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UNICEF Tap Water Project spring festival at CSUF

I had the opportunity to volunteer as an event photographer at a UNICEF event put on by the organization’s campus initiative and Cal State Fullerton’s Planet Shakers student humanitarian advocacy group in March. The event featured UNICEF’s Tap Water Project, which provides aid to people throughout the world who lack access to clean water. The focus […]

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Opinion: ‘Student success’ fee compromise shows CSUF willing to consider student opinions

CSUF handles fee backlash well, rightly wishes to improve its tech and classrooms The California State University has hit some hard times in the past few years, and various “student success” fees are only the most recent band aids proposed to fix a gaping hole of inadequate funds. But after several years of frustrating (2009 […]

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Questions remain a year after the Cal State Fullerton lockdown

A year later, a robbery suspect who prompted an eight-hour lockdown remains at large — and unidentified It was a cloudy winter day, nearly the shortest day of the year, and students were busy preparing for the end of the semester. A few were even cramming for finals. That all changed shortly before 4 p.m. It’s […]

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House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Human Trafficking at CSUF

 Victims and Orange County officials used a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs committee Monday at Cal State Fullerton to ask Chairman Ed Royce for more help fighting human trafficking. “Trafficking is a global problem, but unfortunately for us not a faraway problem,” Rep. Royce said. In the past two years, the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force, […]

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The Life and Death of a Bill at a State College

“Cal State Fullerton Email Policy” is a bill that was never meant to be. Its first public appearance, in a Sept. 5, 2002 Cal State Fullerton Academic Senate document, simply informs the senators that an email policy is being drafted. Its next appearance, two weeks later, however, foreshadows the bill’s muddled future: “The proposed e-mail (sic) […]

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Summer maintenance at CSUF

A tractor sits in the field near the Pollak Library and east of the Engineering Building in August 2013. It is part of summer repairs for Cal State Fullerton, as the school is planting more trees in the lawn in the north area of campus. Other summer maintenance programs the school is working on can […]

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Cal State Fullerton becomes smoke-free campus

Cal State Fullerton became the first Cal State university to become a smoke-free campus today, Aug 1. Signs of Tuffy, the school mascot, with a no-smoking symbol have been placed on campus (pictured above). It is a law a year in the making, having been signed as President’s Directive No. 18, University Smoking Policy, last […]

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Mihaylo Hall at Cal State Fullerton

Mihaylo Hall, Cal State Fullerton’s business and economics building, is one of the university’s newest and nicest buildings. Most famously, the building was at the center of a SWAT manhunt for a robbery suspect in December 2012. CSUF has a history of the building here.

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Outgoing CSUF student president, amid marijuana allegations, gets higher office

Dwayne Mason faced allegations for smoking medical marijuana going to a school event Two months after news broke that the CSUF’s student body president Dwayne Mason Jr. was subjected to a disciplinary hearing for allegedly smoking medical marijuana en route to a California State Student Association (CSSA) event, he has been appointed Vice President of […]

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Designing Tusk Magazine

Khoa, one of the designers for Tusk Magazine in spring 2013, designs the layout for one of the articles in Tusk, Cal State Fullerton’s student magazine, in early May. Here is a proof of the table of contents for the story I wrote for the magazine, “A Lifetime to Live.” Here is the Tusk 2013 […]