e students of Cal State Fullerton’s European studies society presented speaker Mary Bauer, a survivor of the Ho- locaust, who shared her personal experiences during the war and after with students, faulty and community members at the Pollack Library, Wednesday evening. According to literature posted by the students of the Eu- ropean studies society, Bauer was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 29, 1927. When she was a teenager, Bauer was deported to Auschwitz, along with her mother and grandparents, in the spring of 1944. In prison, Bauer was forced to work as a weaver, con- verting the shorn hair of prisoners into items necessary for the Nazi war effort. In January 1945, Bauer and her mother were forcibly marched from Auschwitz, Poland, to Ravensbruck, Germany. Liberated by the Russian Red Army in the spring of 1945, she returned to Hungary with her mother, only to find their home looted, and antisemitism as strong as ever. Realizing there was no future for her daughter in postwar Hungary, Bauer’s moth- er sent her to Berlin. Bauer sailed to the United States soon after and settled in Los Angeles with her husband. Investigators who rushed to Dade University’s pool were greeted with a grisly crime scene. A mur- der has taken place. e seasoned Lieutenant Hora- tio Caine arrives, checks out the unlucky corpse, and delivers a notorious one-liner while dramatically re- moving his shades. Cal State Fullerton doubled as the fictitious in- stitution Dade University for the television drama “CSI: Miami” on Wednesday, with the shoot resum- ing today. Cast and crew are filming the season fi- nale set to air May 24 at 10 p.m. on CBS. “is campus was the best. We shoot the whole show in Los Angeles,” said the episode’s director, Joe Chapelle, regarding CSUF’s selection to pose as a college in Florida. “What’s great about Cal State Fullerton is with all the palm trees and the expanse it really feels like Dade County. e look of the show is very modern and high-tech, and a lot of the build- ings here, especially the newer buildings, fit the look of the show perfectly.” Executive Producers Barry O’Brien and Marc Dube wrote the episode being shot, “ey All Fall Down.” “We basically chose Fullerton State because of the pool,” O’Brien said. “ere’s a murder, unfor- tunately for the guy who dies, that happens in the “I just overheard them talking to another student asking around if someone knew Tai Chi,” the Delta Zeta member said. Meek came forward and showed the crew what she could do before she was placed as a coach for one of the actors who was playing a suspect in the episode who practiced the Chinese martial art form. “I went over it with the actor, he had done it when he was 17 and so it was kind of familiar to him,” she said. “And he said it seemed a bit right and that he just needed enough to make it look good on camera and that he only needed four movements.” O’Brien was pleased with Meek’s help. “She was just plucked from walking past our shoot in the music hall. She’s proving to be quite an expert,” he said. Established March 1, 1961, the Peace Corps, a volunteer program, and United States governmental agen- cy has served 139 host countries, with 310 Cal State Fullerton alumni con- tributing to the count of nearly 200 thousand Peace Corps volunteers. In 1960, then Sen. John F. Ken- nedy challenged students at the Uni- versity of Michigan to serve their country by delivering peace efforts in developing countries. rough this, the inception of an agency devoted to world peace and friendship was born. e Peace Corps requires a volun- teer to be committed for 27 months in a foreign country. Peace Corps is working towards three simple goals: 1. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. 2. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. 3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. Also established in 1961, the CSU system has been a significant contrib- utor, with 8,747 Peace Corps volun- teers from all 23 campuses. “Cal State University, Fullerton students have always had a strong commitment to community service. More and more college students are realizing that the marketplace is glob- al. is has spurred increased interest in the Peace Corps,” said Kate Kuyk- endall, Peace Corps public affairs spe- cialist. Today, there are 7,671 volunteers and trainees involved with the Peace Corps. Of that number, 920 are from California, 22 of which are CSUF alumni. Currently, California has the most serving volunteers in the U.S. In 2009, there were 15 alumni who served in the Peace Corps and in 2008 there were 11. “I asked myself, how can I get more global experience, travel more and benefit myself, while investing in my future? With the chronic un- employment of young people today, there’s no other option,” said Jeffrey Sigler, 27, a CSUF economics alum- nus of ’07. After examining options and choic- es for his future, Sigler chose Peace Corps as the clear path. Two weeks ago he was told his departure date is June 10. In Peru, Sigler will serve as a small business promoter. “I’m so blessed and fortunate to be going somewhere that I love,” Sigler said. “To have the experience of the Peace Corps, it opens all the doors. It’s the most incredible decision you can make. I dare anyone to find any- thing like it.” e Peace Corps requires volun- teers to be at least 18 years of age. Varying education levels are accept- able, however, 95 percent of volun- teers have at least an undergraduate degree. e other five percent have three to five years of full-time work experience in qualifying fields. e application process is some- thing that takes patience, and fo- cus typically ranges from nine to 12 months. After receiving an invitation, most people depart for their coun- try assignment within two to three months. Ultimately, the placement of a vol- unteer depends on where their quali- fications and skills match the needs of countries requesting assistance. e fields in which volunteers are placed in ranges from education, health and HIV/AIDS, business de- velopment, environment, agriculture and youth development. “We really ask that applicants be as flexible as possible about where they serve so that we can do our best to meet the needs of the host countries we serve,” Kuykendall said. BY LAUREN MCCANN Daily Titan Staff Writer [email protected]About 500 members from Cal State Fullerton’s Greek organizations celebrated the first evening of Greek Week by jumping on moonwalks, air-filled slides and partying to music supplied by Michael Olivares, also known as DJ Mikey O, Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. in front of the Titan Gym. “Oh my God! is was amazing. I’ve never seen the student body party like we did today,” said 28-year-old Olivares, also a fraternity member. “ere is nothing like partying with the Greeks here at Cal State Fullerton.” Olivares, a senior in Delta Chi, started winding down the entertainment at 8 p.m. The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton April 15, 2010 Vol. 87 Issue 35 THURS DAY Survivor shares Holocaust story with students Rally ignites week of Greek BY ZAM ANWAR Daily Titan Staff Writer [email protected]BY CHRISTINE AMARANTUS Daily Titan Editor at Large [email protected]BY CHARLES PURNELL Daily Titan Staff Writer [email protected]Mary Bauer, a survivor of the Holocaust, tells her life story to a crowded room full of students in the Pollack Library. PHOTO BY CHRISTA CONNELLY/Daily Titan Photo Editor Cast and crew film a scene for the season finale of ‘CSI: Miami’ outside of the Performing Arts building. PHOTO BY NICK MARLEY/Daily Titan Photo Editor Sorority sisters cheer wildly in preparation for can castle building and chalk murals. PHOTO BY NICK MARLEY/Daily Titan Photo Editor See HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, Page 2 See PEACE CORPS, Page 2 See ‘CSI,’ Page 3 See GREEK WEEK, Page 3 Titans travel for peace Cal State Fullerton alumni have a long history of donating their time and effort to the Peace Corps after graduation Ukraine Azerbaijan Kyrgyzstan Peru Gambia Moldova Bulgaria Honduras Nicaragua Paraguay Zambia Micronesia Dominican Republic *each Tuffy represents one graduate GRAPHIC BY KRISTEN HULSEY/Daily Titan Design Editor ‘CSI’ films ‘They All Fall Down’ pool. (CSUF has) a fantastic pool area down there. We shot near your music hall. Beautiful, beautiful facility. We turned that into our behavioral psychol- ogy wing.” “e school was very accommodating, too. We’re going to spend three days here,” Dube added. “We have Horatio Caine interviewing professors, a grad student – they’re all suspects – so we’re near class- rooms getting shots.” e two commented on the episode’s storyline. “ere’s a terrifying incident in the lab where one by one, all of our CSIs lose consciousness. It’s a cliff- hanger,” O’Brien said. “All of our characters all fall down,” Dube said. “We don’t know who gets up until the premiere of next season.” Kinesiology major Alanna Meek, 20, stepped in to assist with the production. Multimedia Spring Concert is coming up this weekend, find out more about the concert and performers at: Learn more about what could happen after graduation at Senior Dis-orientation, only on: www.dailytitan.com/springconcert10 www.dailytitan.com/seniordisorientation Number of CSUF alumni volunteering in the Peace Corps Los Angeles-based band The 88 lured a sizeable crowd to the Becker Amphitheatre Wednesday afternoon. SOUND-OFF, Page 6 This week at the Becker: The 88
Transcript
The students of Cal State Fullerton’s European studies society presented speaker Mary Bauer, a survivor of the Ho-locaust, who shared her personal experiences during the war and after with students, faulty and community members at the Pollack Library, Wednesday evening.
According to literature posted by the students of the Eu-ropean studies society, Bauer was born in Budapest, Hungary, on May 29, 1927.
When she was a teenager, Bauer was deported to Auschwitz, along with her mother and grandparents, in the spring of 1944. In prison, Bauer was forced to work as a weaver, con-verting the shorn hair of prisoners into items necessary for the Nazi war effort.
In January 1945, Bauer and her mother were forcibly marched from Auschwitz, Poland, to Ravensbruck, Germany. Liberated by the Russian Red Army in the spring of 1945, she returned to Hungary with her mother, only to find their home looted, and antisemitism as strong as ever. Realizing there was no future for her daughter in postwar Hungary, Bauer’s moth-er sent her to Berlin. Bauer sailed to the United States soon after and settled in Los Angeles with her husband.
Investigators who rushed to Dade University’s pool were greeted with a grisly crime scene. A mur-der has taken place. The seasoned Lieutenant Hora-tio Caine arrives, checks out the unlucky corpse, and delivers a notorious one-liner while dramatically re-moving his shades.
