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Dear White People director to give Q&A

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A battery occurred on campus Feb. 11, according to University Police crime logs.

The battery involved a 24-year-old male victim and a 21-year-old female suspect, University Police captain John Brockie said

in an email interview. The incident occurred

in the Lot A parking lot around 11:38 p.m., Brock-ie said.

There was no altercation that led to the battery, and the victim did not sustain any injuries, he said.

Battery is defined as any unlawful and willing use of force from one person to another, according to sec-tion 242 of the California Penal Code.

Battery carries a misde-meanor charge in Califor-nia, but victims can choose

whether or not to press charges.

The victim of the Feb. 11 battery did not press any charges, and consequent-ly, no arrests were made in connection with the inci-dent, Brockie said.

University Police

received the report after a male bystander called the police station, according to Brockie.

Victims of crimes or in-dividuals with any infor-mation regarding crimes can call University Police at (657) 278-2515.

No arrests made for battery in parking lot

Town hall event returns

Baseball falls in rubber match against Stanford

No charges pressed by 24-year-old victim

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Cal State Fullerton lead-ers, faculty and students will come together to dis-cuss campus issues during the second Titans Reach Higher Town Hall.

The event began as a part of the strategic plan that laid out the university’s pri-mary objectives and goals into a five year plan.

The previous town hall was held during the Fall 2014 semester and drew more than 300 CSUF stu-dents, faculty staff and administrators.

Both President Mildred García’s office and Mary Ann Villarreal, director of strategic initiatives and university projects, refused to answer questions regard-ing the event.

Inquiries were direct-ed to Christopher Bug-bee, CSUF media relations officer.

Planning for this year’s event has featured attempts to drum up increased attendance.

Organizers for the event have have made announce-ments to 26 different stu-dent groups on campus in an effort to increase student participation at the meet-ing. As it was last semes-ter, the event will also be streamed online, and any-one watching remotely will be able to ask questions via social media.

Junior outfielder Josh Vargas grounds out to Stanford shortstop Tommy Edman in the third inning of Friday night’s 2-0 defeat. Vargas went 1-for-4 on the night and 3-for-10 during the three-game series at Goodwin Field. The Titans lost the rubber match of a tightly-contested series to start off 2-5 in the young 2015 season.

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Cal State Fullerton base-ball played host to old-time rival Stanford this weekend, dropping the rubber match and falling to 2-5 in the young season.

The Titans opened up their first series homestand Friday night with a pitching duel be-tween junior Thomas Eshel-man (0-2) and Cardinal starter Cal Quantrill (1-0).

Eshelman looked domi-nant, going perfect through

six innings with seven strike-outs, but in the top of the sev-enth he allowed a single to the Stanford leadoff hitter, Tom-my Edman. Edman would ad-vance to second from the error committed by junior left field-er David Olmedo-Barrera.

After being advanced to third from a sacrifice bunt, Edman scored on a wild pitch to give Stanford the 1-0 lead. Cardinal Matt Winaker add-ed all the insurance Stanford needed with his solo shot to right field to go up 2-0 and hand CSUF their second home loss of the season.

“I was just thinking pound the zone and give my team-mates a chance to win the game,” Eshelman said about going perfect for six innings.

Things got a little chippy

Saturday as the Titans picked up their first home victory of the season, winning 4-2 in their second matchup against Stanford.

CSUF was led on the mound by junior starter Jus-tin Garza, while junior cen-ter-fielder Josh Vargas led the offense. Garza was solid for four shutout innings, striking out eight, while Vargas went 2-2 with two walks and a run scored.

“We’ve been working on staying inside the ball the whole time and I’ve been try-ing to yank way too much to right field trying to get some-thing going and I just kept it simple today and took what they gave me,” Vargas said about his success at the plate that night.

The Titans offense came to life in the fifth inning when freshman right fielder Scott Hurst led off the inning with a triple to right. Hurst was brought home by sopho-more Timmy Richards’ hard grounder to shortstop that went off the glove of Edman, putting the Titans up 1-0.

On the next pitch, Vargas roped a single to left and end-ed up on third after an er-rant throw by the Cardinal left fielder, who was attempt-ing to throw out the hustling Richards at third. The throw allowed Richards to score and give the Titans the lead at 2-0. Vargas was brought in by the RBI groundout from junior third baseman Dustin Vaught, allowing Fullerton to go up 3-0.

Stanford mounted a rally in the top of the eighth, scor-ing twice after being issued a leadoff walk by Titan se-nior reliever Tyler Peitzmei-er. The walk was followed by a double and triple to left that cut into the Titan lead, 3-2. Peitzmeier collected him-self and was able to get out of the inning without any more damage done, before pick-ing up his second save of the season.

“Mostly, I was trying too hard at the beginning, I was trying too hard to strike those guys out. It was all two-strike pitches that they got hits on,” Peitzmeier said. “Then Deets (Jason Dietrich) came out ... and calmed me down.”

Titans drop to 2-5 after losing the opening series

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SMASHTHEATER REVIEW:

When the worlds been smashed to pieces, what’s there to do with the rubble? Some remain in pieces, while others find prosperity.

In Jeffrey Hatcher’s Smash, an adaptation of An Unso-cial Socialist by George Ber-nard Shaw, a man attempts to spread socialist revolution. It explores themes of love, fem-inism and ideology as well as featuring an impressive

display of humor.In a spontaneous stroke

of passion, millionaire so-cialist, Sydney Trefusis, de-cides to leave his newly-wed bride to pursue his dreams of overthrowing the British government and establishing a socialist society. Trefusis infiltrates an all-girls college disguised as a laborer to carry out the first step of his plan.

