much for the normally in- expensive drug, Brittney decided to get a prescrip- tion of her own. Adderall is an amphet- amine that can result in the release of neurotransmit- ters that activate sensory regions throughout the ner- vous system and cause feel- ings of euphoria, insomnia, increased alertness, and sometimes, anxiety. Brittney recalled, throughout several of her experiences with the drug, feeling each one of these senses at some point. Upon her first try, she got some homework done and cleaned her entire house. Excited from the produc- tive buzz the pill created, she sought after more. “I did it (Adderall) more during my first few years of college,” Brittney said. “College is a hell of a lot more work than high school. High school was a joke.” However, four months ago, Brittney woke up feel- ing helpless. Her to-do list seemed endless. A messy house, errands to run and homework that she did not understand. Completely unmotivated, she slumped out of bed and walked to her medicine cabinet. Brittney quickly removed an Adderall tablet from the bottle. She knew taking it would mean she would be on the “Adderall clock” and she expected to be up for the next 24 hours. After taking a 10-page test and talking to her doc- tor, the appointment reach- es a close. “I can’t focus on anything but the clock that’s hung up on the wall staring back at me, ticking away,” Brittney said to her doctor. “I feel like there is a skeleton in- side my body desperately trying to get out. I’m ant- sy, I can’t focus and before I know it, the class is over and I feel a whelm of anxi- ety come over me because I wasn’t able to retain any information.” e doctor diagnoses Brittney with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disor- der (ADHD) and prescribes her Adderall XR extend- ed-release capsules. e 18-year-old high school senior feels pleased as she leaves the doctor’s office, her prescription, like a freshly won, gold trophy, in hand. However, Brittney, now a senior at Cal State Fuller- ton, does not have ADHD. She made up a story to get the prescription. Before visiting her doc- tor, Brittney’s interest in Adderall began after she heard friends and class- mates talk about how the pill results in increased productivity. Eventually, she bought a pill from a classmate and felt her en- ergy level rise. When a classmate charged Brittney $10 for a pill, she paid it. 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For students of the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, their “coach” is professor and former NBA player Michael Milligan. Since arriving at Cal State Fullerton in 2005, Milligan has provided students with a teaching style that originated from his days as a basketball player. Milligan was drafted to play in the National Bas- ketball Association (NBA) by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983. Although he said his time in the NBA was incomparable to anything he experienced before, it was his high school basketball training that made him the individual he is today. A product of Long Island Lutheran High School in New York, Milligan’s repu- tation among his peers is an impressive one. Milligan said people consider him to be one of the greatest players from New York, but he doesn’t think that. “I consider the fact that I probably had the great- est high school coach to come out of the state of New York,” Milligan said. “So I’m a byproduct of a great coach with a great system.” Milligan said his coach, Rev. Ed Visscher, was an innovative individual who prepared him and his teammates for what was after high school. “The thing that separated us was that all of us were ready to play college basketball when we got to college,” Milli- gan said. “I’m not talking about just being on the team, most of us went to college starting freshman year.” Without noticing it at first, Milligan said he re- alized the lessons and philosophy he learned from Visscher shaped him into the professor he is today. “As a teacher, as a per- son, you measure success by how many people’s lives you touch,” he said. “If God has given me this knowledge and ability, not for me to put a hold and bare, sit on it and so, this is my own belief–that you share it.” As a college student, Mil- ligan would often analyze the teaching style of his professors. His opinion was not about his teachers being right or wrong, but simply preference and that ev- eryone has a way of doing things. “I just kind of said if I ever taught, I would do it this way and say it this way,” Milligan said. “My goal has always been that students should get it.” Over his 10-year career as a professor, Milligan has been able to influence his students. Joshua Jones, 20, was a student in Milligan’s corporate finance class. “He was very straight for- ward,” he said. “It was a tough class, but I learned a lot.” Although Jones does not have Milligan as a professor this semester, he learned a valuable lesson from the course, among other things. Cal State Fullerton finance professor Michael Milligan founded the Applied Securities Analysis Program on campus. AMANDA SHARP / Daily Titan JOHNNY NAVARRETTE Daily Titan Michael Milligan translates his NBA skills to his teaching Since the implementa- tion of Cal State Fullerton’s smoking ban last summer, university officials said the amount of smoking on campus has been “signifi- cantly reduced,” but they acknowledged that there is still more to be done. One unintended con- sequence of the smoking ban and subsequent re- moval of ashtrays around campus seems to be a fair amount of cigarette butt litter in planters, parking lots, outside buildings, on walkways and, ironically enough, near “no smok- ing” signs. e smoking ban pro- hibits smoking in build- ings, parking structures and all outdoor areas owned, leased or rented by the university. But the policy has not put a complete stop to smoking on campus. A casual stroll around the school reveals there are still plenty of people lighting up or taking drags off of their electronic cig- arettes or vaporizer pens, which are also banned by the policy. “ere is still much ed- ucation to be done and additional methods to re- duce and eliminate smok- ing on campus will be re- viewed and discussed as the implementation pro- ceeds,” said Curtis Plotkin, director of Environmen- tal Health and Safety at CSUF. Dean of Students Tonantzin Oseguera, Ph.D., said overall, stu- dents have had a positive reaction to the smoking restrictions. SEE SMOKING, 2 SEE COACH, 5 SEE DRUG, 5 “The 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 15 percent of college students admitted to using some form of psychotherapeutic drugs for non-medical use.”
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much for the normally in-expensive drug, Brittney decided to get a prescrip-tion of her own.
Adderall is an amphet-amine that can result in the release of neurotransmit-ters that activate sensory regions throughout the ner-vous system and cause feel-ings of euphoria, insomnia, increased alertness, and sometimes, anxiety.
Brittney recalled, throughout several of her experiences with the drug, feeling each one of these senses at some point.
Upon her first try, she got some homework done and cleaned her entire house. Excited from the produc-tive buzz the pill created, she sought after more.
“I did it (Adderall) more during my first few years
of college,” Brittney said. “College is a hell of a lot more work than high school. High school was a joke.”
