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Council approves funds for homeless shelter

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Council OKs shelter funding

Cox speaks in Titan Gym

‘Die in’ highlights social justice issues

Not just a pile of burning leaves

City of Fullerton to give $500,000 for homeless shelter

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Transgender activist discusses gender issues

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Research projects didn’t intrigue Jarrett Jones much in the past. But, that all changed when the 23-year-old, senior biology major discovered Cal State Ful-lerton’s Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience program, cre-ated to improve urban food systems. His attention shift-ed to the agricultural aspect of research to improve the human lifestyle.

Since fall 2013, Jones has been working on his first re-search project to create and evaluate the effectiveness of burning palm fronds into charcoal (known as bio-char) and how it reacts with plants and comparing it to commercial biochar and soil that’s left alone.

Despite Southern Cali-fornia’s adornment of elon-gated palm trees, its stocky

and green fiber leaves are impossible to be recycled or shredded, Jones said. There-fore, Jones steered his focus on utilizing the leaves in the research project.

More than a year ago, a palm tree once swayed in the heavy winds at the Ful-lerton Arboretum, until it collapsed onto the floor, shedding its leaves. With Arboretum staff approval, Jones was able to obtain the leaves for his project.

After shredding the enor-mous palm fronds, Jones was ready to char them into a potential soil amendment for plants.

Jones burned the palm fronds in his backyard using two cylinder shaped acety-lene tanks.

The tanks were stacked upon each other and topped with a thin chimney. Fresh air comes from the bot-tom tank, while fire de-scends from the top, cre-ating a flowing connection that burns the palm fronds, dissolving the leafy texture and converting it to moist and soft charcoal, Jones said.

The lengthened fronds

that once filled two 32-gal-lon trash bins, dissolved into a average-sized bucket.

Jones is currently

growing basil, spinach and radishes to examine how the plants react to the palm frond biochar compared to commercial biochar.

The plants reside in a rectangular shaped room at the corner of the green-house complex, where Jones supervises and drizzles the

plants with water as the sun softly radiates through the crystal clear windows.

Biology student explores palm frond possibilities

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Jarrett Jones (above) inspects his test plants to research how the abundance of Southern California palm fronds can be made into biochar and used as a potential soil amendment for plants.

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Students laid in a large group on the cement ground Wednes-day, some covered with signs reading “Black Lives Matter,” and “CSUF stands with Baltimore.”

The mass of students, faculty and staff took activism to the area outside the Humanities and Social Sciences building during a “die in,” in which participants pretend to be dead to bring atten-tion to social justice issues.

The event, which lasted 15 minutes, was organized by Alexan-dro José Gradilla, Ph.D., chair of the chicana and chicano stud-ies department, to draw attention to the events in Baltimore and

issues surrounding police violence. “I selected die-in because it is such a spectacle and important

visual representation of the violence facing communities of col-or,” Gradilla said.

More than 100 people attended the event, which aimed to show solidarity between students and faculty and staff, Gradil-la said.

“The students were greatly impacted by the show of strength from the faculty. The big take home message today—we are community,” Gradilla wrote on the event’s Facebook page.

The Fullerton City Coun-cil approved a cooperative funding agreement with the County of Orange and City of Anaheim to facili-tate a year-round homeless and multi-service center in Anaheim during its meeting Tuesday.

The agreement requires Fullerton to put down $50,000 for a nonrefundable deposit as a limited due dili-gence cost. The proposed lo-cation for the center is locat-ed at 1000 N. Kraemer Place, Anaheim.

During public comment, concerns about what services would be provided were once again brought up. As part of that concern, an indexing system was proposed that would identify the types of individuals using the center, including mentally disabled individuals or those with a criminal record.

The funding agreement for this project is a total of $1 million, $500,000 from Ful-lerton and $500,000 from Anaheim.

Even if the purchase of the center does not go through, Fullerton would still be re-quired to pay $50,000 for pre-acquisition costs, includ-ing testing the proposed site. Councilwoman Jan Flory took issue with that cost.

