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Tuesday March 3, 2015 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 97 Issue 19 Students Professional lizard Student to gain pride Dropbox chaser: Jason Wallace focus in storage ‘Titans’ Fifty gigabytes of Campus community cloud storage to be gather to discuss free to students strategic plan

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The Cal State Fullerton Nearly 400 faculty mem- Department of Informa- bers, students and adminis- tion Technology is prepar- trators came together Mon- ing to offer free Dropbox day for a discussion on how accounts to provide a better to bolster collaboration and student-teacher file-sharing heighten the experiences of experience and increased CSUF students during this storage to students. semester’s Titans Reach Students will receive an Higher Town Hall. email invitation to register The meeting, which ad- for their Dropbox account dressed the university’s sometime this month, said five-year strategic plan, fo- Rommel Hidalgo, assistant cused specifically on high vice president for informa- impact practices, student tion technology and IT divi- RUDY CHINCHILLA / DAILY TITAN success teams and “Titan sion financial manager. Site steward for the Desert Studies Center located in the Mojave National Preserve, Jason Wallace (above) makes sacrifices and lives Pride.” President Mildred In its pilot phase, the a rugged life for his devotion to the desert and his reptile studies. García opened the meeting number of Dropbox ac- by welcoming those in at- counts will be limited to Zzyzx isn’t the end tendance before topics were 5,000, and students will discussed. have to register for the lim- of the road not for Mary Ann Villarreal, di- ited accounts on a first- Jason Wallace rector of strategic initiatives come, first-served basis, he and university projects, iden- said. tified high impact practic- The IT department spent RUDY CHINCHILLA es as those which increase $250,000 on Dropbox for Daily Titan retention and persistence of faculty, staff and students. students. $41,000 of that amount paid As part of the strategic for the 5,000 Dropbox ac- Sometimes the hustle and plan, the university has an counts for students, Hidalgo bustle of a big city—the established goal of having 75 said in an email. noise, the cars, the people—is percent of students involved The free accounts will too much. Sometimes a per- in at least one of these prac- belong to students for the son just has to get away from tices within their first year, entire time they are enrolled it all. Sometimes he takes a as well as to add involvement in CSUF, Hidalgo said. break by going on vacation. in a subsequent practice re- The main goal of imple- Sometimes he does so by related to their major. menting Dropbox on cam- locating. Sometimes he re- Part of the meeting was pus is to provide cloud locates to the middle of the RUDY CHINCHILLA / DAILY TITAN aimed at establishing what storage and facilitate bet- desert. Jason Wallace inspects a desert horned lizard to demonstrate how to tell the creatures gender as those practices were and ter student-teacher collab- “Everyone keeps showing part of his research to collect data on desert reptiles. how the university could oration, Hidalgo said, who up and it gets busier and bus- reach its strategic plan goal, is also a faculty member ier and more and more con- Fullerton with a bachelor’s National Preserve, dating I was driving by, as a kid, my Villarreal said. in the Steven G. Mihay- gested, and I felt I did my and a master’s degree in bio- back to his days as a youth. future co-worker all those “Today’s conversation is lo College of Business and part: I left, and I gave my logical science, Wallace has Wallace recalls the trips years ago,” Wallace said, “ really to help identify what Economics. spot to somebody else,” Jason wandered off the beaten path, he and his family took out to ... is kind of trippy to think are people doing and how we Faculty and staff were Wallace said, recalling his both figuratively and literally. the National Preserve when about.” are going to get there,” she already given free Drop- decision to leave his home- Wallace knew from a young he was a child. The fami- That co-worker was Rob- said. box accounts with un- town of La Habra. age that he was destined for ly would leave home and ar- ert Fulton, site manager of the Student success teams limited storage space in As the site steward of the the outdoors. His passion for rive at Baker, California just Desert Studies Center. Ful- were another focus during November. Desert Studies Center—oth- nature would eventually have in time for sunrise. They ton and Wallace finally met the meeting. The purpose Chuck Grieb, a professor erwise known as Zzyzx—in him chasing lizards out in the stopped at the Mad Greek when Wallace was doing his of the teams is to create an and program coordinator in the Mojave National Preserve, middle of the desert. restaurant, where they would graduate research at the Des- integrated process between the Department of Visual Wallace is in charge of over- Wallace’s path toward eat strawberry pancakes or ert Studies Center in 2003. “I student affairs and academ- Arts, is already looking for- seeing facilities operations, as Zzyzx seems almost like waffles before heading into don’t think he had any clue ic affairs in order to bridge ward to the usage of Drop- well as collecting data on des- a prophecy fulfilled. The the preserve. he’d end up here,” Fulton said. the achievement gap and box for students. ert