A Cal State Fullerton greek organization has been placed on interim suspension for a culturally insensitive social media post published during an off-campus recruit-ment event early last week.

The post was reported to the dean of students office on Thursday, said Anthony Pang, Associate Director of the Office of Student Life and Leadership.

The group, which has not been identified as a fraternity or sorority, has been placed on interim suspension while an investigation into the inci-dent is underway, Pang said. He would not identify the or-ganization involved.

The office has been in touch with the organization’s national headquarters, he said, but there has been no comment from it yet.

“We are just starting this process. The information came in on Thursday so we’ve taken the opportunity to connect with our campus partners, connect with the or-ganization, and that’s primar-ily where we’re at and then we’re proceeding forward with the fact-finding pro-cess,” Pang said.

No additional incidents have been reported from the event.

University Police have not yet been a part in the inves-tigation, although Pang said they may become involved as the investigation proceeds.

Any student impacted by the event can contact the Counseling and Psycholog-ical Services department of the CSUF Student Health Center at (657) 278-3040, or the Diversity Initiatives and Resource Centers at (657) 278-3234.

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A rape, which occurred in May in the dorms area was reported to campus police last week, according to Uni-versity Police crime logs.

The victim was incapable of providing consent, accord-ing to the logs. It is unknown if the victim was male or female.

This is the second inci-dence of rape this year. It oc-curred less than a month after the last reported rape on cam-pus, which also occurred in the dorms area.

Cal State Fullerton has not released a statement on the rape and University Po-lice did not provide any fur-ther details other than that involved parties have been interviewed.

The two rapes this year are the first since 2010, when there were two forcible

rapes on campus, according to the Jeanne Clery crime statistics.

Since victims do not al-ways report that they were raped, the actual number may be higher, said Lt. Scot Willey of the University Po-lice in April.

“Sexual assaults on col-lege campuses are one of the most underreported crimes that occur,” Willey said. “We are always assuming that there are more (victims) out there that just don’t feel

comfortable coming for-ward, so we just try to do our best to let people know that we’re here for them.”

Victims of rape are ad-vised to call a rape crisis cen-ter or the police right away. Clothes and other belongings victims had during the inci-dent should be kept so they can be used as evidence in a criminal trial.

Most employees of the uni-versity are required to report to law enforcement if a student tells them they were raped.

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Student dies in possible suicide

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Case of missing $58k ends without an arrest

A man who worked at the Cal State Fullerton Chil-dren’s Center from 2005 to early 2009 was arrested Au-gust 15 in Los Angeles Coun-ty on eight felony counts of child sexual assault, accord-ing to statements issued by CSUF and University of Cal-ifornia, Irvine.

Thomas Pulver, 36, is be-ing held on $2.4 million bail at Men’s Central Jail in Los

Angeles, according to LA County Sheriff’s Department arrest records.

CSUF University Police and other law enforcement agencies are investigating whether other children, in-cluding those under the care of the Children’s Center, were harmed.

The victim was a 3-year-old female relative, Sgt. Nan-cy Drake of the LA County Sheriff’s Department’s spe-cial-victims unit told the Or-ange County Register.

An unidentified male, who has been provisional-ly identified as a student, was found dead early Fri-day morning in front of the Eastside Parking Structure at Cal State Fullerton.

The male, who was in his early 20s, appeared to have fallen from the structure, said University Police Capt. John Brockie. He could not confirm whether it was a suicide.

Officials do not suspect foul play.

This is the second death

in two years at the East-side Parking Structure. A 48-year-old woman died by suicide in 2012 when she jumped from the structure.

A statement should be is-sued by the university later this week, said a university official.

Counseling and Psycho-logical Services can pro-vide free and confidential professional help to stu-dents. The CAPS office can be reached at (657) 278-3040

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LA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT

• 36 years old• Charged with eight

counts of child molestation

• Worked at CSUF Children’s Cen-ter from 2005 to early 2009, then UCI childcare until Sept. 2013

Thomas Pulver

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An investigation into $58,694 which was discov-ered missing last year from the Performing Arts box of-fice concluded earlier this

month without an arrest, ac-cording to a statement issued by University Police.

The Orange County Dis-trict Attorney’s office ad-vised University Police in January that there was insuf-ficient evidence to support a criminal proceeding against any current or former univer-sity employees.

In November, a search warrant had been refused due to lack of probable cause and the time elapsed since the money went missing. University Police has not commented on who or what location the warrant was is-sued for.

The Orange Coun-ty Superior Court’s Public

Corruption Unit refused to review the case because the monetary amount fell below their threshold for further investigation.

The investigation began on Aug. 2, 2013 when an audit by the University Audit of-fice concluded that the miss-ing money was “likely the result of criminal activity.”

University Police spent the following weeks interview-ing box office employees and looking over Cal State Ful-lerton’s Auxiliary Services Corporation deposit records and box office documents.

The money was discovered missing in May 2012 when College of the Arts staff no-ticed financial discrepancies

within the department, but chalked it up to a clerical er-ror. An overdrawn account in January 2013 revealed the missing funds.

In an October interview, CSUF President Mildred Garcia said the person al-leged to have stolen the mon-ey no longer works at the university.

Time delay and lack of sufficient evidence cause DA to deny criminal proceeding

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Box o�ce begins using new software

July 2011Approximately $58,000 in sales revenue from the Performing Arts Center box o�ce were not delivered to CSUF Auxiliary Services Corporation

November 2011 - November 2012Campus personnel notices financial discrepancies

May 2012

Overdrawn account of approximately $58,000

January 2013President Mildred García writes to Chancellor White asking for assistance from the O�ce of the University Auditor

January 30, 2013Audit investigation completed. Concludes missing funds are likely result of criminal activity

August 2, 2013CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White requested OUA to conduct an investigation

February 12, 2013

Box o�ce procedure will be added to have individual review and approve monthly reconciliations

October 31, 2013District Attorney refuses CSUF police search warrant request citing time delay and lack of probable cause

November 25, 2013District Attorney advises CSUF police that evidence is insu�cient to support a criminal proceeding

January 27, 2014OC Superior Court’s Public Corruption Unit refuses to review case because value of loss doesn’t meet threshold

March 2014

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Multiple complaints of abusive behavior and a video recording led to the month-long suspension of Cal State Fullerton base-ball coach Rick Vander-hook, according to doc-uments released over the summer.

Profanity-filled record-ings of Vanderhook were obtained and posted in late June by Deadspin, a sports website owned by Gawk-er Media. In the record-ings, made by an unnamed CSUF baseball player, Van-derhook berates the team after a series loss to UC Santa Barbara.

Vanderhook is heard be-rating his team for poor play and a lack of effort. At one point he is heard stating

“you are the stupidest group of m************ I have ever seen.”

Vanderhook was rein-stated on May 9, coaching the Titans in the final two weeks of the regular sea-son as well as the NCAA Regionals.

His verbal abuse of the preseason No. 1 ranked baseball team was fueled by the Titans struggles last year, the Orange County Register reported. Despite the team’s early-season praise from various polls across the country, CSUF struggled to keep their re-cord above .500.

As part of his discipline, Vanderhook was required to attend an anger manage-ment course identified by the university. He was also required to meet with stu-dent-athletes and commu-nicate to them the adjust-ments he will make to his coaching style.

Cal State Fullerton baseball coach Rick Vanderhook was reinstated on May 9, but details remained hazy until June.

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President Mildred García gave her annual convocation address Aug. 18, she touched on the university’s achieve-ments over the past year and the plans and goals for the coming academic terms.

