Springtime can serve as a metaphor for new awaken-ings. With spring comes the celebration of religious hol-idays and observances. This year, the week long fasting period of Passover, celebrat-ed within the Jewish faith, will land on April 3. Good Friday, which marks the end of Lent for Christians and Catholics, arrives on April 3, with Easter Sunday following on April 5.

But what is spring break if one is not religious? Can a person who is not religious simply choose a religion and become a true believer?

For Douglas Swanson, communication and pub-lic relations professor at Cal State Fullerton, who teaches and delves into matters con-cerning religion and the me-dia, the time as an under-graduate is the ideal time in life to question one’s beliefs and decide, “who you are as

a person and how you look at this world,” he said.

Society tends to want to label everything, but rath-er than aligning themselves with a certain denomina-tion, people should first de-fine what spiritual values are important to them, Swanson said. What are an individu-al’s core values when look-ing into a set of spiritual or non-spiritial beliefs?

Even if someone holds a strict belief, it is valuable to question it, Swanson said.

“If you want to believe something, you need to know why you believe it and you need to be able to strong-ly support that belief system when people challenge you,” Swanson said.

James Santucci, profes-sor of comparative religion at CSUF, said in this day in age there’s less emphasis to stay within a certain group. The freedom to explore religion is there for those who have a, “mildly inquisitive nature,” Santucci said.

College students may have the freedom to indulge in nu-merous religious and spiri-tual ideas, Santucci said yet the trend he has noticed since teaching at CSUF is a grad-ual loss of religious beliefs.

“The move towards loss of religion and a gradual in-crease of the atheistic and agnostic viewpoints is espe-cially evident in your gener-ation,” Santucci said. “If you compare the millennials with the ‘greatest generation’ back in World War II, the differ-ence is something about 10 to 15 percentage points of the population, in each of those groups, it’s greater on the

side of agnostic—atheist for the younger generation.”

It has happened in Europe and it’s starting to happen here, Santucci said.

Swanson suspects the no-tion of tradition is turning young people off—sparking renewalist organizations, he said.

Any religion in decline would agree that their val-ues may still be relevant; it’s

people’s perceptions that can change, Swanson said.

“My advice to students or to anyone aligning with a re-ligious organization is to find out what do they say, and what do they do, and do these two things link,” Swanson said.

Additionally, ethical in-consistency is not quick to find.

Trends may show that

young people are believing in religion at a lower rate. But Swanson reminds stu-dents that religion is still very much relevant because the traditional separation be-tween church and state is still being violated in many ways by politicians that “wrap themselves in the flag and pray on TV,” he said.

On a day when the tem-peratures rose above 80 de-grees in Fullerton, the Titans softball team did not wilt un-der the heat as they extended their winning streak to eight games in a row.

The Titans swept the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrun-ners in their doublehead-er. The Titans won the first game of the afternoon, 4-3, before completing the sweep by winning the second game 3-1.

Fullerton Head Coach Kelly Ford elected to start the game with Desiree Yba-rra in the circle.

Ybarra entered the game

having allowed zero runs in 7.1 innings against the State University of New York at Buffalo, and her ERA was down to an impressive 2.53.

Unfortunately for Ybarra, the no-run streak came to an end early in the game.

The Titan infield showed defensive cracks in the top of the second when second baseman Samantha Galar-za and right fielder Delynn Rippy failed to catch a pop-up fly from Madison Bun-dy. Bundy’s hit drove in Julea Cavazos, who had sto-len third, putting the Titans

behind on the scoreboard, 1-0.

Selena Gonzalez’s hit evaded both Ybarra and shortstop Shianne Bran-nan, allowing Bundy to cross home and make it a 2-0 game in the Roadrun-ners’ favor.

Bakersfield extended their lead in the top of the third.

A shaky Ybarra loaded the bases, prompting Ford to change things up before things got too out of hand. Ybarra would end the game with three earned runs in 2.1 innings pitched.

Christina Washington re-placed Ybarra in the cir-cle, but the Roadrunners still managed a run. A Jo Larios grounder drove in Sydney Raeber and put Ba-kersfield ahead 3-0.

While the Fullerton in-field cleaned up its act af-ter the third inning, the of-fense—sans Taukeiaho due to a minor knee injury—continued to struggle.

