of attempting a new language because their peers are experienc-ing similar challenges.

“I think primarily what sets us apart is the fact that you can’t really do this in a classroom setting,” Chavez said. “This is a real so-cial aspect of how cultures collide.”

We Speak English Proj-ect is active on six col-lege campuses, including Cal State Northridge, San-ta Monica College, Sad-dleback College, USC and UCLA.

“To hear and see the cul-tures all together in this re-ally nice mesh, it’s really cool,” Chavez said.

For more information about the We Speak English Project, visit their website wespeakenglishproject.org.

We Speak English Project immerses international students

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The We Speak English Project plays a game of cosmic bowling at the TSU Titan Bowl on Tuesday night, while mingling and practicing English.

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Lock that smartphone and engage in classroom learning.

At least that’s what Rob Richardson and Mitch Gardner hope students will do by using their app, Pocket Points.

Recently, the app has been receiving a lot of buzz as it strives to solve soci-ety’s growing phone addic-tion. By using the app as an incentive, students can build up points to be re-deemed at local business-es, such as dining services

on campus, according to its website PocketPoints.com.

As of October 2014, the app expanded to 3,000 us-ers and 15 local business partners. The app is avail-able for iOS, with an An-droid version in the works, according to the website.

The app offers some-thing for everyone; local businesses are gaining a loyal and broader range of customers, struggling col-lege and high school stu-dents are getting discounts for food and the app assists in the decline of cellphone usage in the classroom, said Richardson and Gard-ner, co-founders of Pocket Points, on their website.

Unfortunately, Titans will have to wait to test out the application, since it has

yet to expand to Cal State Fullerton. However, Pock-et Points plans to eventual-ly reach all CSU campuses, reported Action News Now in an interview with Rich-ardson and Gardner.

The way it works is sim-ple: before class begins, students will open the app on their device. The app, using the GPS in the phone, will determine whether or not the student is in class. Then, after it tracks the lo-cation, students lock their phones and begin racking up points.

Nina Idowu, 18, chem-istry student, thinks that the app’s potential is much more valuable than just keeping students from tex-ting in class.

“I dorm, so I see every-body struggling for food,”

Idowu said. “So if we could get free points to go to restaurants, I don’t see anyone who would not be

up for that.”The success for an ap-

plication such as this de-pends on the response from the faculty and adminis-tration on campus. Crys-tal Newman, marketing di-rector of Campus Dining Services, said in an e-mail that Campus Dining would only benefit from partner-ing with Pocket Points if a majority of the campus

population used it. Newman and her team

are continually approached by programs and appli-

cations similar to Pocket Points.

“It would give Campus Dining another opportu-nity to connect with stu-dents on campus,” New-man said in an e-mail. “It is a positive message that partnering with Pocket Points gives incentive to students to not use their phone in class. I’m sure the professors would love

this app too.”Some professors have

gone to great lengths to ban the use of cellphones in the classroom. Yet students still find ways to sneak a text or status update during a lecture. Students can ar-gue that cellphones are useful in a classroom set-ting, while others feel cell-phones are impractical.

“I think if you know you are going to be looking up things in class, you should bring your laptop or iPad,” Idowu said. “If you have your phone, the teacher is just going to assume you are messing around on it. I would say it’s not super useful.”

For updates on which schools the app is ex-panding to, go to pocket-points.com.

Points for not using cellphones in class

App tracks class attendance

Do you ever skip class? Does the loose attendance system in college lead to temptation for a day of hooky? How about 240 days of hooky?

Core Principle is a com-pany that researches grad-uation rates and they found that 25 percent of college students miss nearly a years worth of classes over the course of four years, ac-cording to their website.

Unlike high school, most four-year colleges don’t have an official attendance policy and taking atten-dance daily is left up to the professor.

Jeff Whorley, chief ex-ecutive officer of Core

Principle, released an app called Class120 in the fall of 2014. The app allows parents, or a third par-ty, to monitor and receive alerts,through an integrated GPS system, if their son or daughter is actually in their scheduled college class.

“Early 2014, we were testing Class120 on cam-puses all over the country. So far, our student surveys and focus groups predicted an average college student will attend about two more classes per week if he or she is using Class120,” ac-cording to the website.

The technology, “was founded on a simple but powerful premise: we can help more students succeed in college,” according to the website.