Director and former dean of the College of the Arts, Joseph Arnold, Ph.D., led the show’s 10-person cast that brings forth a charming display of authenticity and humor.

Trefusis is played by Bach-elor of Fine Arts acting ma-jor Kenney Selvey, who, de-spite his loose grasp on the

British accent, is eagerly spir-ited while playing the con-tradicting activist. Driven by thinkers like Marx and En-gles, Trefusis’ passion for social justice is matched by Selvey’s display of strategic wonderment.

Henrietta Jansenius, Tre-fusis’ unfortunate bride, is played by BFA acting ma-jor Heidi Palomino. Janse-nius is a domineering and spiteful woman, yet also a charmingly modern lady. Palomino is alive and flour-ishing in her performance. She exerts a sense of enam-oredness and vulnerability as Jansenius carries out her own plans for prosperity.

Exceptional cast spreads laughs in the Young Theatre

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Jackie Summers and Kenney Selvey star in Smash, which opened in the Hallberg Theatre Friday. The comedy is directed by former dean of the College of the Arts, Joseph Arnold, Ph.D.

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Burglary suspect arrested

Explosion kills two, injures 11

Woman arrested in stabbing

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Irvine police arrest-ed a suspected seri-al car burglar Sunday morning after he was found stealing a garage door opener from a parked car, according to the Orange County Register.

Matthew Kozlov, 19, is suspected for break-ing into at least five un-locked vehicles.

Officers responded to a burglary on Win-terfield Road at 3 a.m. Police reported that the suspect had sto-len from three cars on neighboring streets.

Kozlov lead police on a foot chase through a residential neighbor-hood, taking shelter in a backyard where po-lice arrested him. He was booked on suspi-cion of residential bur-glary, possession of stolen property, pet-ty theft and resisting officers.

Two people were killed and 11 were wounded by a bomb explosion during a peaceful memori-al march in Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv, the Los Ange-les Times reported.

The explosion was caused by a home-made bomb hidden under a thin layer of snow. Authorities detained four sus-pected perpetrators who were trained in the Russian town of Belgorod.

Hundreds of Ukrai-nians were rallying peacefully in the cap-ital of Kharkiv to hon-or the civilians who died last year during a protest against the pro-Russian president.

This explosion is one of several report-ed violations of the cease-fire agreement that was created this month.

A 50-year-old wom-an from Laguna Niguel was arrested in con-nection with the dead-ly stabbing of her boy-friend, according to the Orange County Register.

The victim, Richard Begley, 52, was found dead on his neighbor’s porch of a stomach wound Saturday at about 8:40 p.m.

The alleged sus-pect, Michelle Green, 50, was Begley’s girlfriend.

She was found in-side the couple’s resi-dence next door when she was arrested by an Orange County sheriff on suspicion of Begley’s stabbing and murder.

Green is reported to have no criminal re-cord within the Orange County area.

In a public message to the university, García stressed the importance of student participation.

“For those wondering if it is necessary to attend the town hall, that drives these innovations, I encourage you to talk with a student whose path to graduation was illuminated by manda-tory advising,” she said.

During the previous town hall, García discussed the continued practice of the university strategic plan. The university, she said, should not attempt to put the plan into place all at once, but should focus on the five-year implementa-tion of the plan’s goals.

Other topics addressed at the previous event included increasing student engage-ment on campus and build-ing up positive perceptions of the university.

Faculty investment in the university was one of the table discussion top-ics brought up during last year’s town hall, according to notes from the roundta-bel portion of the previous town hall event.

Suggestions included in-creasing faculty connec-tion to university efforts and providing affordable opportunities for faculty to engage on campus were raised in response to that concern, according to the notes.

The town hall will

follow the same format as last year’s event, and will include both overarching presentations, Q&A ses-sions and smaller table discussions.

The event last year be-gan with a presentation, followed by a 45-minute discussion period during which faculty, staff and students participated in roundtable discussions on multiple issues. Those dis-cussions were then fol-lowed by a Q&A and an open discussion session.

The town hall will be held from 10 a.m. to noon March 2 in the Ti-tan Student Union, a two hour event held in the Ti-tan Student Union Porto-la Pavilion.

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President García speaks at a previous town hall event in October 2014. The event this year will largely follow the same format, including remote participation options.

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Club builds up to national competition

Civil Engineering stu-dents from Cal State Ful-lerton will aim to build on past successes after qual-ifying for the American Society of Civil Engineer’s Geo-Challenge Competi-tion for the fifth consecu-tive year.

Eight students will enter their designs into three dif-ferent competitions to rep-resent the CSUF Geo-Tech Club and defend the club’s first place title.

The designs were ap-proved by a team of six to eight practicing civil en-gineers, who looked at submissions from various applicants.

The first of the three competition categories is the Geo-Wall competition. Students have to design and create a wall of poster board and craft paper that will have to hold about 800 pounds of material.

Graduate student and the team group’s captain, John Thurlo, senior Eric Kim, sophomore Shelley Rodri-guez and sophomore John Stapleton will compete as

a team in the Geo-Wall competition.

“We don’t want to give away the design weight, but we will tell you that it’s less than that sheet of pa-per that is holding it back,” said Beena Ajmera, CSUF alumna and Virginia Tech doctoral student.

During the Geo-Pre-

diction competition, the second the club will par-ticipate in, international students Duc Tran and Eric Kim, Ajmera and sopho-more Chloe Gharios, will break into two smaller teams to compete.

The challenge is to look at an incomplete design and calculate what is re-quired to complete the project. The team that comes up with calculations closest to the originals will win first place.

Student research will be the focus of the final com-petition—the Geo-Post-er competition. Graduate student Sneha Upadhyaya and Ajmera will pres-ent their research with the other top finalists at the conference.

