VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN Monday April 13, 2015 Volume 97 Issue 37 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Begovich Gallery hosts Faculty Show 2015 Voting rights suit filed against City of Fullerton News A&E 2 4 Hip-hop culture highlighted during inagural symposium Baseball captures UC Davis series SFAC discusses commencement fee The Titans win the rubber match 13-3 to secure the set MATT CORKILL Daily Titan Cal State Fullerton base- ball’s offense was too much for the UC Davis Aggies as the Titans earned a 2-1 week- end series victory at Dobbins Stadium. On Friday, Fullerton (19-15 overall, 6-3 Big West) had its three-game winning streak snapped in a 3-2 loss to the Aggies (20-13-1 overall, 4-5 Big West), allowing UC Da- vis their first home victo- ry in 16 attempts against the Titans. Junior starter Thomas Es- helman picked up the loss despite only allowing three earned runs on eight hits in his complete-game effort. Eshelman recorded only two strikeouts, but issued zero walks in his second complete game of the season. The Aggies took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second when Austin March led the inning off with a sin- gle before being advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and brought home on the RBI-single to left by Spencer Henderson. UC Davis added some in- surance in the bottom of the fifth when they sent seven batters to the plate and scored twice to make it 3-0 in their favor. The Titans began to chip into the Aggies’ lead in the top of the sixth and seventh with a pair of RBI singles off the bat of junior outfielder Dustin Vaught to make it 3-2, but the rally was cut short with the bases loaded in the seventh, ending the threat. Offensively, the Titans were led by Vaught, who ex- tended his hitting streak to five games and went 2-for- 5 with two RBIs. Junior Ty- ler Stieb also stood out, go- ing 3-for-4 and collecting his 10th multi-hit game of the season. On Saturday, the Titan of- fense came back to life as the team exploded for 10 runs on 14 hits to even the series in a 10-6 victory over the Aggies. CSUF jumped out to a 2-0 lead thanks to three consecu- tive singles by Vaught, junior Josh Vargas and sophomore Josh Estill. Estill brought Vaught home and junior Da- vid Olmedo-Barrera hit a double to plate Vargas be- fore the first out was even recorded. Freshman Scott Hurst brought in Estill on an RBI-groundout to second to make it 3-0. The Aggies responded with three of their own in the bottom of the first. Fullerton junior starter Justin Garza al- lowed a single, two doubles and a triple en route to Davis tying it up 3-3. The tie was short lived, as the top of the Titan or- der came through again in the second inning. Vaught and Vargas both collected two-out singles before Estill crushed a 3-run homer to left field on a 2-2 pitch, allowing the Titans to take a 6-3 lead. SEE BASEBALL 8 Yung Stooey performs duirng the rap competition at the inaugural hip-hop symposium. Hip-hop culture was highlighted throughout the symposium through musical and dance demonstrations and discussions. AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN SEE HIP-HOP 3 Possible graduation fee assistance and an increas- ing number of expired web pages were some of the items addressed Thursday at the final Student Fee Advisory Committee meet- ing of the semester. The committee, respon- sible for overseeing the use of student fees and approv- ing proposed new fees, not- ed that there was confusion about the graduation fee. Victor Rojas, vice pres- ident for student affairs, presented a report to the committee on his findings regarding the $115 gradua- tion fee charged to gradu- ating seniors when they ap- ply for graduation. Rojas said he inquired with several universities to find a way to trim the price tag. “Again, it’s just us try- ing to better serve our stu- dents,” Rojas said after the meeting. “We know that times are tough and we’re just trying to alleviate as many stresses as we can.” The $115 students are charged for commence- ment presents an issue for students, said committee co-chair Berenecea John- son Eanes, vice president for Student Affairs. There is also a general concern regarding how students be- come aware of what they’re being charged, she said. Only $15 of the $115 fee was dedicated to “ed- ucational services,” Rojas said, and therefore only that portion could poten- tially be covered by finan- cial aid. “We haven’t had any complaints, per se,” Ro- jas said. “It’s just students don’t necessarily have all the information or they don’t know exactly where to find the information. It’s us trying to provide as much information to students as possible.” Whether that $15 will be covered by financial aid will be a consideration for next year’s committee, Ro- jas said. Members discuss possibility of aid for graduation fee DREW CAMPA Daily Titan Members meet during a previous Student Fee Advisory Committee meeting. During the committee’s final meeting of the semester Thursday, the committee discussed the complexity of commencement fees and the issue it poses for students. MARISELA GOMEZ / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO SEE SFAC 2
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Monday April 13, 2015 Volume 97 Issue 37The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton
Begovich Gallery hosts Faculty Show 2015
Voting rights suit filed against City of Fullerton
News A&E2 4
Hip-hop culture highlighted during inagural symposium
Baseball captures UC Davis series
SFAC discusses commencement fee
The Titans win the rubber match 13-3 to secure the set
MATT CORKILLDaily Titan
Cal State Fullerton base-ball’s offense was too much for the UC Davis Aggies as the Titans earned a 2-1 week-end series victory at Dobbins Stadium.
On Friday, Fullerton (19-15 overall, 6-3 Big West) had its three-game winning streak snapped in a 3-2 loss to the Aggies (20-13-1 overall, 4-5 Big West), allowing UC Da-vis their first home victo-ry in 16 attempts against the Titans.
Junior starter Thomas Es-helman picked up the loss despite only allowing three earned runs on eight hits in his complete-game effort. Eshelman recorded only two strikeouts, but issued zero walks in his second complete game of the season.
