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VISIT US AT: DAILYTITAN.COM FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @THEDAILYTITAN Thursday February 12, 2015 Volume 97 Issue 10 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Baseball ready for its season opener Friday Candlelight vigil held in wake of shooting Features Sports 5 8 Pay to park meters installed Cathy Torrez Club supplements fragile funding Row of machines displaced faculty, student parking RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan The parking lot outside College Park recently got an update when Cal State Ful- lerton’s Facilities Operations installed $29,000-worth of pay-to-park meters. The meters were installed in a Park and Pay zone—37 consecutive parking spots near the south side entrance, funded through Parking and Transportation services. The zone—the sixth to be implemented on campus—is part of a pilot program and may not be permanent. Each parking spot costs $2 per hour, and the result- ing data from the resulting transactions will be used to determine parking demand, a university official said. The revenue collected will be put toward maintaining and operating current park- ing facilities, a university of- ficial said. The program is too new, however, to provide any pro- jected ticket sales, the of- ficial said. The number of parking spots may change depending on the collected data. The parking spots now be- ing used for the Pay to Park zone used to be faculty spac- es but, due to a faculty and staff bargaining agreement, the faculty spaces cannot be removed entirely. The agreement requires the replacement of park- ing spaces that are redesig- nated for other uses or lost to construction projects, a university official said. As a result, a row of parking in the student lot is now being used for staff parking to accommodate the agreement. Members of the glassblowing club hosted a demonstration as part of their Valentine’s day sale Wednesday. YUNUEN BONAPARTE / FOR THE DAILY TITAN Most people settle for chocolate or candy hearts for Valentine’s day, but one club on campus chose a slightly different ap- proach—molten glass. For the first time, the Cal State Fullerton Glassblow- ing Club hosted a demo, part of the club’s Valentine’s day glass sale Wednesday. Throughout the semes- ter, the club puts together glass sales and sells one- of-a-kind pieces made by students. From 1-5 p.m., the Glass- blowing Club held the sale at the Visual Arts Studio in room 130, home to the ce- ramics and glass blowing on campus. The sales are the major source of income for the Glass Program, said Leslie Guardado, a Ceramic and art education major. More than 20 hearts, ros- es, cupcakes and bowls were on display. Depending on the ef- fort and time that went into glass pieces, prices ranged from $5 to $20. The money made from the sale goes to the stu- dents and supplies, includ- ing tools, equipment and glass. The funds create an im- portant bridge to help cov- er funding gaps in the Glass Program. Guardado is in her third semester of glassblowing. She transferred to CSUF because it is one of the few schools that offer glassblow- ing in California, she said. “You assume that, being in a big collegiate universi- ty, you’re going to get fund- ed, and then you realize the reality is we are pretty much sustaining ourselves,” Guardado said. SEE PARKING 3 Glass sale aims to bridge gaps in group’s funding ANGIE PEREZ Daily Titan SEE GLASS 2 Former Cal State Fullerton student Cathy Torrez was murdered in 1994. COURTESY OF NBCLA After arrests made in 2007, murder trial begins in death of Cal State Fullerton student. SAMUEL MOUNTJOY Daily Titan It was 21 years ago to- day that 20-year-old Cathy Torrez, an honors student and sociology major, was stabbed to death. After her friends and family searched in vain for more than a week, the body of the Cal State Fullerton student was found stuffed in the trunk of her burgundy Toyota parked near a hospital less than a mile from her workplace. The disappearance of Tor- rez, who friends described as bubbly and likeable, shook the campus. Her friends and family passed out more than 5,000 fliers during her search and more than 1,200 mourned her at her Placentia funeral, according to a 1994 Daily Titan story. “You have robbed the world of a precious human being,” said David Bau- mann, a priest who eulo- gized Torrez at her funer- al. “You have given grief beyond measure to her family.” Speculation was rampant, and many suspected her on- again-off-again boyfriend, Samuel Lopez, but a lack of physical evidence link- ing him to the scene delayed prosecutors from moving forward, reported the Los Angeles NBC affiliate. Thirteen years passed be- fore arrests were made. Cousins Samuel and Xavi- er Lopez were arrested in 2007 when technology had advanced to a point at which prosecutors could use DNA evidence to link the two to the crime, NBC reported. The Lopez’s charges car- ry a torture enhancement. Samuel’s brother Armando is being charged as an ac- cessory to the crime. The trial began last week with opening statements that end- ed Wednesday. In court earlier this week, prosecutors told the story of a jealous boyfriend whose story kept chang- ing and didn’t help out in the search effort, NBC reported. The defense said the case was bungled from the start and that blood found on Torrez’s car belonged to Xavier, not Samuel. “If it wasn’t a mess, it would not have taken us 21 years to get here,” said defense attorney Lewis Rosenblum. A hearing in the case is scheduled for Tuesday. February 12, 1994 February 25, 1994 February 14, 1994 July 3, 2007 At 8 p.m., Cathy Torrez is last seen leaving the Sav-on Pharmacy in Placentia where she worked. Later that night, Cathy Torrez is killed by a dozen stab wounds in her chest and neck. Cathy Torrez’s mother, Mary Bennett, reports her as missing. Cathy Torrez’s on-again-off-again boyfriend Samuel Lopez and his cousin Xavier Lopez, both 35 at the time, are arrested and charged with Torrez’s murder. Cathy Torrez is memorialized at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Placentia. About 1,200 attend. February 19, 1994 Cathy Torrez’s body is found stuffed in the trunk of her 1990 burgundy Toyota Corolla. The car was parked in a hospital parking lot a mile from Torrez’s workplace. February 17, 2015 Trial set to continue in Courtroom C34 at the North Justice Center in Fullerton at 9:10 a.m. February 10, 2015 Opening statements begin in the trial. MIKE TRUJILLO / DAILY TITAN XAVIER LOPEZ Samuel Lopez’ cousin, arrested along with Samuel Age: 43 SAMUEL LOPEZ Cathy Torrez’ former on-again-off- again boyfriend Age: 43 On Trial

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Thursday February 12, 2015 Volume 97 Issue 10The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Baseball ready for its season opener Friday

Candlelight vigil held in wake of shooting

Features Sports5 8

Pay to park meters installed

Cathy Torrez

Club supplements fragile funding

Row of machines displaced faculty, student parking

RUDY CHINCHILLA Daily Titan

The parking lot outside College Park recently got an update when Cal State Ful-lerton’s Facilities Operations installed $29,000-worth of pay-to-park meters.