Cal State Fullerton doubled as the fictitious in-stitution Dade University for the television drama “CSI: Miami” on Wednesday, with the shoot resum-ing today. Cast and crew are filming the season fi-nale set to air May 24 at 10 p.m. on CBS.
“This campus was the best. We shoot the whole show in Los Angeles,” said the episode’s director, Joe Chapelle, regarding CSUF’s selection to pose as a college in Florida. “What’s great about Cal State Fullerton is with all the palm trees and the expanse it really feels like Dade County. The look of the show is very modern and high-tech, and a lot of the build-ings here, especially the newer buildings, fit the look of the show perfectly.”
Executive Producers Barry O’Brien and Marc Dube wrote the episode being shot, “They All Fall Down.”
“We basically chose Fullerton State because of the pool,” O’Brien said. “There’s a murder, unfor-tunately for the guy who dies, that happens in the
“I just overheard them talking to another student asking around if someone knew Tai Chi,” the Delta Zeta member said.
Meek came forward and showed the crew what she could do before she was placed as a coach for one of the actors who was playing a suspect in the episode who practiced the Chinese martial art form.
“I went over it with the actor, he had done it when he was 17 and so it was kind of familiar to him,” she said. “And he said it seemed a bit right and that he just needed enough to make it look good on camera and that he only needed four movements.”
O’Brien was pleased with Meek’s help. “She was just plucked from walking past our
shoot in the music hall. She’s proving to be quite an expert,” he said.
Established March 1, 1961, the Peace Corps, a volunteer program, and United States governmental agen-cy has served 139 host countries, with 310 Cal State Fullerton alumni con-tributing to the count of nearly 200 thousand Peace Corps volunteers.
In 1960, then Sen. John F. Ken-nedy challenged students at the Uni-versity of Michigan to serve their country by delivering peace efforts in developing countries. Through this, the inception of an agency devoted to world peace and friendship was born.
The Peace Corps requires a volun-teer to be committed for 27 months in a foreign country. Peace Corps is working towards three simple goals: 1. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. 2. Helping promote a better understanding of
Americans on the part of the peoples served. 3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.
Also established in 1961, the CSU system has been a significant contrib-utor, with 8,747 Peace Corps volun-teers from all 23 campuses.
“Cal State University, Fullerton students have always had a strong commitment to community service. More and more college students are realizing that the marketplace is glob-al. This has spurred increased interest in the Peace Corps,” said Kate Kuyk-endall, Peace Corps public affairs spe-cialist.
Today, there are 7,671 volunteers and trainees involved with the Peace Corps. Of that number, 920 are from California, 22 of which are CSUF alumni. Currently, California has the most serving volunteers in the U.S.
In 2009, there were 15 alumni who served in the Peace Corps and in 2008 there were 11.
“I asked myself, how can I get more global experience, travel more and benefit myself, while investing in my future? With the chronic un-employment of young people today, there’s no other option,” said Jeffrey Sigler, 27, a CSUF economics alum-nus of ’07.
After examining options and choic-es for his future, Sigler chose Peace Corps as the clear path. Two weeks ago he was told his departure date is June 10. In Peru, Sigler will serve as a small business promoter.
“I’m so blessed and fortunate to be going somewhere that I love,” Sigler said. “To have the experience of the Peace Corps, it opens all the doors. It’s the most incredible decision you can make. I dare anyone to find any-thing like it.”
The Peace Corps requires volun-teers to be at least 18 years of age. Varying education levels are accept-able, however, 95 percent of volun-teers have at least an undergraduate
degree. The other five percent have three to five years of full-time work experience in qualifying fields.
The application process is some-thing that takes patience, and fo-cus typically ranges from nine to 12 months. After receiving an invitation, most people depart for their coun-try assignment within two to three months.
Ultimately, the placement of a vol-unteer depends on where their quali-fications and skills match the needs of countries requesting assistance.
The fields in which volunteers are placed in ranges from education, health and HIV/AIDS, business de-velopment, environment, agriculture and youth development.
“We really ask that applicants be as flexible as possible about where they serve so that we can do our best to meet the needs of the host countries we serve,” Kuykendall said.
About 500 members from Cal State Fullerton’s Greek organizations celebrated the first evening of Greek Week by jumping on moonwalks, air-filled slides and partying to music supplied by Michael Olivares, also known as DJ Mikey O, Wednesday starting at 6 p.m. in front of the Titan Gym.
“Oh my God! This was amazing. I’ve never seen the student body party like we did today,” said 28-year-old Olivares, also a fraternity member. “There is nothing like partying with the Greeks here at Cal State Fullerton.”
Olivares, a senior in Delta Chi, started winding down the entertainment at 8 p.m.
The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Mary Bauer, a survivor of the Holocaust, tells her life story to a crowded room full of students in the Pollack Library.
PHoto By cHriSta connelly/Daily titan Photo editor
Cast and crew film a scene for the season finale of ‘CSI: Miami’ outside of the Performing Arts building. PHoto By nick Marley/Daily titan Photo editor Sorority sisters cheer wildly in preparation for can castle building
and chalk murals.
PHoto By nick Marley/Daily titan Photo editor
See HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, Page 2
See PEACE CORPS, Page 2
See ‘CSI,’ Page 3 See GREEK WEEK, Page 3
Titans travel for peacecal State Fullerton alumni have a long history of donating their time and effort to the Peace corps after graduation
Ukraine AzerbaijanKyrgyzstan
Peru
Gambia
Moldova
Bulgaria
Honduras
Nicaragua
ParaguayZambia
Micronesia
Dominican Republic
*each Tuffy represents one graduate
GraPHic By kriSten HulSey/Daily titan Design editor
‘CSI’ films ‘They All Fall Down’
pool. (CSUF has) a fantastic pool area down there. We shot near your music hall. Beautiful, beautiful facility. We turned that into our behavioral psychol-ogy wing.”
“The school was very accommodating, too. We’re going to spend three days here,” Dube added. “We have Horatio Caine interviewing professors, a grad student – they’re all suspects – so we’re near class-rooms getting shots.”
The two commented on the episode’s storyline. “There’s a terrifying incident in the lab where one
by one, all of our CSIs lose consciousness. It’s a cliff-hanger,” O’Brien said.
“All of our characters all fall down,” Dube said. “We don’t know who gets up until the premiere of next season.”
Kinesiology major Alanna Meek, 20, stepped in to assist with the production.
MultimediaSpring Concert is coming up this weekend, find out more about the
concert and performers at:
Learn more about what could happen after graduation at Senior Dis-orientation, only on:
www.dailytitan.com/springconcert10
www.dailytitan.com/seniordisorientation
number of cSuF alumni volunteering in the Peace corps
Los Angeles-based band The 88 lured a sizeable crowd to the Becker Amphitheatre Wednesday afternoon.
SOUND-OFF, Page 6
This week at the Becker: The 88
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INterNAtIoNAL7.1 quake in China leaves 400 dead, 8,000 injured
Senator Todd blasts Republican leader
Residents air grievances over San Juan project
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – A standing-room-only crowd tuesday night gave San Juan capistrano planning commissioners a list of complaints about the planned distrito La Novia/Meadows residential and commercial project, despite concessions the site’s developer made in 2008 to scale it back.
Ira rosenbaum worried that the project’s planned space for 775 horses would bring flies and bad smells.
“When the wind blows, where will those flies be? on my front door, and I don’t want any of it,” he said.
The Meadows plan includes 94 houses and 90 acres of open space along La Novia Avenue. distrito La Novia across the street would add 90 condominiums and 50 apartments, with 68,200 net square feet of shops and restaurants and 27,500 net square feet of office space.
There also would be room for the 775 horses, down from 950 proposed in 2008.Planning commissioner Gene ratcliffe said the proposals are so large and have so
many parts that their effects are hard to predict.
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BEIJING – chinese authorities raced against time, distance and wind in a remote corner of the tibetan plateau as they tried to rescue victims from a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that killed at least 400 people and injured more than 8,000 others.
The earthquake struck Wednesday morning in one of the most inac-cessible reaches of china, Qinghai province’s Yushu county. The 100,000 people in the area are mostly tibetan, many of them making their living herding yaks and sheep. houses of mud and wooden beams gave way almost immediately when the tremor struck at 7:49 a.m. in the county seat of Jiegu. A series of aftershocks collapsed schools built of concrete and a pagoda in the main park. The school collapses evoked painful memories of the Sichuan province earthquake of 2008 in which, by the official count, 5,335 children were crushed to death in their classrooms.
WASHINGTON – The architect of sweeping legislation that would re-vamp financial regulation took the Senate floor on Wednesday to accuse the Senate republican leader of lying about the bill and being in Wall Street’s back pocket. Senate Banking committee chairman christopher dodd, d-conn., delivered a blistering 20-minute speech that included the revelation of a political talking points memo from a republican strategist that was virtually verbatim to the criticism voiced tuesday by Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell, r-Ky.
Mcconnell had accused dodd of drafting partisan legislation, even though the Banking committee chairman has worked for roughly half a year with key Senate republicans and incorporated many of their ideas into his bill.
Holocaust survivor: sHares Her story
Peace corPs: volunteers globallyAmber Valenzuela, 27, a cSUF
communication and sociology alumna of ’05, departs May 10 to Bulgaria as a business developer. While at cSUF, Valenzuela served on the legislative board as the vice chair of SoAr, where she first heard of the Peace corps from SoAr chair Brittany Kuhn.
