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Cal State Fullerton announced Friday that baseball Head Coach Rick Vanderhook will re-turn to coaching May 16, when a road series against UC Irvine begins. The university placed Vanderhook on leave in April and conducted an internal review regard-ing “improper, unprofes-sional communication” the coach had with his players.

Athletic Director Jim Donovan said Vander-hook has “received ap-propriate counsel” re-garding his conduct and has been asked to apolo-gize to his team.

“Players and coaches alike are accountable for their actions on and off the field,” Vanderhook said in a statement re-leased by the university. “I regret my behavior in this instance, and its im-pact on the program and on the University. I look forward to returning to my work with the team, and remain committed to Titan Baseball.”

Vanderhook was placed on paid administrative leave April 17, and assis-tant coaches Mike Kirby and Jason Dietrich have been serving as the inter-im co-head coach in his absence.

Players and assistant coaches had a positive reaction after learning that Vanderhook would return.

“I’m pumped for that,” said sophomore Thom-as Eshelman. “I’m ready to see him back with us, and I know he’s been go-ing crazy in his house, so it’s good to see him back out on the field.”

Eshelman said the locker room “went ballis-tic” when informed that their head coach would come back.

“We all clapped our hands, but at the same time, we have to put our heads back down and go to work,” he said. “We have to win these last couple series in order to get a chance to go to regionals.”

Despite the excitement among players, the Ti-tans lost a home game against UC Riverside 3-2 Friday.

“It’s going to be great to have our leader back, and we’re looking forward to it,” junior J.D. Davis said Friday. “We need him now more than ever.”

Kirby agreed the locker room had an “unbeliev-able” reaction to the news about Vanderhook.

With incoming revenue from the student success fee, the Cal State Fullerton ath-letics department hopes to provide more student ath-letes with scholarships and begin repairs and improve-ments that have long been on the back burner, said athlet-ics director Jim Donovan.

The new student success fee will be phased in over the next three years and will be fully implemented at $181 per semester in fall 2016.

When the fee was ap-proved in March, a $30 of the fee paid by every student was allocated to improve athlet-ic facilities. An additional $25 from every student will go to increased support for athletic programs, including more scholarships and in-creases in teams’ operating budgets.

“The SSI funds are invalu-able as far as helping (athlet-ics) be successful in the fu-ture,” Donovan said. “I told the athletic coaches and

student athletes that, if the (fee) passed, it would be the biggest thing for Titan Ath-letics since 1957 when they started the school.”

Funding for athletic fa-cilities was one of the most contentious sections of the fee. When the university gathered feedback during the consultation process, it asked students to express their approval or disapprov-al of specific aspects of the fee on a 1 to 5 scale, where 1 indicates strong opposi-tion and 5 indicates strong support.

Increasing fees to provide money for facilities received an approval rating of 2.88 out of 5. That was slightly higher than paying to support ath-letic programs, which stu-dents gave a 2.85 approval rating.

During the first year of the fee’s implementation, athlet-ic facilities will receive ap-proximately $700,000. That amount jumps to more than $1 million during 2015, and then to approximately $2 million the following year.

Funding issues in recent

years have meant depart-ment revenue has gone largely to maintaining the facilities in their current conditions, with little room for improvements, Donovan said.

That left coaches scroung-ing for the money to make needed improvements, and some got creative to come up with the needed funds.

Softball coach Kelly Ford raised nearly $10,000 to make dugout improvements.

Even small improvements can have a serious impact, said Scott Stow, the field manager for Titan Stadium. Better looking stadium and facilities and increased fund-ing to athletics can increase the interest of potential re-cruits and their families,

Donovan said. The improvements can

also serve to draw the at-tention of potential do-nors. “People love winners, so when you start winning you’ll definitely get more support and more interest,” he said.

The Orange County food safety grading system was the focus in the 2013-2014 grand jury report and has caused a reevaluation of the process among public health officials.

Restaurants in Orange County currently use a food inspection notifica-tion system that is visi-bly vague and, at a glance, does not inform the public about inspection status, as stated in the report.

The report calls for a pronounced placard in the windows of these food facilities that is “graphically enhanced” and leaves no room for misinterpretation.

One of the alternative

approaches would be a color-coded system, which designates a green, yellow or red placard, similar to traffic lights, indicating their level of compliance.

The counties of Sacra-mento, Alameda and Mer-ced currently use this col-or notification method.