The Aggies took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second when Austin March led the inning off with a sin-gle before being advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt and brought home on the RBI-single to left by Spencer Henderson.
UC Davis added some in-surance in the bottom of the fifth when they sent seven batters to the plate and scored twice to make it 3-0 in their favor.
The Titans began to chip into the Aggies’ lead in the top of the sixth and seventh with a pair of RBI singles off the bat of junior outfielder Dustin Vaught to make it 3-2, but the rally was cut short with the bases loaded in the seventh, ending the threat.
Offensively, the Titans were led by Vaught, who ex-tended his hitting streak to five games and went 2-for-5 with two RBIs. Junior Ty-ler Stieb also stood out, go-ing 3-for-4 and collecting his 10th multi-hit game of the season.
On Saturday, the Titan of-fense came back to life as the team exploded for 10 runs on 14 hits to even the series in a 10-6 victory over the Aggies.
CSUF jumped out to a 2-0 lead thanks to three consecu-tive singles by Vaught, junior Josh Vargas and sophomore Josh Estill. Estill brought Vaught home and junior Da-vid Olmedo-Barrera hit a double to plate Vargas be-fore the first out was even recorded. Freshman Scott Hurst brought in Estill on an RBI-groundout to second to make it 3-0.
The Aggies responded with three of their own in the bottom of the first. Fullerton junior starter Justin Garza al-lowed a single, two doubles and a triple en route to Davis tying it up 3-3.
The tie was short lived, as the top of the Titan or-der came through again in the second inning. Vaught and Vargas both collected two-out singles before Estill crushed a 3-run homer to left field on a 2-2 pitch, allowing the Titans to take a 6-3 lead.
SEE BASEBALL 8
Yung Stooey performs duirng the rap competition at the inaugural hip-hop symposium. Hip-hop culture was highlighted throughout the symposium through musical and dance demonstrations and discussions.
AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN
SEE HIP-HOP 3
Possible graduation fee assistance and an increas-ing number of expired web pages were some of the items addressed Thursday at the final Student Fee Advisory Committee meet-ing of the semester.
The committee, respon-sible for overseeing the use of student fees and approv-ing proposed new fees, not-ed that there was confusion about the graduation fee.
Victor Rojas, vice pres-ident for student affairs, presented a report to the committee on his findings regarding the $115 gradua-tion fee charged to gradu-ating seniors when they ap-ply for graduation.
Rojas said he inquired with several universities to find a way to trim the price tag.
“Again, it’s just us try-ing to better serve our stu-dents,” Rojas said after the meeting. “We know that times are tough and we’re just trying to alleviate as many stresses as we can.”
The $115 students are charged for commence-ment presents an issue for
students, said committee co-chair Berenecea John-son Eanes, vice president for Student Affairs. There is also a general concern regarding how students be-come aware of what they’re being charged, she said.
Only $15 of the $115 fee was dedicated to “ed-ucational services,” Rojas said, and therefore only that portion could poten-tially be covered by finan-cial aid.
“We haven’t had any
complaints, per se,” Ro-jas said. “It’s just students don’t necessarily have all the information or they don’t know exactly where to find the information. It’s us trying to provide as much information to
students as possible.” Whether that $15 will be
covered by financial aid will be a consideration for next year’s committee, Ro-jas said.
Members discuss possibility of aid for graduation fee
DREW CAMPADaily Titan
Members meet during a previous Student Fee Advisory Committee meeting. During the committee’s final meeting of the semester Thursday, the committee discussed the complexity of commencement fees and the issue it poses for students.
MARISELA GOMEZ / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO
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Clinton announces 2016 run
Man to be arraigned for assault
Spieth wins 2015 Masters
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her can-didacy for president Sunday, the New York Times reported.
The announcement established Clinton as a possible 2016 Dem-ocratic nominee, who already seems to be well-supported among the party members.
According to a CBS News poll conducted in February, 81 per-cent of Democrats consider voting for her.
This could be the first time a woman is chosen as a major party’s nominee.
The central theme of Clinton’s campaign, which will kick off next month in Iowa, will be improvement of the economic fortunes of the middle class by increasing wages and reducing income inequality.
A Texas man will be arraigned Monday for entering a Santa Ana home and sexu-ally assaulting an un-der aged girl while she was asleep, according to the Orange Coun-ty District Attorney’s office.
Dustin Lee Mor-gan, 36, is accused of pushing the victim’s face down after she woke up and covering her mouth to prevent her from making any noise.
DNA analysis of evi-dence recovered from crime scene linked Morgan to the crime.
His charges include one felony count of performing lewd acts upon a child under 14 years old, and one fel-ony count of sexual penetration of a child under 10 years old.
Twent y-one -year-old Jordan Spieth won the 2015 Masters Tournament Sunday, the second young-est player to win the green jacket since Ti-ger Woods in 1997, CNN reported.
He reached 19-un-der par after sink-ing his 28th birdie at the 15th hole, the first player to accomplish this at the Masters.
His bogey at the end of the round tied him with Tiger Woods’ mark in 1997.
Spieth finished four ahead of Justin Rose and Phil Mickelson, who took home sec-ond place.
Woods, who has dropped out of the international top 100 rankings, tied for 17th by carding a six-under par for the tournament.
“That’s the follow-up that will have to be done,” he said. “Again, these are things that we’re going to also have to look into in terms of which direction the committee wants to go.”