The meters were installed in a Park and Pay zone—37 consecutive parking spots near the south side entrance, funded through Parking and Transportation services.

The zone—the sixth to be implemented on campus—is part of a pilot program and may not be permanent.

Each parking spot costs $2 per hour, and the result-ing data from the resulting transactions will be used to determine parking demand, a university official said.

The revenue collected will be put toward maintaining and operating current park-ing facilities, a university of-ficial said.

The program is too new, however, to provide any pro-jected ticket sales, the of-ficial said. The number of parking spots may change depending on the collected data.

The parking spots now be-ing used for the Pay to Park zone used to be faculty spac-es but, due to a faculty and staff bargaining agreement, the faculty spaces cannot be removed entirely.

The agreement requires the replacement of park-ing spaces that are redesig-nated for other uses or lost to construction projects, a university official said.

As a result, a row of parking in the student lot is now being used for staff parking to accommodate the agreement.

Members of the glassblowing club hosted a demonstration as part of their Valentine’s day sale Wednesday. YUNUEN BONAPARTE / FOR THE DAILY TITAN

Most people settle for chocolate or candy hearts for Valentine’s day, but one club on campus chose a slightly different ap-proach—molten glass.

For the first time, the Cal State Fullerton Glassblow-ing Club hosted a demo, part of the club’s Valentine’s day glass sale Wednesday.

Throughout the semes-ter, the club puts together glass sales and sells one-of-a-kind pieces made by students.

From 1-5 p.m., the Glass-blowing Club held the sale at the Visual Arts Studio in room 130, home to the ce-ramics and glass blowing on campus.

The sales are the major source of income for the

Glass Program, said Leslie Guardado, a Ceramic and art education major.

More than 20 hearts, ros-es, cupcakes and bowls were on display.

Depending on the ef-fort and time that went into glass pieces, prices ranged from $5 to $20.

The money made from the sale goes to the stu-dents and supplies, includ-ing tools, equipment and glass.

The funds create an im-portant bridge to help cov-er funding gaps in the Glass Program.

Guardado is in her third semester of glassblowing. She transferred to CSUF because it is one of the few schools that offer glassblow-ing in California, she said.

“You assume that, being in a big collegiate universi-ty, you’re going to get fund-ed, and then you realize the reality is we are pretty much sustaining ourselves,” Guardado said.

SEE PARKING 3

Glass sale aims to bridge gaps in group’s funding

ANGIE PEREZDaily Titan

SEE GLASS 2

Former Cal State Fullerton student Cathy Torrez was murdered in 1994. COURTESY OF NBCLA

After arrests made in 2007, murder trial begins in death of Cal State Fullerton student.

SAMUEL MOUNTJOYDaily Titan

It was 21 years ago to-day that 20-year-old Cathy Torrez, an honors student and sociology major, was stabbed to death. After her friends and family searched in vain for more than a week, the body of the Cal State Fullerton student was found stuffed in the trunk of her burgundy Toyota parked near a hospital less than a mile from her workplace.

The disappearance of Tor-rez, who friends described as bubbly and likeable, shook the campus. Her friends and family passed out more than 5,000 fliers during her search and more than 1,200 mourned her at her Placentia funeral, according to a 1994 Daily Titan story.

“You have robbed the world of a precious human being,” said David Bau-mann, a priest who eulo-gized Torrez at her funer-al. “You have given grief beyond measure to her family.”

Speculation was rampant, and many suspected her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Samuel Lopez, but a lack of physical evidence link-ing him to the scene delayed prosecutors from moving

forward, reported the Los Angeles NBC affiliate.

Thirteen years passed be-fore arrests were made.

Cousins Samuel and Xavi-er Lopez were arrested in 2007 when technology had advanced to a point at which prosecutors could use DNA evidence to link the two to the crime, NBC reported.

The Lopez’s charges car-ry a torture enhancement. Samuel’s brother Armando is being charged as an ac-cessory to the crime. The trial began last week with opening statements that end-ed Wednesday.

In court earlier this week, prosecutors told the story of a jealous boyfriend whose story kept chang-ing and didn’t help out in the search effort, NBC reported.

The defense said the case was bungled from the start and that blood found on Torrez’s car belonged to Xavier, not Samuel.

“If it wasn’t a mess, it would not have taken us 21 years to get here,” said defense attorney Lewis Rosenblum.

A hearing in the case is scheduled for Tuesday.

February 12, 1994 February 25, 1994

February 14, 1994 July 3, 2007

At 8 p.m., Cathy Torrez is last seen leaving the Sav-on Pharmacy in Placentia where she worked.

Later that night, Cathy Torrez is killed by a dozen stab wounds in her chest and neck.

Cathy Torrez’s mother, Mary Bennett, reports her as missing.

Cathy Torrez’s on-again-off-again boyfriend Samuel Lopez and his cousin Xavier Lopez, both 35 at the time, are arrested and charged with Torrez’s murder.

Cathy Torrez is memorialized at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Placentia.About 1,200 attend.

February 19, 1994Cathy Torrez’s body is found stuffed in the trunk of her 1990 burgundy Toyota Corolla. The car was parked in a hospital parking lot a mile from Torrez’s workplace.