The Titan batters ended the game with seven hits, but only one of those came in the next two innings, as the Titans headed into the sixth still trailing by three runs.

Heading into the top of the sixth trailing by three runs, the Fullerton defense did their job, catching two grounders and a line drive to prevent Bakersfield from in-creasing its lead. After that, it was up to the batters to trigger the comeback in the bottom of the inning.

Courtney Rodriguez

finished the game 2-for-3, but was critical of her performance.

“I think I did okay, but I think there are still areas I need improvement on,” she said. “My first at-bat wasn’t very good and my second was okay. I just feel like I need to have a better plan.”

Despite her self-critique, Rodriguez brought the Ti-tans back with aplomb.

With runners on first and second, Rodriguez hit a 2-RBI triple that cut the Fullerton deficit to 3-2. Ro-driguez then crossed home herself, courtesy of a sacri-fice fly from Sarah Moore, to make it 3-3 heading into the seventh inning.

Bakersfield failed to put up any more runs in the top of the seventh, giving Fuller-ton the green light to mount a come-from-behind victory.

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During the Cal State Uni-versity Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday the board approved a $20 mil-lion overhaul of the Titan Student Union.

The trustees approved schematic plans that called for the expansion and over-haul of the Student Union, which brought the trustees attention Tuesday.

The Student Union, which opened in 1976, will have a new focal point and will be expanding 26,500 square feet to accommodate a growing student body.

Preliminary plans are to be completed by May, and the project is projected to cost $491 per gross square feet or roughly $13 million. Construction should begin in September with an esti-mated finish date of March 2017 and a total cost of $20 million.

Renovations include the addition of a grand stair-case from the lowest level of the three-story complex that connects to the existing bowling and gaming areas. The interior atrium will be expanded large enough to host lectures and other events.

There will also be cast-in-place seat walls and precast modular seating—which include low walls that can be used as seat-ing—and free form bench-es and community tables in the courtyard.

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Freshman outfielder Samantha Vandiver lays down a perfect bunt and beats the throw to first. Vandiver went 3-for-6 in the doubleheader sweep of the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners. Vandiver tied the school record of an 18-game hitting streak first set by former Titan Marci White in 1993.

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A pair of successful Inter-net and business leaders will offer their expertise to Ful-lerton residents today during a seminar on how to use technology to grow a small business.

Manish Bhardia, found-er and CEO of IT consulting firm Adeptek, and consultant Eric Klauss will host a three-hour workshop titled, “Mod-ern Biz: Time to Look at New Technology to Reduce IT Costs and Grow” at the Fullerton Public Library.

The workshop is catered to small business owners seeking help with a variety

of issues, including mobility and presentation problems. The focus, though, is on how technology can aid in the ex-pansion of businesses while cutting costs.

Giving back to the commu-nity was a role he particularly enjoyed, Bhardia said.

“It’s not part of the job, but part of the Microsoft Com-munity Connection,” Bhar-dia said. “And part of that is to educate organizations like schools (and) Fullerton.”

“Microsoft Communi-ty Connection helps connect local business organizations with Microsoft Partners to educate small businesses on how current technology solu-tions can help them operate more efficiently and empower them to grow their business,” according to the Microsoft Community Connections webpage.

Bhardia has been

involved in the workshops since 2013, and said his fo-cus is on the business devel-opment for his company.

“The company specializ-es more on the custom solu-tions and these custom solu-tions could be on the cloud technology or could be on

the enterprise-based cus-tom programming like in-tegration work or desktop software or mobile applica-tions,” Bhardia said.

The library holds a busi-ness workshop about once a week, except for the hol-iday season, when there is not much activity, said Tim Mountain, Fullerton Li-brary’s Adult Services divi-sion manager.

“It is open to the public, it’s free and they do take walk-ins as well,” Mountain said. “So, we try to accommodate everyone we can. I’m not aware that we’ve ever had to turn anybody away.”

Registration is at 9:30 a.m. and the seminar will begin at 10 a.m. The work-shop is open to the public and interested parties can register through the work-shops section of the web-site Score114.org.

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The project will be funded from Titan Student Center and Associated Students, Inc. re-serve funds collected through student fees.

