In the wake of a sur- prise cancer diagnosis, the Sigma Nu fraterni- ty is reaching out to the Internet and to the cam- pus to help fund the treat- ment of Victor Sandoval, a sophomore account- ing major. They have so far raised over $1,000 from friends, family and strangers. Sandoval was jogging with his brother on a nor- mal January day at Cal State Fullerton when he started to feel out of breath. He had been an athlete and was used to being out of breath, but he said this time felt different. “I had to complete- ly stop. I had to sit down to catch my breath. I was coughing; I couldn’t take a deep breath in and it just felt strange to me,” Sandoval said. He immediately went to the Student Health and Counseling Center on campus to see what was ailing him. After hearing Sandoval describe his symptoms, the nurses decided blood work was needed. They found that he had three times as many white blood cells as he should have had. He also had a very low red blood cell count. On Jan. 10, Victor was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, cancer of the white blood cells. “We were all pretty sad,” Sandoval’s friend and Sigma Nu brother Quinn Royston said. “I started thinking of ways to get involved and ways that I can support.” Royston decided to try crowdfunding to raise money for Sandoval by seeking small amounts of money from a large num- ber of people using the Internet. “I started thinking, ‘I’ve heard crowdfund- ing works. I wonder if they have a crowdfund- ing platform for medi- cal stuff,’” Royston said. “Cancer can be very ex- pensive depending on the treatment and how long you’re doing it and insurance.” Royston wanted to help his fraternity brother, and started researching crowdfunding. “I found this platform called GiveForward and they did it for a pretty low rate and they send the check directly to them,” Royston said. Once the funding reaches $500, a check can be sent directly to Victor’s family. As of Monday, $1,115 has been raised to help with Sandoval’s medical expenses. Sigma Nu has been discussing different ways to raise money. Volume 95, Issue 19 TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014 VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @DAILY_TITAN SPIN CLASSES BILL NYE TICKETS FITNESS 8 NEWS 3 Find out how to get free student tickets for March 20 keynote at science symposium Group sessions offer balanced workout in an encouraging, friendly environment INSIDE Many people go to bars and order corporate beer that can be considered watered-down and over- priced. However, some peo- ple do not realize there is an alternative to domes- tic beers in the form of microbreweries. e Cal State Fullerton Craft Beer Advocacy and Home Brew Club favors the alternative. People may argue that local craft beers taste bet- ter than corporate beers due to them being unaware of craft beers or are misin- formed about what craft beer actually is. “What do you think is a craft beer? Typically people say something like Blue Moon. ey are owned by Coors. at’s not craft. at’s corporate kind of hiding as craft,” said Brennan Wallace, the club’s faculty advisor. According to the Brewers Association, to be consid- ered a craft beer, it must be small, independent and original. e beer must also have an annual pro- duction of six million bar- rels or less. Less than 25 percent of the craft brew- ery can be owned or con- trolled by an alcoholic bev- erage industry member who is not themselves a craft brewer. e club started in fall 2012 by Wallace and Skyler Irish. ey would drink craft beer at breweries to- gether and figured other students enjoy craft beer, too. e pair invited fans of craft beer and went through the club registra- tion process. “Craft beer is something I find very interesting from the way it’s made; the dif- ferent ingredients that are brewed with each batch and how it has become somewhat a way of life for our generation,” said club member Manny De Anda. “Once I realized we had a club on campus I wanted to join and continue learn- ing and spreading the word about great craft beer and homebrewing.” e club meets biweek- ly at local craft brewer- ies, such as Bottle Logic in Anaheim, e Bruery in Placentia and HopScotch in Fullerton. Members vote online in the club’s Facebook group on where they want to have the meetings. “A typical meeting con- sists of everyone ordering a different beer,” said Joseph De Anda, another club member. “We drink it, we analyze it. You kind of give your input on it, like what you’re tasting, what you’re smelling, the style, what brewery makes it and what other beers they make.” e club has been able to explore breweries on group tours and see how craft beer is made. e Bruery in Placentia has worked with the club to give members experi- ences that are restricted for other patrons. “ey’ve given us tours of their barrel room in the past which is kind of a closed-off thing. ey don’t let the general public in there,” Wallace said. “ey also let us have a meeting in their meeting room.” A few of the club’s mem- bers are homebrewers. Irish was one, but Joseph De Anda is the club’s lone homebrewer now. He works at Bottle Logic, a new craft brewery in Anaheim. He said the main in- gredients of beer are wa- ter, grain, hops and yeast. Certain beers contain dif- ferent wheats. e process of brewing beer at home can take up to six hours, he said. Although the club is one of the smaller ones on cam- pus, Wallace prefers it that way. “We had 15 people at the first club meeting which is enough for us,” Wallace said. “Anything bigger than that and it’s too hard to talk at a brewery or get tables.” Wallace would like to keep the club small, but he is open to new members. De Anda said the club was created to educate CSUF students about craft beer and help people real- ize that making craft beer is an art. MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan Craft Beer Advocacy and Home Brew Club favors local breweries AMAL ROCKN Daily Titan Veteran reporter receives grant to teach business journalism Brothers united From WSJ to CSUF, journalist joins staff Toasting to local brews Sigma Nu fraternity rallies to raise funds for cancer treatment Victor Sandoval’s Sigma Nu fraternity brothers visit him in the hospital where he is being treated for leukemia (top). The banner on Sigma Nu’s GiveForward page reads “V is for victory” (bottom). Courtesy of CSUF Sigma Nu Beer club members explore how craft beers are made. MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan His career in business journalism spans from the Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg News. Joe Winski, a veter- an journalist, is one of the two latest Reynolds Visiting Business Journalism Professors at Cal State Fullerton. He was invited through a $1.67 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. e five-year program will ultimately create 11 visiting professorships at 11 different schools, ac- cording to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers website. e grant, up to $50,000, is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation with the goal of helping to launch busi- ness journalism programs at campuses around the United States. Winski’s experience in business journalism helped him become elect- ed to teach at CSUF, an accredited journalism school. He studied English at Ohio State University in addition to business ad- ministration, and after graduating, he satisfied his interest in writing by teaching high school English for three years. “Although I liked teach- ing the kids, I found that I still had an urge to write, and this didn’t really sat- isfy my urge,” he said. Winski said he ap- plied to several graduate schools and got his mas- ter’s degree in journal- ism at the University of Illinois. He began his ca- reer as a reporter at e Pantagraph in Bloomington, Ill. Before working for Bloomberg News, he was a report- er and columnist for Crain Communications in Chicago, business re- porter for the Chicago Tribune and reporter and editor in the Chicago bu- reau of the Wall Street Journal. For the last 18 and a half years of his career, Winski held many posi- tions at Bloomberg News, including bureau chief in Chicago, Tokyo and Washington. During the last six years of his journalism career, Winski was the managing editor of Bloomberg News and eventually retired in December 2012. John McCorry, execu- tive editor of the New York bureau for Bloomberg, was hired by Winski in Chicago and worked with him from the mid-1990s until the end of his career in 2012. SEE JOURNALIST, 5 SEE LEUKEMIA, 2 MICHAEL HUNTLEY Daily Titan Victor Sandoval, a sophomore accounting major, is currently in the hospital fighting a form of leukemia. The Sigma Nu fraternity, to which he belongs, is campaigning to raise money for treatment. Courtesy of CSUF Sigma Nu
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In the wake of a sur-prise cancer diagnosis, the Sigma Nu fraterni-ty is reaching out to the Internet and to the cam-pus to help fund the treat-ment of Victor Sandoval, a sophomore account-ing major. They have so far raised over $1,000 from friends, family and strangers.
