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Cal State Fullerton alumni Rep. Ed Royce hosted the fifth annual Women’s Conference, which fo-cused on issues including health and safety on Saturday at the Ti-tan Student Union.

Author Kathleen Baty was the event’s keynote speaker. She has written two books on women’s safety and empowerment.

Baty was the victim of a stalker for more than 15 years and was nearly kidnapped at gunpoint.

“What started out as harassing phone calls quickly escalated into him showing up at my door with semiautomatic weapons,” said Baty.

“I lived my life like a hunted animal.”Baty has transitioned her expe-

riences as a stalking victim into working as a victim’s advocate and a personal safety and threat assessment expert. She worked with Royce on the state’s first anti-stalking law.

Royce originally became in-volved in women’s rights because of an incident where one of his

staff members was sexually as-saulted.

“We began the process of try-ing to work with victims groups in order to try to strengthen the laws to better protect the rights of crime victims, especially given the results during some of the trials when it was clear that the victims could be humiliated during the trial,” Royce said.

He wanted to achieve bal-ance between the rights of crime victims and the rights of the ac-cused. To address perceived inad-equacies in the criminal process, Royce authored Proposition 115, the Crime Victims/Speedy Trial Initiative, which was approved by voters in 1990.

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Research shows rise in CA sea levels

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Research surrounding rising sea levels in Orange County and the rest of the world was presented by the director of the John D. Coo-per Archaeological and Paleonto-logical Center at the Titan Student Union on Thursday.

Director of the Cooper Cen-ter, Jere H. Lipps, Ph.D., profes-sor emeritus at UC Berkeley, has taught paleontology and integra-tive biology for 22 years.

According to Lipps, the main cause of the rise in sea level is the “natural variations in distance re-lationships between the earth and the sun,” which causes the climate to fluctuate between warm and cool.

As the climate warms up, the world’s ice sheets will crumble and fall apart.

Thermal expansion of seawater is also a huge factor in rising sea levels.

When seawater is heated up, it is imminent that water in the oceans will expand, occupying more space and having to increase in height, said Lipps.

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The Titans escaped with a 2-1 vic-tory and a three-game sweep of the Long Beach State Dirtbags on the road this past Sunday for their sec-ond 10-game winning streak of the season.

The game ended in an often used, rarely successful appeal play. The Ti-tans’ start is the best start for the pro-gram since the 1996 team that start-ed 31-2 and the last time the team had two 10 game winning streaks in one season was back in 2001.

With the No. 8 Titans holding on to a 2-1 lead and the Dirtbags (9-15) threatening in the bottom of the ninth inning with runners on second and third and one out, Long Beach’s Eric Hutting seemed to hit what would be a sacrifice fly to center field. It looked as if it was going to be the tying run but on an appeal, the Titans threw to third base where the umpires called the runner out as he was deemed to have tagged up from third too early which closed the door on the game and the series sweep.

The Titans (21-3) struck first in the top of the fourth inning when center fielder Michael Lorenzen was hit by the pitch to reach first to start the frame.

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Erika Hosking, 25, a business marketing major, answers questions from the audience Friday at the Titan Theatre.ELEONOR SEGURA / For the Daily Titan

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Eleven Cal State Fullerton students presented their research on various topics related to Latin America at the sixth annual Latin American Studies Conference Friday.

The conference is designed to give students an opportunity to present

their academic work regarding issues and findings, featuring presentations and essays by undergraduate stu-dents reflecting issues affecting Latin America today.

Sandra Perez-Linggi, advisor of the Latin American Studies Student As-sociation (LASSA) said the main pur-pose of the conference is for students to share their research and to expose

them to other student research.“The Latin American Stud-

ies program is an interdisciplinary program, so we are working across departments (and) across majors,” said Perez-Linggi. “This is a rare opportunity to come together and dialog across disciplines.”

Fundraiser held for autism awareness

The Autism Speaks U chapter of Cal State Fullerton observed Na-tional Autism Awareness Month, which begins in April, by hosting a fundraiser at a bar in downtown Fullerton last Thursday.

The fundraiser, called Col-lege Night, was held at Bourbon Street and was meant to spread awareness. Contributions will be donated to the national organiza-tion—Autism Speaks.

“This event was (arranged by) both of us co-presidents but also the co-owners of Bourbon Street, we always collaborate together,” said Victoria Cid, 24, a commu-nicative disorders major and co-president of the CSUF chapter.

Proceeds and donations made for Autism Speaks were collected through purchases on drinks that were made at the back bar and through an outdoor photo booth.

“Aside from trying to get aware-ness by all of our decorations, we’re obviously trying to fundraise

for Autism Speaks,” said Cid. “We try to get at least two larger fund-raisers for Autism Speaks and this is one of our biggest fundraisers.”

The money Autism Speaks col-lects from Autism Speaks U is uti-lized for science research and fam-ily services, Cid said.

Public awareness of autism spectrum disorders has increased by 43 percent, according to the Autism Speaks U Cal State Fuller-ton website.

The proceeds gathered as a re-sult of fundraising for Autism Speaks U have continued to in-crease throughout the years, ac-cording to Chester Casabar, 27, a kinesiology major and co-vice president of the CSUF chapter.

“Each year I’ve been in (the or-ganization), our fundraising goal has been higher and higher, and we’re the biggest ones in southern California,” he said.

“We’ve reached out to the chap-ter in UCI, we’ve reached out to other chapters ... and they mostly come to us (and say) ‘Hey, you guys are doing a lot of things, and your goals are way higher than ours,’” said Casabar.

Proceeds gathered from various Autism Speaks U events continues to grow

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A man is recovering from third-degree burns he suffered after setting himself on fire fol-lowing an argument with his es-tranged wife at Creative Nails & Spa in Costa Mesa, according to the Orange County Register.

After the couple argued, the man sat in a puddle of liquid in the middle of the floor, a cus-tomer of the salon said.

The man then proceeded to light himself on fire as the cus-tomer called the fire department.

The salon owner’s brother used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames, while employ-ees used towels to help stop the flames.

A customer said the man is the store owner’s husband and that the couple is going through a divorce.

A representative for the Costa Mesa police department called the situation a domestic dis-pute.

The inside of the salon had minor damage from the inci-dent, police said.

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Hundreds were stranded from their cars Sunday during an hours-long bomb scare at the Beverly Center mall in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times.

A call from a shopper re-porting a suspicious package placed in his car which was parked in an attached parking structures came in to police around noon.

Officers were still in the pro-cess of evacuating the building hours later.

An announcement was made to mall patrons in the early after-noon telling them to leave the mall immediately.

Hundreds of customers were unable to return to their vehicles as police used a robot to inves-tigate the suspicious package.

While many patrons left the area, mall employees waited to return to work or be sent home.

A safety drill was conducted at the mall just weeks ago and employees knew to meet for roll call across the street, according to a mall employee.

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Monster Energy Corp. will now market its product as bev-erages instead of dietary sup-plements, due to continuous controversy about the safety of energy drinks, according to CNN.

In the coming months, the la-bel on the can will include the caffeine content, however, the product will not change.

Monster is committed to be-ing responsible and wants to be transparent about the ingre-dients in their products, said spokeswoman Tammy Taylor.