“I used to look at cSUF as just my commuter school. Through volunteer and student leadership work with Pub-lic relations Student Society (of Amer-ica) and SoAr, I saw that cSUF was open to student leaders and it opened my eyes to non-profit and volunteer work. I am a huge advocate of getting involved when you are there,” Valenzu-ela said.
Located in the titan Student Union, the Volunteer center has a plethora of information on volunteer opportuni-ties.Volunteer center coordinator Amy Mattern said that even though the Volunteer center is not a concrete resource for getting involved with the Peace corps, it is a great place to come and gather materials.
Mattern urges students to get in-volved and ask questions. Updated Peace corps pamphlets are read-ily available in the office. Johann d’Agostino, the current regional re-cruiter for cSUF, can be contacted at 310-356-1110.
“At this time, I feel very excited to go for the adventure and nervous be-cause I might be homesick. It’s time to go out and do it. It’s time to live life,” Valenzuela said.
When Valenzuela graduated from cSUF, she applied for the Peace corps and different jobs pertaining to her majors. Both opportunities progressed simultaneously. She opted for the path of a marketing and communication career. over three and a half years, she gained valuable knowledge in business through her work experiences.
In March 2009, like thousands of other Americans, Valenzuela was laid off.
The Peace corps was the first thing on her mind. She re-applied and was sent an invitation letter in July 2009. From requesting a Spanish-speaking country, to potentially being placed in
Africa, to being assigned environmen-tal education in Bulgaria, to being told that a new opportunity in business development was open in Bulgaria, Va-lenzuela put her belongings in storage, gave her roommate 30 days notice and accepted the invitation. She is ready to go.“Whatever happens, happens for a reason,” is a motto Valenzuela lives by.
to follow Valenzuela’s journey go to her blog at: Amberintransit.blogspot.com.
“I think that cSUF students, like all prospective volunteers, are driven to apply to the Peace corps because it’s a wonderful opportunity to live in
another culture, learn a new language and help an overseas community at the same time,” Kuykendall said.
“I am entering a new realm of dis-covery within myself. I don’t mean to make this sound romantic because it is quite challenging. There are many days that I cry and question my mo-tives, ambitions and goals; however the moments that balance these out are so powerful,” writes Jenae Woodward on her blog: Jenaeinsenegal.blogspot.com.
Woodward, a cSUF geography alumna is currently in Sengal, West Af-rica, with the Peace corps, where she has served over a month doing health and environmental education.
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Mary Bauer reminisces about her father (seen in the background projection) before he was killed during the Holocaust. Bauer spoke Wednesday in the Pollack Library.
PHoto by cHrista connelly/Daily titan Photo editor
during an introductory speech, Steve Jobbit, assistant profes-sor of modern history at cSUF, spoke about the universal elements that Bauer managed to bring out through her stories. Jobbit intro-duced the audience to her par-ticular story in the context of the hungarian Jewish history and the holocaust; a story that he said played different than it did else-where in europe.
Jobbit also presented a slideshow that chronicled Bauer’s journey throughout her ordeal that show-cased pictures of Bauer, her family and the house she lived in before she was deported.
Bauer, who lives in LA, is a pas-sionate critic of racism and intoler-ance and continues to work toward educating people not only about the holocaust, but also about the horrors of genocide and ethnic cleansing around the world.
“I’m here to tell you why I’m alive, because strangely enough, except the hidden children, I am the youngest survivor...” Bauer said. She said that even though people have seen enough, and there are books and movies about the holocaust, there are also dis-torted stories that deny the truth of what happened with her and other survivors.
Bauer spoke about her life in hungary; a life she described as “normal;” a life that soon esca-lated, in a matter of weeks, to one
filled with uncertainty and threat when Jews began to be subject to persecution.
“It was too fast to absorb, in-dignancies were occurring at a fast pace,” Bauer said, describing how Jews were forbidden to attend pub-lic schools and had to wear yellow stars stitched onto their clothing. “It is very ugly when a govern-ment can sanction such things,” she said.
Bauer went on to chronicle her journey, describing her deportation to Auschwitz, her work in the weav-eries, the march from Auschwitz to ravensbruck and the Liberation by the russian red army in the spring of 1945. Bauer recalled many of the atrocities committed on the Jews, many of them that she was an eyewitness to.
Finally, Bauer recalled the events that led to her immigration to the United States in 1951 and recalled how horrified she was when she encountered racism still prevalent, especially against black people in New orleans.
When she tried to raise her voice against the discrimination, Bauer said she was threatened with de-portation for being a communist.
“All of a sudden, I was accused of being a communist, just because I had a social conscience?” Bauer remembers thinking.
“There are no differences,” Bau-er said. “If you don’t like someone, well, that is your privilege, but don’t dislike groups, that is very unjust,” Bauer told the audience.
Captured above is the United States Peace Corps logo.PHoto courtesy Hyrck flickr.com
Bauer emphasized to students that it was important for them to be aware of their rights.
“don’t you forget that you have rights, use it, but use it in the right sense,” she said.
When asked why she thought she had survived the holocaust, Bauer said that there were no wits, no smarts and no intelligence in-volved in her survival.
“It was just chance that they did not have enough time to kill us,” she said.
Michael Willliam Lopez, junior kinesiology major, said that he re-ally enjoyed the talk.
“It was really powerful and it scares me that anti-semitism is still so prevalent today,” he said. Lopez
said that he was particularly moved by the stories about Bauer immi-grating to the U.S. and having to encounter openly racist people.
cara rosen, a history and wom-en’s studies major and the presi-dent of the european studies soci-ety who organized the event, said that more people showed up at the event than expected, but it was good because people needed to be aware that racism was still a preva-lent issue in today’s society.
“Being a student, I am astound-ed by her story – I’m in awe,” ros-en said after hearing Bauer’s story. “We need to be aware that stuff like ethnic cleansing and genocide is still out there, it is still happen-ing,” she said.
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‘CSI:’ CSUF’S PRIMETIME DEBUTA group of unsatisfied Cal State
Fullerton students conducted a survey questioning the motives be-hind the use of student funds from Associated Students Inc. The sur-vey has been circulating on Face-book, asking whether or not ASI is spending too much money on this year’s Spring Concert. The bud-get for the concert is an estimated $100,000, ac-cording to the survey’s coordi-nators.
A m e r i c a n studies major Maria Cortes, 24, one of the c o o r d i n a t o r s behind the sur-vey, said she thought ASI’s budget for the Spring Concert was “ridiculous” and wanted to know if other students felt the same way.
“Taking into consideration the whole economic crisis, we can use $100,000 more effectively to ac-tively support students,” Cortes said. “ASI’s effort of understand-ing the student body consists of just posting up fliers, but aside from that, no grassroots organiz-ing ever occurs.”
Cortes believes that the funds can be used to distribute scholar-ships, open more job opportuni-ties on campus for professors and students alike, or go to ASI events that “actually try to engage stu-dents in real conversations and dialogues.”
Annora Borden, vice chair of the TSU governing board, believes that many people don’t understand
exactly how ASI works and wishes they would learn more about the government.
“People are angry, and I under-stand that – I mean I’m not inter-ested in LMFAO particularly – but there’s a lot of information behind the scenes that most students don’t see … because within the CSU system and the country, we have an amazingly structured ASI,” Borden said. “We are very lucky to have such a strong student/staff
partnership and have our voices so well heard. Many, many universities do not function that way and I wish that stu-dents would take the time to learn about ASI instead of just being angry at us when what we want to do is support them.”
Cortes involves herself by regu-larly attending the ASI board of directors meeting and has spoken with “various people” there.
“Not too many of them have taken the initiative in getting the student voice,” Cortes said. “I haven’t even seen them post the survey on their Facebook.”
Cortes said the response to the survey has been “really great.”
“A lot of people are curious and want to be a part of the process,” Cortes said. “Students do care!”
The results of the survey are leaning toward the side of Cortes.
“Most students have felt that we could use the money more wisely,” Cortes said.
“They are extremely happy that finally someone is taking the ini-
tiative to get the student voice.” Borden is concerned with the re-sults of the survey, since Cortes is only passing out the survey to friends.
“As for the survey itself, I would be interested in knowing more about the questions that they’re placing on the survey. It sounds like a snowball sample, where you just tell three people and they tell three people and it just gets out but that’s not exactly representative of the students at the university,” Borden said. “You can draw some conclusions from that sample but not necessarily ones that include the entire population.”
When asked if he was going to attend the concert, a colleague of Cortes, 33-year-old human servic-es major, Dameion Renault said, “No, no, no.”
“It should not be happening. Worried about contacts? How about explaining to the band that you have spent our money on something that although fun and relaxation luring, is not the best thing to have done with it,” Re-nault said.
Cortes hopes to achieve a great-er student collective and to open ASI’s eyes to the student body’s concerns through this survey.
“I hope to get the real student voice, all those who go unrepre-sented and unheard,” Cortes said. “To get ASI to open up their eyes and see beyond their own expe-riences on campus, and to have them really think about represent-ing their student body. We are here to learn!”
A screeenshot of the survey circulated via Facebook by a group of students concerned with the use of $100,000 annually for the Spring Concert.The studetns believe the funds could be better spent on scholarships and other programs to benefit students.
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GREEK wEEK: KICKED oFF
Dube said that using CSUF students for the shoot was definitely something the crew wanted to do.
“Part of the plan in our production meeting was to re-cruit,” he said.
Meek said she thought the whole process was interesting.
“Everyone is so down-to-earth and I’m so shy and scared of doing the wrong thing,” she said. “Everyone’s really friendly.
