Inside a trailer parked in a lot at Cal State Fullerton, students stand with guns drawn, ready to fire. The students are participating in a test exercise as part of a virtual firearms simulation activity. How- ever, the test exercise is not far from a real life situation faced by a law enforcement official, when a few seconds could mean the difference between life and death. The activi- ty was led by University Police Sgt. Carl Jones. The simulation, led by Jones aimed to teach the students, many of whom were criminal justice ma- jors, to take stock of a situation and quickly make a decision whether or not they would shoot. It’s a deci- sion with direct parallels in the real world, Jones said. “(Whatever) decision they make, well that is the decision that they have got to live with—not every scenario is a shoot situation,” Jones said. In teams of two, the students walked into a large metal trailer where Jones showed them how to load their pistols before a simula- tion started on a screen in front of them. Students were then presented with one of multiple simulation op- tions. One of the simulations depict- ed a woman who brandished a knife but then drops it. Another showed a man choking a woman on a bed. In both instances, it was up to stu- dents to determine whether to they would shoot the individual in the simulation. “You definitely felt the pressure of having to make a decision,” Brook Koontz, 21, a human services major said. “Do I hesitate, do I shoot right now, do I have the gun ready?” Koontz was one of about 160 total students who participated over the course of the two-day program. 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In the statement, García responded to the issues of transparency raised in the editorial. “I take these concerns very seriously, as the te- nets of transparency and collegiality are essential to fulfilling the academic mission of our institution,” García said in the email. García has asked Greg Saks, vice president for university advancement, the department responsi- ble for building relation- ships between CSUF and outside sources including alumni, businesses and foundations, to coordinate meetings with Daily Ti- tan representatives to de- termine how issues can be addressed, she said in the email. The Daily Titan edi- tor-in-chief and manag- ing editor will be meet- ing Thursday with Saks and Jeffrey Cook, CSUF’s chief communications officer. In the email, García said that she has asked Saks to schedule additional meet- ings with other campus community members to determine how to better work with the Daily Titan as an important part of ed- ucation on campus. The editorial has gar- nered the support of the Academic Sen- ate and Department of Communications. Both entities issued res- olutions supporting the ed- itorial and its call for in- creased transparency. President responds to calls for more transparency CYNTHIA WASHICKO Daily Titan Students are getting ready to spring into rhythm for this year’s Spring Dance Theatre. This will be the 13th Spring Dance Theatre and is coordi- nated by professor of dance Gladys Kares. A dancer her- self, Kares said the show as a whole will not have a theme, but each piece will feature a theme created by its choreographer. Shawnee Williams, a junior dance and sociology major, is one of the choreographers for the show. This is Wil- liams’ second time involved in Spring Dance Theatre, but her first time as a choreographer. As a child, Williams spent her time choreographing dances and her mother, in turn, put her in a ballet class. “My mother put me in my first baby ballet class at (age 4) after I was apparently seen choreographing a dance to Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got to Do with It with three other children at my daycare,” Williams said. Williams’ dance piece, Pa- rameters, is considered Af- ro-contemporary, but also has inspiration from everyday gen- dered gestures and patterns. Williams also used her studies in sociology for inspiration. Spring Dance Theatre to open in the Little Theatre ALANA GARRETT For the Daily Titan The 13th annual Spring Dance Theatre will open Thursday in the Little Theatre. The show is coordinated by professor of dance Gladys Kares. Each dance in the show features a different choreographer and involves a different theme. The students in the show have been preparing their dances all semester long. MARIAH CARRILLO / DAILY TITAN SEE DANCE 5 SEE FIREARMS 2 Criminal Justice exercise puts students in life-or- death situations ALEX FAIRBANKS & GABRIELA LEPE Daily Titan Two students take part in the firearm simulation Monday. As part of the program, pairs of students entered a trailer and then viewed multiple situations in which they had to decide whether or not they would shoot an individual depicted as part of the simulation. ALEXANDER FAIRBANKS / DAILY TITAN
Transcript
Inside a trailer parked in a lot at Cal State Fullerton, students stand with guns drawn, ready to fire.
The students are participating in a test exercise as part of a virtual firearms simulation activity. How-ever, the test exercise is not far from a real life situation faced by a law enforcement official, when a few seconds could mean the difference
between life and death. The activi-ty was led by University Police Sgt. Carl Jones.
The simulation, led by Jones aimed to teach the students, many of whom were criminal justice ma-jors, to take stock of a situation and quickly make a decision whether or not they would shoot. It’s a deci-sion with direct parallels in the real world, Jones said.
“(Whatever) decision they make, well that is the decision that they have got to live with—not every scenario is a shoot situation,” Jones said.
In teams of two, the students walked into a large metal trailer where Jones showed them how to load their pistols before a simula-tion started on a screen in front of
them. Students were then presented
with one of multiple simulation op-tions. One of the simulations depict-ed a woman who brandished a knife but then drops it. Another showed a man choking a woman on a bed. In both instances, it was up to stu-dents to determine whether to they would shoot the individual in the simulation.
“You definitely felt the pressure of having to make a decision,” Brook Koontz, 21, a human services major said. “Do I hesitate, do I shoot right now, do I have the gun ready?”
Koontz was one of about 160 total students who participated over the course of the two-day program.
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Student dancers to showcase their passion
Simulating police decisions
President Mildred García sent an email state-ment to Cal State Fullerton students, faculty and staff Monday, responding to the Thursday editorial in the Daily Titan, “Transparen-cy? Not at CSUF.”