However, four months ago, Brittney woke up feel-ing helpless. Her to-do list seemed endless. A messy house, errands to run and homework that she did not understand.
Completely unmotivated,
she slumped out of bed and walked to her medicine cabinet.
Brittney quickly removed an Adderall tablet from the bottle. She knew taking it would mean she would be on the “Adderall clock” and she expected to be up for the next 24 hours.
After taking a 10-page test and talking to her doc-tor, the appointment reach-es a close.
“I can’t focus on anything but the clock that’s hung up on the wall staring back at me, ticking away,” Brittney said to her doctor. “I feel like there is a skeleton in-side my body desperately trying to get out. I’m ant-sy, I can’t focus and before I know it, the class is over and I feel a whelm of anxi-ety come over me because I wasn’t able to retain any information.”
The doctor diagnoses Brittney with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disor-der (ADHD) and prescribes her Adderall XR extend-ed-release capsules.
The 18-year-old high school senior feels pleased as she leaves the doctor’s office, her prescription, like a freshly won, gold trophy, in hand.
However, Brittney, now a senior at Cal State Fuller-ton, does not have ADHD. She made up a story to get the prescription.
Before visiting her doc-tor, Brittney’s interest in Adderall began after she heard friends and class-mates talk about how the pill results in increased productivity. Eventually, she bought a pill from a classmate and felt her en-ergy level rise.
When a classmate charged Brittney $10 for a pill, she paid it. After hearing that she paid too
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Four percent of students said prescription “study drugs” such as Adderall or Ritalin are among the most popular drugs on the CSUF campus, according to CollegeProwler.com.
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Taking‘thestudydrug’
Smoking reduced but still prevalent
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University officials acknowledge ban still has a way to go
Behind every success-ful team, there is a coach pushing the team to be the best. For students of the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, their “coach” is professor and former NBA player Michael Milligan.
Since arriving at Cal State Fullerton in 2005, Milligan has provided students with a teaching style that originated from his days as a basketball player.
Milligan was drafted to play in the National Bas-ketball Association (NBA) by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983. Although he said his time in the NBA was
incomparable to anything he experienced before, it was his high school basketball training that made him the individual he is today.
A product of Long Island Lutheran High School in New York, Milligan’s repu-tation among his peers is an impressive one.
Milligan said people consider him to be one of the greatest players from New York, but he doesn’t think that.
“I consider the fact that I probably had the great-est high school coach to come out of the state of New York,” Milligan said. “So I’m a byproduct of a great coach with a great system.”
Milligan said his coach, Rev. Ed Visscher, was an innovative individual who prepared him and his teammates for what was after high school.
“The thing that
separated us was that all of us were ready to play college basketball when we got to college,” Milli-gan said. “I’m not talking about just being on the team, most of us went to college starting freshman year.”
Without noticing it at first, Milligan said he re-alized the lessons and philosophy he learned from Visscher shaped him into the professor he is today.
“As a teacher, as a per-son, you measure success by how many people’s lives you touch,” he said. “If God has given me this knowledge and ability, not for me to put a hold and bare, sit on it and so, this is my own belief–that you share it.”
As a college student, Mil-ligan would often analyze the teaching style of his professors.
His opinion was not
about his teachers being right or wrong, but simply preference and that ev-eryone has a way of doing things.
“I just kind of said if I ever taught, I would do it this way and say it this way,” Milligan said. “My goal has always been that students should get it.”
Over his 10-year career as a professor, Milligan has been able to inf luence his students.
Joshua Jones, 20, was a student in Milligan’s corporate finance class. “He was very straight for-ward,” he said. “It was a tough class, but I learned a lot.”
Although Jones does not have Milligan as a professor this semester, he learned a valuable lesson from the course, among other things.
Cal State Fullerton finance professor Michael Milligan founded the Applied Securities Analysis Program on campus.
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Michael Milligan translates his NBA skills to his teaching
Since the implementa-tion of Cal State Fullerton’s smoking ban last summer, university officials said the amount of smoking on campus has been “signifi-cantly reduced,” but they acknowledged that there is still more to be done.
One unintended con-sequence of the smoking ban and subsequent re-moval of ashtrays around campus seems to be a fair amount of cigarette butt litter in planters, parking lots, outside buildings, on walkways and, ironically enough, near “no smok-ing” signs.
The smoking ban pro-hibits smoking in build-ings, parking structures and all outdoor areas owned, leased or rented by the university.
But the policy has not put a complete stop to smoking on campus.
A casual stroll around the school reveals there are still plenty of people lighting up or taking drags off of their electronic cig-arettes or vaporizer pens, which are also banned by the policy.
“There is still much ed-ucation to be done and additional methods to re-duce and eliminate smok-ing on campus will be re-viewed and discussed as the implementation pro-ceeds,” said Curtis Plotkin, director of Environmen-tal Health and Safety at CSUF.
Dean of Students Tonantzin Oseguera, Ph.D., said overall, stu-dents have had a positive reaction to the smoking restrictions.
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SEE COACH, 5
SEE DRUG, 5
“The 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 15 percent of collegestudents admitted to using some form of psychotherapeutic drugs for non-medical use.”
“More students have ex-pressed relief and gratitude for not having to encoun-ter smoke while walking on campus and especial-ly at entrances of campus
buildings,” she said in an email.
The policy is not without its critics. Frank Perez, a 28-year-old sociology grad-uate student, said he does not think people will stop smoking because of the policy. Instead, it will just
make them find somewhere else to smoke.
Perez also said CSUF should allow people to use e-cigarettes. Some believe the devices are a safer al-ternative to traditional cigarettes.
“If they want to advocate for smoking cessation, that is one method for it,” he said.
However, it is still un-clear if e-cigarettes are in fact a safe alternative to cigarettes. A Food and Drug Administration analysis found traces of toxic chemicals and can-cer-causing carcinogens in samples from two popular brands.
Dr. Lowell Dale with the Mayo Clinic recommends staying away from e-ciga-rettes until more is known about the risks.
Perez said if the school is interested in improving the overall health of the school, then more steps beyond a no-smoking policy need to be taken.