The color-coded system would be more effective than the one currently in use, said Christopher Wal-drop, the director of of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America, a nonprof-it consumer organization that advocates for safer and healthier food.

“(The color-coded sys-tem) is a better system for consumers because they will have a better under-standing of whether or not the restaurant passed the inspection,” Waldrop said. “It will also give the consumers a quick way to know whether or not the restaurant has been following all of the rules

necessary to produce safe food.”

The neighboring coun-ties of Los Angeles, Riv-erside and San Diego all use a letter-grade format for food facility health in-spections. Either an A, B or C grade can be earned during inspections in these counties.

In Los Angeles, an A is the only passing grade, and it signifies that the facility was in compli-ance with food safety regulations.

B or C grades do not comply with minimum sanitary standards, and establishments with those grades are posted on the

Food Facility Downgrades webpage until it is raised to an A within a period of time.

Los Angeles County de-cided to implement the letter grade system on Jan. 16, 1998.

CYNTHIA WASHICKODaily Titan

MATTHEW MEDINADaily Titan

Rick Vanderhook will resume coaching after being put on leave

ELIZABETH MUÑOZ, NICOLE WEAVER & TAMEEM SERAJDaily Titan

OC could move from pass-fail system to color-coded grades

Patching up CSUF athletics

Baseball head coach to return

Regulators to consider change in restaurant ratings

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SEE ATHLETICS, 5

ETHAN HAWKES / Daily TitanBaseball and softball locker rooms are cramped to the point where athletes have to dress “right on top of each other,” said Jim Donovan (left), the athletics director. Donovan and Brad Justice, who manages the baseball and softball fields, hope to change that with the help of additional money from the student success fee.

ETHAN HAWKES / Daily TitanThe training court in the second floor of Titan Gym has visible holes in its walls.

Revenue from success fee to help repair facilities

RESTAURANTS WITH MAJOR VIOLATIONS

Jack in the Box (N. Placentia Avenue) - last inspected Jan. 9• Last inspection report unavailable for consumer access• Unsanitary conditions on walls, floors, and/or ceilings• Improper handwashing practices

Thai Basil (E. Chapman Avenue) - last inspected March 3• Improper holding temperatures of potentially hazardous food• Unsanitary equipment, utensils, linen or plumbing• Facility not fully enclosed

KFC (N. State College Boulevard) - last inspected March 3• Health permit suspended (reinstated the same day) for issues with nonfunctioning employee bathrooms• Improper handwashing practices

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It was enacted because the department wished to dispel the misconception of secrecy and restore pub-lic confidence, said James Dragan, the chief environ-mental health specialist for the Los Angeles Coun-ty Department of Public Health.

“The grading system was developed to include pub-lic disclosure, transparency and accessi-bility to infor-mation,” Dra-gan said.

One of the main con-cerns asso-ciated with adopting this system is the e c o n o m i c aspect.

“It might cost a lot of money for a bunch of re-i n s p e c t ion s (in a letter grade sys-tem) and the whole policy might have to change … then you have to decide who pays for that. Does it come out of the health care agency bud-get?” said Orange Coun-ty Policy Advisor Scott Carpenter. “... And then you kind of have to look at would we be willing to im-pose an additional or high-er fee to restaurants for inspections.”

Dragan said there are in-creased costs for provid-ing the grading placards and other print materials as well as necessary staff training.

The funds may be high-er for the grading plac-ards, but the grading plac-ards are far superior for consumer knowledge and health, studies have shown.

“The most cost-effective (method) is to just post it on the website of the regu-latory agency … that’s the cheapest way to do it. But then that makes it very complicated and difficult for consumers to actually access that information,” Waldrop said.

Whether or not these in-vestments will yield better results in terms of public health and sanitation, is another concern.

A year after the letter grading system began be-ing enforced in Los Angeles County, studies showed a 13.1 percent decrease in the number of foodborne ill-ness hospitalizations in the county, Dragan said.

But Waldrop said there has not been sufficient re-search done yet to come to a consensus of which sys-tem is the most effective.

“I think at this stage there is a lot of different systems that are being

tried,” Wal-drop said. “ W h ic h e v e r system it is, the one that gives con-sumers ac-curate infor-mation that’s very readi-ly available, those types of systems are the ones that work best for consumers.”

C a r p e n -ter said one of the is-sues with the grand jury re-port is that it failed to cite any infor-

mation on whether a cer-tain system ranks highest at combating food-related illnesses.