February 17, 2015Trial set to continue in Courtroom C34 at the North Justice Center in Fullerton at 9:10 a.m.

February 10, 2015

Opening statements begin in the trial.

MIKE TRUJILLO / DAILY TITAN

XAVIER LOPEZ

Samuel Lopez’ cousin, arrested along with Samuel

Age: 43

SAMUEL LOPEZ

Cathy Torrez’ former on-again-off-again boyfriend

Age: 43

On Trial

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Measles spread to Canada

Official arrested for theft

Three shot in possible hate crime

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Health officials an-nounced 10 measles cases spread to Cana-da after a trip to Disn-eyland Resort, accord-ing to the Los Angeles Times.

Quebec’s Lanaud-iere health and social services agency con-firmed that none of the measles patients had been vaccinated be-fore their visit.

Dozens of cas-es have already been linked to patrons visit-ing the park between Dec. 17-20.

Since December over 100 people in North America have contracted the Califor-nia measles.

Measles symptoms are easily detected and should be treated by a doctor immediate-ly so they do not lead to pneumonia, inflam-mation of the brain, or worse—death.

Lake Forest council-man Adam Nick has been charged with illegally re-moving campaign signs, according to a Los Ange-les Times report.

Nick is a known pro-ponent of harsher pen-alties for this crime. In 2014, he amended the municipal code penalty for tampering with or re-moving campaign signs from an infraction to a misdemeanor.

Nick instructed an ac-complice to remove signs that belonged to one of Nick’s fellow councilmen Scott Voigts, a mayoral candidate at the time.

Upon investigation, deputies found ten of Voigt’s signs in the back-seat of Nick’s car. Nick was serving as the city’s mayor pro tem at the time.

Nick has been charged with petty theft and sto-len property and faces a maximum sentence of one year in county jail if convicted.

Three Universi-ty of North Caroli-na at Chapel Hill stu-dents were shot to death Tuesday eve-ning in an apartment by the campus, CNN reported.

The victims were identified as a new-lywed Muslim couple Deah Barakate and Yusor Abu-Salha, and the bride’s younger sister Razan Abu-Sal-ha. All three vic-tims were shot in the head.

Families of the vic-tims believe the shoot-ing was a hate crime, committed because the victims were Muslim.

The gunman and neighbor, Craig Ste-phen Hicks had a his-tory of threatening the victims over a park-ing situation in their apartment complex.

Multiple members of the club are also enrolled in the same glassblowing class.

Previously, the class was divided into separate be-ginner and advanced class-es, Guadardo said.

Now, however, beginning and advanced students share the same course.

The single course is split into two days accord-ing to skill level—Monday for beginner students and Wednesday for advanced students.

Last semester the group made an estimated $3,000 in profit, said David Guti-errez, a studio art major and the club’s Inter-Club Council representative.

The program recently purchased $4,000 worth of glass, which took the majority of their savings, Guardado said.

Professors also usual-ly let students keep a por-tion of the sales, Guardado said.

The group hosts the sales frequently to help bring in as much revenue as possi-ble. The next sale will be held for Mother’s day.

Tax season is in full swing and the Cal State Fullerton chapter of Volun-teer Income Tax Assistance is offering free tax return preparation.

The Tax Assistance pro-gram is a part of a larger, national program devel-oped by the Internal Reve-nue Service to serve people with disabilities, the elder-ly, limited English speak-ers and low income peo-ple, according to the IRS website.

The program is com-prised of volunteers who provide clients with basic income tax preparation free of charge, and all volun-teers go through mandato-ry training and certification in order to participate in the program.

The CSUF chapter of the national program is offering free income tax preparation and filing for individuals who have an annual income of $60,000 or less.

Ricky Cavazos, presi-dent of the program’s CSUF

chapter, said he expects the group to file between 700-800 returns this year.

“Last year we had a 97 percent accuracy rate,” Cavazos said. “We part-ner with the IRS and we have to certify under the IRS test, so we definite-ly have enough training … but there is always someone who is more experienced that reviews them, so every

return that gets done gets reviewed by either myself or one of the more experi-enced coordinators.”

Cavazos estimated that the volunteers can han-dle about 40 to 50 people during a Saturday or Sun-day session, but clients must arrive at the location one hour before the end time to ensure a smooth workflow.

The earlier people vis-it the program the bet-ter, volunteer student site

coordinator Ivette Castro said.

This is Castro’s second tax season with the pro-gram. As site coordina-tor, she performs quality checks before tax returns are filed.

“It’s nice to help out the community, so I decided to do it again this semester,” Castro said.

The program benefits the student volunteers as well, allowing business students to grow their skills.

“The more you volunteer, the more you get the prac-tice and it becomes easier,” Castro said.

Adalia Zarate, CSUF health science major, said normally she would drive to someone’s house for tax help but decided against it this year for the conve-nience of the on-campus service.

“It was just more conve-nient because it was on cam-pus and I’m really busy this semester,” Zarate said. “My least favorite is just having to go and wait and actually getting them done.”

The service is open to the public and is offered from 7:15-9 p.m. Thursday, noon to 4 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Mihaylo Business building until April 11.

Free service will continue on campus through April 11

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ADALIA ZARATE CSUF Health Science Major

It was just more convenient because it was on campus and I’m really busy this semester.

Student volunteers offer tax preparation

Glass: Club raises funds CONTINUED FROM 1

Glass items made by members of the club were for sale at the Valentine’s day sale Wednesday. YUNUEN BONAPARTE / FOR THE DAILY TITAN

LESLIE GUARDADOCeramic and Art Education Major

You assume that, being in a big collegiate university, you’re going to get funded, and then you realize the reality is we’re pretty much sustaining ourselves.

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Changes to lot spacing had been in the works since November of last year.

The spaces were imple-mented to meet a need a for short-term parking for staff and student visitors, a uni-versity official said in an e-mail correspondence.