“If they’re going to try to curb health problems, I think they need to attack
more egregious things, which would be putting more healthy food alterna-tives on campus,” he said.
If a smoker is spotted on campus, he or she can be reported at Smoke-Free.Fullerton.edu. There is a notification form on the site that asks for the date, time and location of the incident.
The person reporting the incident can choose to make the report anony-mously, and he or she also has the option of including an image.
Once a report has been filed, it is reviewed by staff in the Environmental Health and Safety depart-ment and they then move forward with whatever ac-tion they deem appropriate. Oftentimes they provide smokers with information about the no-smoking pol-icy and they ask them to stop smoking.
According to a CSUF representative, since the no-smoking policy has been implemented, there have been about 40 total reports.
The Student Fee Advisory Committee (SFAC) unani-mously voted Wednesday night to extend survey col-lection for two weeks and collect more feedback re-garding the Student Success Initiative.
The committee received 1,058 surveys total, 779 pa-per surveys and 279 online surveys, after meeting with 50 student organizations and holding six open forums for the student body.
As initially proposed by the SFAC, the initiative would increase student fees by $240.50. Revenue from the fee would be used to upgrade classroom technology, ath-letic facilities and campus Wi-Fi, unless data collect-ed from students suggests otherwise.
The online survey was
open for nine days, and many members of the committee felt it was too short of a win-dow for an issue that affects all students.
Jonathan Kwok, Associated Students Inc. Board of Directors chair and member of the SFAC, felt par-ticularly strongly about this issue, and made the point that an issue that affects all students is a pressing matter, and needs to be treated as such.
Committee members also said it would be beneficial to get more student input, but were unsure about how many student responses would be enough.
Jonathan Leggett, ASI vice president, suggested two more weeks be given to collect surveys in hopes of receiving feedback from at least 10 percent of the stu-dent population, a proposal that was ultimately approved by the committee.
The committee made no other motions, but members assessed new ways to get the information out to students. Some suggestions included
text messaging, a message through TITANium and tra-ditional paper mail.
When the floor was opened to audience members for comment, all students who spoke strongly opposed the fee increase. They said they felt classroom renovations should already be included in the university’s operating budget and that too much money budgeted to the school is wasted on “frivolous things.”
One student went on to mention that campus ren-ovations should have been done before renovations to President Mildred García’s home at El Dorado Ranch, referencing the construction of a security fence that cost $153,000, according to the Orange County Register.
The committee will meet again today at 4 p.m. to
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In an effort to raise awareness on the rising federal debt, students gathered in the Quad Wednesday afternoon with the help of the Cal State Fullerton “It’s Up to Us” team to further edu-cate others on the national crisis.
“We must all as a nation, as students, as community leaders, acknowledge that there is a problem and by having an event like this that engages students to come together is really im-portant,” said Janet Perez, a political science major and member of the Up to Us team.
The event included a vid-eo conference with Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) and a guest appearance by CSUF Provost Jose L. Cruz, Ph.D.
Perez said it is import-ant that Royce and Cruz support the It’s Up to Us cause, because it shows how much prominent peo-ple care and just how big
of an issue the debt has become.
While individuals in Congress and the school administration level have taken notice, Aaron Mendez, an economics ma-jor, and the leader of the Up to Us team at CSUF, said a lot of students are not necessarily aware of the effects of the increas-ing federal debt.
“What we are seeing right now is interest rates are starting to rise and they are going to continue to rise gradually over the next decade or two,” he
said. “More of our tax dol-lars are going to be paying interest on all the debt that we have.”
Harpreet Bath, the direc-tor of Associated Students Inc. Lobby Corps, said he agrees that there will be a direct impact on interest rates.
“(National debt) is go-ing to impact us directly in our daily lives and if we don’t start educating (stu-dents) now, it’s going to be too late,” Bath said. “I think that it’s critical that people learn about it now, so we can start pushing
the pressure to improve the situation.”
The rising interest rates and national debt for the federal government is com-parable to personal credit card debt.
The national debt can be likened to a credit card bill. When a cardholder charges something, they’re borrowing money until they pay it back later. A credit card isn’t free money and interest is charged on top the longer it takes to pay back what is owed.
Currently, the United States owes just over $17.3 trillion, according to a re-port released by the United States Department of the Treasury.
This means the United States has continued to borrow money from other countries, increasing the actual debt total the coun-try faces, and interest rates continue to rise.
Patrick Ryan, a double major in computer science and business adminis-tration, is an officer and founding member of the CSUF branch of Young Americans for Liberty, a student organization that participated in the Up to Us rally. He said the na-tional debt continues to hinder our country as the
government takes more of individuals’ income, tak-ing away from citizens’ pri-vate investments.
“Pretty much every new president we get adds more and more to the national debt, and what nation-al debt does is crowd out private investment,” Ryan said.
Not only does the federal debt continue to be an is-sue for individual’s private investments, it also affects students by raising the cost of tuition and making it harder for some to find a job after they graduate, Perez said.
“Personally what we are going to see is a hike in tax rates, so that means once you graduate college here, you’re going to get a job, you’re going to have to pay taxes … and you’re going to see the amount of taxes you have to pay rise,” Mendez said.
CSUF is competing with 23 other schools as part of the Up to Us program, which is sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative.
The winning team will be awarded $10,000 and be recognized by former President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative University event later this year.
The future of software and engineering and the infinite nature of learn-ing was the heart of Bill Ruh’s keynote address Wednesday, as part of the events lined up for Cal State Fullerton’s Engineering and Computer Science Week (ECS Week).
Ruh, a 1983 CSUF alum-nus with a bachelor’s degree in computer sci-ence, is the vice president at General Electric (GE) Global Software Center.
He stressed the impor-tance of software and en-gineering, which he said is the center point of all busi-ness today “no matter what you’re doing.”
Technological advance-ments are propelling busi-nesses to change and com-panies that don’t embrace that change are going to go out of business, Ruh said.
One of the examples Ruh used to demonstrate this point was the camera com-pany, Kodak.
Kodak and Polaroid owned most patents for digital cameras, but at that point they were primarily making money from film cameras. Now film camera technology is practically obsolete.