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Greek Week, according to Pi Kappa Phi member Max Hassenstein, 20, is a week of competitions between fraterni-ties and sororities where funds are raised for Camp Titan. Ev-ery year, between $25,000 and $30,000 is raised, he said.
Hassenstein, one of the man-agers of Greek Week, is on the planning committee. One rep-resentative from each sorority and each fraternity on campus forms the committee that plans every detail of Greek Week. It is a year-long commitment, he said.
Wednesday at noon, the fra-ternities and sororities com-posed chalk murals on the Ti-tan Walk that will be judged later. Next, they built can castles, which are small castles built from cans that the orga-nizations later donated.
T h r o u g h -out the week, the Greek or-g a n i z a t i o n s will compete in both indoor and outdoor sports.
“This week is all about the kids. It’s about raising money for Camp Titan,” said Karen Langer, 21, a co-chair on the planning commit-
I’ve never seen a movie or a show being shot before.”
Assistant Vice President of Aca-demic Operations and Finance Lisa Kopecky was contacted by the show’s location manager, interest-ed in using CSUF for the scene of the crime.
“It came together very quickly,” she said. “The money we’re getting (from the studio) will cover the out-of-pocket expenses and the rest will go to ASI,” Kopecky said.
The money will be divided among the areas of the school that
were used for the shoot with a good portion going to the Student Recreation Center, as the pool would be used for the murder, Kopecky said as she watched the crew work on Ti-tan Walk.
“I absolutely love the show,” she said.
“I was watching the students to see how they reacted. Some were saying, ‘Oh my gosh, is that David Caruso?’ And they’d pick up the phone and call their friends.”
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From Page 1 tee and member of Alpha Delta Pi. “That’s, like, the sole purpose for this week. So everyone just comes to-gether to raise money to send them to camp.”
Thursday’s competi-tions are softball and soc-cer. They will be played in the field north of the Titan Gym. The Greek teams will compete in football and basketball on Friday. On Saturday, a lip-sync contest will be held in the Titan Gym.
In the lip-sync contest, the teams will dress up in costumes and perform mu-sical skits.
Maricela Alverado, coor-dinator for Greek Life, said Greek Week is all about spirit unity and team work for the Greeks.
“Greek Life is more than what people think it is,”
A l v e r a -do said. “ Pe o p l e have this fear of the Greek mean-ing. So this is making them-selves aware and the community aware that they are beyond the sterotypes.”
One fraternity joins up with one sorority dur-ing Greek Week. The pairing up festers networking, brotherhood
and sisterhood, according to Alverado. It’s a collective work effort and Alverado said she hopes the fraternities and so-rorities understand that.
Greek Week is for the six Inter-Fraternity houses and six Panhellenic houses on campus. The winners and the amount of money raised will be an-nounced at the awards ceremo-ny Sunday in the Titan Student Union Pavillion.
Members of the CSUF Greek community create ‘can castles’ on Titan Walk ,Wednesday.
PhoTo By ChRISTa ConnElly/Daily Titan Photo Editor
From psychobilly cowpunk to emocore thrash-metal, the real beauty of it is that you can find all the trendsetters of this ever-diversifying musical style close by.
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On April 8, Malcolm McLar-en, the manager of the Sex Pis-tols, died following a long battle with cancer. His influence and the Sex Pistols punk movement in the U.K. inspired musicians all over the world. It can be argued that the birthplace of hardcore punk was in Orange County, and some of the first to burst from the womb were from Fullerton. Bands such as The Adolescents, Agent Orange, Social Distortion and D.I. all hail Fullerton as their hometown.
Since then, local musicians have been modifying this fast and furious style of of rock ‘n’ roll, and continue to break down the genre while more and more creative monikers are needed to describe them. From psychobilly cowpunk to emocore thrashmetal, the real beauty of it is that you can find all the trendsetters of this ever-diver-sifying musical style close by.
W h e n zombies walk the earth, they will be laying waste to humanity to the tune of Death Hymn Num-ber 9. If you wandered in to their last show at the Cont inen-tal Room, unaware of what was going on, you probably would have been very confused and frightened. It was the first time I saw them live after hearing so much of this gimmicky rock group and they certainly lived up to the hype. It was truly otherworldly and a bit
blurry from what I could see after get-ting knocked in the eye by a drunken hipster with pointy elbows.
Best as I can tell, they were dressed as Louisiana well-to-do freshly raised from the grave. Sleazy P’s drumming sounds like he is throwing a tantrum in a junk pile and Frack ‘Em’s riffs are just as relentless; as they both tear it up on stage while the crowd tears it up on the dance floor. It’s only going to get more interesting now that the duo have “got a singer, shitheads!” accord-ing to their Facebook.
Look up the song “I Reckon You Gonna Die” and punch a hipster in the face for me next time you see one.
Up the road a ways in Long Beach are the Gestapo Khazi. Listening to their self titled EP, you may feel like your stereo has just sent you back in time to the golden days of ’80s angst punk – what a great idea for a movie! This album has more than enough re-verb to go around and is filled with bona fide throwbacks reminiscent of True Sounds of Liberty and all those other great pioneers of the OC and LA-punk emergence.
The group consists of ex-Geisha Girl guitar-ist John Holy Roller, who is now the vocalist for Khazi, Stark Raving Erik on guitar, Gestapo Grazi on bass and Third Re-ich Meich on drums. These guys really know how to emulate the classics and already have a
big following in Long Beach. Murder By Death is a group from
Indiana that made a stop by Detroit Bar last weekend to showcase songs from their new album, Good Morn-ing, Magpie. The ‘death folk’ group features Adam Turla on vocals/guitar, the lovely Sarah Balliet on cello/key-
boards, Matt Armstrong on bass and Dagan Thogerson on drums.
The show at Detroit was so packed you could throw a bottle of Stella Artois and easily nail two to three dudes sporting greased-up mustaches.
Good Morning, Magpie has quite a few upbeat songs for a typi-cal MBD record, but is still infused with plenty of the dark Cash-esque lyricism Turla is renowned for. They do an amazing job of ser-enading the audience with vaude-villian ballads of remorse that cre-scendo to an upbeat foot-stomper. The song “You Don’t Miss Twice (When Shaving With A Knife)” has a ‘rink-a-dink’ feel and has an ironic likening to the tune of Fred Astaire’s “Puttin’ On the Ritz.” It was written about Turla’s retreat into the Tennessee woods where he wrote all 11 songs on the album in seclusion.
During their performance of “Foxglove,” Balliet stole my heart while playing the opening cello riff. It might have been my imagi-nation, but I could have sworn she looked up and winked at me. Maybe she felt my longing gaze and knew I had a soft spot for beautiful female musicians that play instruments with a low key signature ever since the days of D’arcy Wretzky of the Smashing Pumpkins.
I’d also like to add a few honor-able mentions to some local bands for most interesting/ridiculous punk cover band: Yeastie Boys; and the band that is really rockin’ but has a crappy name: Poop. If you’re in Fullerton, you should see one of these groups and really see how punk has historically made it’s planted its roots in this city. Plus, it feels good to unleash a little anar-chy once in a while.
local band beats big names for awardBy Cameron Harp
Stereofix, from left: Kamren Alexander, Ray Alexander, Anthony Hainsworth and Mark Allan. The Orange County band won “Best Alternative” at the OC Music Awards.
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After taking home “Best Alterna-tive” at the OC Music Awards and finishing up a month-long residency at the Gypsy Lounge, Orange Coun-ty rock band Stereofix is on the verge of conquering the rock music scene.
After spending the end of 2009 opening for acts like Everclear, Three 6 Mafia and DJ Reflex, the self-pro-claimed ’80s-influenced rock quartet has now earned enough of a fan base to headline. Stereofix will headline the Music for Meals concert to aid impoverished children in Orange County at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana on April 25.
Lead singer and former student at California State Fullerton, Ray Alexander, and his younger brother Kamren formed Stereofix three years ago. Ray is responsible for influenc-ing his brother to pick up music while attending Fountain Valley High School.
“He has always been really inter-ested in music. I was always into other things, like chicks and just doing the normal guy stuff,” Kam-ren said. “He really pursued music. (Ray) handed me a guitar and it was history after that.”
The band eventually became quartet when the brothers recruited Mark Allan to play bass and found drummer Anthony Hainsworth through an advertisement placed in the Recycler. With the band com-plete, Sterofix established their sig-nature sound.
“I define our sound as anything we got a hold of,” Kameren said. “You know, our parents had really great ’80s records. So, it was a heavy influence on us and when we picked up the instruments, it seemed so natural to play that kind of music.”
Stereofix released their first al-bum Warning Sign in the summer of 2008 with the help of engineer Mark Needham, who has worked with The Academy Is ..., The Killers, Cake, Chris Isaak, Lindsey Buckingham and Michelle Branch. The band re-
cently returned to the studio to plan the release of a sophomore album.
“We have about 40 new songs and so we are kind of slowly bringing them out,” Kamren said.
On March 6, Stereofix won “Best Alternative” at the OC Music Awards over Aushua, Eye Alaska, Thrice and Saosin. As the band accepted their award, Allan said his band-mates were speechless.
“We were 100 percent sure that all the important people, the people who were going to win, actually have seats right up front,” Allan said com-paring their “nosebleed seats” to the front row. “They called our name and we were like, wide-eyed. Just, wow.”
Stereofix wrapped up their month-long Thursday night residency at the Gypsy Lounge in Lake Forest on March 25.
On their last night, the band played 12 songs before they were per-suaded to do an encore by screaming fans. Allan says that the atmosphere of the show led the band to throw all the energy they had into their per-formance.
