NEWS 2 Professor discusses ethics of life OPINION 5 The face of terror is ever-changing FEATURES 7 DAILY TITAN Casino night bets on cause TheT Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton SPORTS 8 Softball conquers Highlanders on road Volume 93, Issue 41 THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013 dailytitan.com CAMPUS | ASI Candidate spending tops prior elections SAMUEL MOUNTJOY Daily Titan Following last year’s meager presi- dential campaign election spending, the 2013 Associated Students Inc. election spending jumped to record levels, according to campaign ex- pense reports released Wednesday. During this year’s race, both can- didates nearly quadrupled spend- ing by last year’s winners, Dwayne Mason, Jr. and Katie Ayala. Each candidate spent about $4,000 on their campaign, but Rohullah La- tif and Johnathan Leggett outspent their campaign rivals Carlos Navarro and Kim Haycraft by roughly $300, spending $4,250 compared to their opponents’ $3,927. Candidates Ryan Quinn and El- oisa Amador were eliminated dur- ing the first round of voting and did not turn in an expense report. Because of this, they are ineligible for future office. ELEONOR SEGURA / For the Daily Titan The bulk of campaign spending Aaron Kushner, CEO of Freedom Communications Inc., publisher of the Orange County Register, speaks to attendees at his keynote address on Wednesday in the Titan Student Union. went toward the T-shirts which became ever-present during the four-week campaign. The Latif campaign spent more than $3,000 Publisher explains OC Register strategies dollars on T-shirts alone. “That red, white and blue, ev- CHELSEA BOYD Kushner, who took his position and staff from the Register. think the Orange County Regis- change for the more than 100-year- eryone loves that shirt. It’s one of Daily Titan as CEO 10 months ago, spoke “Communications students ter is doing some really interesting old publication. the biggest things we did,” said about the evolution of print jour- need to hear about these trailblaz- things,” she added. New sections, like the university ASI president-elect Latif. As part of Comm Week fes- nalism as well as his opinions about ing ideas that are happening and Kushner focused on the major sections which include Cal State Ful- The shirts were key to the tivities, Aaron Kushner, CEO of the rise of digital media. how they can get engaged in being differences between the Register lerton, a website paywall and the ad- campaign, according Latif and Freedom Communications Inc., William Briggs, dean of the Col- part of these new adventures in and other community flagships dition of more than 100 staff mem- Leggett, and supporters wore them publisher of the Orange County lege of Communications, hosted these new ways of doing journal- such as the Los Angeles Times and bers to the paper have been significant throughout the election. Register, gave the keynote address the event, which was attended by ism,” said García. the Omaha World Herald. marks of Kushner’s leadership. on Wednesday in the Titan Stu- President Mildred García, faculty, “We want you to be the very best His time at the Register, while SEE CAMPAIGN, 2 dent Union. students, Comm Week speakers and learn from the very best and I short, has brought on a wave of SEE KEYNOTE, 3 FEATURES | Police CAMPUS | Speaker A glimpse Professor explores history behind the of transnational science CSUF historian studies the Science and Technology.” University impact Chinese-Americans According to Wang, tens of have on technology thousands of Chinese came to the Police badge United States to study science and JENNIFER NGUYEN engineering in the beginning of the Daily Titan Officer Hollyfield strives 20th century. to serve and connect with The study abroad program was the campus community A historian of science and tech- encouraged by the Chinese and U.S. nology will discuss how Chinese governments as an effort towards TIM WORDEN scientists in America affected Chi- modernizing China, said Wang. Daily Titan nese-American relationships in sci- By 1949, there were roughly ence and how the field was shaped 5,000 Chinese students and visiting University Police Officer Hol- during a lecture on Thursday. scientists in the U.S. After complet- lyfield, callsign “307,” gets a call at Featured speaker Zuoyue Wang, ing their studies, Wang said many 11:07 a.m. Ph.D., a history professor at Cal of the students returned to their “307, there’s a girl in the library, Poly Pomona, will give a lecture ti- homeland. she’s passed out,” the police dis- tled “Chinese American Scientists: patcher says. A Study in Transnational History of SEE SCIENCE, 2 Hollyfield, at University Police’s parking lot north of the Titan Stu- dent Union, immediately starts her CAMPUS | Program police car’s engine. She zooms out from the station as the dispatcher tells her the girl is in a Women engineers