reptiles, a continuation of 40-year-old herpetologist “I loved this whole area “It just kind of fell that way.” meet the goal of integrated his thesis research. had always had some sort of anyway. And then to see this SEE DROPBOX 6 A graduate of Cal State connection with the Mojave place, also here, not realizing SEE DESERT 4 SEE HALL 6 A rotten smell for a beautiful bloom After eight years from that plant and went down to another plant that the corpse flower was blooming at another bo- graces us again tanic garden in San Diego, the San Diego Botanic Gar- den,” Pongetti said. “They NAYARA ASSIS took the pollen from the Daily Titan one that bloomed here, pol- linated that flower and got a bunch of seed, and this is Cal State Fullerton has the result of that pollination been home to an unusual effort.” flower, the corpse flower, for There are a few indica- almost eight years. It start- tors Pongetti looks for to tell ed to bloom on Sunday, at 5 when the flower will bloom. p.m. and was fully bloomed The flower will start to loos- at midnight on Monday. en at the top, then a little liq- When the corpse flower uid comes from the base of is in full bloom, it actual- the flower, which signals it ly smells like rotting flesh, will flower soon, he said. said Gregory Pongetti, the A successful pollination Living Collections curator of the open flower is called of the Fullerton Arboretum. an infructescence, where the The plant is also known as plant looks like “a big corn titan arum or by its scien- cob” with fruits containing tific name Amorphophallus the seeds attached, Pongetti titanum. said. NAYARA ASSIS / DAILY TITAN “We had one bloom back The Amorphophallus titanum before and after bloom in the Fullerton Arboretum. The flower is in 2006, and we took pollen SEE FLOWER 4 available for viewing and is expected to collapse within two days.

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM PAGE 2 MARCH 3, 2015 TUESDAY NEWS DTBRIEFS Teacher HAVE found hanged A high school teacher was found by stu- YOUR dents hanged inside her classroom Mon- day, according to the Orange County Register. Jillian Jacobson, a VOICE 31-year-old photog- raphy teacher, was found hanged inside her El Dorado High HEARD! School classroom at around 8:40 a.m. Stu- dents discovered Ja- NAYARA ASSIS / DAILY TITAN cobson’s body af- Students participate in one of the week’s first events, a dining etiquette class. Other events will ter another teacher give students the chance to put their skills to the test and network with employers. opened the locked Submit a letter to the editor at classroom door and [email protected] placed her body on the floor. By the time with the subject line as paramedics arrived, Business madness Jacobson was in car- ‘letter to the editor’ diac arrest. All efforts were made to revive (Letters may be edited to ﬁt our style) her, according to Pla- centia Police Lt. Eric comes to campus Point, but Jacobson was declared dead at Weeklong event Business 2015. Contestants the scene. FOR THE RECORD will teach students will compete through differ- Students at the school ent rounds, and their business Business were released for the It is Daily Titan policy to correct factual errors business basics responses during the Q&A day after the incident. printed in the publication. Corrections will be pub- portion will determine who Madness Week lished on the subsequent issue after an error is wins the title, said Jessica Ma- - RUDY CHINCHILLA discovered and will appear on page 2. Errors on MEGAN MENDIBLES Events Daily Titan caspac, vice president of pro- the Opinion page will be corrected on that page. grams for the Business In- Corrections will also be made to the online ter-Club Council. version of the article. A weeklong series of events Each round will test con- TUESDAY LAPD Please contact Editor-in-Chief Samuel will give students the tools testants on what they learned • Business Mountjoy at (657) 278-5815 or at they need to navigate the during Monday’s events, Ma- defends [email protected] to report any errors. ins and outs of the business caspac said. Pageant world. Wednesday’s learn and • Participants will officers Business Madness Week, grow theme will culminate be judged on offered by The Steven G. Mi- in “An Evening with Mag- their ability to use haylo College of Business and ic Johnson,” during which A bystander to the Economics aims to give stu- the former Lakers-play- information taught shooting of a home- dents looking for their break er-turned-businessman will during Monday’s less man by Los Ange- into the business world the take the stage Wednesday events. les Police Department chance to do just that. evening. • Pavilions ABC officers claims that the man did not reach Hosted by the Business In- A business career expo and • 6 - 8:30 p.m. Editorial ter-Club Council, day by day panel with the Institute of for an officer’s gun, CNN reported. Editor-in-Chief Samuel Mountjoy events will give students a Real Estate Management will chance to learn about a num- play into Thursday’s take ac- WEDNESDAY Anthony Blackburn, Managing Editor Eric Gandarilla ber of facets to the business tion theme. • ‘An Evening with who recorded the News Editor Cynthia Washicko industry. During the career expo, Magic Johnson” video of the incident News Editor Alex Groves in which multiple of- Lessons from each day will students take what they have • Former Lakers News Assistant Katherine Picazo build on the previous day’s learned from the previous ficers first struggle player turned News Assistant Darlene Casas events, with the aim of