“If the county is asking Fullerton city to contribute a half million dollars to the ultimate construction and acquisition of the property, why are they asking us for $50,000 now?” Flory said.

Crowds erupted in ap-plause as actress and trans-gender activist Laverne Cox made her way Wednes-day to the Titan Gym to discuss issues facing the transgender community and relate her own person-al struggles as part of her “Ain’t I a Woman?” talk series.

Laverne Cox is the first transgender woman of col-or to have a leading role in a scripted show and is known for her role as So-phia Burset, an incarcer-ated, African-American transgender woman, on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black.

Cox is also well-known for being a transgender ac-tivist and the issues faced by the transgender commu-nity were heavily addressed throughout the course of her speech.

She shared statistics about the difficulties the transgender community ex-periences with homicide, unemployment, incarcera-tion, bullying and harass-ment and said such things have culminated in a state of emergency for trans-gender people across the nation.

The actress discussed discrimination, something she said she has been at the receiving end of. She dis-cussed a moment in third grade where her teacher confronted her in class for fanning herself in a glam-ourous manner.

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High school teacher arrested

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Germanwings co-pi-lot, Andreas Lubitz, practiced taking a plane into a controlled de-scent on on a separate flight before crashing Germanwings flight 925 and killing 150 passen-gers on March 24, re-ported CNN.

A report by the French air accident in-vestigation agency in-dicated that Lubitz had made several altitude selections toward 100 feet in the flight from Germany to Spain.

The altitude changes were unnoticed by air traffic controllers be-cause they had already asked him to begin his descent to land in Bar-celona. However, it was later found by a flight data recorder.

On the returning flight, from Barcelona, Spain to Germany, Lu-bitz slammed the plane into the French Alps.

A former Dana Hills high school teacher and court-appointed Special Advocate for Children volunteer was charged with sexual as-sault and possession of child pornography Wednesday, the Or-ange County Register reported.

Ezequiel Barragan, 48, of Aliso Viejo, was arrested Monday.

Barragan faces four felony counts of per-forming lewd acts on a child under 14, three felony counts of lewd acts on a child between the ages of 14 and 15 and a felony count of possession of child pornography.

The alleged male vic-tim remains unnamed.

Barragan current-ly faces up to 16 years and eight months in a state prison.

Authorities ask any-one with information about other poten-tial victims to call Dis-trict Attorney Super-vising Investigator Kelly Core at (714) 347-8794 or Sheriff’s Spe-cial Victim’s Unit Sgt. Wade Walsbick at (714) 647-7418.

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Cox: Gender issues focus of discussion

Laverne Cox, actress and transgender activist, spoke in the Titan Gym Wednesday as part of her “Ain’t I a Woman?” series.

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Cox’s mother later re-ceived a call from the school and Cox was sub-sequently placed in ther-apy. Her theraphist asked if she knew the difference between a boy and girl, she said.

She was deeply ashamed when she was younger and, in the third grade, was tak-en to a therapist for testos-terone injections to make her more masculine, a practice her mother later discontinued.

Those feelings continued when she was in the sixth grade, as she was going through puberty, she said.

Following the death of her grandmother, she re-alized her relative would have been disappointed about her feelings and at-traction to men and swal-lowed a bottle of pills in an

attempt of suicide.Since then, Cox has tran-

sitioned into a woman and is no longer ashamed, she said.

“Transgender is beau-tiful,” Cox said. “All the things that make me no-ticeably trans I celebrate

today … I think we all should celebrate them.”

Cox was born in Mobile, Alabama to a single moth-er who worked two or three jobs before becoming a teacher.

“I stand before you as a proud, transgender woman from a working class back-ground raised by a sin-gle mother,” Cox said. “I stand before you as an art-ist, an actress, a sister and a daughter.”

At the conclusion of her speech, Cox challenged the audience to keep an open mind and not to shy away from difficult discussions.