Sandoval was jogging with his brother on a nor-mal January day at Cal State Fullerton when he started to feel out of breath. He had been an athlete and was used to being out of breath, but he said this time felt different.
“I had to complete-ly stop. I had to sit down to catch my breath. I was coughing; I couldn’t take a deep breath in and it just felt strange to me,” Sandoval said.
He immediately went to the Student Health and Counseling Center on campus to see what was ailing him.
After hearing Sandoval describe his symptoms, the nurses decided blood work was needed.
They found that he had three times as many white blood cells as he should have had. He also had a very low red blood cell count.
On Jan. 10, Victor was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, cancer of the white blood cells.
“We were all pretty sad,” Sandoval’s friend and Sigma Nu brother Quinn Royston said. “I started thinking of ways to get involved and ways
that I can support.”Royston decided to try
crowdfunding to raise money for Sandoval by seeking small amounts of money from a large num-ber of people using the Internet.
“I started thinking, ‘I’ve heard crowdfund-ing works. I wonder if they have a crowdfund-ing platform for medi-cal stuff,’” Royston said. “Cancer can be very ex-pensive depending on the treatment and how long you’re doing it and insurance.”
Royston wanted to help his fraternity brother,
and started researching crowdfunding.
“I found this platform called GiveForward and they did it for a pretty low rate and they send the check directly to them,” Royston said. Once the funding reaches $500, a check can be sent directly to Victor’s family.
As of Monday, $1,115 has been raised to help with Sandoval’s medical expenses. Sigma Nu has been discussing different ways to raise money.
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Many people go to bars and order corporate beer that can be considered watered-down and over-priced. However, some peo-ple do not realize there is an alternative to domes-tic beers in the form of microbreweries.
The Cal State Fullerton Craft Beer Advocacy and Home Brew Club favors the alternative.
People may argue that local craft beers taste bet-ter than corporate beers due to them being unaware of craft beers or are misin-formed about what craft beer actually is.
“What do you think is a craft beer? Typically people say something like Blue Moon. They are owned by Coors. That’s not craft. That’s corporate kind of hiding as craft,” said Brennan Wallace, the club’s faculty advisor.
According to the Brewers Association, to be consid-ered a craft beer, it must be small, independent and original. The beer must also have an annual pro-duction of six million bar-rels or less. Less than 25 percent of the craft brew-ery can be owned or con-trolled by an alcoholic bev-erage industry member who is not themselves a craft brewer.
The club started in fall 2012 by Wallace and Skyler Irish. They would drink craft beer at breweries to-gether and figured other students enjoy craft beer, too. The pair invited fans of craft beer and went through the club registra-tion process.
“Craft beer is something I find very interesting from the way it’s made; the dif-ferent ingredients that are brewed with each batch and how it has become somewhat a way of life for our generation,” said club member Manny De Anda. “Once I realized we had a club on campus I wanted to join and continue learn-ing and spreading the word
about great craft beer and homebrewing.”
The club meets biweek-ly at local craft brewer-ies, such as Bottle Logic in Anaheim, The Bruery in Placentia and HopScotch in Fullerton. Members vote online in the club’s Facebook group on where they want to have the meetings.
“A typical meeting con-sists of everyone ordering a different beer,” said Joseph De Anda, another club member. “We drink it, we analyze it. You kind of give your input on it, like what you’re tasting, what you’re smelling, the style, what brewery makes it and what other beers they make.”
The club has been able to explore breweries on group tours and see how craft beer is made.
The Bruery in Placentia has worked with the club to give members experi-ences that are restricted for other patrons.
“They’ve given us tours of their barrel room in the past which is kind of a closed-off thing. They don’t let the general public in there,” Wallace said. “They also let us have a meeting in their meeting room.”
A few of the club’s mem-bers are homebrewers. Irish was one, but Joseph De Anda is the club’s lone homebrewer now. He works at Bottle Logic, a new craft brewery in Anaheim.
He said the main in-gredients of beer are wa-ter, grain, hops and yeast. Certain beers contain dif-ferent wheats. The process of brewing beer at home can take up to six hours, he said.
Although the club is one of the smaller ones on cam-pus, Wallace prefers it that way.
“We had 15 people at the first club meeting which is enough for us,” Wallace said. “Anything bigger than that and it’s too hard to talk at a brewery or get tables.”
Wallace would like to keep the club small, but he is open to new members.
De Anda said the club was created to educate CSUF students about craft beer and help people real-ize that making craft beer is an art.