leav- days and apply it themselves and eventually shoot a Sports Editor Tameem Seraj ing students more knowledge- to network with potential em- businessman homeless man on LA’s Sports Assistant Rudy Chinchilla able about the fundamentals ployers, Macaspac said. will speak to Skid Row, said the Sports Assistant Matt Corkill of business by the end of the During the institute panel, students. man was already on Opinion Editor Vivian Chow week, said Jessica Macaspac, real estate professionals will • Titan Gym the ground when he was shot. Opinion Assistant Sabrina Parada vice president of the Business give students insight about • 7 p.m. The LAPD police Opinion Assistant KateLynn Davenport Inter-Club Council. their involvement in the busi- Each day has been assigned ness world, Macaspac said. chief, however, point- Features Editor Fiona Pitt its own theme to encapsu- Friday, a dance marathon THURSDAY ed to a partially en- Features Assistant Evan Lancaster late the lessons that students to benefit the Childrens Hos- • Business Carreer gaged slide on one of Features Assistant Stephanie Gomez are meant to take away from pital of Orange County will Expo the officer’s pistols A&E Editor Zack Johnston and a still shot from events held throughout the conclude the week with a give • TSU Pavilions A&E Assistant Deanna Gomez week. back theme. the video, showing the • 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 Copy Editor Elaiza Armas Monday’s theme was Busi- The TitanTHON, a six hour man reaching for the Copy Assistant Gustavo Vargas ness 101, and the day featured dance marathon benefiting p.m. officer’s waistband, Copy Assistant Ashley Campbell events that taught students the CHOC, raised funds to ben- • IREM Panel as evidence that the Copy Assistant Adriana Najera business basics, including a efit the hospital. The group • Real Estate man was reaching for a weapon before he Layout Editor Lizeth Luevano resume review, overview of reached its $8,000 fundraising professionals was shot. Photo Editor Amanda Sharp appropriate business attire and goal. will share a dining etiquette review. Tickets to the dance mar- Photo Assistant Mariah Carrillo Jasmine Redd, Black Busi- athon were sold for $15, and experience - NAYARA ASSIS Photo Assistant Marisela Gonzalez ness Student Association funds from the sales were • Heterbrink AB Photo Assistant Austin Wallace member, said she was excit- used to meet the group’s goal, • 2 - 4:30 p.m. Multimedia Editor Abraham Williams ed to see her hard work as a said Becki Vasquez, executive Multimedia Assistant Ryan Steel decorator come to fruition for board member for the dance FRIDAY Iraqi forces Art Director Mike Trujillo the dining etiquette portion of marathon. • CHOC TitanTHON Web Developer David McLaren Monday. All tickets for an “Eve- advance The theme for Tuesday’s ning with Earvin Magic Dance Marathon Adviser Bonnie Stewart events will be style and suc- Johnson” are available in • Proceeds go to on Tikrit cess and that theme will be the Titan Student Union. CHOC Hospital Editor-in-Chief (657) 278-5815 [email protected] part of a business pageant Tickets for the Dance Mar- • TSU Pavilions Iraqi security forc- News Line (657) 278-4415 [email protected] from 6-8:30 p.m. athon can be bought online • 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Pageant contestants will at events.dancemarathon. es began a large-scale Advertising compete for Mr. and Miss com/event/titanthon. offensive to take back Director of Advertising Ana Godinez the city of Tikrit from Asst. Director of Adv. Ayesha Doshi ISIS militants, according to CNN. Sales & Promotions Ramiro Jauregui The Iraqi forces, Graphic Designer Andrea Gonzalez backed by both Shi- Graphic Designer Shane Goodwin Dropbox: ite and Sunni fighters, Classifieds Manager Ann Pham Students to began attacking ISIS Account Executive Paige Mauriello strongholds around Account Executive Lissette Valenzuela Tikrit Monday, backed Account Executive Nehemiah Norris by Iraqi warplanes and Account Executive Joshua Lopez helicopters that also Account Executive Dominick Lorenz access free accounts struck ISIS targets in CONTINUED FROM 1 Sharing files via Dropbox currently working with Drop- and around the city. Distribution Saul Tinoco could potentially alleviate the box to get a discounted rate The effort to take The arrival of the accounts amount of content on Titani- for future graduates to mi- back Tikrit, which Main Line (657) 278-3373 Fax (657) 278-2702 will make it easier for Grieb um, Hidalgo said. grate from student to person- was captured by Advertising (657) 278-4411 [email protected] to share course materials “It’s coming from a al accounts, he said. Hidalgo ISIS in June 2014, with students when class is cloud-based storage, as op- expects to see a high demand comes in the wake of not in session, he said. posed to coming from our for Dropbox accounts, he a wide-scale offen- Grieb is currently using own on-campus servers, so said. sive ordered by Iraqi The Daily Titan is a student publication, printed every Monday through Vimeo to share his video tu- it takes some of that hard- “The 5,000 seats should go Prime Minister Haider Thursday. The Daily Titan operates independently of Associated torials with classes, but he is ware pressure off of those in- pretty quickly,” he said. “We al-Abadi on Sunday. Students, Inc. College of Communications, CSUF administration and not satisfied with lack of pri- stances,” added John Carroll, will probably have a waiting In all, around 30,000 the CSU. The Daily Titan has functioned as a