The team is practicing and building their designs to compete on March 18 in San Antonio, Texas.

“I’m confident that they will do pretty good,” said Binod Tiwari, faculty ad-visor and civil engineering professor.

This year’s competi-tion may mark the fifth

time CSUF students rep-resent the university, but it came after first being rejected. CSUF did not qualify in 2010 but did in 2011, ranking first among applicants.

“We are the only school who got the top three na-tionally for the past five years,” Tiwari said.

The first place receives a revolving trophy and a fea-ture in the American So-ciety of Civil Engineers Magazine.

The biggest benefit of the conference is the na-tional recognition and vis-ibility for students.

“I hope at the conference to meet new people and hopefully, get a career in geotechnical engineering,” Rodriguez said.

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Inspired by Maya Ange-lou’s poem, Still I Rise, Cal State Fullerton has hosted presentations, films, lec-tures and other program-ming to celebrate Black His-tory Month. Programming will continue this week to round out the month.

The theme for this year’s Black History Month at CSUF is, Being Black in America: Still We Rise, and will focus on messages of reflection and empower-ment, said Dear Aunaetitr-akul, assistant coordinator for Diversity Initiatives and Resource Centers. The de-partment oversees the Af-rican-American Resource Center and the Asian Pacific Resource Center.

Each event is different and each presentation has its own focus, but all are related to Maya Angelou’s poem, Aunaetitrakul said.

The committee has been working to organize the event series since October 2014, Aunaetitrakul said. So far, events have gone well and have been bolstered by positive perceptions, she said.

“So far, we have been get-ting positive feedback from our presenters and partici-pants,” she said.

Programming will con-tinue through the end of the month, and there are still plenty of events worth attending, Aunaetitrakul said.

One of the final events will be a screening of the film Dear White People, on Feb. 24, in the TSU

Pavilions BC. The film, a social satire, explores the lives and experiences of four black students at Ivy League schools.

The director of the film, Justin Simien, will be at the screening and the event will feature a Q&A with Simien.

The film will be fol-lowed by a discussion on racial profiling and the lives of African-American males.

The program is a part-nership between Associat-ed Students, Inc., Diversi-ty Initiatives and Resource

Centers and other campus partners, Aunaetitrakul said.

Another of this week’s events, “Black Student Union Jazz Event,” will be sponsored by the Black Student Union and will take place from 8-10 p.m. Thursday in the TSU Gar-den Cafe.

The Diversity Initiatives and Resource Centers also has events planned for the month of March, which is the Women’s History Month, and April, which is Asian Pacific Islander Her-itage Month.

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Food, dancing and mu-sic marked the scene at the Becker Amphitheater Thurs-day, as students celebrated the Pan African Fair as part of Black History Month.

The annual fair was host-ed to give the communi-ty more insight to African cultures.

Cultural activities in-cluded double-dutch jump

roping, dominos, flag color-ing and old and new hip-hop music. An African-Amer-ican fraternity also per-formed a special step dance routine.

African-American student organizations, including The Black Student Union, Sister Talk and Delta Sigma Theta took part in the event.

The Black Student Union wanted to reach out to stu-dents and raise awareness of the low black population on campus, said Esther Ogun-rinu, health sciences ma-jor and president of Sister Talk.

Currently, black students make up two percent of the

student population at CSUF, Ogunrinu said.

Tremaine Tasher, direc-

tor of administration for the Black Student Union, hoped the event would give stu-dents of different ethnici-ties more insight to the Afri-can-American community.

“(It’s to) give a positive outlook on what we do,”

Tasher said. “It’s not the ste-reotypical things.”

Sister Talk, a student

group dedicated to explor-ing the changing roles and concerns of black women on campus through mean-ingful dialogue focusing on relationships, community concerns and leadership, ac-cording to their website, was

also at the event.The group wanted to raise

awareness that Sister Talk is a resource for the women on campus, Ogunrinu said.

Sister Talk also wanted to make connections with the other sororities on campus to build on diversity.

Ogunrinu said she hopes people will be more aware of the African-American community on campus and its cultural traditions. The group, she said, is aiming to do more events outside to en-gage the campus community and increase their visibility.

Phi Beta Sigma Frater-nity, Inc. was also present among the African-American

student organizations hoping to bring awareness to the low population of black students on campus.

Jason Garnelladams, a marketing major, said he hoped this would al-low the students to be more open-minded when it comes to understanding other cultures.

“(We’re here to) make it known to our whole cam-pus, that’s why we are in an open environment, no closed door so the whole campus can see us,” Gar-nelladams said. “We’re not hiding anything at all … we’re not ashamed of what we are doing.”

Black history month wraps up

Clubs celebrate black culture Dancing, food and music were enjoyed by visitors at the Pan Africa Fair, which took place in the Becker Amphitheater Thursday and was part of the festivities for Black History Month.

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A film screening and concert will round out this month’s events

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The event was part of this year’s Black History Month on campus. Each of the series of events were inspired by Maya Angelou’s Poem, Still I Rise.

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Dear White People

• Film will examine the lives of four black college students in Ivy League schools

• Director of the film, Justin Simien, will be part of a discussion focusing on racial profiling of African-American males.

• The film will be screened from 5-10 p.m. Feb. 24 in the TSU Pavilions. Doors open at 4:30.

Black Student Union Jazz Event

• Students and members of the community can enjoy a night of different musical styles during the Black Student Union Jazz event from 8-10 p.m. Thursday in the TSU Garden Cafe.

Black History Month Events

In a dark and chilled room, a small group of students quietly entered, equipped with a surgical face mask with a name on it.