“It was amazing,” Allan said. “I love it. It was a great time tonight. Leave it all onstage and with every-body that’s there.”
After playing their upcoming local shows at DiPiazza’s in Long Beach on April 17 and the Galaxy on April 25, Stereofix is looking forward to hitting the road this summer for their first headlining tour. The tour will venture North from California to Seattle, East to Reno and Las Ve-gas and back home.
“We played South By Southwest (last year) and that was cool, but this one is going to be more kind of strategic with a lot of production, a lot of promoting,” said the elder Al-exander. “This is the one where it is just about us.”
Once their west coast tour ends, Stereofix’s ultimate ambition is a headlining tour of Europe.
“I think what is special about our band is that we are all like brothers and there is nothing else we want to do,” Kamren said.
“We love what we are doing and we are just going to continue doing it until we reach our goals.”
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With each release, Dr. Dog has shown extensive growth, and the band’s sixth album, Shame, Shame, is no exception.
Their first release on Anti-records, the album contains 11 sunny-pop songs that fans of the band are sure to enjoy. However, the band has cleaned up its sound, moving away from lo-fi indie-rock recordings and instead, recording all of their tracks live. Dr. Dog continues what they started on their previous release, Fate, creat-ing a more modern sounding ‘60s revival sound, and use heavy elec-tric guitar rifts, combining their Beatle-esque sound with a harder edge.
The Philadelphia natives have also seemed to place a much stron-ger emphasis on vocals and harmo-nies, especially in opening track “Stranger,” and title track “Shame,
Shame,” the band is able to layer and arrange vocals in a way that is pleasing for the listener.
Another element the band has been able to maintain is its im-peccable capability to go back and forth between trippy psyche-delic beats and twangy folk-rock rhythm from song to song. Tracks “Where’d All The Time Go?” and “I Only Wear Blue” are reminis-cent of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, while tracks “Station,” “Jackie Wants a Black Eye” and “Shadow People” seem to take ele-ments from alt-folk band Wilco.
Overall, Shame, Shame is noth-ing you haven’t heard before, and you probably will hear this album again, however it is a great pop-rock album sure to please even the most pretentious music aficiona-dos.
You can catch Dr. Dog perform April 27 at The Henry Fonda The-atre in Hollywood.
Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
It’s been nearly three decades since Gil Scott-Heron released his debut studio record, Pieces of a Man. It was a progressive mix of soul, jazz and spoken word that was unlike anything that era had ever heard.
Fast-forwarding to today, Scott-Heron’s influence is inescapable. In his lifetime, Scott-Heron has been a cru-sader, a voice for those yearning for so-cial equality, but moreover, liberation. He has endured two polarizing wars and has come to see the iniquity of his heyday fade into a looming shadow over today. And most recently, he’s become a spectator. Observing rappers and poets; children in the same vein, aiming to eliminate remnants of the shadow lingering.
Scott-Heron’s latest effort, I’m New Here, marks the end of a 15-year hiatus. The 2010 release brings Scott-Heron to the forefront once more, this time, however, emerging as a sa-gacious figure clearly weathered from the passing years. Scott-Heron’s voice, once soothing and vibrant, has eroded. Raspy and coarse, Scott-Heron’s voice has undergone a stark evolution, but the emotional resonance behind it has remained intact.
For fans of: Bobby Womack, Donny Hathaway, Burial, Portishead
The album opens with “On Com-
ing From A Broken Home (Part 1),” a brief homage to Scott-Heron’s grand-mother, Lily Scott, set to the instru-mentals of Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights.” Scott-Heron sets the agenda from the get-go. I’m New Here is a compilation of past stories, set in mu-sic’s ever-evolving present and future.
I’m New Here is largely an intro-spective. Naturally, Scott-Heron looks back upon what has brought him this far: his upbringing, family and the re-ality of death. It’s a frightening com-bination, but it echoes Scott-Heron’s poised audacity, a time-tested trait.
I’m New Here employs a great deal of minimalism, allowing for Scott-Heron’s voice to speak for itself upon dreary atmospherics. The bleak, post-modernity painted in I’m New Here
is exemplified in the lead single, “Me and the Devil.” A congregation of haunting sounds and patterns are led by Scott-Heron’s wailing. The song is both soulful and soulless at the same time.
Yet, the most fascinating part of the album isn’t audible. The album cover is straightforward and minimalist, a brief look at what’s in store. However, it gets a little more interesting once you fig-ure out what it’s reminiscent of. The color scheme is a duplicate of iconic al-bum artwork from The Clash’s London Calling, and Elvis Presley’s self-titled debut, to which London Calling was based off of. Both were groundbreak-ing albums from progressive artists. Both albums broke barriers, and be-stowed upon all artists a civic duty to address problems plaguing our society, not unlike what Scott-Heron has done in his longevity.
I’m New Here is a salute to past acts. Nearly 30 years after Scott-Heron’s first album, he solidifies his legacy by recalling that of others, be it from mu-sic’s finest, or from his own ‘broken home.’
There seems to be a stigma in mu-sic that pop-punk is reserved for ra-dio-friendly bands such as Blink-182, Fall Out Boy and All Time Low. Greg Barnett, guitarist and co-vocalist of The Menzingers, isn’t really a fan of that stigma.
“That’s the thing with the term pop-punk, it’s been abused so much…” Barnett said. “I don’t care about (The Menzingers) getting grouped in with those types of bands, but I think it’s irritating when the term gets thrown around and bands that are essentially pop bands are claiming to be a pop-punk band. They’re not a pop-punk band, they’re a pop band.”
With Chamberlain Waits, The Menzingers are out to show every-one that pop-punk doesn’t have to be friendly.
From Scranton, Pa., (“like The Of-
fice,” Barnett sarcastically added) The Menzingers have caught the attention of the punk community with both their debut A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology and follow up EP Hold On, Dodge. The band enlist-ed Matt Allison (The Alkaline Trio, Less than Jake, The Lawrence Arms) to produce Chamberlain Waits, their follow up LP, and first full-length on Red Scare Records.
While their first album had its moments, it was ultimately uneven. Chamberlain Waits, however, is a sol-id, if not spectacular sophomore full-length release. Drawing influences from contemporaries such as Against Me!, The Lawrence Arms and The Gaslight Anthem, among others, the album has no track worth skipping.
The album opens with “Who’s Your Partner,” featuring a chorus of “so let these simple songs get caught in our heads,” which the album is sure do to. The track also sounds a bit
like Combat Rock-era Clash. In fact, Chamberlain Waits sounds much like a pop-punk Combat Rock.
“(The Clash) are definitely our big-gest influence. We pretty much base everything around if the Clash would do it, we would do it,” Barnett said. “I think with a lot of the songs on (Chamberlain Waits), we found our-selves before we were going down-stairs to practice we would throw on Sandinista or Combat Rock and try to see what they were doing there and try to go with it.”
The influence of The Clash is also apparent on tracks like “Tasker-Mor-ris Station” and “Deep Sleep.”
And while Chamberlain Waits is sonically similar to their previous
work, it is also much more melodic.“Male Call” is a guitar-driven folk-
punk barroom sing-a-long, much like a stripped down Nothington track. “Rivalries” has a Green Day Warning-era sound. And “Come Here Often” and “No We Didn’t” are much heavier and melodic then anything The Men-zingers have previously recorded.
However, tracks like “Home Out-grown,” “Time Tables” and “I Was Born” all have that familiar Menzing-ers sound; a mixture of catchy, me-lodic punk rock and honest lyrics.
Chamberlain Waits is a must have for any fan of pop-punk, whether it be the fans of MTV-friendly punk flavored pop or Fat Wreck Chords style pop-tinged punk.
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Gil Scorr-Heron’s ‘I’m New Here’ is out now. The artists’ latest effort is his first release in almost 30 years.
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April 15, 20106
Music fans come together for annual Record Store Day
Singer-songwriter Matt Costa performed a free in-store set at Fingerprints Records in Long Beach for last year’s Record Store Day.Photo couRteSy fingeRPRintS RecoRDS
Music enthusiasts and vinyl junkies rummage through several racks of vinyls and CDs to get their hands on the prized gem of a new album to enlighten their mu-sical taste buds.
Independent record stores strike a chord in the hearts of its several dwellers as a place where they can discover new sounds and where many first fall in love with the me-dium that will spark a passion in their lives like no other.
Record Store Day brings to-gether musicians, artists and people from across the country to these independent record stores to celebrate music and the release of various limited edition vinyls and CDs.
Several stores will host in-store performances and appearances by musicians, live shows, DJ sets and offer giveaways Saturday, April 17, and even plan small events in the days leading up to Record Store Day. Pepperland Music in
Orange, Amoeba Music in Hol-lywood and Fingerprints in Long Beach are some of the familiar locations where music enthusiasts can get their hands on rare and promotional products.
Amoeba Music in Ho l l ywood is celebrat-ing their third annual Record Store Day with hundreds of limited edi-tion vinyl releases from a long list of artists avail-able on their Web site, an exclusive show by the S m a s h i n g P u m p k i n s and a CD signing by Slash.
“The first two years of Record Store Day have gone really well.
There’s a really good energy and it’s a really positive experience for us at the store and the shoppers that come out”, said Kara Lane, who is responsible for Amoeba Holly-
wood’s in-store book-ing.
This year’s Re-cord Store Day ambas-sador is Josh H o m m e , front man of the Queens of the Stone Age and su-per group T h e m C r o o k e d Vu l t u r e s , where he p e r f o r m s a l o n g s i d e Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones.