“Engineers, computer scientists and software
people, all in combination ... those are going to be the most valuable people in the next decade because there isn’t a business in the world that isn’t going to be transformed,” Ruh said.
GE coined the term “industrial Internet,” re-ferring to the practice of bringing industries online, and Ruh used this as an ex-ample of the potential for transformation.
“The industrial Internet is really about how soft-ware and the Internet are going to do the same thing in the industrial world,”
he said. “So as we make machines more intelli-gent, we’re going to con-nect them and we’re going to improve the efficiency and the operations of how we generate electricity, of how we deliver health care, of how we deliver transportation.”
One of the effects of this transformation, according to Ruh, is the increase in data being created, or “big data.”
Big data refers to the size of data and data sets that are increasing expo-nentially. Now with more
sensors on machines, more data can be collected, so much so that only 1 per-cent to 0.5 percent of data collected is actually being analyzed, Ruh said.
“We’re reaching a time where the amount of data that people are creating, that machines are creat-ing, is ever increasing,” Ruh said. “And big data is a reflection of the fact that we are creating all this information and now we need to figure out what to do with it.”
Travis Morgan, a 20-year-old mechanical
engineering major, enjoyed Ruh’s presentation.
“Software is moving forward, electronics are moving forward and con-stantly progressing and if you can’t keep up ... you’re going to be left in the dust,” Morgan said.
But Ruh had one more piece of advice for students: never stop learning.
“I thought that I would learn everything I needed to know in my classes, but what I discovered was that what I learned in my class-es was only the foundation,” he said. “As I got out in the world, I realized I had to do continuous learning ... The most successful peo-ple I know are continuous-ly learning, continuously reading, continuously try-ing to become better at the industry they’re in, the job they do.”
Raman Menon Unnikrishnan, the dean for the College of Engineering, agreed with Ruh, saying that a univer-sity is only the foundation for learning.
“We provide the pass-port and the visa for the students,” Unnikrishnan said. “That’s up to them. But we provide them with the opportunity ... to de-sign their own destiny.”
The keynote presen-tation was one of the events lined up this week to celebrate Engineering Week, a national event. A career fair for the engi-neering and computer sci-ence students will be held Thursday.
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Gov. Jerry Brown proposed legislation Wednesday to allocate $687 million for mea-sures to relieve effects of the ongoing drought in California.
Reuters reported that Brown, in a press conference with lead-ing Democratic state legislators, said the bill would provide aid to workers affected by drought conditions and fund new conser-vation projects.
Brown said the legislation would be funded through bond measures and mon-ey from other state funds.
The proposal fol-lows an announce-ment from President Barack Obama last week that he would commit nearly $200 million in federal aid to help communities in California affected by the drought.
Santa Ana police officers identified the victim of a shoot-ing Wednesday as Michael Paul Stanton, 31, according to the Orange County Register.
Stanton, a Santa Ana resident, was rid-ing a bicycle on North Rosita Street when he was shot in the chest and killed at about 8 p.m. Tuesday night. His body was found in a driveway.
Witnesses told offi-cers that a dark-col-ored sedan was leav-ing the area around the time the shooting occurred.
Police suspect the shooting may be re-lated to gang activity in the area.
They have not ques-tioned any suspects as of Wednesday morning.
Following violence that left at least 26 peo-ple dead in Ukraine’s capital, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych agreed to a truce with protesters Wednesday, according to USA Today.
Demonstrators in Kiev want Yanukovych to join in economic and political partnerships with the European Union rather than Russia. Opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said the government promised to open ne-gotiations and refrain from attacking pro-testers’ camps.
Conflict broke out Tuesday when police burned camp tents and beat demonstrators. As news of the blood-shed spread, Western leaders threatened to ban travel to Ukraine and freeze its bank accounts.
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A couple years ago, I made a costly mistake. I looked down at my phone and changed my podcast from the Vergecast to the Bombcast.
Upon looking up, I was greeted by red and blue lights and a $400 dollar ticket. In 2009, the state of California passed a law making the act of texting while driving illegal and I was no exception.
I received that ticket about a year ago, but now I am curious how these laws have been changed by new-er car technology.
One of the big push-es at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, which is one of the biggest events in the tech industry, was car based technology.
In-car dashes using the Android operating system, Internet connected cars and smartphone connected diagnostic systems were all proposed methods of con-necting consumers to their cars.
I can only ask: How much more distracted will drivers be with more technology entering the automobile?
When I was pulled over, I contemplated arguing that I was technically not texting, even though the ticket and officer said I was, but upon reading the law it states that any kind of handheld technology is ille-gal to use in the car. The law also states a “handsfree” device can be used to assist drivers that would other-wise be distracted.
For example, Bluetooth headsets and speaker-phones are fine for drivers to use. This makes sense, because it keeps the driver’s eyes on the road. But there is an odd exception to the law that permits dialing numbers into a phone.
Dialing numbers can
sometimes be necessary and it doesn’t distract the driver for as long as tex-ting, but some of these pro-posed technologies at CES do not necessarily promote safe driving. An Internet connected car could use Google Maps for naviga-tion, traffic updates and have a fancy music player, but some of the advertised features are questionable, such as watching movies and browsing YouTube.
These features are touted as ways to keep passengers entertained, but if I were driving and my friend was cooing over cute cat videos, I would be distracted from driving whether or not I in-dulged in watching.
Even a seemingly small distraction can be deadly.
“Distraction occurs any time you take your eyes off the road, your hands off the wheel, and your mind off your primary task: driving safely,” according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
It can be argued that a mounted smartphone can cause the same amount of distraction, but the cur-rent direction of emerging car technology should be altered. Technology should be focusing on getting our eyes off the road, as op-posed to begging for our attention.
Garmin created a small heads up display GPS that projects information onto the windshield in line of sight. The unit received mixed reviews due to its limited feature set and high price, though the idea of putting critical information on the windshield should be expanded upon.
Putting in top of the line technology can have a lot of benefits for drivers, but the focus has to be on safety for the driver and for others who share the road.