The founding team re-searched by reading and listening to students and professors and found the answer to the “stagger-ing numbers” of graduates,

was: “go to class” according to the website.

Class120 has three dif-ferent versions of software available to institutions, parents and students.

Institutions can use the software and apply it to certain classes for students

who are on academic pro-bation. It can be used by professors to take roll and can help support athletic success, allowing coach-es to monitor their players’ attendance.

For parents, the student must agree to download the app into their phone and en-ter their class schedule. Stu-dents can also monitor their own attendance and have

the app remind only them when they miss a class. The app can be downloaded for $17.99 per month or for an annual price of $199.99 for basic services.

“We don’t anticipate our software is going to change the way any school does

their attendance policy,” said Joe Montgomery, chief marketing officer for Core Principle. “That’s some-thing that they’re deciding to do, outside of us.”

Montgomery is also a founding team member for Core Principle and orig-inally got involved when Whorley sold him on the idea of being part of a busi-ness that’s trying to tackle

the graduation crisis for students and parents in the United States.

“What we can do, is al-low a school just to let their parents know … if you’re spending tens of thousands of dollars on your sons and daughters education and you want to give them the best chance they have to succeed after college, and they agree to participate, then this is an option that you might consider,” Mont-gomery said.

“The day after you leave college, they expect you to show up, be there and get to work,” Montgomery said.

In 2008, only 56 percent of freshmen graduated in less than six years accord-ing to CSUF Institution-al Research and Analytical Studies.

“This college period be-tween high school and starting a job doesn’t seem to match up,” Montgomery said. That workplaces will

expect you to show up and bosses are not willing to gamble on employees who may show up or not.”

Aaron Lim, a kinesiolo-gy major at Cal State Ful-lerton, said he wouldn’t mind downloading the app if his parents asked him, but feels it would be unnec-essary and something they wouldn’t request of him.

“I believe you got to be there to learn, it just de-pends ... the reasons why (they’re) there. You do need to be in class to pass,” Lim said.

Lim said the app could be a good motivator, however, paying attention while in class is another story.

The app currently has around 2,000 students on the Class120 system and is expecting about 5,000 to be on the system by the end of 2015.

The Class120 app can be downloaded online at http://www.class120.com.

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Unpaid interns short changed

Grad school gives students a leg up

Although most universi-ties require an unpaid intern-ship to graduate, whether in-terns are paid is becoming a bigger controversy than ever.

An ethical line is crossed when an unpaid internship be-comes beneficial to the em-ployer and not the intern.

An internship needs to

be more than a line on a resume.

If an intern isn’t go-ing to be paid, he or she needs to gain valuable work experience.

Being the lowest on the totem pole shouldn’t mean your main responsibility is fetching coffee.

If a student is going to dive into an unpaid intern-ship, both the employer and the intern must have a mu-tual agreement that wages will be unpaid, according to the Federal Department of Labor.

Last year Columbia Uni-versity eliminated credit

opportunities for unpaid in-ternships that did not count toward graduating, accord-ing to the Washington Post.

All potential internship employers must meet the Department of Labor’s reg-ulations., the Post further reported.

While unpaid internships help students gain experi-ence for the “real world” there are many other ways to make connections and foot-prints in the field.

Unpaid internships may look good on a resume, but do not promise fulfillment of learning the craft.

Going above and beyond

the requirements of a col-lege internship places gradu-ates in a much more advan-tageous place.

An unpaid internship only runs about a semester.

After that semester, there’s no promise of a secure job.

Many unpaid intern grad-uates are stuck working an entry level, minimum wage job.

Making lifelong con-nections with profession-als who inspire the craft is much more beneficial than doing a three month unpaid internship.

Professional connections may still be unpaid, but are

much more rewarding since there are no boundaries or regulations set by the Fed-eral or State Department of Labor.

California Law also en-courages employers to teach interns more generalized knowledge for the indus-try rather than information that’s specific to the job.

This hinders any room for growth for students who are proactive and creative.

They might find them-selves stuck making coffee or copies for the employ-er which stifles motivation and encouragement.

It takes real drive and

passion to reach out and create a professional rela-tionship without a school requirement.

Getting out in the world and making professional connections with people who motivate and encour-age one another is endless-ly rewarding.

In today’s tough job mar-ket, it’s much more benefi-cial to make connections on a personal and professional level than it is to graduate college with an empty hand-ed, unpaid internship.