Last year’s festivities for Fin-gerprints in Long Beach included a listening party for Bob Dylan’s new material and performances by Matt Costa and The Bird and The Bee.
This year, Fingerprints prom-ises a large selection of exclusive seven-inch vinyl titles and has chosen to keep quiet about who it has booked for a signing and per-formance.
“There’ll be giveaways, mixed CDs, compilations, all kinds of stuff,” said Dustin Rodriguez, a clerk at Fingerprints. “There is not that many of us out there, and I’m glad we get to be a part of it. It’s a focus on independent record stores and a celebration of them.”
Lovell’s Records, located in the historic Uptown Whittier district, has been around for 50 years and will be participating in Record Store Day for the second time this year.
Lovell’s clerk Brian Hidalgo ex-pects a good amount of traffic to come in and for all limited edition merchandise to sell out quickly, but says they look to mainly capi-talize on what they offer to the public everyday.
“We’re just a local mom and pop and we have locals that come everyday so that’s more of our bread and butter,” Hidalgo said.
Record Store Day’s Web site of-fers a full list of participating stores throughout the U.S. and posts up-dates leading up to the big day.
Record Store Day started out as an idea conceived by Chris Brown, marketing vice president for Bull Moose Music, to help market the independent record stores around the country. The idea was later im-plemented and founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Car-rie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Cleave and Brian Poehner.
Advertising major Matthew Lopez has played guitar for sev-eral bands and looks forward to the limited edition merchandise he knows he won’t be able to snag elsewhere.
“For Josh Homme to be pro-moting this and lending his voice out to the small record stores that distribute his music shows a pas-sion for the trade that I rarely see artists exemplify,” Lopez said.
Many artists that have come out to show support and apprecia-tion for Record Store Day include Tom Waits, Jack White, Booker T, Billy Corgan, Paul McCartney and many others.
7:00a.m. – Open11:00a.m. – Hole Pre-sale starts,
includes a free ticket to see them play the Outdoor Stage at the Jimmy Kimmel Show
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. - Keith Morris (Circle Jerks / Black Flag) working the counter and signing
4:00 p.m. – Gary Calamar (KCRW DJ & music supervisor for Dexter, Six Feet Under, House, True Blood, and more) book signing for Record Store Days book
The 88’s Kieth Slettehdahl sang to a pleased crowd during most recent Wednesday Concert at the Becker Amphitheatre. It was the band’s second time performing at CSUF.
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A cool mix of groovy pop and electric rock filled Cal State Ful-lerton’s Becker Amphitheatre on Wednesday when Los Angeles-based band The 88 performed in a noon show hosted by ASI Produc-tions.
The band gave a lively show that engaged an audience filled with students, faculty and devoted fans. Band member Keith Slettehdahl was energetic with his vocals and guitar, and Adam Merrin was un-deniably vivacious on keyboard.
Film major Rocio Bueno, 18, hadn’t heard of the band prior to their performance, but was pleas-antly surprised after hearing them.
“Since I have class today at twelve, I kind of skipped it and just came here,” she admitted. “The show was awesome,” she added, “(On a scale of ) 1 to 10? Ten. I really liked them.”
The band has been around for a while, though many people would most likely only recognize them from the numerous songs of theirs that have been features in television shows. Most recently, they recorded the theme song for NBC’s Community, “At Least It Was Here.”
Students like en-gineering major Col Kuy, 21, and liberal studies major Carolyna Espinoza, 19, recognized them from the theme song.
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“I wanted to see them because they’re from the theme song of Community,” Espinoza said. Both said that they enjoyed The 88’s per-
formance. The band re-
cently released a track, “Love is the Thing,” that was completely recorded on the Apple iPhone app FourTrack.
“It was really easy to use – any-body could do it. We had actually discussed getting it as a great thing to use when we were on tour just to record ideas,” Merrin said of
the app. “I have a friend that I went to
high school with that works at Apple,” he continued, “and he said ‘you know, I don’t think any band has recorded on that program be-fore, you guys should do it, you’ll be the first band to do it’ – so we did. One thing led to another, all these people started writing about it, it got featured on YouTube…it definitely went way beyond what we ever thought it was going to be.”
Members describe the experience as any other studio performance. “It was fun doing something differ-ent,” said drummer Anthony Zim-mitti. According the Merrin, the band all went over to Zimmitti’s home to record the song, and it took about two days – a half-day for recording, another day for mix-ing and producing – to finish.
This was the second time The 88 has performed at CSUF, the first being “four or five years ago,” according to Merrin. When asked how this performance compared to the last one, bassist Todd O’Keefe joked, “we were better (this time).”
It’s this kind of laid back, relaxed vibe that resonates in the bands music, which Merrin describes as having an older style, referencing The Beatles as a major influence.
“We treat each live show kind of like it’s our last,” Merrin said, “be-cause you never know what’s going to happen tomorrow.”
7April 15, 2010
President Obama is pushing for the United States to start us-ing Biometric ID cards in order to better keep track of legal work-ers. In theory, these cards will be similar to a driver license, except for one added feature. These cards will either have fingerprint or ret-inal information stored on them so that the card can more accu-rately represent the user. Both fin-gerprints and retinal information are thought to be unique to each human being, and could easily be stored on a magnetic strip or chip inserted into a card.
People across the country see this initiative as an encroachment on privacy laws. They believe that because their information will be on this card that it will be stored in a database, and thus make it possible to identify a person when the card is used. Because of this, people think that the govern-ment is going to somehow, some-day, make it mandatory to scan these IDs for everything from purchasing groceries to traveling. And if this happens it will allow “Big Brother” to track the where-abouts of every American citizen.
This is textbook example of
snowball thinking.Just because one event happens
does not mean that the next will fall into place just like that. People limit their thinking to encompass only the possibilities they believe are possible. In reality, these cards would only affect immigrant work-ers.
Currently, there are an estimat-ed 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. With this policy, it would make it much easier to track un-documented workers, and simplify the process for immigrants to ob-tain legal working status.
It also solves the problem of America’s workers being out-sourced by cheap labor from illegal immigrants. If these immigrants are give legal status they must be paid minimum wage. This will not only help the American work-force, but better the quality of life for many immigrants. This could, in turn, decrease the demand for the country’s safety net services for homelessness, hunger and health-care saving the country money on its social service programs.
I don’t understand why some people automatically jump to the worst-case scenario when a new policy is about to be passed. This sort of fear of the unknown has caused the country to be in a state of paralysis. A country needs to change its policies to match the changing future. Citizens shouldn’t always be in conflict with their gov-ernment. Every action taken by our policy-makers does not have evil underderlying controlling factors. People need to be educated about what the government is doing, but they also need to trust that their government is working in their best interests and not its own.
Would requiring Americans to use Biometric ID cards be an invasion of privacy?
Legal immigrants and United States citizens – be aware that as soon as you swipe your Biometric ID cards as you enter the work-force, “Big Brother is watching you.”
The “enhanced Social Secu-rity card” reminds me of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” which consists of a society that is under complete surveillance by authori-ties. The people are reminded that their dictator, “Big Brother,” is always watching them.With the swipe of a card, the govern-ment will have the ability to track citizens, according to a Christian Science Monitor article.
In case we forget where we’ve been on which day at what time, have no fear! We can ask the gov-ernment to check our records on those lovely ID cards. Chris Ca-labrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said that Biometric ID cards are a massive invasion of people’s pri-vacy.
“We’re not only talking about fingerprinting every American … We’re also talking about a card that would quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty
much every aspect of American life that requires identification,” Cala-brese said.
The government wants to spend more effort and manpower by plac-ing Americans underneath a look-ing glass. That sounds familiar. Does the Patriot Act ring a bell? As a reminder, the act allows law en-forcement agencies to search tele-phone, e-mail communications, medical and financial documents.
Great. If implemented, Biomet-ric IDs can be added to the list of reasons why Americans should be concerned, suspicious and para-noid about what they do and where they go.
Groups like the American Li-brary Association and Americans for Tax Reform oppose the plan because the broken immigration system harms both immigrants and non-immigrants. The ID would violate privacy, facilitate tracking of individuals and would serve as a government permission slip needed by everyone in order to work.
The proposal would require the development of a national database and could cost $285 million, ac-cording to Tech Daily Dose. Let’s not forget that the national deficit will nearly reach the record of $1.4 trillion achieved in 2009. I figured the government’s priority would be to decrease unemployment.
It seems like these controversial ID cards are going to add daily dos-es of trouble as people are wrong-fully denied work because average officials, and some FBI experts, are not equipped to determine if two fingerprints are a match, according to a Time magazine article.
What can I say, government? You’ve done it again. Thanks for helping the U.S.
If you’re a dog owner, your little pooch is doing more damage to this earth than a Toyota Sequoia guzzling gas from one freeway to the next.
Believe it or not, dogs are worse to the environment than SUVs, at least according to Robert and Brenda Vale, authors of “Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living,” in which they revealed that a medium-sized dog has twice the impact of driv-ing a luxury SUV 10,000 miles.
Why? Because we are feeding our dogs pounds and pounds of carnivo-rous food, which takes a lot of land to provide. And seeing as there are more than 160 million owned dogs and cats in the United States, maybe we should start considering greener ways to raise our pets.
First off, despite the Vales’ estima-tions, dog food production is not at fault destroying cattle land. In fact, dog food could be considered a mode of recycling, seeing as all the spare meat parts that aren’t consumed by humans get ground up and made into kibbles and bits for our furry friends, who gra-ciously gobble up everything we pro-vide.
