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Teams will constructdesigns in Atlanta engineering contest

Cal State Fullerton civ-il engineering students will travel to Atlanta next week to compete in the national geotechni-cal engineering competi-tion at the 2014 Geo-Con-gress, presented by the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

The Geo-Institute ranked CSUF’s concept for a stabilized Earth wall, a small-scale re-taining wall that could be used for roads or other in-frastructure, as the No. 1 design in the nation. Next week, the four-member team will build and test its design in the hands-on “Geo-wall” portion of the competition.

Binod Tiwari, Ph.D., an associate professor of civ-il and environmental en-gineering, serves as the faculty advisor for the un-dergraduate team whose research and preparation for the competition began in the fall.

CSUF students have fared well in the design division of the event in the past, with a first place finish in 2011, and second place in 2012 and third in 2013. They placed third in a tie with UCLA last year for the construc-tion portion of the com-petition. This year, they have reached the top once again.

In Atlanta, student teams will construct their designs and test them using loads of up to 150 pounds and seismic loads that will test how the design would fare in an earthquake.

These stabilized walls are typically made of concrete, which can be costly, but competitors will be restricted to us-ing paper for the wall’s construction. The objec-tive is to use the lowest amount of paper and re-sources to create what would be the most eco-nomically efficient wall if it were to be made out of concrete.

“They have to design it appropriately. Exactly in the same way how people design the wall in prac-tice, and at the same time they have to follow rules and regulations,” Tiwari said. “Whoever can have that wall working with the minimum amount of craft paper, that means it is economical.”

The weight of that pa-per also plays a signif-icant role in the judg-es’ evaluation. The CSUF team’s current design weighs four grams.

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CSUF remains undefeated at home after UNC blowout

Cal State Fullerton’s doc-toral candidates in edu-cation and alumni from education leadership pro-grams presented their re-search into how education can be improved during a Tuesday symposium and panel discussion.

Alumni and doctoral students presented their research on best practices in educational leadership during the symposium ti-tled “Pursuing Excellence in Educational Practice.” The event also offered an opportunity for high school students to present their own projects.

The Ed.D. program part-ners with the Center for

Research on Education-al Access and Leadership (C-REAL), which develops strategies to help make education more accessible and foster proper leader-ship, according to the pro-gram’s website.

Esmeralda Medrano, along with her fellow doc-toral candidates, Luis M. Magallon Garcia, Ange-la Hoppe Nagao and Josie Macharia Lowe, con-ducted a study as part-ners of the Santa Ana College “¡Adelante!” pro-gram, which aims to give students a college-going mentality as early as mid-dle school.

“The city of Santa Ana wants to have at least one degree in every household by 2020, so they’re try-ing to get the entire Santa Ana community to go to college,” Medrano said.

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Education doctorate students present their research

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CSUF No. 1 in design contest

Campus organizations were asked to draw a ‘fun fact’ about their club. This piece was done by Hermanos Unidos de CSUF, a club for advancing young Latino males. The chalk drawing depicts snakes as universities where Hermanos Unidos chapters are located.

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Ballet Folklorico de CSUF holds ‘chalk off’ event in the Quad

Doctoral candidates aim for excellence

The Cal State Fuller-ton softball team bounced back from a rough tourna-ment and beat North Caro-lina 9-3 Tuesday at Ander-son Family Field.

The Titans struggled in the Campbell/Carti-er Classic last weekend, dropping three out of their five games. They lost both games on Saturday to South Dakota and UC Berkeley.

Sophomore pitcher Jas-mine Antunez started for the Titans in the circle. An-tunez pitched four of the five games in the Camp-bell/Cartier Classic and picked up the win in one of those games. She had a 5.16 ERA in the games she pitched and recorded 12

strikeouts in 12.2 innings pitched.

Antunez started the game on Tuesday out shaky in the circle. She allowed a leadoff single to sophomore Aquilla Mateen, who was picked off at first on a snap throw by senior catcher Ariel Tsuchiyama.

“She was testing me a little bit. Her first couple of leads were pretty big,” Tsuchiyama said. “It was perfect. I feel it was a really good way to set the tone of the game.”

Antunez then allowed a solo home run to sopho-more Kristen Brown to put the Tar Heels up 1-0.

The Titans responded with three runs of their own in the bottom of the first. UNC senior Lori Sp-ingola hit sophomore third baseman Missy Taukeiaho with a pitch and allowed a single to Tsuchiyama. Se-nior shortstop Gabby Ara-gon hit a three-run homer to put the Titans on top 3-1.

Antunez (4-2) retired the Tar Heels in order in the second. CSUF was unable to take advantage of a Taukei-aho two-out double in the bottom of the frame.

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Tsuchiyama and Aragon go yard in the 9-3 thumping

Sophomore pitcher Jasmine Antunez earned the win on Tuesday against North Carolina to improve her record to 4-2 on the season. She holds a 3.42 earned run average and has struck out 26 batters.

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Out of the 319 students who participated in the pro-gram the first year, 82 per-cent of them persisted. Only 58 percent of those who did not participate in the pro-gram persisted.

“So their data shows that the more involved the stu-dents are in the ‘¡Adelante!’ program, the better per-sistence they have and bet-ter success rates,” Medrano said.

Medrano and her col-leagues wanted to know why some students partici-pated in the program while others opted out, so they created a focus group and compared students who opted into the program with groups of students who opt-ed out.

They found that the stu-dents who opted out of the program did so because of time constraints, family is-sues, child or elderly care or a lack of awareness of the program.

Their findings helped the

Adelante program at area high schools become more effective.

