University Police will add a new method of communi-cation in case of an emergen-cy, and that is an alert sys-tem that has the potential

to simultaneously reach thousands of computers on campus.

This new system of emer-gency communication will be tested twice—on Tuesday at 10:10 a.m. and again at 7:10 p.m. Wednesday.

Students using computers in Pollak Library will see a box containing information about emergency preparedness, es-pecially with regard to ‘shelter in place’ situations, a Univer-sity Police official said.

The alert will be sent to computers through BigFix software. At last count, the software was installed on about 4,000 computers cam-pus-wide, said Rommel Hi-dalgo, assistant vice president for Information Technology.

That number includes all workstation computers in the library, Hidalgo said. About 230 computers on the first floor, 34 computers on the sec-ond floor and 108 computers on the third floor are capable

of receiving the alert. Lab computers through-

out campus may also have the alert, depending on whether campus techs overseeing those labs were able to install Big-Fix Software, Hidalgo said.

“Because it’s their com-puter labs, we couldn’t re-ally tell them, ‘you need to install this,’ because then it would disrupt the students’ use,” Hidalgo said. “So it real-ly depends on whether or not they were able to include the

software account during their down time.”

Running concurrently to the workstation comput-er alert will be cell phone alerts, Hidalgo said.

University Police’s Emer-gency Management uses a va-riety of methods to commu-nicate with students and staff, including e-mail, voicemail, text messaging and a smart-phone app.

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In the Pollak Library, about 230 computers on the first floor, 34 computers on the second floor and 108 computers on the third floor are receiving the alert.

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of methods to communicate with students and staff,

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Paging system permits accessMoving books gives students use of library texts

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Staff at Pollak Library have continued the book paging system implemented last se-mester, but it hasn’t gone en-tirely without a hitch.

Although the book paging system is provided for fac-ulty and students to gain ac-cess to the books on Pollak Library South, Interim Uni-versity Librarian Scott Hewitt said the renovations have caused issues for students and faculty.

Namely, it leaves faculty unable to personally look for books, and the paging system, meant to bring books from the damaged floors to make them more accessible, is limited by weekday working hours.

“Paging is usually during the week, it’s usually within three hours,” Hewitt said. “If it’s on the weekend, it might take an additional day or two.”

Using checkout and paging statistics, the library deter-mined that history and litera-ture books were most request-ed by students, Hewitt said.

Staff are now in the process of transferring books on those subjects from the library’s south side to the former com-puter lab in PLN 30.

The objective is to have at least 90 percent of the books in the south side of the library relocated to the northern side by the start of the Fall 2016 se-mester, Hewitt said.

For the first time in nearly a decade, a Miss Anaheim was crowned in Orange County.

Saturday night, a tiara was pinned atop the head of another bright eyed, spar-kling, smiling, young wom-an, claiming her Miss Ana-heim. Julia McCurdie, 22, a Cal State Fullerton commu-nications major was pleased with her earnings.

Missy Mendoza, 21, CSUF public relations ma-jor, was awarded the title of Miss Anaheim Hills—a separate award for the east-ern portion of Anaheim.

First runner-up to Miss Anaheim was Verna Vo, a 21-year-old business and ad-ministration major with a concentration in accounting and finance, also at CSUF.

Miss Congeniality went to none other than CSUF’s, Gloria Ahn, 23.

While there were not enough crowns to award all of the pageant’s entries, not all contestants left empty handed.

Contestant Christine Di-etz, 23, was awarded a $200 scholarship toward her studies at CSUF.

Second runner-up Miss Anaheim, Kilee Holroyd, criminal justice major, is someone who we’ve seen before, but may have not known it was her.

Holroyd, who won sec-ond runner-up in a beau-ty pageant is the same girl under the large and viva-cious elephant suit, known as Tuffy; who rallies up school spirit at most sport-ing events and games.

On this night, however, Holroyd was acknowledged without the elephant head for her ability to perform an emotional lyrical num-ber on stage, answer a dif-ficult gender equality ques-tion in an intricate manner within seconds, strut in a bikini in front of 300 peo-ple and anything else that would seem unnatural to the average human be-ing. But more important-ly, these six girls were be-ing acknowledged for their drive to complete their de-grees and their passion to make positive changes in their cities.

All 2015 titleholders went to CSUF women.

In the past, beauty pag-eants indeed judged

women’s physical appear-ances, true to even measur-ing up their proportions. It was a time where modeling and chorus lines were just becoming respectable pro-fessions for women, said Sarah Banet-Weiser, au-thor of, The Most Beauti-ful Girl in the World: Beau-ty Pageants and National Identity.

Banet-Weiser wrote: “It is, as feminists have

eloquently and persuasively argued for decades, a ‘meat market,’ where women are reduced to judgable body parts, and the overt mes-sage that women are sexual objects.”

Only, that was in the 1920s and it’s important to understand this stigma of pageantry is no longer the views of the contestants or the committees. There is no height or measurement requirements to enter, and the overwhelming rea-son for girls entering this Miss Anaheim was to win money for a higher educa-tion degree. The estimated cost of tuition per semes-ter for a student enrolled in at least seven units is $3,177.33, according to statistics from CSUF News Service.

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Police arrested a 44-year-old Santa Ana man in connection with the death of a transgen-dered woman after she died from a silicon injec-tion, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Felipe De La Riva, 40, also known as Katya, died Jan. 21 after re-ceiving the silicon injec-tion in her buttocks. Po-lice arrested Liborio De La Luz Ramos in con-nection with the illegal procedure.