The room was sectioned off into three, each set with videos, photos and facts posted on the walls. All of them showing different forms of oppression.

Wednesday, the Associa-tion for InterCultural Aware-ness, a group under the As-sociated Students, Inc. put on Tunnels of Oppression, as their annual Rally Against Hate event in the Housing Piazza.

Students at the sign-in ta-ble were able to receive a brochure and talk to Michael Medina, event coordinator for the Association for Inter-Cultural Awareness. In this brief overview of the event, students would receive a sur-gical mask.

The names on the masks coordinated with a grassy

area on one side of the Piaz-za where cardboard cutouts of people stood with pictures and stories on them.

These cutouts were loaned to the Association for Inter-Cultural Awareness by Jus-tin Phan, founder of the “Not One More” anti-bullying program in Garden Grove.

Phan’s cutouts have faces and stories posted on them of people who have died as a result of being bullied.

Phan had previously visit-ed CSUF once before in Oc-tober 2014 with his cutouts, and brought them back after the Association for InterCul-tural Awareness reached out to him.

Phan said the mask con-cept was “brilliant” and hopes to use this in future demonstrations.

Alongside the cutouts, the Piazza was lined with resource tables diversi-fied with various groups such as the Diversity Ini-tiatives Resource Centers, Queer People of Color at CSUF, Department of Afri-can-American Studies, Sis-ter Talk and the Clothesline Project.

Students browsed around the resource tables be-fore and after their guid-ed tour of the rooms, which

symbolized tunnels of oppression.

The first room of the tour was to be observed in si-lence. It was sectioned off into oppression and miscon-ceptions about race, veter-an’s mental health and body image.

The next room was again observed in silence and had to do with three other forms of oppression regarding reli-gion, heterosexism and those who are undocumented.

Once it seemed as though students on the tour were done looking over the facts and pictures on the wall in each section, the tour guide played a video that put an-other visual spin on that type of oppression.

Erin Harris, sociology ma-jor, found it was interesting to physically see the statis-tics and videos throughout the tunnels.

“I’m glad that someone brought this to the light,” Harris said.

At the end of the tour, stu-dents came to a room with two counselors from CSUF’s Counseling and Psychologi-cal Services.

Counselors Lauren Fournier, Psy.D., and Valerie Minchala, Ph.D., were there to help each group start a

discussion on what they had seen in the tunnels and pro-mote their services for fu-ture help to students.

Amaryah Tarkington, child and adolescent de-velopment major, said that

this end to the tour with the counselors fueled a good conversation between strangers.

Medina said that when thinking about the tunnels, the association wanted to

relate to CSUF students and create awareness.

“We’re really wanting to raise awareness to the stu-dents and have students see that this is happening day by day,” Medina said.

With the wish to start a real conversation at Cal State Ful-lerton about race, Dear White People, an award-winning film about black culture in so-ciety, will be shown at the Ti-tan Student Union Tuesday followed by a Q&A with the director of the movie, Justin Simien.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m., Vijay Pendakur, Ph.D., vice president for Student Affairs, will open with a brief intro-duction of the movie followed by the screening. At 7 p.m., Simien will give his Q&A and the audience can ask him questions.

The movie looks at the idea of racial relations, the age of

Obama; and challenges the notion that because we have a black president, we live in a post racial society in which prejudice does not exist any-more, said Kelsey Brewer, chief governmental officer of Associated Students, Inc.

The movie is satirical, Brewer said. It’s meant to be a little bit funny and looks spe-cifically at college students, but at the same time, the mov-ie brings out some important issues, she said.

“We know this event is not going to solve everything ... but we’re hoping that this film challenges both our mi-nority students and our white students to look critically at the world they live in, and es-pecially look critically at the campus and say ‘Is this the best that we can do? Or are there ways that we can im-prove?’” Brewer said.

Director of the film, Jus-tin Simien, graduated from Chapman University, a

predominantly white school, so he was one of the few black students on the campus. He began to work with market-ing and made a lot of movies, but all were short films. Dear White People is one of his first full-length movies.

There is only a few ques-tions scripted for Simien after they play the movie, so the au-dience is free to ask about any-thing they want, Brewer said.

The film is the best way to finish Black His-tory Month, Brewer said, because it will leave stu-dents with the following question: What will we do next? What is our next movement?

“(Students) should defi-nitely come out to the event, we think it’s going to be a really really great conversation, and we think its gonna be equal amounts of fun and entertaining, and also educational,” Brewer said.

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Best Picture• Birdman or (The Unexpected

Virtue of Ignorance)

Best Actor• Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of

Everything

Best Actress• Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Best Supporting Actor• J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress• Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Oscar Results

Acting major Wyn More-no plays the blissfully igno-rant, Mr. Jansenius, Henriet-ta’s father. Mr. Jansenius is a wealthy aristocrat who takes pride in his simple-minded-ness. Moreno gives a clean and precise performance while exhibiting impeccable physi-cal comedy. His smooth and effortless deliverance earns laughs as Mr. Jansenius main-tains his self-gratified state.

The stern headmistress of the college, Miss Wilson, is intimately played by BFA act-ing major Shawnia Keith. As Miss Wilson rolls around in

her wheelchair intimidating the student body, Keith por-trays her character’s sophisti-cated, and at times, empathetic

qualities.The rest of the cast bring an

animated presence to the stage full of romantic and physical comedy. BFA acting major Emily James and acting major Victoria Sasso play students of

the college as Jane Carpenter and Gertrude Lindsay, respec-tively. BFA acting major Jack-ie Summers plays Agatha Wy-lie, a rebellious student who ends up falling in love with Trefusis, despite being Henri-etta’s cousin. James, Sasso and Summers create a sisterly en-semble of students.