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Brothers united
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Toasting to local brews
Sigma Nu fraternity rallies to raise funds for cancer treatment
Victor Sandoval’s Sigma Nu fraternity brothers visit him in the hospital where he is being treated for leukemia (top). The banner on Sigma Nu’s GiveForward page reads “V is for victory” (bottom).
Courtesy of CSUF Sigma Nu
Beer club members explore how craft beers are made.MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan
His career in business journalism spans from the Wall Street Journal to Bloomberg News.
Joe Winski, a veter-an journalist, is one of the two latest Reynolds Visiting Business Journalism Professors at Cal State Fullerton. He was invited through a $1.67 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.
The five-year program will ultimately create 11 visiting professorships at 11 different schools, ac-cording to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers website.
The grant, up to $50,000, is funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation with the goal of helping to launch busi-ness journalism programs at campuses around the United States.
Winski’s experience in business journalism helped him become elect-ed to teach at CSUF, an accredited journalism school.
He studied English at Ohio State University in addition to business ad-ministration, and after graduating, he satisfied his interest in writing by teaching high school English for three years.
“Although I liked teach-ing the kids, I found that I still had an urge to write, and this didn’t really sat-isfy my urge,” he said.
Winski said he ap-plied to several graduate schools and got his mas-ter’s degree in journal-ism at the University of Illinois.
He began his ca-reer as a reporter at The Pantagraph in Bloomington, Ill. Before working for Bloomberg News, he was a report-er and columnist for Crain Communications in Chicago, business re-porter for the Chicago Tribune and reporter and editor in the Chicago bu-reau of the Wall Street Journal.
For the last 18 and a half years of his career, Winski held many posi-tions at Bloomberg News, including bureau chief in Chicago, Tokyo and Washington.
During the last six years of his journalism career, Winski was the managing editor of Bloomberg News and eventually retired in December 2012.
John McCorry, execu-tive editor of the New York bureau for Bloomberg, was hired by Winski in Chicago and worked with him from the mid-1990s until the end of his career in 2012.
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Victor Sandoval, a sophomore accounting major, is currently in the hospital fighting a form of leukemia. The Sigma Nu fraternity, to which he belongs, is campaigning to raise money for treatment.
Courtesy of CSUF Sigma Nu
For students who won-der what business risk management is or how au-diting a client’s account works, Cal State Fullerton held “A Day in the Life of...” to explain just that.
Chris Burgee, the vice president of finance/risk management for DirecTV, explained the universal need for companies to minimize their risks.
“Risk is something that’s inherent in all of us,” he said. “I don’t think there’s anybody in here who hasn’t used an alarm clock or a phone to wake them up for a test.”
Burgee emphasized that changing technology would cause additional se-curity issues in the future, making his job more chal-lenging. However, he told the students in the audi-ence that they would have an advantage in this sense, because they are more ex-perienced with new hard-ware and software.
“The one thing about risk is it never sleeps,” Burgee said. “There is nev-er an end to it because it’s always evolving. There’s always things that are happening, there’s al-ways things that you don’t know about that are going to happen.”
Burgee said all compa-nies have risks associated with doing business, and smaller businesses can simply buy insurance to cover most of that.
However, he said for a massive, internation-al firm like DirecTV, it makes sense to expand risk management opera-tions and optimize every-thing the business does.
“It starts with just try-ing to understand the risks of the company,” he said. “We have a lot of em-ployees climbing on roofs to install satellite dish-es … so we have a whole
safety group that works with us that helps develop ideas around how to make things safer.”
Burgee spent 25 years as an insurance broker. That led him to work with DirecTV, which was one of his largest clients.
“There’s always some-thing I know that I don’t know,” he said. “And I know it’s there. Now it’s just a matter of trying to mitigate it.”
Representatives from Ernst and Young (EY), a professional services firm with headquarters in London, also spoke as part of “A Day in the Life.” The firm provides assurance, a process of accounting and auditing, to its clients, as well as consulting, finan-cial advisory and other services.
Kim Letch, an assur-ance partner with EY, said workers need to adapt to a world where businesses are increasingly working on an international scale, especially with a global company like EY.
“A global mindset real-ly is a competitive advan-tage now,” she said. “It’s driving innovation … and for us at EY, it means that we want to recruit peo-ple who have that global mindset.”
Jimmy Levers, an au-dit senior with EY, went over what he does in the morning.
“I really need to look and see where my priori-ties are at every morning,” he said. “Figure out what needs to be done, if I need
to shift people on a specif-ic account, or to tackle re-view comments a partner left us a night before.”
Levers said establishing rapport with his clients is important and helps for the future in cases when he makes mistakes.
“Even if I’m super busy, if you go request something, I don’t just request it and get out of there,” he said. “I like to request it and have a few minutes of conversa-tion with them. And some-times that can add to your day a little bit, but in the long run, you have a real-ly good relationship with your client.”
Letch said the company varies the types of clients new recruits work with so they get more experience, even if they prefer specific businesses.
As an example, she said an employee worked at EY for seven to eight years, and requested to work with real estate firms, but was not always allowed to take real estate assign-ments. After leaving EY, she began working with health care firms.
The former senior man-ager sent an email to Letch last week, thank-ing her for giving her more generalized assignments. She said she did not real-ize how much she would enjoy working in the health field.
“Don’t cut yourself off; don’t be your own limit-er,” Letch said. “Be open to what life has to offer … we will absolutely take your preferences into con-sideration, and we will try to schedule you on clients that are of interest to you, but not at the exclusion of everything else, especially in the first few years.”
The event is part of Business Madness week, a series of events orga-nized by the Business Interclub Council (BICC). Upcoming events include the “Mr. and Miss Business Pageant” Wednesday at 6 p.m. and a career fair Thursday at 1 p.m, Both events will be in the Titan Student Union Pavilions.
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“All the fraternities and sororities that we’ve talked to really want to lend support and they just want to find differ-ent ways to support,” said Ben Duong, a psychology major. “We have a lot of great ideas going on. It’s going to involve us shav-ing our heads for Victor as well.”
“What they are do-ing now, what they have planned, it’s just crazy that they would do it all for me,” Sandoval said.
Greek programs on campus are known for being competitive with each other, but Sandoval’s cause has brought the Greek community together.