Carol Mattson, who worked alone on her dis-sertation, presented her research on leadership stress as part of educational leadership.

“The type of research ... we call it a sequential mixed methods design, which means it’s a combination of surveys and interviews, so it’s qualitative and quan-titative–a mixed method,” Mattson said.

Mattson said conducting research helped her devel-op her strengths and Iearn about education.

She said John Hoffman, Ph.D., assistant professor in the College of Education, and Dawn Person, Ph.D., di-rector of C-REAL program, were “wonderful professors and great resources when we did the research so the program was great.”

Tushara Govind, 16, a junior at Whitney High School, conducted a sum-mer research study with three others, junior Rudy

Venguswamy and seniors Adeel Ali and Tiffany Chao, as part of the federally fund-ed program, “Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs,” or GEAR UP.

C-REAL gave out surveys and the students conducted the research.

“We were trying to find out how well the GEAR UP program was working through the surveys, be-cause one of the main goals is to increase high school graduation rates and college enrollment and early college awareness,” Govind said.

“You can see from the findings they did; it was successful because the ma-jority thought they did learn something about college.”

The Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) is a three-year, 60-unit program, with a cohort structure that de-livers “collaborative grad-uate study designed to ex-pand individual leadership responsiveness,” according to a pamphlet from the College of Education.

It also includes personal advising, writing and sta-tistics coaching, research guidance, dissertation ed-iting, learning support and conference funding for each

student.The program also pro-

vides paid graduate as-sistantships for doctoral students.

Dawn R. Person, professor of educational leadership and director of the Center for Research on Educational Access and Leadership, led

the event.“This symposium is an op-

portunity for us to celebrate the accomplishments of our doctoral students and share with our broader, local com-munity research findings that can help solve educa-tional problems that our doctoral students discover

through their dissertation projects,” Person said in a press release.

Unique to the CSUF Ed.D. program is that, aside from financial aid, it offers need-based grants, scholarships and more than $1,000 in support services for every student every year.

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DAILY TITANShari McMahan, Ph.D.,

the dean of the College of Health and Human Development, emphasized the importance of collab-oration between Cal State Fullerton students and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) members.

As part of a semes-ter-long lecture series, which focuses on chal-lenges and achievements in each of the university’s eight colleges, McMahan explained what her college is doing to prepare students for the future and commu-nity improvement.

McMahan said the College of Health and Human Development’s Center for Community Collaboration works to help the local community by helping to produce an annual report called The Conditions of Children Report that serves families in Orange County.

If you are interested in children’s health, the Conditions of Children booklet is “the best re-source you can have,” she said.

McMahan pointed to the Center for Chronic Pain and Fibromyalgia as a place where patients can get treatment and assistance while students and profes-sionals are able to learn in a hands-on approach.

“We provide training for students and training for professionals,” McMahan said. “We also provide sup-port groups with people with fibromyalgia.”

Many of these programs and centers provide en-riched opportunities for student involvement in health research and pro-vide health educational services to the communi-ty. Some are also designed to encourage OLLI mem-bers to work together with students.

Bill Norman, 77, a retired Lutheran pastor, has been with OLLI for over a year.

As a volunteer, Norman assists children with read-ing problems at the College of Education on campus. “I have a gift for teaching and I love to do it and be a part of education,” he said.

The centers provide programs which allow

students and OLLI mem-bers to form symbiotic re-lationships, exchange ideas and encourage OLLI mem-bers to mentor and assist students towards success-ful career paths.

Norman said he enjoys learning about new pro-grams, centers and events on campus, especially ones that involve students.

“Every time I go to some-thing like this in the dif-ferent departments of the university, they got world renowned people here, world renowned programs, collaborations all over the world,” he said. “Now what I am looking for, as an OLLI member, is how can I share what I have?”

The College of Health and Human Development aims to improve the overall quality of life in later years and serves as an advocate for healthy aging.

“I think the main thing is for them to be aware of the variety of programs that the college offers,”

McMahan said.“They can make a big dif-

ference just by volunteer-ing to participate in either research study, work with students, be a writing tu-tor, or any of those kinds of activities. So there are lots of opportunities to stay in-volved,” McMahan said.

The college emphasizes the development of critical thinking, leadership and professional skills needed to strengthen individuals within the university and community, and to “pro-vide exemplary education, research, and community outreach related to health, development, and lifelong well-being,” as their mis-sion statement reads.

The College of Health and Human Development encourages students to be-come experts in their fields by focusing on creating a culture of healthy commu-nities and teaching stu-dents to develop and grow into future leaders.

OLLI consists of “retired

nurses, veterans, journal editors, newspaper writ-ers, so they have different skill sets they can bring, so I try to give them a flavor-ing of different options,” McMahan said.

Michael Stover, the pres-ident of OLLI, encourages members to participate in these programs to benefit the school, students and its members. He said he wants “to help students succeed,” adding there are “plenty of opportunities to help this college.”

“The college could use a lot of community sup-port,” Stover said. “Five to 10 percent of our members are retired health care professionals.”

Fortunately, for many students, these programs teach students leadership and teamwork skills in all professional fields.

“(McMahan) was very much on point on how we can help and now it is up to us to respond,” Stover said.

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Dean stresses collaboration in College of Health and Human Development

Ann-Mary Murphy, a graduate assistant, explains a research project to attendees. The project focused on how veteran students fare in a college environment.

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Shari McMahan, Ph.D., offers her perspective as the dean of the College of Health and Human Development as part of OLLI’s “Tales of a Great University” series.