BFA acting major Chayan Tavakoly plays a wealthy land-owner in love with Jane, and Tyler Cass plays Chichester Erskine, a poet and lecturer in love with Gertrude. The infat-uations make for pleasant ro-mantic comedy as the charac-ters interact.

Another standout

performance is given by Jake Larosa, playwriting and di-recting major, who plays the drunken, yet loveable laborer, Lumpkin.

The costume design by Karen Toledo consists of ear-ly 20th Century British attire and gives off a defining im-pression of each characters’ personality and social status, and also illustrates the time of day.

Just as affective is the hair and makeup design by Yui Suzuki, which gives each character a uniquely distinct facial appearance.

Smash plays through March 15 in the Hallberg Theatre.

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Claps loudly echoed in the Meng Concert Hall Friday night as Cal State Fullerton percussion instructors Ken-neth McGrath and Robert Slack opened their recital with a hand clapping music piece.

Kenneth McGrath and Rob-ert Slack are currently the

instructors of the two Mu-sic 407D Percussion Ensem-ble classes that are part of the CSUF School of Music cours-es this semester.

The opening piece, titled Clapping Music, was com-posed by the Pulitzer Prize for music-winner Steve Reich, who was inspired to write the piece in 1972 after watching a clapping woman in a flamen-co performance at a night club restaurant while touring in Brussels.

After the audience wel-comed the percussionist with applause, the duo sat on the

left side of the stage and be-gan to clap back the piece that they read off a music stand as McGrath moved side-to-side along each clap.

When concluding with the Reich piece, Slack returned alone to the stage and ap-proached the marimba located in the middle of the stage, and played a short piece he com-posed titled Nebuli for Solo Marimba with two marim-ba mallets in each hand as he played the smooth song.

Slack exited and Mc-Grath took the stage on the solo drum along with Jordan

Bagheri on the sound bells, Anthony Gilleland on the vi-braphonic, Milton Salazar on the glockenspiel and chinese drum, and Luther Schmidt on the marimba. All four percus-sionists are members of the CSUF Friday Percussion En-semble, and were asked to play a piece titled Mudra by per-cussionist and composer, Bob Becker.

The stage darkened and the lights dimmed as Slack en-tered, playing a conch shell loudly before beginning his composition titled Cage for One that pays homage to

various artistic and musical in-fluences. McGrath followed in the marimba which concluded the last part of the recital.

“From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,” Slack said reciting the Randell Jar-rell poem, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Soundless black and white war footage of the World War II era played as the percussionist recreated the sounds of the planes and bul-lets with the banning of a large drum and bells.

Despite a technical mal-function before perform-ing Monkey Chat by Glenn

Kotche, McGrath successful-ly completed the piece on his four piece drum set that in-cluded some interesting com-ponents like a prepared snare drum that produced an elec-tronic sound.

The night concluded with faculty instructors of the School of Music, Eric Dries on the piano and Luther Hughes on the bass, while Slack played the vibes and McGrath remained on the drums for three songs in-cluding a jazzy rendition of I Feel Pretty from the musi-cal West Side Story.

CSUF instructors drum up crowd-pleasing performance

AICA fights oppression in walk-through event

Meng Concert Hall hosts percussion recital Friday

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The Association for InterCultural Awareness presented Tunnels of Oppression for their annual Rally Against Hate event Wednesday. The event helped spread awareness of oppression of minorities.

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Housing Piazza hosts Tunnels of Oppression to spread awareness

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Director Justin Simien (right) will answer questions about his social satire, Dear White People, after a screening of the film in the Titan Student Union, Pavilion BC Tuesday.

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Students might not consid-er the consequences of every red Solo cup poured or every joint that’s rolled.

There’s a sense of em-powerment that comes with drinking or smoking.

Drinking and smoking has become so glamorized in so-ciety that students shove the critical consequences and detrimental effects of the ac-tivity to the sidelines.

The constant promotion of drinking and smoking can be seen and heard through-out social media, mu-sic, movies, television and advertisements.

Getting wasted or high is constantly celebrated and cheered.

These ideas start affecting what we believe is the “cool” thing to do. At a party, get-ting high or wasted may feel right in the moment, but deep inside, people know the hangovers, bloodshot eyes and cravings are not the greatest experiences.

If knowing that hangovers and neglected judgement are inevitable, why continue to do it?

The usage is justified through fallacies that over-shadow the actual conse-quences in smoking and drinking.

It’s plain and simple.Students perceive mar-

ijuana as safer than to-bacco, non-addictive, and non-threatening, according to North Dakota State Uni-versity’s Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention Pro-grams website.

The invincibility of be-ing young and engaging in temporary amusing actions have become more import-ant than their future, health or principles.

At Cal State Fullerton, 57.9 percent of students sur-veyed have had consumed alcohol within the last 30 days while 14.7 percent had used marijuana, according to the Spring 2014 American College Health Association and National College Health Assessment II Summary of Cal State Fullerton.

The data shows a con-siderable amount of stu-dents engaging in drugs or alcohol.

Unfortunately, this data

also shows a considerable amount of students portray-ing poor judgement, experi-encing physical discomfort and risking their health for very little payoff.

Sure it comes with so-cial appeal, but that’s hardly worth it.

Everyone wants to fit in, but drinking and smok-ing isn’t the only way to get there.

Some who smoke or drink may do it with caution, but usage can easily get out of control, resulting in drug and alcohol dependence, creating a wholly prevent-able hardship.

The survey further found 45.6 percent of students sur-veyed who had consumed al-cohol in the last 12 months had experienced physical harm, regret, problems with the police, memory loss, sui-cidal tendencies and unsafe sexual activity.