In addition to the student union expansion, the board also heard from a group of staff arguing to raise the mini-mum wage of California State University Employees Union workers to $15 an hour.

Mike Geck, an IT consul-tant at Cal State San Marcos and CSUEU vice president for organizing, laid out a 12-page plan that stated 1,201 CSU employees from across 24 campuses, including the Chancellor’s Office, made less than $15 an hour.

Of the 1,201 employees, 861—about 72 percent—are classified as custodians. An-other 257 —about 22 per-cent—are listed as administra-tive support assistants.

Of the 24 offices, Fullerton ranked fifth in the number of employees paid less than $15 an hour, with 79. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ranked first in number of employees earning less than $15 an hour, with 118 and San Diego State was sec-ond with 99.

Seventy-two of Fullerton’s employees are designated un-der “operations support” while the final seven are classified as clerical and administrative support.

For Geck, the wage issue hit home.

“It really spoke to me be-cause I was one of those peo-ple,” Geck said. “And now that I’m doing better, I’m not pull-ing the ladder up behind me. I’m not shutting the door be-hind me, I’m trying to hook people up to get to where I’m at and a good start for that is the $15 minimum wage.”

Geck made his presentation during the brief public com-ment period in which speakers are given three minutes to ad-dress the board.

One such speaker came from Day Porter Jenifer

Monarrez, an employee with the Facilities Management de-partment of the CSU.

“You know you hear about it in the news and you hear about it here and there and in emails and stuff,” Monarrez said. “You know it’s differ-ent when somebody asks you to be a part of it and actually speak your mind and stand up for the people who can’t (be-cause of) fear of management or whatever it may be.”

Geck estimated that it would cost Fullerton $21,140 a month to bring all its CSUEU classified staff to $15 an hour. Employees would receive an approximate 10 percent–roughly $250–monthly raise.

CSUEU’s proposal mirrors other $15-an-hour campaigns that have found success in Se-attle and San Francisco. The Los Angeles City Council is also debating the merits of a minimum wage of $15.25.

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ROTC sees curriculum changes

In order to comply with new federal mandates, the Cal State Fullerton ROTC program will be undergoing a change in curriculum.

The new curriculum is al-ready in effect for freshmen and senior cadets in the CSUF Titan Battalion, and focuses on providing more leadership training through a stronger emphasis on crit-ical thinking skills, said Capt. Scott Eden, an assis-tant professor of military science.

“What we’re trying to get away from is the ‘right answer’ type of training,” Eden said. “What we’re try-ing to do is to get a deep-er understanding of prob-lem-solving as a whole.”

The changes come after Maj. Gen. Peggy Combs, who took over cadet com-mand at Fort Knox—ROTC headquarters—in 2014, be-gan phasing in new ROTC directives aimed at prepar-ing cadets for the changed nature of modern military conflicts, Eden said.

“Back in the day it was us versus the Russians, or us versus the Germans; it was always force-on-force,” Eden said. “Now it’s a very grey area because you’re having to do more than just fight someone else in a uniform. Now you’re having to possibly build schools, provide water and electricity.”

While the new curricu-lum will place less empha-sis on the memorization of

tactical planning, basics of patrol bases and squad and platoon movement will not be abandoned altogether.

Junior cadets will now be charged with teaching the tactical aspects to freshmen and sophomore cadets, a deviation from the old mod-el that had seniors in charge of teaching tactics, said se-nior cadet Scott Brown.

Due to the fact that tac-tical minutiae will be cov-ered in basic training—which happens six months after cadets graduate—the training that takes place on campus will now focus on preparing cadets to think on their feet and come up

with sound solutions to a swathe of different scenar-ios, Eden said.

Samuel Lee, a senior ca-det, feels that the new train-ing has prepared him for post-graduation army life.

“I’m learning and I’m preparing myself as a pla-toon leader, hopefully, when I commission. So I won’t be too lost when I get into my unit,” Lee said. “I’ve been learning a lot and I’ve been enjoying it.”

With the changes in cur-riculum also come new ex-ams for cadets. Junior ca-dets who have traditionally taken the Cadet Leadership

Course, formerly known as the Leader Development and Assessment Course, will now take the GRE.