“We get pretty com-petitive with all the oth-er Greeks,” Sandoval said. “When some of them found out they had
nothing but good things to say and show their support.”
Philanthropy is a big part of Greek life, and the effort to help Sandoval sets Sigma Nu apart from other fraternities, Royston said.
“It’s more apparent where that help is go-ing,” Royston said. “It is very different when you can say, ‘Look, I see that money and I know exactly where it’s going because I told it where to go,’ and that feels really good to be directly involved and know for a fact with-out any kind of a doubt that it’s going to help someone.”
People can support Sandoval by liking the Facebook page “Victor Will Beat Leukemia,” and they can donate mon-ey to a fund to help pay for treatment by visit-ing GiveForward.com/Fundraiser/chs3/help-vic-tor-beat-leukemia.
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As tensions in Ukraine continue to rise, the United States prepared Monday to impose sanctions on Russian officials in-volved with the occu-pation of Crimea, ac-cording to CNN.
The Obama admin-istration has suspend-ed all military ties with Russia, includ-ing port visits and planned meetings, one day after suspending trade talks.
Russia has deployed 16,000 troops over the last week in Crimea, a peninsula in Ukraine with a large Russian-speaking population, and demanded that Ukraine surrender or prepare for assault.
Russian officials deny any plans to at-tack, but they have strengthened Russian military presence in the region.
A driver died Monday morning af-ter a fatal head-on crash with a big-rig, according to the Orange County Register.
Brian McCarthy, 61, of Placentia, was driving a Toyota pick-up truck on the wrong side of the road on South Susan Street in Santa Ana at about 5:10 a.m.
Authorities said they do not know why McCarthy was driv-ing northbound on the southbound side of the road when he collided with the semi truck.
McCarthy was tak-en to the UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange and was pro-nounced dead hours later.
The driver of the semi truck was not injured.
A Corona mountain biker who went miss-ing Saturday morn-ing was found dead Sunday in Cleveland National Forest, ac-cording to the Orange County Register.
Andres Marin, 34, planned an 88-mile bike ride through the wilderness for his birthday, fol-lowed by an afternoon celebration.
Christyna Arista, Marin’s wife, did not hear from him until about 5:15 p.m., when he called to say he was injured and lost.
Due to the severe rainstorm, search and rescue teams were un-able to begin search-ing until Sunday.
Marin’s body was found Sunday morn-ing, and authorities think he died as a re-sult of hypothermia.
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The weekend rainstorm that dropped 2.21 inches of rain on Cal State Fullerton caused leaks in more than 20 locations on campus.
No major water issues have been reported, and leaks ob-served are said to be consis-tent with incidents during past rains, said a Cal State Fullerton representative.
The Computer Science build-ing was the hardest hit, with leaks in 12 rooms on the second, third and fourth floor, includ-ing a fourth-floor group study room.
There were leaks in the ceil-ing of the south building of the Pollak Library, which affect-ed stacks of books on the sixth floor. The rain also affected an elevator on the north side of the library.
Heavy rain also caused can-cellation of an ROTC exercise which was planned to feature two Black Hawk helicopters landing in a field in the north part of campus. Pilots gave word at 11:30 a.m. that they would not be going through with the exer-cises. They have been postponed until a later date.
The rain also cancelled soft-ball games that were sched-uled for Friday and Saturday. The Titans were set to take on the Louisville Cardinals, the Northwestern Wildcats, Nevada Wolfpack and the Illinois Fighting Illini. The games will not be rescheduled.
In addition to the rain in California, a lengthy rain de-lay Sunday interrupted a CSUF baseball away game against the
Oregon State University Ducks for nearly half an hour. The Titans went on to win.
The storm was part of a mas-sive deluge that covered much of Southern California with as much as a few inches of rain in some regions.
3,800 Southern California Edison customers, includ-ing 3,200 Irvine residents, were without power Saturday morning.
Mud flows closed Carbon Canyon Road and several
accidents were caused by the rain, according to the Orange County Register.
Stormclouds began to clear up midday Sunday and the skies were clear Monday.
Accuweather predicts clear skies through Friday, with the temperature climbing to 85 de-grees Fahrenheit on Saturday.
The downpour was not enough to break the state’s current drought. Gov. Jerry Brown called it “perhaps the worst drought California has seen since records
began being kept 100 years ago” in a January news conference.
Most of the state remains be-low 50 percent of normal rainfall, reported the San Jose-Mercury News on Monday.
The drought has caused Brown to declare a state of emergen-cy and President Barack Obama to pledge up to $100 million in aid during a visit to Fresno last month. Brown signed a bill Saturday that would provide $687 million in drought relief programs.
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A student waits at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Nutwood Boulevard as rain deluges the Cal State Fullerton campus Friday. The rainstorm forced several athletic events and ROTC exercises to be cancelled.
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Ticket information has been released for science educator Bill Nye’s keynote pre-sentation at an on-campus symposium.
The presentation will be free for stu-dents, but members of the public will be required to purchase a ticket for $25.
Tickets will become available for pur-chase at 7 a.m. Thursday at the TSU Information and Services Desk.
Nye will keynote the 11th annu-al Natural Sciences and Mathematics Interclub Council (NSM-ICC) Science and Math Symposium on March 20 at 5 p.m. in the Titan Student Union Pavilions.
The symposium, themed “Explorations in Citizen Science,” will be held March 19 and 20, and will feature faculty and stu-dent lectures. The event is held each year to give students in the College of Natural Science and Mathematics an opportunity to present their research.
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There are the Oscars for movies, Grammys for music, Emmys for tele-vision and the Tony’s for Broadway theatre.
The sheer number of award shows that exist can easily overwhelm a viewer.
Some claim these award shows are narcissistic and egotistical, saying that these spectacles are just rich people patting other rich people on the back. Others simply grow tired of seeing big name ac-tors over inflate their egos one too many times on television.
But the truth of the mat-ter is that these award shows, from an economi-cal standpoint, are a huge necessity for the surviv-al of broadcast networks, and for the large num-ber of viewers they draw in which helps keep them afloat.