“I charge each and every one of you to go out and have those difficult con-versations across differ-ence with each other,” Cox said. “Create a safe place and take risks and make mistakes.”

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LAVERNE COX Actress and Transgender Activist

I stand before you as a proud, transgender woman from a working class background raised by a single mother. I stand before you as an artist, an actress, a sister and a daughter.

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A young man asks Laverne Cox for her autograph following the Q&A session. AMANDA SHARP / DAILY TITAN

During her speech, Laverne Cox relayed her own experience overcoming discrimination and bullying, and challenged students to create a safe space to have necessary difficult discussions.

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The first of two candi-dates for director of Finan-cial Aid discussed his goals for the future of the depart-ment at Cal State Fuller-ton during an open forum Wednesday.

Tae Kang, currently a se-nior programs manager at the California Student Aid Commission, discussed trends he has seen during his work with the commis-sion that have challenged the financial aid institutes in California, including ris-ing tuition costs and a trend toward tuition guarantees for students.

Tuition at California State University campuses has doubled in the last five years, and nearly $630 mil-lion in student grants have been invested in 23 CSU campuses, but there is still a deficiency for student aid, he said.

Kang wants to simplify financial aid by streamlin-ing the process for students and removing unneces-sary roadblocks that make it difficult for students to navigate the financial aid process.

One of the ways Kang said he would like to sim-plify this process for stu-dents is by using social me-dia and apps they can relate to.

He added that financial aid jargon confuses stu-dents instead of making it easier for them to finance their education.

Kang also discussed the trend of campuses offering a tuition guarantee, where students pay the same tu-ition rate all four years re-gardless of fee increases.

“That means that stu-dents, when they come in, they know for certain that their tuition is not going to ever increase,” Kang said. “That decreases the stress.”

Implementing incentives such as a tuition discount for those who have taken 16 units or more each semester will encourage students to

be committed to an earlier graduation, he said.

During his presentation, Kang discussed his past ex-perience and how it would benefit him as director of Financial Aid.

He discussed past finan-cial aid directors he has worked under, and said that he would like to emulate their traits of diligence and passion for excellence.

He added that he would like to be a voice for his staff and, in turn, to en-courage his staff to be a voice for students.

“I know financial aid of-ten gets picked on, stepped on, we’re like the gum on the bottom of the shoe, and I think a lot of it is out of our control,” he said.

“But some of it is, and the things that are in our control ... I would like our staff to work together to get there to also be available to also be a voice for our stu-dents,” he said.

Kang, who has worked in the financial aid offices at UC Davis and UC Irvine, said he wanted to get back to a college campus to be among students.

Flory said she does not believe the $50,000 is need-ed at this point, and com-mented that the county should secure the location before requiring Fullerton to contribute to the center.

“We can agree to put the half million dollars in be-cause we do have a stake in resolving this problem, but why are we being asked to put in $50,000 at risk, be-fore the county has even de-termined that are going to be able to close the deal?” Flory asked.

Flory ultimately voted

for the action, but she also expressed concern about the lack of information the council has been given.

“We are given no details whatsoever ... to tell you the truth I don’t like being treat-ed like a kindergartener, I want to know what the deal is,” Flory said.

Councilman Bruce Whitaker voted against the action, stating that, because Anaheim is a much larg-er city, the center would be used more by the Anaheim homeless than homeless people from Fullerton.

Whitaker also expressed concern about the fairness

of the deal because Ana-heim is twice as large as Fullerton and both cities would ultimately be contrib-uting the same amount.

Council member Doug Chaffee and Mayor Pro tem Jennifer Fitzgerald ex-pressed their support for the center. Fitzgerald also stat-ed that for a project this size the $50,000 is not too much to ask.

“If we really want to get going on a shelter this is a modest commitment that we’re being asked to make,” Chaffee said.

The property on Kraemer is currently in escrow.