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Financial aid usage rates sharply rise

21 dead after Ukrainians hold protest

Suspected bank robber arrested

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The number of California college stu-dents who are apply-ing for financial aid jumped nearly 72 per-cent in the past six aca-demic years, according to the Department of Education.

Some schools saw an even higher increase, such as Cal State Sacramento, which in-creased by 81 percent.

The percentage of University of California and California State University freshmen who receive financial aid jumped from 57 percent in 2006-07 to 72 percent in 2011-12.

Rising tuition, growing fees and a de-pressed but improving economy may be to blame.

With the cost of school rising, federal and state student aid fill the gap for many students.

At least 21 people died after violence broke out during demonstrations in Kiev, Ukraine late Tuesday night, accord-ing to CNN.

The demonstra-tions took place at Independence Square, three blocks from the parliament building. Hundreds of protest-ers built bonfires, formed a human chain and threw stones at police.

The casualties in-cluded nine police-men, 11 protesters and one employee of the ruling party’s head office.

Protests in Ukraine have been happening since November, after Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych decided to cancel a trade pact with the European Union and instead explored eco-nomic partnerships with Russia.

Police have iden-tified an Anaheim resident as the man arrested Saturday in association with the robbery of a U.S. Bank in Anaheim Hills Friday, accord-ing to Orange County Register.

Anaheim police-man, Lt. Tim Schmidt said that after receiv-ing a phone call from an alarmed citizen they arrested Ian Jade Stone, who was found in San Luis Obispo.

Stone, 40, is suspect-ed of robbing a U.S. Bank, 5701 E. Santa Ana Canyon Road, around 12:10 p.m.

Stone told the bankers that he was forced to rob the bank because someone strapped a bomb to him, police said.

The prize money is rarely considered a prize to the winning team. Most of the time, the money is used for the actual trip and the grat-ification that comes with the experience and feeling of accomplishment.

Tiwari said the students are joining the competi-tion to prepare for future jobs and to build their resumés.

John Thurlo, the team captain and president of CalGeo, said the competi-tion is a learning experi-ence for students. “There are practical applications to this, so the team is learn-ing things which are relat-able to technical engineer-ing,” he said.

The Geo-Congress will also hold a “geo-poster” contest, Sneha Upadhyaya, a civil engineering grad-uate student, was chosen among five other students nationwide to write an

abstract and present a poster about her research.

Upadhyaya agreed with Thurlo, saying that present-ing her data to profession-als and making it to the top three is something bigger than a cash prize.

She placed seventh last year, and said she is excit-ed to be back and hopes to place higher this time around.

From across the coun-try, 16 teams were select-ed to compete based on their reports. They will now put their theories and data into practice building their models at the com-petition to be scored by a panel of professional civil engineers.

The CSUF team includes civil engineering ma-jors and members of the California Geotechnical Engineering Association–Thurlo, Matthew Farrington, Daniel Judge and John Stapleton.

The national competition will take place Feb. 23-26.

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Danny C. Kim hopes to do more with less in new environment

Danny C. Kim, who re-cently took the post of vice president of finance/chief financial officer, has spent the first four weeks at Cal State Fullerton logging long hours in his office as he balances the need to catch up on ongoing proj-ects and the task of plan-ning the future of the fi-nancial department.

As the university’s CFO, Kim has a variety of re-sponsibilities, ranging from managing and uti-lizing university funds to overseeing accounting and facilities operations.

He said those respon-sibilities have been made even more difficult by the fact that he started his position in the midst of an ongoing academic year, rather than at the start of it.

“I spent a lot of time (hit-ting) the ground running,” Kim said. “I had some re-sponsibilities for some of the initiatives and projects that were ongoing, some of the projects that (the university was) not able to close out before I arrived.”

Kim was previously the associate vice chancellor and chief financial ad-ministrative officer at UC Riverside. While the tran-sition from Kim’s previous position has been relative-ly easy, he said it has not been entirely without its challenges.

Kim said he has not ac-customed himself to the differences in how the University of California and California State University are governed.

“There are some signif-icant policy differences, and so I’m learning quite a bit right now about what some of those differences are,” he said.

Kim said the state ed-ucation code, which pre-scribes many of the fund-ing rules, has steepened the learning curve of his new position.

“You have to manage the funds, you have to come up with creative ways to uti-lize the funds. Fund man-agement is a huge compo-nent of being a CFO,” Kim said.

Kim’s efforts to hit the ground running will ben-efit the university, as his position is crucial to the function of the universi-ty, said Mehmet Akbulut, an associate professor of finance.

“(The CFO) actually runs the university,” Akbulut said. “It’s planning and budgeting for future ex-pansion or future expendi-tures, and this is a function that has a huge potential of adding value to the university.”

In his position at UCR, Kim was particularly not-ed for taking the extra time to work with students, ac-cording to Liam Dow, a se-nior business-finance ma-jor at UCR.

“He created an environ-ment where students felt that they were being heard and that he was really help-ful to students and able to explain complex situations

in ways that were easy to understand,” Dow said.

Kim cited his direct in-teraction with students at UCR as one of the high-lights of his career there.

He said seeing students he worked with develop during their time in college and come back after grad-uation having matured and developed profession-ally is particularly reward-ing for him.

“I think it’s really my re-lationship with students that has always been very memorable,” Kim said. “I was very much engaged with the student process because of my role (at UCR).”

While Kim said his po-sition doesn’t allow him to

continue working directly with students, Akbulut em-phasized the importance of Kim’s role to the campus.

“There are quite a bit of student related functions,” Akbulut said. “At the end of the day, the university is there to serve the students, and all of these functions ensure that the university is able to continue to serve the students in the best manner.