The editorial outlined issues the Daily Titan has had with the Strategic Communications depart-ment’s media relations of-ficials, including hostility toward student reporters, and difficulty accessing university administrators.
In the statement, García responded to the issues of transparency raised in the editorial.
“I take these concerns very seriously, as the te-nets of transparency and collegiality are essential to fulfilling the academic mission of our institution,” García said in the email.
García has asked Greg Saks, vice president for university advancement, the department responsi-ble for building relation-ships between CSUF and outside sources including alumni, businesses and foundations, to coordinate meetings with Daily Ti-tan representatives to de-termine how issues can be addressed, she said in the email.
The Daily Titan edi-tor-in-chief and manag-ing editor will be meet-ing Thursday with Saks and Jeffrey Cook, CSUF’s chief communications officer.
In the email, García said that she has asked Saks to schedule additional meet-ings with other campus community members to determine how to better work with the Daily Titan as an important part of ed-ucation on campus.
The editorial has gar-nered the support of the Academic Sen-ate and Department of Communications.
Both entities issued res-olutions supporting the ed-itorial and its call for in-creased transparency.
President responds to calls for more transparency
CYNTHIA WASHICKODaily Titan
Students are getting ready to spring into rhythm for this year’s Spring Dance Theatre.
This will be the 13th Spring Dance Theatre and is coordi-nated by professor of dance Gladys Kares. A dancer her-self, Kares said the show as a whole will not have a theme, but each piece will
feature a theme created by its choreographer.
Shawnee Williams, a junior dance and sociology major, is one of the choreographers for the show. This is Wil-liams’ second time involved in Spring Dance Theatre, but her first time as a choreographer.
As a child, Williams spent
her time choreographing dances and her mother, in turn, put her in a ballet class.
“My mother put me in my first baby ballet class at (age 4) after I was apparently seen choreographing a dance to Tina Turner’s What’s Love Got to Do with It with three other children at my daycare,”
Williams said. Williams’ dance piece, Pa-
rameters, is considered Af-ro-contemporary, but also has inspiration from everyday gen-dered gestures and patterns. Williams also used her studies in sociology for inspiration.
Spring Dance Theatre to open in the Little Theatre
ALANA GARRETTFor the Daily Titan
The 13th annual Spring Dance Theatre will open Thursday in the Little Theatre. The show is coordinated by professor of dance Gladys Kares. Each dance in the show features a different choreographer and involves a different theme. The students in the show have been preparing their dances all semester long.
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SEE DANCE 5
SEE FIREARMS 2
Criminal Justice exercise puts students in life-or-death situations
ALEX FAIRBANKS & GABRIELA LEPE
Daily Titan
Two students take part in the firearm simulation Monday. As part of the program, pairs of students entered a trailer and then viewed multiple situations in which they had to decide whether or not they would shoot an individual depicted as part of the simulation.
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The city of Baltimore has begun the clean-up process following Monday’s riot.
A city-wide cur-few was put in place across Baltimore from 10 p.m. Tuesday eve-ning until 5 a.m. today, CNN reported.
The riots had stemmed from re-cent protests over the death of Freddie Gray, who died after being arrested by Baltimore Police for possession of a switchblade. An autopsy later revealed Gray had been killed by a severe injury to his spinal cord.
Buildings were burned, business-es were looted and police officers were hospitalized as a re-sult of Monday’s riots. Nearly 2,000 National Guardsmen and 1,000 police officers were expected to patrol streets Tuesday.
The body of a miss-ing Laguna Hills wom-an was found near San Juan Capistra-no Monday night, ac-cording to the OC Register.
Erica Melissa Alon-so, 27 at the time of her death, had been missing since Valen-tine’s Day weekend after arguing with her on-again, off-again boyfriend at his Irvine home.
Her body was found a mile away from U.S. Forest Service San Juan Fire Station by a group of Caltrans biol-ogists, who were ex-ploring the terrain that evening.
The next day, ho-micide investigators and a local coroner headed to the loca-tion of the body. The Orange County Sheriff department identified the remains as Erica Alonso.
The U.S. Navy sent a destroyer toward the Persian gulf after re-ceiving a distress call from a Marshall Is-lands cargo ship that was taken by Iranian forces that accused the ship of trespass-ing, reported the New York Times.
Islamic Revolution-ary Guards Corps pa-trol boats fired warn-ing shots at the cargo ship and told them to go to an assigned lo-cation in their waters. The ship and its crew are still being held by Iranian officials.
Twenty-four crew members were aboard the cargo ship and the spokesman of their charter company said the ship did not sail outside of internation-al maritime routes.
Firearms: Students gain gun experience
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This was the first time this firearms simulator has been on campus. Christie Gardiner, Ph.D., an assistant professor of criminal jus-tice, started the program for her classes, but then opened it up to all students.
“We see a lot of these shootings, especially late-ly … where we are ques-tioning the officer’s ac-tions and they have a split second to make a decision, a life or death decision,” Gardiner said.
Gardiner wants to expand the program for next school year and possibly work with Associated students to ac-complish that.
The students had many different reasons for want-ing to participate in the fire-arms simulator.
Morgan Bell, 20, a crim-inal justice major, said the simulation gives a real world perspective to what she is learning in a police class.
Another criminal justice major, Matt McCarville, 22, who plans to go to law
school said he has not had many positive interactions with the police, but found Jones, the officer leading the program, to be very polite and informative.
His partner for the simu-lation, criminal justice ma-jor, Kelly Nguyen, 19, said she wanted to experience what it is like to hold a gun because she wants to be a police officer.
