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Volume 95, Issue 35 TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @DAILY_TITAN COSTUME AFFAIR GLUTEN-FREE FEATURES 6 FITNESS 8 A gluten-free diet helps people with celiac disease live healthier Student shares her experience at the annual International Costume Convention INSIDE After months of prepa- ration and build up, this year’s Spring Concert is rapidly nearing its show- time on May 2. ASI Pro- ductions revealed the full lineup Sunday night, un- veiling a show with Waka Flocka Flame and Dirty South sharing the main stage. Up-and-coming in- die rock band Basic Va- cation will be opening the show. The band has been gradually gaining fame with its single “I Be- lieve,” which was featured during the telecast of the Sochi Winter Olympics in February. In fact, all of the acts set to perform at Spring Con- cert are currently build- ing up their names with- in the mainstream music scene, said Danielle Man- ifold, the Fall Festival/ Spring Concert coordina- tor for ASIP. “I discovered (Basic Va- cation) last August when I went to just some random show in LA and they were opening. I had no idea who they were. They were really, really awesome, had a lot of stage presence and energy,” Manifold said. “I immediately knew that I wanted them for this slot and I knew that they would be a great way to start off the show.” Dirty South is an elec- tronic dance music (EDM) DJ who has been nomi- nated for several Grammy Awards, Manifold said. He is a regular perform- er at the Ultra Festival in Miami and Electric Dai- sy Carnival in Las Vegas and is a household name among EDM fans. Waka Flocka Flame was a big name in hip-hop in 2009 and 2010, with a few songs on the Billboard Hot 100 charts during that time. He is making a comeback, and is fresh off a January tour with Steve Aoki and Gor-Gor. He also has a newly released song and plans to drop his new album later this year. The final lineup deci- sion was influenced by a number of factors, in- cluding the allotted bud- get ASIP has to work with for Spring Concert. The organization has $60,000 to spend for talent alone. About $2,000 more con- tributes to production and promotion for the event, Manifold said. This budget limits the artists ASIP is able to book, but the team worked to book the artists that best fit the musical climate of the Cal State Fullerton student body. On an eclectic campus, workshops, shopping sprees and DIYs inspire the Fash- ion Club to connect fashion lovers all over campus. e club circulates around several perspec- tives of the fashion world, such as business and mod- eling. is gives members a chance to experience which parts of the indus- try they would like to be in- volved in. President Natalynne Tran started the club last September. She first gained the attention of prospective members when she sent out a mass Facebook message letting students know about the new organization. She eventually caught the eye of public relations major Amber Kazalbash, who also had an affinity for fashion. “I wanted to start a club too but I didn’t have any re- sources,” Kazalbash said. “So, when I saw she started one I knew I had to be part of the board.” Kazalbash is in charge of the social media depart- ment of the club. She sends out updates through email and Facebook to inform current members and those who are interested about the club’s activities. One day, Kazalbash would like to take on the fashion industry from a corporate position because she is a strong writer. An analysis of the input given by students on the Student Success Initiative paints a picture of what was on the minds of students as they gave their input on the fee, which was approved late last month. As part of the month-long alternative consul- tation process for the fee during February and March, students were invited to provide verbal response to the fee in addition to the scale re- sponse questions, which measured agreeance with different aspects of the fee. Ultimately, 3,809 surveys were collected. rough a California Public Records Act re- quest, the Daily Titan obtained more than 200 pages of responses from students, the same re- sponses that were reviewed by members of the Student Fee Advisory Committee as they con- sidered the fee. After common words like “the” and “that” were removed, an analysis using frequency sta- tistics software shows that the most frequent- ly appearing word in responses was “students,” with 772 uses. Close behind were “we” (547 uses), “more” (533 uses), “student” (454 uses), “pay” (444 uses) and “money” (373 uses). Tuition was men- tioned 192 times and parking was mentioned 97 times. After spending a few days reviewing the data, the fee committee lowered the $240.50 fee from the initial proposal to $181 per semester. e portions of the fee that received the most signif- icant reductions were related to athletics. Ultimately, the fee trimmed $49.50 from the fee. Students will pay a fee of $181 to be phased in over the next three years. e fee committee felt that the volume of data gleaned from students validated its de- cision to reach out through a consultative process. In some cases in the word cloud above, plural forms of the same words have been combined with singular forms, such as “student” and “students.” MIA MCCORMICK Daily Titan Rapper Waka Flocka Flame to headline in May SAMUEL MOUNTJOY Daily Titan Analyzing responses on the student success fee surveys TROI MCADORY Daily Titan Students create outfits that go from ‘drab’ to ‘fab’ SEE FASHION, 6 SEE CONCERT, 2 MIKE TRUJILLO & SAMUEL MOUNTJOY / Daily Titan Thoughts Spring Concert lineup revealed A passion for fashion inspires new club Members of the Cal State Fullerton Fashion Club are able to express their personal style and discuss clothing trends. Courtesy of CSUF Fashion Club Facebook page “I would be willing to pay for slightly higher tuition (not over $500) if it results in higher education learning services, better professors, career development, expanding campus, building additional parking lots, etc. Tuition has been increasing tremendously over the years and I strongly believe that is not reasonable unless there are good reasons for such action.” “We should not be the ones suffering with fee increases just because we receive the lowest funding, the state needs to step up and provide more money due to our large student population.” “I’ll make it short. The most important function of college is provide good education and what CSUF is failing to do is providing enough number of classes so that students can graduate ASAP. If you’d like to get more money from us, that money should be used for making more classes rather than other stuff, which doesn’t directly affect students.” Visit DailyTitan.com to view the documented responses in their entirety. STUDENT RESPONSES The above word cloud is a dis- tillation of the most frequently oc- curring words in the verbal feed- back sections of 1,387 surveys. The surveys were filled out by stu- dents during the month-long con- sultation process on the Student Success Initiative. on the fee
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Page 1: Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Volume 95, Issue 35