Kim listed those stu-dent-related functions as high on his list of prior-ities. Promoting student success by improving the campus as a whole is just one of the goals he plans to achieve.

“Some of the obvious challenges of the campus

that everyone sees right now, are parking … the sta-tus of our buildings and our infrastructure, and of course, trying to figure out how to do more with less money,” Kim said.

More specifically, Kim planned to automate some of the paper-based pro-cesses to aid student per-formance on campus. He said all of those changes have to be balanced with staying on top of the day-to-day requirements of his position.

“In the meantime, though, I have to also stay focused on the future and look at how the division would organize itself on a more permanent basis,” Kim said.

Danny C. Kim took the position of vice president of finance/chief financial officer at Cal State Fullerton in the middle of the academic year. He was previously vice chancellor at UC Riverside.

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Four Cal State Fullerton civil engineering students are part of the student team that will be attending Geo-Congress in Atlanta.

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Nature should be con-sidered the world’s best architect.

Some of the most amaz-ing displays around are naturally occurring. From beautiful landscapes, in-triguing life forms, to the in-genuity of how all life forms function, nature is pretty amazing.

It’s no wonder we some-times try to create things based off a function or a system nature has designed. This happens from time to time but I feel this is some-thing we should put into practice more often.

Recently, a certain fish has drawn the attention of scientists. The ghost knife-fish, an electric fish found in the Amazon Basin in Peru, is helping to innovate un-derwater robotics.

This fish uses an elec-tric organ along with

receptors spread through-out its body in order to be aware of what’s around it. When something enters the field around the fish a tiny change in voltage in their skin’s surface changes, which is how the fish is able to navigate even in com-plete darkness.

The change in voltage is only one-tenth to one-one hundredth of a millionth volt, but it is enough for the receptors on the fish to de-tect something around it. The fish’s sensory and loco-motion systems are particu-larly interesting.

The locomotion system controls the fish’s ability to move forward, backward and even vertically, which is achieved through the use of a ribbon-like fin they have.

It is this function that has scientists at Northwestern University believing that same type of functional-ity can be used for new autonomous underwater vehicles. These scientists want to take the knifefishes

movement and non-visu-al sensing and apply it to robotics.

These robots are being de-signed so that they will be able to swim through areas where vision is not an op-tion. Robots are preferable as opposed to sending hu-man divers in places where the danger levels may be uncertain. Situations such as looking inside of sunk-en ships with debris every-where is ideal for a robot with the ability to maneuver throughout it and still be able to “see.”

The work in artificial sen-sory and locomotion capa-bility is being simulated on two different robotic plat-forms. The hope is to bring them together as one fully working unit.

Professor Malcolm MacIver, a scientist who has been studying fish for years, is one of the scientists working on making this a reality.

“We’ve generated a ro-bot that essentially dupli-cates the way fish sense,” he said. Successfully mim-icking some of nature’s abilities is definitely an accomplishment.

In MacIver’s lab a robot is in a tank and it is react-ing to what is around it. MacIver said “from all our simulations, we now have mathematical relationships between things like the fre-quency and amplitude of the travelling wave and how much propulsion you get … so now we can put that into technology and get it to work properly.”

These types of mechani-cal advances may be neces-sary for us to further explore the oceans one day as well. It is projects such as this one that makes me envision a world where robotic designs are simply metallic versions of animals and insects.

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If you have not heard by now, CSUF, along with eight other campuses, are pro-posing to increase student fees by at least $240 per semester depending on the campus.

The proposal, called the “Student Success Initiative,” is in the process of “alterna-tive consultation” in which mostly administrators and a handful of students are discussing how much and where the said fees should be allocated.

Although this process has been done before, this is why students should be concerned; currently, the university administration already has it set in their mind that this fee should pass.

The paternalistic men-tality of “we know what is best for you” is not a healthy one.

As a historian, there are books chalked full of examples of where good intentions gives way to di-sastrous consequences. However, one need not be a historian to see that when our public servants—the administration—act like our parents, democracy can go awry.

In this case, it already has. In the wings of Associated Students Inc.—the student government—after speaking with many of your representatives, I have seen board of direc-tors paralyzed with fear. This fear comes from the inherent problem of having non-students on a student government body.

While I have the ut-most respect for Dean of

Students Dr. Oseguera and her predecessors, she is in the irreconcilable position of serving two masters; the students and the university administration. The dilem-ma of serving two masters also applies to much of the student body as well.

To go against the fee means to upset the dean of students and the Vice President Dr. Eanes, both of whom are advocating for the alternative consulta-tion process, which starts with the premise that the fee would be a good thing. Dr. Eanes wields very real power, as she is not only directly under the presi-dent of the university, but also is in charge of judicial affairs, the administrative wing that oversees academ-ic punishments including, but not limited to expulsion and probation.

This fear of reprisal has played out in a number of ways. In my many meetings with various board of direc-tors members, they have in-dicated in private that they are completely opposed to the fee and the fee process, but are unable to step for-ward and represent you, the students, by saying no.

Others were presented with a petition against the fee with signatures meet-ing if not exceeding the number of completed offi-cial surveys, but were un-able to sign for unspecified reasons.

Finally, the executive office of ASI (Associated Students Inc.), which has been unwilling to entertain the possibility of a referen-dum for the fee, also could

not sign the petition, as it does not, “represent all the students.” If the student executive truly wishes al-low all students a seat at the table then all students should be allowed to vote. The executive can’t have it both ways.