The new test is meant to even the playing field for cadets and encourage them to major in STEM pro-grams, which are desirable in the army, Eden said.

The old curriculum took a cadet’s grade point averge into account when deter-mining his or her place-ment in the Army, discour-aging some cadets from choosing more challenging majors, Eden said.

“When we put so much emphasis on GPA as far as your ranking and where

you get active duty, and what station you get and your branch, what’s the benefit of you taking engi-neering if you know you’re going to get a worse GPA and it’s going to hurt you?” he said.

While grade point aver-age will still play a factor, the new test will ensure that science, technology, engineering and math ma-jors, who may have a some-what lower grade point average due to the chal-lenging nature of those fields, stand on even foot-ing with cadets with less demanding majors.

An overarching ROTC

test that covers the curric-ulum taught between fresh-men and junior years will be phased in in the sum-mer, Eden said.

While the new curric-ulum and tests have pre-sented a new challenge, the ROTC instructors have generally adjusted well to the changes, Eden said.

“We’ve trained the same way for a long time,” Eden said. “I think this is a needed injection of some fresh ideas because we don’t want to become stag-nant. We have the great-est army on the face of the planet and we want to keep it that way.”

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If college students are leaning more toward an ag-nostic or atheist mindset, one could suspect that they are then accepting scientific conclusions, which can con-trast with religions present in American society.

Department Chair and Professor of Liberal Studies, James Hofmann studies sci-ence and religion. He is cur-rently looking into misunder-standings around molecular clocks, a technique used by paleontologists and biolo-gists, in regards to how spe-cies relate to each other and other common ancestors.

Harvard paleontologist, Stephen Jay Gould, was

notorious for saying that reli-gion and science are two sep-arate domains that don’t over-lap. However, in some cases they do, Hofmann said.

For example, Hofmann deals with questions that re-ligion and science would dif-fer on: How old is the earth? Was there a global flood that was responsible for all the ge-ology of the earth? Were the plants and animals created separately? For some Chris-tians, those are religious be-liefs and in that case, there is a conflict with scientific conclusions.

Those particular Chris-tians don’t represent all of Christianity. Rather, there is an equal number, if not more, who say that those particular

issues concerning evolution are scientific issues not cen-tral to Christianity, Hofmann said.

“What’s important about

Christianity really doesn’t in-tersect with science because what’s important to Christi-anity is how we should live our lives, the status of Jesus Christ, a relationship with Je-sus Christ, and those are not scientific issues, they’re reli-gious issues that have do with

morality,” Hofmann said.It’s unfair to lump all

Christians—let alone all re-ligions—together into one category. Santucci teaches in

comparative religion courses that there is truth in all reli-gions, but it’s buried and en-crusted by false teachings or misunderstood teachings.

One can decide to become a believer or to switch a reli-gious view for another per-son, for example a marriage

or relationship, but the ques-tion arises of how deep and how meaningful that belief is psychologically.

“Do you really believe or are you sort of along for the ride?” Hofmann asked.

But when it comes to being spiritual, different from being religious, Hofmann doesn’t consider it a choice. Rath-er spirituality seems to be something that comes with life. But for some, they’re just not psychologically oriented that way.

Being spiritual is, “believ-ing in phenomenon or states of being that can’t be under-stood in physical terms. You feel a resonance with non material structure or desti-ny that can’t be understood

scientifically,” Hofmann said.

It’s still a question, though, why some people believe and why some simply cannot.

“I’m not sure if you can de-cide to become one of those people. There are some peo-ple who are more sensitive and more overwhelmed by the beauty and the elegance of the universe. They feel compelled to believe there is more to it than just the physical comings and goings of things … that to me is what spirituality in-volves,” Hofmann said.

One can certainly choose to be religious. However for oth-ers, religion and spirituality are simply tied up with emo-tions that can’t be understood very well, like love.

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Housing good will for others

Titan Public Relations teamed up with Habitat for Humanity, Saturday to help build houses for low-income families that either live or work in Orange County.

The clock struck 7:30 a.m. on a gloomy Saturday morn-ing, as the sun hid behind an overcast sky. The sound of heavy work boots made their way into a dirt-laden housing complex as six Cal State Fullerton students hur-ried to sign in before the start of a day filled with volunteer work.