Gardiner said she believes the program is important because it allows students to see what officers put them-selves through, she said.
For the second year, the Family Promise of Orange County and students in the Cal State Fullerton Mas-ter of Social Work pro-gram will attempt to raise awareness about the plight of homeless people with the Box City event.
More than 100 Master of Social Work students, along with Family Prom-ise of Orange County, an organization that works to aid homeless families by providing shelter, food and help finding long-term sta-bility, organized the event, which will take place Thursday.
During Box City, the students will create, deco-rate and spend the night in makeshift cardboard shel-ters on campus to simulate homeless living.
The most recent survey available, taken in 2013 by the Point in Time Or-ange County, an organiza-tion that tracks statistics on homelessness in Or-ange County, found around 12,700 people were home-less over the course of a year in Orange County. The same organization found that, on any given night, there are around 4,300 homeless people in the county.
As a community partner agency, Family Promise of Orange County is part of a national organization that’s
been spreading homeless awareness with the Box City event for about 10 years in the surrounding communities.
Box City is a hands-on activity for social work stu-dents, and helps implement classroom curriculum into real world situations, said Caroline E. Bailey, Ph.D., an associate professor of social work.
Students have pledged to reach a goal of $10,000 in monetary and goods dona-tions, including clothing, food, gift cards and other necessities that come from the community’s help, said Nicole Macias, a Master of Social Work student.
The inaugural 2014 Box City event raised around $10,000 in donations and another $10,000 in goods donations to benefit home-less people.
“As life becomes more and more expensive the homeless population rises as well. And as this popu-lation is seen as undesired or a nuisance they need passionate people like the MSW students to bring upon awareness so further change can happen,” Ma-cias said.
The day after the event, Family Promise of Orange County will distribute sup-plies to the homeless com-munity by providing basic necessities as they raise funds and donations from the event, said Erica Nargi-zian of Family Promise of Orange County.
“The disbursement event is an event where individ-uals who are in need with low income or individuals experiencing homelessness
can come here to Family Promise and receive cloth-ing items, food items, hik-ing items and resources,” Nargizian said.
The event is a semes-ter-long project for the Master of Social Work stu-dents, who work with the Master of Social Work Stu-dent Association to put on the event.
During the planning for the event, students divide into teams and committees to take on different tasks needed to put on the event, including meal preparation, fundraising and network-ing, Macias said.
The event aims to raise awareness of the struggles of the multiple facets of the homeless community, Bai-ley said, and not only those most visible to passersby.
“We absolutely need to raise awareness, not only on our campus but in our community regarding the needs of individuals expe-riencing homelessness, not only as it pertains to groups that are highly visible such as chronic and persistent-ly homeless individuals, but as it pertains to other groups such as veterans, families and even students on our campus,” she said.
Cardboard boxes are donated from various or-ganizations around the community to help sup-ply the students with am-ple amounts of materials to configure the makeshift shelters, she added.
After Box City is decon-structed the boxes will be recycled and any unused materials will be donated to Family Promise of the South Bay in Torrance.
Box City event aims to bring attention to homelessness
JACKIE TAMBARADaily Titan
Event to use boxes to raise awareness
The Box City Event, put on by Family Promise of Orange County, aims to raise awarness about the issue of homelessness in the area. Promise of Orange County is part of a larger effort nationally.
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California State Univer-sity and USC student pub-lications weighed in on the difficulties expressed by the Daily Titan in its edi-torial published last week, “Transparency? Not at CSUF.”
Students working at pub-lications at both public and private universities echoed the same idea—lack of transparency at a pub-lic institution is no small problem, and one that shouldn’t be seen at a pub-lic institution.
“It has a (good) story of journalism,” said Will Federman, editor-in-chief of Neon Tommy at USC Annenberg School of
Communication and Jour-nalism. “It’s one of those things that the school loves to brand about itself … it loves to talk about the jour-nalism program, and you can’t really do that and at the same time deny access to your journalism stu-dents. It’s an imbalance that is kind of embarrassing.”
As editor-in-chief of Neon Tommy, an online, student-run newspaper, Federman expected less transparency at USC, a private university, than he might elsewhere, he said. The same expectation, however, should not apply to CSUF, he said.
“If you’re Cal State Ful-lerton, it’s a state school. It’s entirely funded by pub-lic dollars and students, hence journalists should be entitled—not necessary be allowed—but entitled to that information,” Fed-erman said. Editor-in-chief of the student publication at
Cal State Northridge, The Sundial, Andrew Martinez, agreed with Federman, adding that as a public in-stitution, all information—whether it be about fees, structural changes, impac-tion, investigations, student
issues or administration is-sues—should be public, and withholding informa-tion from a student news-paper shouldn’t be some-thing students should put up with.
“It’s really important for not just the student
newspaper, but for stu-dents, to be aware that their school is not cooperating, is not releasing informa-tion, no matter what the topic is, no matter what the information is,” Martinez said.
As a public universi-ty, he said, information should be readily available to students and journalists alike.
“We should have ac-cess to everything that our public institution is do-ing, everything that they’re
planning to do … any in-formation that we should have access to should be open and easy to access. We shouldn’t have to strug-gle or fight to get a lot of the information,” he said.
Students have a right to know what is happening at their university, he said. Martinez believes the cul-ture of apathy that exists at some colleges is the result of what university repre-sentatives are doing, Marti-nez said.
“More transparency leads to more student in-volvement, makes people care more about the cam-pus … makes (students) feel like they actually be-long to the campus commu-nity,” Martinez said. “So transparency is the number one thing in actually culti-vating a good campus cul-ture, campus community.”