Ramos did not have a medical license to per-form the surgery.

Ramos was charged with two felony counts of unauthorized practice of medicine and one fel-ony count of involuntary manslaughter by an un-lawful act.

Ramos was alleged to have administered sili-con to one other individu-al, and police officials are searching for other pos-sible victims.

An 18-year-old Las Vegas man who was swept away by an in-coming wave at a lo-cal beach Sunday, remained missing Mon-day, but was identified by officials, according to the OC Register.

The man, Anthony Parnell, had been ex-ploring a cave at the beach with friends when the wave swept him away. It’s possi-ble Parnell was swept into a hole and then be-came lodged on rocks, an Orange County Life-guard official told The Register.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter was aiding in a recovery effort. Par-nell’s family, who left Vegas for California Sunday, sat beneath a tent on the beach in an-ticipation of any news regarding the status of their son.

A jury determined that a 27-year-old wom-an was sane when she drowned her two-month-old daughter, ac-cording to the Orange County Register.

The decision by the jurors appeared to have swayed by last minute arguments from the at-torneys. Prior to the ar-guments, the jury was deadlocked 11-1.

Lucero Carrera ad-mitted to police inves-tigators that she had drowned her infant daughter Kimberly in 2012 in order to save the child from suffering.

Carrera suffered from bipolar disorder. The is-sue at question was whether Carrera under-stood what she was do-ing when she drowned her daughter.

Carrera will return for sentencing March 27. She will face 25 years to life in prison.

Education symposium will highlight doctoral research

Library: Seventy percent of books already moved

So far 70 percent of the books have already been moved to the north side of the library, but the staff will continue the process of moving books onto the sec-ond floor through March, he said.

Ten percent—or at most 8,000 books—of the south-ern collection are shelved in the basement, Hewitt said.

The library has also con-tinued the renovations on the first floor of the north side of the library by put-ting new carpet, elongat-ed tables, whiteboards and colorful chairs, Hewitt said. Most of bookshelves were removed from the first floor to integrate light in the library.

Last semester, library staff began implementing plans to increase student seating on the side of the li-brary open to students.

In the short-term, that meant increasing seating through the first four floors of the library by condensing books onto fewer shelves to make room for students.

There are additional long-term plans to renovate the library as a whole, but those plans hinge on university approval, Hewitt said.

With the short-term im-provements in place, howev-er, the library should prove to be a more comfortable space for students. said An-thony Davis Jr, interim as-sociate librarian.

“Overall, with the new arrangement of books,

carpeting, and furnishings, we hope students find the first floor north to be a more comfortable and inviting way to experience the Pol-lak Library,” Davis said.

The renovations and pag-ing system were implement-ed after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck March 2014. The quake, which was epicentered in La Hab-ra, caused $6 million in damages.

Pollak Library South was closed after the quake, which damaged drop ceil-ings and the ventilation system.

Floors one, four, five and six on the south side of the library will be closed for at least another two to three years while repairs are be-ing made.

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About 40 students will be sharing their findings for studies conducted at schools, universities, work-places and other locations in a research symposium Wednesday.

The symposium, an annu-al event, will be sponsored by the College of Education, Doctor of Education Lead-ership Program and the col-lege’s Center for Research on Education Access and Leadership.

It will feature work done by community college,

doctoral students and Cal State Fullerton master’s students.

The first half of the event will consist of a poster ses-sion where students will showcase their research, said Tina King, education-al leadership adviser for the College of Education.

“We will have 35 or 40 students standing near their posters,” said Carol Lundberg, Ph.D., an asso-ciate education professor. “It will have their research questions, what they have found, how they conducted the study and what should change in practice now.”

The event’s casual na-ture will not only afford students the opportunity to move around, it will also give them the opportunity to converse and share ideas

with one another, Lundberg said.

Three of the nearly 40 students who will share their findings have already been selected by the College of Education to present their research in a further presen-tation as part of a panel.

This year’s panel of CSUF alumni include Yvette Moss, Alicia Bailie and Nabil Abu-Ghazaleh.

Moss, a director at Long Beach City College, is pre-senting her research on her study that examines Af-rican-American females in mid-level administra-tive jobs at community colleges.

Bailie, now an assis-tant principal at Casi-mir Middle School in Torrance, has taken her experience of teaching at

the college-preparatory Whitney High School as her inspiration for her re-search, which involved studying the opportuni-ty gap in high school stu-dents in high-achieving populations.

Ghazaleh, president of West Los Angeles College, will present his research on the persistence of stu-dents at community colleges based on racial and ethnic demographics.

Each of the panel present-ers will have 10 minutes to further explain their re-search findings.

A reception will then fol-low to allow more opportu-nity to mingle with the panel as well as the other students conducting research.

“The reception can be kind of helpful for people

to interact some more with people whose posters they were interested in or with people on the panel,” Lund-berg said.

The symposium doesn’t just seek to highlight re-search being done at CSUF, it also seeks to show why that research is important, Lundberg said.

“It’s helpful for them to be able to present it in or-der to clarify what they have found,” Lundberg said. “But it’s also helpful for people to be able to watch it, to inter-act with the researchers and to understand more about the ways research can be used to address kind of real problems in life.”

The symposium will be held Wednesday in the Pa-vilions at the Titan Student Union from 4:30-7:30 p.m.