“I thought it was a really

good opportunity because it’s so close to Cal State Fullerton, so I feel like this would have the most imme-diate effects in our commu-nity,“ said Arianne Antonio, outreach director for Titan PR.

Habitat for Humanity—a nonprofit organization that brings people together to build homes—gathered vol-unteers from 7:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at its La Habra lo-cation to help with the pro-cess of turning a house into a home for families in need.

“(Habitat) gives these families the chance to have affordable housing where otherwise they may be liv-ing in their car,” said Kan-dy Killingsworth, a Habitat for Humanity site supervi-sor assistant for the La Habra site. “They have money but they just don’t have enough

money to pay what the out-standing rents are around here.”

It gives children and fam-ilies the chance to have a home, Killingsworth said, where in some cases they don’t even have their own bedrooms.

The day started with each student making a name tag for him or herself by writ-ing their name on a piece of blue duct tape. A brief safe-ty meeting covered Habitat’s goals and an overview of the day’s tasks followed shortly after.

Killingsworth, who has been with Habitat for the past six years, led the safety orientation.

The orientation went through a flip chart that de-scribed what Habitat does and why they do it, basic duties the students will be

working on for the day and where the supplies, such as gloves, brooms and safety goggles are kept.

Killingsworth then sep-arated students into groups that would tackle a differ-ent home at the construction site.

Anything from sweep-ing up piles of dust, moving around drywall, inserting cardboard in air vents and throwing out trash was part of the teamwork involved to help.

“We’re helping the process of the house. Every little bit that we’re doing is helping to make the house a home for the people that are com-ing … It’s a really cool expe-rience,” said Alysha Shetty, 20, CSUF business manage-ment major.

When a group finished their task, they would report

to Killingsworth, who would assign them their next job.

Killingsworth originally started as a Habitat for Hu-manity volunteer until she realized how much she ad-mired what Habitat stood for. Eventually, after dedicating several volunteer hours with the organization and Amer-iCorps, they hired her, she said.

Since then, Killingsworth has embodied the meaning Habitat carries for families.

“(Habitat means) hope for families that otherwise wouldn’t have any hope. They give families a chance, and it gives me a chance to learn how to appreciate what I have,” Killingsworth said.

Not only does Habitat for Humanity aim to eliminate substandard housing through constructing homes, but also through rehabilitating and

preserving homes by advo-cating for fair housing poli-cies to help families improve their living situations, ac-cording to their website.

As of now, Habitat for Hu-manity has construction sites in Santa Ana, Cypress and La Habra.

“Everybody, no matter what their age is, should vol-unteer because it gives you the chance to see what re-ally is out there, what really needs to be done—whether it’s at a park picking up trash or doing construction—I just think that you get to a point where you need to give back,” Killingsworth said. “Everybody needs to give back a little bit.”

To volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, visit habitatoc.org/volunteer or call the vol-unteer services coordinator at (714) 434-6200.

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Aspiring teachers get crafty

A group of exotic animals, made from recycled materials and papier mache, were created by students in CSUF’s Next Generation Science Standards credential program, as a way to better incorporate aspects of engineering with arts and crafts. The students created native animals from tropical rainforests and the Savanna Desert.

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The papier mache sculpture project was funded by SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union Center for Creativity and Critical Thinking.

ADRIANA NAJERA / DAILY TITANA turquoise toucan perched among other animals within the display. The project was led by Andrea Guillaume, a credential program professor.

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While walking into a night-club with friends: the mu-sic is blaring, the vibration of the bass consumes your body from ears to chest, the high pitch sound surrounds your existence and bass waves bouncing off the walls are cre-ating a unique energy in the air. You lean over to comment how well the DJ’s mixing, but the music drowns out your voice, making it almost im-possible to have a conversation with the friend standing two feet away from you.

Around 1.1 billion teens and young adults’ hearing is in danger of permanent loss, according to the World Health Organization.

The reason for this new con-cern is due to an excessive use of headphones and exposure to entertainment venues with unsafe sound levels. Young-er generations aren’t thinking about the consequences they’ll face when they’re older involv-ing premature hearing loss.

Proper precautions need to be taken to protect their ears, because lifelong hearing loss is a heavy price to pay.