These tragic outcomes ar-en’t worth succumbing to a lifestyle that has been ro-manticized to be “cool.”

Society and the media need to stop romanticizing the dangerous activities of drinking and smoking.

These seemingly inconse-quential decisions can result in disastrous tragedies.

Society encourages dangerous “fun”

Modern chivalry goes both ways

Getting wasted shouldn’t be anyone’s idea of a fun night

MARICELA GOMEZDaily Titan

National Insitute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found:• Approximately 17 million adults 18 and over had an alcohol use disorder in

2012• In 2012, 3.3 million deaths, or 5.9 percent of all global deaths were

attributable to alcohol consumption.Drug Free World. org reports:

• Marijuana smoke contains 50 percent to 70 percent more cancer-causing substances than tobacco smoke.

• A single cannabis joint could cause as much damage to the lungs as up to five regular cigarettes smoked one after another.

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Many people love to throw around the notion that chivalry is dead.

Women love to complain about the lack of “nice guys” out in the world and how today’s men pale in comparison to men in the past.

We see endless articles on how to prevent the ex-tinction of chivalry and what men can do to be a “modern gentleman.”

What does chivalry mean to you today?

Many will respond with, “When a man holds a door open for a woman,” or, “When a man pays for dinner.”

That’s a pretty flawed definition of what it means to be chivalrous, as well as an idea rooted in inequality.

This isn’t to say that men holding doors open for women or wanting to pay for dinner should be reprimanded.

No, these acts are gener-ally rooted in kindness and a desire to be courteous, but it’s a sexist principle nonetheless.

Women need to realize what it is they’re asking

when they expect a man to open their car doors, pay for their dates or buy them flowers; they’re asking to be treated like secondary citizens, like the weaker sex.

When a man opens the door for a woman, it’s as-suming she isn’t able to handle such a task.

When a man pays for dinner, it’s assuming the woman isn’t able to afford it.

These acts, though kind, are rooted in antiquated ideals from our past.

Men put women on a pedestal as their little pets to be taken care of, but we’re not in the 50s anymore.

If equality is ever to be reached between men and women, chivalry has to go both ways.

Men should treat ev-eryone with the same deference, regardless of gender.

Instead of focusing on treating women with re-spect, men and women should focus on treating everyone with respect.

Women should pay for their portion of the dinner because it’s unfair to put the onus on the male; they have bills to pay, too.

People should hold the door for one another, re-gardless of gender.

Chivalry is making sure someone’s okay when they’ve fallen, or standing

up for someone who is be-ing bullied.

Applauding a man for giving a woman his coat on a chilly night is an egre-gious misuse of the word chivalry.

If chivalry—as you know it—is dead, then that’s a good thing.

It means society is pro-gressing and bettering it-self every day.

When the antiquat-ed idea of chivalry is chucked away and a new,

modern chivalry replaces it, that will be a cause for celebration.

Women, be happy men are less prone to treat you like a helpless child; it means they respect you and it allows for women to be seen as a partner rather than a responsibility.

With traditional chival-ry out of the way, men and women will be able to ap-preciate one another as equals, rather than sepa-rate genders.

A modern society means axing the gender divide

VIVIAN CHOWDaily Titan

The idea of chivlary meaning that a man holds the door for a woman, or pays for her dinner is an antiquated thought. The definition of chivalry has evolved in this new generation.

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• Women make up 71 percent of college enrollment in 2012

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Baseball: Titans drop series Emotions were running

high in the bottom half as the Titans responded on the junior Tyler Stieb RBI infield-single to go up 4-2, but as Stieb reached first base, Cardinal reliever Brett Hanewich impeded his path, leading to shoves between the pair. The Ti-tan bench was at the foul line in the blink of an eye, ready to defend their team-mate, before being brought back by the coaching staff.

The bats on both sides came alive with the wind howling and the rain pour-ing when the Titans took on Stanford for the final game of the series Sunday.

CSUF and Stanford col-lected 23 hits, 16 walks and four home runs in the offensive slugfest.

Sophomore Josh Estill

led the CSUF offense, go-ing 4-4 with three RBIs, three runs scored and his first home run as a Titan.

The Titans took a 2-1 lead in the fourth that was spoiled by a four-run Stan-ford sixth inning that was capped off by a 3-run shot by Winaker, his second of the series.

After a 40-minute rain delay in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Titans took a 6-5 lead on a passed ball with the bases loaded. However, the Titans were undone by the Stanford 3-run eighth and two-run ninth to fall, 9-11.

The Titans (2-5) will look to continue putting their offensive surge on display during an exhibi-tion against the NC Dinos, a professional South Kore-an team, Monday at Good-win Field. The first pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.

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Men’s basketball star’s absence felt

CSUF to host Korean professional team

Without its star player, the offensive struggles for Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball caused the Ti-tans to drop back-to-back games against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Santa Barbara.

Alex Harris, the team’s scoring leader, spent both games on the bench, as he’s suffering from a se-vere thigh contusion, said Head Coach Dedrique Tay-lor. There is no timetable for Harris’ return, Taylor said.

Without Harris, the Ti-tans fell victim to Cal Poly SLO’s hot shooting Thursday night, extending their losing streak to four games.

Despite shooting 54.5 percent from the floor, the Titans couldn’t overcome the Mustangs’ stellar sec-ond half. Cal Poly SLO shot 8-for-17 overall from be-yond the arc, making 6-of-10 in the second half.

Fullerton was defensive-ly strong in the first half,

holding Cal Poly SLO to 12 points in the first 13 min-utes. The Titans initially executed their game plan well, Taylor said, but the team has had difficulty clos-ing out games all season.