Candidate discussed plans to streamline financial aid process

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First forum held to find Financial Aid director

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Shelter: Council approves funding

Fullerton City Council approved funding to create a homeless and multi-service shelter in Anaheim. The cities of Fullerton and Anaheim will each contribute a $500,00 for the shelter.

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Palm: Turning waste into revenue CONTINUED FROM 1

Still, Jones was confronted with several challenges—in-cluding gaining approval for biochar research from Assis-tant Biology Professor Joel K. Abraham, Ph.D., and shedding voluminous trees and getting the palm fronds to burn appro-priately, was also a challenge, Jones said.

“Originally it was a has-sle because I had an idea and Abraham would pick it apart because that’s what he has to do—make it better,” he said. “It took like a year and a half for the project to improve, I felt I wasn’t mak-ing progress until I actually

started, so it’s good now.” Despite the challenges, im-

provements within his re-search data motivated Jones to persevere.

Jones described his dedica-tion to the research as a, “sub-stantial investment,” where he is constantly watering plants 2-3 times a week, reading pa-pers during free time at work, class and meetings and even including seven hours of data collection.

With graduation quick-ly approaching, the biology graduate-to-be will have his research analysis completed in the summer and writing by the end of fall semester, Jones said.

U-ACRE greenhouse com-plex manager, Edward Read, described Jones as his “right

hand man,” who’s worked for him for approximately four and a half years. Throughout the years, Jones has been able

to master the watering system techniques and plant care for more than 4,000 organisms at the greenhouse complex. His immense knowledge is capa-ble of taking over the complex, Reed said.

Phyllis Liang, 24, a biolo-gy major and member of the U-ACRE research program said Jones is a cordial and kind-hearted lab mate.

“He is very much a gentle-man, he never lets me open the door,” Liang said with laugh-ter. “He’s very good hearted, he is just a really good guy.”

As Jones prepares to gradu-ate he also prepares to end his lengthy biochar research jour-ney for soil sustainability.

Throughout his research Jones must tend to his plants 2-3 times a week and spend hours collecting data.

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JERRETT JONESBiology Major

Originally it was a hassle because Abraham would pick it apart because that’s what he has to do-make it better.

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‘Soul of RTVF department’ to retire

While most young boys eagerly await sports games, Philippe Perebinossoff, Ph.D., would eagerly await the arrival of his French magazines on the interna-tional box office that his aunt would send from France.

“I was very much into movies and gossip about movies,” Perebinossoff said.

Perebinossoff, now a ra-dio-TV-film professor at Cal State Fullerton, said he had always been infatuated with the silver screen. After a long career in the television industry and years spent re-laying his insight through teaching, Perebinossoff is retiring from CSUF after the spring semester.

Perebinossoff’s passion for the industry makes his eyes glint when recounting his career with the broad-casting giant ABC start-ing off as manager of mo-tion pictures for television, broadcast standards & practices in 1979 through 1999.

“I wanted to work at ABC, I would not take no for an answer,” Perebinos-soff said. “I latched onto people who might be able to help me or who did help me and eventually I was of-fered a job.”

Perebinossoff started off his career with ABC as a network censor for 10 years. Perebinossoff said that as a network censor he would edit theatrical films for television, check docu-dramas for accuracy and

censor sex and violence. Perebinossoff continued

with ABC as director of motion pictures for televi-sion, then he became ex-ecutive director of motion pictures for television.

During his time at ABC, Perebinossoff developed and supervised more than 200 projects and kept an eye on the production of projects.

Perebinossoff worked with Oprah Winfrey and had a “number of success-es” with her, like the tele-vision movie, The Wedding with Halle Berry. Perebi-nossoff said that to this day, he still has a huge amount of respect for her and all she has accomplished.

As an executive at ABC, Perebinossoff taught part time. He saw value in what students were respond-ing to and what they were watching.

After ABC, Perebinos-soff went to work in 2000 with TEAM Entertainment as the senior vice president of Longform.

“One of the reasons that I like what I did, was I am starstruck, I’ve always been starstruck,” Perebinossoff said.