The issues do not end there. Currently, the alter-native consultation process uses a voting system of thir-teen total voting members, seven of which are students and six are administrators or professors. However, of the narrow student majori-ty the students do not elect four.

Three of these non-elect-ed student representatives have no listed experience in governance and the oth-er belongs to the cabinet of the ASI president. Of the three elected students, one, Jonathan Kwok, has indi-cated he will not be seek-ing reelection. This begs the question: if four are not elected and one is not seek-ing reelection, who is left accountable?

The sad fact is we, as stu-dents, can no longer rely on our student government. As long as those in power, no matter how kind or smart, have the fear of running afoul of the almighty ad-ministration, the student government cannot be trusted to act in the best interest of the students. As students, we are left to fend for ourselves. Yet, we do not have to act alone. The num-ber of students at the cam-puses contemplating this new round of fee hikes to-tals approximately 90,000.

That is a lot of students’ voices and potential pow-er. If you are opposed to the fees or even the fact that student government isn’t working for students, then join Students for Quality Education and myself in letting ASI and the admin-istration know that they serve us and we won’t stand for this fee.

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In 2011 a cover of “Look at Me Now,” originally per-formed by Chris Brown, circulated around YouTube and other popular social media outlets, including Facebook.

Karmin, the duo com-prised of a young, engaged couple, Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan, delivered their rendition of this song with a punch—crisp words, energetic attitudes and an undeniable love for music.

Now in 2014, Karmin is taking their music on the road with the Pulses Tour, which comes to the House of Blues in Anaheim on Friday, Feb. 21.

The name of their two-person band is a play on words. Karmin comes from the Latin noun “carmen” meaning song. However Heidemann and Noonan changed the spelling to bet-ter align with “karma.”

The performing duo quickly became popular artists and YouTube sen-sations with just under 1.4 million subscribers. They re-ceived astounding feedback not only from their everyday YouTube subscribers but also from other celebrities who retweeted their Chris Brown cover.

“We’ve tried all these dif-ferent things,” Heidemann said, reflecting on the deci-sion to pursue the passion

she and Noonan had for mu-sic. “We should really just do something ourselves be-cause nobody is ever going to care as much about our music as we do.”

While they are best known for their cover songs, Karmin, the couple and two person band is now on tour sharing some original songs with their beloved fans.

While “Brokenhearted” and “Hello” were both No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs chart, Karmin continues their suc-cess of those singles along with a new one titled “I Told You So.”

Heidemann described the duo’s new singles as “swag-pop.”

“You’re going to hear the catchy hooks and the crazy rap verses with lots of word-play. There’s humor, but there are deep, meaningful messages buried within the playfulness.”

Now on the Pulses Tour, Karmin continues to win the hearts of their fans.

The Pulses Tour began on Jan. 29, 2014 and will wrap up after 15 shows.

Just like when they first began their music careers on YouTube, Karmin is con-tinuing to receive a plethora of appraisals.

According to Rolling Stone “Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan turn their sig-nature mix of electro-pop and rap into an aggressive, thumping kiss-off.”

The duo has not only been receiving praise for their music; the quality of their live performances has gar-nered attention in its own right.

“Karmin won the crowd,” according to C l e v e l a n d L e a d e r . c o m . “Karmin has successfully taken their career to the next level … and they did not disappoint fans with their live show.”

Although Karmin is bringing their own energy to the Pulses Tour, they are also pairing up with Bryce Vine.

Vine is a 22-year-old artist most often compared to the likes of Travie McCoy, Mac Miller and Kid Cudi.

Vine released his new mu-sic video, “Where the Wild

Things Are” in late 2013. Now on the Pulses Tour with Karmin, Vine will be performing in preparation for his new EP, which will be released in early 2014.

Having just begun their tour and already receiving positive feedback, it is clear that the new music Karmin performs is appealing to their fans.

With all of Karmin’s suc-cess, they still have one goal in mind: making great music.

“I remember Amy’s dad once saying that the only CD he’d ever bought and

run home from the store to listen to was by The Beatles,” said Noonan on the official Karmin Music website. “We want to have that effect on

people. We want to shake things up.”

Tickets for the con-cert can be purchased at Concerts.LiveNation.com.

KAYLI CRAIGDaily Titan

Famed YouTube duo plays House of Blues in Downtown Disney

Karmin will perform three Southern California shows for the Pulses Tour. They will make their first stop in Los Angeles, then travel to Anaheim and San Diego. Bryce Vine will perform with the duo during the tour.

Courtesy of KPOPSavant

Karmin brings Pulses Tour to Anaheim

OC gets a taste of Fullerton cuisine

For local foodies, Orange County Restaurant Week is coming to the Fullerton community. Making its grand return for the sixth year in a row, 100 restau-rants are gearing up for Orange County’s most anticipated culinary arts event of 2014, starting Feb. 23 through Mar. 1. Restaurant week spans all across the county, with participating restaurants from Fullerton all the way to San Juan Capistrano.

Participating establish-ments are not only serving up excitement along with their most sought after cuisines.

Each restaurant has specially priced, one of a kind, prix fixe menus ex-clusive to the event. OC Restaurant Week provides an opportunity for the thrifty college student to experience the world of cu-linary arts. The affordable prices allow one to take a break from microwave-able meals and indulge in a night on the town with-out a great deal of diner’s remorse.

Prices for the week’s spe-cials range from from $10, $15 and $20 per person for lunch, and $20, $30 or $40 per person for dinner. These menus are all-inclu-sive depending on the loca-tion and often include wine pairings and dessert.