Students will present research through posters and talks

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Once implemented, the new alert system will become a part of this larger arsenal of communication methods, a University Police official said.

After this week’s test, the computer alert system will be used to alert students to im-pending storms or more ur-gent threats such as an armed person on campus, the official said.

The alert did not require any new revenue to create, the official said.

Because the alert will be a test, there is no guarantee that it will work according to plan or that it will display correctly, Hidalgo said.

“But that’s one of the things we’ll follow up on,” Hidalgo said. “So af-ter this, for the emergency management group’s next test, we should have it re-solved already.”

“We’re constantly doing things to improve and add additional messaging options to the campus,” he said.

University Police is inter-ested in student feedback

whenever they test out new information systems, a Uni-versity Police official said. Anyone who has a comment or idea for improvement can contact Sue Fisher, Emer-gency Management coordi-nator for the department, at sfisher@fulleton.edu.

Nearly 60 people em-barked on a new adventure alongside a familiar char-acter Saturday when they tested out The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask vid-eo game for the very first time in an event sponsored by community gaming group, StreetPass OC.

The gameplay was part of an event that allowed gamers to get up close and personal with the not-yet-released New 3DS XL, Nintendo’s latest handheld gaming system. Many peo-ple lined up to test the de-vice, which will not be re-leased until Friday.

The event was one of many put on by StreetPass OC, a group whose admin-istrators also donate items for their monthly events such as raffle prizes or re-wards for tournaments.

Gamers weren’t the only ones to benefit from playing with the new-est system. The staff of GameStop, a video game store, also appreciated the chance. Monthly meet-ups help boost sales when they’re hosted at the store, said Robert Martinez, a GameStop employee.

“Nintendo events are re-ally, usually very friend-ly. You never have to wor-ry about rowdy crowds or anything. It’s a lot of fun,” Martinez said. “This is the most interesting crowd where you get dif-ferent ranges and different ages.”

Gamers of all ages came together at the event. In nearly every corner of GameStop, individu-als traded Pokémon, bat-tled on Super Smash Bros., collected Mii puzzle piec-es and visited each other’s towns in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Some simply sought out like-minded people to speak

about their other hobbies such as anime or comics.

“I really feel like it helps some of the people that

have social anxiety,” said Dre Cervantes, who was on hand to help the event administrators. “They can come here for a few hours, once a month, and they can

talk games with other simi-lar-minded people.”

Tom and Erin Schlanger, along with their three chil-

dren, drove down from Rancho Cucamonga to at-tend StreetPass OC’s event. Tom said he prefers the Or-ange County group over the Los Angeles-based group

because the OC group is more family-friendly. At a previous event, he said, participants helped his son Noah advance in the game Luigi’s Mansion.

Jon Yan, a Cal State Ful-lerton alumnus, attended the event. He accidentally stumbled upon one of their events a few months ago, and has been attending ever since.

“It’s amazing how di-verse the crowd is actually. I’ve met people of different ages, race, backgrounds … and even (people from) LA and San Diego county come up here,” Yan said.

“This is the biggest one and we’re the, I guess, best at it,” he said.

Gamers interact with anticipated system

Fans of The Legend of Zelda got to engage with the latest installment of the game franchise on Nintendo’s newest handheld console during the StreetPass OC event Saturday.

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It’s amazing how diverse the crowd is actually. I’ve met people of different ages, race, backgrounds … and even (people from) LA and San Diego county come up here.JON YANCal State Fullerton Alumnus

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Students with post-graduation trepidation

With graduation around the corner, many students may face the question of whether a master’s degree is something they would want to pursue.

Ph.D.’s bring in $100,000 or more, a master’s de-gree will make $63,000, a bachelor’s degree may earn $55,700, an associate’s de-gree, $42,000 and a high school diploma will get someone $32,500 in salary, the United States Census Bureau reported on Col-legeatlas.org.

Not only do graduates with a master’s degree earn almost $10,000 more than someone with a bach-elor’s degree, but there is also about a half-chance better of not falling into unemployment.

Though the data may prove earnings, Cal State Fullerton’s director of grad-uate studies, Dr. Kather-ine Powers said, “Surveys show that about 80 percent of the students who finish a graduate’s degree, one of the most important reasons for completing this degree is personal fulfillment.”

Getting a master’s degree is related to job growth but many students simply ob-tain a master’s degree be-cause, “that’s what they really want to do and love studying—research and the experience of being a grad-uate student and earning a graduate’s degree,” Powers said.

Powers studied and sur-veyed graduate students on campus and found that, the average graduate student is in their late twenties … and half are first-genera-tion students. They’re the first in their family to even go to college, let alone grad school.

“Ultimately, students are happiest, most fulfilled, even from a career stand-point, or a personal stand-point when they study something that speaks to them,” Powers said.

CSUF has seen an in-crease in many of the grad-uate programs, like our

engineering and comput-er science program, due to the positive rise in recruit-ing, especially of interna-tional students said Pow-ers, who has been with the university since 1998. Also, rising in numbers of grad-uate students is the fairly new social work program—where a lot of students are applying; also, counseling, public health and the busi-ness graduate program are growing.

The Steven G. Mihay-lo College of Business and Economics has an extreme-ly positive reputation and is listed as one of the top business colleges in the country, Powers said.

“I think that anytime anybody can continue their education and continue to grow, it’s beneficial, no matter what stage of life they’re at,” said Ginamarie Scherzi, a prospective stu-dent advisor for the Master of Science and Counseling said. Scherzi is also a grad-uate of CSUF’s master’s program.