Megan Tambio, radio-TV-film major and current student of Perebinossoff, finds that his genuine ac-counts of the industry cap-tures the class in a new way. Some stories even in-clude interesting anecdotes of actors that he has come across.

Perebinossoff’s time in the industry allowed him to cross paths with many different people in the in-dustry. One of those peo-ple was Garry Hart, former Paramount Network Televi-sion president and current radio-TV-film department chair.

As department chair,

Hart realizes the hit the department is going to take with Perebinossoff’s retirement.

“He’s got a great feel for people and he is bold in fol-lowing what he believes. He’s not a politician, he is a truth teller and that’s really valuable,” Hart said.

Hart said, to a certain ex-tent, the radio-TV-film de-partment will be losing its soul when Perebinossoff retires.

“His interaction with

students, the way he inter-acts with the faculty, the way he interacts with the administration, he’s really

adept at working all con-stituencies,” he said.

While the radio-TV-film department may lose Per-ebinossoff to retirement, Perebinossoff has his sights on continuing teaching through tutoring with 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring organization.

Perebinossoff also hopes to spend his retirement

updating a textbook on me-dia ethics, spending time at the beach and traveling.

Perebinossoff plans to im-part valuable advice about the challenging road ahead in the industry of radio-TV-film at the radio-TV-film commencement ceremony.

“Cal State Fullerton stu-dents have to be very, very aggressive and stay with it a long time to get a job,” Perebinossoff said. “Stu-dents, if they can, need to be patient.”

It took Perebinossoff a long time to break into the industry, he said.

But remaining consistent in his efforts led him to his long career in the indus-try doing what he loved, to read about in those French entertainment magazines as a little boy.

Leaving CSUF won’t stop Perebinossoff’s passion to teach

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Philippe Perebinossoff, Ph.D., will retire after this semester.

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GARRY HARTChair, RTVF Department

He’s got a great feel for people and and he is bold for following what he believes. ... he is a truth teller and that’s really valuable.

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Philippe Perebinossoff’s industry experience allowed him to share with his students genuine anecdotes of actors and other industry officials he came across. He will be speaking at the RTVF commencement ceremony this spring semester.

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Despite all the chaos and mayhem in the heart of downtown Fullerton, there is a place where you can kick back, unwind and en-joy a gourmet meal and su-perb craft beer.

Pie Dog is an up-and-coming restaurant for all types of people; old, young, locals, tourists and everyone in between.

With a laid back, casual atmosphere, Pie Dog is a great place to meet up with friends, enjoy unique beers and indulge in a handcraft-ed burger or bratwurst.

The establishment is spacious and has plenty of room for large groups or gatherings, yet still practi-cal enough for a date or a casual dining experience.

It might seem odd, but the best way to start off your meal is with a craft beer.

Pie Dog always strives to have the tastiest craft beers in town with a very unique selection.

The lineup of beers tends to rotate for different occa-sions, seasons or whenever they’re in the mood to ex-periment with new ones.

The Humboldt Hemp Brown Ale is a great start. It delicious dense flavor makes it easy to drink and enjoy.

There’s a whole pleth-ora of beers on the list to try out, sample and indulge in.

However, beer is not their only specialty. Pie Dog’s menu includes a va-riety of gourmet choices, from handcrafted burgers and sausages, to wings and nostalgic appetizers like tater tots and onion rings with homemade dipping sauces.

The “Paq-Man” is a Fil-ipino spicy sausage that definitely packs a punch.

It comes with a choice of sauerkraut or sauteed pep-pers and onions on a soft bun.

This delicious dog is both savory and sweet due to the combination of fla-vors from the zesty sausage and the sweet peppers. It’s an explosion of flavor.

The tater tots bring back a nostalgic feeling of being young again.

For $1 more, these crunchy tots can be tossed in parmesan cheese and garlic for a zesty kick.

Homemade dipping sauce is required and Pie Dog gives you six different types to choose from.