“They didn’t actually cite any statistics of counties that implement this type of grading system. They don’t say whether their health and safety has been in-creased or decreased,” he said.

Ultimately, the grand jury report is a suggestion and is in no way forcing Or-ange County to implement an alternative method.

The Orange County Board of Supervisors will revisit the issue on May 20 after the county Health Care Agency has had time to edit the proposed re-sponse, Carpenter said.

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“You should have been in the locker room when they announced it; I thought you guys would have heard it in the park-ing lot,” he said. “I wish I would have taped it for him.”

After the close loss to UCR Friday, the team re-bounded to win Satur-day in a 6-0 rout. Howev-er, the team lost the series against the Highlanders after an 8-7 loss in 11 in-nings Sunday.

Michael Huntley and Ethan Hawkes contributed to this report.

COACHContinued from PAGE 1

RATINGSContinued from PAGE 1

Cal State Fullerton stu-dents have many options for food near campus, but several restaurants near-by have been docked by health inspectors for ma-jor violations of the food code.

However, under the current system in Or-ange County, restaurants are graded with a sim-ple “pass” or “fail,” which does not go into specif-ics as to how well or how poorly they performed in their inspection – leaving many consumers unaware of major issues the restau-rant may be having behind the counter. A restaurant that was docked for multi-ple violations displays the same passing grade as a restaurant that received a

perfect score. This has caused the

2013-2014 Orange County grand jury to release a re-port that proposes a sys-tem of color-coded plac-ards to be displayed in windows of restaurants. The new system would also alert the customer of three different grades, as well as a color coding sys-tem consistent with traffic light shades of red, yellow or green.

Many restaurants in the surrounding area have minor infractions, such as having unapproved la-beling on chemicals and cleaners or not having their last inspection re-port visible to the public eye.

However, the major in-fractions are much more serious and could defi-nitely pose a threat to con-sumers’ health. Such in-fractions include improper handwashing and food storage practices.

Several major and mi-nor violations appeared on

multiple occasions among food reports for restau-rants within a three-mile radius of the CSUF campus.

Improper holding tem-peratures constitute a vio-lation because they great-ly increase the chances for rapidly growing bacteria to multiply on potential-ly hazardous foods. Foods that must be kept cold are required to be stored un-der 41 degrees Fahrenheit, and hot foods must be kept above 135 degrees.

In a previous inspec-tion on Jan. 8, sandwich restaurant Which Wich re-ceived an advisory warn-ing to maintain tempera-tures by regulating the quantity of deli meat kept in refrigerators. Manag-er Angelina Marquez said that they have since made sure to adhere to proper quantities of meat in their refrigerators.

“You kind of just have to be always be (cleaning), that way when the (inspec-tors) come in, you’re not

scared or nervous.” Mar-quez said of preparing for random inspections. “I would want that same cus-tomer service, knowing that I’m not going to get sick.”

Among the major viola-tions common of the local restaurants was poor em-ployee health and hygiene. The person in charge is responsible for mak-ing sure employees are in good health while they are working. A manager of lo-cal bakery Wildf lour Cup-cakes said employees are particularly careful when handling food. The restau-rant, which was issued no violations on its most re-cent report, has a policy to always wear gloves when preparing food and help-ing customers.

Hand washing is also a large factor in hygiene and food safety. Foods may be-come contaminated when employees hands touch unclean surfaces and then prepare the food without washing their hands.

In addition to lack of proper hygiene and im-proper holding tempera-tures, restaurants were cited for improper cool-ing practices, unsanitary equipment and having the last report unavailable.

However, several man-agers and customers ex-pressed that they would support a new system be-ing implemented for grad-ing food safety.

Brandon Stefan, man-ager of Chinese restau-rant Pick Up Stix, said a more specific grading scale would help manag-ers know exactly what as-pects of the restaurant to focus on.

“As a manager in a restaurant, it’s a lot more helpful to have that rating just because you know ex-actly how many points and what everything is valued at,” Stefan said. “So cer-tain things hold more val-ue than others, whereas here it is just major or mi-nor violations.”

Students and regular

customers of the local restaurants also expressed that they would like the county to adopt a letter grade system or something other than pass or fail.

Tony Liu, a sixth-year kinesiology major, said he did not notice that grades were not displayed and that he would like to see a different grading system.