Little to our awareness, dog food provides a convenient way for slaugh-terhouses to make money off wastes considered “unfit for human consump-tion,” according to Born Free USA. This waste includes intestines, udders, heads, hooves and possibly diseased and cancerous animal parts.
So, as you are feeding happy-go-lucky Sparky some lamb heads and infected pig intestines, you might also like to know that pet food manufactur-ers do not test their products for bacte-rial endotoxins.
Because sick or dead animals can be processed as pet foods, the drugs that were used to treat or euthanize them may still be present in the end product. The presence of these toxins, including penicillin and various antibiotics, are increasing your dog’s risk of attaining urinary tract disease, chronic digestive problems and obesity.
About 45 percent of dogs in the U.S. are overweight or obese. That means you, as a pet owner, are at fault for Fido’s ecological damage. You are the one choosing the food he will eat, and you are the one overfilling the dog bowl every day, once a day.
Just like humans, dogs need to eat several small meals. That means only filling the bowl halfway two to three times a day. And seeing as Scruffy isn’t going to head over to Ralph’s and choose his preferred dietary brand, you are responsible for steering clear of dog foods that might be made of meat “by-products,” which is a euphemism for heads, feet, blood, fat trimmings, un-born babies and other parts usually not consumed by humans.
Instead, shoot for organic or natural brands of chow, those that avoid pesti-cides, artificial colors, flavor enhancers, chemical fertilizers and chemical pre-servatives.
Green pet foods are produced from free-range, lean meat and poultry and don’t contain such unmentionable meat byproducts.
Although your dog may happily in-hale any type of food in one gulp with-out any signs of preferring organic over a standard brand, he won’t be so happy as he is dying from acute renal failure, which killed 20 percent of dogs who ate Purina, Iams and other such brands in 2007.
So, in this case, it might be well worth the extra buck or two to go or-ganic, for Fido’s sake.
Letter to the EditorTo the Editor of the Daily Titan,
Let me first say that I am writing this letter from my own perspective as Genevieve, the student who happens to be the ASI elections commissioner. In no way do I want my opinion to be taken as the general opinion of ASI. Let me also be frank in saying that I am completely fed up with the Daily Titan, and its coverage of the voting booths.
To clear up the issue of the polling stations, I think it is important to know how this issue was brought to the Daily Titan. Last Wednesday during the regu-lar election, I was called by a reporter on Wednesday night asking who was winning and how many people had voted.
Unfortunately for her, I am prohibited from giving out any interim results by the ASI bylaws. She then asked me what other issues were going on with the election.
This is where it gets interesting. I told her that some students had told me that they were not aware of where the official ASI polling locations were lo-cated, and silly me, was led to believe that she was writing an objective article to update students about the election.
Imagine my surprise the next day when I saw the front page with an article about confusion at the poll-ing booths with quotes given by my adviser and my-self misconstrued with wrong information. Then on April 14, I see an editorial about the very same issue criticizing allowing the candidates to have laptops. Now, if the Daily Titan wants to criticize this, that’s fine. However, if this is as big an issue to the editorial staff as it seems, why did it take me saying something about it for them to even notice?
Let me throw this out there: I have only been in this position since the beginning of fall and this is-sue was only brought to my attention last Wednes-day. The Daily Titan has covered the elections, quite biasedly, I might add, for years and this only becomes an issue to them now? We have had electronic voting for 10 years, and the practice of candidates having their own laptops has existed just as long.
If the editorial staff, whom have seemed to hold the same general opinion about ASI elections since I was a freshman, believe that elections are so flawed, why did they not choose to report it until now? If it had been reported when the issue started several years ago, I can guarantee that it would not be an issue now. So why is it that year after year, semester after semester, the Daily Titan only focuses on writing ang-
sty, issue-driven articles about the elections instead of being proactive?
Maybe if they would take the time to brief their reporters (and in my time as commissioner, only one reporter out of five knew anything about elec-tions that was sent to me), and if coverage of elec-tions started sooner with objective articles giving stu-dents the information they need, then we wouldn’t be complaining about people voting blindly. There is only one reporter that I have talked to that encour-aged students to vote in a non-passive aggressive way. Every other article has been extremely negative, and I personally feel, contributed to making people want to stay away from the voting booths.
To address the facts and figures in the editorial from April 14, let me say there is an inherent flaw that the Daily Titan did not bring to its readers’ attention. You cannot please everyone.
If we were to only have that one percent of stu-dents vote, then ASI could not possibly claim to rep-resent everyone and students who are unhappy with ASI would constantly bring that to their attention. Who is to blame for having such a small percentage of people voting? There are certainly many reasons, but I believe the Daily Titan and its continuous negative coverage of the elections is a contributing factor.
To get back to the point of the polling stations, I have been working with a few students since last week on the ASI University Affairs committee to change the bylaws so we can fix this issue.
Had the issue been brought to my attention be-fore then, we would have solved it before the election began.
Personally, I agree that candidates shouldn’t have laptops. I don’t think blind voting is good, but then again, how can students vote when very little objec-tive information is provided by the best media outlet for Titans to access, our own Daily Titan?
Since I began as a student at this university, I have heard the Daily Titan called several different names, none of them respectful, but I have always kept in mind that this was an award-winning paper. Let me leave you with the thought that I wish I could have respect for the Daily Titan, but I have been disap-pointed time and time again.
Sincerely,Genevieve Eldred
Subject: Daily Titan ASI election coverageSubmitted: April 14, 2010
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8 April 15, 2010
Think Different. Think Simon. ‘Durantula’ will cause all kinds of problems for the No. 1 team in the West
Can everyone shut up about the Los Angeles Lakers struggling?
Seriously, it’s almost as annoying as “Bieber Fever.”
The Lakers are still the number one seed in the Western Conference and they have two all-NBA players, who will surely make ABC’s Mark Jackson say, “Momma there goes that man!”
Of course, getting healthy will be crucial, but a daunting task lies ahead. They will have their hands full preparing for some kid from the
Oklahoma City Thunder. Can you name the top-five play-
ers in the NBA? Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, Dwight Howard and ... ? Kevin Durant.
Yes, there are plenty of viable candidates to fill the last spot in my “Fave 5,” but Durant has been a leading candidate for MVP all sea-son, and the scary thing is, at the age of 21, he already has an NBA scor-ing title.
After attending the Lakers’ 111-108 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Dec. 22, 2009, I have developed a bit of a “man crush” for “Durantula.”
The first round matchup between the Thunder and Lakers has me as giddy as a little school girl.
I would compare this to the first round of the 1986 NBA Playoffs where 23-year-old Chicago Bulls’ guard Michael Jordan faced off against the powerful Boston Celtics and three-time MVP, 29-year-old Larry Bird.
In game two, Jordan walked into Boston Garden and lit up the Celtics for an NBA record for points scored in a playoff game (63).
The record still stands, but it could really be in danger if Durant goes “Call of Duty 4” on the Lakers.
Fast forward 24 years and Durant – who reminds me of a taller Clyde Drexler – has led a young Thunder squad into the playoffs when every-one and their mom had counted them out.
However, he is going up against a Lakers team that has been to the last two NBA Finals and 31-year-old Bryant is still the best closer in the game.
Lakers’ Head Coach Phil Jackson has even called Durant a “special player,” but like every star, he will need some help.
Second-year guard Russell West-brook will be able to use his explo-siveness to exploit the Lake Show’s most obvious weakness – the inept point guard position.
His backcourt mate, Thabo Sefo-losha, is becoming one of the best perimeter defenders in the league. Thabo who? Sefolosha, it’s pro-nounced ‘sef-a-low-sha.’
You can thank me later, you’ll hear about him for the next 10 years.
Sefolosha will make it painfully difficult on Bryant, but that will not be enough.
Outside of forwards Jeff Green and Serge Ibaka, the Thunder have a bunch of nobodies who will not be able to contain Pau Gasol, Lamar
Odom and even an Andrew Bynum on one leg.
As good as Gasol is, he still does not get half the credit he deserves. He will be dominant in this series as he shows the world why he instantly made the Lakers a contender two years ago.
Let’s not forget about “Mr. Kar-dashian.” He is the key to the Lakers’ success, especially with Bynum com-ing back from yet another injury.
And of course there is the enigma that is Ron Artest, who will be given the assignment of guarding 6-foot-9-inch Durant.
Will he be up for the challenge? We shall see.
As sexy as OKC’s young talent is, they will be too inexperienced to handle the playoff pressure and stop LA’s talented personnel.
“Durantula” may be able to win one game by himself, but that’s as far as it will go. (Portland Trailblaz-ers’ general manager Kevin Pritchard will restrain from shooting himself; after all, he picked injury-prone Greg Oden over Durant in the 2007 NBA Draft).
The “Purple and Gold” will take the series 4-1.
Yes, Laker fans, you can breathe again ... until the next round. Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant tries to block Kobe Bryant’s shot.
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The Walk-Off: Pro athletes should be more responsible
Drunk driving.Simply put, driving under the in-
fluence of alcohol is an ever-growing epidemic that has been plaguing streets everywhere for decades.
Families have been torn apart, loved ones have been lost, lives have been shattered, yet, the pain will never cease.
You’ll turn on the news and hear about a DUI arrest tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then the day after that, or the day after that.
Some people just don’t get it.If time has taught us anything,
it’s that professional athletes are not immune to such recklessness and
idiocy. In fact, if time has taught us anything, it’s that professional ath-letes are often the most blatant per-petrators.
Let’s say tomorrow you sign a multi-million-dollar deal with Sub-way to appear in 10 commercials over the next three months.
Within hours, a ten-figure pay-check is going to be deposited straight into your bank account, es-sentially changing life as you know it.