A web search for Cal State Fullerton’s Student Fee Advisory Committee, Bath said, brings up out-dated search results, in-cluding a years-old com-mittee roster.
Sean Walker, chair of the academic senate, noted
that the school has many old web pages that com-monly pop up along with the current pages due to poor indexing that lacked
search optimization.Johnson Eanes respond-
ed by saying that if all the files were properly ar-chived, “then we should do all we can to delete.”
The final portion of the meeting served as a pass-ing of the baton from Bath to current Associated Stu-dents Vice President Mi-chael Badal, who will be the new co-chair in the fall.
Badal was elected as As-sociated Students president this semester and will car-ry out his term during the 2015-2016 academic year.
A Fullerton resident filed a lawsuit in March that alleges the city’s at-large voting system de-nies Asian-Americans fair representation on the city council.
Jonathan Paik accuses the city of violating the Califor-nia Voting Rights Act and is seeking a court injunction to halt Fullerton’s at-large vot-ing system. The American Civil Liberties Union are representing Paik in court.
“At-large election systems often shut out members of a minority,” said Brendan Hamme, an ACLU attorney working on the case. The last time an Asian-Amer-ican served on the coun-cil was in the mid 1990s, Hamme said. Only two have
ever served on the council since the city’s formation in the late 1800s.
The California Voting Rights act of 2001, which was amended in early 2014, declares at-large elections unlawful if they deny a group of people the ability to influence the outcome of elections.
Nearly 23 percent of the Fullerton population is Asian-American, accord-ing the 2010 census re-ports. Most of the city’s Asian-American residents reside in the northwest part of the city.
Fullerton is one of the largest cities in California that uses the at-large voting system, Hamme said.
The complaint alleges that the choices of Asian-Ameri-can voters in Fullerton are “overwhelmed by the racial polarization of the vote,” and that the city’s large-ly white majority popula-tion diminished the effect Asian-American votes have in elections.
Although the complaint is seeking unspecified al-ternative methods of relief, Hamme said, their goal is to move toward district-based elections.
“We’re keeping all of our options on the table and looking at what’s best for Fullerton,” he said.
The complaint also in-cludes allegations that dis-crimination against the Asian-American communi-ty surfaced in the election politics in 1996 when Julie Sa, the last Asian-American to serve on the council, was repeatedly questioned by residents about her citizen-ship status during council meetings.
“To put it in English that you will all understand, es-pecially you Ms. Sa: You no sleep here, you no be on council,” a resident said at a council meeting in 1996, ac-cording to the complaint.
The race for the 65th as-sembly district last year, which includes Fuller-ton, also had some racist
underpinnings, the com-plaint claims. Young Kim’s opponent Sharon-Quirk Sil-va allegedly distributed fli-ers during her campaign that read “Not One of Us” next to Kim’s photo.
Kim went on to win the race by over 13 percentage points.
The Fullerton case draws parallels to a case brought against Anaheim early last year. The 2010 census re-port indicates nearly 53 per-cent of Anaheim citizens are Hispanic.
The ACLU represented the Hispanic population of Anaheim in court and was able to give voters an option to choose district elections on their ballots last year, which the voters approved.
Anaheim settled with the ACLU after the city spent $1.2 million in attor-ney fees for their defense in court. Anaheim will use dis-trict-based elections in 2016 for the first time.
Although the city of Ful-lerton has not commented
on the case, Hamme said his group is in on-going talks with the city.
“We think that Fullerton can follow Anaheim’s lead and follow their system,” he said.
Voting rights suit filedSuit claims Fullerton’s at-large voting system is discriminatory
SPENCER CUSTODIODaily Titan
Alleges• At-large voting
discriminates against Fullerton’s Asian-American population
• There was evidence of discrimination during the 1996 city council election
Filed• March 18
Voting Rights Suit
SFAC: Committee discusses web pages
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Hip-hop: Music culture highlighted
Elaine Richardson, Ph.D., an Ohio State University professor in the College of Education and Human Ecology, opened the keynote at Friday’s hip-hop symposium with a personal song. During her speech, Richardson addressed topics of gender, race, economic status and their role in today’s society.
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Ashaki Jackson, Ph.D., gives her presentation “Girls and Gangs” during a breakout session. AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN
Javlin performs on stage with Lil Boozie and Garrett Dibene, all winners of the “No Beats, Just Bars” rap contest. The winners recorded a demo with Richland Records.
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Members of CF Dance Academy, a dance school that provides dance classes and performance-based dance programs, opened the symposium with a dance performance and presentation.
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Scott Samels, CEO of Richland Records, discussed his journey and career, and hoped to encourage students aspiring to a career in the hip-hop industry.
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Students win big at ASIP film festival
Faculty shares art in Begovich
The Visual Arts depart-ment at Cal State Fullerton hosted Faculty Show 2015 on Saturday in the Begovich Gallery.
This event takes place ev-ery three years and is an op-portunity for full time fac-ulty members in the Visual Arts department to show-case their work to faculty, students and alumni. This year, 28 of the 30 full-time visual arts faculty members took part in the show.
The exhibition featured animation character studies, oil paintings, watercolors, glass, ceramics, drawings, graphic design, kinetic art work, videos and cast glass sculpture.
There was a steady flow of attendees throughout the night with approximately 400 people who visited the event, chair of the Depart-ment of Visual Arts Jade Jewett said.
The exhibition is also a great opportunity for the students, Jewett said. It gives them the opportu-nity to see creative works that their professors have put their passion, time and energy into creating when they are not helping their students.