García laid out five new objectives created as exten-sions of the university’s exist-ing strategic plan.

These short-term goals in-clude the development of an academic master plan, the first of its kind at Cal State Fullerton.

“It will provide answers to fundamental questions driv-ing all the short and long-term visions for the institu-tion,” García said.

Those answers, which in-clude what will be taught and who will be teaching it, will create quantifiable targets for tenure track and hiring plans, as well as enrollment man-agement, she said.

The second of García’s stated goals focused on rev-enue diversification. A $95 million gap between what CSU trustees requested and

what Gov. Jerry Brown ap-proved in the state budget, in conjunction with increased enrollment and continuing budget cuts she said, makes this goal a crucial one.

The third of García’s new goals, grounded in the sec-ond goal of the existing stra-tegic plan, is based on the university’s aim to increase student achievement.

“Our 51 percent gradua-tion rate and seven percent achievement gap is simply not up to our standards,” she said.

To improve those num-bers, this goal aims to foster cross-departmental collab-oration throughout campus, including a plan from the ac-ademic affairs office to im-prove student achievement in some of the most in-demand

courses, as well as those with low success rates, she said. In addition to on-cam-pus aid, García added that increased outreach to fos-ter youth and a strengthened Guardian Scholars program will be part of academic af-fairs’ objective to reflect the importance of diversity to the university.

The fourth objective for the coming academic year puts heavy emphasis on CSUF’s infrastructure. This measure included plans by the capi-tal programs and facility op-erations to develop a student housing master plan, complete the formation of a resource planning and analysis unit, and develop a funding plan for deferred maintenance in addi-tion to other goals.

“The benefit of all this work is immeasurable, from the more efficient utilization and acquisition of resources to the improvement of busi-ness processes and adminis-trative infrastructure, all of which will ultimately result in the manifestation of all of our short and long-range goals through the purvey-ance of frictionless, high-im-pact educational pathways,” García said.

García’s final goal centered

on staff development. In ad-dition to the 62 newly hired faculty entering campus this year, this goal will continue to promote tenure-track hir-ing as well as introduce lead-ership training to maximize faculty impact on campus.

While García cited no spe-cific timetable for the vari-ous improvements her goals aim to achieve, the univer-sity’s history of self-im-provement leaves her hope-ful that her goals will be accomplished.

García also brought up the results of a campus climate survey that concluded in the spring. Of the faculty and staff who took the survey, 27 percent reported exclusionary conduct and seven percent re-ported sexual harassment.

Thirty-seven percent of the faculty and staff took the survey.

“Clearly we have issues to deal with head on,” García said.

García plans to establish a university-wide committee chaired by Lori Gentles, vice president for human resourc-es, diversity and inclusion, to review the survey results and prepare recommendations for the creation of a Diversity Action Plan.

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In early August, Cal State Fullerton held an ac-tive-shooter exercise in the Titan Student Union in col-laboration with Universi-ty Police, Fullerton Police and bordering city fire and police departments to sim-ulate a worst-case shooter scenario on campus.

David Gerkinich, a com-munity safety officer, played the role of an ac-tive shooter on campus. His character left a trail of bodies during his rampage

from the upper level of the TSU to the lower level bil-liards area of the Titan Underground.

A surprise second shooter appeared midway through the exercise, forc-ing the actors to adjust their strategy during the exercise.

Some of the victims, portrayed by ROTC stu-dents and faculty volun-teers, sustained simulated minor injuries while others had more serious injuries such as gunshot wounds, that would have resulted in death during a real-life situation.

The varying degrees of injuries were meant to properly train and

assess the officers’ abil-ity to properly triage the victims.

The drill concluded with the officers apprehending both shooters.

There have been 34 in-cidents where a gun has been discharged on a col-lege campus since January 2013, according to Every-town Gun Safety, an orga-nization that documents gun violence in the U.S.

Sue Fisher, the emergen-cy preparedness coordi-nator at CSUF, said recent campus shootings have enhanced the university’s

resolve to be prepared during active shooting emergencies.

Conducting active shoot-er drills allows the univer-sity to mimic real scenari-os, Fisher said.

“It’s like with anything

you learn, the more you can practice something, the better off you feel like you can do it when you get to the real situation,” Fisher said.

In addition to ac-tive-shooter drills, the uni-versity encourages students and faculty to watch Shots Fired on Campus - When Lightning Strikes, that ex-plains what to do if an ac-tive shooter is on campus.

The safety video, which is available on the cam-pus portal, recommends that students and facul-ty hide in a room that can be locked and/or barricad-ed during an active-shooter situation.

Most classrooms on

campus are secured by ei-ther standard cylindrical style locks or by Mortise style or panic hardware.

There are 745 doors that lead to classrooms on campus. Of those doors, 85 of them can be locked from the inside without a key, according to CSUF officials.

If you can’t lock a door, Fisher said you should throw chairs in front of the door so it’s not easy for a shooter to get in the room.

“Any kind of barrier or thing that keeps [a shooter] from immediately causing a great deal of harm is go-ing to be effective on some level,” Fisher said.

Handful of law enforcement agencies cooperate to improve response to potential shooter

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Active-shooter drill held in TSUFollowing a simulated school shooting, emergency preparedness team members move victims with simulated injuries, portrayed by ROTC students and faculty volunteers, to a safe area in the building. Other victims were moved to a location outside of the Titan Student Union. University Police worked with law enforcement and fire departments from surrounding cities.

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Emergency preparedness

SUE FISHEREmergency Preparedness Coordinator

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When the titan arum flower bloomed in ear-ly August, it filled the Cal State Fullerton Greenhouse with the awful stench of rotting flesh - a stench which hadn’t graced the greenhouse since 2006.

The aptly named corpse flower, which stands nearly four feet tall, produces its putrid odor the same way that plug-in air fresheners do - using heat to evaporate the volatile chemicals.

The corpse flower, how-ever, uses that process to produce a smelly gas, said Greenhouse manager Ed-ward Read.

“(The corpse flow-er) has an old sweaty clothes smell,” Read said,

describing the foul smell that the corpse flower produces.

“Or if you’re driving along a country road and smell a rotting deer.”

The massive flower gives off this horrendous stench to attract pollinators just like flowers use a pleas-ant floral scent to attract bees and other types of pollinators.

The corpse flower uses the smell of rotting flesh to attract flesh eating beetles and flies that search inside the flower for the source of the smell.

The source of the heat comes from the spadix - the tall, cylindrical center of the plant.

At its peak, this corpse flower heated up to 88 de-grees while the room tem-perature was 70 degrees.

The corpse flower was brought in from Orange

Coast College for a collab-orative observational ex-periment to see how much heat is created by the plant during its two-day bloom-

ing period. Jarrett Jones, a 22-year-

old biology major and greenhouse assistant, was surprised when he found out that a blooming corpse flower was coming to the CSUF Greenhouse.

“I was not expecting to

see one bloom until after I graduated,” Jones said. “I thought I would have to come back and see one of ours bloom but the one we borrowed from OCC (bloomed), and I was here and able to see it. It was pretty awesome.”

The colossal corpse flower, whose latin name Amorphophallus titanum literally translates to the misshapen phallus giant, is native to the rainforest and limestone hills of west-ern Indonesia and is infa-mous for its rare and putrid smelling bloom.

While CSUF does have its own corpse flowers, none of them were expect-ed to bloom this summer.