Katlin Sweeney, edi-tor-in-chief at The Cougar Chronicle, Cal State San
Marcos’ newspaper, be-lieves the editorial was an appropriate method to use after exhausting other op-tions and still receiving no response, she said.
“If you’re committed to writing a story in a fashion where you have accurate data and accurate statistics and things that are reason-able to request from a uni-versity, it becomes near-ly impossible—because they obviously have a lot of these facts—that even if you’re super dedicated to the story, you might not necessarily come across,” Sweeney said.
A university is very much funded by the stu-dents who attend it, Swee-ney said.
Making public informa-tion inaccessible creates an unwelcoming campus culture compared to a campus that gives you access to informa-tion that is pertinent to a stu-dent’s daily life, she said.
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Rachel Nardo, academic and budgetary director for the California State Univer-sity Summer Arts Program, presented at the second open forum in the selection process for the new dean of the College of the Arts Tuesday.
Nardo discussed her plan for how make the College of the Arts the “college of distinction” for the 21st century.
Nardo said she would like to see a College of the Arts-specific strategic plan that is influenced by the ideas espoused by Liber-al Education and Ameri-ca’s Promise, a national re-search initiative that seeks to achieve economic and creative betterment of the country through educated students.
“That’s the first thing in moving forward in this work, that’s the first thing that I would do, is come to-gether to look at the strate-gic plan and look how we can play that out in the col-lege,” Nardo said.
The initiative calls on lib-eral arts students to engage in high achievement and un-dergraduate research.
It also aims to prepare students to participate in a global workforce.
Nardo plans to develop her strategic plan for the college throughout her first
year as dean by organizing several meetings with facul-ty members.
Nardo also addressed the college’s mission, values and vision and said there needs to clear definitions for all three things and a clear correlation between them.
To do that, there needs to be a conversation among faculty members, who then must come up with drafts of definitions for each, Nardo said.
Nardo outlined processes
she wants to use to strength-en the college, she said, in-cluding processes meant to encourage conversation within the college and oth-ers meant to encourage people to examine their passions.
“Following that we devel-op core goals, and the core goals are followed by stra-tegic priorities, benchmarks and responsibility agents tied to a timeline,” Nardo said.
Nardo would like to
increase the amount of cre-ative research being done in the College of the Arts, she said.
Open forums featuring the remaining candidates for the College of the Arts dean will continue tomor-row in Steven G. Mihaylo Hall in room 3230 from 2 p.m. -3 p.m.
The forum that had been scheduled for Thursday fea-turing Greg Watts has been canceled, as Watts accepted a position elsewhere.
Candidate aims to create strategic plan for College of the Arts
JUSTIN PATUANO Daily Titan
Search for Arts dean continues
ANDREW MARTINEZThe Sundial Editor-in-Chief
We should have access to everything that our public institution is doing, everything that they’re planning to do ... any information that we should have access to should be open and easy to access. We shouldn’t have to struggle or fight to get a lot of the information.
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Rachel Nardo, currently academic and budgetary director for the California State Unviversity Summer Arts Program, presented at the second open forum in the search for the new dean for the College of the Arts.
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Editors from college papers discuss transparency issues
ELAIZA ARMASDaily Titan
Experience• Nardo currently works as the budgetary
director for the California State University Summer Arts Program
Plans for the college • Nardo said she would like to implement a new
strategic plan to benefit the College of the Arts.
The next forum • 2-3 p.m. Wednesday in Mihaylo Hall.
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Plans This Week?
On Saturday, the Associ-ated Students, Inc. annual end of the year Spring Con-cert will take place on the intramural field.
This year’s Spring Con-cert will be more of an outdoor festival featuring various new components including carnival rides, games, food trucks, a pup-py and reptile petting loca-tion and a photo booth.
This is the first year As-sociated Students has charged for tickets to the Spring Concert.
Tickets went on sale April 13 priced at $10 for students and $20 for guests, and sold out within one day.
Students will be expected to sign a safety waiver be-fore entering the concert in order to partake in the rides being offered, according to Associated Students Spring Concert Coordinator Shan-non Franklin.
Since students had to pay in order to attend the con-cert, everything offered the day of will be free of charge, but students look-ing to eat from more than
one food truck should bring extra money.
Student performers, DJ Cascio and One11 will be opening the show. DJ Cas-cio was this year’s Associ-ated Students Production’s Battle of the DJs 2015 win-ner, and One11 is an al-ternative indie rock band that won Associated Stu-
dents Production’s Bat-tle of the Bands competi-tion. The group features Cal State Fullerton student and RTVF major, Evan Boydstun.
Associated Students ini-tially announced that ma-jor headliners for the con-cert would be rappers Tyga and Wiz Khalifa. However, Khalifa has canceled his performance to perform on Saturday Night Live.
Associated Students Pro-ductions Administrative Di-rector Brandon Harris, said he would like the student body to know that while
looking for the replacement for Khalifa, the Associated Student executive board has taken the students’ opinion into consideration.
“I know it is disappoint-ing ... that Wiz Khalifa dropped, but honestly that has not stopped us from looking for a just as (equal-ly) strong replacement,” said ASI President Harpreet Bath. “(Students) would miss it if they didn’t show up.”
Khalifa’s replacement is expected to be announced soon.
Junior biological science major, Jasmine Gonzalez, was one of the many stu-dents that purchased a tick-et primarily because Wiz Khalifa was going to be one of the performers, but was then distraught upon discovering that he was no longer performing.