Visitors to the Speech and Hearing clinic of Col-lege Park were meant in particular to benefit from the implementation of the parking spaces.

“The clinic was one of those because they do work with people who need to park close by. They might be stroke victims, they might be families with lit-tle children who have iden-tified issues,” said Edward

Fink, Ph.D., interim asso-ciate dean of the College of Communications.

Given the current scar-city of available parking spaces, reception to the re-moval of an entire row of student parking has been mixed.

“I think that it’s nice that they do that, I think it’s a good thing,” said Kornel Ui, sociology graduate stu-dent. “I’m just a little wor-ried that (there were) un-intended consequences it may have caused.”

Ui said he felt the uni-versity should have found a way to expand parking, rather than cut a row of spaces for students.

There are no plans to ex-pand student parking in the Spring 2015 semester, but options to increase parking will be evaluated for the fall semester.

Serving up a slice of conversation

Students gathered in the Quad to get answers to their questions and con-cerns Wednesday afternoon at Pizza with the Presidents event.

President Mildred García, Associated Students, Inc. President Harpreet Bath and other campus officials were on hand to answer questions about issues including safe-ty, funding and regulation enforcement.

Katelyn Nielsen, a fresh-man student who lives in on-campus housing, asked the panel about how they en-sure the safety of students. She said she does not feel safe walking on campus at night when she has to park farther than the Residence Hall parking lot.

In order to mitigate pos-sible safety threats to stu-dents, the university has been working with campus police officials to increase the number of escort ser-vices and expand the num-ber of hours those services run, said Danny C. Kim, vice president for Adminis-tration and Finance.

Campus Parking Lot E, which is south of the Resi-dence Hall, is an option for when the Residence Hall parking fills up. The lot is open for valid permit hold-ers after 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, said Joe

Ferrer, director of CSUF’s Parking and Transportation Services Office.

President García said she would put a demand on getting this information out to the students in or-der to ensure their safety on campus.

Another concern brought up by Gloria Gallardo, a double major in health sci-ence and biology, was the lack of funding for Spanish for Health Services, a club that is part of an umbrella campus organization Mesa Cooperativa.

Gallardo is the president of Spanish for Health Ser-vices and was concerned that other campus organi-zations receive funding, but Mesa Cooperativa does not get much funding for club events, conferences and scholarships.

Bath explained that the disparity is a result of the difference between two councils—funding councils and funded councils— that receive funding from Asso-ciated Students.

The college based In-ter-Club Council are fund-ing councils and have the ability to allocate funding to other clubs and organiza-tions, he said.

Mesa Cooperativa, how-ever, is a funded council and is on the receiving end of allocated funds.

Associated Students is currently in the process of putting together a budget for the next academic year, Bath said. He encouraged Mesa Cooperativa to submit their budget to get the funding.

“I’m very open to having

those conversations,” Bath said. “Maybe we can set up a path for Mesa Coop-erativa to get where all the clubs and organizations want it to be.”

Michael Nicholes, busi-ness major, brought up an-other concern with the lack of enforcement there has been with smoking on

campus.Kim said he has been

aware of students continu-ing to smoke on campus and hope those on campus con-front those who are smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes to stop. The university, howev-er, has decided not to move forward with writing tickets for smokers, he said.

“We’re constantly work-ing on what to do about these small pockets on campus where we have people who are smoking,” Kim said.

García and Bath encour-aged students to leave feed-back, through email and the resources on the Associat-ed Students website, to give

suggestions about enhancing the enforcement.

Other issues and ques-tions included bathroom cleanliness and function-ality, international stu-dent housing concerns, an update on library renova-tions, an increase in stu-dent pride and promotions for on-campus events.

Students converse with campus officials in biannual event

CECILY MEZADaily Titan

Associated Students, Inc. President Harpreet Bath and Cal State Fullerton President Mildred García respond to a wide variety of student questions during the biannual Pizza with the Presidents event that took place Feb. 11.

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Parking: New pay machines installedCONTINUED FROM 1

A row of parking on the south side of College Park has become pay-to-park and will charge visitors $2 an hour. The new spaces were implemented to accomodate short-term visitors.

AMANDA SHARP/ DAILY TITAN

EDWARD J FINKInterim associate dean, College of Communications

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When Cal State Ful-lerton theater major Paul Vu saw his first mag-ic trick as a child, he was dumbfounded.

It was the classic thumb trick, where the illusionist fools spectators by “rip-ping the thumb off.”

“It was the single most astonishing moment of my life and it was that feel-ing of the impossible that made me so happy ... it was something so small, but something that left a big impression with me that I have carried on for my en-tire life,” Vu said.

Ever since then, he want-ed to know more about magic.

“It was just that one magic trick that led me on a path to become a magi-cian,” Vu said.

Now 20 years old, Vu is already on his way to liv-ing his dream as a magi-cian as a member of The Magic Castle.

The Magic Castle in Hollywood, California—an extremely exclusive club only available to magicians and supporters of mag-ic—is like the epicenter of magic, Vu said.

Last weekend, Vu per-formed with fellow Magic Castle magicians at Hotel Del Coronado with more than 500 people in the audience.

Only Vu’s life wasn’t al-ways so magical.

Vu has four parents. Along with his biologi-cal parents, he has a step-mother and a stepfather. He said the constant effort of hopping between fami-lies and living away from his siblings proved to be a struggle.

“I always thought that I would have that perfect family with just the right amount of people and it would be awesome, but it

wasn’t ever like that,” Vu said.

The hardest part for Vu was seeing his father re-marry in another country.

“Basically, he just dropped me and my family to start a new family, and that was the biggest strug-gle in my life—knowing that my dad was going to start a new life without us,” Vu said.

Despite everything, “I still call him dad,” he said.