Read is expecting one of the CSUF owned corpse flowers to bloom in 2016, at which time he wants to put it on public display in the arboretum.

Investigations so far have not found information which indicates he molested chil-dren at any other centers, ac-cording to the Register.

“I am deeply concerned about the welfare of all the children, especially those our university has served and currently serves, as well as their parents,” said Cal State Fullerton Presi-dent Mildred Garcia in the email. “We are in the pro-cess of identifying and con-tacting parents of children who were enrolled at the center during his period of employment.”

Before his arrest, Pul-ver had a record in Orange County consisting solely of traffic violations, including a DUI conviction while em-ployed at CSUF. He does not appear on the Megan’s Law

sex offender database.CSUF payroll would not

provide information on his position, title, salary or reason for leaving, citing confidentiality.

Pulver was employed as a teacher at UC Irvine Child Care Services from 2009 to September 2013. Pulver left UC Irvine on his own ac-cord, said UC Irvine Me-dia Relations Director Cathy Lawhon.

A statement has been issued to current and former parents who used the UC Irvine Child Care Services, as well as to staff and students who were employed there. The UC Ir-vine student body has not yet been issued a statement re-garding his arrest.

“As of right now, our pri-ority is the parents,” said Lawhon.

CSUF is requesting any information that may be helpful in the criminal in-vestigation call Sgt. Nigel Williams of University Po-lice at (657) 278-2578.

Those with children who attended the Children’s Cen-ter can get more informa-tion from Assistant Dean Carmen Curiel in Student Affairs by calling (657) 278-1245.

CSUF has also arranged counselor Joy Neff to be available for staff and fac-ulty members seeking assis-tance. Neff can be reached at (800) 777-9376. Students are advised to contact Counsel-ing and Psychological Ser-vices at (657) 278-3040.

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Pulver: Authorities seek further info

Stinking blossom studied at CSUFFor the first time in eight years, corpse flower blooms at Cal State Fullerton greenhouse

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The corpse flower on loan from OCC bloomed in CSUF’s greenhouse in early August, the first time in eight years one of the flowers has done so on campus.

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JARRETT JONESBiology Major

I thought I would have to come back and see one of ours bloom, but the one we borrowed from OCC (bloomed), and I was here and able to see it.

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A family of four will at-tempt to break the Guinness world record for longest dis-tance traveled on an elec-tric bicycle in order to raise awareness for sustainable transportation and healthy lifestyles.

In 2013, Dylan Drake, her husband Tomas Cortijo and their two children Eva, 4, and Constantino, 2, began a road trip from Buenos Aires, Ar-gentina to their home in Mis-soula, Mont.

The family documented the journey on their blog, as they crossed multiple bor-ders in a small pickup truck. The family arrived in Mis-soula in July.

Eager to keep travel-ing, Drake said they decid-ed to attempt to break the world record and embarked on their journey this past Friday.

The family will venture from Missoula, through Maine and end up in Flori-da, passing through 23 states and traveling over 6,000 miles. They hope to do this within six months.

The current record for longest electric bicycle trip is held by Canadian cyclist, Danny Halmo, who biked over 4,000 miles across Can-ada. Cortijo will bike for the record, alternating with one of their children in the back, and Drake will drive their support vehicle which will double as their home during the expedition.

They started building their own electric bicycles in 2009, when the couple was living in San Diego, Drake said. At the

time, her husband was look-ing for an alternative to driv-ing in traffic.

Cortijo built two e-bikes from scratch with salvaged and donated parts from Chi-na for the trip.

Drake said she likes that electric bicycles are clean.

“They use a little bit of electricity, but it’s nothing that really impacts the envi-ronment at all,” Drake said.

In an effort to promote

sustainable transportation in Fullerton, the Orange Coun-ty Transportation Authori-ty began a bike share pro-gram. The program is meant to serve as an alternative to driving for short commutes and point-to-point trips.

Commuters can purchase a 1-day or 7-day access pass. They can then choose a bike from any bike share station. Once a bike is checked out, the rider has 30 minutes per

trip before being charged overtime.

The program currently has 11 stations, including four on campus. Joel Zlotnik, an OCTA spokesman, said the most checkouts include the Fullerton train station, the CSUF Nutwood station and the CSUF Student Recreation Center station as of July 31.

Zlotnik said so far this year there have been 816 check-outs throughout the city.

Drake said she was in-spired by alternative trans-portation while living abroad.

“People walk, people bike and people use public transportation more, and in this country it’s not that way yet,” Drake said.

To help spread the word to a larger group of people, the family also has plans to produce a documentary of their journey.

“One of the biggest rea-sons I wanted to make a documentary is it really spreads the word a lot more about what we’re doing,” Drake said.

To help with the production costs of the film, the fami-ly has started a kickstarter campaign. The family will also update their Facebook and Instagram accounts, un-der username CamperClan, throughout their excursion.

The family will travel from Montana to Florida on homemade electric bicycles in order to raise awareness for sustainable transportation.

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Family tries to break world record A family will attemp to ride over 6,000 miles on electric bikes in under six months

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I’m an expert at taking short showers.

Water on. Lather, rinse, repeat. Water off.

It never takes more than 10 minutes and I come out just as clean as if I had taken 20 minutes. Nothing beats a good shower.

In the middle of July, how-ever, that feeling vanishes 20 minutes later when I start to sweat again.

Summer is my least fa-vorite season. I don’t like it. In fact, I hate it. Jackets, boots and thick socks are my thing.

Flies and mosquitoes seem to thrive in the heat and thoroughly enjoy my blood, therefore making them my mortal enemies.

I spend my summers cov-ered in bug bites and sweat. All I want to do is lay mo-tionless, consumed by the suffocating heat.

The only comfort is wa-ter, the true elixir of life. It refreshes and invigorates, but most importantly, it gets rid of the sweat. Oh, the sweat.

Unfortunately, I spent the majority of my summer drenched in sweat, not wa-ter. And it was by choice.

At the risk of sound-ing preachy and annoying-ly pretentious, I must say that I take the drought in

California seriously. It’s a real thing and statistics aren’t necessary to know this.

I can’t remember the last time it really rained and I walked in my house, so-soaked I could squeeze wa-ter from my socks just from walking.

Water is invaluable, as sappy as that sounds, and I try my best to treat it as such.

I know people who shower twice a day and say they just don’t feel comfortable with-out it, while I choose to skip a shower at times. I under-stand their reasons and that salty body secretions can be more unbearable than the heat.

There is no glamour in skipping showers. For those cringing their noses at my seemingly unsanitary habits, I don’t enjoy it, but I feel it must be done.

Deodorant and dry sham-poo are my best friends. I’m just thankful that my body odor isn’t horribly concen-trated. At least I assume so because I’ve never received any complaints.

The methods in which I attempt to conserve water are not radical. I don’t go a week before taking a show-er and my sink isn’t piled high with dirty dishes, but I can’t remember the last time I washed my car.

My hamper, however, must be filled to the brim be-fore I do laundry, and when I do, I pile whites, colors and

darks in one load. Snobby and self-righteous

aren’t signature character-istics of mine, but I realize that’s how I come across to people when I mention this and they subtly roll their eyes.

Because of this, I’ve had to defend my choices to peo-ple who choose to ignore the severity and pass it off as a dry spell.

A prime example of this is when I showed my roommate a picture of Los

Angeles’ water reservoir in 2011 compared to this year. His reaction to the deficien-cy was exactly what I was expecting, “I didn’t know it was that serious.”