“The hard part is to do good consistently, and that’s where we’re strug-gling right now,” Taylor said.

Redshirt junior Lanerryl Johnson stepped in for Har-ris Thursday night, scor-ing 10 points and shoot-ing 2-for-2 from 3-point range.

“Our leader’s down, it’s obvious, and somebody has to pick it up, whether it’s me or the next guy,” John-son said.

The Titans struggled to consistently produce on the offensive side, which lead to a dominant second half by the Mustangs.

“Coach keeps saying it’s about pride. If you look at the game today in the

second half, is that all we have? That can’t be the an-swer, and this can’t con-tinue to happen,” Johnson said.

The woes of this season can prove to be detrimen-tal to a team’s mentality and affect chemistry in the locker room, but the Titans are looking forward to up-coming games and remain-ing optimistic about their season.

Kennedy Esume, who finished the game with 16 points and six rebounds, emphasized the importance of team unity through the current rough patch.

The Titans’ offensive problems continued in Sat-urday’s game against the Gauchos, as Fullerton only shot 40.4 percent from the floor and 33 percent in the second half.

The Gauchos got out to a hot start, scoring nine points in the first three min-utes of the game. UC Santa

Barbara’s hot streak would continue, as they finished the half with a 19-point lead while scoring 49 points.

The Gauchos shot 64.3 percent from the field in the first half, while making 6-of-9 from beyond the arc and shooting 7-for-7 from the free-throw line.

“I don’t know if there’s a way to really put into words how well Santa Barbara played the first half; that was a complete buzzsaw,” Taylor said.

The Titans were again led by Johnson, who finished the game with 15 points. That would not, however,

be enough to beat UCSB and Gabe Vincent, who shot 8-of-9 from the floor on the night and finished the game with 19 points.

CSUF will look to end this losing streak when it faces Cal State Northridge Thursday night. Tipoff is at 7 p.m. at the Matadome.

The Titans failed to move up from last place in the Big West

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Cal State Fullerton baseball is looking forward to taking on the NC Dinos, a profession-al team from South Korea, in an exhibition game Monday night at Goodwin Field.

This game will be a unique opportunity, because it is not every day that a college team plays professionals.

“It’s going to be a great ex-perience for our guys to get a chance to play a team that might have a different style than some of the colleges that we’re used to playing,” Volun-teer Assistant Coach Ronnie Prettyman said. “I feel like it’s going to be an interesting op-portunity to just experience how they go about their day-to-day work and culture with the game of baseball.”

The players may pick up new skills that could improve their game. They may also have the opportunity to learn the similarities and differences between the American culture and that of South Korea.

Senior pitcher Tyler

Peitzmeier said he cannot wait to hit the mound and throw against the NC Dinos.

“I’m really excited for this. Being able to represent the United States and play a team from Korea I think is really cool. It’s something I’ve been really looking forward to for the last few months,” Peitz-meier said.

Playing against a foreign team may change the way some players prepare for a game, but that will not be the case for the Titans, se-nior pitcher Willie Kuhl said.

“You should never change to play your oppo-nent. You should just do what you do and try to stay within yourself as best as you can to keep your com-posure,” Kuhl said.

The starting pitcher has not been announced, but it is likely that there will be multiple pitchers logging innings in the exhibition. The same might happen for the batters, look for multi-ple players getting at-bats and time on the field.

“We’ve been running a lot of players in and out. It’s not for any reason other than we’re trying to find our best nine. So there’s a chance there could be different guys (who) get

opportunities, but a lot of that will depend on the weekend as well,” Prettyman said.

The NC Dinos already have a feel for the style of play the Big West Conference has to offer, since they faced UC

Irvine and Long Beach State prior to the upcoming game against the Titans. The NC Dinos beat the Anteaters 4-2 on Feb. 17, but they were shut out the next day, 3-0, by Long Beach State.

The Fullerton players hope the international team will leave Goodwin Field remem-bering what Titan baseball is all about.

“We want them to come in here and have the ability to

play us and then leave remem-bering who we are and the style of baseball that we play,” Kuhl said.

First pitch against the NC Dinos is scheduled for Mon-day at 6 p.m.

The NC Dinos will visit Goodwin Field Monday for an exhibition game

ALFREDO SANCHEZ MENDOZAFor The Daily Titan

The NC Dinos, a South Korean professional baseball team, have been playing a series of exhibitions against Southern California college teams. They defeated UC Irvine, but lost to Long Beach State. They will take on the Titans Monday at Goodwin Field.

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The Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball team went through a topsy-turvy two-game road trip. An up-set win and a career effort from senior guard Chante Miles was followed by a dis-appointing loss, as the Titans faced off against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Santa Barbara.

The Titans followed up arguably their most signif-icant Big West Conference victory this season over host Cal Poly SLO, 74-60, on Thursday, but had a 48-39 setback at last-place UC San-ta Barbara on Saturday.

The road split left Fullerton (10-15 overall, 4-8 Big West) in seventh place in the Big West with four regular-sea-son contests remaining.

Miles willed her team to victory Thursday, shooting 10-for-18 from the field and 10-for-10 from the charity stripe en route to scoring a career-high 36 points to go along with five steals, as the Titans snapped a five-game losing streak.

Miles’ standout effort was needed, as the rest of her team shot a combined 11-for-44 (25 percent).

While Miles scored 22

points in the first half, the Ti-tans and Mustangs were tied at 33 at halftime.

Fullerton finally wrestled the lead away for good on a 3-pointer from Tailer Butler with 16:18 remaining. But-ler’s basket gave the Titans a 40-37 advantage.