“If I ever do see a let-ter, and if I see either a B or C, I might consider not going,” Liu said. “I think they should adopt a (letter grade).”

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Major violations; passing grade in OC

Vanderhook willreturn against UCI

Rick Vanderhook was put on paid administrative leave on April 17.WINNIE HUANG / Daily Titan, File Photo

“(The color-coded system) is a better system for consumers

because they will have a better

understanding of whether or not

the restaurant passed the

inspection.”

CHRIS WALDROPDirector, Food Policy Insti-tute at Consumer Federation of America

RATINGS

• LA, Riverside, San Diego counties use letter grades• Sacramento, Alameda, and Merced counties use color-coded grading • OC uses pass-fail

VIOLATIONS

• Improper holding temperatures for hot or cold foods• Employees neglecting hand washing • Not having previous inspection report

The city of Fullerton, with the support of Cal State Ful-lerton, is working on a pub-lic transportation project to better connect students in the college town with down-town city life.

The College Connector Study, which began last year, was intended to consider and investigate a potential public transportation system that would connect eastern Ful-lerton, including CSUF, with the Fullerton Transportation Center downtown.

A steering committee of 20 people, including residents, business managers, commu-nity developers and CSUF staff, was established to head the study.

The College Connector Study findings were pre-sented to the Fullerton City Council on Feb. 18.

A motion by Jennifer Fitz-gerald was carried 3-1-1 to authorize submission of a request to the Orange Coun-ty Transportation Authority to include the College Con-nector Study as an “uncon-strained” project. The motion also directed staff to propose the next phase in planning and consideration for the City Council regarding the project.

The transportation project is designed to fit into the pro-posed “College Town” con-cept that would close Nut-wood Avenue to establish a better connection between the main CSUF campus, the

College Park building and Hope International Universi-ty across the street.

If the College Connec-tor were to be initiated, the stop at CSUF would most likely be on Commonwealth Avenue by the College Park building.

“One scenario is where it comes up Commonwealth and stops before crossing the street or going into the mall,” said Kim Apel, the manager of physical and capital plan-ning at CSUF. “Cal State Ful-lerton was always the eastern end of the line.”

CSUF was a major aspect of the study, because the uni-versity plays a huge role in the traffic and population growth in Fullerton. The Col-lege Connector study is now in the phase directed by the City Council.

If the transportation proj-ect were to go forward, it could ease travel through-out the city. The project could possibly alleviate the several parking issues that CSUF stu-dents face, by giving students an alternate method for get-ting to and from campus.

The College Connector Study committee met and researched many aspects of the plan, including modes of transportation, transit routes, sustainability, land use and projected population growth.

Several modes of trans-portation that the study considered were light rail, streetcar/trolley and bus transit–chosen because of their sustainability and abil-ity to accompany a large amount of travelers.

The focus of the study was centered on the quarter-mile distance around Chapman Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue, because they are two major streets connect-ing downtown Fullerton and east Fullerton.

The committee created a 100-page feasibility report for the College Connector Study, which was posted on the City of Fullerton’s web-site. The committee compiled data and proposed sugges-tions about several aspects of the transit system in the report.

According to the College Connector Feasibility Study agenda Part 1, released in July 2013, the committee pro-posed a streetcar option be-cause it had “the most sig-nificant capital costs and it would reduce potential right-of-way needs” compared to the other options.

The report also propos-es alternative maps for the transit route.

The steering committee has stopped meeting since January, because they met their intended goals of pre-senting the study to the Ful-lerton City Council, Apel said.

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In a time of heightening pressure for educators to focus on math and science, candidates to become dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences hope to remind the campus community of the value of their craft.

Sheryl I. Fontaine, Ph.D., the inter-im dean of the college, emphasized finding a unique, unifying identity as one of her main goals in an open fo-rum Wednesday. The remaining two candidates shared similar ideas.

Cynthia Kosso

Cynthia Kosso, Ph.D., one of the three finalists, attended an open fo-rum for faculty and staff Thursday in the Pollak Library. Kosso, the associ-ate vice president for academic part-nerships at Northern Arizona Uni-versity (NAU), emphasized equality.

She also stressed the importance of having a strong mission statement for the college, but also a clear vision statement that could define aspira-tions and create a stronger culture.

When asked what she would do to fundraise for the college and what type of projects she would allocate the funds to, she emphasized build-ing relationships, with alumni and organizations. She expressed a desire for raising money for sustainability projects and gardens on campus, as well as programs for underrepresent-ed students like the Olsen Scholar-ship she helped start at NAU.