My reasons for choosing to live with a brown lawn

and dirty car are not only fi-nancial. Yes, I pay my own water bill, but I believe my efforts make a small but sig-nificant difference.

If I ever have a little bit of soap left on me at the end of my shower, I just wipe it off.

This upcoming semester, 20 new President’s Scholars will be joining the Cal State Fullerton student body.

As a President’s Scholar, these students hold a high-ranked status that the Uni-versity bestows on these in-coming students.

The President’s Schol-ars program began 35 years ago and has since graduat-ed about 400 scholars with this title. The additional 20 scholars, which consists of 15 incoming freshmen and five military veterans, will bring the total number of scholars currently enrolled at Cal State Fullerton to 74.

Prospective first time freshmen need to complete a three-step process in or-der to be considered and accepted into the scholars program.

An incoming freshman needs to have an overall GPA of 3.75, be admitted into CSUF as a first time freshman, be a resident of California and have above average SAT and/or ACT

test scores in the initial ap-plication process.

The application for in-coming freshmen must ex-emplify their high school extracurricular activities, community service, general background information and academics. The incoming freshmen must also compose an essay.

After a rigorous 20-per-son committee reviews the applications, they are scored and re-ranked. Those who are placed as top candidates after the scoring process get the opportunity to interview in front of the committee and state their case to be-come a scholar.

Trevor Casby, an 18-year-old pre-business accounting major, is an incoming fresh-man from El Dorado High School. He was nervous during the initial interview process but came out receiv-ing the prestigious honor.

Casby describes the hon-or he felt to be recognized as one of the top ranked students as an incoming freshman and being a part of the President’s Scholars Program.

“All of my hard work in high school paid off,” Casby said. “Whether it be all the

AP classes, all the sports, all the nights with barely no sleep … all that work counts as something.”

In addition to the 15 in-coming freshman, there are five scholars who are trans-fer students that hold a mili-tary veteran status.

The veterans transfer President’s Scholar Program is fairly new. This fall se-mester will mark the fourth class of students with a vet-eran standing.

As a veteran transfer stu-dent, the requirements dif-fer from the freshmen crite-ria. Transfer students need a minimum of a 3.75 GPA, government document ver-ifying veteran status and letters of recommendation from college professors and a military superior.

After the initial applica-tion, an interview in front of a 20-person panel is conducted and the selection is made.

Armando Robles, a 21-year-old political sci-ence major is one of the five transfer veteran President’s Scholars. Robles comes from College of the Desert in the Palm Springs area.

Robles said that he has a competitive mindset when it comes to titles. He had

nothing to lose when apply-ing to the program and ev-erything to gain if selected.

“It gives me motivation and a sort of challenge,” Robles said. “It gives me a bar, that I’m just going to try my hardest to pass and it’s a pretty high bar … to challenge myself to pass it will end up working out for me.”

In addition to receiving the prestigious title, the stu-dents get an array of benefits from CSUF.

The President’s Scholars receive a consecutive four-year tuition payment, an annual stipend of $750 for textbooks and other school materials, a Dell laptop, complimentary parking per-mit, priority registration and

priority on-campus housing arrangements.

In addition to the finan-cial benefits, scholars re-ceive tickets to CSUF per-formances and special seminars and events, a per-sonalized letter of recom-mendation from CSUF’s president and automatic ac-ceptance into the universi-ty’s Honors Program.

Adopting small changes like taking shorter showers and watering the lawn less often can help conserve water. ILLUSTRATION BY MIKE TRUJILLO

Coping with the California drought

Welcoming 20 new President’s Scholars

Student talks about methods she adopts to conserve water during the drought

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A group of incoming students are admitted to CSUF with a high prestigious title

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Armando Robles is one of the five transfer Veteran Predent’s Scholars admitted this semester. WINNIE HUANG / DAILY TITAN

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As summer comes to an end, audiences await what is in store for them in the upcom-ing months in entertainment.

The fall and winter enter-tainment season comes with a much anticipated line up of films, new television se-ries, music and beginnings and endings of major sport seasons.

This award season has many critically acclaimed movies coming out such as Foxcatcher, which tells the true story of a schizophren-ic wrestling coach and his abused wrestling student.

The film, directed by Ben-nett Miller, stars Channing Tatum as well as Steve Carell, who is making his debut in a more dramatic role.

This November also marks the return of beloved film-maker Christopher Nolan, the writer and director of Incep-tion and The Dark Knight tril-ogy, with his new sci-fi thriller Interstellar starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway.

For those who consider themselves mainstream view-ers; there is also a lineup of action and comedy films com-ing out this year.

Even though the month of September is generally a dull month for movie goers. The movie adaptation of the sci-ence fiction book The Maze Runner, a story that fits in the newly discovered genre of “escape teen fiction,” comes out Sep. 19.

The sequel to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber is being released this November fea-turing the original cast with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprising their roles of Lloyd and Harry.

As expected, the fall tele-vision season promises series favorites returning as well as highly anticipated premiers of new series.

The popular sitcom New Girl returns for its fourth sea-son this September with Jessi-ca Biel scheduled to appear as a guest star.

Boardwalk Empire, star-ring Steve Buscemi, begins its final season Sep. 7 on HBO.

Gotham, a new television series coming to Fox, has been raising eyebrows. The series is set in the infamous Gotham City from the Bat-man universe, while Bruce Wayne is still a child.

Although the concept may seem like a gimmick, critics who have already viewed the first episode have given it con-siderably positive reviews.

David Hinckly of the New York Daily News praised the show, stating that it is “like a 45 minute movie, with stun-ning visuals that never feel like a shrunken TV version of the Batman.”

New music is in the making for the likes of Kanye West, who has announced a new record scheduled for release

later this fall and is planning on releasing a new single ti-tled All Day.

Some other big names in music are releasing albums this fall, including Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne, Ariana Grande, Avenged Sevenfold and the Foo Fighters.

On a more alternative side of the spectrum; The Kooks, Interpol, Death From Above 1979 and STRBKT have also

announced new albums com-ing out this fall.

In concert news; Katy Per-ry, Drake and Lil Wayne, The Kooks, Bombay Bicycle Club and Elton John all have up-coming performance dates in the Los Angeles area.

With baseball still in full swing and playoff season

coming this fall, the Los Angeles Angels of Ana-heim look to advance them-selves into a playoff spot. The Angels will be taking on the Miami Marlins in a three game series at Angel Stadium and after playing a four-game series against the division rival Oakland Athletics.

The Los Angeles Dodg-ers will be playing to keep

their playoff spot secure while on the road against the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres this week.

As fall sports come back this season, the NFL comes rushing in begin-ning Sep. 4 at Seattle’s CenturyLink Field with the Seattle Seahawks taking on the Green Bay Packers in the season opener.

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Cinco de Mayo festival featuring various rock bands at the Orange County Observatory.

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The Cal State Fullerton University Singers will be starting the fall semester off strong with a two-night concert event with the Los Angeles Philharmonics at the Hollywood Bowl on Fri-day and Saturday night.

All concert performers will be conducted by famed composer and conductor, John Williams.

Williams has been changing the world of film music, making some of the most iconic and recogniz-able movie scores of all time.

The 82-year-old compos-er has contributed to almost one hundred films includ-ing Star Wars, Jaws, Harry Potter and Indiana Jones.

Williams has won five Academy Awards amongst 49 nominations, which makes him the most nom-inated individual alive today.

The University Singers are led by CSUF alum-ni and Director of Choral Studies, Robert Istad.