HopScotch Tavern, located in the heart of Fullerton’s charmingly historic downtown, is one of the city’s top 100 restau-rants. This particular

restaurant and bar fea-tures a vast selection of craft beers, whiskey, fine wine and seasonal crafted cocktails.

If happy hour isn’t your forte, HopScotch also has an extensive list of gour-met dishes artfully created by chef Cody Storts.

HopScotch’s most pop-ular dish, tri-tip with romesco and roasted cauliflower, is offered ex-clusively during restau-rant week, according to OCRestaurantWeek.com.

The tri-tip dish is includ-ed on the prix fixe menu, and is sure to maintain its place as the most ordered item in HopScotch’s’ culi-nary repertoire.

In addition to HopScotch Tavern, Fullerton’s fea-tured restaurants in-clude Matador Cantina, El Torito, The Cellar and Wahoo’s Fish Tacos.

Open Table’s 2012 Diner Choice of the year, Matador Cantina, is a particu-lar favorite in downtown Fullerton. With Mexican-inspired cuisine and invit-ingly hip décor, it is perfect for dates, friendly gather-ings and family outings.

Matador Cantina is also known for their fabulous happy hour menu, making it a hot spot for pre-dinner

cocktails or a post dinner nightcap.

Matador Cantina’s most popular dish is their non-traditional chile rel-leno, a roasted pobla-no pepper stuffed with chicken, Oaxaca cheese, cream cheese, chipotle and green chiles, with a crusted shell and a side of house made tortilla chips served with roasted toma-tillo avocado sauce and salsa fresca, according to OCRestaurantWeek.com.

A few noteworthy restaurants in surround-ing cities participating in the event include Fire + Ice, Gypsy Den and American Tavern Eatery and Drink in Anaheim as well as Kabuki Japanese Restaurant in Brea.

Restaurant week pro-vides a full week of op-portunities to branch out and try new things in the Orange County food and dining scene this spring semester. By providing deals and tasting menus exclusive to the event, OC Restaurant Week adds an exciting element to the sometimes mundane expe-rience of dining out.

Make sure to take ad-vantage of this weeklong event, beginning this Sunday.

NICOLE WEAVERDaily Titan

Local event features special dining deals and menu options

HopScotch will offer a satisfying variety of their small dishes in addition to their signature cocktails and craft beer for the event.

Courtesy of HopScotch

The Cellar in Fullerton is offering a three-course dinner prepared by chef Brandon Stein for $40 during the weeklong event. A list of options will be offered for customers.

Courtesy of Latino Foodie

Matador Cantina is featuring one of its most popular dishes, an untraditional chile relleno served with tortilla chips, for Orange County Restaurant Week patrons.

Courtesy of Matador Cantina

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Theresa Rebeck’s Doll-house, based on Henrik Ib-sen’s A Doll’s House comes

to Cal State Fullerton from Feb. 21 through Mar. 16.

Although the play is a classic that has capti-vated audiences since its original premiere in Den-mark in 1879, James R. Taulli, director and asso-ciate dean of the College of the Arts, and a talent-ed cast bring new life to

the production at CSUF’s Hallberg Theatre.

At its start, the play originally challenged tra-ditional domestic house-hold perspectives at the turn of the 19th centu-ry, asking the question of whether a woman can truly be herself in modern society.

Updated for the 1960s and set in the wealthy sub-urbs of Connecticut, this modern adaptation gives a refreshing and relevant perspective for veterans of theater and new fans

alike. The lead character,

Nora, is a housewife liv-ing what seems to be a perfect life, with simple desires of being happy on behalf of her husband and children by serving them tirelessly.

However, as the plot progresses, Nora emerg-es as a woman with much more depth than original-ly thought. This is por-trayed from dreams that conf lict with her current life, which gives way to a growing inner turmoil.

Rebeck’s adaptation emphasizes this theme of traditional domestic life again and updates it for a modern audience by in-cluding playful elements such as references to pop culture and a Jamaican nanny who cares for the children.

Nora is played by Me-lissa Booey, a senior BFA acting major, who has also performed in the 2013 production of Metamorphoses.

In a story of finding one-self and breaking down expectations, Nora ap-pears to be a loving house-wife pampered by her husband, who is played by Craig Tyrl. The discoveries Nora makes throughout the play reveal that her life is not quite so pictur-esque. Eventually, it be-comes clear that things are not as happy as they seem.

To further complicate matters, her husband’s best friend professes his love for her.

Nora’s long-kept secret from her husband is the driving force of all the tension. One that could threaten the image of

her life and family as the “American Dream,” the image of outward perfec-tion. It is when this secret is uncovered that Nora is forced to make a diffi-cult decision that will af-fect her future and all she holds dear.

Taulli, who has direct-ed over 50 productions during his career includ-ing Guys and Dolls for Utah Musical Theatre and Meet Me in St. Louis for Capital Playhouse, said he has always appreciated A Doll’s House.

“I chose this play be-cause I have a life long love for Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and was drawn to the adventure of exploring this new take on his sto-ry,” Taulli said.

Dollhouse plays at 8 p.m. on select days during Feb-ruary and March. General admission tickets are $11 with discounts for ad-vance purchases for stu-dents, seniors, or CSUF ID holders.

Tickets are available by calling (657) 278-3371, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mon-day through Friday, and online at Fullerton.edu/Arts/TheatreDance.