TUESDAY, A PR IL 8, 2014

VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COMFOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @DAILY_TITAN

COSTUME AFFAIR GLUTEN-FREE

FEATURES 6 FITNESS 8

A gluten-free diet helps people with celiac disease live healthier

Student shares her experience at the annual International Costume Convention

INSIDE

After months of prepa-ration and build up, this year’s Spring Concert is rapidly nearing its show-time on May 2. ASI Pro-ductions revealed the full lineup Sunday night, un-veiling a show with Waka Flocka Flame and Dirty South sharing the main stage.

Up-and-coming in-die rock band Basic Va-cation will be opening the show. The band has been gradually gaining fame with its single “I Be-lieve,” which was featured during the telecast of the Sochi Winter Olympics in February.

In fact, all of the acts set to perform at Spring Con-cert are currently build-ing up their names with-in the mainstream music scene, said Danielle Man-ifold, the Fall Festival/Spring Concert coordina-tor for ASIP.

“I discovered (Basic Va-cation) last August when I went to just some random show in LA and they were opening. I had no idea who they were. They were really, really awesome, had a lot of stage presence and energy,” Manifold said. “I immediately knew

that I wanted them for this slot and I knew that they would be a great way to start off the show.”

Dirty South is an elec-tronic dance music (EDM) DJ who has been nomi-nated for several Grammy Awards, Manifold said. He is a regular perform-er at the Ultra Festival in Miami and Electric Dai-sy Carnival in Las Vegas and is a household name among EDM fans.

Waka Flocka Flame was a big name in hip-hop in 2009 and 2010, with a few songs on the Billboard Hot 100 charts during that time. He is making a comeback, and is fresh off a January tour with Steve Aoki and Gor-Gor. He also has a newly released song and plans to drop his new album later this year.

The final lineup deci-sion was inf luenced by a number of factors, in-cluding the allotted bud-get ASIP has to work with for Spring Concert. The organization has $60,000 to spend for talent alone. About $2,000 more con-tributes to production and promotion for the event, Manifold said.

This budget limits the artists ASIP is able to book, but the team worked to book the artists that best fit the musical climate of the Cal State Fullerton student body.

On an eclectic campus, workshops, shopping sprees and DIYs inspire the Fash-ion Club to connect fashion lovers all over campus.

The club circulates around several perspec-tives of the fashion world, such as business and mod-eling. This gives members a chance to experience which parts of the indus-try they would like to be in-volved in.

President Natalynne Tran started the club last September. She first gained the attention of prospective members when she sent out a mass Facebook message

letting students know about the new organization.

She eventually caught the eye of public relations major Amber Kazalbash, who also had an affinity for fashion.

“I wanted to start a club too but I didn’t have any re-sources,” Kazalbash said. “So, when I saw she started one I knew I had to be part of the board.”

Kazalbash is in charge of the social media depart-ment of the club. She sends out updates through email and Facebook to inform current members and those who are interested about the club’s activities.

One day, Kazalbash would like to take on the fashion industry from a corporate position because she is a strong writer.

An analysis of the input given by students on the Student Success Initiative paints a picture of what was on the minds of students as they gave their input on the fee, which was approved late last month.

As part of the month-long alternative consul-tation process for the fee during February and March, students were invited to provide verbal response to the fee in addition to the scale re-sponse questions, which measured agreeance with different aspects of the fee.

Ultimately, 3,809 surveys were collected. Through a California Public Records Act re-quest, the Daily Titan obtained more than 200 pages of responses from students, the same re-sponses that were reviewed by members of the Student Fee Advisory Committee as they con-sidered the fee.

After common words like “the” and “that” were removed, an analysis using frequency sta-tistics software shows that the most frequent-ly appearing word in responses was “students,” with 772 uses.

Close behind were “we” (547 uses), “more” (533 uses), “student” (454 uses), “pay” (444 uses) and “money” (373 uses). Tuition was men-tioned 192 times and parking was mentioned 97 times.

After spending a few days reviewing the data, the fee committee lowered the $240.50 fee from the initial proposal to $181 per semester. The portions of the fee that received the most signif-icant reductions were related to athletics.

Ultimately, the fee trimmed $49.50 from the fee. Students will pay a fee of $181 to be phased in over the next three years.

The fee committee felt that the volume of data gleaned from students validated its de-cision to reach out through a consultative process.

In some cases in the word cloud above, plural forms of the same words have been combined with singular forms, such as “student” and “students.”

MIA MCCORMICKDaily Titan

Rapper Waka Flocka Flame to headline in May

SAMUEL MOUNTJOYDaily Titan

Analyzing responses on the student success fee surveys

TROI MCADORYDaily Titan

Students create outfits that go from ‘drab’ to ‘fab’

SEE FASHION, 6

SEE CONCERT, 2

MIKE TRUJILLO & SAMUEL MOUNTJOY / Daily Titan

Thoughts

Spring Concert lineup revealed

A passion for fashion inspires new club

Members of the Cal State Fullerton Fashion Club are able to express their personal style and discuss clothing trends.