Last week, 18 public health experts sent a letter to the FDA expressing concerns about the safety of energy drinks. The sci-entists say there is not enough evidence to show that high lev-els of caffeine in energy drinks are safe.

Caffeine stimulates the cen-tral nervous system, according to the FDA. It can increase heart rate, blood pressure and cause irregular heart rhythms.

Scientists said caffeine in energy drinks is added by a manufacturer, as opposed to the caffeine in coffee that oc-curs naturally.

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WOMEN: ‘Too much of anything is not good’

The law he wrote defined the threats and the stalking behavior themselves as a felony.

Previously, making threats was not a crime, and had no consequence.

Under the new law, serious threats were made a misdemeanor, and a felony in cases where a re-straining order had already been taken out.

“We have still a task ahead of us in terms of educating judges, pros-ecutors and especially the general public about the availability of these protections and how to use them,” said Royce.

Following the keynote, attendees split into smaller Groups.

At one session on women’s health, Dr. Joanna Tan, the first female family physician in Orange County, spoke at the seminar ti-tled “5 Health Facts Every Woman Must Know.”

According to Tan, the key to be-ing healthy is a balanced nutritious

diet, portion control, exercise and getting enough rest.

Tan recommend eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, grains and a lot of protein, but that portion size is key.

Too much of anything is not good, she said. She recommended a fistful of fruit, grains and starches and a handful of vegetables, meats and alternatives.

The Orange County doctor also stressed the importance of vitamin C and sunlight.

Too much causes skin cancer, but sunscreen can prevent the sunlight’s benefits, she said.

Immunizations are also key to women’s health, especially against the Human Papilloma Virus which can lead to cervical cancer in women. Men can also get the HPV vaccine.

According to Tan said, the key to staying young is screening to detect cancer early.

“There is no screening for lung cancer except a CT scan of the lungs

that may be able to detect cancer ear-ly, so if you’re a smoker you should consider it,” said Tan.

In regards to breast cancer, she recommended women get a mam-mogram between ages 40 and 50, because young women are more sus-ceptible to the radiation in mammo-grams which can cause them cancer.

“If your mom got breast cancer at 40, get checked at 35,” she said.

Other session speakers include Kathryn Hackney, who spoke on financial independence, Katerina Soukhorado on home buying, and Leticia Mata on frugal living.

Certified Sommelier Jamie Gwen gave her guide to healthy cooking during her session.

Rod McDermott compared a journey to success to a trip to Las Vegas at his session.

At last year’s conference, ques-tionnaires were distributed to gauge audience ideas for seminars.

This year, every conference topic came from an idea originally submit-ted by attendees.

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WATER: Sea levels could increase by three or four feet

“Both have occurred naturally, but now the increase in carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere by humans burning fossil fuels is warming the climate,” said Lipps. “The rate of warming and of rise is accelerating as humans produce more and more carbon dioxide.”

With increased heat, ice sheets that are especially affected are those that cover Greenland and West Antarctica.

If Greenland’s ice disintegrates, it would raise sea levels by 27 feet—most scientists suggest this will probably happen after 2100, according to Lipps.

West Antarctica, on the other hand, is already experiencing ice col-lapses, and could potentially raise sea levels by 27 feet before 2100.

But there are no guarantees.David Bowman, Ph.D., associate

professor and chairman of the Geo-logical Sciences Department, consid-ered a 1.4 to 1.6 meter rise an “ex-tremely conservative estimate.”

“That’s the minimum that we can expect. It will almost certainly be worse than that,” said Bowman. “We just don’t know how much worse.”

Sea levels vary throughout the world. According to the U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency, the re-sults depend on a region’s geographi-cal environment as well as the land’s changing elevations through subsid-ence—where the land is sinking, or

uplift—where the land is rising.“On the east coast, if you take a

look at the coast, it very, very gently kind of slopes into the ocean,” said Adam Woods, Cal State Fullerton as-sociate professor of geological scienc-es. “That means that a tiny change in sea level results in kind of a big shift in where the coast is.”

In California, a one-foot rise in sea level could affect 146,000 people. According to Lipps, sea levels could increase by three to four feet in 2050 and could impact roughly 224,000 to 308,000 people.

Orange County is no exception to the natural causes of sea levels.

Thousands of years ago, shorelines along Newport and other coastal re-gions were once river paths, accord-ing to Lipps. In 13,000 years, as sea levels increased, the river paths be-came flooded with seawater, develop-ing into marshes and bays.

Prime examples of such environ-ments that resulted from this phe-nomenon are the Bolsa Chica Eco-

logical Reserve and the Newport Upper Back Bay.

In Orange County alone, a 4.6 to 4.7 feet rise in sea level would impact 540 miles of roads. This is projected to cost $17 billion, ac-cording to a report conducted by the Pacific Institute.

Areas and cities along the coast would especially be flooded, such as Newport and Balboa Island. Accord-ing to the Orange Coast Magazine in 2012, by 2050, Balboa Island could find itself under two feet of water af-ter a storm.

Lipps suggested that some of the things people can do about this en-vironment issue is to volunteer with local environmental organizations to help solve climate problems, study the problem and get the facts, spread awareness via social networking and cut one’s carbon footprint.

“This is a problem for younger people to be aware of so that they can begin to plan what to do with them,” said Lipps.


AUTISM: Awareness through lighting

As a means to hopefully generate more autism awareness, other events and activities arranged by the CSUF chapter will continue through March and end in the beginning of May.

The CSUF chapter will attempt to promote autism awareness by light-ing certain areas of the campus with a blue tint.

This will be completed by covering up some of the light bulbs across the campus with a blue gel.

Ray Sadri, 24, a communicative dis-orders major and co-president of the CSUF chapter, elaborated on exactly

where the blue-tinted lights would be glowing on campus during the month of April.

“There’s going to be the ficus tree,

the lights around there … the cor-ner of Nutwood and State College, the white sign ... and then in front of the TSU,” Sadri said

“Each year I’ve been in (the organization), our fundraising goal has been higher and higher ... ”

CHESTER CASABARCo-vice President, CSUF Autism Speaks U Chapter

“This is a problem for younger people to be aware of so that they can begin to plan what to do with them. ”

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CONFERENCE: Professionals emphasize importance of research

The conference was divided in three sections to allow students from different disciplines to the-matically come together.

Students from theater, business, philosophy, history and Spanish majors participated. Even though some of these departments are not part of the Latin American Studies program, it still connects to Latin America, said Perez-Linggi.

Erika Hosking, a business mar-keting major and Latin American Studies minor, presented her re-search “Coca, Yes, Cocaine, No.”

She said living in southern Cali-fornia, there is a high level of His-panic culture and with that comes certain discrimination when it comes to drugs.

“When I started taking Latin American classes I already had a preconceived notion that I wanted to learn more about how other countries, not the U.S., approach this situation,” said Hosking.

She said the film Cocaleros sparked her interest in the subject.

Keynote speaker Javier Urbano, professor at Universidad Iberoameri-cana of Mexico City, discussed his work in making sure South Ameri-can migrants are treated well in their journey from Mexico to the U.S.