Despite Khalifa’s ab-sence, Gonzalez still plans on having a great time at the upcoming event.
“I’m looking forward to seeing who they’ll replace Wiz with, because I’m still going,” Gonzalez said.
Bath said he understands student’s disappointment, but stresses that the concert is still happening.
The concert is scheduled to commence at 5 p.m. and is ex-pected to end around 9 p.m., however, the show’s schedule is subject to change.
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AICA celebrates culture in pavillion
The Association for Inter-Cultural Awareness show-cased their annual Culture Couture celebration Monday night in the Titan Student Union Pavilion. AICA has 23 multicultural student organi-zations under their belt that were expected to showcase their unique culture through an artistic representation at the annual event.
Some organizations chose to represent their specific culture by dancing to a popu-lar song within their culture, and others chose to simply model clothing ensembles that were familiar to their culture.
One by one, the 23 organi-zations took the stage to im-press the audience with their gratitude and knowledge of their culture. The event kicked off with a fashion seg-ment presenting the Associ-ated Students, Inc. student leaders dressed in how they would portray their person-al culture. Some of the lead-ers dressed in their Greek letters, and others displayed traditional outfits their cul-ture utilizes.
Southern Pacific Islander Cultural Association mem-ber, Jenna Custodio, sported a bright red hula skirt with a coconut bra and an ornate bright red-feathered head-piece with black and white feathers peeking out of it to represent her appreciation of her organization’s culture.
“We just really love the culture and we’re trying to spread awareness, help out the community, the Pacif-ic Islander community, as
much as we can, and put on shows and just get to know each other as a family,” Cus-todio said.
The main intent of the event is to unify the diverse cultures represented through-out this campus through various artistic facets, said AICA’s main events coordi-nator, Michael Medina.
“It’s really celebrating all cultures through dance, and actually celebrating various cultures through something more than dance … fashion, art pieces they have here, the henna artists, the turbans that we have, all of our won-derful food that’s from vari-ous cultures,” Medina said.
The first performance of the night came from the or-ganization Ballet Folklorico de CSUF, which showcased Mexican culture through the spectacular folkloric dance.
Later on in the night, Her-manos Unidos showcased their culture by having their board members and mem-bers of the audience danced the Caballo Dorado dance on stage.
The Muslim Student Asso-ciation offered free henna tat-toos to those in attendance.
To the right of the main stage, Associated Students President Harpreet Bath could be found tying turbans for guests. The turban tying sessions were offered by the Indian Student Association
at the event in order to spread awareness of the Sikh reli-gion and Indian culture.
“We’re celebrating the different cultures that our students represent, and the beautiful diversity we have on this campus,” Bath said.
AICA decided to close their celebration with a new outside organization wheel-chair dance team that proved that, despite their disability, they can still move as im-pressively as professional dancers.
Before each organization took to the stage, a video was played featuring each orga-nization’s representative dis-cussing what they’ve been doing throughout the school year to improve multicultur-al appreciation. Throughout the night, association rep-resentatives urged the audi-ence to post photos and vid-eos of the event using the hashtags #ASIAICA and #CultureCouture2015.
Culture Couture event showcases diversity on campus
LEON ROMERODaily Titan
The Association for InterCultural Awareness hosted its annual Culture Couture event in the Titan Student Union Pavillion on Monday night. Leland Stephans, AICA representative for the Queer Straight Alliance, performed a Victorian-inspired lip sync.
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HARPREET BATHAssociated Students President
We’re celebrating the different cultures that our students represent, and the beautiful diversity we have on this campus.
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Culture Couture featured dances, videos, fashion and other attractions for guests to enjoy. The intent of the showcase was to celebrate the different cultures at Cal State Fullerton.
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“I am fascinated with how societal expectations are created and reinforced over time,” Williams said.
Williams and her danc-ers spent four hours a week rehearsing since the begin-ning of the semester.
Williams said she feels lucky to have her cast of dancers bring her vision to life in rehearsal.
Jessica Steele, a junior dance major, will be per-forming as well. Steele will dance in a total of five pieces and has been in a to-tal of twelve over the past two years.
The audition process is held like a professional au-dition, Steele said. The cho-reographers are looking for, “performance, attitude, work ethic” and how quick-ly a dancer can execute cho-reography, Steele said.
Steele loves performing and said there is no feeling like being on stage.
“The warm lights, the smell of the floor under-neath your feet and the feeling of the audience sit-ting out in the theater; you can’t see them, but you can feel their presence and hear their gasps and laughter as they go on each journey with you,” Steele said.
Staying confident on stage is a huge part of per-forming, Steele said.
“What helps me is being confident that I know every-thing I need to know to go out on that stage and per-form,” Steele said.
Steele has danced for the past 17 years and also en-joys choreographing danc-es. Some of her favorite dance styles include jazz and contemporary.
The concert will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Little Theatre and will con-tinue until May 10.
Tickets are $11 for gener-al admission and $10 with an advance Titan discount.
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Dance: Little Theatre to hold thematic dance show
The Clayes Performing Arts Meng Concert Hall will host a music event by the University Wind Sym-phony Saturday at 8 p.m.
The concert is conducted
by Mitchell Fennell, asso-ciate professor of music.
Fennell produces the Bravo Bands concert se-ries, a success due to the fact that it is one of the few professional concert se-ries in America solely for wind music performance, according to the School of Music website.
He has also been a guest conductor throughout South Korea.
The symphony performs
contemporary music and concert band music. The ensemble has performed throughout the world, ac-cording to the School of Music website.