public forum since vacy there. Ph.D., director of the Aca- list for the next 5,000.” fighters have joined inception. Unless implied by the advertising party or otherwise stated, the effort to recapture advertising in the Daily Titan is inserted by commercial activities or “This (Dropbox) might demic Technology Center. If his predictions come ventures identified in the advertisements themselves and not by the provide a way to do it in a Amir Dabirian, vice presi- true, additional accounts will the city. university. Such printing is not to be construed as written or implied way that isn’t so public, too, dent for information technol- be purchased for all students sponsorship, endorsement or investigation of such commercial enter- where it’s just for my stu- ogy and chief information of- sometime in the fall semes- - RUDY CHINCHILLA prises. The Daily Titan allocates one issue to each student for free. dents,” he said. ficer at Cal State Fullerton is ter, he said.

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Mihaylo College of uncharted territory, but it’s Business and Economics will something that we’re will- have their debate at the Mi- ing to try out to see how it haylo Courtyard from noon to works,” said Victoria Gomez, 1 p.m. elections commissioner for Associated Students Pres- Associated Students. ident Harpreet Bath and As- This year, Associated Stu- sociated Students Executive dents is aiming to get stu- Vice President Michael Badal dents, who do not usually at- will lead the final elections tend outreach events, to come debate on March 12 from out and vote on their favor- noon to 1 p.m. at the Central ite candidate, she said, and Quad. to challenge candidates by Originally, each debate was asking them questions and to have 20 minutes reserved address concerns they have at the end for questions, but AUSTIN WALLACE/ DAILY TITAN about their college. students will now be allowed Hundreds of faculty and staff members attended the TSU to discuss various elements of the university’s strategic plan. “I want them to be chal- to ask questions throughout lenged so that they are ready the debates, as each repre- for the position, so that they sentative presents their plat- know the importance of this form, Gomez said, and this position of representing stu- is where students can vocal- dents,” Gomez said. ize what they want from their Hall: The first debate of the representatives. Campus officials Spring 2015-16 associated “It’s so important because students elections will take that’s where students will place today for the College meet the candidates and the of Education and College of candidates will meet the stu- Communications, starting at dents. These are people who noon. are going to represent them examine strategic plan The hour-long debate, and they should meet the stu- which will take place until 1 dents that they are going to CONTINUED FROM 1 “We talked about Titan Development and deputy pro- p.m., will be the first hosted represent,” Gomez said. Pride and the positive atmo- vost; Vijay Pendakur, Ph.D., Town Hall at the Education Courtyard If a certain demographic Each of CSUF’s eight col- sphere and community we associate vice president for in an effort to raise student at- on campus doesn’t come out leges is assigned its own stu- have on campus, and also how Student Affairs; Harpreet High Impact Practices tendance, Gomez said. to vote, the interests of those dent success team. Adminis- different departments around Bath, President and CEO of • Meant to increase Wednesday, the debate for students won’t be represent- tration and faculty from those campus help students, faculty Associated Students, Inc. and the College of the Arts and ed on the board or associated colleges were able to meet and alumni who have been in- Robert Flores, Ph.D., assistant student retention the College of Natural Sci- students, Gomez said. their student success team and volved at Cal State Fullerton,” dean of Student Affairs at the ence and Mathematics will “In order for a student discuss what they do and what Colleen Ortega, athletic aca- Irvine campus. Titan Pride take place on Tuffy Lawn body, a student government to their plans are. demic services department in- During the question and an- • Officials engaged in from noon to 1 p.m. be representative of students, “We say we are going to be tern, said. swer session, administrators conversation about Then, on Thursday, the de- ... as many students as possi- the model, the national model Titan pride does not lim- responded to questions on how bate for the College of Health ble need to vote so they can what being a proud comprehensive university, but it its definition to merely the university intended to in- and Human Development and be represented,” she said. we have some internal prac- athletics, but is to create a crease resources for transfer Titan means the College for Engineering Voting will take place on tices that we can highlight and university-wide sense of com- students with responses that and Computer Science will campus March 17-19 from share with each other,” Villar- munity and belonging, Villar- included increasing advising Student success start at noon in front of the 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voting polls real said. real said. for transfer students. teams Engineering and Computer are located in front of Steven University pride, the third After all three catego- They also addressed ques- • Create an integrated Science building. G. Mihaylo, TSU, Pollak Li- major area of focus during the ries were addressed at