Vu dreams of having his own one-man Broadway show. Vu said he wants to mix theater and magic to create a unique experience which hasn’t been done before.

“You know every school’s got that one guy who thinks he can do magic tricks, well Paul is the guy who actu-ally can do magic,” said CSUF theater major Jeremy Mercado.

“(Paul) made a deal with the devil and got magical powers,” Mercado said.

When Trent Wasco, 19, also a theater major, first met Vu in one of their the-ater classes, Vu was per-forming magic tricks for a

bunch of people.“At the time, I thought that

was kind of weird,” Wasco said.

However, after that ini-tial meet, Wasco and Vu be-came close. “Paul can go up to a stranger and have a con-versation with them, which is something I can’t do or a lot of people can’t. He is just really charming at talking with people and is real-ly nice, and down to earth,” Wasco said.

Magic is more than an illusion

Making gaming a credible career

Theater major uses magic to cope with personal challenges

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JEREMY MERCADOTheater Major

You know how every school’s got that one guy who thinks he can do magic ... well Paul ... can actually do magic.

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Paul Vu, 20, theater major at Cal State Fullerton practices his card tricks on campus. ALEX FAIRBANKS / DAILY TITAN

From the casual to hard-core gamer, Twitch.tv has created a new platform for gaming that is transforming the concept of gaming cul-ture, as some users are find-ing ways to flip the hobby into a legitimate career.

The website, Twitch.tv, is an online platform where gamers host live video streams of their video games. Some of Twitch.tv’s more fa-mous users have thousands of viewers every time they stream.

“You can stream anything, there’s games like Hearth-stone, Dota 2, League of Legends, StarCraft, World of Warcraft,” Atik Bhakta, 21, president of CSUF’s League of Legends club said.

When a gamer decides to start streaming, they often download a streaming pro-gram from Twitch.tv, set up a webcam and start playing their favorite video game.

When watcing a Twitch.tv stream, the gaming action can be observed, as well as the user who is playing the game.

Twitch.tv also allows users to interact via chat, where ev-eryone watching the stream

can communicate with each other and the host streamer. The host often interacts with his or her community.

Twitch.tv streamers often teach their viewers how to play the game that they are streaming. The big draw for people watching video game streamers is both getting ed-ucated on a particular game and being entertained by the streamer.

“Twitch.tv offers partner-ships for streamers if they net a certain amount of viewers a month,” Bhakta said.

The partnerships are es-sentially business contracts with the host site, Twitch.tv. These partnerships allows the streamer to earn money from streaming and in turn, Twitch.tv gets a portion of what the streamer earns.

Twitch.tv viewers can pay $5 to subscribe to a particular stream every month, Bhakta said. The paid subscription gives users added features that creates a more interac-tive environment. Stream-ers have the opportunity to generate an income through online advertisements and subscriptions.

“The really popular streamers on Twitch are projected to make about $250,000 to $300,000 a year,” Bhakta said.

Jeffrey Shih, better known as his Twitch.tv alias, “TrumpSC,” is one of the more famous streamers on Twitch.tv.

The key to Shih’s popu-larity is his skill and abili-ty to explain his moves, he said in an email. There are many factors that make a streamer popular and he ar-gues that you don’t have to be very good at the game to be popular.

“Charisma, taking oppor-tunity, technology, interac-tiveness and consistency are factors too,” Shih said.

Shih gets tens of thousands of viewers everytime he streams and has commanded more than 400,000 subscrib-ers on his YouTube channel.

Shih has also been men-tioned in publications, such as Forbes.

Anyone can start stream-ing and maybe even be-come famous like Shih, but they must be able to handle Twitch.tv chat.

“It’s one of those plac-es that is not for the faint of heart,” said John Denton, 24, computer science major and Twitch.tv enthusiast.

In the Twitch.tv chat com-munity—especially in the streams of popular stream-ers—there are hundreds of inside jokes in the form of

spam messages that often tar-get the streamers directly.

Denton explained that the Twitch.tv chat commentators poke fun at the streamers and retired professional players even though they are proba-bly not that good at the game themselves.

Poking fun at streamers or tricking them into think-ing something wrong is often called trolling in the online gaming community.

An example of Twitch.tv chat trolling is whenever the streamer shows the slight-est frustration with the video

game he or she is playing, the entire Twitch.tv chat will spam the text ‘PJSalt.’ When this is typed in chat, it cre-ates an emoji of a little salt can. The meaning of this is to mock the streamer for being angry.

“Twitch.tv chat is like the degenerates of human thought,” Bhakta said.

Twitch.tv is a complex en-vironment, but users are showing that streaming vid-eo games could be a viable enterprise that many gamers are turning to as a profession-al career.

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Officers responded to a 911 call and arrived to find three victims shot dead. The victims have been identified as Deah Shaddy Barakatas, 23, his wife Yusor Moham-mad Abu-Sahla, 21, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Sahla, 19. The victims were found with gunshot wounds to their heads. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, has since been arrested, according to The Independent.

This incident has struck a chord in the the Muslim community.

“I tie a turban, I do stick out, and it just horrifies you that there are people out there that don’t take the op-portunity to understand the diversity that our country has,” said Harpreet Bath, president of Associated Stu-dents, Inc.

The candlelight vigil gave Muslims as well as other CSUF students a forum to pay their respects to the vic-tims, while shining light on racial violence, a problem that has been prevalent in American culture.

“One of the signs said, ‘All lives matter,’ all lives do matter,” Bath said.

The event was put to-gether by Berkeley grad-uate Hanna Jalanbo and Bayanne Kanawati, presi-dent of the Muslim Student Association.

During the vigil, spec-tators stood with candles in hand, as the speaker an-nounced a moment of si-lence. Soon after, onlook-ers took to the microphone to voice their opinions on the matter, giving condo-lences to those with a heavy heart.