Cal Poly SLO did its best to remain close and pulled within 46-44 on a layup from Hannah Gilbert at 10:20. However, Fullerton answered with a 12-4 run capped by a pair of free throws from Miles with 5:24 remaining to put the visitors ahead, 58-48, en route to the win.

Fullerton received solid contributions from Butler (14 points and four rebounds), Kathleen Iwuoha (11 points and nine rebounds) and Sa-mantha Logan (seven points and 11 rebounds).

Taryn Garza scored a team-high 15 points for Cal Poly SLO (13-12 overall, 8-5 Big West), which is tied for third in the Big West with Northridge.

As for Saturday, Santa Bar-bara (1-24 overall, 1-11 Big

West) picked up its first vic-tory this season and snapped a 29-game losing streak that dated back to a 64-54 win at Fullerton on Feb. 22, 2014.

The difference Saturday was for Fullerton is that the Titans did not overcome a poor shooting effort, as the squad shot 22 percent from the field in the process of scoring a season-low 39 points.

The Titans took their big-gest lead after Butler drained a 3-pointer off an assist from Miles with 13:05 remaining to give the visitors a 29-25 advantage.

Santa Barbara respond-ed with a 6-0 spurt that cul-minated on a jumper from Clair Watkins (team-high 10 points and nine rebounds) with 10:28 left, to surge the Gauchos ahead 31-29.

Fullerton quickly tied the contest at 31 on a pair of free throws from Iwuoha, and both teams jostled for the lead until another sig-nificant 3-pointer from But-ler brought the Titans within two at 41-39.

The importance of that field goal with 4:40 remain-ing was highlighted after-ward, as the Titans shot 0-for-7 down the stretch and did not score a point in the

rest of the contest.Miles led the Titans in

scoring, with 12 points and three assists, while Iwuoha tallied 11 points and 15 re-bounds. Logan chipped in 10

rebounds, three assists and three steals.

Fullerton returns to action Thursday at home at 7 p.m. versus Cal State Northridge (18-9 overall, 8-5 Big West).

Chante Miles’ career-high 36 points secured Thursday win

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Cal State Fullerton wom-en’s softball took two out of the five games in the Mary Nutter Classic in Palm Springs over the weekend. Their record coming into the tournament was 7-3.

The Titans began the tournament against three nationally-ranked oppo-nents in University of Mis-souri, Louisiana State Uni-versity and Texas A&M. The only nationally-ranked opponent Fullerton had faced this season was Notre Dame, against whom they

accumulated a 1-1 record. The Titans led off the

Classic on Thursday against No. 18 Missouri. The Titans’ bats were hot in the first inning. They swung off to an early lead, scoring two runs on three hits in the first inning. However, these were the only runs for the Titans the entire game.

Their bats cooled down and registered only one other hit, coming in the fifth inning. The final score was a five-inning 10-2 victory in favor of the Tigers that ended due to the mercy rule.

On deck to compete against the Titans in the second game was the same team name, but a different school, the undefeated No. 14 LSU Tigers. The Titans

were shut out in six in-nings. The final score was 8-0 in favor of the Tigers, the Titans falling to anoth-er mercy.

Head Coach Kelly Ford and her team headed into Saturday searching for their first victory of the tournament against No. 23 Texas A&M.

The Aggies gained the lead in the second inning with a solo home run from right fielder Cali Lanphear. This was the only earned run from the Aggies the entire game.

The Titans tied the game in the top of the sixth. Ful-lerton catcher Kylie Padilla stepped up to the plate and drove in Missy Taukeiaho to level the game at 1-1.

A crucial throwing error by Padilla in the bottom of

the sixth while trying to catch Aggie Alex Masek stealing second allowed Masek to score the win-ning run for the Aggies.

The Titans were given a chance to overcome the deficit in the seventh inning, but they could not mus-ter up any runs. The Titans dropped the game 2-1.

They had plenty of chances to score, leaving 12 players on base and un-successfully scoring when bases were loaded. Desiree Ybarra had a solid game, pitching six innings, allow-ing only four hits and one earned run.

The Titans wrapped up the tournament Sunday with another doublehead-er against the University of Nevada and Oklahoma State University. Despite

struggling against ranked opponents in the first half of the Classic, the Titans finished the latter half with a pair of wins.

The Titans were finally in the right end of a mer-cy-rule victory against Ne-vada. Fullerton came out aggressively and never let up. Scoring three in the first inning and adding a six-run surge in the third inning gave Fullerton a 9-1 victory in five innings over the Wolfpack.

With some newly-gained confidence, the Titans pulled out a victory against Oklahoma State, 6-5.

Down by three runs in the top of the second in-ning, the Titans managed to score one run in the sec-ond half of the same in-ning. A four-run inning in

the third gave Cal State Fullerton a two-run lead. The Cowgirls eventually got back those two runs, tying the game in the sixth.

The game then ended in a surprising fashion.

In the bottom of the seventh, Taukeiaho was walked to first base. Melis-sa Sechrest moved Taukei-aho over to second with a sacrifice bunt. With Sarah Moore at the plate, Okla-homa State’s Megan Lively threw a wild pitch, which allowed Taukeiaho to score the winning run.

The Titans’ overall record is now 9-6. Their next game is Wednesday on the road against the University of San Diego. The game’s first pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the USD Softball Complex.

The Titans overcome four-game skid by winning two Sunday

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The Cal State Fullerton softball team was in action this weekend at the Mary Nutter Classic in Palm Springs. The Titans lost their first three contests, but swept Sunday against Nevada (9-1) and Oklahoma State (6-5). Pitching was a concern all weekend for the Titans, but junior pitcher Desiree Ybarra settled in Sunday to earn two victories and lower her earned run average to 2.90.

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