Dr. Istad received his Master of Music degree in choral conducting at CSUF and is now the conductor of

the University Singers and the women’s choir while balancing his teachings at CSUF in advanced inter-pretation and literature.

Williams is no stranger to the University Singers as he has worked with them many times in the past.

“John Williams usually requests that the Cal State Fullerton University Sing-ers perform for this par-ticular performance…it’s something that we really love to do for him,” Istad said.

The concert will feature some of Williams’ clas-sic movie scores as well as other pieces like “Call of the Champions”, which was the theme song for the 2002 Winter Olympics according to Istad.

Istad expressed his ex-citement about working with some of Williams’ heart-warming material such as music from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

“It’s really a magical concert…they do it every summer…and I always get emotional,” Istad said.

Trinidad Cano, a 23-year-old vocal performance ma-jor and University Singers member, has participated in several concerts and still is amazed when working with Williams.

“People really look up to

a composer like John Wil-liams…it’s kind of surreal really,” Cano said.

Joining Williams and the University Singers is actor Seth MacFarlane.

The comedy genius is the creator and star of nu-merous popular animated series such as Family Guy and American Dad!

MacFarlane’s comedic

skills have also made it to the big screen in films like Ted and A Million Ways to Die in the West.

Anyone who is a mem-ber of MacFarlane’s fan base knows that in addition to writing, directing and acting, MacFarlane really loves to sing. His baritone vocals are often featured in episodes of his animated

television shows. He also sang for the opening of the 2013 Academy Awards.

Normally fans are used to hearing MacFarlane singing about crude and vulgar humor, but uses his voice for more than come-dic purposes.

He has trained with the same vocal coaches as Frank Sinatra and has

performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall.

In 2011 MacFarlane re-leased his debut Gram-my-nominated album, Mu-sic Is Better Than Words.

John Williams: Mae-stro of the Movies opens Aug. 29 and 30 at 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased on the Hollywood Bowl’s website.

Cal State Fullerton University Singers prepare themselves for Hollywood Bowl performance along side John Williams, Seth MacFarlane and the Los Angeles Philharmonics.

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University Singers join John Williams and Seth MacFarlane in magical two-night event.

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University singers to perform at Hollywood Bowl

One thousand, seven hundred sixty-seven miles. That is the distance from Patrick Hayes’ home in Nashville, Tenn. to his fam-ily’s home here in South-ern California. It’s also the name of his expanding business, 1767 Designs, where Hayes, a Cal State Fullerton alumni, uses re-claimed wood to build functioning pieces of fur-niture with an artful flare.

Unlike other artists who use old pallets that are thrown out from gro-cery stores, Hayes explores abandoned homes and uses pieces of wood that he finds during each venture. Every piece of wood he finds has a story and sets his work apart from the rest.

“I had an interest in the history behind the building that I was pulling wood out of to build furniture with and people kind of latched onto it and they were as en-thusiastic about it as I was,” Hayes said.

Hayes has received a lot of support for his business, but he faced a small hiccup when he first began check-ing out abandoned houses; some neighbors called the police on him during his first trip.

“Essentially I thought people who went out and reclaimed wood would just find abandoned build-ings and just go take wood

from it,” Hayes said. “So I thought that’s how every-body did it, so I attempt-ed it that way and you know, some neighbors got suspicious.”

Police questioned Hayes, then asked him to leave the vicinity. Hayes saw it as a learning experience and has been more careful since.

Hayes, a California na-tive and business entre-preneurship major, started the business when he first made the move to Nashville with his fiancé.

“It started out of a basic necessity for me just need-ing furniture after moving out to Tennessee, so I built a coffee table and I got a re-ally positive response from it,” Hayes said.

Everyone who saw Hayes’ coffee table encour-aged him to try selling his work. He decided to build four tables and try his luck at the local flee market.

“In that weekend I sold all four of them and decid-ed, you know this is make or break I’m gonna do four and if I don’t sell them, I’ll put them on craigslist and it’s all good,” Hayes said. “I’ll just kind of move on and if I do sell them, then maybe I should keep going and pursue this.”

Hayes now has customers in multiple states including California, Tennessee, Tex-as and Illinois. He collab-orates with other artists on projects and recently built a canvas frame for an artist in Texas.

Although Hayes believes

being an entrepreneur is something a person is born with, he also believes his education at CSUF has giv-en him a good foundation for his business.

“I think that although I didn’t learn how to be an entrepreneur at Cal State

Fullerton, I learned so many vital skills that went along with just operating a business,” Hayes said.

Hayes continues to use the skills he learned at CSUF to expand 1767 De-signs and has recently tak-en on his first interior

design job. “I think that you need

to have that drive and that fearlessness of being an entrepreneur and then you need to hone your skills. You need to prepare your-self with all of the tools necessary to actually

accomplish, you know, what you want to accom-plish,” Hayes said. “I think that Cal State Fullerton has definitely helped me hone those skills.”

Hayes’s work can be seen from his website 1767de-signs.com.

Alumni art turns business ventureAlumni uses reclaimed wood to create furniture and art for his business, 1767

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CSUF Alumni Patrick Hayes brainstorming creative works of wooden art from reclaimed wood in Tennessee.COURTESY OF PATRICK HAYES

California is currently going through one of its worst droughts since 1959. The drought has reached such perils that our cur-rent ground water supply has lost 63 trillion gallons of groundwater since 2013. As a result, the ground in California has risen to an average .16 inches, accord-ing to researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Insti-tution of Oceanography and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Luckily for California, it has an army of internet heroes, who have in recent weeks tried to replenish our dwindling groundwater

reservoirs by nobly pour-ing countless buckets of ice water into the ground.

For those blessed with the gift of sight, it has been almost impossible to avoid watching the hundreds of Ice Bucket Challenge vid-eos that have bombarded social media over the past few weeks.

The reason behind this latest social media craze is a charitable one for the ALS Association, a non-profit health organi-zation that fights against amyotrophic lateral scle-rosis, better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

The challenge involves having a large bucket of ice water dumped onto the participant’s head. Once the drenching is complet-ed, and that sweet ground-water is replenished, the

now soaked participant will generally donate somewhere between $10 to $25 to the ALS Associ-ation. The participant then gets to call out up to three other people who must do the challenge within 24 hours or donate $100 to the ALS Association.

The amount of support the ALS Association has received because of the Ice Bucket Challenge in re-cent weeks has been noth-ing short of amazing. As of Aug. 24, the ALS Asso-ciation has received $70.2 million in donations com-pared to the $2.5 million they had during the same time period last year.

While there is noth-ing wrong with a little bit of philanthropic narcis-sism, especially for a wor-thy cause such as the ALS

Association, the method in which we do it needs to change. An already thirsty California can’t afford to waste millions of gallons of water by just pouring it into the street.

The Ice Bucket Chal-lenge needs to be modified for California.

From symbolical-ly dumping an empty ice bucket to pouring the amount of money you plan on donating over your head (If you really want to make it rain use nickels), almost any alternative is a better choice than water.

While the Ice Bucket Challenge and its outstand-ing ability to rally people for a good cause should not stop, in California and oth-er drought stricken areas, the ice water part should be left out.

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Culturally, guns are as American as baseball and apple pie, but this affinity for firearms is sometimes taken too far, needlessly putting lives at risk.

In light of the Isla Vista shootings, in which Elliot Rodger killed six UCSB students, the state of Cal-ifornia has proposed As-sembly Bill 1014, which would allow a judge to place a temporary gun re-straining order on people who may pose a danger to themselves or others.