Urbano, who spoke via Skype from Mexico City, said there is a lot of corruption and human traffick-ing in Mexico. He added that there are also thousands of people work-ing together to fight for the rights of the migrants and to make sure they are treated like human beings.

“Being in California, we tend to focus on the northern border, U.S./Mexico, and it’s important for us to understand the dynamic between Mexico and Central America and how Mexico is sort of a bridge for Central Americans to come to the U.S.,” said Perez-Linggi. “It’s im-portant to be aware of that.”

Areli Gonzalez, LASSA president, was one of the main organizers of the event. She presented a compari-son of two short stories by Spanish American Literature writers—Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges.

Gonzalez said the main purpose

of the event was to bring awareness to Latin America.

“Latin America has such a great potential and such a great culture that it should be shown to every-one for people to get to know Latin America,” she said.

Besides the student presenta-tions, the conference showcased a Ballet Folklorico of CSUF and Capoeira Mandingueiro perfor-mance.

Gonzalez said Ballet Folklorico was chosen in honor of Urbano, and Capoeira Mandingueiro was to bring another aspect of Latin America.

Capoeira Mandingueiro is a Bra-zilian martial art that combines ele-ments of dance and music.

Perez-Linggi said she was happy with the outcome and added that the conference was important for students who want to attend gradu-ate school.

“It pushes them to understand the importance of research and pre-pare for that next step and ultimate-ly as professionals and conscious human beings,” she said.


Almost 100 faculty members attended the 17th annual Assessment Conference on Friday. MIMI HUNG / Daily Titan

The College of Business and Eco-nomics hosted the 17th annual Assess-ment Conference on Friday to explore all areas related to student “assessment,” covering topics such as developing learning aspects and realizing learning and teaching opportunities and goals

The conference, held in collaboration with the Academic Affairs and Faculty Development Center, discussed how to report data to give proper feedback and grades, to meet the adhered federal ac-creditation requirements for a course.

The theme of the Conference was the “Evolution of an Assessment Plan: Design, Implement, Evaluate.”

Melissa Simnitt, assessment coor-dinator, said the conference primarily focused on the west coast region.

About 90-100 faculty members at-tended the event. Attendees included professors and faculty from Cal State Fullerton and other universities from across the country.

“Assessment is not just a process for colleges and universities to gather data. It is a method of evaluating how well students are learning a con-cept,” said Simnitt. “For this reason, we also market the conference to on-campus faculty and staff—anyone

involved with assessment.”The keynote speaker for the event

was Linda Suskie, an internationally recognized speaker, writer, consultant, educator and author.

Simnitt said that Suskie was invited to be this year’s keynote speaker based on her expertise in the assessment field.

“We strive to bring in, not only experts, but also well-known and re-spected authorities on assessment prac-tices … Linda Suskie, is a well-known author and has been involved in assess-ment for over 20 years,” said Simnitt.

Throughout her speech, Suskie asked attendees to focus on an improvement they want for their students.

“Its not how hard you are trying to be a teacher, its are you really making a difference,” said Suskie. “Are your stu-dents really doing what you want them to do, by the time they pass your course and graduate from your program?”

She added that teaching is an ongoing cycle that professors need to engage in and it starts out with having a clear sense of what they want students to learn.

Suskie advises teachers to concisely identify course objectives in a syllabus.

Federal accreditors, who regulate student learning through courses with-in school systems, look for this type of clearly defined teaching agenda.

Suskie said accreditors make sure

results are not only only being used to give students feedback, but to help im-prove teacher’s own performance.

“A great professor is always trying to improve,” said Suskie. “Assessing is figuring out what you’re going to better next time.”

Suskie stressed that by evaluating and assessing course objectives and teaching methods, professors are help-ing to insure their students are learning the most valuable information and are getting their money’s worth.

“We are all running on other peo-ples money … the money that goes into your paycheck and goes into your program comes from the students and their families and tuition fees,” said Suskie. “We have a moral obligation to show all those people who invested that their money has been well spent and show that students have really learned.”

Throughout the conference, teachers attended workshops to help them de-velop and implement assessment plans. Suskie said learning more about assess-ment will only help faculty members continue to grow themselves as well as their students.

“I’m a great teacher, but I’m a lot better teacher than I was 30 years ago and it’s all because of assessment and the things that assessment has made me think about,” said Suskie.

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Competition highlights research

Four students were announced as this year’s winners for the Sci-ence and Math Symposium poster competition at Cal State Fullerton on Thursday.

The two-day event, hosted by the Natural Sciences Interclub Council also included presentations and lectures by faculty.

The winners include Simona Bor, biochemistry major, Jenny C. Chang, math major, David Mar, biochemistry major, and Michelle Gevedon, geology major.

According to Amy Mattern, in-terim assistant Dean for Student Affairs in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the competition is held as an oppor-tunity for students to share their research.

Mattern said the goal of the event is to have students come to-

gether to learn about people’s re-search, ask one another questions and to inspire intellectual inquiry.

Participants in the competition were primarily students of College of Natural Sciences and Mathe-matics, according to Mattern, but also included students of different disciplines.

Adrian Velasco, 22, a biochem-istry major who is part of the Nat-ural Science and Mathematics In-terclub Council, said participants were from programs on campus where students worked on different projects with professors.

“We look for different pro-grams here on campus, programs that are very research-based and ask students doing those types of research to get involved in the event,” Velasco said.

William Pilesky, 28, a geology graduate student, is working on research on the Ordovician Ex-tinction event.

“The work that I’m doing is basically looking at rocks over in east central California in the In-dio mountains,” Pilesky said. “(I am) trying to determine the dura-tion of this glaciation to determine whether it was a long-lived event or a short-lived event.”

The competition, according to Mattern, was judged based on a ru-bric by a set of judges.

“It’s looking at things like their presentation skills, their physical demeanor and their appearance and professionalism but also for their content,” Mattern said.

Personal expression and re-sponding well to questions was also a big part of the judging aspect of the competition, Mattern added.

“It’s an opportunity for students to be here at home, their Universi-ty, to do a professional presentation but in a less-pressure environment before they get to a professional conference,” said Mattern.

William Pilesky, 28, a geology graduate student, displays his poster to students and faculty during the Math and Science Symposium held on Thursday. Pilesky’s research is based on the Ordovician Extinction event.

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God’s Word: In 140 characters or less

Something I don’t touch upon that often in this column is the top-ic of religion.

It’s not necessarily that I don’t think religion is a topic without important notions to comment on—I mean this column is dumb but it isn’t that dumb. No, the rea-son I don’t tend to comment on religion in #this is simply because I don’t feel wholly qualified to talk about it. Religion is, after all, a topic which requires the utmost respect and sensitivity.

Those are two qualities that are still very much at the “work in progress” phase in social media.

Regardless, the two can and do intersect, and rarely with as much directness as the Twitter ac-count of the leader of the Catho-lic church himself, the pope. For those who might still be recover-ing from that last sentence, yes, the pope does indeed have an ac-count on the world’s second most popular social media site, going by @Pontifex. Actually, his holiness has several accounts that the Vati-can has set up; each representing a different language so he may reach out to disciples worldwide.