Consider this when look-ing to fill your resume and further your future.

Employers take advantage of free labor, stifling growth

JACKIE TAMBARADaily Titan

It’s a scary world out there for millennials.

Ever since the economic recession of 2008, Ameri-ca plunged into the deep end and the job market has been dismal.

The country has been slowly recovering ever since. New jobs are created every day and that’s a great thing.

However, the layoffs and shutdowns of years past have caused many qualified vet-erans to compete in the job

market once again.This is certainly hard for

working adults, but even harder for young people, es-pecially recent graduates, being pushed out of the job market.

It’s hard competing with people twice as old and with double the experience.

The Bureau of Labor Sta-tistics shows that the unem-ployment rate for those un-der 25 is typically twice the national average.

As graduation looms on the horizon, many students are searching for ways to beat that average.

Students looking to im-prove job prosects after graduation focus on filling up their resume with rele-vant school, internship and

work experience.There’s also another ques-

tion many soon-to-be grads ask themselves: should I consider going to graduate school?

73 percent of young adults between 25-34 with a bach-elor’s degree had full-time jobs in 2012, according to The Institute of Education Sciences.

That doesn’t sound too bad until you take a closer look at the kinds of jobs recent grads have been taking.

“Of 41.7 million work-ing college graduates in 2010, about 48 percent of the class of 2010 work jobs that require less than a bache-lor’s degree and 38 percent of those polled didn’t even need high school diplomas,”

according to an article in the Huffington Post.

Many students opt to con-tinue working the minimum wage position they held in college, while some ac-cept positions they’re over-qualified for, just happy to be employed and earning a living.

It’s a tough position to be in; not knowing what the fu-ture holds, or if it holds any-thing at all.

As bachelor’s degrees be-come increasingly attain-able, many students are con-sidering graduate school.

Some may argue its use-fulness is arbitrary or only relevant to certain majors, making the cost of graduate school a monetary squander. While that can be true for

some, a master’s degree can be a great help, especially in such a bleak job market.

Anthony Carnevale, direc-tor of the Georgetown Uni-versity Center on Education and the Workforce told the Washington Post, “The gen-eral conclusion about grad-uate degrees is that they do improve earnings. There’s almost no doubt about that.”

But it’s not as straightfor-ward as it seems. The pay raise one can expect with a master’s degree varies by major and field.

A master’s in engineering will see a much higher pay bump than a master’s in com-munications, for example.

It’s all about supply and demand. In a competitive

industry like the arts or ed-ucation, striving for a decent paying job will practically require a master’s degree, said Carnevale.

If landing a job after graduation isn’t a reality, consider going to graduate school.

It will separate you from the countless other bach-elor’s degrees vying for a job.

You’ll have more time honing your skills in your selected field and you’ll come away with experi-ence and a big boost to your resume.

Graduate school is worth your consideration.

Give yourself that leg up so you’re able to put that foot in the door to your future.

A master’s degree makes life after college a bit brighter

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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

All aspects of love and romance will go especial-ly well today, Aries. You might take this oppor-tunity to make a bold move toward the object of your affection. Go with an unconventional approach and move fearlessly.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

Your connection with others is especially strong today, Taurus. You will enjoy an important nur-turing role. Reconnect with your mother and let her know how you’re feeling.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

You might feel especially playful today, Gemini. You can expect to feel a great deal of love and af-fection from others. Be aware that you will have a strong tendency to indulge in food and drink, so try to keep things in moderation.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

The bizarre nature of the day may leave you feeling a bit bewildered, Cancer. Don’t sweat it. Focus on your romantic nature and incredibly nurturing heart. Use your instinctive healing abilities to care for a close friend in need.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

You will be in an especially affectionate and loving mood today, Leo. Your romantic nature is heightened and your nurturing qualities are strong.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

Annoyances of daily life may rub you the wrong way today, Virgo. Other people’s strong opin-ions and odd quirks may be difficult to swallow and your fuse may be a bit shorter than usual.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

Be open and honest about your feelings toward others today, Libra. Your receptive nature should be ready. Take a break and let others come to you. Unexpected events may pop out of nowhere.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):

Your heart beats extra strong today, Scorpio, but it may not seem like anyone knows it but you. You may feel like you aren’t really fitting in with the energy of the day. Don’t get down on your-self for it.