Courtesy of CSUF Fashion Club Facebook page

“I would be willing to pay for slightly higher tuition (not over $500) if it results in higher education learning services, better professors, career development, expanding campus, building additional parking lots, etc. Tuition has been increasing tremendously over the years and I strongly believe that is not reasonable unless there are good reasons for such action.”

“We should not be the ones suffering with fee increases just because we receive the lowest funding, the state needs to step up and provide more money due to our large student population.”

“I’ll make it short. The most important function of college is provide good education and what CSUF is failing to do is providing enough number of classes so that students can graduate ASAP. If you’d like to get more money from us, that money should be used for making more classes rather than other stuff, which doesn’t directly affect students.”

Visit DailyTitan.com to view the documented responses in their entirety.

STUDENT RESPONSES

The above word cloud is a dis-tillation of the most frequently oc-curring words in the verbal feed-back sections of 1,387 surveys. The surveys were filled out by stu-dents during the month-long con-sultation process on the Student Success Initiative.

on the fee

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Cyclist dies in hit-and-run car accident

Protesters demand split from Ukraine

Teen injured in possible gang attack

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Genevieve Hall, a 34-year-old Hunting-ton Beach resident who was struck by a car Sunday night, has died from her injuries, ac-cording to the Orange County Register.

Huntington Beach police officers found Hall lying on the curb on Beach Boulevard near Utica Avenue Sun-day night.

Hall suffered major injuries and was tak-en to UC Irvine Medi-cal Center, where she was later pronounced dead.

Witnesses on the scene reported that the driver of the vehi-cle made no attempt to stop after hitting Hall. They also said the car was a white Chevrolet Impala.

No arrests or cita-tions have been issued, and the incident is un-der investigation.

Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk, Ukraine declared Monday that they intend to form an independent republic, according to the New York Times.

The protesters urged Russian president Vladimir Putin to send troops to Donetsk as a peacekeeping force.

The activists are mimicking the events that occurred before Russia moved troops into the region of Crimea in Ukraine, which ultimately led to Crimea’s annexation.

The Obama admin-istration has warned Russia that they are ready to impose sanc-tions if Russia takes further military in-tervention mea-sures in Ukraine or attempts to subvert the new Ukrainian government.

An 18-year-old man was shot early Mon-day morning while walking with a fe-male companion in a Santa Ana neighbor-hood, according to the Orange County Register.

The teenager was walking with a fe-male near South Bak-er Street and West Hemlock Way when a dark-colored sedan at-tempted to hit them.

The woman hid be-hind a parked vehi-cle, and an unknown gunman opened fire on the male, and sped away. He suffered four gunshot wounds in his lower body.

The teenager was taken to a local hospi-tal and is expected to survive his injuries.

The crime is be-lieved to be gang-re-lated and is currently under investigation.

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Waka Flocka Flame, a hip-hop artist from Atlanta, is known for singles such as “Hard in da Paint” and “No Hands.” He will headline this year’s Spring Concert alongside Dirty South, an EDM DJ.

Courtesy of Waka Flocka Flame

“Since we’re working with a limited budget, we can’t bring the Kanye Wests of the world, we can’t bring the Kendrick Lamars of the world, so we did our best to bring big things that represent hip-hop, EDM, indie rock as best as we can and we’re real-ly excited for the lineup we have,” Manifold said.

The committee also con-siders the musical tastes of students at large through a survey they conducted late in the fall semester to see what types of artists students wanted to see at Spring Concert.

Manifold said it was diffi-cult to choose artists based

on the differing opinions ASIP received from stu-dents, but there are stu-dents who are pleased with the artists to perform at Spring Concert.

“I’m really happy about Waka Flocka Flame, unfor-tunately I don’t know many others in this list,” said Jo-seph Ghabour, a 21-year-old biochemistry major.

Ghabour said he has nev-er been to Spring Concert in the past, but is hoping this year will be his first.

Aside from the musical talent, students can ex-pect vendors, free food and drinks, giveaways, body painting, body jewels and activity booths for stu-dents and guests to enjoy before the artists take the stage.

The theme of this year’s

concert is “Good Vibes in Modern Times,” and Man-ifold said she hopes this theme will be fully encom-passed with these new ad-ditions to the pre-show activities and be a celebra-tion for students.

Spring Concert tickets will be available starting April 16 at 7 a.m. at the Ti-tan Student Union Infor-mation and Services desk. There will be 3,500 free student tickets available and 500 guest tickets for $10 each. Each student is allowed to purchase one guest ticket, and guests must be 18 or older and bring a valid state-issued identification card to the concert.

The setlist for the concert will be released one to two weeks prior to the event.

Attendees listen to a student explain his research project Monday during the Student Creative Activities and Research Day poster session in the Titan Student Union. Undergraduate and graduate students from all Cal State Fullerton colleges are invited to present their research during the event, which is in its second year.

ELEONOR SEGURA / Daily Titan

From rappers to DJs

Showcasing research projects

CONCERTContinued from PAGE 1

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A Cal State Fullerton student and an alumna recently received an invi-tation to speak at the Phi Theta Alpha regional con-ference at Brenau Univer-sity in Gainesville, Ga.

The two shared their experiences editing and contributing to the Wele-baethan Jour-nal of Histo-ry, an annual journal by history stu-dents, many of whom are involved in organizations like the CSUF chapter of the Phi Theta Al-pha honor so-ciety, which is the Theta Pi chapter.