This little trivial tidbit actually gains some significance consider-ing that a new pope was named just a few weeks ago. On March 13, Pope Francis was named to succeed Pope Benedict XVI. Naturally, this was an extremely visible process which—as has happened hundreds of times before—left the pope’s seat eerily vacant for a relatively short deliberation period. One thing most people probably weren’t won-dering (as I’d assume not many were aware of ) was how this translated to the realm of Twitter.

And the reality is that it was not much different.

Following Pope Benedict’s an-nouncement that he would be step-ping down, he made a brief farewell tweet thanking his followers for their love and support. Then, just as quickly, all the tweets the pope had made on the @Pontifex ac-count were deleted—its name being changed to “Sede Vacante” to reflect the vacant pope seat.

That isn’t to say Benedict tweeted much; the now Pope Emeritus had just under 40 tweets between Decem-ber, when the @Pontifex accounts were created, and February when he announced his resignation. All these

tweets can be found archived on the Vatican’s website, but it was still an odd thing to see this kind of momen-tous change happen through some-thing perceived as trivial.

But that’s the entirety of the pope having a Twitter account, re-ally. It is this odd dichotomy of this centuries-old position—the head of a huge religion—on a social me-dia site that typically houses petty feuds, links to the fifty-thousandth “Harlem Shake” video and leaked pictures of politicians in unfortu-nate situations.

Again, the @Pontifex account is not necessarily one that sees heavy use. Since Pope Francis has taken over it, it has only sent out three tweets. Taking this in with the com-mon (and unfortunate) uses that social media is associated with, it’s kind of puzzling that the Vatican believed it had a use for a Twitter account in the first place.

However, I’ll attempt to surmise the “why,” from a perspective of a layman.

Religion is an ever-present thing in the lives of the people who de-vote their lives to it. It informs their beliefs, it influences their decisions and it gives them comfort. Today’s culture, however, is perceived as self-centered, and nothing projects that narcissism like social media.

If one thing seems to oppose the communal and selfless intentions of an organized religion, it’s those qualities. As such, if nothing else, I can only assume that the decision of the Vatican—not necessarily known for embracing modern of con-cepts—is in some way an attempt to combat that perception or, at the very least, to further penetrate the everyday lives of its followers.

See, in a very broad way, the sim-ilarities between social media and religion are not altogether unlike each other.

When one looks at that num-ber above their “Following” list on Twitter, they might not remember exactly who they’re following ev-ery minute of every day, but they no doubt have faith that if they continually check in that those they’re “Following” will give them exactly what they were looking for when they joined the site in the first place.

Such a comparison might be considered blasphemy, but I sup-pose I could always tweet @Pontifex for forgiveness.

According to ABC News, CVS Pharmacy feels that inherently forcing current employees to be health screened in relation to the pharmacy’s new policy within their health plan will help in preserving a healthy workforce at the pharmacy’s chains worldwide.

This specific health plan, which will be implemented in May, is not mandatory, yet the employees that refuse to participate in the health screening will then be forced to pay an extra $50 a month to remain on the company’s coverage.

This adds up to an average of $600 more a year for their health insurance.

The information needed for a proper health screening requires the employees weight, height and blood pressure, that would then go straight to the employees insurance company.

“Health screening is the process of looking at a population perceived to be at risk from a condition to try to identify those who may be at a higher risk of developing a disease and in whom an intervention may be made,” states TheWell.com. “The principle behind health screening is that identifying and treating a con-dition at an earlier stage improves and prolongs an individuals health and well being.”

Despite the fact that CVS Phar-macy promotes healthy living, this still should not give them license to actively force their employers to

conform to their health care stan-dards, by threatening to charge them an extra $50 a month if they refuse. Since divulging informa-tion such as weight, height and blood pressure can be an uncom-fortable situation for most, imag-ine being forced by your employer to then divulge again this infor-mation that goes straight to your healthcare provider.

Employers, much like employees, have rights, regardless of the “healthy workforce” CVS strives to uphold. The employees should be able to choose for themselves if they want to live a healthier lifestyle, or take prop-er precautions for their health.

CVS should not be given the right to say otherwise.

Because the average CVS em-ployee makes less than $8 an hour, employers should not expect the av-erage full or part time employee to survive off of a paycheck—not when an extra $50 is taken from their

check monthly. With the economy down, the extra $50 removed from their paychecks, could have been es-sential for taking care of small needs such as gas and groceries. If each employee received a check twice a month, that is essentially $25 out of their pockets each paycheck.

“It’s technology-enhanced dis-crimination on steroids,” said Dr. Debora Peel, M.D., founder of Pa-tient’s Privacy Rights, to ABC News. “The approach they’re taking is based on the assumption that somehow, these people need to be whipped, they need to be penalized in order to make themselves healthy.”

Like Peel mentioned, CVS does have the legal right, but in reality should not be able to make their employees pay more for some-thing that may go against their own health belief, or go outside their comfort zones.

“The HIPAA Privacy Rule pro-vides federal protections for per-

sonal health information held by covered entities and gives patients an array of rights with respect to that information,” said HHS.gov. “At the same time, the Privacy Rule is balanced so that it permits the disclosure of personal health infor-mation needed for patient care and other important purposes.”

This indeed shows CVS is in ac-cordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and states that again, this policy of “forcing” employees to get their health screening done is per-fectly legal.

Not morally right, but legal.Regardless of what act says what,

and what law states otherwise; the actions that CVS will implement in May are not fair and may also deeply change the perspective of what is legal and what shouldn’t be. Because in the end, if something is backed up by the law and people stand for it, there it will remain.

When crimes are involved, we don’t pick sides

Two high school football play-ers were convicted and found guilty in an Ohio rape case involving a 16-year-old girl. The two teenag-ers stood before the victim’s family apologizing for their actions—their emotional reactions in court becom-ing the center of the story.

When various news sites and networks reported on the case they took an unexpected angle on the event. More specifically, CNN took an angle on the story that seemed unconventional. The reporter and anchor of CNN discussed missed opportunities and promising careers now shattered by the events.

But it wasn’t the 16-year-old vic-tim they were talking about, it was the convicted rapists.

As the two discussed the case and the events that took place within the courtroom, emotions seemed to run very high. The reporter on scene de-scribed how emotional it was for her to see the two convicted teens hear the guilty verdict. She described the feelings she experienced while she watched as the two boys realized

their lives had fallen apart. The reporter continued on, de-

scribing to viewers the scene that played out in court as the guilty verdict was read, explaining that one of the convicted teens collapsed into his attorney’s arms while saying, “My life is over, no one is going to want me now.”

When conveying information regarding news events, journalists and—more so—college journalism students are taught the importance of maintaining objectivity. In the professional world one is expected to maintain a neutral stance regardless of the event, focusing on the impor-tance of the information more than anything else.

It isn’t the news reporter’s job to give viewers their opinion, it is instead their responsibility to relay important newsworthy informa-tion without an emotional reaction. A case involving minors can bring with it complications, but the plan of action should remain intact; moreover, upon gaining newswor-thy information the reporter should relay the news without including sympathetic notions.

As journalists we learn early on the importance of relaying news in this fashion by understanding pro-fessional standards of conduct. Our professors and mentors teach us that

expressing emotional connections to certain aspects of a news story can create a biased report.