There’s another reason awards shows are so pop-ular: the audience, accord-ing to Christopher Rosen of the Huffington Post.
“(The 2013) Golden Globes ceremony on NBC was the highest-rated broadcast since 2007. The 2012 Academy Awards ceremony was watched by 39.3 million viewers,” Rosen said.
This high amount of viewers brings in high revenues from advertise-ments, during the 2013 Academy Awards, ABC
was selling ads for as much as $1.8 million.
“We were virtually sold out by Christmas, which speaks to the appeal of the Oscars (and) we haven’t been this well sold, this early, in over a decade,” said Debbie Richman, se-nior VP-prime-time ad sales at ABC.
Viewers also show a huge interest in these award shows as well. Despite those who claim to hate the shows, the numbers don’t lie.
The advent of social me-dia and networking has catalyzed the rate at which viewers watch these award shows. Many people do not plan on watching these broadcasts but instead are drawn in by what they see on their Facebook wall or Twitter feed.
“Even people who ap-proach awards shows with the ‘I would never watch’ attitude are still somehow in the know,” said Mary McNamara, a TV critic for the Los Angeles Times. “Maybe they didn’t watch it live, or they watched parts on YouTube af-ter the fact. Either way, they’re aware of what happened.”
Are these award shows necessary? Yes, to a cer-tain degree.
They serve as an eco-nomical boon for the in-dustry and continue to draw in millions upon millions of viewers each year.
Award shows are cov-ered in great detail by the media and escaping the coverage of these big events at any given time is nearly impossible.
But that’s a good thing. Flipping the channel to an award show for even a little while will support a media source that helps fuel a part of this nation’s economy.
People can go online to get anything from groceries to CPR certifications, and online college courses are no ex-ception. Although these courses are in high demand, can students bene-fit from this non-traditional form of education?
The answer is yes.It is no secret that students have
more to deal with these days than just attending class. It is critical that online classes be available to students because many are forced to enter the job force well before graduation. Factor in fami-ly and day-to-day living on top of a full-time job and many people may opt out of college altogether.
Cutting back on work isn’t an option for everyone. A United States Census report issued in late 2012 stated that
72 percent of undergraduate students worked and 20 percent of them were full time, year-round workers.
Let’s not forget the rising costs of an education.
Taking an online course isn’t the easy way out. It’s choosing to work smarter, not harder. It takes discipline and ex-cellent time management skills to suc-ceed in an online course and it is ex-tremely beneficial to those students that need flexibility with their sched-ule. These online courses are a way for working students to get ahead. The fact is that a lot of students depend on these classes to further their education.
The CSU has 23 campus locations that offer extended education, partic-ularly online courses. On average they have 300,000 extended education en-rollments each year.
Are all these online classes compara-ble to a traditional education? No, but they have the potential to be.
There are a number of professors that have mastered the art of teaching online courses. Their expectations are clear and to the point. Many of them go to great lengths to ensure that students get a quality education by having videos or audio of the lectures as well as PDFs or PowerPoints of the information be-ing covered. Those are the classes that
are worth taking and ones that all on-line courses should be modeled after.
Unfortunately, many online classes are poorly managed. Still taking a back seat to standard classes, students ex-pect busy work and lengthy chapters to read. What they don’t expect is to actu-ally learn anything.
The cost of an online course is the same as a traditional class and it should be treated that way, for both the stu-dent and teacher.
Both parties should be held accountable.
Students should expect a reason-able amount of work and a fair share of studying. Online does not mean easy, it means convenient. The benefit to this type of instruction is that the work is ready and available at any time and deadlines should be respected.
Professors need to remember that students take online classes because they fit into their busy schedules. Eliminate the busy work, put up more content, engage students, make them interested in the subject.
Whether or not students respond is up to them.
Online classes are essential but whether or not they work all de-pends on the people teaching and taking them.
You’re telling me that the university held a de-bate panel about how we want to proceed with the word “n****r?”
Of all the problems in the world nowadays: ri-ots, murders in Ukraine, Venezuela, starvation, droughts, lack of access to proper medical care, im-migration, drug and gun legislation, police mur-dering people in their own homes here in the U.S.—in Los Angeles no less—and every other issue we have in the world right now, holding a panel discussing a word?
A single word?I’m not sure if I’m more
disgusted that the panel was held in the first place, or if someone thought
that was newsworthy! You know who gives a
word its power? The per-son who hears it.
Everyone is so political-ly correct nowadays that we spend more time mak-ing sure were not stepping on each others toes, that we are not actually taking any steps forward.
You want a word to die off? Then stop using it. You don’t exactly hear people going around ac-cusing others of bunber-rying anymore do you?
Other people using the word around you? Pay them no heed, and in time it will stop being used be-cause it has no effect.
Every time someone says the word “n****r” or “f*g” or any of the oth-er high profile derogato-ry terms everyone gets so wound up about it.
I’m fairly certain that everyone who has a
problem with the word “n****r” want people to stop using it.
Granted I was not at this panel, and as a Caucasian male I can-not speak on behalf of the African-American com-munity with any authori-ty. But come on people, it’s really not that difficult to figure out.
The world will always have bullies and they will always push the buttons of others in any way they can just because they can. Then by giving these words so much emphasis you are essentially hand-ing them a tool to hurt you with that has a money back guarantee on it.
Grow up, we’re not in kindergarten anymore. There is no teacher you can go crying to because someone else called you a bad name and hurt your feelings.
Fact of the matter is that slavery is an inte-gral part of U.S. history, we fought a war with our-selves over it, spent de-cades fighting for equal-ity, and are still fighting over it for one group or another.
No amount of political correctness or sensitivity training will change his-tory, nothing can.
Now you can either ac-cept that it happened, and that it was a long time ago, and focus on march-ing forward into a world where we are all equals.
Or you can choose to play the race card every time someone offends you, and disgrace all the work that those before you did to get you to where we are today.
We’re all Americans, it does not matter what color you are, we are all equals.
I wish to congratulate Kaley Williams on her great column in the Feb. 27 issue of the Daily Titan, “Arizona bill rightfully ve-toed.” She was absolutely right.