receive bathroom on the north wing and is conscious and breathing. Hollyfield speeds south down the TIM WORDEN / Daily Titan Raytheon sponsorship street to the TSU, then pops onto Officer Hollyfield radios her dispatcher giving an update on her position. Hollyfield is one of about 30 officers on campus. the sidewalk near the Titan Walk GABY MARTINEZ of development for Engineering and and flips on her police car’s lights, ment’s black short-sleeve uniform, Daily Titan Computer Sciences. going “Code 3.” She puts the sirens waits with the girl and her friend un- “She zooms out from the station as “The Women in Engineering pro- on an intermittent setting, since full til paramedics arrive, at 11:22 a.m. The Cal State Fullerton College gram is a retention program struc- sirens attract too much attention on “You didn’t pass out, you just the dispatcher tells her the girl is in of Engineering and Computer Sci- tured as a learning community,” a busy campus. fell?” a paramedic asks. a bathroom on the north wing and is ence received a $20,000 sponsorship Roussel said. “The idea is to take a Students veer to the side to let “Yeah,” the girl says. from engineering company Ray- particular cohort usually with some her pass, but Hollyfield honks at EMTs check the girl’s vitals and conscious and breathing.” theon to fund the Women in Engi- kind of an affinity, and you provide a one guy who appears not to notice transport her via a stretcher to the neering program for the 2013-2014 series of integrated services with the her car. library’s loading docks. school year. intention of supporting retention She parks at the west entrance of Officer Hollyfield makes sure Raytheon allocated $20,000 of and improving outcomes.” the Pollak Library and jogs inside. the girl has her cellphone with her year-old building that services Cal the department and a Titan alumna their annual contributions to the According to Roussell, the female She checks the first-floor bathroom, before she is transported to the State Fullerton’s nationally accred- who attended Cal State Fullerton as college for the program which be- students of the program participate but no luck (the dispatcher did not hospital. ited police department, which has a human services major on a basket- gan in fall 2012 with $12,500 grant in a special session of the University specify which floor). “She probably has that horrible the full authority of a police agency ball scholarship, catches up with her from the Engineering Information 100 course during their first semes- She walks upstairs and finds the flu virus that’s going around,” Holly- to make arrests. The station has a partner, Officer Bridgewaters, a bald Foundation. ter at CSUF which allows them to girl at 11:12 a.m. field says as she makes her way back briefing room, a lecture room, two young officer who has been with the The program focuses on the suc- connect with other freshmen female “The response time for them was to her car. overnight jail cells and an interroga- department a year and a half. cess of female freshmen engineer- engineering majors. fast,” an onlooking librarian says. Hollyfield drives back to Univer- tion room. ing and computer science majors, Officer Hollyfield, in the depart- sity Police headquarters, a cozy four- Hollyfield, a three-year-veteran of SEE POLICE, 6 according to Hart Roussel, director SEE WOMEN, 3 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @DTNEWSDESK VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM/NEWS PAGE 2 APRIL 25, 2013 THE DAILY TITAN NEWS THURSDAY SCIENCE: CAMPAIGN: Competitive Chinese election means more spending CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 missioner Megan Martinez. The which put Eric Niu and Jay Jef- ‘stranded’ more campaigning is done, the ferson against Aissa Canchula “They can take the T-shirt, but more students come out to vote, and Megan Martinez, but candi- the thing is them rockin’ it,” said she added. dates this year outspent that cam- in US Leggett. “More than once a week– Candidates generally put forth paign by more than $500. they just keep on wearing it.” what they can afford, according Eric Niu and Jay Jefferson won CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The Navarro campaign pur- to Martinez, and the higher cam- the 2011 election by six votes. chased baseball shirts, which are paign awareness brought a fairly Races for ASI board of direc- According to Wang, some Chi- generally more expensive than high turnout this year. tors positions were very non- nese students and scientists re- the t-shirts used by other cam- competitive this year, especially turned to China to see the possi- paigns. when compared to last year’s race bility of “professional development “No one has ever done baseball for the College of Business and and national reconstruction in tees before,” said Navarro, “We “They can take Economics representative.