Some may have reported that this sympathetic coverage may have had something to do with the fact that the news organizations involved didn’t have access to the victim, and obviously so. There are reasons, both legal and moral, why one is not giv-en access to the victim in these cases: She is a rape victim and a minor. It is important for law enforcement to keep her name and information out of the public’s knowledge.

This secrecy is done in order to protect this 16-year-old victim from public prejudice.

Regardless of the fact that access to the victim is completely cut off, the news organizations reporting should still be able to keep sympathetic cov-erage out of the equation. This emo-tionally driven news reporting just opens up room for biased coverage. Not having access to the victim, in

order to gain more information of the news event, still doesn’t allow for any excuses of sympathetic coverage of the perpetrators.

Watching the multimedia pack-age produced and distributed by CNN invokes a sickening reaction within me. The fact that these two convicted rapists are minors doesn’t even cross my mind, I’m disturbed by the fact that the reporter sympa-thizes with their “lives being over.”

These two teenagers need to pay for their actions. They need to face punishment. Regardless of their age, they committed a crime and there is no need to sympathize with them. These two teenagers are convicted rapists and there is no excuse for an emotional coverage of their reactions in court to the guilty verdict.

Sympathy may have a place in personal lives. When it comes to news coverage, there is no room for sympathy towards convicted criminals.

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Terrorists invade the White House in Olympus Has Fallen, this year’s Die Hard clone.

Gerard Butler (300) is Secret Ser-vice agent Mike Banning, the head of the team that protects U.S. Presi-dent Benjamin Asher, played by Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight).

The film picks up 18 months after a tragic accident on a snowy highway, with Banning being transferred to working behind a desk at the Treasury Department and President Asher meeting with the South Korean prime minister at the White House.

Washington D.C. is suddenly at-tacked by a heavily-armed gunship and chaos ensues.

As the aircraft terrorizes the streets from above, the president and the prime minister’s staff are ushered into a security bunker below.

Terrorists violently take over the bunker and everyone inside is taken hostage.

Meanwhile above ground, the gunship is eventually shot down, taking the top of the Washington Monument with it. More terrorist mercenaries come off the streets and a firefight takes place on 1600 Penn-sylvania Avenue.

The White House gates are even-tually breached, and the terrorists advance on the main entrance.

Banning, having seen the attack from his office window, has made his way to the battle and begins taking out the enemies with deadly precision.

Banning sneaks inside the White House where the terrorists eventually take over and execute all remaining survivors.

The leader of the terrorist group is Kang Yeonsak, played by Chinese actor Rick Yune (The Fast and the Furious), who is in the White House

bunker holding the president, his staff and his guests at gunpoint.

The new acting leaders for the United States is headed by Speaker of the House Allan Trumbull, acted by the exceptional Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption). He is ordered by Kang, via video confer-ence, to remove American troops from the area around his country and is given a deadline.

More firefights ensue while a proverbial clock threatens the United States.

The movie is an extreme cliché and predictable. Blood is spilled from knives and bullets, with plenty of F-bombs thrown in to make sure the audience knows they are watch-ing an R-rated film.

Standard action movie acting is present, where lines are said just to fill time and progress the absurd story.

There is also laughably bad, over-ly-dramatic acting by side charac-ters; which is surprising since most are notable actors in their own right.

Even Freeman’s normal charisma is nowhere to be seen. Maybe it went to the movie’s star, for some of Butler’s charm shines through in small parts of action and comedy.

Other failed talent would be that of the no-so-special effects department.

Smoke grenades thrown on the White House lawn and an automated turret that pops out of the mansion’s roof are just two examples where com-puter generated objects look unnatural in real environments.

However, the most annoying thing is how painfully patriotic the movie tries to be. It is filled with American flags, sorrowful music and the constant reminder of being the world’s “number one nation.”

At one point, the Secretary of Defense even screams the Pledge of Allegiance as she is dragged away by the terrorists.

Perhaps it should have been re-leased closer to July 4. The movie does, after all, take place the day af-ter and the American audiences are usually in the mood to see of red, white and blue during that time of year. Lots of red blood, a white mansion and a blue mood of disap-pointment are a perfect fit for the film.

Olympus Has Fallen fails in its clear attempt to imitate. It provides a lot of shooting with a few chuckles, but was doomed once the title was shown.

Giving the president’s mansion the name of Olympus may have been a little egotistic, for in this case, pride definitely goes before the fall.

MATTHEW PIERDaily Titan

Olympus has Fallen

Two days, two stages, 41 bands, $20 per day and one tired pair of legs.

For the second sold-out year the Fullerton-based record label, Burger Records, force-fed a hungry audi-ence a family-sized platter of howl-ing axes, deep-ocean bass, loud kicks and whiny licks at its second annual music festival—Burgerama II.

The massive weekend took place at the Observatory in Santa Ana and featured a full range of genres and sounds, from gut punching punk (Pangea) to throwback alternative hip-hop (The Pharcyde) to the chirp and charm of comedian James Quall as its master of ceremonies.

From earth to sky this event held a tall order of talent.

The sun-stroked, three women and one man band, Cherry Glaz-err, cultivated a field of fans, flow-ery jams and all while still achieving their high school diplomas (they re-turned to the hallways of hell today).

Natural Child demonstrated the delicate Nashville, Tenn. taste and fusion of bluegrass, country, rock

and soul—something Jerry Garcia would be grateful to see alive in to-day’s youth.

And the progressive and ever spooky band, The Garden, con-tained twin brothers who have set a new standard for band etiquette—put the track on loop and jump in the audience to dance with them.

Marty Keegan, father of William Keegan (guitarist for Pangea), en-dorsed the concept of these artists actually acknowledging their fans as human beings and not dollar signs. And just as the artists return the love to their fans, they equally re-turn it to each other.

It wasn’t surprising or rare to see Kyle Handley and Erik Gage of the Portland, Ore. band, White Fang, roam the stomping grounds of the venue after their set.

It wasn’t awkward or weird when Erik Jimenez (drummer for Pangea) was seen wearing a White Fang t-shirt throughout the night.

Even Natural-K of Pharcyde incorporated his preschooler into their performance to teach the au-dience how to correctly dance.

What Burger Records does for

these artists is something YouTube cannot. Burger Records gives its nu-clear-sized family a studio, an outlet and more importantly, a home.

Regardless of where an artist may go or which record label a band might sign with, like a good parent, Burger Records extends its arm of creation and welcomes said voyager back at any time to its home base in fortuitous Fullerton, Calif.

“It really is like a big family,” said Nick Benshoff, a dedicated and self-declared Burger devourer. “And it’s cool to see we can all come to-gether over something like music. Burgerama II, in essence, is one big family reunion.”

Even as the deluge of sweaty bodies and conflicting patterns rushed from the Constellation room to the main stage and anx-ious security guards began to twitch to near identical perspira-tion, nothing went awry at this show. Within this population peo-ple look out for each other.

The pit of any stage would seem like outright pandemonium to an outsider, however the parallax of the dance is far above civil standards. If

someone falls, someone immedi-ately yells—Pick them up!—and an arbitrary array of rescue moshers fling them upright and push them on their way.