the ta- tions on how the university Associated students is brary, McCarthy Hall and the meeting, dealt with how to en- bles, a Q&A session occurred plans to encourage students process between marketing more toward en- Piazza. gage students at CSUF to get and featured Shari McMa- in multiple colleges to contin- Student Affairs and gineering and computer sci- Students can also vote on- involved with events and the han, Ph.D., dean of the Col- ue in school beyond their first Academic Affairs ence majors this year because line through their portal at campus community. lege of the Health and Human year. Solutions to that could the building itself is far from Vote.Fullerton.edu. City to consider legal counsel options Council will discuss firm, which provides labor estimated the contributions options for legal and employment law ser- to the newspaper to cost vices, requested an increase $4,560 a year. representation from $300 an hour to $325 The department recom- an hour. mended redesigning the SPENCER CUSTODIO Atkinson, Andela, Loya, public notice format to in- Daily Titan Ruud & Romo law firm has clude multilingual contact similar expertise. The firm information on notices, or has proposed an increase notices produced in differ- The Fullerton City of $40 an hour and have ent languages. Spanish and Council will decide Tues- set the rate for their part- Korean are the two languag- day whether or not to re- ners at $290 an hour. They es being considered. tain the city’s legal counsel also proposed $150 to $250 The department is also with an increase in hourly an hour for associates and recommending an email rates, according to an agen- paralegals. notification list to inform da recommendation filed Filarsky and Watt law residents of public hear- by the Human Resources firm proposed an hourly rate ing notices in addition to a Department. of $280—a $50 increase. community project review This comes after an in- Attorney Steve Filarsky has meeting. In the memo, it is crease of $450,000 in the le- provided legal services for recommended that project gal fee appropriation in the the city, but does not employ applicants, along with the mid-year budget review that associates and paralegals for city, hold a meeting for the AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN was passed by the council Fullerton legal cases. public while the project is in The Fullerton City Council will be reviewing their options for legal counsel now that an additional during the previous meet- The council will also de- design review. $450,000 has been appropriated from their budget for legal purposes. ing. The council will con- cide whether or not to re- Community project re- sider employing three differ- sume publication of pub- view meetings would be need a tract map of five par- would require a communi- meetings or site visits is ent law firms. lic notices in the Fullerton required for projects that cels or more, or projects ty project review meeting if also up for council consider- Liebert Cassidy Whit- News Tribune as part of its require a zone change, spe- that require a negative dec- the council approves. ation from the department. more law firm has been rep- community outreach pro- cific plan, specific plan laration, mitigated negative A standardized process The department included resenting Fullerton in labor gram. The Community De- amendment or general plan declaration or require an en- for disclosing conflicts of in- a sample form attached to disputes since 2012. The velopment Department amendment. 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By 2007, after spending time as a professor at CSUF and Orange Coast College and after spending seven years as a zookeeper at the Santa Ana Zoo, Wal- lace finally gained employment at the Desert Studies COURTESY OF JAMES PARHAM PH.D. Center. Katrina Awalt (above) measures a fossil for her fundamental research on rare leatherback sea turtles in the lab of James Parham Ph.D. The desert offers hid- den treasures. Animals like ducks, coyotes and foxes convene in and around man- made Lake Tuendae pond as the sun reflects off the water Breaking new ground for fossils in the day. Pink, yellow and purple hues reflect off the CSUF alumna plans to at the John D. Cooper Ar- from Orange County and I’m university, she was going all every Bachelor of Science sky as the sun sets behind publish study on rare chaeological and Paleonto- doing a comparative study of out. major in the Department of the distant mountains at logical Center is Awalt’s ad- them. I’m measuring and de- “Just because I didn’t think Geological Sciences must dusk. Frogs croak and stars OC marine fossils visor and fellow researcher scribing the fossils that we I could do it, it (paleontology) submit an undergraduate the- glisten big and bright in the on west coast leatherback have, which is mostly shell was never something that I sis. Because of Awalt’s in- sky at night. STEPHANIE GOMEZ turtle. ossicles,” Awalt said. ever took seriously; and then terest in vertebrate paleon- But serenity can come Daily Titan Their paper will be sub- Ossicles are tiny pieces fit- when I went back to school tology, she became Parhams with a price. An expanse mitted for publication this ting together in a mosaic pat- I was like, ‘well screw it, first undergraduate thesis of sand and rows of hills— summer and once published, tern that make up the back I’m going to do this,’” Awalt student. interrupted only by des-

The ink hasn’t dried on the research will provide a shell of the turtle. Awalt es- said. Research like this has ert bushes and Wallace’s