R a y m o n d Ortiz, a his-tory gradu-ate student and the pres-ident of the Cultural and Public History Associa-tion (CPHA), made the trip to Gainesville along with Kimberly Haysom. Haysom, who recently graduated with a master’s degree in history, served as an editor, administra-tive assistant and author for the 2013 edition of the Welebaethan.

The opportunity came about after he met Gnim-bin Ouattara, Ph.D., an as-sistant professor of history and international studies

at Brenau University, Or-tiz said. He spoke to Ouat-tara while taking part in a student presentation in March 2013 as part of the Southwestern Social Sci-ence Association confer-ence in New Orleans.

Ortiz said by maintain-ing communication with Ouattara, he had an oppor-tunity to share his experi-ence as the editor-in-chief of the Welebaethan as part of the conference.

“I’ve always tried to make the best of it all, to take as much as I can and to really go out there and

enjoy the ride along the way,” Ortiz said. “That’s why I seized this oppor-tunity with presenting at the Georgia conference.”

O u a t t a r a , the faculty advisor for the Phi The-ta Alpha, Tau Eta chapter, invited Ortiz to speak at his chapter’s

conference at Brenau Uni-versity on March 29.

Ortiz was inspired by the work he did while working on the Wele-baethan, which led him to help create the CPHA with the intent to provide ave-nues for similar work to be established. All of CPHA’s founding members are or were involved with the journal.

“We wanted to main-tain that momentum of working together,” he said. “(We wanted to) cre-ate one more opportunity

for students on campus to showcase their work, their passion, their research, their projects.”

Ortiz said he did not re-alize it at first, but the Welebaethan command-ed respect from students with history programs from prestigious universi-ties, partly due to winning the Gerald D. Nash History Journal Prize for the past

27 years consecutively. Conferences frequently

present networking oppor-tunities for students and ways for them to get more deeply involved with their work. For Ortiz, the expe-rience he had as a result of reaching out to Ouattara was a strong reminder of that.

“(As an undergraduate history student) I never

got involved, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, and I regret that,” he said. “This time around, for graduate school, my approach has always been say ‘yes’ to everything.”

The experience, Ortiz said, will be useful for him as he pursues a doctorate degree and finds a career.

“It was the very first time I went out there

representing myself and who I am as a profession-al,” he said. “If I hadn’t, if I said ‘no,’ that would have been a huge ‘what if ’ that would always be at the back of my mind.”

Submissions for the Welebaethan are accepted year-round. For more in-formation on the journal, contact faculty advisor Va-nessa Gunther, Ph.D.

Student, alumna enjoy historic moment

Raymond Ortiz and Kimberly Haysom were invited to Brenau University in Georgia as part of a regional conference for the Phi Alpha Theta Tau Eta chapter. They spoke on March 29 to explain their experience with Cal State Fullerton’s student history journal.

Courtesy of Phi Alpha Theta, Tau Eta chapter

MATTHEW MEDINADaily Titan

Brenau University in Georgia invites CSUF guest speakers

“If I hadn’t, if I said ‘no’ (to the

opportunity to speak), that

would have been a huge ‘what if’

that would always be at the back of

my mind.”RAYMOND ORTIZGraduate Student

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Last week, Microsoft an-nounced Cortana, its com-petition to Apple’s voice command assistant Siri. The new ‘digital assistant’ is named after the video game Halo’s now famous com-panion and will be debut-ing in Windows mobile 8.1 as an attempt to compete with Google and Apple’s voice recognition equipped smartphones.

Virtual assistants are the next step to a future in sci-ence fiction movies like Her and 2001: A Space Odyssey.Besides competing with two well established smart-phone giants, Microsoft has a bigger problem: convinc-ing consumers to use voice commands.

As of now, voice com-mands are more of a novel-ty than of any actual use. I rarely see anyone use them in public or even seriously in a small group of friends. This could just be a social stigma, but it seems more like a problem with technol-ogy itself. Two big changes need to happen with voice commands before con-sumers fully embrace con-trolling anything with their voice.

Reliability: Trying to get my Xbox

One to turn on frequently turns into a session of me yelling in my room “Xbox turn on” over and over un-til I get mad enough to just walk up and press the “on” button. Of course this will become better and better over time, but for now it’s just not optimal.

Google used to have terri-ble voice recognition on its Android phones, but over

time and with consistent improvement it has posi-tioned itself as the most reli-able of all current voice rec-ognition software.

This is only possible because of the massive amount of data Google pulls from its users to give a more accurate representation of how users speak. But even now, it messes up frequently enough to the point where I am forced to manually enter text, which makes me not want to trifle with it in the first place.

It’s certainly not reliable with the engine noise in the background. Sadly, the in-side of a car is where voice commands would be most important.

Naturality:The furthest thing from

being a reality is being able to talk to any device natu-rally. Being able to have a conversational tone with a computer or phone is the future. I don’t believe it will reach human realism levels of Her where Joaquin Phoe-nix falls in love with his op-erating system, but I hope I can talk to my phone with-out addressing it like I am talking to a person who is hard of hearing.

Listen to yourself the next time you dust off Siri. Think about how different you sound compared to com-municating with a friend or family member. It just feels funny and awkward. In part, this is due to reliability but I know I can’t ask my phone “Can you look up where I can find a great place to eat grilled cheese?” Phones and other devices require specif-ic keywords to work and a natural conversation would just throw it off.