Senior Melissa Booey plays the lead character, Nora, in Theresa Rebeck’s Dollhouse. The play opens at CSUF’s Hallberg Theatre on Feb. 21 and runs until Mar. 16.Courtesy of Cal State Fullerton

Dollhouse opens its doors

In honor of Valentine’s Day last week, Broadway came to the movie theaters nationwide with screenings of Ro-

meo and Juliet. The Shakespearean tragedy opened on Sep. 19 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City and played eight times a week until its closing on Dec. 8. It is the first time in over 36 years that the show has been produced on a Broadway stage.

Tonight is the last chance to see the tragic romance in Orange County movie theaters. It is being shown at Garden Walk 14 in Anaheim.

The beloved romance tells the story of two young lovers from families in conflict over a forgotten strife. As their forbidden relationship is revealed and tensions rise, the lovers must make the ultimate choice to keep their love alive.

As he made his first appearance roaring onto stage on a motorcycle, Orlando Boom captivated the audience with his portrayal of Romeo.

Bloom made his Broadway debut in this Shakespeare revival, although one wouldn’t have guessed with the quality of his performance. Bloom managed to take the classic character and create a unique and inviting dynamic, rather than a stock and cliche romantic. As Romeo embarked on his new found love, Bloom

demonstrated his complete grasp on the complex language and a full array of emotion.

The innocent and beautiful nature of Ju-liet was effortlessly captured by Condola Rashad.

The two-time Tony-nominated actress returned to Broadway with her take on the star-crossed lover. As Juliet appeared dumbfounded with love, Rashad explored the depth of her character and delivered a fully developed persona. The natural and charismatic approach Rashad had in her portrayal of Juliet made for an engaging and charming performance.

Christian Camargo used the revival’s contemporary setting to bring clever hu-mor to his character, Mercutio. As an inau-gural company member of Shakespeare’s Globe Theater London, Camargo possessed a mastery over Shakespeare’s writing, and did so by playing with the physicality of his performance. A truly original portrayal of Romeo’s best friend is created through Ca-margo’s experimentation with mixing clas-sical language and modern humor.

With exceeding diversity to her perform-ing, Jayne Houdyshell fantastically embod-ied Juliet’s Nurse. From moments of humor, to those of tragedy, all aspects of the Nurse are consistently brought forth through

Houdyshell’s performance. She organical-ly displayed feelings of support and love as the Nurse assists Juliet to be with Romeo.

Tony Award-winner and Broadway veter-an Chuck Cooper dazzled audiences as Ju-liet’s father, Lord Capulet. Cooper brought raw energy to Capulet, which fueled his ex-ceptional performance. The authentic emo-tions Cooper used fully developed Capulet, whether he was carousing or dealing with death.

The simplistic set design created a run-down urban appeal, while at the same time gave the setting a sense of poise and elegance. Elements of the past, present and the future were present in the production. Detailed costumes and exotic music cre-ated this continuum of contrasting time periods.

For tickets and more information on the last chance to see this Broadway spectacu-lar, visit RomeoAndJulietBroadway.com.

Romeo & JulietZACK JOHNSTONDaily Titan

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Broadway revival brings new life to Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy

Orlando Bloom, starring as Romeo, makes his Broadway debut entering the stage on a motorcycle.Courtesy of Carol Rosseg

CHRISTINA NGUYENDaily Titan

First play of the season modernizes a traditional theme

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North Carolina was pa-tient at the plate in the third. After two quick outs, Antunez walked three batters in a row. Head Coach Kelly Ford went to the circle to talk things over with her pitcher.

“She just said, ‘I’m not going to take you out. I know you can get this girl,’” Antunez said. “She told me to go after her.”

Antunez was able to get freshman Jillian Ferraro to ground out to end the inning.

The Tar Heels (2-6) turned to freshman Lauren Batten to pitch the bottom of the third. After a pair of walks and a field-ers choice, senior right fielder Lauren Mario hit a two run triple to extend the Titans lead to 5-1. Sophomore second base-man Samantha Galarza bunted in Mario to make it 6-1. Senior center fielder Jena Rubio hit a two-out double and was driven in by a single from senior left fielder Leesa Harris to further pad the Titans lead.

Antunez finished her outing strong with a per-fect fourth inning. Her only strikeout of the game was the last batter she faced, when she got Jordan Scarboro swinging.

The Tar Heels brought in senior Ashley Bone to pitch the remainder of the game. She breezed through the fourth and fifth innings, allowing two singles but leaving both runners on base.

The Titans brought in freshman Christina Washington to pitch in the fifth, where she got all

three Tar Heels to ground out.

Washington ran into trouble in the sixth in-ning after hitting lead-off hitter Jenna Kelly with a pitch. Junior Kati Causey grounded into a fielder’s choice and fresh-man Kendra Lynch hit an RBI single to narrow the Titans lead to 7-2. Washington got out of the jam by getting sophomore Lauren Fuller to ground out.

Tsuchiyama ripped a solo homer in the bottom of the sixth to put the Titans back up 8-2.

“I’ve kind of been off to a slow start and have been popping out a lot,” Tsuchiyama said. “My big-gest focus was trying to get more line drives and that’s exactly what it was … Now I feel like I’m on my way.”

The Titans face a tough challenge this week-end, playing four games against top teams in Palm Springs during the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic. They will play Baylor and Louisiana State University on Friday and face Notre Dame and Boise State on Saturday.

“It’s something that through the long haul of the season that I’ve got to manage, physical fatigue,” Ford said.

After Saturday, the Titans will have played 11 games in 10 days.

For more information on the CSUF softball team and all Titan Athletics, go to FullertonTitans.com.

The Cal State Fullerton baseball team continued its underwhelming start to the 2014 season with a 6-1 loss to the undefeated USC Trojans on Tuesday night at Dedeaux Field. The Titans dropped the second of their first four games, after being ranked No. 1 in the nation in multiple pre-season polls.