SAGITTARIUS(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

This is a fantastic day for you, Sagittarius. Join close friends and share a night on the town and fine meal. This is a chance to begin a new cycle of romance.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

Your warm, sensitive nature is perfectly suited to today’s aspects, Capricorn. Your emotional energy is strongly tied to your heart, and you will find that there’s a longing to be close to others.

AQUARIUS(JAN. 20 - FEB. 18):

You will enjoy a great deal of affection from oth-ers today, Aquarius. You radiate an air of love and beauty. Love will come in strong, erratic bursts and you should be on the alert to expect the unexpected.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

Your heart may be especially sensitive today, Pi-sces. You may feel a bit vulnerable. Your roman-tic nature is particularly strong, so treat yourself to a pampered evening, including a good meal with someone you love.

The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team is look-ing to bounce back Saturday when it faces off against Cal State Northridge in an im-portant Big West Conference encounter.

The Titans lost 4-3 last Saturday at home to UC Da-vis. Fullerton took the dou-bles point with a sweep from its three teams. Camille De Leon and Megan Sandford defeated the Aggies’ No. 1 team, 8-4. The point was then secured by Kalika Slev-cove and Emilia Borkowski who won 8-4, while the No. 2 doubles team of Danielle Pham and Alexis Valenzuela won by the same scoreline.

Valenzuela and De Leon won their singles matches in straight sets, which gave the Titans a 3-1 lead. The Aggies went on to tie the match at 3-3 before eventu-ally winning it in a three-set thriller.

The Titans will take con-fidence in knowing that they dominated doubles and opened up a 3-1 lead before Davis came storming back.

Up next for the Titan women’s tennis team is a vis-it to Northridge to face a Cal State Northridge team that is undefeated early on in Big West play. CSUN opened up its Big West campaign last Saturday with a convincing 7-0 win at UC Riverside.

The next day, the Mata-dors faced a stiffer test and snuck out a 4-3 victory over UC Davis, a day after UC Davis defeated the Titans by

the same score. CSUN went on to split

the first two doubles match-es and fell short in a heart-breaking tiebreaker 11-9 to lose the doubles point on Sunday against UC Davis. But the Matadors quickly re-sponded in singles play and managed to win four of the six singles matches to clinch a 4-3 victory and remain un-defeated on the season at 3-0.

The doubles point will be a huge key to the match. If the Titans can manage to se-cure the point, it would al-low them to win the match by splitting the singles sets three apiece. If Fullerton los-es that all-important doubles point, it would have to win four of the six singles against a strong Northridge side.

The Titans (3-4 overall, 0-2 Big West) are looking to get their first conference win of the campaign. This match is important, as the team will only have five more confer-ence contests remaining af-ter facing CSUN.

If Fullerton can notch the victory at Northridge, it would give the young Titan squad a huge boost going into a three-game non-con-ference home stretch.

Fullerton will look to rely heavily on two talent-ed sophomores in Valenzu-ela and De Leon. The Titan team boasts plenty of young talent; and these two will try to build upon their singles victories last week and help get the Titans off their Big West slide and into the win column.

Starting 0-3 in league play would put the team in a pre-carious hole. However, if CSUF can win this match, it could be a catalyst for the Titans to continue their win-ning ways.

This weekend, the Cal State Fullerton men’s bas-ketball team will look to tal-ly two Big West Conference wins in games against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Santa Barbara.

The Titans failed to harbor a victory in their last three

contests after picking up their lone conference win against Cal State Northridge earlier this month. The skid has re-sulted in a 9-16 overall record and a 1-9 conference mark.

With six games remaining on the schedule, the Titans will look to finish the season strong if they want to avoid missing out on the Big West Tournament.

The Titans will face off against the Cal Poly SLO Mustangs Thursday night at Titan Gym at 7 p.m.

The Mustangs (12-11 over-all, 5-6 Big West) have been

victorious in their two previ-ous games, pulling out wins against Northridge and Long Beach State. The Titans will attempt to end the Mustangs’ winning streak and to start one of their own.

The Titans will have their hands full trying to find some offense against the stout Mus-tang defense, which is lead-ing the Big West with 59.7 points per game allowed.