But I suppose browsing the Internet would be nice when cars drive them-selves right?
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Decisions should be backed by science
The Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark sparked public outrage when it decided to euthanize a young, male giraffe to discourage in-breeding within the zoo. Though the giraffe was healthy. He was deemed a “surplus” by the zoo staff and after much controver-sy, had to be put down.
Since the announce-ment, Copenhagen Zoo di-rector and other staff have unjustifiably received nu-merous death threats.
Online petitions were or-ganized to save the giraffe, to fire the zoo director and to boycott the Copenhagen Zoo. The petition to save the giraffe reached over 30,000 signatures lead-ing up to the zoo’s final decision.
Science doesn’t always have the correct solution, and it is the zoo’s respon-sibility to consider all the factors. Critics of the zoo’s actions need to consider all the facts.
According to the zoo’s website, the giraffes are not neutered or sterilized.
“In Copenhagen Zoo we let the animals breed nat-urally. With naturally we mean that they will get young within the same in-tervals as they would in the wild,” said Bengt Holst, the zoo’s scientific direc-tor. “Contraceptives have a number of unwanted side effects on the internal or-gans and we would there-fore apply a poorer ani-mal welfare if we did not euthanize.”
Though multiple zoos and even a private buyer offered to take the baby gi-raffe, affectionately known by handlers as Marius, the Danish zoo strongly stood by its policies only to transfer animals between zoos within the European
Association of Zoos and Aquaria.
One zoo that offered to take in Marius could not ensure the giraffe would not later be transferred to another zoo. A sec-ond park, the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, which had space for another male, had not received a re-sponse by the time they heard the news that Marius had been killed.
Others still question Holst’s seemingly extreme commitment to science as director of the zoo, over the personal connection that zoo visitors might have with an animal.
“Zoos often do not cull favored animals when they become surplus to
the needs of a program,” said Robert Lacy in Culling Surplus Animals for Population Management.
Decisions about which animals to kill are based on consideration of hu-man feelings, although the justifications are of-ten couched in terms of animal welfare or animal rights.
There will be times when no matter what stance is taken, some people will consider it wrong.
In this particular sit-uation the zoo took the action they thought was best for the welfare of the animal.
Although the killing of any creature feels inhu-mane, what would have
happened if the zoo decid-ed to sell him to a facility unfit to house Marius?
Allowing Marius to live could have resulted in de-formed offspring. It takes analysis of all the possibil-ities to really understand how a zoo could make such a difficult decision.
No one is going to con-done the murder of ani-mals, but going as far as threatening the life of the people in charge and their families doesn’t seem right either.
This decision has brought more widespread attention to a single act and has perhaps prompted zoo officials to think even more thoroughly about de-cisions such as these.
The Copenhagen Zoo had good reason to euthanize a giraffe
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She felt nervous, shaky and with little appetite, but was determined to get tasks done.
“I’m more productive whether I want to be or not. I get a feeling when I’m on Adderall that I’m being lazy and not useful if I’m not doing anything,” Brittney said. “It makes me feel like my mom is right behind me telling me to do things.”
She admitted that the feeling of productivity might be more imagined than real. Although the drug does help her focus, she would much rather clean her house and orga-nize her binder, calendar and planner instead of ac-tually doing the work.
This perceived feeling of productivity has caused a buzz in the college world and nicknamed Adderall as a “study drug.”
The 2008 National Sur-vey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reported that 15 percent of college students admitted to using some form of psychotherapeutic drugs for non-medical use. Of those students, 7 per-cent claimed to have taken Adderall to increase atten-tion span, party or improve grades.
Although Brittney said she learned to man-age her workload better during her last two years of college and she takes Adderall around mid-terms and finals.
However, Brittney is not the only student at CSUF to use “study drugs.”
Drug safety at CSUF is rated a “B+” according to CollegeProwler.com, a web-site that provides in-depth reviews and analysis on colleges and K-12 schools in the United States. The web-site allows students attend-ing a particular college to give feedback about their school via surveys.
According to the web-site, 4 percent of students said prescription “study drugs” such as Adderall or Ritalin are among the most popular drugs on the CSUF campus.
In order to prevent pre-scription Adderall from falling into the wrong hands, many doctors and health professionals follow special guidelines.
Nari Darst, CSUF Inter-im Director Health Ed-ucation and Promotion, said she would describe the prescribing of sub-stances as, “tightly con-trolled and monitored by (CSUF’s) Quality Assurance committee.”
Students are seen for ADHD, ADD and severe anxiety at CSUF’s Counsel-ing and Psychological Ser-vices (CAPS). The process of diagnosing someone consists of two parts.
First, a CAPS counselor speaks to the student and determines if a psychiatric evaluation is warranted. If so, the student is referred to the CAPS psychiatrist for an evaluation lasting 45 to 50 minutes to determine appropriate treatment, Darst said.
“Individuals who abuse (these) drugs most com-monly gain access to them from a friend or relative who has a legiti-mate need for drug ther-apy, not from a medical provider,” Darst said.
Although Brittney is still prescribed Adder-all, she gets most of it from her boyfriend, who has ADHD, rather than through her doctor.
To service the community
Doping for the grade
Former NBA player becomes mentor for students
The Cal State Fullerton Volunteer and Service Center works with students, campus programs and many outside projects. The center also helps students with internships.WINNIE HUANG / Daily Titan
Many students walk into the Cal State Fuller-ton Volunteer and Service Center hoping to fulfill an internship requirement or log service hours. Once students have completed their requirements, the majority of volunteers stay around to continue working on the projects they are interested in.
Others feel drawn to serve and decide to vol-unteer because it is some-thing they love to do.
Jessica Bonilla, 19, a psy-chology major, falls into the latter category. Bonilla entered CSUF as a physics major when she chose to volunteer.
She hoped to find a ca-reer in science, but after working in the volunteer
center she realized she had a passion for helping people and changed her major. Bonilla is now a project director for Proj-ect Buddies.
“We host social events for students with intellec-tual and de-velopmenta l disabi l ities,” Bonilla said. “It’s basically to help them socialize and feel part of society.”