“We wanted to just do something for our commu-nity, to bring us together, for us to mourn together and to also pray for the families and for the victims,” Jalan-bo said.

At the event, signs were held with uplifting mes-sages, hugs were shared and tears were shed over this tragic event. All with the hopes that this will be the last time they would be brought together by some-thing so damaging.

Muslim Student Association honors victims of violence

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Candlelight vigil held in wake of shooting

Brothers inspired by illness

The Muslim Student Associaion along with dozens of students gather in front of the bookstore to pay respects to three Muslim students who were murdered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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On the morning of April 23, 2012, Ricardo Cach-ua, 23, a Cal State Fuller-ton business major, was exiting the Student Rec-reation Center making his way home when he sud-denly heard his phone ring. He expected the call to be from a friend, as his 21st birthday dinner was com-ing up. When he answered it was his doctor. The doc-tor told him he had testicu-lar cancer.

“My initial reaction was a combination of despair and fear … I immediately thought I was handed my death sentence,” Cachua said.

On the ride home, he couldn’t help but wonder if this was the finish line for him. Interestingly enough, death wasn’t Cachua’s big-gest fear in that moment. It was the fact that he would have to immediately tell his family of his diagno-sis and how this distress-ing news would affect his family, Cachua said in an email.

Together Cachua’s fam-ily helped prepare him for the removal of his tumor, scheduled four days after the day of his diagnosis.

Leaving only one week-end to recoup before his 21st birthday dinner, Ca-chua went through with the surgery.

During his birthday din-ner, Cachua’s mind was

consumed with the dread that regardless of the sur-gery, the cancer might still be growing. After two weeks of more tests, Cachua was given the news he was cancer free, Cachua said in a press release.

Eric Cachua, 22, Cach-ua’s younger brother and business major, worked with his brother’s struggle and used it as motivation to create a clothing line that he hoped would be both

trendy and influential. Eric used his love for hip-hop, his previous educa-tion in garment construc-tion, inspiration from his brother’s current unfore-seen situation and his in-fatuation with trendsetting street fashion to create LX-GNDXRY clothing brand, he said.

The clothing line’s name, LXGNDXRY, came from one night that Eric Cachua and Aaron Garcia, co-founder of LXGNDXRY clothing brand and Fullerton Junior College business student, were listen-ing to hip hop artist Wale’s song Legendary. The song’s hook was extremely relatable to their current situation and always influenced them to strive to become legendary, Garcia said.

“LXGNDXRY goes beyond fabrics and prints. We aspire to instill the idea of becom-ing legendary in one’s own way. It’s manifesting your own greatness while provoking the same in others,” Eric said.

The clothing line’s designs hold a profound meaning be-hind everything that makes it onto the clothing pieces. The stripes on the garments

represent the battles one over-comes throughout life, and the FXGHTER patch commemo-rates resilience in the darkest of moments, according to the website.

LXGNDXRY clothing line’s online presence at www.lxgndxry.com, offers visitors the option to shop for LX-GNDXRY hats, t-shirts and outerwear. The LXGNDXRY

flag t-shirt is priced at $25 and features glossy contrast print designs on the front and back.

The clothing line’s found-ers aspire to see LXGNDX-RY grow within the fash-ion industry through pop-up shops in fashion capitals like Los Angeles, New York and Tokyo within a five to 10 year time frame. They’d like to see

one established in their home-town of Santa Ana as well.

“To my family, my friends and every per-son that made me laugh or smile throughout the past three years, I thank you. You gave a broken soul a reason to continue living,” Ricardo Cachua said on LXGNDXRY’s blog.

Diagnosis motivates students to create a clothing line

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RICHARDO CACHUABuisness student

My inital reaction was a combination of despair and fear ... I immediately thought I was handed my death sentence.

The founders of LXGNDXRY clothing line Eric Cachua (left), Ricardo Cachua (center) and Aaron Garcia (right) all sporting the lines’ t-shirts, long sleeve shirt and hats.

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P I N I O N

Your soul mate doesn’t nec-essarily have to be the roman-tic man or woman in your life, oftentimes the person who knows you better than you know yourself is your best friend.

The best friend who has been there since the third grade, the person who would do any favor you ask of him or her and is essential to your daily routine.

This person is already part of the family.

It’s pretty obvious your parents have accepted this

extra addition to the family, and you’re convinced they like them more than you.

At this point, when fam-ily chats involve your best friend, it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

They know when you’re go-ing through something and they’re not afraid to tell you when you need to calm the heck down.

This person is the one who offers you clarity in

cloudy situations. Unlike your significant oth-

er, your best friend is more than willing to admit that the two of you should probably not live together.

It’s been said that the worst people to live with are your best friends and honestly, maybe that holds some truth.

Your best friend also isn’t afraid to lecture you on your terrible driving skills.

This person is probably the one who isn’t drinking, so he or she can save you from do-ing anything embarrassing.

Your best friend is the one making sure you have the time of your life, while making sure you get home in one piece.

When it comes to fash-ion, your best friend is there to let you know which piec-es of clothing make you look like a million bucks or just do

absolutely nothing for you. They’re not scared to tell you that maybe it’s time to lose some weight.

Your best friend will have no problem bringing you down to earth and remind-ing you it isn’t always about you.

When your life starts seeming like an MTV real-ity show, your best friend is the one to step in and take measures into their own hands.

Stop being a brat, he or she just cares about you.

In many ways, your best friend is the one person who will stay by your side, no matter what happens.

Your soul mate isn’t al-ways the person you’re dat-ing or are married to, it’s the person who’s been by your side the whole time.

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Valentine’s Day is an ines-capable holiday.

It’s a day specially marked on every official calendar.

Long before the month of February begins, stores begin to line aisle after aisle with pink and red expressions of love.

I will be that single girl on Valentine’s Day.

Let’s be real, I’m that same single girl the other 364 days of the year, and that’s okay.