Here’s the multi-million-dollar question: Now that money isn’t an issue, what are you going to buy?
Welcome to the world of profes-sional athletes. A world with bot-tomless pockets and fat paychecks. A world with Mercedes-Benzes and Porsches, fine dining and carefree living. A world the majority of us can’t relate to. A world the majority of us can only dream about.
Yet, for all the ways the “profes-sional athlete lifestyle” varies from the “ordinary person lifestyle,” ath-letes themselves aren’t much differ-ent. In essence, athletes are just like you and me, only richer – and in better shape.
For athletes who rise to promi-nence overnight, the problem with
inheriting the title “Pro” at such a young age is the involuntary as-sumption of the responsibility such a title demands.
Professional athletes – regardless of sport, notoriety – are public fig-ures that don’t only represent them-selves.
They’re role-models, larger-than-life figures who represent their team, family, sponsors and profession.
That’s why every time an athlete is busted for driving under the influ-ence, the repercussions are extensive and unforgiving.
It’s no secret, athletes splurge. They spend money on 10-bedroom palaces, six-figure cars, private jets, jewelry and all sorts of extraneous things. They pay their entourage, family, friends and agents absurd amounts of money to keep them company.
You think they’d spend a couple thousand dollars on a designated driver. Sure, it wouldn’t be the sexi-est purchase, but it’d certainly be the safest.
In this day and age where night-life is as much a part of everyday life as playing, hiring a designated driver would not only reduce the chances of an athlete driving under the influ-
ence, it’d eliminate them completely.Frankly, paying for personal security isn’t enough. Security is responsible for preventing any outside force from endangering an athlete’s safety, but who protects these athletes from themselves?
Who tells “Athlete X,” “You know what, you’ve had too much to drink tonight, you probably shouldn’t drive home.”
Six-figure luxury cars can’t pre-vent accidents, they can only man-age them. Inevitably, it’s the athletes who need to do the preventing.
So hire a personal driver. Not a childhood friend who doesn’t have the courage to say, “No.” Not a fam-ily member who’s just happy to be living such a luxurious lifestyle. And certainly not an agent who only cares about performance on the field.
Hire someone who grabs the keys at the beginning of the night. Some-one not concerned with having a good time or enjoying a night with the fellas. Someone trustworthy. Someone who has the courage to humble athletes when necessary.
Someone who’s job is to prevent accidents from happening, because, believe me, we haven’t seen the last – or worst – of athlete DUIs.Ex-New Orleans Sanits’ receiver Donte Stallworth was recently charged with a DUI.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) Spend time today mending fences and soothing emotions. You figure out how to satisfy each person’s needs.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) This is no time to gamble. Make sure you’re comfortable with all the details. By tomorrow or the next day, you’ll want to be on to big-ger, better things.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Because you took care of important matters earlier, you have an opportunity to see a new movie, try a different restaurant or simply hang out at home.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) Get your body and mind on the same track, even if you’d rather be a couch potato. Movement today is essential. Take care of business early, then take a walk.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) The timely completion of tedious work requires that you put a new opportunity on hold and revise nearly completed documents. This frees up time for inspiration later today.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your significant other propos-es activities that promise excitement as well as comfort. Get work done early in order to take advantage.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) If you’ve done your financial homework, you can make the package look pretty. Consider yourself lucky to be finished with a task you’ve worried about.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You need to get down to basic principles if you want to progress. You have tons of ideas competing for attention. Choose one and run with it.
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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You thought you had all your ducks in a row, but you discover them swimming off, and there’s no way to retrieve them. You may need to start over.
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If you’re the Cal State Fullerton baseball team, what do you do af-ter taking two of three games from division rival and nationally ranked UC Irvine? Naturally, you head up Highway 101 to UC Santa Barbara for a three-game set against the third place Gauchos, who are fresh off their own Big West series win against Cal Poly.
In other words, it’s just another tough weekend in the Big West Conference.
“I don’t think there’s a team you can let up on,” Titan Head Coach Dave Serrano said. “This weekend is just another roadblock on our way to what we’re trying to accomplish.”
Though the Gauchos head into the weekend with a 6-8 record over their last 14 games, Serrano isn’t un-derestimating the power of UCSB’s home-field advantage.
“From my time at Irvine to my time here at Fullerton, it’s never been easy to play at UCSB,” he said. “We’re well aware of how well they play up there in that ballpark in front of those fans.”
Conversely, the Titans go into the weekend winners of 11 of their last 14, including an impressive 6-1 drumming of then-No. 3 UCLA (handing the Bruins their second loss of the season) and a pair of convincing away-from-home wins against then-No. 18 UCI.
But the season is far from over.“Nobody’s ever been crowned
champions after two weekends of league play,” Serrano said. “Six games is only a small portion of the schedule. It’s going to be a continu-ous grind over the rest of the season to reach our goal of being the Big West champs.”
The Titans will also go into the weekend series armed with Big West Player of the Week sophomore first baseman Nick Ramirez, who earned the honor by hitting .333 with three home runs and six RBIs in four games last week.
“Nick was a big part of our suc-cess last year as a freshman and he’s a big part of our success now,” Serrano said. “He started the season in a bit of a slump, but he’s come around as
the season’s progressed. We’re going to need him to continue to produce in our lineup. It’s no coincidence that once he and Christian (Colon) started heating up, we as a team started hitting again.”
Over the last month, the Titans have shown why they were touted as one of the best teams in the coun-try. During their current hot-streak, they’ve averaged over nine runs a game, beating opponents, on aver-age, by almost seven runs.
“We’re thinking positive things,” said junior center fielder Gary Brown. “We know we’re a good team and we plan on beating any team that’s in the other dugout. We just have to keep the good feelings coming.”
Brown, arguably the nation’s top outfielder, leads the Big West in bat-ting average (.443), slugging per-centage (.672), runs scored (37),
hits (58), triples (7) and stolen bases (20).
The No. 22 Titans will begin the series behind the power arm of Fri-day starter, sophomore righty Noe Ramirez. Ramirez has been on a roll as of late, winning his last five decisions which includes a marvel-ous 14-strikeout, complete game shutout against Hawai’i on March 26.
“Our fate is in our hands. We know how to play and what to do,” said senior third baseman Joey Sid-dons.
“A lot of it is on us. If we come out lazy, (UCSB) will snipe us. We’ve been picking through all the little things we saw in the series against UCI to make sure we have no hiccups in the next series.”
The first game of the weekend will take place April 16 at 2 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
Softball looks to break three-way first place tie
Two of the three teams tied for first place in the Big West Con-ference will battle at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo starting Saturday and continuing until Sunday.
The Cal State Fullerton softball team travels to the home of the Mustangs hoping to tarnish the Mustangs’ record and remain seat-ed atop the Big West.
On April 10, CSUF played host to the UC Riverside Highlanders, the third team tied in the race for first place, and the Highlanders won the series against the Titans for the first time in history.
“Our team got involved into playing emotionally against River-side instead of preparing and play-ing Titan Softball like we had been planning the week before that,” Titan Head Coach Michelle Gro-macki said.
The week prior to facing UCR, the Titans swept the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, earning a total of 27 runs in all three games.
“I think we wanted to beat UCR really bad so it was a lot of try-hard instead of playing the game natu-ral like we know how,” said junior pitcher Ari Cervantes.
This was the Highlanders’ first-ever series victory over the Titans. The rivalry and distaste between UCR and CSUF was evident in the Titans’ play and was thought to be their downfall.
Even after suffering the losses to UCR, the Titans stand in a three-way tie for first place with Cal Poly and UCR.
Prior to conference play, the Titans had a rough start with a long and torturous 14-game los-ing streak that they broke against the Texas Longhorns at Anderson Family Field in the Judi Garman Classic on March 19.
“We need to work on cutting out bad innings because as we saw this past weekend, against UCR, one bad inning can lose a game,” Cervantes said.
The team’s rise to success from what some would call a slump, is no surprise to junior first base K.C. Craddick.
“I am not surprised at all. We are tied for first place because I knew this team was going to have a turn-ing-point this season and that game was against Texas,” Craddick said. “We are just as good, if not better, than any other team in our confer-ence.”
The Titans are determined to con-tinue their success and remain num-ber one in the Big West with con-stant and vigorous preparation.
“We are planning on (junior) Anna Cahn and (freshman) Re-becca Patton to pitch (for Cal Poly this weekend),” Gromacki said. “We want to get ready for that and strate-gically pitch to a few of their bigger hitters. We talked about our mission to get back on sticking with the pro-cess and what was working for us the week before we played UCR.”
The Mustangs took on the High-landers on April 2 and 3. The Mus-tangs also fell victim to the High-
landers in a 2-1 series loss. The Mustangs only scored a total of three runs against UCR and allowed 18 runs total.
“Our focus right now is to stay in the present moment and focus on Cal Poly, no one else,” Craddick said. “UCSB and UCR are a series that we all have forgotten now. We are going into this series with clear and focused minds.”
A determined, dedicated and ready Titan squad is anxious for the Cal Poly series.
“I feel motivated to get the first win, start the series off right,” red-shirt freshman pitcher Katey Laban said. “We have no other option.”
The series against the Mustangs kicks off April 17 at noon at Cam-pus Diamond.
“Coach has really motivated us to focus on SLO and to let go of all the other series in the past,” Craddick said.
Junior second baseman Natalie DeLeese sprints to first base against UC Riverside.photo By christa connelly/daily titan photo editor
Senior catcher Billy Marcoe looks to the dugout for signals from the coaching staff.photo By david munoz/For the daily titan