Siri and Cortana need to be my pal, not a picky gram-mar nazi.

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One of the many argu-ments heard against colle-giate athletes being paid is that compensation is cur-rently fair enough as those athletes have their tui-tion paid for in addition to housing, food or books.

Sports at the college level are quickly being propelled to the level of professional sports.

The old deal between the NCAA and Bowl Champi-onship Series for football was worth $500 million, ac-cording to an article from ESPN.go.com

Simply put, it is a busi-ness and form of entertain-ment worth millions, and sometimes billions, of dol-lars for these “student ath-letes” to be broadcasted on national television. That alone transforms athletes into celebrities.

College jerseys with a player’s number on the back are found in stores on and off colleges campuses. While names are not dis-played on the back, it is not difficult to identify these players paraded through the media.

The fact remains that those players that are as-sociated with the jersey do not receive any compen-sation as universities par-ticipate in a cash grab off the likeness of individual athletes.

There are coaches who are currently against col-lege athletes forming a union, and truth be told, there isn’t a more hypocrit-ical situation than coach-es being against player compensation.

Northwestern University is at the heart of the union debate as its players are the ones trying to achieve the

goal of forming a union. Pat Fitzgerald, the head

coach for the Wildcats football team, has recently voiced his opposition to the union and urged his play-ers to vote against the idea when it’s taken to a vote in late April.

“I believe it’s in their best interests to vote no. With the research that I’ve done, I’m going to stick to the facts and I’m going to do everything in my power to educate our guys,” Fitzger-ald said. “Our university is going to do that. We’ll give them all the resources they need to get the facts.”

So while coaches are against unions and com-pensation for its athletes, it should be noted that these coaches are the same ones getting paid handsomely for their own services.

In 2011, Fitzgerald was paid more than $2.2 mil-lion, a $1 million increase from the previous year, and was given a 10-year con-tract extension that runs through 2020.

If that wasn’t enough, his compensation package in-cluded a $2.5 million loan from the school. It was the first time since 2005 that Northwestern’s tax return showed the coach to be the highest paid employee at the university, according to USA Today Sports.

At the end of the day, ath-letes realistically are not go-ing to be offered that type of money. But why should they not receive a piece of the pie after the long hours they put in the training room and on the field, all while fulfilling their responsibilities as a student?

College athletes deserve balance and as great as the perks of free education are, they could be and should be given a little bit more.

The athletes are the ones selling out stadi-ums, selling merchandise and generating millions of dollars for their respec-tive universities. To say athletes do not deserve a little more compensation is unfair.

College players bring in too much money to not receive compensation

JOHNNY NAVARRETTE

Daily Titan

Later in April, the Na-tional Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will decide if Northwestern University’s scholarship football play-ers will be granted employ-ee status, giving them the right to unionize.

Allowing them to union-ize as employees is a some-what odd move considering these students are already being paid in the form of scholarships covering their very pricy tuition.

Northwestern’s graduat-ing quarterback, Kain Col-ter, spearheaded the move-ment to organize players at the school, after his experi-ence with life as both a col-lege student and athlete.

Huma has provided sup-port for athletes dealing with similar efforts in re-cent years and has led the National College Players Association since graduat-ing from UCLA. Now he’s advocating for more cover-age for injured players, con-cussion reform, as well as other basic protections.

However, Northwestern’s football coach Pat Fitz-gerald believes the idea to unionize is not the an-swer. “I just do not believe we need a third party be-tween our players and our coaches, staff and admin-istrators,” Fitzgerald said. “ … Whatever they need, we will get them.”

Fitzgerald stands with the university, who intends to send representatives to meet with members of Congress in an effort to stop the union effort.

Opinions are split on the idea of unionizing, with about half on each side of the issue from a recent poll by USA Today. However, about 64 percent of those

polled are opposed to the idea of student pay.

NLRB regional direc-tor, Peter Sung Ohr, firm-ly stands by the decision to grant students union rights, citing the players’ time and commitment to their sport, and the fact that their schol-arships were tied directly to their performance, accord-ing to ESPN.

If time and commit-ment are grounds for union rights and student pay, then shouldn’t grad assistants and interns receive more sufficient pay and the right to unionize?

Surely they do more for the university than student athletes. And aren’t athletes technically already being paid for what they do be-cause of scholarships?

The move to give college athletes the right to union-ize and to be considered “employees” has agitated critics. The critics say that this idea could hurt college sports in many ways, most notably by the possibility of strikes from unhappy play-ers or lockouts by athletic departments, according to ESPN.

Although only Colter spoke publicly about his support during the hear-ings, he stated that nearly all 85 Northwestern schol-arship players backed the union bid, although Fitz-gerald’s recent urgings to vote no may have currently swayed some of the votes.

Northwestern is not a football factory, and it should be noted that it has one of the highest gradua-tion rates for college football players in the nation.

Sports injury coverage and other basic protections should be handled first and foremost by universities and the NCAA. Those two enti-ties should be responsible for taking care of players’ needs and improving bene-fits without the outside help from a union.

It just doesn’t seem logical to pay athletes who receive an education that is worth more per year than many people’s salaries.

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Bike Nation USA recently installed its stations on Cal State Fullerton’s campus, the station additions will simplify transportation for students and faculty alike.

Multiple bike sta-tions have also been placed around downtown Fullerton.

A contract between the Or-ange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) and Bike Nation was signed in 2012.