The energy that’s released in the pits is far from hate and sheer wantonness, rather, the smell of love and dysfunction like that of most family gatherings heavily ra-diates throughout the rafters.

“Though my abhorrence to Nixon is indelible,” said Sahil Sharma, 21, a senior and psy-chology student at the UC Davis. “Burger Records and its succes-sive series of events give Orange County the needed rejuvenation and collectiveness every commu-nity needs. And can you believe Disneyland isn’t the reason I come to this land?”

Pilgrimages have been made for this organization. First, go to the market and pick up some peanut butter, and then head to Burger Re-cords and pick up the jams.

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Cole, Jared, Ian and Joe of the Black Lips were among the bands performing at the two-day event put together by Burger Records at the Orange County venue. DANIEL J. OSTRIN / For the Daily Titan

Choir chants to eclectic arrangements

DANIEL J. OSTRINFor the Daily Titan

Cal State Fullerton’s Concert Choir, along with ensembles from Mira Costa High School and Pasa-dena City College, will perform in Meng Hall Wednesday, March 27.

CSUF’s Concert Choir is com-prised of 55 mixed members, mean-ing males and females sing together. Most of these students are music majors studying voice as their pri-mary instrument, said Christopher Peterson, Ph.D., director of CSUF’s Concert Choir.

Normally, Concert Choir per-forms with the CSUF University Singers, a smaller mixed choir of 32 people.

Since, the University Singers will be in Dallas to perform for a na-tional audience, the Concert Choir invited two other schools to fill their absence.

Mira Costa High School and Pasadena City College choirs will take the stage for 30 minutes each.

“Mira Costa High School is prob-ably one of the best high school choirs in all of Southern California. They’ve sung for regional audiences and they’ve been to Carnegie Hall,” said Peterson. “Pasadena City College also has a wonderful chamber group.”

The performance set list con-sists of an eclectic mix of musical arrangements.

The performance will open with a piece by composer Jackson Berkey called “Magnificat,” which is loud and accompanied by a rousing pi-ano, said Peterson.

“It’s got a lot of big chords and

lots of loud singing and is meant to get the audience’s attention,” Peter-son said.

Other pieces include an African composition called “Hallelujah” and eight songs sung in French by composer Francis Poulenc.

This show is the third perfor-mance put on by the choir this se-mester, according to Peterson.

“It’s not like we’ve been working all semester for this concert. We’ve really only worked a few weeks on it, which makes it a little terrifying sometimes but it always comes out good,” said Peterson.

Josh Young, music education major and member of CSUF’s Concert Choir, said this is the hardest concert he’s ever prepared for since eight of the songs will be sung in French.

Concert Choir’s assistant con-ductor Matt Netto, who is fluent in French, assists the students with singing the language.

“This is probably the most dif-ficult concert I’ve ever done,” said Young. “The students’ class meet-ings are two hours of nonstop rehearsals, twice a week. There is memorization involved, learn-ing the language and learning the notes.”

Lisette Zamora, a member of the Concert Choir, noted that about 95 percent of the time performance and music education majors are not singing in English, but it’s im-portant that the singers know the meaning. They must translate the emotions of the language through facial expressions or by acting out.

“We want to be able to perform

to the best of our ability and give a good performance because Con-cert Choir typically puts on a pretty good show,” said Alexa Prax, mu-sic education major and Concert Choir member.

She looks forward to attending the concert and its special guest performances.

“I’m interested to see how these choirs sound because we don’t really get to work with a lot of choirs outside of our own department,” Prax said.

Prax added that the the choir has

received positive feedback from au-diences and colleagues and hopes to make a good impression at this week’s concert.

“We make such beautiful mu-sic,” said Young. “It’s a rigorous program, but at the end it is just really awesome to see the fruits of our labor.”

The CSUF Concert Choir begins at 8 p.m. in Meng Hall Wednesday, March 27.

Tickets are $8 with the CSUF discounted student price.

TIFFANY JOHNSTONEDaily Titan

Burgerama feeds music fans at Observatory

Thomas Eshelman carried a perfect game into the fifth inning for the second time this year, and needed only 62 pitches to throw seven shutout innings en route to a 6-0 Titan victory over rival Long Beach State at Blair Field Friday.

Despite not recording a strike-out, Eshelman (5-1) worked easily through the Dirtbag lineup, facing only one batter over the minimum. The lone base runner he allowed came with two outs in the bottom of the fifth on a flare single that landed at the feet of right fielder Austin Kingsolver.

“It was phenomenal. He was just pounding the zone and they were swinging early, which worked into our plan with this big field,” said catcher Chad Wallach. “We’ll take those outs any day, even if they go to the warning track.”

Blair Field is known to be a pitcher’s park, meaning it’s no-toriously tough on hitters. The foul poles are 348 feet from home plate—about 20 feet further than most college and professional sta-diums—and a breeze blows in from right field, deadening many fly balls.

“I enjoy playing center on a field like this, but I don’t enjoy hitting on a field like this, that’s for sure,” said center fielder Mi-chael Lorenzen. “I wouldn’t want this to be my home field.”

By throwing strikes early in the count, Eshelman was able to coax hitters into making quick outs. He was economic from the outset of the game, using only five pitches to get through the first inning. He

also set down the Dirtbags on four pitches in the seventh.

“First inning, they were hitting the ball first pitch, so I kept on going with that approach,” said Eshelman, who averaged throwing just 2.8 pitches per at bat.

Lorenzen put Cal State Fuller-ton (19-3) on the scoreboard in the top of the second inning when he turned a hanging curveball from Long Beach starting pitcher Shane Carle (1-3) into his third homerun of the season—a no-doubt line drive home run well over the left field wall. He has al-ready passed his entire 2012 total.

“I’ve changed some mechan-ics in my swing, actually a ton of mechanics in my swing,” Lorenzen said. “I feel like I’ve finally learned how to swing a bat. A lot of people said I was raw as a hitter, and I took that to heart and figured out how to really swing a bat and how to take pitches and how to see the baseball.”

CSUF added a second run in the third when first baseman Car-los Lopez singled over the head of Dirtbag shortstop Michael Hill to score left fielder Austin Diemer from second base. Lopez leads CSUF with a .341 batting average and nine stolen bases.

The game remained close until the late innings, but the Titans were able to pull away with a run

in the seventh and three more in the eighth to push the lead to 6-0. Austin Diemer’s bases loaded two-run single capped the rally.

“We played the game better than they did tonight,” Vanderhook said. “We threw better strikes, played better defense and we moved guys around the bases better.”

“It just feels good to play good baseball,” Lorenzen said. “It feels good to play the right way.”

Long Beach (9-13) managed only two baserunners during the game, both on weak singles.

Titan third baseman Matt Chapman injured his left ankle in the sixth inning while sliding into second base. Though he remained in the game, it was revealed that he has a severe sprain and is expected to miss six to eight weeks, accord-ing to Vanderhook.

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A day after beating Colorado State 5-2 and sweeping the doubles round, the Cal State Fullerton wom-en’s tennis team were outmatched and swept off the courts with a 7-0 defeat at the hands of the visiting Wyoming Cowgirls tennis team this past Thursday.