The symphony will per-form Cathedrals, which was composed by Kathryn Salfelder.
Cathedrals, Crossing Parallels, Underground Base and Stylus Phan-tasticus are all pieces of Salfelder that have been
presented international-ly in 12 countries, accord-ing to Salfelder’s official website.
Roger Zare’s Mare Tran-quillitatis will also be performed.
Zare is a former compos-er in residence at the Salt Bay Chamber Music Fes-tival, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington and is now a composer with the SONAR new music en-semble, according to Zare’s
music website.The symphony will also
perform music by profes-sor Bill Cunliffe’s Con-certo for Tuba and Wind Ensemble. Cunliffe is a jazz pianist, composer and Grammy Award winner, according to Cunliffe’s website.
This will be the song’s premiere performance.
John Philip Sousa’s Eas-ter Monday on the White House Lawn and Frank
Ticheli’s Amazing Grace will also be performed at the concert.
The concert will close with Frozen Cathedral composed by John Mack-ey. Mackey has performed across the world and has taught at Cal State Long Beach, according to Mack-ey’s website.
Tickets for this event are $10 or $8 for students, faculty and senior citizens who pur-chase the tickets in advance.
Professor of music to conduct University Wind Symphony
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The dances featured in Spring Dance Theatre were chosen through an audition process. The show opens Thursday and runs through May 10 in the Little Theatre.
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Wind Symphony to play the Meng Concert Hall
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Letter to the EditorBY ABBY DETENMEIER
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE, CENTER FOR ORAL AND PUBLIC HISTORY AT CSUF
Dear Daily Titan,
I hope the story below will raise awareness that the campus community needs to slow down and stop texting and driving, particular-ly on Folino Drive, stretching alongside the 57 Freeway. Thank you in advance for your con-sideration in reading this.
I am a three-year campus employee (and alumni) and I was deeply saddened by what I saw tonight as I walked to my car in Lot E, at 5:20 p.m.
A hit and run driver, presumably a student, was texting and driving, and according to two witnesses, ran over a female duck and two of her ten recently-hatched ducklings.
One duckling was killed instantly. The sec-ond was rescued by a student who scooped her up from the street and placed her with the other scurrying and scared babies, who found solace along the chain link fence separating Folino Drive from the 57 freeway.
The mother was also found in the street, on her back, squealing in pain, bleeding from her eye (among other invisible injuries). It was a very upsetting and sad site to see.
A kindhearted person (one of two who stopped) managed to pick up the mother and get her back on her feet, where she painstak-ingly limped to her nine surviving babies and cowered in a bush.
Each time one of us tried to go near the ducks, they scurried from us. (We discussed possibly gathering them up and taking them to a shelter—no such luck.)
Myself, along with these two other witness-es, called Campus Police, who did nothing but call Animal Control. They didn’t even send an officer to the scene as a courtesy.
Animal Control, not surprisingly, never came either. Our calls to local emergency animal ho-tlines went unanswered or to recordings. After 90 minutes and at a complete loss for what we could do, the three of us left.
I am writing to you in the hope that you can raise awareness, not just for the sake of the wildlife who reside along this stretch of Folino Drive, but more importantly to remind students to please slow down and refrain from texting and driving.
Today it was innocent ducklings trying to cross the road, but tomorrow it could be inno-cent human lives.
Please contact me for any further com-ment, or for the contact info of the other two witnesses.
Thank you again for your time and consideration,
Abby DettenmaierProgram Associate, Center for Oral and Public History at CSUFEl Toro Marine Corps Air Station Oral History ProjectWomen, Politics, and Activism Oral History Project
In Response to “Transparency? Not at CSUF”
Letter to the Editor
BY NICHOLAS IBARRA SPARTAN DAILY EXECUTIVE EDITOR
It’s disheartening to hear that the Daily Titan faces these kinds of barriers of access to administration officials, but inspiring to read such a bold and well-written editorial take on the matter.
There is an especially deep irony to this type of reprehensi-ble stonewalling taking place at a public university—an institute funded by state residents and students for the explicit purpose of promoting the free-flow of ideas and information. On the bright side, the university officials who have gone around the Strategic Communications barrier and continued to have an open dialogue with the Daily Titan deserve commendation for their commit-ment to their role as educators. Sadly, it appears that some offi-cials in the Cal State Fullerton administration have forgotten they were hired to serve students, not ignore them.
As a CSU student, it is my sincere hope that the conduct of Me-dia Relations director Christopher Bugbee is not reflective of the values of the CSUF administration and that this serious breach of professionalism will be quickly and efficiently dealt with.
Elbows Mac ‘n’ Cheese has won over the taste buds of many locals since its opening last year in down-town Brea.
The owners have brought a new twist to the Amer-ican classic, using punny names and fresh ingredi-ents to attract customers.
Elbows took over a small space on Birch Street, next to Bruxie Gourmet Waf-fle Sandwiches. The atmo-sphere has a modern, in-dustrial feel.
The interior features exposed brick walls and wooden bench seats. The chalkboard menu has a wide variety of salads, appetizers, melts and of course, macaroni and cheese.
This place is a home run.
Each dish is made fresh and features a variety of combinations to fit an array of palettes.
A classic dish, “The Blue Box”, is the homemade version of Kraft macaro-ni. “When Pigs Fly,” and “Pizza My Heart” are some of the quirky names of the dishes available.
If you have a craving for something spicy, “Jalapeño
Business” boasts just the right amount of heat to set your taste buds on fire.