Nightclubs and bars usual-ly range from 104 to 112 deci-bels, which is considered an unsafe sound level, accord-ing to the World Health Or-ganization. People are spend-ing too much time listening to their earphones due to the easy, unlimited access to mu-sic today.

Sure, people can conve-niently listen to music for hours, but that doesn’t mean they should. All those count-less hours spent with head-phones on while walking to class, doing homework or

working out adds up. An estimated 12.5 percent

of children between ages six and 19 have suffered from ir-reversible hearing loss due to excessive exposure to unsafe sound levels, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 15 per-cent of Americans aged 20 to 69 suffer from permanent hearing loss, according to the National Institution of Deaf-ness and Other Communica-tion Disorders.

These studies show a gap of only 3.5 percent between ado-lescents and the elderly hear-ing loss rate, putting the youth at an alarming rate of endan-germent. This endangerment can be prevented in most cas-es, but prevention is being carelessly ignored by young people today.

In 2005, there were 75 percent more earphone us-ers than in 1990, according to the World Health Organi-zation. Major side effects of

loud noise exposure can affect speech comprehension, social and educational progression and the ability to work, ac-cording to the World Health Organization.

To avoid harmful listen-ing habits, Palo Alto Medical Foundation suggests a cou-ple of pointers to practice safe listening levels that everyone should listen to.

First, use headphones in-stead of earbuds. Earbuds are placed in the ear and directly project sound into the ear ca-nal, whereas headphones are over the ear and allow space for sound to travel. Avoid lis-tening to volume levels over 85 dB.

Take breaks and use the 60/60 rule, which limits use of earphones to 60 minutes per day, with the volume no more than 60 percent on a device.

Music is a valuable compo-nent to any generation’s cul-ture. Listening to your favor-ite songs on full blast creates

a form of escapism that many enjoy. However, if the conse-quences of unsafe sound levels continue to be ignored, young-er generations run the risk of losing the ability to enjoy mu-sic in the future.

If people around you are able to hear the music playing from your earbuds, that’s an indication of damaging sound levels. Turn the volume down for what? To avoid premature hearing loss.

Taking care of your ears while young may prevent hearing loss

ANGIE PEREZDaily Titan

Hearing safety awareness lacking

Many people associate a dis-ability with being blind, deaf, or having any impairment that involves a wheelchair.

These disabilities are visibly obvious and often have many support services available.

In universities like Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Universi-ty policy requires certain ser-vices to be available. Some of the most common services include disabled person park-ing, transcription services-like Braille-and interpreting ser-vices. They are required to provide services that empow-er students with disabilities to be able to achieve not only ac-ademic success but determina-tion to strive as well.

There are many disabilities, however, that aren’t so obvious and are referred to as “invisi-ble disabilities.” Invisible dis-abilities can include anything from Crohn’s disease, an in-flammatory bowel condition, post traumatic stress disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome. These issues are less obvious unless you are the person liv-ing with it.

As a campus, CSUF does not differentiate between dis-abilities, whether it’s physical, such as blindness or mental like attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivi-ty disorder.

Any college student with a disability, no matter what it is, will be required to fill out an application for disability support services and will also need a doctor’s note. The stu-dent is then assigned a coun-selor, who they’ll meet with every semester, and are given an accommodation letter to provide to their professors.

CSUF offers many disabil-ity resources through the Stu-dent Health and Counseling Center, Counseling and Psy-chological Services, Career Center, WoMen’s Center and more.

While there are many ser-vices available for students living with a disability, often-times people with invisible dis-abilities feel misunderstood.

Unless you are a counselor

on campus or work closely with disability support ser-vices, it’s hard to understand why someone who looks “normal,” gets to take an exam in a different location, or why they are granted a longer time on an assignment or test.

The number of college students with invisible dis-abilities continues to grow and oftentimes, students with these disabilities are afraid to speak out about their issues.

It’s not uncommon to be judged or accused of re-ceiving special treatment. Even though the accom-modations can be made, universities need to make students feel more com-fortable about coming

forth about their needs. Students and any employ-

ee who truly needs help and struggles with day-to-day ac-tivities should be able to utilize all of the resources available to them without feeling discrimi-nated against.