Scherzi, who also helps with admissions said that a lot of times when students first get into college they just want to get done and graduate. Many don’t even anticipate the possibility of continuing their educa-tion and get a masters or doctorate.

“For some people they can’t even imagine that would be something that they would want to pur-sue,” Scherzi said.

His advice for undergrad-uate students is to, “Cher-ish this time in school and get all that they can, and to do their very best, because what you do now does have impact on your future.”

CSUF currently offers 55 different graduate degree programs, two of them be-ing doctorates.

As of last semester, CSUF had a total of 5,479 enrolled graduate students which increased from the previous semester that had 4,899 graduate students.

For students considering graduate school at CSUF

this fall, the application submission period began Oct. 1, 2014 and will con-tinue until March 1, 2015.

Before applying for a graduate program, stu-dents must make sure they earned their baccalaure-ate degree with at least a 2.5 grade point average or that they at least attained a grade point average of 2.5 in the last 60 semester units.

Students should also have their official tran-scripts mailed as soon as their application has been submitted. For CSUF alumni, transcripts do not need to be sent. Each of CSUF’s graduate de-gree programs have addi-tional requirements and deadlines that prospec-tive students can review on CSUF’s graduate studies website.

To get the application process started students must submit their applica-tion online at www.csumen-tor.edu in addition to paying a $55 application fee.

“It’s not about what you look like or how your hair is done, how your make-up’s done, what you’re wearing, it’s about how you rock it,” Holroyd said. “You don’t have to be stick thin, you can be whatev-er shape, whatever size—whatever you’re comfort-able with and if you’re confident about it, you can still win. It’s about what you bring to it and your confidence behind it.”

The girls who were crowned Miss Anaheim and Miss Anaheim Hills in this 2015 pageant were awarded $2,000 toward tu-ition and the other contes-tants $200-$600 depending on their rankings.

“The scholarship money that I got from being able to pay for my master’s pro-gram—I want to help other girls have that opportuni-ty to get scholarship mon-ey too,” Whitney Leyva, 27, Assistant Production Manager at the pageant

and a past winner of the now-defunct Miss Fuller-ton pageant.

The contestants trained for eight to 10 weeks in fitness with Leyva, who along with her Miss ti-tles is studying kinesiolo-gy for her master’s degree with hopes of becoming a strength and conditioning coach. With her, the con-testants also practiced pub-lic speaking, interviews, along with a special tal-ent to create whole and well-rounded women.

By making the effort to compete, these girls con-nected with other non-prof-it organizations, ones they are passionate about, to better such issues in their communities.

Holroyd’s only regret of the night was that she couldn’t be at the Home-coming game as Tuffy cel-ebrating with her peers. In-stead, Holroyd was dawned in flowers and cheers from dolled up former Miss win-ners and a vamped up per-formance by host, Paul

Dean Martin. There is no entry fee

to compete in Miss Ana-heim. Miss Anaheim is a non-profit scholarship af-filiated with Miss Cali-fornia and Miss America; separate entities from Miss

USA and Miss Universe which are “pay to play” pageants.

For more information on applying for upcoming scholarship competitions, visit http://www.missana-heimpageant.org/.

Engineering and Computer Science

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Health and Human Development

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Business andEconomics

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Communications

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Students who are enrolled in master’s programs at Cal State Fullerton vary by major. The highest number enrolled being engineering and computer science and the lowest, communications.

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Contestants of the Miss Anaheim and Miss Anaheim Hills 2015 pageant stand primmed and posied after their opening number.

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Last semester Jacquelyn Gerali, a Disability Manage-ment Specialist and Cal State Fullerton instructor, created an opportunity for disabled students to prepare for life af-ter college by creating a course tailored specifically to their needs.

The course Career and Life Planning: Disability Aware-ness & Advocacy (COUN 252) deals with aiding disabled students by preparing them for what lies ahead post-college.

This course is being offered through a collaborative effort between the Disability Sup-port Services (DSS) and the Counseling Department.

Disability employment laws and regulations, individual career exploration strategies, accommodation and disabil-ity disclosure strategies are only a few essential topics that are discussed throughout the course.

Gerali instructed this course last semester, and was glad to announce that the same course would be offered this semester.

So far this is the only course of its kind, and plans to ex-pand with similar courses are currently underway. The course is expected to be of-fered every forthcoming fall and spring semester.

“Due to the grant connec-tion, this course is available only to students with disabil-ities during the spring and fall 2015 semesters. However, COUN 252 will be available to students with disabilities as well as students interested in working with students with disabilities starting in 2016 and beyond,” Gerali said.

An enrollment of at least 20 students was “pre-ferred” in order for the course to happen, Gerali

said. This hasn’t been an issue due to the eagerness of many disabled students wishing to enroll.

Gerali said she’s been abso-lutely impressed by how much her fall 2014 students had transformed from the first day of class to finals week.

She said she’s seen tremen-dous growth in their profes-sional skills and self-esteem. Gerali aspires to instill in her students a mindset that, labels directed towards them should never define them—and that if you truly believe in yourself the possibilities are limitless.

The DSS office, located in UH 101, also offers disabled students various supportive workshops and groups to par-ticipate in throughout the se-mester. A few of these groups include, a public speaking group, healthy relationships process group and a profes-sional development workshop, David Guzmán, testing coor-dinator said.