The Mustangs came out on top in their last meet-ing against Fullerton in late January, outscoring the Ti-tans 66-55. Senior forward

Steve McClellan led the Ti-tans with 12 points and 12 rebounds, while senior guard Alex Harris was held to eight points, sinking only 2-of-11 shots. The Mustangs were led by junior David Nwaba, who tallied 18 points and seven rebounds.

Cal Poly SLO’s head-to-head record all-time against Fullerton sits at 35-26. The Titans and Mustangs have split the season series in each of the past three seasons.

Saturday will be auto-graph night at Titan Gym as the Titans take on the

Gauchos (13-11 overall, 6-4 Big West).

UC Santa Barbara comes in to Titan Gym riding a three-game winning streak. The Gauchos will look to im-prove their conference record to 7-4 Saturday night, as the Titans will attempt to take advantage of UCSB’s poor 2-8 road record.

The last meeting between these teams resulted in a 68-49 loss for the Titans. This was a game the Titans let slip right through their fingers as they went in to the second half up 36-31. A 19-0 run in

a seven-minute span allowed the Gauchos to escape with a victory after outscoring the Titans 37-13 in the second half.

Redshirt junior guard Lanerryl Johnson lead the club with 21 points, but that was not enough to stop the of-fensive production from Mi-chael Bryson, who finished the game with 23 points, and John Green, who tallied a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds.

Saturday night’s game against the Gauchos will tip off at 5 p.m at Titan Gym.

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Cal State Fullerton base-ball is looking to get back on the winning track when they face the Stanford Car-dinal for the first time since 2011 this weekend for a three-game series starting Friday at Goodwin Field.

CSUF opened the sea-son to a slow start by Ti-tan standards at 1-3 due in large part to a lack of time-ly hits with runners in scor-ing position.

Through the first four games of the season, the Ti-tans are batting .200 as a team. Fullerton has strand-ed 27 runners and struck out 47 times.

“(We need to) put the

ball in play,” said Head Coach Rick Vanderhook when asked what the team needed to do to get back on track. “Our opponent has played like 2 3/4 games without even having to catch the ball ... just being able to hit the fastball, if they can’t figure it out Fri-day night, it’s going to be a long night.”

On the positive side, ju-nior third baseman Dustin Vaught is currently leading the team offensively hitting .625 (5-8) with a run batted in and three runs scored so far this season. Also, junior second baseman Jake Jeffe-ries is currently on a three-game hitting streak with two RBIs.

On the mound, the Titans have shown both strengths and weaknesses. Junior starter Thomas Eshelman (0-1) only allowed two earned runs with 10 strike-outs in his season-opening

start, but the lack of offen-sive support proved to be too much. The Titan bull-pen has been a wild ride, throwing shutdown innings with 27 strikeouts, but has picked up two losses on the year.

The Cardinal, who are coming off of a winning season that led them to the NCAA Super Regionals, have had their own strug-gles on and off the mound to start the 2015 season.

Stanford’s season-open-ing series against the In-diana Hoosiers (2-1) saw their bullpen and defense falter, dropping two close games on late rallies. Stan-ford’s pitching staff is led by sophomore starter Cal Quantrill, who went 5 2/3 innings in the opening game, allowing one earned run on six hits and tallying six strikeouts.

“I expect we’re going to see probably the top

sophomore pitcher in the country on Friday night in Quantrill, who’s got good stuff and he’s going to be about 94-96 (MPH) with some secondary,” Vander-hook said looking ahead to the series. “So we’ll just see what we do and we’re going to get back to work.”

Offensively, they have only been able to pro-duce 10 runs through four games, stranding 29 run-ners. Junior Austin Barr leads the Cardinal offense, batting .400 so far on the year.

The Titans went 8-2 against Pac-12 Conference opponents last season and are 42-54 all-time against the Cardinal, with their last meeting resulting in a 1-0 Titan loss during the 2011 NCAA Super Regionals.

The three-game Titan homestand against Stanford starts Friday with first pitch at 6 p.m.

A series win against the Cardinal can get CSUF back on track

MATT CORKILLDaily Titan

Sophomore pitcher Chad Hockin gave up one earned run from three hits in 2 1/3 innings of work against USC on Tuesday. The Titans’ pitching staff needs to get back to its dominant ways if they are to have a successful weekend against the Stanford Cardinal.

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CSUF trails CSUN by one game for the final ticket to postseason

ANDREW MCLEANDaily Titan