Also known as the “gun violence restraining order bill,” the law would allow family members, friends and healthcare providers to ask a judge to seize all firearms and ammunition from the person in ques-tion for a period of one year, after which the re-straining order could be re-newed or revoked.

Cue the frenzied “Sec-ond Amendment!” shouts.

Predictably, the

California Rifle and Pis-tol Association has already declared its opposition to the bill, while the Firearms Policy Coalition has de-clared, “This bill will lead to the persecution of an en-tire class of law-abiding Californians, and it might lead to even worse.”

In the United States, gun rights raise many passions. A clear chasm exists in this country between gun rights activists and gun control activists.

Usually the gun rights activists win out since law-makers fear the gun lob-by’s strong political in-fluence. While gun rights activists win, every day citizens end up losing.

Unfortunately, the abso-lutely insane gun culture in this country clouds peo-ple’s judgment. Gun rights activists have reached the point of self-parody.

Most recently, the Na-tional Rifle Association has even argued that blind people should be allowed to own guns.

In a video, since re-moved, NRA commen-tator Dom Raso argues, “Every law-abiding, blind

individual should be able to have whatever guns they want.”

“Fact is, it’s been prov-en that people that lack vision have an increased awareness of their hearing and spatial surroundings,” Raso said.

Apparently, the NRA thinks that all blind people are the comic book hero Daredevil. The madness has to end at some point.

Groups like the NRA claim that it’s not a gun problem, but a men-tal health problem that plagues the country.

Then along comes a bill like AB-1014, intend-ed partially to keep guns away from those people who may have a mental health issue, and sudden-ly these same gun rights groups attack the bill.

These types of contra-dictions abound in the de-bate about guns. It seems that gun owners will use any excuse to keep their firearms.

However, what gun rights activists fail, or more likely refuse, to re-alize is that AB-1014 and other such gun control

bills are not an affront to firearm owners. Instead, these bills are intended to serve the purpose of public safety.

Just like drivers have to reach a certain age to op-erate a vehicle, so too must gun owners accept that if they are to keep their right to own firearms, they should also be willing and responsible enough to ac-cept measures that pro-mote public safety.

They can’t have their cake and eat it too. If they are as responsible as they claim to be, gun owners must make some of the same sacrifices that an-ti-gun citizens make by living in a country where there are between 270 mil-lion and 310 million pri-vately-owned guns.

Protecting constitutional rights is important, but so too is protecting the lives of the innocent.

Richard Martinez, father of one of the Isla Vista vic-tims sums it up best when he said “When will enough people say: ‘Stop this mad-ness! We don’t have to live like this! Too many people have died!’”

Emigdio Vasquez, pioneer of the Chicano art move-ment and Cal State Fullerton alumnus, has passed away at 75.

Vasquez spent his fi-nal days in an assisted liv-ing home in Newport Beach when he passed away on Aug. 9 from pneumonia.

Vasquez was born in Je-rome, Arizona in 1939 where his father worked in a copper mine.

His father moved the fam-ily to Orange County in the early 1940’s.

He was interested in art from an early age, and cre-ated comic books about the Mexican revolution based on information from his father.

Vasquez received both his bachelor’s and master’s de-grees in art from Cal State Fullerton.

For his thesis project, which was necessary to complete his master’s de-gree, Vasquez created a mu-ral in tribute to the Chicano

working class.Vasquez modeled one of

the miners in the mural after his father.

His most famous work is said to be “Legacy of Cesar Chavez.”

The painting shows Chavez surrounded by work-ing people at an event for farm workers, and it hangs in the lobby of the Cesar Chavez Business and Com-puter Center at Santa Ana College, which Vasquez at-tended prior to his time at CSUF.

While “Legacy of Cesar Chavez” may be Vasquez’s most prominent work, much of his work did not include celebrities.

In most of his work the subjects were ordinary, working class people.

This may be due to the styles of his main influenc-es: Dutch painter Rembrandt, and famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera.

Vasquez created over 400 paintings in his lifetime, more than 20 of which can be found in Orange County.

He is survived by six chil-dren, as well as four brothers and a sister.

Emigdio Vasquez trailblazer of Chicano Art and Cal State Ful-lerton alumnus dead at 75

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A California gun restraining order bill could potentially save lives

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Pioneering artist passes

Sanity to a gunfight

Dump the ice bucket challenge

Cal State Fullerton alumnus Emigdio Vasquez created over 400 paintings during his lifetime. Vasquez passed away Aug. 9.

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No special treatment for businesses The California administration may waive current environmental laws in order to attract Tesla Motors Inc. to build their new battery factory somewhere in California.

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The state of California has recently attempted to keep Tesla Motors Inc. in the area by offering to over-look certain environmental regulations and to come to an agreement solely to al-low the company to gain its footing quicker and in the right place which, for the Brown administration, is in California.

Now of course Tesla Motors Inc. is a highly re-garded company, even con-sidered by some analysts

as the most important auto manufacturer in the world, according to a Mor-gan Stanley analyst in a Los Angeles Times inter-view. But is it fair to give one company special treat-ment because of what it can offer to the state eco-nomically, politically and technologically?

The state should be intel-ligent enough to work out a deal that both satisfies its economic and environmen-tal policies. It is an action that should not be prac-ticed. California shouldn’t give special treatment to any one business because we feel there will be justi-fication in the end. It’s best

to let companies conduct themselves naturally and go through the legislation that we have in place.

Essentially, the plan that is being drawn up in the office of Gov. Jerry Brown will allow Tesla Motors Inc. to get large portions of the California Environ-mental Quality Act legis-lation waivered. Sen. Ted Gaines, a Republican rep-resenting the Sacramento suburb of Rocklin says that the governor’s deal also in-cludes many tax breaks that are potentially worth up to $500 million, or about 10 percent of the project’s to-tal cost.

Sen. Gaines says “It

would help them speed the process,” according to an LA Times interview.

It’s not hard to see this from a perspective that is long-term, but people like David Pettit, a lawyer spe-cializing in environmental review laws for the Nat-ural Resources Defense Council, may feel differ-ently. Pettit says about the deal “For one thing, it does indicate that we have two systems of law in Cal-ifornia —one for the super rich, and one for the de-veloper doing multifamily housing,” according to an LA Times interview. It is a powerful message about what our country’s image

has become.Gaines and U.S. Senate

President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg are the co-au-thors of the proposed Tes-la incentive bill that would put all of this into law. The Brown administration is doing whatever they can to ensure Tesla Motors Inc. chooses California as its home and not Nevada, Ar-izona, New Mexico or Tex-as which are other potential sites for the battery plant Tesla is proposing to build in. Having such a factory in the state would be good for jobs and our economy, but is it worth it? Sure Califor-nia is not at its best right now, but what does this say

about our country?This wouldn’t be the first

time legislation has been bent to allow for special treatment.

Although there wasn’t much enthusiasm for the battery plant to settle in California, even with all the slack the company would be getting, there is a possibility the plant may still be built in Reno, Nev. Creating double standards for a single project and evoking the wrath of the environmentally aware is a risky choice with potential serious repercussions for the state.

It is best for all business-es to be treated equally.

Brown Administration is to potentially waive environmental laws for Tesla Motors Inc.

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Titans old and new gath-ered at Titan Stadium for the annual Cal State Ful-lerton men’s soccer alumni game on Saturday, where the current Titans defeated their former teammates in a dominant 3-0 win.