Professor and director of the Begovich Gallery, Mike McGee, said he enjoyed the
show’s quality, range and diversity.
The visual arts depart-ment offers a variety of different studies, but right now the two current areas with the most students en-rolled is entertainment arts and graphic design, McGee said.
While Faculty Show 2015 was the main focus of the evening, there were also student exhibitions on dis-play. One was in the Mar-ilyn & Cline Duff Gallery right next to Faculty Show 2015 called Getting to Know You, which follows a chain of events that unfolds for a fictional character as
viewers walk through the room.
The exhibition shows themes of order and cha-os in life, said Marta Pena, a senior Bachelors of Fine Arts drawings and painting major.
The last exhibition of the night was right outside of the Begovich Gallery ti-tled Art Bombing. A group of students dressed in all black held visual displays on things like signs, laptops and tablets that had artistic messages on them.
The Faculty Show 2015 offers pieces that anyone can enjoy and will be on display through May 16.
Faculty Show 2015 draws crowd to Begovich Gallery
ANTHONY ELISEOFor the Daily Titan
Faculty Show 2015 opened in the Begovich Gallery on Saturday. Twenty-eight full time faculty members from the visual arts department have their work on display. The opening reception drew a crowd of approximately 400 visitors looking to see the diverse range of art work.
AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN
Excitement and antici-pation filled the air as the Associated Students, Inc. Productions Student Film Festival began Thursday in the Titan Theater.
Nine short films cre-ated by Cal State Fuller-ton students were shown at the festival, and audience members participated in an exciting game of “Film Trivia Crack.”
Alana Polce, a 22-year-old public relations major and Associated Students, Inc. Productions Films Co-ordinator, was in charge of the festival.
“The hardest part is try-ing to plan everything in advance,” Polce said.
Prizes were given out to winners of the Film Trivia Crack, however, the biggest prize of the night was a new GoPro Hero 4 given to the winner of the festival.
All of the filmmakers sat in anticipation as they wait-ed for Polce to announce the winners. Second place went to Arthur Garcia for his film USA Today Part I.
The coveted Associat-ed Students Productions Student Film Festival first place title went to 23-year-old communications ma-jor and Daily Titan staff writer, Alex Fairbanks for his documentary titled Mr. Noraebang.
The documentary was shot in Korea while Fair-banks studied abroad at the Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts. The film features a man impoverished during his childhood who worked his way to personal success through building two busi-nesses; a Korean karaoke bar and a farm. Fairbanks worked with two other stu-dents on the project, includ-ing RTVF major Shelby Shreck.
There were some unique obstacles in making the film, Fairbanks said.
“Shelby and I had to think of questions to ask
him. About his life and stuff and we had to get that transcribed (into Korean),” Fairbanks said. “Then we got his Korean (answers) back and we had to get his Korean transcribed (into
English). Once we got all the interviews, Shelby and I had to sit down and edit the film, but we didn’t know what he’s saying.”
Overall the festival was a success and kept the audience
entertained and happy. Freshman Allison Dove, 18,
attended the festival with her friends and enjoyed the atmo-sphere of the festival.
“Everyone was cheer-ing each other on ... and in
a sense we were being just good peers and good Ti-tans to each other,” Dove said. “It was overall a real-ly good night. Really good films. I was just really hap-py I went.”
Titan Theater hosts ASIP Student Film Festival Thursday
RYLEIGH ESCOBOZAFor the Daily Titan
Communications major Alex Fairbanks was the winner of the Associated Students, Inc. Productions Student Film Festival on Thursday. Fairbanks won the first place title and a GoPro Hero 4 for his documentary Mr. Noraebang.
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ALLISON DOVEFilm Festival Attendant
Everyone was cheering each other on ... and in a sense we were being just good peers and good Titans to each other.
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Farming is a burden for Californians
The NFL needs to pay their share
Gov. Brown’s latest exec-utive order asks California residents to cut their wa-ter use by 25 percent—al-though an important first step, it fails to meet the true culprit of excessive water use in the state.
Green lawns in a drought-stricken state are making matters worse, but are ultimately a drop in the bucket when we recognize the water consumed by the meat and dairy industry.
The meat and dairy in-dustry consumes 47 per-cent of California’s total water through the direct supply of water to cattle and through the water use of various crops to feed cattle, according to a study by the Pacific Institute.
This same study found that only four percent of the total water supply was used by Californians.
Brown’s intentions are good, but the impact of his executive order will hardly be noticed by our ravenous cattle.
Brown’s decree followed a relatively dry winter that has threatened reservoir levels across the state, but without dramatic changes to our dairy and cattle in-dustry, these reservoirs are doomed.
Perhaps most perplex-ing, is why the California government has chosen to ignore this glaring prob-lem in the face of increas-ing global competition for dairy and cattle.
The total value of Cal-ifornian dairy, cattle and supporting hay industries in 2012 stood at a little less than $12 billion, compris-ing 27 percent of our total agricultural profits and a scant 0.6 percent of Cal-ifornia’s $1.959 trillion GDP in 2012, according to the USDA.
As new consumer mar-kets emerge in China, Sau-di Arabia, Japan and else-where, global dairy and cattle production is on the rise.
This, coupled with an easing of the dairy produc-tion cap in Europe, suggests the price of dairy and cat-tle products may plummet as these products become more available.
California’s dairy indus-try is no stranger to poach-ing either—more than 500 dairies have moved east to states like Montana and Wis-consin, where water flows in surplus.