People are afraid to speak up about medical conditions they battle with fear of losing or not getting a job. PTSD, anxiety disorders and many other issues that aren’t so ob-vious, are still disabilities that people need to be educated on.

While disability resources are available, the bigger issue is helping people realize that there is a such thing as an “in-visible disability,” and it isn’t just an excuse people use to get out of doing work.

Students need to be aware of those with unseen disabilities

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Students living with invisible disabilities are misunderstood by most people because their disabilities are internal. Just because a disability isn’t seen, doesn’t mean it isn’t significant.

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The millennial generation face the mounting danger of exceedingly premature hearing loss if listening habits continue.

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Cal State Fullerton base-ball earned the series split to get back to .500 on the season and snap the Corn-husker 11-game winning streak with the 4-3 victory over Nebraska on Wednes-day at Hawks Field.

The Titans (12-12) jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning when junior David Olme-do-Barrera led the game off with a single to sec-ond base before sophomore first baseman Josh Estill was hit by a pitch.

Junior third baseman Jer-rod Bravo was then issued a walk to load the bases with two outs. Freshman Scott Hurst came through with a sharply-hit single to left to bring around Ol-medo-Barrera and Estill to

put the Titans up 2-0 over the Cornhuskers.

Nebraska answered with a two-out, two-run rally of their own in the bottom of the second when redshirt sophomore starting pitcher Miles Chambers issued a two-out walk, an RBI sin-gle and the throwing er-ror by junior second base-man Josh Vargas allowed the Cornhuskers to tie it up 2-2.

In the top of the fourth, Olmedo-Barrera cashed in on the Jake Placzek error at shortstop that allowed sophomore Timmy Rich-ards to reach base when he launched a shot over the right field wall for his sec-ond home run of the sea-son. Olmedo-Barrera’s ho-mer gave the Titans a 4-2 lead over Nebraska.

The Cornhuskers cut into the Titan lead once more when they rallied for an-other run in the bottom of the fifth inning off of se-nior reliever Willie Kuhl. Nebraska made it 4-3 on an RBI groundout by Scott

Schreiber after Kuhl al-lowed a single and a double to consecutive hitters with one out.

Titan senior closer Ty-ler Peitzmeier entered the game with one out in the bottom of the seventh and was lights-out, retir-ing the first five batters faced while only allowing a single baserunner with four strikeouts to earn his eighth save of the season.

The Titans will continue their road trip when they return to California to open Big West Conference play in a three-game set against Cal State Northridge (19-6) starting Thursday with first pitch at 3 p.m. at Mat-ador Field.

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The win came in the unlikeliest of ways. With the bases loaded, Moore was hit by a pitch that al-lowed Samantha Vandiver to walk home, giving the Titans the 4-3 win in the day’s first game.

The second game began more brightly than the first for Fullerton.

The Titans quickly load-ed the bases in the first in-ning when both Vandiv-er and Rippy stole bases

and Rodriguez was hit by a pitch. Eliza Crawford earned an RBI when she walked to first to put the Titans up, 1-0.

Another bases loaded walk, this time from Kylie Padilla, brought in Rippy and gave Fullerton the 2-0 lead at the end of the first inning.

The Titans prospered in the circle in game two. Junior Jasmine Antunez was making only her sev-enth start of the season, but she pitched exceptionally

well despite the fact. An-tunez allowed five hits and struck out four bat-ters through seven innings pitched, which assured that the Titans remained in the lead for the entire-ty of the game. The Titans cruised to a 3-1 win in game two.

“Finally, hard work payed off,” Antunez said. “I’m really working hard at practice. I know I’m not getting on the field a lot, but getting into the bullpen, it feels just the same.”

With the sweep, the Ti-tans enter Big West Con-ference play with a 22-12 record and riding an eight-game winning streak.

“We’re in a groove and I could put three or four different lineups out there that’ll turn into wins,” Ford said. “(The team is) just excited to get going with conference.”

Conference play begins Saturday at noon as the Ti-tans take on the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in the first of a three-game road series.

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Redshirt sophomore right-hander Miles Chambers earned his first win of the season Wednesday after yielding five hits and one run over four innings in the Titans’ 4-3 win over Nebraska.

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