Each bite is filled with melted cheese and sliced ja-lapeños, served with a few tortilla chips for dipping.
“Okey Dokey Arti-chokey” is a fun combina-tion of the traditional dip and noodles.
This dish is rich in cheese flavor that makes you wish there were more chips for dipping.
Not only do they serve up some delicious, cheesy plates, but cater to a wider range of customers by of-fering gluten-free noodles and vegan style macaroni.
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Cheese”, the restaurant’s vegan dish, is served with cashew cheese, sauteed on-ion and red bell pepper.
The cheese gives a new experience to macaroni and adds some interesting spic-es to the flavor.
Regardless of whether you are lactose intolerant or vegan, the dish is satisfying and delicious.
Elbows provides a reg-ular or large sized plate, which serves a lot of noodles and cheese per customer.
Each dish ranges from $7 to $13, with melts and sal-ads for a little less.
The best bang for your
buck is to purchase a large to-go for some yummy cheesy goodness for later.
They also provide a fam-ily trio special for less than $30.
With a cheesy, savory menu, the restaurant also offers a select number of
desserts, including beignets and a s’mores skillet.
Fresh and fried, the pow-dered covered dough with a chocolate dipping sauce makes for a sweet end to a filling meal, although the toasted marshmallow plate lacks presentation.
Overall, this macaroni experience is a must try for locals.
This casual, quick ser-vice restaurant is per-fect for a get together with friends and family or even a quick lunch stop in be-tween classes.
Local quick service cafe gives new life to an American classic
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Not only do they serve up some delicious, cheesy plates, but cater to a wider range of customers by offering gluten-free noodles and vegan style macaroni.
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Elbows Mac ‘n’ Cheese offers pasta lovers updated versions of the childhood classic. “Easy Cheesy Caprese” and “When Pigs Fly” are just two of the many delicious options to choose from at this casual, quick service restaurant in Brea.
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At 29 years old, new Cal State Fullerton women’s vol-leyball coach Ashley Preston has heard the chatter.
A youthful, electric smile coupled with a bubbly, friend-ly personality doesn’t exactly exude authority or acumen.
“It’s natural,” Preston said. “It’s human instinct to look at you and be like, ‘What do you really know? You look about 20; what do you really know?’... I’m aware that peo-ple look at it that way and so I don’t mind it, either. And I don’t get caught up in it.”
Yet, if Preston can repli-cate a little of the success she’s had over her career
while leading a Titans team that finished with an 8-21 overall record last season, Fullerton women’s volleyball may be headed for a revival.
Preston’s career is an ex-cellent case study in nature versus nurture.
On one side, the Victor-ville-born athlete has an il-lustrious powder blue blood-line that includes grandfather Bill Ellis, who played bas-ketball at UCLA under leg-endary coach John Wooden, and uncle Dennis Price, also a Bruin, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Raiders.
Younger branches of the impressive family tree in-clude two cousins in Sheldon Price, a member of the Indi-anapolis Colts, and UCLA five-time All-American track and field standout Kylie Price.
Preston first showed glimpses of greatness when the then-outside hitter led
Durango High School in Las Vegas to consecutive Neva-da 4A state championships in 2002 and 2003.
Despite the triumphs, Pres-ton did not find much atten-tion as an outside hitter. With financial realities a strong factor, Preston headed east.
“I didn’t want (my mother) to have the burden of loans and all that, because she’s a single parent. So I went to the east coast, which worked out great for me and really showed me my passion and my love,” she said.
Preston accepted a part-athletic, part-academ-ic scholarship to Division I Morgan State of Baltimore, where she transitioned into a libero.
“I also understand what it means to work for your scholarship because I didn’t get a full athletic scholarship until my senior year. To me, that always motivated me to
do better,” Preston said.At Morgan State, she re-
wrote the record books.The 2008 alumnus is the
all-time school career lead-er with 2,066 digs and is also No. 1 (640), No. 2 (525), No. 3 (489) and No. 6 (412) in the school’s single-season digs chart.
After earning her bache-lor’s degree in telecommuni-cations, Preston became an assistant coach at Morgan State and Loyola University from 2008 to 2010.
In 2011, Preston took her first head coaching job at At-lanta’s Spelman College.
In her one year at Division III Spelman, where Preston served as both women’s vol-leyball coach and sports in-formation director, she led the Jaguars to a school-record nine victories.
From Spelman, Preston re-turned to Baltimore and took the head job with Coppin
State, inheriting a team com-ing off a 5-24 season.
Preston led the Eagles to the postseason Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tourna-ment from 2012 to 2014 when the program hadn’t made one single trip since 2006. In 2013, Coppin State won a program-best 15 matches.
Perhaps lost in all the stats and accolades is a track record of academic scholarship.
At Durango, Preston was a silver scholar, which meant she was recognized in the state’s top 15 academic per-centile. At Morgan State, Preston was a three-time Mid-Eastern Athletic Confer-ence Commissioner’s All-Ac-ademic Award winner.
At Coppin State, 10 of her players were chosen to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Confer-ence All-Academic Team.
For Preston, the objective for her athletes is not just
about success in the Big West Conference.
“I’m really big about aca-demics. I’m really big about, ‘What are you doing after these four years?’” she said.
One person in a good po-sition to advise Fullerton players transitioning un-der Preston is Coppin State standout outside hitter Kan-dace Thomas, who earned a 4.0 grade point average under Preston’s watch
“Academics are very im-portant. We’re students first. So anytime we’d be on the road, there’s study hall. She’s always making sure our work is done,” Thomas said. “I just feel like all around, she was more concerned with us be-ing good people overall, not just the athletic side.”