Yet even with dairies mov-ing out of California, we re-main the top supplier of dairy products in the United States, but we can’t afford to do so anymore.
It is time to pass the torch of dairy and cattle production to other states not encum-bered by drought; to realize the shrinking profitability of cattle and move on to other proven successful agricultur-al products.
California’s vineyards are some of the most profitable in the world, and its almond farms make up about 80 per-cent of the global source of commercial almonds.
Fruits and nuts also con-sume water in significant numbers, but the dollar return per gallon is equally signif-icant, unlike our most com-monly grown crop, alfalfa.
Alfalfa requires 1.5 mil-lion gallons of water per acre, per year, far more than any other crop, and was sown across 900,000
acres in 2013 which result-ed in a yearly water usage of 1.35 trillion gallons.
The price of alfalfa is dropping as more states become involved in its growth, at around $200 per ton in states east of the rockies.
Yet California’s alfalfa costs $300 per ton.
The cause of this is due to the ever increasing drought in California, coupled by a strong demand for cattle feed in China and a trade deficit with the country that
makes it cheaper to ship hay on a boat back to China than it would be to sell the crop a few counties over.
This has driven greedy farmers into a sort of arms race for the last of Califor-nia’s groundwater to see who can turn a massive profit before all the water dries up.
But as we‘ve seen in the past, it’ll be Californians who will suffer most from the drought.
There are communi-ties in areas hardest hit
by drought that have been without running water for months, requiring a week-ly delivery of water to stay alive.
This number will only increase as the reservoirs dry up.
In the age of increas-ingly volatile weather, we must plan for a drought that could last a decade or more.
A cumbersome and glut-tonous dairy and cattle in-dustry has no place in Cali-fornia’s sustainable future.
The dairy industry is exhausting the state’s water resources
MATTHEW HADDIXDaily Titan
California cannot afford to continue expending the already parched water resources given the severe drought the state is experiencing. The dairy and cattle industry needs to be held accountable for water usage, not just California residents.
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The National Football League is the most popular and highest grossing sports franchise in the country.
The NFL is also a non-profit organization and that has to be changed.
Nonprofit status does not apply to the entire league, just the league office, which acts as a trade association for the NFL.
This trade association sta-tus allows the league office to be considered a nonprof-it, recognized as a 501(c)(6) organization by Congress.
The league office is ex-empt from paying federal income tax. Congress re-vised the tax code to specif-ically include “professional football leagues.”
The NFL makes about $10 billion annually, accord-ing to CNN. Roger Good-ell, the commissioner of the league, expects the league to make $25 billion by 2027.
This is undoubtedly an immense profit making venture. All revenue gen-erated by the NFL is said to be taxed through the 32 teams.
Although the situation gets confusing because ev-ery dollar earned from NFL teams, such as game tickets, television rights fees and jersey sales are taxed. So even though the league of-fice is exempt, the teams are not.
The teams pay taxes on broadcast deals, which are set up by the office, and the league’s for-profit NFL Ventures. Ventures warrant
team logos, trademarks and any other intellectual prop-erty for the teams.
But the issue lies with the fact that teams then give money to the league office for annual dues and assess-ments, which is not taxed.
Other professional sports leagues, such as the Nation-al Hockey League and the Professional Golf Associ-ation, also operate as non-profit organizations.
This is just unacceptable. With such a revenue gener-ating business like sports franchises, loopholes need to be closed and every facet of these corporations need to pay their fair share.
Sen. Tom Coburn has asked to eradicate the tax exemption and proposed the Property Reducing Over Ex-ceptions, or PRO, Sports Act. The bill is in limbo, ly-ing with the Senate Finance Committee.
Sen. Cory Booker intro-duced a bill, asking the tax money be used towards do-mestic violence awareness efforts.
These legislative efforts are a great start, but there needs to be more transpar-ency and reform in the busi-ness of sports leagues.
It seems the NFL league office will try to remain ex-empt from taxes for a long time, granted its power-ful position in Washington, D.C.
The league has strong lobbyists and is reported-ly employing 20 lobby-ists last year and spending over $1 million to influence lawmakers, according to CNN.
It’s offensive to think sports franchises have the audacity to label themselves as nonprofits, putting them in the same league as actu-al, hardworking nonprofit
organizations that are doing good for the world.
Nonprofit status should not be granted to an orga-nization that collects bil-lions in annual revenue and chooses to pay its executives tens of millions of dollars.
These corporations need to pay their dues like any other honest business ven-ture in the United States.
They are the last ones who should be given any special exemptions.
Allowing sports franchises to be tax-exempt is wrong
JUSTIN PATUANODaily Titan
CNBC reports: • Football in America
makes about $10 billion annually.
• Commissioner Roger Goodell made over $44 million in 2014.
• The NFL had $833,596,196 in secured mortgages and notes payable to unrelated third parties in 2012.
U.S. News reports: • The league office
holds nonprofit status because it’s labeled as a trade association.
• The revenue earned by NFL teams are taxed, but the annual fees and assessments they pay to the league office are not.
Franchise Stats
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Track stifled at Big West Challenge
Women’s tennis honors seniors with win
The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team sent their seniors out in style with a 6-1 victory over UC Riv-erside on Friday at the Titan Courts.
The Titans celebrated Se-nior Day by honoring the ca-reers of Megan Sandford, Ka-lika Slevcove, Jessica Pepa and Devyn Billingsley.