A total of 165 bicycles lo-cated at 15 different stations throughout the city were in-stalled in January 2014.

The installation of the bike stations around the city comes at a time when bicycles are gaining rec-ognition as a dependable method of transportation around urban areas, while simultaneously decreasing car usage.

The bike-sharing pro-gram located in Fullerton is currently a two-year pilot program.

The Federal Transit Ad-ministration supported the efforts to cut down air pollu-tion by giving the program a $768,000 federal grant.

In the past, Bike Nation has faced some obstacles in more populated cities, such as New York and Los Angeles, where there have been bicycle shortages at stations.

It also failed to deliv-er the promised number of stations in the city of Ana-heim, installing only three stations, instead of the original 10 that had been promised.

During this two-year pi-lot term, Wes Parsel, a mar-keting coordinator of the Orange County Transpor-tation Authority, said offi-cials will be monitoring the real-time data showing how often the bicycles are being used and what kind of cus-tomers are using them.

This will allow them to

gauge the success rate of Bike Nation’s program in the city of Fullerton.

The program’s low-cost membership fees, as well as discount day passes, are meant to attract stu-dents and faculty members in hopes that the Fullerton program will be successful enough to continue after its two-year pilot term ends.

Another reason why OCTA approved the contract with Bike Nation, despite the for-mer mayor Bruce Whitak-er’s inclination to not spend money, was the Fullerton train station.

The train station brings in a number of people each morning and the distance between the train station

and the passengers’ desti-nation constantly presents a problem, as most plac-es require a bit of a walk and most passengers do not have cars waiting for them once they leave the train station.

The bike-sharing pro-gram targeted these specif-ic people by installing sta-tions at the Fullerton train station that would allow commuters to rent bicycles to reach their destinations faster.

Bike Nation has been most successful on the Cal State Fullerton campus, ac-cording to Parsel.

He credits this to the fact that many students find it very convenient to simply

rent a bicycle on campus and dock it at another sta-tion downtown.

Not only is the bike-shar-ing program convenient, it also promotes health and environmental awareness.

By using Bike Nation bi-cycles, students are guar-anteed to find parking, thus eliminating stress when they arrive at the next sta-tion to dock their rented bicycle.

Bike Nation officials ensure there will be enough bikes for rental as well as space for bi-cycles to be returned at any docking station with the re-al-time data they receive from the stations.

In addition to avoid-ing the stress of having to

search for parking in an area so dependent on cars, using the rental bicycles will also allow students to skip the stress of sitting in traffic behind a long line of cars.

The program also pro-motes environmental awareness by attempting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by cutting down on the number of cars driv-en every day by people only looking to travel short distances.

Should the two-year pilot program be a success, Cal State Fullerton faculty and students can look forward to having a dependable and beneficial method of trans-portation in the future.

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The Bike Nation program allows people in Fullerton the ability to rent bikes out for 30 minutes at a time. WINNIE HUANG / Daily Titan

In addition to avoiding the

stress of having to search for

parking in an area so dependent on cars, using the

rental bicycles will also allow

students to skip the stress of

sitting in traffic behind a long line

of cars.

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Halloween happens 365 days a year for my family.

My parents own a year-round costume store called All About Fun Costumes. I usual-ly miss out on the fun of find-ing and purchasing the newest costumes and accessories be-cause of work and school.

However, this year the Inter-national Costume Convention, where retailers purchase their inventory, was held during spring break. Without hesita-tion, I joined my parents for a free three-night stay in Las Ve-gas, where the convention was being held.

Once we arrived at the hotel, we were transported to a Hal-loween haven.

Every morning hundreds of retail store associates came down for a free breakfast and at 9 a.m. we all set out to roam the aisles of costumes.

The convention was packed into three ballrooms with just about every costume imag-inable. Each booth contained a different vendor filled with their original costumes and accessories; from colored hairspray to a full metal royal knight.

As we walked around, my parents talked with wholesale managers and designers, while I tried on costumes, jewelry, makeup and more.

I stumbled upon a booth full of eyelashes. Eyelashes that glow in the dark, ones with feathers, rainbow colored eye-lashes and a pair with spiders dangling from the ends.

One vendor was showcas-ing their masquerade masks. They had masks with glitter,

sequins and spikes. They also had a thin metal mask that was laser-cut into the shape of a skull. It was something I had never seen before.

Another vendor designed full-face masks. The masks he displayed included a horse, unicorn, fox, camel, rhinocer-os, goat and rabbit. One horse mask changed color under a blacklight.

Another booth I walked into had a person in a huge pink gorilla suit. There was a line around the corner of the booth to take to a picture with him. My parents did not waste any time with ordering a few of those gorilla suits.

The first night of the conven-tion was also a fashion show. The hour-long show allowed each designer to showcase their most popular costume for the 2014 Halloween sea-son. One model showcased an

Indian costume complete with a feather headdress, fringe dress and feather and fringe boots.

A male model showed off a deluxe Captain America cos-tume. He had a skin-tight suit with all the embellishments in leather, and he carried a huge replica shield that was from the movie.

Another model had a mer-maid costume. She wore a long red wig, top made with shells and a long green skirt that looked like scales.

I took notes of my favor-ite costumes and vendors, so I could make sure to stop by their booth the next day.

One vendor was selling latex. They were demonstrating how to apply the latex to your body. Once they were done, the mod-el had a full Superwoman cos-tume made out of latex.

However, no costume is

complete without the perfect shoes. Vendors had glittery go-go boots, gladiator sandals and green pumps with faux leaves for Poison Ivy.