Individual information for these meetings can be found within the DSS office.

“The classes have gone very, very well. We’ve got-ten a very good response, and students have really report-ed back positively,” Guzmán said regarding the COUN 252 course.

By facilitating and imple-menting these workshops, groups and courses for dis-abled students, the DSS office is meeting CSUF President Mildred García’s strategic goals.

The DSS office staff and offered services have been “very accommodating, they are always welcoming when you walk in there, and you can get appointments very quickly,” CSUF disabled graduate student, Jennifer Vincent said.

Students interested in enrolling in Counseling 252 Section 2 in the fu-ture may contact Gerali by emailing jgerali@fullerton.edu or by calling the DSS offices at (657) 278-3112 for more information.

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Grammy season is the time of year where the big-gest musical acts in the world come together and congratulate one another for their year of hard work. It’s chock full of celebrity buzz, acceptance speeches, collaborative performances and odes to past icons.

This year’s Grammys took a more serious turn, aiming for a stripped down, pensive rendition of music’s biggest night.

Hosted by last year’s Grammy emcee, LL Cool J, the evening kicked off with a punchy performance by legendary rockers AC/DC with their new single, Rock to Bust, and the smash hit, Highway to Hell.

The veteran rockers played an energetic set, with Brian Johnson deliv-ering flawless vocals and Angus Young still hopping in his schoolboy uniform.

Sam Smith dominated the night, taking home four Grammys for Best New Artist, Best Vocal Album, Best Song of the Year and Best Record of the Year. Smith’s debut album, In the Lonely Hour, has quickly pushed him to superstar-dom and the soulful sing-er sweetly thanked the man who broke his heart for all his current success.

Though most winners were no surprise, the un-anticipated upset of the night went to indie artist, Beck, for Best Rock Al-bum and most surprisingly,

Album of the Year. Among heavy hitters like Sam Smith, Beyonce, Ed Sheer-an and Pharrell Wil-liams, Beck’s sleeper hit, Morning Phase, landed a home run no one could’ve predicted.

The awards this year de-cided to forgo the usual musical spectacle and de-livered simple, quiet and somber performances, thoroughly keeping things glum.

Ariana Grande crooned a slow rendition of Just a Little Bit of Your Heart, Usher sang a mournful ren-dition of Stevie Wonder’s If It’s Magic, Gwen Stefani and Adam Levine sang their ballad, My Heart Is Open, and Kanye West performed, Only One, atop a solitary light, dedi-cating the song to his late mother.

With a total of 23 perfor-mances, the 2015 Grammy Awards squeezed in many of today’s top artists with legendary icons.

Grammy nominee Ed Sheeran performed hit sin-gle, Thinking Out Loud, with John Mayer on gui-tar, Hozier sang Take Me to Church with An-nie Lennox, Tony Ben-nett and Lady Gaga sang a jazzy rendition of Cheek to Cheek, Beck and Cold-play’s Chris Martin duetted on Heart is a Drum, Sam Smith performed smash hit Stay With Me with Mary J Blige and Kanye West, Paul McCartney and Ri-hanna performed their new single FourFiveSeconds.

The comedic highlight of the evening came courte-sy of Kanye West when he pretended to jump on stage during Beck’s acceptance speech for Best Album of

the Year. The otherwise serious

evening continued on with a powerful beat-poetic speech delivered by domes-tic abuse activist Brooke Axtell before a Katy Perry performance, as well as a domestic violence PSA by President Barack Obama.

Beyonce capped the eve-ning with a powerful and emotional performance of gospel hymn, Take My Hand, Precious Lord.

The song was most re-cently featured in Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic, Sel-ma, where it was performed by R&B artist Ledisi.

The performance has since stirred a bit of controversy as some fans felt irked that Le-disi’s spotlight was stolen by Beyonce.

To further the flames, Le-disi has said she’s unsure as to why she wasn’t asked to per-form the song at the Grammys and was disappointed.

The 2015 Grammys deliv-ered a successful night of mu-sic’s biggest performances al-beit a melancholy one, leaving thin material for Taylor Swift’s front row dance party.

Let’s hope next year will bring back the punch, specta-cle and energy we’ve come to expect from the Grammys.

British pop and R&B singer, Sam Smith, swept the night with four Grammy wins, including Best New Artist and Best Vocal Album, besting heavy hitters like Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry.

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The Oscar nominees were announced earlier this year, causing quite a stir.

For the first time since 1989, only white actors filled the 20 acting slots, ac-cording to the Los Angeles Times.

This had critics and so-cial media raising ques-tions about the lack of col-or in the Academy’s 2015 nominations.

Neither a woman or per-son of color was acknowl-edged in the Academy’s most prestigious categories this year.

Social media immediate-ly took recognition with a hashtag rampage, tweeting #OscarSoWhite.

Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay, is a biopic on civil rights activist, Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the historic march from Sel-ma to Montgomery.

DuVernay could have been the first Afri-can-American female direc-tor to enter the category, but was instead overlooked.

David Oyelowo, who plays King in Selma, was also left out of the nomina-tions for the Best Actor.

Selma was brushed un-der the rug in all catego-ries except for Best Picture and Best Original Song, while Clint Eastwood’s film, American Sniper, was showered with nominees.

Rotten Tomatoes gave American Sniper a 73 per-cent and Selma an outstand-ing 98 percent, but appar-ently the Academy did not feel the same enthusiasm.