Deira San-chez, a hu-man services major, also loves to help people, but got involved with the Vol-unteer and Service Center in order to fulfill one of three internships that are required for her major.
Although Sanchez en-tered the center for her in-ternship, she enjoys what she does there.
“I think being a human service major, I’m able to work with what I’m pas-sionate about and gaining a background logistics perspective of it,” Sanchez
said.Sanchez is a
project direc-tor, but works with two pro-grams. One of her projects, C o m m u n i -ty Connec-tions, works with Orange-wood Chil-dren’s Home. The program houses chil-dren who have been re-moved from their homes.
Volunteers help distract children from the issues they face in their lives with group activities.
Sanchez is also involved in what is called Students Act. Sanchez has been working to plan a social justice summit that will
take place in April. Many topics related to social jus-tice will be covered and the event will be open to stu-dents and staff, as well as to the public.
The Volunteer and Ser-vice Center works with 10 different programs on campus, as well as many outside programs. The stu-dents schedule events for many of them, but are only given a small budget from the school.
Alisia Kirkwood, coor-dinator of the Office of Student Life and Leader-ship, said the students are responsible for gaining the necessary funding for their projects.
“Each project has a very small budget to offset their costs … but our students fundraise. They raise their own funds,” Kirkwood said. “When they’re out there on Titan Walk doing bake sales and things like that, that’s because they have a desire to do a certain type of event with their popula-tion that they’re serving.”
The center already works with many differ-ent programs and com-munities, but continues to grow. It is starting a few new pilot programs. Kirk-wood said she is particu-larly excited about a new program called Alterna-tive Spring Break.
“Alternative Spring Break is pretty much just what it sounds like,” Kirk-wood said. “Rather than go off and have fun for your own enjoyment, we are taking 12 students to San Francisco and they will spend a week serving the homeless population up there in partnership with the Salvation Army.”
Kirkwood said the direc-tion of the program will be students serving in a vari-ety of capacities.
The Volunteer and Ser-vice Center works with many different causes and is always open to taking in new volunteers. Students can visit the center, located in Room 2 in the Titan Stu-dent Union.
“I learned that to eval-uate a company is very hard,” Jones said. “It taught me a lot about cor-porate structure, debts and how a company kind of operates with their money.”
For Crystar Cheng, 25, one of the most important lessons she learned from Milligan was how to leave emotion out of finances.
“Sometimes you buy stock and you get real-ly attached to it, the part about when you need to sell it,” Cheng said. “That’s the biggest thing that I learned from him.”
Milligan said he is pre-paring his students for the next level, the world of business and finance after college, just like his high school basketball coach did for him.
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“I think being a human service
major, I’m able to work with what I’m passionate
about and gaining a background
logistics perspective of it .”
DEIRA SANCHEZStudent
Professor Michael Milligan was drafted to play in the National Basketball Association by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1983.Courtesy of Michael Milligan
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Seven dancers enter the stage.
The applause dies down, music turns on and girls begin to dance.
The audience is mes-merized. The perfor-mance is unlike any they have seen.
The girls are talented, but more than that, in-spiring. Their movements are precise and fluid and through their performance they show that even their wheelchairs cannot hold them back.
Katie Estrella, a Cal State Fullerton sopho-more majoring in human communication studies, and her teammates have been members of the Walk and Roll Dance Team, an organization with a mis-sion to raise awareness for spinal cord injuries, for 4 years.
Most of the girls on the dance team had spinal cord injuries from drunk driving accidents.
However, Estrella was injured after a horseback riding accident when she was 11.
Estrella was 5 years old when she began horseback riding.
At the age of 7, she start-ed to compete in barrel racing competitions; a horseback riding sport that involves three bar-rels in shape of a triangle through which competi-tors form a pattern in the least amount of time.
Estrella said horseback rid-ing was her “big passion” and what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.
On May 13, 2006, every-thing changed.
It was a Saturday and Estrella was at a barrel racing competition. This was her first time com-peting with her new horse, whom she described as “absolutely perfect.” Estrella began her morn-ing with her first event.
After turning the first barrel, the horse began to run and buck and Estrella was unable to hold on.
“As he started bucking, I lost my balance and fell off to the right hand side. And when I fell I twisted and landed on my back and from the impact of fall-ing, my legs flipped over my head and snapped by back,” Estrella said.
She laid in the dirt while people surrounded her, asking if she was alright.
A couple hours later, Estrella and her family were in the hospital when they learned she had suf-fered from a spinal cord injury and would never walk again.
Estrella’s mother, Dana, was with her daughter when they received the news.
“I cried and cried, but I didn’t want to let her see me cry. I didn’t want her to think something bad had happened to her,” Dana said. “I wanted her to feel like it’s an injury and we’re going to have to change the way we do things, but it doesn’t make you bad, it doesn’t make you less of a person.”
The first couple of weeks after the accident were difficult for Estrella
and her family. Estrella questioned how
the injury was going to af-fect her life.
“I thought, ‘Can I still do the things I had done before? Can I still ride horses, can I still dance because I’ve danced my whole life, can I still do gymnastics, what about soccer? All these things involved my legs and if I can’t use them, what’s go-ing to happen? What am I?,’ Estrella said.
Six months after her ac-cident, Estrella reached a
turning point; she began riding horses again. She started therapeutic horse-back riding.
Estrella said getting back up on the horse was a full circle for her.
“That was when I real-ized that I was going to be okay,” she said.
From then on, Estrella has not let anything stop her from doing what she wants to do.
“She can do everything that someone standing can do, she just has to fig-ure out a way to do it in
her own unique way,” said Jordan Guinn, Estrella’s childhood best friend. “She never ceases to amaze me in the things she does, from making the Dean’s List to joining a sled hock-ey team to working and going to school fulltime, along with her sorority and dance team.”
Today, Estrella continues leading an active life, both physically and socially. She served as an orientation leader for New Student and Parent Programs in the past summer and is also an
active member of her so-rority, Alpha Delta Pi.
Estrella continues to reg-ularly ride horses and per-form as a part of the Walk and Roll Dance Team.