Over the next two days, my bag got heavier by the min-ute as I piled an enormous amount of catalogs into it. Ev-ery night after the conven-tion, my parents and I deco-rated each page with Post-it Notes and scribbles indicating which costumes were going to make their way onto our order forms.

By the third day, my parents and I were exhausted from all the walking we did and fun we had. We managed to walk through each and every booth, and my parents placed orders for over 300 costumes.

Needless to say, I am ready for Halloween. The only prob-lem is, I have no idea which costume to choose.

“I am studying (public relations) so ide-ally it would be management or represen-tation within the fashion industry,” she said.

Kazalbash said she admires many of high-end fashion stores and designers even if they do not correlate with her own per-sonal taste because she would someday like to work with them.

She said she likes BCBGMAXAZRIA, Al-exander McQueen and Philip Lim.

Tran wanted to draw attention to fash-ion on campus because Cal State Fuller-ton does not offer a fashion program for students.

She would like to have a career fueling her passion for fashion and she has already started by working for a fashion company called Ruche.

Tran finds a lot of her inspirations from shows, such as Project Runway, and ad-mires the way the contestants are able to take ordinary items and turn them into fashionable clothing.

She has found a way to incorporate that creativity into the club.

“The very first meeting we had in the fall we had members take clothing from a huge pile of donated clothes and they were sup-posed to make something,” Tran said.

Members were encouraged to make whatever they considered fashionable. Tran wanted to give the members a chance to show off their personal creative style.

Her main focus is to keep in mind that everyone has their own sense of style and wants students to be able to represent that.

One of the club members, Steve Chowd-bury, likes the visual aspect of the fashion industry and styling.

“I’ve always been into visual stimulus,” he said. “I like it when people wear intricate outfits. I appreciate when I have to actually take the time to look at someone’s outfit.”

Chowdbury said he enjoys being in the Fashion Club because he is from Alaska where fashion is not prominent. Most de-partment stores have closed due to a lack of fashion interest in the state.

Being in the club has helped Chowdbury recognize his own personal style while gaining inspiration from others.

“I’m pretty simple at the moment most-ly because I can’t afford anything fancy,” he said. “Usually it’s just fitted jeans—never baggy—stripes and button ups occasionally.”

When talking about her personal style, Tran said she never has lazy days when it comes to fashion and is always dressed up.

“I would describe my fashion style as feminine sophistication with an edge,” she said. “I love very feminine silhouettes … very structured and polished.”

Tran said she likes adding a twist of edge to her style while maintaining a profession-al look.

Tran and the rest of the Fashion Club will be hosting their first runway show April 14 at 7 p.m. in the Titan Student Union Pavil-ion B, where various styles and models will present their fashion wardrobe.

Halloween all year long

The Major Spotlight series will continue in the Features section next Tuesday

Fashion club is on-trend

FASHIONContinued from PAGE 1

The International Costume Convention held in Las Vegas featured a variety of vendors who specialize in creating costumes, masks and accessories. Many of the masquerade masks had feathers, beads and sequins, while other masks were laser-cut into dif ferent shapes.

GINA VAN STRATTEN / Daily Titan

Unique costumes created by different vendors were on display at the annual convention, along with Halloween and movie costumes.

GINA VAN STRATTEN / Daily Titan

GINA VAN STRATTENDaily Titan

A student travels to Las Vegas for costume convention

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“I like it when people wear intricate outfits. I

appreciate when I have to actually take the time to look at someone’s outfit.”

STEVE CHOWDBURYFashion Club member

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Work takes priority today and tomor-row, but circumstances may not follow plans. You could overstep bounds if you force the action. There’s still a way to win. Flexibility and a sense of humor advance your cause. Anticipate changes, and roll with them. Rest and relax.

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Gluten is the key ingredi-ent to some of America’s fa-vorite crunchy, crispy and tasty foods.

However, as more stud-ies surface that contrib-ute gluten to a wide variety of health problems, pro-fessionals are now saying that eating gluten-free isn’t a popular and new health trend, but that e l i m i n a t i n g gluten from some diets can truly im-prove overall health.

So what ex-actly is glu-ten? It is the protein that is found in wheat, rye and barley.

It is found in most of A m e r i c a ’ s most popular and favorite foods includ-ing pizza, pasta, bread and processed foods. However, gluten also can sneak into products that aren’t packed full of carbohydrates, or even in food, such as make-up and toothpaste.

Some people may argue that gluten has been con-sumed for literally hun-dreds of years without all these health problems that appear today. While this may be true, like many oth-er foods today, the protein in gluten is much different than it once was.

“The wheat that we’re eat-ing today is not the same that our forefathers ate,” said Gwendolyn Moore, reg-istered dietician and nutri-tionist, serving in Rancho Cucamonga and Newport Beach. “When (the) molec-ular structure is changed, it is a problem.”

It is no secret that some of the food consumed to-day has been altered in some way, whether it is to make it last longer or taste better.

“Gluten is an inflamma-tory food,” said April Mur-ray, a registered dietician of OC Nutrition Coach-

ing in Costa Mesa.

R e m o v i n g gluten from one’s diet may provide them with more energy, more concen-tration, less h e a d a c h e s and a more efficient gas-trointestinal tract.

Some oth-er symptoms that can be

contributed to eating glu-ten include, but are not limited to, diarrhea, bloat-ing, eczema, delayed pu-berty or infertility and bone or joint pain.