The alumni game is a special occasion each year which allows former Titans to come and see the current Titans carrying on their legacy.

Head Coach George Kuntz believes these alum-ni deserve to be treated with nothing but the high-est esteem.

“For these guys to come back and to see the build-ing of the program and to see the style that we are

playing now, it’s just en-chanting,” Kuntz said. “When people come back when they have given their blood, sweat and tears to the program and to the uni-versity, those guys need to be treated with respect.”

The alumni started out hot, pressing the Titans into early mistakes.

Alumni Jesse Escalan-te (2008-2012) received a long pass and found him-self on a breakaway.

Titan goalkeeper Jeff Salt misjudged the long ball and got caught out of his box.

Escalante dribbled around Salt and was fouled hard by the transfer from Cal State San Bernardino.

In a competitive match, the foul would have gar-nered a booking, but be-cause of the friendly nature of the game, Salt was let off the hook.

The ensuing free kick was blasted straight into the wall and then cleared away.

The alumni controlled the first five minutes of the game, but the Titans took over after that as the alum-ni failed to keep meaning-ful possessions.

In the 18th minute of

play, the Titans got their best chance of the game.

Senior midfielder Ian Ramos danced around two alumni defenders and set himself up for a left-footed strike.

Ramos’ shot sailed just wide of the far post and the game remained scoreless.

Minutes later, senior forward Amara Soumah found himself on a break-away with alumni goal-keeper Jay Nettekoven (1987-1990), but the ball wouldn’t settle for Sou-mah and his toe-poke also rolled wide of the post.

The Titan barrage con-tinued in the 21st minute. From the top of the box, Soumah curled the ball to a streaking Marc Fenelus down the side and Fenelus powered his shot to the near post and snuck past Nettekoven to give the Ti-tans a 1-0 lead.

Nine minutes later, freshman Robert Coronado bended a beauty from long distance to the left corner to put the Titans up by a pair.

“Spencer (Johnson) passed it to me in the mid-dle and I just took a touch and saw the goal open and I just hit it and scored. I didn’t know what to do, it was my first goal,” Coro-nado said. “(The goal) gives me a lot of momen-tum, it gives me a boost, pumps me up and better confidence in myself as a freshman coming in.”

Coronado appreciated the support from the crowd at the alumni game.

“I liked the atmosphere, the more people that come, it’s better. It pumps us up and it really shows the sup-port that I need.”

In the second half, ju-nior defender Colin Okirie

latched onto a Julian Okai corner kick and powered his header into the back of the net to seal the game.

Kuntz was pleased with his team’s effort and said that this win helped solidi-fy the starting lineup going into the regular season.

“There were certainly things that showed up that were good moments. Guys that we wanted to step up have stepped up,” Kuntz said.

The Titans hit the road to open up their season on Friday against University of Illinois-Chicago.

The game starts at 5 p.m. and the team has confidence going into the match.

“We need to come out strong and we need to be ready, we need to be set, we’ll be fine,” Kuntz said. “If we do what we need to do with the game plan, we’ll be fine.”

The Cal State Fullerton women’s soccer team failed to record their first regu-lar season win on Sunday afternoon, falling 1-0 to Michigan State.

The Titans were in con-trol of the match for most of the 90 minutes, but one defensive error in the sixth minute did them in.

The ball bounced off the shoulder of Titan center back Morgan Batcheller af-ter a Spartan header, and freshman Jamie Chesilik brought the ball down for teammate Allyson Kraus.

Kraus quickly delivered a pass over the top, and Chesil-ik was off to the races.

She sped into the box down the left and although Batcheller tried to recover, she lost her footing. Chesi-lik buried a low strike into the near post of Titan goal-keeper Morgan Berstch, who was caught stepping to her left side, seemingly an-ticipating a cross.

The Titan defense was not tested too much, but when it was, Michigan State found a lot of space to operate.

“We gotta get into

tackles harder, we got-ta go in way sharper,” said left back Jazzmin Mancil-la of her side’s defensive performance.

The Titan back line suf-fered an injury to one of its best defenders, Serena Smith-Banas. Smith-Banas exited the game due to an ankle injury.

The Titans were not with-out chances, controlling most of the match and at times forcing Michigan State to play with all 11 players in their own half of the field.

“It’s not something we’re used to. It’s something we need to get comfortable with because there’s gonna be other teams doing that,” said junior forward Christi-na Burkenroad.

Titans Head Coach Demian Brown was not surprised at the Spartans’ strategy.

“We knew it going into it. Michigan State is a very well-disciplined and a very defensive-minded group,” Brown said. “We knew that we were gonna have a lion’s share of the possession and we knew that we were gon-na have to do better, and, at the end of it, we just have to be better at the finishing parts of the game.”

Fullerton had numerous opportunities to score, but

Michigan State’s numbers at the back constantly sti-fled the Titans.

The Spartans were forced into a goal line clearance again in the 83rd minute. With Brown throwing num-bers forward in search of the tying goal, Batcheller again found herself in the

opponents’ final third off a corner kick.

She got her head on the ball a second time and redirected it away from the keeper.

Just when it seemed like the Titans had scored, an-other Spartan defender popped up and headed the ball clear of danger.

Overall, it was a very frustrating afternoon for the Titans, who played well enough to earn a win after dominating play, but left empty-handed.

The Titans have a shot at redemption Friday when they take on the Denver Pi-oneers at Titan Stadium.

Men’s soccer impressive in scrimmage

Spartan defense blanks Titans at homeThe Titans were unable to put together any offense against Michigan State Sunday

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The men’s soccer team beat the alumni 3-0 in the annual alumni game on Saturday

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Junior defender Morgan Batcheller maneuvers the ball through the staunch Spartan defense Sunday at Titan Stadium. The Spartans handed the Titans their first loss of the 2014 season.

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The 2014 Cal State Fuller-ton women’s volleyball team hopes to rebound from a dis-appointing 2013 campaign.

The head coaches in the Big West do not seem to have faith in the Titans to compete in 2014.

The Big West Conference released a preseason coaches’ poll on Aug. 6 in which the Titans were projected to finish eighth in the conference.

The Titans finished in eighth place in 2013, fin-ishing with an 11-17 record and a subpar 4-12 in Big West play.

They picked up a pair of wins over the UC Riverside Highlanders and beat UC Davis and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo once respectively.

The Hawai’i Rainbow Wa-hine were selected by the coaches to win the Big West Conference for the fourth con-secutive season.

Head coach Dave Shoji is the national leader in wins

with 1,228 career victories. His 2014 roster is loaded

with young talent and features 10 underclassmen.

The Rainbow Wahine fin-ished in a three-way tie for first place in 2013 with Cal State Northridge and UC San-ta Barbara.

But the coaches gave no love to the Cal State Northridge Matadors as they are predicted to finish fourth in the conference and only re-ceived one first place vote.

The Matadors are led by two-time AVCA All-Ameri-can and three-time first team All-Big West middle Casey Hinger.

They have five returning starters but lost three key se-niors from last year.

The surprise team that climbed all the way up to sec-ond in the preseason polls was the Long Beach State 49ers.

Head coach Brian Gimmil-laro’s squad only has four re-turning starters, but senior middle blocker Chisolm Ok-pala hopes to lead the 49ers and be first-team All-Big West for the third year in a row.

The Titans have seven re-turning players and add nine

new players to the roster. They are led by junior

middle blocker Holland Crenshaw.

She finished third on the team in 2013 with 219 kills and a 2.19 kills per set average.

She led the 2013 Titans with 79 total blocks.