“I remember there was one performance where everybody was in tears after the girls had fin-ished. Katie talked to them about following your dreams and following your passions, no matter what it is,” Dana said. “She doesn’t go out and seek the attention, but she in-spires people.”
NEHA ANSARIFor the Daily Titan
Katie Estrella moves on with life after spinal cord trauma
Refusing to let injury impede passion
Katie Estrella (fourth from the left), a sophomore majoring in human communication studies, performs as part of the Walk and Roll Dance Team. Courtesy of Katie Estrella
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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):
You’re in the midst of a financial breakthrough, with increasing value. Stretch yourself mentally, and follow your passion. Your mind and heart agree. Don’t let this windfall slip through your fingers, and remember to say, “Thanks”.
TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):
Rely on your partners today and tomorrow. Start a new phase in your relationship. Compromise and come to an agreement. Support your friends. Invest for success. Every-thing seems possible. Affinity grows with kind words.
GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):
Concentrate on your work today and tomorrow. There’s plenty com-ing in! Get creative with it. Provide great service. Others appreciate the material you’re sending. Get some-thing you want for your home. Relax afterwards.
CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):
For the next two days, you score big with creative output. Practice. It’s getting fun! There’s more money coming in. You have lots of emotion-al support. Provide love. Your credit rating’s going up. Invest in your busi-ness.
LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):
Enforce household rules today and tomorrow. It gets easier, with prac-tice. Accept compliments gracious-ly. Get into practical and domestic tasks. Clean your workspace, and de-clutter. Learn from an engineer-ing type. Play with long-range plans.
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You can learn what you need today and tomorrow. Allow your dreams to run wild. You’re sharp as a tack. Articulate your vision. Step up com-munications, and get the word out. It travels farther than expected.
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Focus on finances for a few days. It can be quite lucrative. Use your clev-erness. Expand your idea base and find ways to monetize them. You’re an inspiration to others. Make long-term plans, and share.
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You’re becoming more confident. Reject a far-fetched scheme in favor of a practical solution. Use what you have to achieve a dream. Travel in-trigues. Inspire, rather than demand-ing or issuing orders. Soon the whole neighborhood is involved.
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Slow down and consider options. Complete projects now. Your sensi-tivity richly flavors artistic pursuits, writing and music. Contemplation, meditation and quiet time reap re-wards. Re-juice and your creativity grows. Capture it by recording.
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It could get emotional over the next two days. Travel’s favored, too, de-spite strong feelings. Continue with your planning. Accept more assign-ments. Extra paperwork leads to ex-tra profits. The action is behind the scenes.
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Career matters claim your attention today and tomorrow. Committing and assuming more responsibility brings peace of mind. Your actions carry you farther than imagined. Keep the pedal to the metal. Stock up on provisions for the future.
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The Cal State Fullerton baseball team returns to Goodwin Field for a three game series against Uni-versity of San Francisco, hoping to recover from a 6-1 loss on Tuesday to the USC Trojans.
Their midweek loss dropped the No. 3 Titans’ record to 2-2 in the young season.
Freshman pitcher Chad Hockin made his CSUF debut and pitched 2.2 innings, allowing three runs, only one of which was earned. Freshman Phil Bickford came to re-lieve Hockin and pitched four innings, also allow-ing three runs with only one earned.
Errors sunk the Titans’ chances of winning the game as they committed three. The Trojans scored a run in the third inning off a throwing error by senior catcher Jared Dea-con after a strikeout. The Trojans scored two more runs off a single and nev-er looked back, improving their record to 4-0.
Errors have been a problem area for the Ti-tans in their first four games. They have com-mitted seven total to start the season, includ-ing two by sophomore second baseman Jake Jefferies and sophomore pitcher Justin Garza. As a team, the Titans collec-tively have a .955 fielding percentage.
The Titans’ pitching will look to continue shining. The pitching staff holds a 2.84 earned run average. Sophomore Thomas Eshelman got the Titans’ starters off to a fast start by not allowing a run over his seven in-nings of work with eight strikeouts and only three hits allowed.
Garza had a forgetta-ble debut, allowing sev-en runs in 5.2 innings with four of them being earned. The reigning Big West Pitcher of the Year will look to shake Satur-day off in his next start.
Junior Grahamm Wiest performed well in his first start, pitching 7.1 innings with only one earned run allowed and seven strikeouts.
Providing depth on the mound is junior Koby Gauna and Bickford. Gauna pitched in long
relief on Saturday, allow-ing two runs in 4.2 in-nings with seven strike-outs. Bickford holds a 2.84 ERA in 6.1 innings of work.
The Titan bats have also started the season well, aside from Tues-day’s game against USC. CSUF is hitting .312 as a team so far with 25 runs scored.
Senior outfielder Greg Velazquez and junior right fielder J.D. Davis each lead the Titans with one home run. Velazquez also leads the team in RBIs with five.
Sophomore first base-man Tanner Pinkston leads the Titans in bat-ting average, hitting .500 to start the season with a team-leading seven hits. Davis and junior outfield-er Clay Williamson trail Pinkston closely in hits with six, hitting .400 and .500 respectively.
The San Francisco Dons are looking to build a winning streak after de-feating Kansas State 7-6 at home.
Pitching has been a weak area for them in the beginning of the season. They collectively hold a 6.35 ERA while allowing their opponents to hit .317.
Leading the Dons’ pitching staff is junior Christian Cecilio, who allowed just one run in 5.1 innings in his season debut.
The Dons have per-formed better with their hitting though, holding a .310 average as a team. They are still due for a home run, but they have scored 18 runs total with small ball.
Leading the Dons’ lineup is junior outfield-er Derek Atkinson, who leads the team in RBIs with six and in batting average with .471.
Like the Titans, the Dons have struggled with their fielding, com-mitting seven errors. They have a .954 fielding percentage.
Head Coach Rick Van-derhook and the Titans hope to put their disap-pointing start behind them as they begin their series against the Dons on Friday, Feb. 21. They will conclude the series on Sunday, Feb. 23. Es-helman is set to get the starting nod in the open-er with Garza starting on Saturday and Weist on Sunday
For more information on CSUF baseball and all Titan Athletics, go to Ful-lertonTitans.com.