People who experience these symptoms and others may have an intolerance or an allergy to gluten and may find relief by cutting it out of their diets.

Those people who do have an allergy to gluten will likely be diagnosed with celiac disease. For them, gluten must be elim-inated altogether or their

bodies will not be able to properly absorb nutrients.

Sarah Manchin, 20, cur-rently attends Saddleback College and was diagnosed with celiac disease a year and a half ago. Because ce-liac disease is genetic, she and her sister inherited the gene from her father.

Manchin was extreme-ly ill before she was diag-nosed with celiac disease. Her vitamin levels were unbalanced, and she slept through most of the day and had horrible stomach

pains that she described as feeling like fireworks, sometimes leading her to the hospital.

Since eating a completely gluten-free diet, Manchin said her health has im-proved and the only thing she misses about her previ-ous gluten-filled diet is the desserts.

Those diagnosed with celiac disease also must avoid any places or foods that have been “cross-con-taminated” with gluten. For instance, Manchin

cannot have a gluten-free pizza that was sliced on the same cutting board as a regular pizza.

It is clear that having a gluten-free diet isn’t the hot-test or quickest way to fit into those smaller clothes.

Some people who eat glu-ten-free may experience weight loss because they are cutting out carbohy-drate-filled foods they used to eat.

Those who are following a gluten-free lifestyle, but not doing so for possible weight

loss, may find their taste buds satisfied with glu-ten-free versions of their fa-vorite foods.

However, Murray reminds us that gluten-free products aren’t a “healthier” alter-native to ones that do have gluten, in terms of calories, carbs and fats. That is why associating weight loss with being gluten-free isn’t al-ways appropriate.

It is always important to check food labels, especially for those who have an intol-erance or allergy to gluten.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but what does a protein packed diet with plenty servings of vegetables and fruits do?

The Paleolithic diet life-style is one that is gaining popularity not only in the world of celebrities, fitness builders and bodybuilders, but also everyday people who are simply seeking to be healthier.

The name originates from the idea of the Paleolithic Age or Stone Age. The “paleo” lifestyle is also known as the “caveman diet” because those who follow the diet consume what a caveman would—ani-mals and vegetables.

“(The paleo diet) is also a very clean diet. It is unpro-cessed, there is no preserva-tives in the food,” said April Murray, a registered dietician of OC Nutrition Coaching in Costa Mesa. “You will have a lot more energy and you will not have those negative side effects of eating processed foods.”

Paleolithic people receive about 35 percent of their cal-ories from fats, 35 percent from carbohydrates and 30 percent from protein, accord-ing to research from Emory University,

The menu consists main-ly of meats that are organ-ic, range-free and grass-fed meats and eggs, fish, nuts, berries and a high intake of vegetables and fruits.

This means cutting out foods including, but not lim-ited to, caffeine, potatoes, grains, dairy, sugar, salt and processed foods.

By cutting out the above mentioned foods, many peo-ple have experienced weight loss. By combining this diet with exercise, the weight loss can be significant.

“Clinical trials have shown that the Paleo Diet is the optimum diet that can lower the risk of cardiovas-cular disease, blood pres-sure, markers of inflamma-tion, help with weight loss, reduce acne, promote op-timum health and athlet-ic performance,” said Loren Cordain, Ph.D., Colorado State University professor and author of The Paleo Diet.

However, following the paleo diet is not as easy as eating meats and veggies.

Although no time will be spent grabbing quick snacks at the local grocery store, plenty of time will be spent preparing and cook-ing meals while sticking to the paleo menu. Although it might be a tedious task for some, there are many bene-fits to this lifestyle.

Three quarters of the av-erage American’s sodium in-take, which is already dou-ble what it should be, comes

from commercially pre-pared foods, according to the Harvard School of Pub-lic Health.

A Public Health Nutri-tion study found that people who cook tend to live longer. Those who cook at least five times a week are 47 percent more likely to live a decade longer than those who rely on the easy-convenience processed foods.

Eating out won’t be an easy task either for those who follow the paleo diet. Ordering a steak salad with no dressing may seem like a safe call, but how was the meat raised or prepared?

It is also important to eat more vegetables and fruits than meats due to the high amount of calories in them. Eating too much meat may also result in lack of carbs leading to possible kidney damage and osteoporosis.

By following the paleo lifestyle, “you are setting a good foundation for health overall,” Gwendolyn Moore, a registered dietician and nutritionist serving in Ran-cho Cucamonga and New-port Beach, said. “We are the CEOs of our body and if we don’t do health, no one else will do it for us.”

As the hustle and bustle of daily life in America seems to continue to get busier, people need to remember where the energy that gets them through the day is coming from. It is from the fuel and food they put into their bodies.

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Gluten-free diets are more than just a fad

Paleo diet proves to be successful

KAYLI CRAIGDaily Titan

The ‘caveman diet’ consists of eating protein and veggies

If you want to live a gluten-free lifestyle, it will require you to cut certain foods out of your diet, such as bread. Your body will be at risk of having celiac disease if you are allergic to gluten, but removing gluten from the foods you eat can lead to a healthier lifestyle.

Courtesy of Chelsea Lincoln

KAYLI CRAIGDaily Titan

Celiac disease is the immune reaction or allergy to gluten

“The wheat that we’re eating

today is not the same that our

forefathers ate. When molecular

structure is changed, it is a

problem.”GWENDOLYN MOOREDietician and nutritionist


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