With Preston at the helm of the program, the future of CSUF women’s volleyball looks bright both on the court and in the classroom.
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Ashley Preston can revive CSUF volleyball
Men’s golf falls in last day of Big West tourney
Titans down Trojans in extras
The Cal State Fullerton baseball team needed extra innings Tuesday to complete their non-conference come-back against the No. 13 USC Trojans at Dedeaux Field.
Down three runs heading into the seventh inning, the Titans (23-20 overall, 8-4 Big West) surged back with five unanswered runs to win 5-3 in 12 innings. With the victory, CSUF split the sea-son series with USC (30-13 overall, 11-7 Pac 12), each team nabbing a road win.
Redshirt sophomore Miles Chambers got the starting nod for the Ti-tans and kept the Trojans in check to start the game. Chambers walked the first two batters he faced, but settled down and retired the side.
Chambers’ only blun-der came in the fourth in-ning when his pitch hung up enough for USC’s AJ Ramirez to hammer the ball over the left field wall to put the Trojans up 1-0. Cham-bers was lifted after the home run, finishing his day allowing one run, four hits and two walks to go along with four strikeouts over 3.2 innings.
Freshman Connor Seabold took over pitching duties. Seabold was also tagged for a run in the fifth. The Trojans strung together a two-out rally with a Jer-emy Martinez double fol-lowed by a Timmy Robin-son single to bring home the second USC run.
The Trojans extended their lead in the sixth with some small ball. David Op-penheim led off the inning with a double down the left field line and then advanced to third from a balk. USC Head Coach Dan Hubbs made the call for a suicide squeeze, and Ramirez laid down the bunt perfectly to
allow Oppenheim to slide in safely at home.
With the seemingly life-less CSUF bats, it appeared as though USC would cruise to a season sweep of the Titans.
Trojan starter Bernardo Flores was in full control through six innings, allow-ing just three hits to the Ti-tans. However, after a single by CSUF third baseman Jer-rod Bravo, Flores was lifted by Hubbs and the floodgates opened for the Titans.
Three more singles by the Titans brought in two run-ners to cut the deficit to 3-2. The Titans knotted the game in the next inning when Bra-vo’s groundout allowed Josh Vargas to cross home.
Titan closer Tyler Peitz-meier was called in to pitch in the eighth inning and put in overtime to earn the win. He pitched masterfully in his career-high 5.2 innings of work, allowing just a hit and a walk while striking out five.
After the Titans left the bases loaded in the 11th,
they were finally able to break through in the 12th with a clutch two-out liner up the middle by Richards to bring in Tristan Hildeb-randt from third. USC al-lowed CSUF to pad their
lead when a wild pitch brought home Richards.
Peitzmeier made quick work of the Trojans in the 12th, sitting them down in order to claim the sixth Ti-tan win this season over
ranked opposition.The Titans now turn their
focus back to the Big West Conference, traveling to Riverside over the weekend to face the last-place UC Riverside Highlanders.
Titans get revenge for early-season loss with comeback in the 12th
TAMEEM SERAJDaily Titan
The Cal State Fullerton baseball team traveled to Los Angeles Tuesday, taking down the nationally-ranked USC Trojans. With the win, the Titans avenged their loss to the Trojans earlier in the season.
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New head coach stresses academics as well as athletics
DREW CAMPADaily Titan
After a tough Big West Golf Championships, the Cal State Fullerton men’s golf team has finally con-cluded its 2014/15 season.
The Titans held on to sev-enth place after two rounds
of play, but fell to eighth in the last day of the tourna-ment at the San Luis Obis-po Country Club. Round two leader UC Davis succumbed to the pressure, falling to second place after being overtaken by UC Irvine.
Entering the final round of play, the Titans were hoping to climb the table, but end-ed up with their worst per-formance of the tournament. Day three saw Cal State Ful-lerton card a plus-25 (305), nine strokes worse than their
day two performance. Ful-lerton finished the tourna-ment with a total of plus-61 (901).
Senior Ryan Tetrault, who led the Titans in the individ-ual standings on day two, fell three spots on the last day of play. Despite still fin-ishing the best Titan on the day, Tetrault fell to 20th on the leaderboard, carding a plus-four (74) in round three and a plus-12 (222) tourna-ment total.
The next best Titan player
was freshman Mark Cobey, who tied Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Jimmy Castles for 31st place after falling one spot and carding a plus-six (76) on the day and a plus-17 (227) over the course of the tournament.
Kyle De Silva had a disas-trous day three. He fell nine spots of his round two per-formance, finishing up in a three-way tie for 33rd place af-ter carding a plus-10 (80). The sophomore finished the tour-nament with a 19-over (229).
Junior Nico Mendoza moved up two spots and fin-ished 36th, while redshirt se-nior Josh Park was also in on the five-way tie for 36th. Park also had a rough fi-nal round and dropped 12 spots from his day two per-formance after a plus-11 (81) score. The two wrapped up the three rounds with a 20-over (230).
Cal Poly’s Justin De Los Santos had the best indi-vidual performance on the day, which contributed to
his coming in first over-all for the tournament. He kept things tight, carding a one-under par in the sec-ond, 10th, 12th and 13th holes. His worst holes were the fourth, 11th and 15th, in which he recorded a bogey for each.
In the meantime, the Ti-tans will need to rebuild for next season. They’ll be lifted by the fact that most of the team will be returning, with Tetrault and Park the only players set to depart.
Titans drop a spot to finish eighth, wave farewell to seniors