While the U.S. men’s hockey team has been making huge strides in Sochi during the Winter Olympics, the Cal State Fullerton ice hockey team has made some amazing progress themselves by making their way to re-gional play for the first time in team history.
Ranked fourth in the American Collegiate Hock-ey Association (ACHA) Re-gionals Tournament for the Men’s II Division, the Titans are set to compete against the fifth seeded Boise State Broncos in their first regional match-up, which will take place this Saturday in Flagstaff, Ariz.
“Everybody’s been pret-ty happy so far. There’s still that feeling of unfin-ished business heading into the big weekend, but overall everybody is really
happy with the season. We’ve had our best season in club history this year,” said senior forward Tay-lor Castle, who scored 22 points during the regular season.
The Titans performed phenomenally through-out most of the season, earning a 24-10-2 regular season record. However, if they lose the game against Boise State on Saturday, none of their success in the regular season will have mattered.
“You either win or go home. So we have to beat Boise State to stay the next day to play,” Head Coach Ronnie White said.
The team will head into regionals on the heels of a hot streak to end the season. CSUF went on a 12-game winning streak near the end of the sea-son, before dropping three consecutive games. How-ever, the Titans managed to continue their winning ways by wrapping up the season by beating Loyola Marymount 5-4 in their last game of the season.
“We’ve strung together 12 straight victories over
the course of the middle to end of the season, and now we’re coming down to the games that mean the most and everything that we’ve worked for the en-tire time,” Castle said. “We started good, played good all season and now we just got to make sure we finish it off the right way.”
Leading the team offen-sively for CSUF is junior forward Alec Censullo, who has 63 points and 34 goals. Close behind him is junior forward Sean Saligumba, who has 55 points on the season and is second in scoring with 27 goals.
Both Brandon Heethuis and Nevin Iwatsuru have been putting in solid min-utes between the pipes for the Titans, and they have save percentages of .915 and .884, respectively.
Castle said the team has been trying to learn more about Boise State’s playing style. He is expecting the game on Saturday to be a low scoring affair, with the outcome likely to be deter-mined not by who scores the most goals scored but who makes the least
amount of mistakes. “We’re expecting a real-
ly big, hard-hitting team,” Castle said. “And we’re just going to try to combat that with speed and the size that we have.”
Castle said the team’s success has created a lot of solidarity among the players.
“This is a really spe-cial group of guys that we have together for the team. Everybody brings something to the table and contributes in their own way,” Castle said. “It’s really bonded us a lot. Even losing those couple of games in San Jose, they brought everyone together more than tore anybody apart.”
White said the team isn’t going to make any huge changes in preparation for the upcoming matchup.
“We’ve been working on our power play a little bit and our defensive zone … just little minor adjust-ments here and there. Ev-erything else is looking pretty good,” White said.
For information on the CSUF ice hockey team, go to TitanIceHockey.com.
The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team returns to Titan Gym for a pair of games this week-end against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Santa Barbara.
The Titans (9-14, 5-5 Big West) split their two-game road trip last weekend with a win against UC Davis and a loss to Hawai’i.
Junior forward Kathleen Iwuoha had a career-high 14 rebounds against UC Davis.
The Titans outrebound-ed the Aggies 40-36 and the Titans dominated in of-fensive rebounds 18-7.
Nine of Iwuoha’s
rebounds were offensive, and she held Aggies lead-ing rebounder Sydnee Fipps to just five boards.
The Titans were able to overcome poor shooting against the Aggies, shoot-ing 31.8 percent com-pared to the Aggies 42.3 percent.
They also shot an abys-mal 28.6 percent against Hawai’i.
Despite the team’s poor shooting, senior Alex Thomas had a career-high 25 points against Hawai’i.
The second place Cal Poly SLO Mustangs (14-10, 8-3 Big West) will visit Ti-tan Gym on Thursday.
The two teams met ear-lier this season in San Luis Obispo, where the Titans kept it close but ended up losing 69-65.
In their previous match-up, Brea Olinda alumna Jonae Ervin and senior guard Nwamaka Ofodu
each led Cal Poly with 17 points apiece.
Ervin is second on the team in assists and in three-point shooting percentage.
Another standout player for Cal Poly is junior Ari-ana Elegado, who is second on the team in scoring and leads the team in assists with 122 for the season.
The star of Cal Poly is reigning Big West Player of the Year, Molly Schlemer.
The Cal Poly senior is six-feet-five-inches tall and is second in the Big West in rebounding with 10.3 re-bounds per game.
She leads the Big West in field goal percentage making 56.2 percent of her shots.
Iwuoha and freshman guard Samantha Logan hope to keep Schlemer off the boards.
Logan has had nine re-bounds in five of her last
six games and Iwuoha is fifth in the Big West with 7.3 rebounds per game.
Logan had a team-high eight rebounds in the pre-vious game against Cal Poly.
UC Santa Barbara will come to Titan Gym on Saturday.
The two teams met earli-er this season on Jan. 25.
It was the Titans’ first win at The Thunderdome since 1991.
The Gauchos (7-16, 2-8 Big West) sit at eighth in the Big West.
In their previous match-up, senior Melissa Zornig had a game-high 20 points for the Gauchos.
Zornig is second on the team in points per game and leads the team in min-utes played.
The standout perfor-mance in that game was from senior Destini Ma-son. Mason had 18 points
and a team-high eight rebounds.
She is the team leader in rebounds this season with 5.9 rebounds per game.
Logan flirted with a double-double in the pre-vious game against UCSB with 11 points and nine rebounds.
Thomas and junior guard Tailer Butler each had 16 points in that game.
Junior guard Chante Miles had a season-high eight assists.
The Titans hope to get more scoring out of
sophomore guard Hailey King.
She only had one point on the road trip and has not scored in double fig-ures since the start of February.
Thomas has scored 20.3 points per game in confer-ence play which is first in the Big West.
She has scored in double figures in every conference game this season.
For more information on the CSUF basketball team and all Titan Athletics, go to FullertonTitans.com.
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