The loss drops the Titans (9-10) back to one game under .500 for the season while Wyoming (7-5) im-proves to two games over .500.

The Titans didn’t go down easy though and fought until the bitter end with junior Morgan McIntosh pushing her match into a tiebreaker and senior Tiffany Mai nearly ral-lying to take her match into a tie-breaker as well.

“It’s about hanging in there and not giving up and if they keep doing that I’m happy with it,” said CSUF Head Coach Bill Reynolds. “It doesn’t guarantee you will win but it guarantees you will have a chance to win.”

After winning the only match for CSUF in the day, a doubles match with teammate Kalika Slevcove, Mc-Intosh fell behind early by dropping the first set (6-1) in her singles match versus Veronica Popovici. Looking sluggish and just a step slower in the first set, McIntosh seemed to have found new energy during the break as she came out looking like a new person, re-energized, in the second set. McIntosh took complete control of the match.

“I played well in the first set she just took control of the match,” McIntosh said. “In the second set I won that first game and it gave me a boost and after taking that long second game it showed me I can beat this girl and it flipped the switch and I just went for every-thing.”

McIntosh went on to send the match into a tiebreaker with a 6-2 finish in the second set. Popovici just had some bounces go her way in the end as she ended up defeat-ing McIntosh (14-12) in the de-ciding tiebreaker.

After dropping the first set in her singles match against Simona Synkova and falling behind big in the second set, seemingly looking frustrated throughout, Mai was also able to find a new energy source as she made a furious comeback to tie things up at 5-5 in the set. In the end it wasn’t enough to send the match into a tiebreaker as Synkova finished the match off in the next two games (6-2, 7-5).

“I was getting killed so I just told myself ‘let’s make this match as long as I can go’ then all of a sudden I started winning games and came back to 5 all but in the end it wasn’t enough,” said Mai of her late rally.

The Titans lone win came in the doubles match of McIntosh and sophomore Slevcove who defeated the team of Alexandra Kovacs and Sasa Nemcova (8-4).

“We were on fire just being re-ally aggressive and took every op-portunity we had to take the lead early on,” McIntosh, 20, said. “We were just really focused on staying on top of it and not letting them get back in it; we just played a great game.”

McIntosh and Slevcove improved their record to 11-6 on the year with the win.

Despite the win, CSUF was un-able to score the doubles point as the No. 1 team of Mai and senior Monica Rodriguez were defeated by Popovici and Synkova (8-5) and the No. 3 team of freshman Rebekkah Ermac and sophomore Megan Sand-ford had no answers against the team Jessica Perizher and Silviya Zhelyaz-kova (8-3).

The shutout marks the first time the Titans have been swept in a match this season. Now, the Ti-tans look to rebound this Sunday as they host Big West Conference rival Pacific. The match is sched-uled for 10 a.m.

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Junior Morgan McIntosh looks for a forehand against Veronica Popovici.MIMI HUNG / Daily Titan

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Freshman pitcher Thomas Eshelman throws a pitch at Long Beach State’s Blair Field for his fifth win of the season. ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan

Baseball controls game one

Titans rally late, win series in Long Beach

In what has already been a sea-son full of highs, Cal State Fullerton pulled out its most thrilling win yet Saturday afternoon at Blair Field to clinch a series victory against Long Beach State. Trailing 5-1 after seven innings, the Titans (20-3) rallied for five in the eighth and two more in the ninth to stun the Dirtbags.

The Titans loaded the bases with one out in the top of the eighth before sec-ond baseman Jake Jefferies walked on a full count to bring home the first run of the inning. Pinch hitter Anthony Hutting followed with an RBI single, and two batters later, right fielder Aus-tin Diemer was hit by a pitch to force home another run to pull the Titans to within one.

Batting with the bases loaded, a full count and the tying run on third base, shortstop Richy Pedroza tapped a weak ground ball behind the mound where Dirtbag shortstop Michael Hill attempted to make a bare-handed play. Hill could not grab the ball cleanly, and two runs scored, giving the Titans a 6-5 lead. Pedroza attempted advancing to second but was thrown out, ending the inning.

“I was looking for something more middle-out, then the pitch ended up being in,” said Pedroza. “I tried stay-ing inside and I got jammed. Luckily I found a hole.”

The Titans added another two runs in the ninth to pad their lead. First baseman Carlos Lopez col-lected his third hit of the day and advanced to third base when third baseman J.D. Davis punched a per-fectly-executed hit-and-run single into right field. Center fielder Mi-chael Lorenzen brought home Lopez

with a sacrifice fly, and catcher Chad Wallach drove in Davis with a line drive single off the glove of Long Beach first baseman Jeff Yamaguchi.

Long Beach (9-13) mounted a rally in the bottom of the ninth, forcing Lo-renzen to earn the final two outs. After allowing an RBI ground out which brought the score to 8-6, Lorenzen got Dirtbag designated hitter Ino Patron to chase a two-strike curveball in the dirt, giving the Titans the victory. Patron finished the game with three hits and four RBIs, and was a home run away from the cycle.

CSUF starting pitcher Justin Garza (5-0) entered the game with an ERA of 0.99 but was roughed up by Long Beach hitters, allowing five runs in 4.1 innings on the mound. He was relieved by Willie Kuhl, who hurled three shut-out innings and recorded four of the eight Titan strikeouts.

“Willie throws the invisible ball,” said Head Coach Rick Vanderhook. “Everybody knows what Willie’s gonna throw, and then it just kind of disap-pears on them right there, and nobody ever hits it.”

The comeback marked the second time in five days that the Titans won a game after falling behind by four runs. Kuhl was also dominant in that game, throwing 4.2 innings out of the bullpen and allowing only an unearned run.

“We always expect to win,” Van-derhook said. “The game’s not over until the end of the ninth inning. It got a little tight for us in the bottom and we had to go to Michael, but that’s why you play nine innings.”

“We knew if we just threw up good at bats and go all the way, we always have a chance until the game’s over,” said Pedroza. “We’re never going to give up, and it was good for our team to show that we don’t give up and that we are go-ing to play until all nine innings are over.”

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) It’s a big mistake to think you’re the smartest. That’s irrelevant, anyway. There’s still work to be done. Dedication is part of the solution. Horses may be part of the picture. Get out of the clouds and ride.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) There’s less than you thought, but the opportunities for more are wide open. Ignore a rude remark, or anything that distracts from your com-mitments. There’s plenty of work to do. Dive into it.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Stay outside of the controver-sy; you have bigger and better things to worry about. If you really think it will make a difference, wait a while. Anticipate criticism. Otherwise, keep to your commitments.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Listen. What you learn today helps you in the long run. Put your confidence and power behind a great cause. Don’t throw your money around, though; not even for love. Give your heart instead.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Listen to a roommate carefully and without losing your temper. There’s gold to be found in those words. Remember your manners. Being silent can be fine. Respond later. Imagine your home filled with harmony.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Read emails and respond to phone messages to avoid a misunderstanding. Make new friends on social media, but don’t believe everything you see. Stay cautious in the digital world. Check your privacy settings.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Stand up for what is right, even in the face of disagreement. But watch out so you don’t come off as obnoxious. Your dedication may be stronger than your words. Mold your message, edit and put it into action.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Ride out the storm, and calm another’s fears. Take a moment to catch your breath. Then conjure ideas for an additional income stream, now and for the long run. Invest in tangibles, rather than fiction.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Work out your differences so that you can move forward with ease. You can really han-dle it. It’s worth taking the time. Postpone parties and committee meetings. It’s not a good time to shop, either.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) State your position firmly, and be willing to be flexible, up to a point. An objective per-spective helps. Enough talking about it; now’s the time to get active. Boost morale with music and good food.