The primary reason Sel-ma fell short was due to his-torical inaccuracy, specifi-cally Lyndon B. Johnson’s portrayal in the film, ac-cording to critics.

“The film falsely portrays President Lyndon B. John-son as being at odds with

Martin Luther King Jr. and even using the FBI to dis-credit him,” said Joseph A. Califano of The Washing-ton Post.

There’s also evidence of American Sniper and The Imitation Game not holding a standard of accuracy ei-ther, yet both nabbed plenty of nominations this year.

CSUF student and the-ater major, Tim Alexander, will graduate this May with hopes of taking the acting world by storm.

But he confronts barriers he’ll have to overcome one day to break through the doors of Hollywood.

“If I’m going to major in this, how can I break into a business where, if I’m Af-rican-American, my talent has to surpass that of a Cau-casian male and female?” Alexander said.

Women nominees were also non-existent this year.

No female directors, cine-matographers or screenwrit-ers were nominated.

Actress Geena Davis ad-dressed the issue, telling

The Hollywood Reporter, “We are in effect encultur-ating kids from the very be-ginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space,” she said.

A 2012 Los Angeles Times study demonstrates the Academy members’ de-mographics: 94 percent White, 76 percent men and an average age of 63. Also, less than 4 percent of Afri-can-American actors have received acting awards in the Oscars, and only one woman, Kathryn Bige-low, has won an award for directing.

Looking at the statistics, one cannot help but wonder; does the lack of diversity in the Academy Awards have a direct correlation with the lack of diversity within Academy board members?

Nancy Yuen, Ph.D. an associate professor of so-ciology at Biola Universi-ty, teaches, produces docu-mentaries and writes books about racism and sexism in Hollywood.

Yuen believes the lack of

diversity in Hollywood has an influential effect on our society.

A study taken on black and white boys and girls de-picted the relationship be-tween the amount of tele-vision children watch and their self-esteem level, Yuen explains.

As a result, the more hours of TV viewed by boys and girls who weren’t white led to a decrease in self-esteem.

This shows the direct correlation between TV and the negative effects it has on women and people of color, Yuen said.

Hollywood is reinforc-ing negative stereotypes of minorities.

The history of the Oscars shows minorities are most-ly rewarded for submissive or secondary roles, such as last year’s winner, 12 Years a Slave.

Selma star David Oyelowo told Us Magazine, “Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when

we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.”

People of color are usu-ally cast for stereotypical roles such as housekeepers, slaves, criminals and are rarely the main protagonist carrying a film.

In order to increase the diversity within the Oscar nominees, Hollywood needs to use minorities in more leading roles.

Society will conform to these images and ultimately change the thinking pattern of Hollywood.

The more people are ex-posed to these images, the less shocking it will be-come, and the more com-monplace it will be.

Hollywood has and al-ways will have the power to influence society’s per-spectives on social and ra-cial norms.

This is why it is important that the Oscars acknowledge all races and their well-de-serving achievements.

The lack of diversity in this year’s Oscars is a serious issue

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Arms sales are driving terrorism and radicalism

Diet sheds dollars not pounds

Vaccinations reduce outbreaks

Aisle one chips, aisle two beverages and hello aisle three sweets. Some will instantly gravitate to the white packaging with a picture of a delicious-look-ing chocolate chip cook-ie on the front, with a glu-ten-free label and the word “yummy” on it. Sold. Take it home and take a big bite of … cardboard?

Unaware of what glu-ten-free even means, some people start mak-ing the sacrifice by buy-ing the pricier and less tasty snacks under the im-pression that it helps with weight-loss.

That’s what a diet is af-ter all, isn’t it? After a few months and a few pounds heavier, maybe it’s time to start questioning the glu-ten-free products sworn by so many.

Gluten is an ingredient that contains wheat, rye and barley and is seen in a lot of foods—from bread to beer.

Some don’t have the lux-ury of eating just anything, like the majority of people have.

One percent of the popu-lation in the United States who live on a gluten-free diet are those diagnosed with Celiac disease, an

autoimmune disorder that damages the small intes-tine from exposure to glu-ten, according to the Na-tional Foundation for Celiac Awareness.

Lately, many celebri-ties who do not have the disease, have made a big fuss about starting a glu-ten-free diet and have made claims of improved health and weight-loss as a result.

Does it really work or is it just a fad like so many other diets?

My conclusion—it’s just a fad.

Many believe that eat-ing gluten-free processed snacks mean they’re eat-ing a healthier, lower calo-rie cookie and can still lose weight.

Sorry to break it to you, but that is not going to happen.

When comparing Gluti-no gluten-free cookies to regular Chips Ahoy cook-ies, the nutrition fact labels are identical.

Both contain nearly the same amount of calories, carbs, sodium and sugar.

Not only that, but those who choose to go gluten-free run a higher risk of not getting the healthy amount of nutrients one needs.

“Though the gluten-free market has grown immensely over recent years, and is still growing, many gluten-free products are not enriched and have lower amounts of fo-late, iron, thiamin, niacin, fi-ber, and riboflavin,” accord-ing to the Celiac Disease

Foundation.They also found that peo-

ple who adhere to a gluten-free diet tend to consume more cal-ories from fat and less from carbohydrates.

For those still wanting to jump on the gluten-free

bandwagon, think of your wallet.

Not only is the gluten-free diet unhealthy, but it’s more costly as well.

The prices of products labeled gluten-free were considerably higher than

regular products, according to a study done by the Nation-al Center for Biotechnology Information.