Fullerton (10-11 overall, 2-6 Big West) started out strong in doubles play with a sweep of Riverside (4-14 overall, 0-5 Big West) for the crucial doubles point.
The No. 1 CSUF pair of Sandford and sophomore Ca-mille De Leon easily han-dled the top Riverside team of Chloe Pham and Tamilla Vaksman 8-2.
The Titan duo of
sophomore Alexis Valenzuela and freshman Danielle Pham dominated Highlanders Karla Dulay and Kassie Truong by shutting them out 8-0 in the No. 2 slot.
Slevcove and redshirt soph-omore Emilia Borkowski continued to be a beacon of consistency for the Titans in the No. 3 doubles spot. They improved their doubles record to 13-8 on the season with an 8-5 victory over Court-ney Pattugalan and Caroline Hall.
The dominant doubles play carried over into singles ac-tion, where the Titans took five of the six singles points.
Slotting in the No. 1 spot for the Titans was De Leon, who was filling in for Valenzuela. De Leon stepped up in the absence of Valenzu-ela and downed Chloe Pham in straight sets 6-2, 6-4.
Sandford followed up De Leon’s straight-set victory with one of her own in the No. 2 matchup. Sandford eas-ily dispatched Pattugalan for a 6-2, 6-2 win.
Fullerton’s Pham faced Dulay for a second time that day, and once again came out on top. She edged out Dulay 6-4 in the first set before Du-lay was forced to concede the match at 3-0 in the second set.
Pepa played in the No. 4 slot, the highest she has com-peted in this season, and stood her ground well. The Chula Vista native was close to shutting out Riverside’s Hall, but will still be happy with her 6-1, 6-0 victory.
CSUF’s Michelle Erasmus’ No. 5 singles bout against Vaksman was the last match of the day. The freshman from South Africa had the chance to complete the 7-0
sweep of the Highlanders, but was unable to secure the win and fell 6-4, 7-5 (10-6).
Slevcove rounded out sin-gles play against Sophie El-Kara in the No. 6 spot.
Slevcove continued the straight-set victory trend by cruising to a 6-2, 6-2 win.
With the win, the Titans clinched the No. 7 seed for the Big West Championships
and will carry a hint of mo-mentum after winning two of their past three matches. The four-day tournament is set to begin April 23 at Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
The Titans clinched the 7th seed with the 6-1 victory over UCR
TAMEEM SERAJDaily Titan
Senior Megan Sandford (right) high fives teammate Camille De Leon during a doubles match. The Titans celebrated Senior Day on Friday with a 6-1 drubbing of UC Riverside at the Titan Courts.
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Cal State Fullerton’s track and field team laced up its running shoes to compete at home for the last time this season during the 23rd an-nual Big West Challenge last Friday.
Although the Titans scored 17 top-five finish-es during their last meet, they lost the fight for a first-place finish this time around against rival Long Beach, who beat out the competition on both the men and wom-en’s side.
The meet began with the hammer throw. where Cal State Fullerton junior Jessi-ca Flores took second for the women with a throw of 180 feet, 1 inch, two feet behind the 49ers’ Marina Shelton.
The results for the men were similar, with Long Beach senior Kody Robison taking first with a throw of 205 feet, 6 inches. Titan ju-nior Steven Parsons took fourth place with a mark of 180 feet, 5 inches.
Next, senior Daniel Walk-er took fifth in the men’s jav-elin throw with a toss of 175 feet, 7 inches, while Long Beach captured second, third and fourth place.
The long jump fared no different with Long Beach taking first and Fullerton fifth for the men. On the women’s side, Long Beach was in first again, but the Titans occupied the third through sixth places.
For the pole vault, Fuller-ton’s men came in last place, while Long Beach swept the competition by scoring first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth. For the women, Long Beach again swept the com-petition, taking first through fifth places, with Fullerton tied for fifth place.
Long Beach’s men scored first and third places in the shot put, while Titan fresh-man Trevor Gorwin came in fourth at 52 feet, 7.25 inches. For the women, Long Beach again scored first and third.
Fullerton sophomore Ma-lik Johnson and senior Ste-ven Williams jumped 6 feet, 8.75 inches in the high jump, finally snagging a first and second place spot for the Titans and pushing Long Beach back to fifth and sixth.
Sophomore Ty’Jalayah Robertson took second for the women with a jump of 5 feet and five inches, while senior Taylor Frank followed her in third place with 5 feet, 3 inches.
For the first running event of the meet, Long Beach took first in the 400-meter run for the women, hold-ing the precedent set by its field even team earlier in the meet. For the men, the 49ers captured first; the Titans fol-lowed behind, finishing over
two seconds later at 42.70 seconds, taking second place.
Sophomore David Ramirez finished in third place at 9:24.3 seconds for the men’s 3000-meter stee-plechase, scoring one of the few top-five finishes for the Titans.
Senior Tejera Dial also scored a top-five finish for the Titans, coming in third at 4:36.84 seconds for the women’s 1500-meter run, trailing second-place Long Beach by under a second.
Freshman Tyler Hardge came in third for the wom-en’s 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.13 seconds, while Frank finished in fourth at 14.63 seconds.
Fullerton sprinters Tay-lor Ros and Joshua Gor-don fought to score first and second place, finishing the 400-meter dash with times of 48.01 and 48.05 seconds, respectively.
These top finishes were followed by another
first-place victory for the Ti-tans, with sophomore Jan-aya Shorty coming in first place in the 100-meter dash at 11.79 seconds.