The Titans fell behind early after a rocky first in-ning from freshman pitch-er Chad Hockin on the mound.

After allowing an infield single to Trojans leadoff man Timmy Robinson, Hockin misplayed a bunt attempt that allowed AJ Ramirez to reach base as well.

A sacrifice bunt moved the runners to second and third, before a wild pitch brought in Robinson and gave USC the early 1-0 advantage.

Hockin again got him-self into trouble in the bot-tom of the second inning, when he loaded the bases

but escaped the jam by in-ducing an inning ending groundout.

CSUF was able to tie the game in the top of the third using the same small ball that brought them great success in the 2013 season. An RBI groundout by Tyler Stieb brought in the lone run on the night for the Titans. That would be the one positive of the day for Fullerton’s disap-pointing offense.

Unfortunately, the Titans defense let them down again in the bottom of the third inning when an error by senior catch-er Jared Deacon opened the door for three Trojans runs. After a dropped third strike from fresh-man pitcher Phil Bickford, Deacon picked up the ball and chucked the would-be third out down the right field line. USC took advan-tage of the mistake, taking a 4-1 lead that they would not relinquish.

After getting the first two batters on base in the top of the fourth inning via a hit by pitch and a walk, the Titans offense faltered as they failed to move the runners over and get them across the plate.

USC continued to pile onto their lead after a third Titans error contributed

to the fifth Trojans run. A routine ground ball was bobbled by second base-man Jake Jeffries, causing his late throw.

In the fifth inning, soph-omore outfielder Vahn Bozoian blasted a Bickford fastball off the netting in left field for a solo home run, bringing the USC lead to 6-1.

The poor play by the Fullerton defense contrib-uted to another loss, as its three errors on Tuesday led to four unearned runs. The three errors on Saturday night against Washington State was a major factor in its lone loss of the opening weekend series.

As poor as the pitching and defense was for CSUF, the offense wasn’t able to muster much of a fight ei-ther. For most of the game, the Titans weren’t able

to get the bats off of their shoulders as they struck out nine times, several times with runners in scor-ing position. Combine that with only four hits and it’s easy to tell why they were only able to bring one run across the plate.

Despite allowing the first runner on base in the first five innings, soph-omore Brent Wheatley, sophomore Sean Adler and senior James Guillen com-bined to slow down the CSUF offense. Adler was credited with the win af-ter hurling three shutout innings.

The Titans used an all freshman pitching staff, with Hockin, Bickford and Miles Chambers all log-ging innings. Hockin was tagged with the loss after lasting just 2.2 innings and allowing three runs, one

earned.The Titans will contin-

ue pay on Friday when the University of San Francisco visits Goodwin Field for a three-game weekend series. The two teams will enter play with matching 2-2 records in the young 2014 season.

CSUF is looking to im-prove upon the lackadaisi-cal performances that have made them appear more like an average squad than the national title contend-er many predicted would come into the season.

With several marquee opponents on the hori-zon, Fullerton will have to shore up the little mis-takes that have cost them early in the year.

For more information on the CSUF baseball team and all Titan Athletics, go to FullertonTitans.com.

Senior outfielder Greg Velazquez takes a strike at the plate. Velazquez accounted for two of the nine CSUF strikeouts in the 6-1 loss to the USC Trojans at Dedeaux Field on Tuesday night.

WINNIE HUANG / Daily Titan

Softball finds the achilles for UNC

Titans conquered by men of Troy

JOSEPH ANDERSONDaily Titan

Freshmen pitchers couldn’t tame USC bats in 6-1 road loss

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Men’s golf win Folino Invitational

Women’s golf finish fifth in Texas tourney

Waggoner to try out for U.S.national team

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The Cal State Fullerton men’s golf team captured its first Folino Invitational Tournament win at the Industry Hills Golf Course on Tuesday. The team won by a con-vincing 16 strokes at -1 (863).

Going into the last day of the tournament, the Titans had a 14 shot lead over second place UC Irvine. CSUF shot a tournament low +3 (291) in the final round but overall had a strong showing over the two days.

The win was CSUF’s third of the year and the first ever at their host tournament.

Senior Mark Anguiano led Fullerton, finishing with the best overall score in the tournament and had the best finish in tour-nament history with a 12-under par (204).

The Cal State Fullerton’s women’s golf team finished in fifth place at the Jim West Invitational Golf Tournament on Tuesday.

Over the two-day tournament, the Titans shot an overall 67-over par (919), but garnered some confidence after they picked their per-formance up late on Tuesday. In the third and fourth rounds, they totalled a 19-over par (303) as a team.

Junior Tisha Alyn Abrea led the Titans, scoring a total of 16-over par (229) which was tied for 12th best in the tournament.

Gonzaga finished in first place at the tour-nament with a score of +26 (878), and were carried by Raychelle Santos, who shot the only under par score with a -1 (212).

Cal State Fullerton freshman volley-ball player Mallory Waggoner will try out for the U.S. women’s national team.

The tryouts will be held Feb. 21 through Feb. 23 and will be hosted at U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Co. It will be led by three-time Olympic gold medalist and U.S. Olympic Hall of Famer Karch Kiraly.

Waggoner, a Sarasota, Fla. native, will compete against 248 other players from 106 colleges. The 6-foot right-side hitter played in 23 matches last year and tallied 80 kills and 16 digs.

A live stream of the tryouts will be avail-able for fans to watch the full event starting on Friday, Feb. 21.

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