This country of ours has enough bigots without adding tens of thousands more.
Kaley’s last paragraph hit it right on the mark.
Millions of dollars in ad revenue benefit broadcast networks
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Online courses offer convenience
Award shows are boon for economy
Letter to the EditorAnti-gay bill rightfully vetoed
DICK BLAKEMember of OLLI-CSUF
The reason students take online courses is because the structure of the course adapts to their busy lifestyles. photo illustration by WINNIE HUANG/ Daily Titan
Online classes have potential to offer same experience as traditional courses
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Letter to the EditorThe “N” word
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“Joe was one of those great editors that could take a good story and make it great,” McCorry said. “He could also take a poor-ly written story and make it well-written.”
Kevin Miller, a news editor hired by Winski in 1996, was greatly influenced by him.
Miller said people loved working with Winski and he edits work that people end up loving.
“I called it, ‘Winski dust,’ because he would sprinkle Winski dust on stories and they would come out way better than some of the re-porters ever imagined when they were filing the copy in the first place,” Miller said.
Winski was not only a good editor and mentor who had a tremendous in-fluence on Bloomberg News, but also a humble, caring and thoughtful friend to his colleagues.
McCorry said he remem-bered after the birth of his first son, Winski not only sent him a congratulatory note, but also several chil-dren’s books.
“(Winski) was always calm under pressure, he never raised his voice and helped shelter his reporters from the chaos of manage-ment above him,” said Noelle Knox, a former reporter who is now editor of the CFO Journal at the Wall Street Journal.
Throughout his ca-reer, Winski has reported on many national finan-cial issues, one being food inflation.
“When I was covering commodities and agricul-ture, food inflation was a huge issue; food prices were rising rapidly, and taking a lot of consumers’ money,” Winski said. “It was probably the biggest issue I covered at the Wall Street Journal at that time.”
After Winski retired from Bloomberg News, Knox got him interested in the Reynolds program as she was a visiting professor at Louisiana State University in 2013.
During the spring of last year, Winski applied for the Reynolds visiting professor’s program because he was “getting bored.”
“I thought that teaching at the college level for a semes-ter would be interesting and stimulating and maybe steer me in that direction as far as a new career,” he said.
Winski teaches basic busi-ness reporting at CSUF in his COMM 335 class, and business features writing, COMM 334. These have the same requirements as the normal versions of each course, but with an applied business aspect.
As part of the Reynolds program, Winski has more requirements to fulfill for his classes, such as bring-ing in guest speakers who are working business journalists.
Knox worked with Winski
in 1995 to 1996 at Bloomberg News, and she asked him to be a guest speaker in her class at LSU.
“I always say that Joe Winski was the best edi-tor I ever had. I was early in my career and I barely knew how to write. I worked as a business reporter for five years, but I learned more at Bloomberg in 18 months than I had in the last 5 years, and Joe Winski was a big part of that,” Knox said. “He would take my raw copy, which was awful, and spin it around and turn it into gold, or as close to gold as it could be.”
Another requirement
Winski must complete is to develop a mentoring rela-tionship with a local news outlet.
He recently had Marni Usheroff, a business report-er from the Orange County Register, speak to his stu-dents as a way to establish a relationship.
Winski said he hopes to do more with the Register in his classes.
Winski said business jour-nalism is a relatively good journalism field to enter be-cause there is more interest
in business and the economy as a result of the financial crisis in 2008.
“There’s a desire for more understanding of the link-age between what happens in the business world and what happens to the aver-age consumer, and I think that’s one of the things that business journalism can do,” Winski said.
In business journalism, there is a constant need for economic and financial news.
Specializing in business gives a journalist “a leg up over the competition,” and the growth potential in the field is greater, Winski said.
“It helps (journalists) un-derstand, to a great degree, the way the world works,” he said. “Business and the
economy drive a lot of what happens in the world, and I think studying that gives them a greater insight on how the world does work in reality.”
Winski said the best part about teaching at CSUF has been getting students in-terested in writing about business.
All communication fields can benefit from the busi-ness aspect of journalism, Winski said.
Although Winski has many years of journalism ex-perience under his belt, he is happy to have students learn more about business.
“Seeing some of the kids get a little bit excited about business has been the most rewarding part so far,” he said.
Joe Winski, former managing editor for Bloomberg News and Wall Street Journal editor and reporter, teaches business journalism at Cal State Fullerton. MARIAH CARRILLO / Daily Titan
Winski applied for the Reynolds program to teach at Cal State Fullerton about a year af ter retiring from Bloomberg News.AMAL ROCKN / Daily Titan
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and stimulating and maybe
steer me in that direction as far
as a new career.”
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Lety Macarty, 22, an art major, is a graphic designer for Associated Students Inc. at Cal State Fullerton. She creates digital posters for concerts at the Becker Amphitheater, discussion groups and other on-campus events.
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Lety Macarty’s job as a graphic de-signer for Associated Students Inc. at CSUF, along with her passion for de-sign, has helped her be successful in the field she loves.
She designs colorful and creative digital posters for Cal State Fullerton concerts at the Becker Amphitheater, discussion groups and events.
The 22-year-old art major, who is focusing on graphic design, has been drawing since she was a young child, but uses it as a way to express herself.
However, she said she understands that people interpret viewing and cre-ating art differently.
“I think art and beauty are very am-biguous terms, because the artwork might have different meaning for dif-ferent people, some people might be attached to it, and some people might find it disturbing. I think, as artists, we have to follow our own ideas and sentiment,” she said.
Macarty spends her time in class listening to lectures, while all of her work is completed on her own time, meaning her dedication comes at a cost.
Finding time to see her family and friends has become difficult, but it has taught her that time management is incredibly important when it comes to being able to complete projects on schedule.
Macarty said she hears art major students joke around about the entire semester, feeling like it is nothing but midterms and there are always people talking about pulling all-nighters and working on a few hours of sleep.
However, she believes being an art major is different than other majors because of critiques.