In the 100-meter dash, Cameron Glasgow scored yet another first place spot for Long Beach’s men, while Titan senior Nick Sole fin-ished in second with a time of 10.69 seconds, just .19 seconds behind Glasgow.
After back-to-back top-two finishes, it looked as though the competition was about to fall into Fuller-ton’s favor; however, keeping Long Beach out of the first and second place spot was a short-lived victory.
The 49ers next scored sec-ond place in the women’s 800-meter run, leaving the Titans’ Dial to fall to third with a time of 2:11.87 sec-onds, less than a full sec-ond behind Long Beach. The 49ers took second place in the men’s 800-meter run as well, with the Titans again finishing in third, less than a
second behind.Hardge sprinted to a first
place finish in the women’s 400-meter hurdles with a time of 61.58 seconds. For the men, Long Beach again took first place, leaving Ful-lerton junior Nick Reynolds to snag second place with a time of 53.03 seconds.
Shorty sprinted to first in the women’s 200-meter dash for the Titans with a time of 23.79 seconds. Senior Mor-gan Thompson came in third at 24.93 seconds. Although Long Beach scored first place for the men, Fullerton’s Gordon, Sole and Mason Rollins fought hard to finish in second, third and fourth place, respectively.
The Titans fought for the top-scoring spots, but ul-timately Long Beach kept them out of the first and sec-ond place finishes.
The Titans next travel to Azusa for the California In-vitational Combined Events, which takes place all day Wednesday and Thursday.
The Titans’ stellar efforts were quelled by Long Beach 49ers
KATELYNN DAVENPORTDaily Titan
The Cal State Fullerton track and field team hosted the Big West Challenge over the weekend. The Titans competed well, posting several top finishes, but were outshined by rival Long Beach State. The 49ers would go on to take both the men’s and women’s title. The Big West Challenge was the last home meet for the Titans. Fullerton will next compete at the California Invitational Combined Events.
MATT CORKILL / DAILY TITAN FILE PHOTO
After finishing strong with a season-best finish at the Redhawk Invitational in Washington, the Titans headed into the El Macero Classic holding steady on their streak.
Playing the third round on Sunday, CSUF finished in seventh place with a score of 16-over 304, to-taling 35-over 899 for the tournament.
UC Davis took home the team prize, scoring a 1-over 865, while Mar-quette and Sacramento State both tied with 11-over 875.
UC Davis’ Luke Vivolo captured the individual ti-tle, shooting a 1-over 72.
The first round saw
junior Marcus Merca-do-Kiel shooting an even-par 72 with two birdies and two bogeys. Senior Ryan Tetrault carded a 2-over 74, while sophomores Matt Murphy and Kyle De Silva both scored a 4-over 76.
The Titans held steady, finishing in seventh place after the first round and posting a score of 9-over 297. They trailed leaders UC Davis and Marquette, who both finished with a 7-under 281.
Day two of the tourna-ment saw the Titans post-ing a score of 10-over 298, closing round two with a grand total of 19-over 595.
Tetrault scored a team-best 1-under 71, standing at 11th place at the end of the day. Junior Nico Mendoza carded a 3-over 75, land-ing in 21st place, but his second day was officially ruled a zero due to a post-round ruling.
De Silva shot a 1-over 73,
good for 28th place. Mur-phy scored a 7-over 79, placing 51st.
The final day of the tournament saw De Silva climbing 16 spots to fin-ish in 12th place, sinking eight birdies throughout the event. Tetrault joined De Silva in the top-25 standings, placing 24th af-ter shooting a 7-over 79 and finishing with a three-round score of 8-over 224.
Mercado-Kiel carded a
6-over 78, landing in 30th with a final total of 9-over 225. Matt Murphy ended day three shooting a 7-over 79, closing with 18-over 234, placing him in 48th.
Fullerton faltered a bit in this tournament, closing with consecutively high-er stroke counts per round. The Titans will need to find their consistency be-fore they head to the Big West Championships at the San Luis Obispo Country Club starting April 26.
CSUF men’s golf finishes seventh at El Macero ClassicKyle De Silva paced the Titans by carding a 5-over 221 for 12th
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the things you once though you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers
You might believe that you can zip through your day without encountering any problems at all, but it won’t take long for your imagination to run into reality.
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Your previous responsibilities take prece-dence over everything else today, so don’t take on more chores unless it’s absolutely necessary.
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Focusing on relationships is top priority now that the evocative Moon is visiting your 7th House of Partners. The adventurous Sagittarius Moon might inspire you to set lofty goals.
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You start the day believing you can finish ev-erything you start without realizing that the Moon’s short stay in your 6th House of Em-ployment could actually double your workload.
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Your friends may be moving too quickly for your liking today. It’s not that you can’t keep up with them; it’s just that you are bored of engag-ing in clever conversations or trivial pursuits.
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Your optimistic expectations won’t guarantee that people will deliver exactly what you want. It might even be your boss or someone in power that lets you down today.
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A current relationship may hit a speed bump to-day when it becomes apparent that you each want something different. Even if you both talk about compromise, neither of you are in the mood to negotiate
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A coworker’s erratic behavior today may be enough to drive you to the edge of crazy. Although a friend is only trying to offer support, everyone’s solutions are so far off target
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You wish you could set logic aside to chase your dreams, but it’s smarter to use any tools avail-able now to resist the temptation to overreact to every single whim.
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The pursuit of love won’t be very satisfying to-day if an unobtainable goal leads you around like a carrot on a stick.