The staff is friendly and very accommodating. If there’s any trouble decid-ing what to eat, the serv-ers are enthused to in-form each customer what the best and most popular items are.

The owner and chef, Don-ny Guadiano, is pleased to greet each and every custom-er, making sure everything is up to par.

With a fun and relaxed environment, Pie Dog is a must try for anyone in the

downtown Fullerton area. Whether it’s a calm Mon-

day afternoon or a busy Friday night, the quality and service never dimin-ishes at Pie Dog.

This place has a bright future ahead.

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CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

Follow the money trail. You’re better at solving puzzles over the next few weeks, with Mercury in Gemini. Don’t touch your savings. Great dis-cipline is required.

AQUARIUS(JA. 20 - FEB. 18):

Get your chores done early. Keep decreasing your obligations. For about two and a half weeks, it’s easier to find the words with Mercury in Gemini. Communications barriers dissolve. Expressing your affection comes naturally.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

Accept or assign responsibility in a difficult sit-uation. Take it slow. Resolve issues creatively. Curtail spending. You find it easier to express yourself at home over the next few weeks, with Mercury in Gemini.

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Titans battling for first place

The Cal State Fullerton baseball team is in the middle of a first place battle in the Big West Conference along-side UC Irvine and UC San-ta Barbara with eight regular season games remaining.

Fullerton (26-20 overall, 11-4 Big West) looks at a huge three-game home series looming as the Gauchos in-vade Goodwin Field Friday.

The Titans know it is crunch time at this point in the season. The Big West race has been intense over the past month with multiple teams fighting for the top spot. The Titans are coming off their recent sweep of the UC Riv-erside Highlanders. During a four-game stretch, the Fuller-ton pitching staff combined for 30.2 innings without giv-ing up a run, which set a new school record.

The Titans also scored 35 runs in the Riverside series; they hope to take that mo-mentum into the Santa Bar-bara series. All three pitch-ers collected wins this past weekend, the first time that

has happened since the sweep earlier in the season of the then-No. 5 Texas Tech Red Raiders.

Fullerton comes into this series on a five-game win-ning streak, with juniors Ty-ler Stieb and Josh Vargas leading the way in the hits category with 48. Junior Da-vid Olmedo-Barrera leads the team in runs batted in, with 35 total.

Junior ace Thomas Eshel-man is expected to pitch Fri-day night. Eshelman is com-ing off a strong performance in Riverside in which he went seven scoreless innings, col-lected seven strikeouts and allowed only four hits. The

Carlsbad native sports a dom-inant 1.94 earned run av-erage through 88.1 innings pitched.

Santa Barbara comes into this series coming off a 5-3 loss to Cal State Bakers-field. The Gauchos are still in the heat of the Big West race with a 34-11-1 overall re-cord and a 11-4 record in Big West play. The Gauchos are currently ranked No. 11 in the latest Baseball America standings.

The Gauchos offense is led by junior infielder Rob-by Nesovic, who comes into this series with a .363 bat-ting average and leads the team in RBIs with 34. Senior

outfielder Cameron Newell leads the team with a .374 batting average with 26 RBIs and a team-leading 33 runs scored.

This weekend’s series has high stakes for both teams and can allow one to claim sole possession of first place in the Big West. The Titans will also have to pay atten-tion to what happens in the UCI/Cal Poly San Luis Obis-po series, as those two teams are battling for first place as well.

First pitch for Friday is scheduled for 7 p.m. The se-ries will continue Saturday at 6 p.m. and conclude Sunday at 1 p.m.

CSUF baseball in a three-way race for Big West Conference

RYAN WHITEHEADFor Daily Titan

UC Santa Barbara• 34-11 overall• 11-4 Big West• Next: CSUF

UC Irvine• 29-16 overall• 11-4 Big West• Next: Cal Poly

Cal State Fullerton• 26-20 overall• 11-4 Big West• Next: UCSB

Race for Big West title