Sophomore libero McK-enna Painton returns after an outstanding freshman season in 2013.

She finished second on the team with 317 digs despite only playing in 69 sets.

If she played in six more sets, she would have quali-fied to be in the record books where her 4.59 digs per set average would have been the sixth best single-season mark in Titan history.

Only one senior will play for the Titans in 2014. Devin Ulmer played in 105 sets as a sophomore in 2012 and just 59 sets in 2013.

She tallied seven service aces last season, matching her sophomore mark despite play-ing in far less sets.

Freshman middle blocker Steph Buss leads the Titans’ incoming freshman class.

The incoming freshman made Prepvolleyball.com’s honorable mention list, where the site analyzes the top re-cruiting classes in the nation.

Buss was a four-year start-er at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota where she led her team with 448 kills.

She accounted for nearly 50 percent of her teams’ of-fensive production and was named a member of the All-State South Dakota Second Team.

Buss and freshman Niki Withers were impressive in the annual alumni game Sat-urday at Titan Gym.

Eight Titans made their col-legiate debuts in that game and the current Titans scored a 3-0 (25-23, 25-20, 25-23) victory over the alumni.

The Titans open up their regular season Friday at Ti-tan Gym against the Bucknell Bison.

They will play three games in the annual Titan Classic.

They finish the weekend with a pair of games against Sacred Heart and Texas Tech.

The Cal State Fuller-ton women’s soccer team kicked off the regular season with a 1-1 come-from-behind draw against No. 22 Brigham Young University.

The Titans (0-0-1) were up to the task from the opening whistle, con-trolling the first few min-utes and forcing BYU (0-0-1) to play in their own half and on the counter.

Starting the game in a 4-4-2 formation, Titan junior Rebecca Wilson looked the liveliest of the two strikers up front, pes-tering the BYU defense with powerful runs and physical play. However, de-spite controlling the open-ing stages, the Titans strug-gled to create many scoring opportunities.

The Cougars had a chance to go ahead in the 12th minute after Fuller-ton lost the ball in mid-field, but Michele Mur-phy’s shot went straight at Titans goalkeeper Morgan Bertsch, after splitting both Serena Smith-Banas and

Morgan Batcheller. While sophomore left

back Jazzmin Mancilla was a brick wall in the first half, stuffing the BYU attacks on her side, the defense was still one of the main con-cerns for the sturdy Titan back line, as BYU forwards often got behind the Ti-tans. Head Coach Demian Brown expected the defen-sive challenges.

“BYU’s forwards are tre-mendous...they’re going to get behind not only our team, but teams across the country. More importantly, I think the way we recov-ered and dealt with them getting behind [our defend-ers] was something that I was really impressed with,” Brown said.

On the other end, the Ti-tans had their first clear shot at goal in the 28th minute. Freshman mid-fielder Tala Haddad collect-ed a pass from right back Colleen Ortega in the Ti-tan half, before surging for-ward and placing a through ball to Wilson. Wilson’s run looked promising, but the Cougars’ Taylor Camp-bell Isom closed her down and forced a deflected shot.

In the 30th minute, the Titans seemed to have

another chance to take the lead, but Cougar keep-er Katherine Snyder cut off a ball over the top that was making its way to Haddad.

BYU defender Sarah Chambers forced Bertsch into a save in the 38th minute, as her corner kick looped towards the near post.

The Titans answered with a corner kick of their own, but Batcheller’s foray into the box was for naught, as she shot straight at the keeper from seven yards out.

The first half ended scoreless, but after many substitutions and combina-tions in midfield, the Titans found their groove in the opening minutes of the sec-ond half.

Chelsey Patterson, the only Titan midfield-er to play the entire game, once again partnered with Amanda Howard, just like the pair had done at the be-ginning of the game.

“She gets the position-ing of moving up when I go down or going down when I go up,” Patterson said. “I felt like she was very strong in the center with me.”

The Titan front line looked better as well. After

some difficulties in the first half, Christina Burkenroad was subbed off, but came back for the start of the second half and produced a much more lively perfor-mance that disoriented the Cougar defense.

“I came out stronger, I wanted the ball more, I was hungry for it,” Burkenroad said.

Yet it was the Cougars who would score first in the 76th minute on a goal from sophomore Ashley Hatch. After intercepting a cross, Cougar goalkeeper Hannah Clark, booted the ball upfield. The bounce found Nadia Gomes, who passed to Hatch who had her back to goal. Hatch did well to create space and turn, and her left-footed shot from about 20 yards out was deflected into goal.

The Titans were not ready to quit. Just six min-utes later, substitute Ivy Diego toe-poked the tying goal after the Cougar de-fense faltered and left the ball only two yards from the near post off a Titan corner.

“It was my first goal ever in my collegiate career and it just felt good to start off, and I’m ready to score even

more,” Diego said.The second half end-

ed with no further goals and the teams headed to overtime.

Both teams had chanc-es in overtime, but neither could capitalize and the game ended in a tie, cap-ping off an exciting regular season opener.

Titans look strong in opener against No. 22 BYU

Sophomore forward Ivy Diego scored the lone goal for the Titans in a thrilling 1-1 tie against BYU Friday night at Titan Stadium. The goal came in the 82nd minute and was the first of her career.

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Volleyball aims for Big West success

The Titans gave the highly ranked BYU Cougars all they could handle to tie in opener

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The Titans hope to prove their critics wrong and contend in the Big West Conference

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The Titan women’s volleyball team huddles up before they play the alumni Saturday. They hope to exceed expectations in 2014.

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HOROSCOPES

ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

A family issue takes over your sched-ule today -- you may have to com-pletely ignore other aspects of your life. The good news is that you’re perfectly suited to handle this inter-ruption with care.

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

It’s a good time for you to hang out with friends or colleagues -- pref-erably over food or beverages. The bonding that results is sure to create new ways of working together for all of you.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

Now is a good time to keep your wal-let locked away -- you want to avoid impulse purchases like the plague! This isn’t fun, but the good news is that things should settle down in a few days.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

You have to focus on personal issues today -- otherwise, things may never get off the ground. If a good friend or family member has a problem, help out, but always return to your own stuff.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

Your ability to let others share credit with you -- even on victories that are pretty much all yours -- helps you to carve out a great place for yourself socially.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

A family outing turns into something quite pleasant -- so make sure that you’re playing along. Your personal energy is just right for making deep-er connections, so open up and see what happens.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

You’re feeling everything a bit too acutely today -- and, converse-ly, you’re also less sure of yourself. That’s not a fun combination, but you should shake it off before much longer.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23 - NOV. 21):

Your intuition is strong today -- so make the most of it! Your amazing energy helps you to see clues where others just see confusion. It’s the per-fect time to understand that friend or sweetie.

SAGITTARIUS(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

You’re feeling somewhat out of sorts, especially when you’re dealing with social situations. This isn’t a long-term problem, though, so don’t wor-ry too much about where it all ends.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

You need to take care of business today -- so make sure that you’re pushing yourself to tackle everything on that to-do list. If you only make it halfway, that just gives you some-thing to do tomorrow.

AQUARIUS(JA. 20 - FEB. 18):

Something is trickier than usual, so make sure that you’re dealing with whatever it is as carefully as you can. Things may start to get a little weird once you get past this phase, though.

PISCES(FEB. 19 - MARCH 20):

Something that’s usually kind of a bore turns out to be fun -- and it’s mostly thanks to your own great en-ergy. You should see if you can push toward something even bigger and better!

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