Katrina Awalt’s degree in ge- framework for future leath- timates she measured about With guidance from a pro- been done on other speci- pickup truck in the dis- ology from Cal State Fuller- erback sea turtle studies, Par- 1,000 of these little pieces for fessor, Awalt decided to get mens from different parts of tance—line the blue sky in ton and she has already lead a ham said. “ the world, but never on west the horizon. The talkative co-authored a paper in hopes “It is original research, it’s Katrina is looking at fossils that nobody coast leatherbacks. A critical- Wallace stops to observe of publishing her ground- not like a cookbook where “has studied before ... that is brand new ly endangered species, the pa- the scene. breaking research concern- we can see what people have cific leatherback sea turtle is That momentary pause ing a local marine creature, done before and then just and pioneering new ground. the official California marine allows silence to set in, un- the Pacific leatherback sea replicate it,” Paraham said. JAMES PARHAM PH.D. reptile. derscoring the isolated na- turtle. “Katrina is looking at fossils Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences On a normal day, Awalt can ture of the desert. “It’s important because we that nobody has studied be- be found at her current job, Zzyzx operates on a skel- don’t know a lot about the fore and she is asking ques- working as a field monitor eton crew of three men, leatherback sea turtle, we tions and doing science that her paper. her bachelor’s degree in geol- on construction sites looking and the center is a long way know that there is the one ex- is brand new and pioneering At the start of her college ogy and enrolled in the pro- for fossils as they cut into the from home. “He definite- istent species alive today, but new ground.” career, Awalt didn’t have os- gram during the same semes- sediment at LSA Associates ly works really hard and he we don’t know exactly when With no previous studies as sicles in mind, but after a ter Parham started working Inc. lives harsh, so we do, we it started declining,” Awalt a standard to quantify these four and a half year break, at CSUF. The two were in- The chance to continue miss him a lot,” said Priscil- said. fossils, a way to measure the she enrolled in CSUF with a troduced shortly after. With gaining a practical application la Mathis, Wallace’s young- Five to 10 million years species had to be created, newfound attitude. Parham specializing in ver- of paleontology will help her er sister. ago, there used to be six or Parham said. “If I’m going to do this, tebrate paleontology, the in her career, Awalt said. While Wallace works in seven other species of leath- By conducting a morpho- I’m really going to do this. timing worked out perfectly Awalt is planning to ap- the desert, his sister and erbacks alive and nobody re- logical study, where research- I’m going to do something Awalt said. ply to graduate school in two brothers still live in or ally knows when those other ers examine the fossils and that is difficult for me, and is Now 30, Awalt originally the next year and continue around Orange County. “I species started declining and compare them to other spec- a challenge, and something enrolled in university class- studying vertebrate paleon- don’t go back and visit as why they went extinct she imens, it will help increase that I have always wanted to es for social work. However, tology and leatherback tur- often as I’d like because I’m said. the database of information do but never thought I could her plans changed and in Fall tles. The content, howev- always trying to go in the As co-author of the study, known about the leatherback do,” Awalt said. 2014, she graduated with a er, will depend on who her opposite direction to see my James Parham, Ph.D., assis- sea turtle, Awalt said. Awalt knew she didn’t Bachelor of Science in Geol- thesis advisor is, but having wife and my dogs and my tant professor of geological “We have these five leath- want to waste her time, and ogy from CSUF. a publication under her belt house,” Wallace said. sciences and faculty curator erback turtle fossil specimens if she was coming back to the As part of the requirements couldn’t hurt the process. But even Wallace’s wife gets to see him only sporadically. Wallace owns a house in Boulder City, Nevada, but Flower: he has to split his time be- Gagging and flourishing tween home and work. “I can do anywhere from a CONTINUED FROM 1 the internet,” he said. All week to two or three weeks of this is a joint effort be- at a time, and then I’ll go “If the pollen doesn’t tween the Fullerton Ar- home for hopefully an ap- take, then the whole flower boretum and the Biology propriate amount of days,” will just kind of shrivel up Greenhouse Complex. The said Wallace. When Wal- and fall over, kind of like leaves and the flower itself lace is home, though, he is that dormant leaf,” Ponget- grew at the greenhouse and only there for three or four ti said. Once bloomed, the were then donated to the days out of the week, of- flower has two days before Arboretum, where it is now ten not even consecutive- it will collapse, but with blossomed. ly. “It’s the only part of or without pollination, the The corpse flower is ex- this job that I think is kind underground root will sur- posed at The Orange Coun- of getting old,” Wallace vive, he said. ty Agricultural and Nikkei said. This uncommon bloom Heritage Museum inside However, Wallace is also seems to be gaining more the Fullerton Arboretum. keenly