For those with Celi-ac disease, taking care of your body and going through the hardship of not

having cupcakes is highly admirable.

For the rest of the popu-lation without the disease, stop hoping for some mira-cle with this diet, put down the packaged snack, pick up an apple and go for a run.

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Utilitarianism has been all about maximizing hap-piness and reducing suffer-ing for years—up until re-cent events in the U.S.

Disneyland, one of Southern California’s bus-iest destinations, had a recent outbreak of the measles during the holi-days, making headlines everywhere.

Measles is an acute vi-ral illness that consists of a high fever, cough and con-junctivitis that is followed by a skin rash.

It can be spread through bodily fluids such as sali-va from the mouth or mu-cus from the nose and can stay airborne for up to two hours.

The outbreak has since multiplied due to selfish parents who do not want to vaccinate their children.

Before the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, there were an aver-age of 549,000 cases of measles and 495 deaths re-ported annually.

After the first dosage of the measles vaccine was implemented, cases had significantly reduced in the United States by 1988, and less people were being hos-pitalized due to measles.

A second vaccine was intro-duced once the resurgence of the illness surfaced.

With this second vac-cine, there was a dramatic decline in the measles cas-es again.

By 2000, the endemic mea-sles were declared eliminated in the United States.

During the 10-year, post-elimination era, there were only 911 measles cas-es reported in the United States, with many of the

reported cases from indi-viduals who were unvacci-nated or had an unknown vaccination record.

Those who were unvac-cinated were more suscep-tible to the importation of the illness from foreign-ers unable to receive the

same vaccinations as U.S. citizens.

In order to prevent ill-ness and disease from re-surfacing after eradication, parents need to be aware that immunizations are the most helpful first step in keeping their child healthy and immune to the spread of illnesses.

Parents have been wary about vaccinating their children because of con-cerns regarding a link be-tween vaccine ingredients and autism which has been

proven false.The ingredient in ques-

tion, thimerosal, has been removed or reduced from vaccines since 2001.

Thimerosal is a mercu-ry-containing preserva-tive used in some vaccines and other products since

the 1930s and has no con-vincing evidence of harm caused by low doses in vaccines, according to the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention.

In a scientific review conducted by the Institute of Medicine, it revealed that, “the evidence favors rejection of a causal rela-tionship between thimero-sal—containing vaccines and autism.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been firm in their support

of this claim of no connec-tion between vaccine ingre-dients leading to autism.

Not only are vaccina-tions beneficial to society as a whole, it could keep the state health department budgets low.

A measles outbreak oc-curred in San Diego in 2008. It cost the public health de-partment $124,517 to con-tain, including an additional $52,463 in medical costs and costs incurred by families for quarantining unvaccinat-ed contacts at home.

Of course, there’s no surefire way to prevent the importation of diseases from travellers coming into the United States, but the first step in preventing the spread of these infectious diseases starts with parents and informing them of im-portant vaccinations.

Only parents’ crucial de-cisions can help prevent outbreaks and diseases from resurfacing and en-dangering society at large.

A recent outbreak of the measles stirs up fiery controversy

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Between the cartels of Latin America, the rebel militias of Africa and rad-ical fundamentalists in the Middle East, there are few places in the developing world that are truly safe.

The increasing vio-lence in developing na-tions is contrary to those of wealthy nations, which have seen a drastic fall in crime rates since the turn of the century.

No matter the political, economic or cultural na-ture of the violence in de-veloping nations, it has been enabled by the sheer availability of weaponry.

Since the turn of the cen-tury, millions have died

in armed conflicts world-wide, civilians being the majority of these deaths.

Up to 90 percent of ci-vilian deaths during armed conflict were caused by small arms such as rifles, machine guns and hand-guns, according to a report by the International Com-mittee for the Red Cross.

Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan com-pared small arms to the de-structive power of nuclear weapons during a speech in front of the U.N. in 2000.

“In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be de-scribed as ‘weapons of mass destruction,’” Annan said.

Civilians in developing nations are at far greater risk than those in wealthier countries, as fledgling na-tions rarely have the capi-tal to maintain an effective police force, are vulnerable to corruption and may lack

the proper infrastructure to prevent arms from reach-ing unlawful hands.

This is further exacer-bated by recent trends in global arms sales, which have seen a significant spike in arms deals to de-veloping nations.

Developing nations have become saturated by for-eign arms sales, making up 64 percent of foreign arms sales between 2004-2011, and 89 percent of foreign arms sales in 2011, accord-ing to a report by the Con-gressional Research Ser-vice in 2012.

The dominant forces in the global arms market are the United States and Rus-sia, who have remained as the top two foreign arms dealers for over a decade.

The United States in par-ticular, is home to seven out of the 10 largest arms producing companies in the world.

Top U.S. companies

such as Lockheed Mar-tin, Raytheon Co. and Northrop-Grumman are heavily reliant on arms sales as a percentage of to-tal sales.

In 2013, their arms sales made up 78, 92 and 82 percent of total sales, respectively.

These companies ac-crue tens of billions of dol-lars in profits, perpetuate global violence against ci-vilians and lobby govern-ments to justify their ac-tions; yet arms exports remain except a fraction of U.S. exports, approximate-ly 1.4 percent annually.

The cost of a human life, let alone the real se-curity threat that occurs when U.S. arms fall into the wrong hands, does not justify the mass production of arms by the U.S. defense industry.