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You need to socialize today because your con-nections with others nurture your soul. How-ever, previous commitments require so much energy that you might not have enough time to cultivate your friendships..
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Professional demands require logical planning, yet your heart’s wishes could get left out of the equation today.
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The top of the order gave the Titans all the run sup-port they needed.
Vargas went 4-4 with an RBI and three runs scored, while Vaught went 3-for-5 with two runs scored, ex-tending his hitting streak to six games. Estill end-ed 2-for-5 with a homer, four RBIs and two runs scored.
UC Davis cut into the lead with a pair of runs in the bottom of the third and a run in the seventh, but the Titan offense was far too productive to be overcome, scoring a run of their own in each of the fourth, fifth, sixth and sev-enth innings to take the fi-nal 10-6 lead.
On Sunday, the offensive onslaught continued, as the Titans put up 13 runs on 14 hits in their 13-3 win to earn the series victory over the Aggies.
CSUF took another 2-0 lead in the first before the Aggies responded with
three of their own in the bottom of the inning to go up 3-2. The Davis lead, however, would not last long.
The Titans tacked on an-other four runs in the top of the third inning to go up 6-3 and never looked back, adding another sev-en runs over the final half of the game to make the final score 13-3 over the Aggies.
Freshman pitcher John Gavin (5-1) earned the vic-tory after allowing only three earned runs on four hits over five innings while being picked up by his of-fense and bullpen for the remainder of the game.
Hurst led the Titans of-fensively, going 4-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored. Olmedo-Bar-rera went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and three runs scored.
The Titans will look to continue their offensive production Tuesday as they travel to UCLA (25-7 overall, 12-3 Pac-12) for
a one-game stand at Jack-ie Robinson Stadium. First pitch against the Bruins is scheduled for 6 p.m.
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Sophomore first baseman Josh Estill went 2-for 12 in the three-game series against UC Davis, but had a big 3-run homer in Saturday’s 10-6 victory. The Purdue transfer also scored three times.
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Baseball: Titans dominate rubber match
Softball fails to sweep UCR
A defeat Sunday after-noon left the visiting Cal State Fullerton softball team’s bid for a three-game sweep of Big West Con-ference rival UC Riverside short this weekend.
Even so, the Titans notched victories of 12-0 and 3-2 on Saturday to take the series and minimize an 8-1 defeat in Sunday after-noon’s series finale.
With the outcome, the Titans improved to 27-17 overall and 5-4 in confer-ence action and notched their first series victory since similarly taking two of three versus UC San-ta Barbara from March 28-29.
The series against the Highlanders proved anoth-er big weekend for junior Missy Taukeiaho.
The third baseman slammed a homer in each of her team’s victories, while finishing a combined 4-for-10 with five runs bat-ted in, three runs scored and four walks over the three games.
Taukeiaho’s best display came in Saturday’s open-ing contest of the double-header, where she added two hits to the 17-hit effort from the Titans.
In that contest, Taukeia-ho homered, drove in four RBIs and scored one as
Fullerton scored in five of the seven innings, includ-ing five runs in the sev-enth. Also in that game, juniors Courtney Rodri-guez and Samantha Galar-za both drove in two RBIs, while Sarah Moore dou-bled and scored two runs.
Junior first baseman Me-lissa Sechrest also added her first homer of the sea-son in the win as she drove in two RBIs.
Sophomore pitcher Christina Washington got the start in the circle for the Titans. She pitched six scoreless innings while scattering six hits and fan-ning three batters.
About a half hour af-ter the victory, the Titans grinded out a 3-2 win in 12 innings in the second game of the doubleheader.
Taukeiaho was 2-for-4 in the contest and delivered a game-winning homer in the top of the 12th.
In the bottom half of the inning, though, the Ti-tans needed to tap dance out of danger to secure the victory.
The Highlanders placed runners on first and second with no outs after consecu-tive hits from Chelsey Hol-ley and Madeline Richard
against Washington, who came on in relief in the eighth.
After a sacrifice bunt moved each runner over with one out, Washington coaxed a fielder’s choice out at the plate and then a harmless fly out to end the game.
Washington threw five scoreless innings in the win, while allowing only three hits.
Junior Jasmine Antunez got the start for Fuller-ton and had a no deci-sion despite a quality out-ing, in which she allowed
two runs on five hits with six strikeouts over seven innings.
Fullerton started the game with two runs in the first inning, before the Highlanders tied the con-test with a pair of runs in the seventh.
As for Sunday, a close game got away from Ful-lerton as Riverside (32-12 overall, 4-5 Big West) scored five runs in the bot-tom of the sixth in running away to an 8-1 victory.
The Titans fell be-hind 1-0 after the first in-ning, but tied the contest
on a run-scoring single from Galarza that plated Taukeiaho.
Riverside retook the lead with two runs in the fourth before taking over the contest.
Fullerton is back in ac-tion Saturday with rival Long Beach State (18-22 overall, 5-4 Big West) at 1 p.m.
The game is the opener of a three-game series that will resume with a double-header April 22 at Long Beach, starting at 1 p.m. Both games are scheduled to be shown on ESPNU.
The Titans win the series, but drop the Sunday finale 8-1
DREW CAMPADaily Titan
Junior third baseman Missy Taukeiaho takes a hack at a pitch. Taukeiaho batted 4-for-10 in the three-game series with UC Riverside, driving in five runs, drawing four walks and scoring three runs. Two of her hits were home runs, giving her 11 for the year.