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE MARCH 25, 2013

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Saturday’s Puzzle SolvedBy David Steinberg 3/25/13

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 3/25/13

“A day without sunshie is like, you

know, night.”

-Steve Martin

The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team looked to bounce back after getting swept by the Universi-ty of Wyoming. The Titans did just that and cruised to a 6-1 victory over The University of the Pacific on Sunday.

The match ended at 2 p.m. under pristine weather conditions. With the support of the home crowd, the Titans managed to upset their oppo-nent the Pacific Tigers from Univer-sity of the Pacific.

There was concern that the Titans might lose against the Tigers due to their losing record in the past.

“They (Pacific) are good, I mean we know that it was going to be a struggle out here today ... doubles was tight, but that was just the preview of how the rest of our singles was going to be, so ev-eryone’s matches were pretty tight … we always give it our all every chance,” Kalika Slevcove said, who along with her doubles part-ner, Morgan Mclntosh, won their match 8-5.

Monica Rodriguez did not let the defeat from the double’s game with Tiffany Mai affect her. She instead came out strong and was the first one who put up the initial win in the single’s game. Rodri-guez effortlessly won two sets in a row from her opponent Gergana Boncheva while everyone else was still competing against their rivals.

“I felt really good in singles,

doubles was a little bit of a strug-gle, but I picked it up in my sin-gles and just recovered from my doubles’ match, and got a win,” Rodriguez said.

The Titans needed Rodriguez’s win as it helped the team gain mo-mentum going into the later sets.

In the meantime, Morgan Mcln-tosh was still on her first set with Iveta Masarova. The points were very tight as they went back and forth between set points. Morgan and Iveta were evenly matched for the first couple of rallies but Mor-gan managed to score the first win for the sets.

The same situation persisted during Mai’s game with her oppo-nent Hana Ritterova at the No. 2 spot as Mai was slightly behind the first couple points but she came back with a vengeance to win her

first set as well. After Rodriguez’s first win,

Mclntosh and Mai also scored two sets for themselves which gave the Titans three singles wins against the favored Tigers.

Unlike Mai, Mclntosh was lead-ing her opponent in her second set, however Mclntosh did not let up just because she was in the lead. Mclntosh played the game slowly but steadily and her perseverance and diligence lead her to victory.

“My opponent was a very solid player, the first set I got down 4-1 again pretty fast, and then I just decided to give it everything I have by being more aggressive, and then it ended up working out for me … I just keep fighting for every single point,” Mclntosh said after she fin-ished winning her singles game.

Mai and her opponent Ritterova

were fighting until the very last min-utes. The game was nerve-wracking. It was 6-6 on the second set and this led to the tie breaker of the game. the cheering from the crowd was so loud and everyone was on their toes. The second the ball failed to swim back from Ritterova became the moment when Mai won the last game against The Pacific Tigers.

“We’ve never beat the Pacific I think in the last … maybe nine years … it feels good to win, and not only to win but win 6-to-1,” said Mai.

The Pacific Tigers have a higher rank than the Titans, but this time Titans outright beat the Tigers in many years.

“I’m excited and I’m happy of course … we worked hard, we deserve it,” said Titan’s Head Coach Bill Reynolds.

For more information on the women’s tennis team, visit Fuller-tonTitans.com

SPORTS MARCH 25, 2013MONDAY


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Morgan McIntosh looks to connect with the ball in a singles match. She fought back, down 4-1 in the first set of the match.MIMI HUNG / Daily Titan

BEACH: Titans sweep Dirtbags

under the rugAfter a tough loss to Wyoming, the Titans crush their Big West foe 6-1

MIMI HUNGDaily Titan

He then advanced to second base on a fly out to deep right by left fielder Anthony Hutting, whose brother Eric Hutting started behind the plate for the Dirtbags. After the next batter, des-ignated hitter Clay Williamson, was walked, catcher Jared Deacon hit a shot to right center to drive in Lorenzen for the 1-0 lead. Deacon went three-for-four with one RBI on three singles.

“From an offensive standpoint, just hit the ball on the ground and beat in-fielders,” said Deacon.

CSUF put one more run on the board in the top of the fifth inning when second baseman Keegan Dale opened up the frame with a walk. Shortstop Richy Pedroza then hit a laser shot over the right fielder that dropped for a double to drive in Dale from first for the 2-0 lead.

Titan right hander Grahamm Wi-est (4-1) started the game strong as he shutout the Dirtbags for four innings before allowing a run in the fifth, strik-ing out seven batters up to that point.

The Dirtbags got on the board in the bottom of the fifth inning when Ino Patron hit a ball passed the div-ing Dale with a runner on second to cut the lead to 2-1. Patron continued his hot streak against the Titans after driving in four runs on Saturday on three hits and a home run shy of hit-ting for the cycle.

After allowing the run, Wiest went on to retire the next seven Dirtbag bat-ters to increase his strikeouts to eight. Wiest seem to just get stronger as the game went on, shutting out the Long Beach offense allowing zero hits and no batters to get on base before allowing a leadoff hit in the bottom of the ninth inning that spelled the end for his day as Lorenzen came in to try and shut the door for the Titans. Wiest finished the

game with a career-high nine strikeouts on seven hits, one earned run and zero walks allowed.

“He just threw a lot of strikes which is what we want him to do and he did it and was great,” said Titan Head Coach Rick Vanderhook. “They (the pitchers) just push each other out there and have a great friendly rivalry trying to match each other.”

Dirtbags starting pitcher, David Hill (0-2), held the Titans to two runs on five hits in five and two-third innings pitched. Coming in relief of Hill was righty Josh Frye who subsequently got Lorenzen to ground out to shortstop for the third out of the sixth.

The Titans threatened again in the top of the eighth inning when Frye left the game after an inning pitch with Hutting on third and one out, lefty Landon Hunt faced Deacon who botched a squeeze bunt that left Hut-ting out to dry halfway down the third baseline and was tagged out for the sec-ond out. Kingsolver went on to strike-out looking to end the inning.

That wasted run opportunity al-most came back to hunt the Titans as the Dirtbags threatened in the bottom of the ninth as the first two batters got on base on a couple of hits to lead off the inning. After a sacrifice bunt that put runners on second and third base, a would be sacrifice fly that would have tied the game was waved off as the run-ner on third left the base too early and with that, Wiest got the win with Lo-renzen (8) earning the save.

“The decision doesn’t matter to me, the only thing that matters is the out-come,” Wiest said of earning the win in the end.

The Titans look to extend their winning streak to 11 games as they play host to Loyola Marymount this Tuesday. First pitch is sched-uled for 6 p.m.


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