In a landmark day for global arms sales, the U.N. passed the the Arms Trade

Treaty on Dec. 24, 2014. The treaty aims to reg-

ulate the sales of arms, vehicles, equipment and training for the purposes of a more peaceful exis-tence amongst U.N. mem-ber nations and around the

world.Passing the treaty and

ratifying it is the first step, but nations must then de-cide to implement the trea-ty, and the true test of the treaty will be revealed.

The United States has shown that it is willing to

avoid implementation of certain treaties if it be-lieves its business interests are at risk.

A perfect example would be George W. Bush’s rejec-tion of the Kyoto Protocol, an accord signed by over 80 nations to curtail global carbon emissions.

The growing mountain of evidence that suggests a global climate catastrophe is inevitable—unless en-ergy policies change—is a reminder of what U.S. in-action can cost.

The Arms Trade Treaty must not go the way of the Kyoto Protocol.

The families that have been destroyed by arms prolifera-tion are depending on us.

As Americans—as hu-man beings—it is our re-sponsibility to hold our politicians responsible for implementing the Arms Trade Treaty so as to cre-ate a better future for a global society.

A majority of world arms exports to developing countries

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How are measles spread?

• Masles can be spread through saliva, mucus, or coughing

Why aren’t parents vaccinating their children?

• Thimerosal, an ingredient in vaccines linked with autism

How much is the measles costing us?

• The last outbreak in San Diego cost the public health department $124,517

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She’s agile and speedy. She’s not afraid to shoot from long range. She drives the ball with power to the basket. She helps her team-mates score with unselfish assists. She’s poised and disciplined.

She’s Chante Miles, the starting point guard for the Titan women’s basketball team.

As a senior at Cal State Fullerton, the 5-foot-3-inch Miles is striving to have the best season of her colle-giate career. This is Miles’ year to shine like the bright star she’s been working so

hard to become. With the season almost

halfway done, Miles has shown coaches, teammates and fans what she has been working so hard on in the offseason.

For Miles, last summer was all about becoming a versatile player, with not only improving her 3-point scoring, but her defense as well. Her overall percep-tion of being a team player also improved.

Miles realized that she needed to refine and tune her game for her senior year. She was willing and ready to take on any task thrown at her. Her goal was to become versatile, and thus unpredictable, to op-ponents and even scouts.

Now, Miles’ arsenal is completely stocked and ready for any battle.

Miles showcased her

improved all-around game against Weber State on Nov. 24, 2014. She was on fire in the 70-68 Titan vic-tory, scoring 35 of the Ti-tans’ points.

“She was in a zone, just from shooting the ball. She

was unstoppable; she had it going on all cylinders, from shooting the three, mid-range to attacking,” Tam-mi Reiss, assistant coach, said.

Head Coach Daron Park recalls Miles looking over at him after she drained consecutive field goals at Weber State. She had a fi-ery look in her eyes, Park said, and he knew he could sit back and let her take control.

But that fire has been lit ever since Miles was a child. At the age of 2, Miles was already drib-bling a basketball. At the age of 5, she was playing at the YMCA in Torrance, California. At around eight years old, Miles became the only girl in a 10-player coed team.

“I really couldn’t get away from the game,” Miles said.

Miles has always

emphasized being a team player. She is generous and looks for the best opportu-nities for her teammates to score. Assisting her team-mates makes Miles feel complete, she said.

“I really love to get peo-ple involved,” Miles said. “I know I score a lot, but I love to see my teammates happy. I love to see them make shots.”

Two years ago, when coaches Park and Re-iss came to CSUF, they weren’t sure what to expect from Miles. They weren’t sure if she could do all the things they asked from her. She was under a lot of pressure and even came off the bench for the first few games of her ju-nior year.

“She had to adjust g r e a t l y,” Reiss said. “ S l o w l y , last year as the year went on, you saw the growth. Now it’s just watching the kid flourish and dominate.”

Both coaches report that they were shocked and amazed by Miles’ coachability, will-ingness to im-prove and drive to become the stron-gest player she could be during

her last two years in a Ti-tan jersey.

The future looks bright for Miles. She

strives to play profession-al basketball overseas. It’s something she’s always dreamed of. Miles said she’ll go with the flow for now, but both Park and Re-iss have immense confi-dence in her future with basketball.

“I hope Chante attains everything she wants on the next level in basket-ball and has a great pro career, because that’s what she’s worked for and that’s what she deserves,” Reiss said. “I think she’s going to have an unbeliev-able career overseas.”

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Miles ahead of the packThe senior’s offseason training has made her an offensive weapon

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Senior guard Chante Miles drives to the paint against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on Jan. 22. The Compton native is pouring in a career-best 19.5 points per game this season, second best in the Big West Conference. The floor general said she likes getting her teammates involved, which has led her to averaging 4.8 assists per game. Miles is a workhorse, averaging 37.9 minutes a game.

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CHANTE MILESSenior Guard

I really love to get people involved. I know I score a lot, but I like to see my teammates happy. I love to see them make shots.

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Games played• 21

Points per game• 19.5

Rebounds per game• 3.6

Assists per game• 4.8

Steals per game• 1.2

Field goal %• 43.8

3-point %• 37.7

Free throw %• 83.2

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Year• Senior

Major• Kinesiology

Position• Guard

Height• 5’3”

Hometown• Compton

High School• Carson

Favorite team• LA Lakers

Favorite player• Chris Paul