I’m one of those single

people who doesn’t care about Valentine’s Day one way or the other, but I do think cou-ples should be able to enjoy it.

I’ve seen the romantic com-edies conditioning us to be-lieve if we’re single, we should throw hate parties for Valen-tine’s Day.

That doesn’t sit right with me.

Why waste time wishing you were in a relationship or reminiscing about one that didn’t work?

While being single, I’ve had time to learn about myself and here are a few things I’ve learned along the way.

Be in the moment. Learn what makes you happy, ap-preciate those around you and celebrate your feats, no matter

the size. I grew up the oldest sib-

ling in my family. Being the oldest,

I could watch things like Saturday Night Live with my dad.

At a young age, I picked up what it meant to be funny.

To this day, I laugh at my own jokes and keep things light.

More importantly, I’ve learned to be able to laugh and move on.

My last relationship end-ed about two years ago, and it wasn’t very long or meaningful.

That relationship was not the best move for me, but I can still look back and laugh at it.

I can think, “Wow, did I re-ally pay for the majority of

our dinner dates?” especially after I was his ride for all of our dates.

I can laugh at my own small mistakes rather than spend time putting myself down.

It’s a waste of precious time spent thinking about past re-lationships that exes don’t deserve.

When it comes to friends, I try to have at least one day a week where I spend time with them.

In those times together, I re-alize how lucky I am to have these people grounding me in my life.

My friends have all said at one point or another that I make them laugh just by being myself.

That’s one of the greatest compliments I could receive.

I’ve always been an inde-pendent soul as well, not al-ways needing the company of others.

That’s where entertain-ing myself comes in handy, like my personal favorites, shopping and Netflix.

Time alone has given me a lot of perspective on the ins and outs of what makes me happy, which can be useful in potential relation-ships down the line.

I have to remind myself to be proud of my accom-plishments, big or small, everyday.

That in turn keeps me motivated for my future and in tune with what I’m capable of in life.

I will always make a conscious effort to find

happiness, no matter where it lies.

It may vary from day to day, but I know it’s there no matter how small.

Overall, I’ve come to find a comfortable balance of happiness with myself and those around me.

Being single is what you make of it, same with a re-lationship and with life.

It doesn’t matter. Find your happiness, wherever it may lie.

Just do it for you and maybe someone else will find your happiness intoxicating.

Whether it’s Valentine’s Day or not, never stop moving forward.

That’s the advice the sin-gle life has taught me.

Your best friend is your soulmate

Happiness is a matter of balance Happiness can come from friends and family, not just love

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The moment you real-ize you’re falling in love with someone, it can either be a heartwarming moment of rec-ognition or one of the scariest things you’ll ever experience in your life.

In my case, I was absolutely petrified.

I met my current boyfriend

three months ago through Ok-Cupid, an online dating app.

He sent the first message and the rest is history.

A couple of weeks ago, we were talking over the phone and he dropped the infamous “L” word on me.

The moment he uttered the word, the biggest smile beamed across my face for the remainder of the conversation.

Before we both hung up I asked him, “Did you really mean that?”

There was a brief mo-ment of silence before he responded, “I honestly do. I

love you, Leon.” The goofy smile across my

face then slowly transformed into a horrified expression, be-cause I loved him too.

I hung up the phone after I assured him I would call him later that day.

I made sure to not return the “I love you.”

The feeling of being loved by someone and loving him or her in return is a feeling I hope everyone experiences at least once.

It’s a feeling that will cheer you up even in your darkest days.

Because of this, I hope

nobody ever experiences sim-ilar feelings of immense fear and hesitancy to accept their true feelings the way I did.

I overthink everything so it goes without saying that I was over-analytical of this relation-ship from the start.

I relentlessly questioned if I actually loved this guy or if I was just falling for him to forget about my previous relationship.

How could I love a strang-er I met three months ago? I shouldn’t, but I do.

I experienced this draining internal struggle for a few days and kept it to myself.

I didn’t let him know how I felt and I didn’t tell my friends.

I convinced myself they would believe I was delu-sional for falling for him so quickly.

If you’re dating someone and you realize that you love them, tell them.

The worst that could hap-pen is that he or she doesn’t feel the same way, and that’s okay.

People learn to love their significant other at different paces, so don’t freak out over their response if it’s not what you’re expecting.

The other option is that they feel the exact same way and with this realization comes a completely new sense of com-fort with that person.

You’ll feel safer with them.

The next time I went out with my boyfriend after the “L” word incident, I made sure to look him in the eyes and tell him, “I love you, Zac. I really do.”

I then saw a bright smile beam across his face the same way I did when he first told me.

The only thing I fear now is losing him.

Stop overthinking it, tell a potential love interest your feelings

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Best friends are all you need to be happy and complete

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Your soulmate isn’t always the person you’re dating or are married to, it’s the person who’s been by your side the whole time.

This Valentine’s Day, take time to appreciate the friends in your life. They’ll always love you and have your back. Never forget it!

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Preparation and practice will finally give way to actu-al play for the Cal State Ful-lerton baseball team, which kicks off its season Friday afternoon on the other side of the country.

The Titans, who begin ranked No. 23 in the Base-ball America preseason poll, get going in the three-day long Clearwater Tour-nament held at the Bright House Field in Clearwater, Florida.

Fullerton is one of two ranked teams in the com-petition, with No. 12 Louis-ville, and plays against host South Florida at 4 p.m. at Bright House Field.

The Bulls are coming off a tough 2014 campaign, in which the team finished with a 27-31 record, placing fifth in the American Athletic Conference.

The Titans will face a South Florida squad transi-tioning under first-year skip-per Mark Kingston.

Despite the change, the Bulls may still be very for-midable, especially if the

Titans face ace Jimmy Her-get (8-6, 1.26 earned run average in 2014). The ju-nior was an All-AAC first-team selection last season and fanned 90 batters over 107 1/3 innings with only 27 walks.