“In art class, we have critiques. We work hours, sometimes days on a sin-gle project. It all comes down to that day when everyone gets to rip your project apart, they tell you every-thing that is wrong with your work all at once,” Macarty said. “Even though it may seem harsh if you’re not used
to it, I think it is the most important part of class. Critique days are where you learn about yourself and what you can and should do to improve.”
While the commitment to classes is large, Macarty said she does not mind it and considers herself lucky because she gets to do something she abso-lutely loves.
Macarty is able to do what she loves with the help of her art professors. She said CSUF art professor Theron Moore has been a big influence on her work.
Moore understands that many art students put in a lot of time and effort into their work.
“People often underestimate the amount of work it takes to complete a bachelor of fine arts degree and suc-ceed as a designer or an artist,” Moore said. “This is true across the disci-pline, from applied art, such as graph-ic design, to the fine arts. Art is some-times thought to be easy and nothing could be farther from the truth.”
Macarty designed a magazine in one of Moore’s classes and he said it was her ability to take what she learned in class and apply it to her work that really made it stand out.
Moore described Macarty’s work as “visually bold and gutsy.”
“She takes risks when it comes to solving problems, which is a real-ly beneficial way of approaching the
creative process. Her work is clever,” Moore said.
Macarty gains experience by tak-ing advantage of freelance work. This helps her grow her portfolio and also puts a few extra dollars in her pocket.
Moore said one the biggest advan-tages of being an art major is being able to become involved in the art field while going to school.
“Art majors, and graphic designers in particular, have the opportunity to become involved in a creative and in-teresting profession and also to have a lucrative career,” he said. “Designers have the potential of obtaining the best of both worlds; creativity and good pay.”
Macarty said she is not sure what she wants to do once she graduates, but her experience through her in-ternship, work and schooling is help-ing her figure it out.
Although some art students face an uncertain future, Moore sees nothing but good things for Macarty.
“Lety is very motivated, smart and creative. She’s also ambitious and per-sonable, and I imagine that she’s ca-pable of opening a lot of doors. Her fu-ture is bright to say the least,” Moore said.
To learn more about Macarty and see some of her work, visit LetyMacarty.com.
One of the most popu-lar phrases that is often repeated in the McNair Scholar program is “Eagles f ly with eagles.”
Maricela Medina, a Cal State Fullerton under-graduate enrolled in the program, understands the meaning behind the phrase.
“Eagles f ly with eagles is to say you surround yourself with people that have the same common interests and that really see the future, the goal, the overall end,” Medina said. “When you breathe a rare air, only certain people will be up there with you.”
The McNair Scholars Program, named after as-tronaut Ronald McNair, Ph.D., who f lew aboard the Challenger space shuttle, has been help-ing students pursue their graduate studies and dreams for 28 years.
Founded by the United States Department of Education in 1986, the McNair Scholars Program encourages underserved and underrepresented students, providing them with opportunities to work on research proj-ects related to their own fields.
The program serves 25 students per year who participate in academic and summer activities up until they graduate.
“(The program) shapes (students) because it gives them a new dimen-sion, a dimension they ha-ven’t heard before,” said current interim direc-tor Gerald Bryant, Ph.D. “We’re exposing them to a whole new set of ideas and understandings.”
Bryant was the pro-gram’s director for 13 years prior to his retire-ment announcement in January.
During his tenure, he was responsible for pro-viding assistance and oversight in the student’s selection of a mentoring faculty member.
The selected faculty member would then in turn help the individual undergraduate prepare for the next step in the academic world.
“A mentor will assist an individual in understand-ing how to do and be the whole package,” Bryant
said. “We let the students themselves identify the faculty they have made relationships with.”
During each academ-ic year, McNair scholars collaborate with their se-lected faculty member on an outlined research project that allows for the development of specific research skills.
“Research projects are actually key in graduate school success,” Medina said. “Graduate school is based on research, so these skills that we are learning now are the things we get to take on there.”
To figure out what re-search would suit her interests best, Medina visited the Psychology Department on campus to find out what research was being conducted by faculty. That is where she found her niche with Jennifer Trevitt, Ph.D., who has a doctorate in the field.
Trevitt conducts an-imal research in rela-tion to bio-psychology and neuroscience, and with Medina aspiring to take on a similar role in the field, she felt that the match was a great way to get further involved.
“(Trevitt) is my go-to person,” Medina said. “If I have a question on my re-search, on what I should do next, where to go find articles, all those things that I have questions on she answers for me.”
For the life of a McNair scholar, the work meet-ings continue beyond the paired faculty mentor. Each member also meets with Patricia Literte, Ph.D., the academic coor-dinator for the program.
“I meet with each one of the scholars on a week-ly basis,” Literte said. “We discuss where they are in terms of their re-search projects with their mentors. We also discuss their academic progress and if they are at that point, we also will dis-cuss their graduate Ph.D. applications.”
Literte said the most rewarding aspect of being involved with underrep-resented students is help-ing them on a daily basis fulfill their potential.
She credits her own mentors as her inspira-tions while she was in graduate school.
Literte serves as a pri-mary example for the scholars.
“One of the ways that I am able to reach them is by thinking back to my own experiences in a Ph.D. pro-gram,” she said.
Visit fullerton.edu/mc-nair for more information.
KYLE NAULTDaily Titan
McNair Scholars help Titans pursue graduate studies
ART: Graphic design
Students soar with program
DAVID COATSDaily Titan
Lety Macarty, 22, gets the best of both worlds as an art major at Cal State Fullerton
Macarty uses her website to showcase the works of art she creates, including photographs.Courtesy of Lety Macarty
Major Spotlight
“Eagles fly with eagles is to say you surround yourself with people that have the common interests and that really see the future, the goal, the overall end.”
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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):
Test a new theory. Fill the orders and rake in the money. Don’t believe ev-erything you’ve learned, and watch where you’re going. Start your shop-ping list. Call if you’re going to be late. Maintain objectivity.
TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):
You’re hot today and tomorrow. Take care not to provoke jealousies. Re-ject a far-fetched scheme in favor of a practical solution. Tempers could flare. The answer, for now, is nega-tive. Postpone expansion. Soothe ruffled feathers.
GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):
Review your data. You’ll be glad you did. Be sensitive to a loved one’s wishes. Family comes first. Curtail spending on entertainment. Enter a two-day contemplative phase. Assess your efforts, and monitor spending closely. Provide motivation.
CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):
Ask a female for her opinion. It’s getting fun, today and tomorrow. Guard against impulsive behavior. Rushed preparations could backfire. Rest for the busy action ahead. In-crease organization. Invite friends over rather than going out.
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Expect new directives over the next few days, leading to a rise in status. Promises alone won’t cut it. Check for financial leaks. Move slowly. En-courage the girls to participate. Have the facts. Play passionately.
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Check for a change in plans. There’s no need for haste. Travel compels but could be complex today and tomor-row. New problems develop. Devel-op a backup plan, and confirm reser-vations. Apply what you’ve learned.
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Play fair or the victory is worthless. Get ready for more publicity. The next few days are good for finan-cial planning with shared resources. Avoid reckless spending. Take strate-gic, rather than impulsive, actions to save time and energy.
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Develop strong partners today and tomorrow. Compromise is required, or sparks may fly. Consider the consequences of words and actions. Avoid waste and expensive errors. Check out insider information. Don’t go shopping yet. Figure out strategy.
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Don’t rush the job. Stick rigorously to instructions. Work interferes with socializing; yet resist temptation to cut corners. Fulfill promises you’ve made today and tomorrow. Think twice before you borrow. You’re learning how to do without.
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Unfulfilled expectations could pro-voke an unpleasant situation. Phys-ical changes are required, and delays could interfere with travel. Delegate what you can. Enjoy the game, with-out taking expensive risks. Walk with gentle steps, watching the path ahead.
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Delight in the comforts of home to-day and tomorrow. Clean and reor-ganize for practical functionality and beauty. Avoid travel and expense, or stepping on someone’s toes. Shrewd business people do well now. Follow a leader you respect.
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Running is often per-ceived to be the ideal form of cardio activity, but spin classes might be a better overall workout for those looking to keep their heart healthy and their bodies in shape.
Students have taken note of the recent increase in the popularity of cycling class-es, and seem to find it more convenient than simply run-ning around a track.
Vanessa Montero has been taking two spin class-es each week at the Student Recreation Center during the spring semester, and has noticed the perks immediately.
“It’s motivating to have someone yelling at you to go along with loud music,” Montero said. “I really think it’s much more interesting than traditional running or jogging.”
While running still is an excellent form of cardio, it doesn’t offer the same over-all workout that an exercise bike does. A 45-minute spin-ning workout will burn an average of 500 calories, de-pending on the intensity of the workout.
Senior Marc Inocencio takes cycling classes in ad-dition to running on a reg-ular basis, but he said rid-ing the stationary bicycle offers a more well-rounded workout.
“Running is more of a lei-sure activity for me, where-as spin classes push me to my absolute limit physical-ly,” Inocencio said. “If I’m looking to build more mus-cle while performing a car-dio workout, spin classes are always the choice for me.”
Kiana Millar has been teaching multiple fit-ness classes at the Student Recreation Center at Cal State Fullerton for two se-mesters now. She enjoys leading the spin classes spe-cifically because of how in-teractive they are.
“Having music to pump you up to go along with a class full of hard-working people brings up everyone’s work ethic,” Millar said.
Millar said there are a multitude of workouts any-one can do while cycling, and they work more than just your legs.
“I try to incorporate a full body workout into each class,” Millar said. “We do push-ups, quick sprints and endurance building all in the sixty minutes we have together.”
A FitDay.com article list-ed several advantages of spin classes, which include being able to burn calories and build muscle tone while being able to take the class-es at any time of the year. A variety of muscles are working while spinning, in-cluding the core, buttocks, calves and thighs.
Spinning offers flexibility that running outdoors does not. While running may not be possible on certain poor-weather days, being able to cycle indoors offers no risk of inclement weather
affecting your workout.Spin classes also offer less
risk for injury than either running or jogging, since it is possible to trip and fall while attempting to run outdoors. The bicycles put less wear and tear on the knees and joints and are a good option for people with arthritis.
Another benefit of spin classes is that they can re-duce stress. The high inten-sity of the workout along with the social aspect of the class is a great stress re-liever. Having others in the room with you, especially
friends, will keep you mo-tivated and become men-tally stronger. Riders can also watch training vid-eos simulating them rid-ing through different sce-nic spots around the world and allows them to mentally escape.
Spin classes are available at the SRC five days a week, and sessions will last from 45 minutes to an hour. Early risers can get themselves moving at 6:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday.
For those looking to break a sweat between classes, they can catch a 12:05 p.m.
session on Mondays and Wednesdays. And if the night owls still have ener-gy after classes on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, they can attend a 7:30 p.m. session. There is also one weekend class on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. All classes are held in the Spin Room on the second floor of the SRC.
The next time you’re look-ing for a cardio workout, think about the advantag-es that cycling classes have over running or jogging outdoors and go hop on a stationary bike with some friends and go for a ride.
Spinning for better cardioJOSEPH ANDERSONTAMEEM SERAJDaily Titan
Stationary bicycle classes offer a fun way to get healthy
Spin classes are offered at the Student Recreation Center five days a week. A 45 minute workout will burn an average of 500 calories and is less harmful to your knees and joints than a treadmill.
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Titan earns Player of the Week honors
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Senior guard Michael Williams was named the Big West Conference Player of the Week on Monday.
Williams earned the honor after help-ing the Cal State Fullerton men’s bas-ketball team record a pair of conference wins this past week-end against Cal State Northridge and ri-val Long Beach State. The wins locked up a Big West Conference Tournament berth for the Titans.
The Van Nuys na-tive put up 23 points against the Matadors and 28 against the 49ers for a total of 51 points. Williams shot 60.6 percent in the two games (20-33) and connected on 40 per-cent of his three-point shots (6-15).
The 6’2” guard also pulled down six re-bounds and dished out four assists over the weekend to propel the Titans into fifth place in the confer-ence standings.
For the season, Williams leads the team in points and as-sists, averaging 17.9 points and 2.5 assists per contest. Williams also grabs 3.9 re-bounds per game.