aware that he is not popularity as its avail- They are open from 8 a.m. the only one who has to ability increases, Pongetti to 4:30 p.m. every day. In make sacrifices for the sake said. the museum, visitors can of his work. “You show me “When people do have see the flower and displays one person who thinks life the flower, then they pol- explaining all different is always awesome. But it’s linate it and they typical- stages of its life cycle; as not always crappy, either. I ly produce a lot of seed—I the emerging leaf, a leaf in NAYARA ASSIS / DAILY TITAN couldn’t give you a ratio of mean you can buy these full and even some seeds, The opening of the flower produces a ghastly smell of rotten corpse, hence the name corpse good-to-bad, but it’s more plants from nurseries on one that is germinating. flower. Flies are then attracted to the bloom allowing for cross pollination. good than bad,” Wallace said. Despite, some of the negative aspects of the job, Wallace is still able to enjoy Updating you from the newsroom the small things, like watch- ing lizards do “little push and around the campus. ups” at each other. “To this day I can watch lizards and just kind of crack up,” Wal- lace said. In the end, Wallace seems perfectly content with his job, and he hopes people can appreciate the wonders of the desert as much as he does. “Overall, I kind of like assisting folks in ex- periencing something they follow us may have never experi- enced, or seeing an aspect of the desert environment @theDailyTitan that they didn’t appreciate,” Wallace said.

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Fraternity culture and more likely to be a victim all fraternities, a ban that is traditions endanger of rape, according to The still under effect. Guardian. It’s great to see UVA take women on campus These shocking statistics such serious action on an tell the story of an envi- issue that many universities ANDREW MCLEAN ronment fueled by alcohol would prefer to brush under Daily Titan and drugs, leading to bad the rug. judgement, a lack of mor- Univiersities like Wesley- als and spelling danger for an have also taken note and females. handling fraternity-related The benefits of being in Many fraternities do not rape incidents with swift a fraternity may include a allow male outsiders into action. large group of friends, fun their parties or social gath- Wesleyan University, lo- social gatherings, servicing erings for fear that if a vis- cated in Middletown, Con- a community and network- itor breaks a rule, it will necticut has been peppered ing opportunities. negatively affect all the with stories of rape these But fraternities are full brothers in the fraternity. past few years. of storied traditions like Oftentimes, such actions This includes the dis- initiations, which have can lead to the suspension missal of the Beta Theta Pi come under fire for poten- of a fraternity. fraternity whose house was tially endangering female In 2014, officials at the nicknamed the “Rape Fac- students. University of Virginia be- tory,” according to Daily It’s common knowledge lieved fraternities promote Mail. that being in a fraternity a dangerous climate and Wesleyan University sent will expose participants to suspended all fraternities out an email to students COURTESY OF FLICKR a party scene, but what ex- from their campus after a informing them on the in- Fraternities have made headlines recently for incidents relating to rape and violence against actly goes on in those par- first-year student was raped tent to make all fraternities women. The agressive and hyper-masculine identities of frats have endangered female students. ties are only known by the by 7 different men at a Phi co-ed. fraternity members or so- Kappi Si party, according It’s unclear how much fraternities. of a few that tarnish the careers. rority members they associ- to Time magazine. this will alleviate the issue, In 2010, Delta Kappa reputation of many reputa- Yes, they still have par- ate themselves with. The victim was so dis- even though it’s a great start Epsilon pledges marched ble fraternities. ties, and having fun is a Members of fraternities traught after the incident in addressing the issue. through campus chanting, Some fraternities are huge part of fraternities, but are 300 percent more like- that she became suicidal. Even the best and bright- “no means yes, yes means great organizations that if that fun risks the safety ly to be the perpetrator in Though this incident est at Yale University has anal,” according to The actually promote chival- of other students, then their a rape incident and females only involved one fraterni- come across hot water for Guardian. ry, a sense of community actions shouldn’t go within a sorority are 74 percent ty, UVA decided to suspend the actions of one of their These can be the actions and help further members’ out consequence. Violence against men is no different There’s a double As he stretches his arm had hurt him, he caught Why is it okay for her to and he hits back, she had and cowardly. out to grab Tabasco sauce, himself and walked away. hit him? it coming. It goes back to But the woman respon- standard for men in large purple, green and yel- She thought it was funny, To injure him and get the notion of treating oth- sible for an attack is ap- domestic violence low bruises become visible. but he thought differently. away with it? Why do most ers the way you’d like to be plauded for “teaching him a

The smile instantly fades Things like this are far from people laugh when a wom- treated. lesson.”