Yet, Fullerton is more than equipped for any arms bat-tle, boasting two pitchers on the preseason Golden Spikes Award watch list—juniors Thomas Eshelman and Jus-tin Garza.

Eshleman finished 8-3 last season with a 1.89 ERA and 99 strikeouts against only eight walks in 123 2/3 in-nings pitched. Garza was 5-4 last year with a 3.22 ERA and fanned 60 batters over 72 2/3 innings while not serving up a homer.

Fullerton will take on Alabama State at 11 a.m. Saturday.

The Hornets are a pro-gram on the rise as the team set a school record for victo-ries last season in going 37-20, finishing atop the South-western Athletic Conference East standings.

Alabama State was nipped in the Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament title game by Jackson State, 9-8, to earn the conference’s lone bid to the NCAA Regional playoffs.

The Hornets recently had four players named to the

All-SWAC preseason squad, including Southwestern Ath-letic Conference Pitcher of the Year Joseph Cama-cho (10-1, 2.34 ERA and 63 strikeouts in 96 innings) and designated hitter Waldyvan Estrada (.347 batting average with six home runs, 60 RBI and 51 runs).

After Alabama State, per-haps the tournament’s top

game is slated for Sunday at 8 a.m. as Fullerton tangles with Louisville.

The Cardinals are argu-ably the top team on the Ti-tans’ schedule this year, with No. 11 UCLA also a strong candidate.

Louisville is coming off a wonderful 2014 season, the squad captured the Amer-ican Athletic Conference

regular-season title and fin-ished 50-17 overall.

Louisville eventually ad-vanced to the College World Series before going 0-2 and making a quick exit.

This season, the Cardinals are making the jump to the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Like Fullerton, Louis-ville has its own player to watch in junior pitcher Kyle

Funkhouser, an All-Amer-ican a year ago who tal-lied a 13-3 record with a 1.94 ERA. Funkhouser was a strikeout specialist, hav-ing recorded 122 K’s in 120 1/3 innings, although he did walk 65 batters.

Following the tournament, the Titans will make their home debut Tuesday against USC at 6 p.m.

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Softball travels to Sin City for Desert Classic

The Titans kick off their 2015 season Friday in Florida

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Having shined at its own season-opening tournament, the Cal State Fullerton soft-ball team is hoping to bring its winning ways across state lines this weekend.

The Titans will face five teams over three days in the UNLV Wilson/DeMarini Desert Classic being held in both Henderson and Las Ve-gas, Nevada beginning Fri-day afternoon.

Fullerton slammed its way to a 4-1 record at last week-end’s SoCal Collegiate Chal-lenge at Anderson Fami-ly Field with the highlight coming in Saturday’s 8-7 up-set victory over the then No. 22-ranked Notre Dame Fight-ing Irish.

Fullerton won’t face a team as acclaimed as Notre

Dame this weekend.Yet, that doesn’t mean the

Titans will have a cakewalk either.

The Titans will play against Boise State Friday at 3:45 p.m. at the Stephanie Lynn Craig Complex in Henderson before wrapping up the day with a 6 p.m. tilt against the University of Nevada.

Boise State is 3-2 this young season and has shown a penchant for the extremes.

The Broncos have blud-geoned opposing teams in their three victories by a com-bined score of 25-5. Yet in its two defeats, Boise State has allowed 27 runs in 14 innings.

The meeting will be the first of three between the Ti-tans and Broncos, who later square off in the Long Beach State Tournament on Feb. 28 and at the Easton Tournament at Anderson Family Field in Fullerton on March 13.

As for Nevada, the Wolf-pack have had a rough start to the season, having tallied a 1-4 mark. Yet the team was

more than competitive in its last contest, with a 12-8 de-feat to the No. 2-ranked Oregon Ducks on Sunday afternoon.

In fact, Nevada twice led before surrendering five runs over the final three innings.

Fullerton will begin its Utah swing against Brigham Young University at UNLV’s Eller Media Stadium Satur-day at 11:15 a.m.

The Cougars are 2-3 this season and were most recent-ly defeated by Fullerton’s Big West Conference rival Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 3-1, last Saturday.

Following Brigham, Ful-lerton encounters the Pac-12 Conference’s University of Utah at 1:30 p.m.

While the Utes (2-3) are coming off a 5-3 victory over Long Beach State on Sunday, Utah has struggled to score, having plated only 10 runs through five contests.

Finally, Fullerton closes out play in Henderson Sun-day at 9 a.m. against Utah Valley University, only the

second of five teams with a winning record.

The Wolverines are 3-2 and have notched victories ver-sus Wisconsin and Virgin-ia by scores of 9-5 and 5-4, respectively.

In the case of the Titans and, in particular, junior Mis-sy Taukeiaho, Fullerton en-ters the Desert Classic red hot.

The third baseman showed why she deserved to be named to the USA Softball College Player of the Year watch list by batting .563 through the five-game SoCal Collegiate Challenge with three homers, four RBI, six runs and 18 total bases.

Outfielder Courtney Rodri-guez also had a memorable five-game effort by batting .467 with seven RBIs, two doubles, two triples and two runs scored.

Junior outfielder Sarah Moore also added five RBIs and a home run, while ju-nior pitcher Desiree Ybar-ra picked up two wins and a save for the Titans.

Cal State Fullerton baseball will begin its quest for the fifth national title in the program history Friday when they kick off their 2015 season in Florida. The Titans will compete in the Clearwater Tournament against South Florida, Alabama State and Louisville.

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The Titans will look to keep up winning ways in Las Vegas

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Junior third baseman Missy Taukeiaho crushes her first home run of the season against then No.22-ranked Notre Dame. Taukeiaho and the Titans cracked into the top-25 this week after a stellar opening weekend and will look for another strong showing in Vegas.

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