away when he’s asked how hilarious. an hits a man, but fly off the He is a tall guy, over six Nearly three million phys- LILIANA MOTA those bruises came about. feet, and she is relatively ical assaults in the United For the Daily Titan “ After a couple minutes Nearly three million physical assaults in small, which comes to show, States happen to men and of going back and forth, he regardless of size, a man is they seem to be disturbingly He sits across the table spills the beans. “the United States happen to men and they still vulnerable. overlooked. chowing down his steak bur- He was at work and a fe- seem to be disturbingly overlooked. More than one in four men Everything boils down to rito from Chipotle, occa- male co-worker grabbed have been victims of domes- one thing: treat others with sionally sipping on his iced him, dug her fingers into If his hand would have handle when it’s the other tic abuse, according to the respect. tea with extra lemon, be- his arm and ended it with a slipped and he would have way around? Centers for Disease Control Hitting someone because cause that’s how he likes it. pinch. hit her, even pushed her, The reality is, violence and Prevention, but it’s rare it’s “entertaining” or “fun” A warm smile lights It was a natural instinct to there would have been out- toward men is just as unac- that a man being abused by a is not right. up his face as he contin- turn around and hit whoever rage. Why? Because he’s a ceptable as violence toward woman gets publicity. If you wouldn’t want ues to talk about his crazy had touched him, but when man and men are not sup- women. A man who is abused is something done to you, don’t weekend. he realized it was a girl who posed to hit women. If a woman hits a man seen as weak, unmasculine do it to another individual. Fast food creations make feasting fun

New menu creations that have altered their food The wary perception of from fast food chains menus with whimsical cre- the product doesn’t over- ations, like the Waffle Taco, shadow people’s actual in- show creativity the A.M. Crunch Wrap, the tention from trying and eat- Double Down sandwich ing them. MARICELA GOMEZ that substitutes bread for Sure, many people may Daily Titan chicken breasts and the ed- say they dislike the idea of ible “Scoff-ee” cup sold in honey being drizzled onto a the United Kingdom. meat or an egg and cheese Blackened burgers, Taco Bell’s creative team Waffle Taco, but an over- chicken corsages and edible must choose at least 12 out whelming curiosity will sugar coffee cups are just a of the 4,500 innovative usually get the better of handful of peculiar inven- concepts to be provided them. tions that have appeared on on the menu—the “Waffle Fast food restaurants are fast food menus throughout Taco” was one of the cho- thinking outside the box, the world. sen few to be a breakfast injecting a dose of fun and Have fast food restau- item, according to Taco creativity into everyday rants lost their mind? Bell’s Secret Recipe for food items. Perhaps not. Fast food New Products. It’s easy to roll your eyes chains have taken an ec- The “Waffle Taco,” was at the new recipes fast food centric path in creating dif- transformed at least 80 joints are cooking up, but- ferent food items for the av- times, constantly renovat- don’t knock it until you’ve erage consumer, and that ing the form, taste, tex- tried it. probably isn’t a bad thing. ture and flavor before the It’s hard to escape the so- In a 2013 Gallup poll, final product, according to cial media buzz about new eight in 10 Americans have Bloomberg Business. products through friends on consumed fast food at least Fast food consumers may Yelp, Facebook, Instagram once in a month. love or hate edible cre- and Twitter. It’s evident the nation ations, but the risk-tak- Consuming the restau- COURTESY OF FLICKR consists of fast food con- ing actions from fast food rant’s peculiar food be- Favorite fast food chains are always cooking up new edible creations, keeping customers on their sumers and the demand for restaurants is admirable. comes a unique experience toes. KFC’s Double Down sandwich takes a new spin on the typical burger. innovative food items are People may believe the that no typical cheeseburg- needed. items are ridiculous inven- er, taco or salad on the drift from the ordinary When looking past the emphasized in making Restaurants like KFC and tions, but it takes a lot of menu will provide. menu at fast food restau- bizarre menu items, one food entrees to spice up Taco Bell are some of the effort and consideration to These inventions are fun rants, creating diversity in can find that time, inno- the appetite of the fast food many fast food restaurants create interesting food. and distinct products that the fast food culture. vation and creativity were consumer.

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