Kosso said she also values guiding students through learning commu-nities beyond freshman year, partic-ularly since many transfer here well after their first year of college.

Starting an integrated major pro-gram, like the program at NAU that connects engineering with glob-al language studies, could improve communication and collaboration at the university, she said.

“They work harder, they work lon-ger and it’s more expensive for them, but it’s already popular,” Kosso said. “And it trains these engineers way more profoundly than they were be-ing trained before.”

Kosso has worked at NAU since 1990 and moved through a variety of

positions, including the Commission on Ethnic Diversity and the honors program.

Kathleen Pickering

Kathleen Pickering, Ph.D., the vice provost for undergraduate affairs at Colorado State University, was the final candidate to hold an open forum.

Teaching, research and community engagement are frequently perceived as three separate tasks or “streams,” Pickering said. Instead, they should be seen as interconnected.

“We think of research as more of this basic thing that we do on our own,” she said. “Encouraging and supporting (faculty to communicate their research to others) is another way of bringing those three streams and making them one stream when possible.”

Doing more with less, Pickering said, is something she is used to. Colorado passed a Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights amendment, or Tabor amend-ment, to its state constitution in 1992. The amendment limits gov-ernment spending by tying revenue growth rates to inf lation rates and population growth.

“It’s kind of a typical thing with faculty, ‘well, it would be better if we had smaller class sizes, and I say ‘yes, I’ll give you that,’” she said. “But how can we take a giant class and make that better? We often don’t want to go there, but what if we did? Let’s be realistic about the resources that are possible.”

Stephen Stambough, Ph.D., the chair of politics, administration and justice, told Pickering there is a feel-ing among faculty and staff that the college is not appreciated as it could be throughout the greater campus community.

“I think finding some sort of out-reach development, PR-type strat-egy, that would fit that would be something that the new dean would have to try to develop and implement right away,” he said.

Developing proper internal as-sessment systems, Pickering said, would be a key in her strategy to help the college get more recog-nition throughout the campus community.

Pickering came to CSUF on short notice. David Hassenzahl, Ph.D., the dean of the Falk School of Sustain-ability at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, withdrew as a candidate earlier in the week, and Pickering took his place.

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Potential deans of largest college at CSUF state their case

Candidates explain vision for humanities

Left: Cynthia Kosso, Ph.D., the associate vice president for academic partnerships at Northern Arizona University, called for more discussion of potentially “integrating” different majors. Right: Kathleen Pickering, Ph.D., the vice provost for undergraduate affairs at Colorado State University, stressed doing more with less.

MEGAN TAMBIO / For the Daily Titan Courtesy of Colorado State University

“One scenario is where it comes up Commonwealth and stops ... Cal State Fullerton was always the eastern end of the line.”

KIM APELManager of Physical and Capital Management at CSUF

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An undersized staff of advisers, a lack of conti-nuity from freshman ad-vising through graduation and other problems with advising have contributed to costly delays in gradua-tion for some students.

With an increase in funding from the student success fee, Peter Nwosu, Ph.D., the associate vice president of academic pro-grams, is hopeful that the university, through the in-troduction of a common communications system, mandatory advising re-quirements and addition-al employees, will address these issues and catch up to national standards.

Advising has long been a problem for the 38,325 students at Cal State Ful-lerton, the largest school in California State Univer-sity. CSUF has a student to adviser ratio of 750 to one, which is well over the na-tional average that calls for 600 students per one adviser.

To help address this is-sue, Nwosu, along with President Mildred García and other administrators, have established a task force that aligns with the five-year strategic plan of the university to help im-prove the advising process on campus.

“We’ve begun a compre-hensive review of the ad-vising structure of the uni-versity: how does it look now, what do we want it to look like, consistent with what we have in the stra-tegic plan,” Nwosu said.

The common commu-nications system is the biggest change coming to advisement. An in-house software suite will pro-vide reviewable data for faculty and staff and allow advisers to examine how many students have visit-ed the Academic Advise-ment Center for advising on general education and how many have received advising for their majors.

“The plan is that every-body uses it,” Nwosu said. “We’ll be available to re-view the data periodically to see the quality of advis-ing and use that informa-tion to develop focused training workshops for faculty and staff; it’s a very good system.”

The new system, Nwo-su said, is an effective way for the university to track what exactly is going on in order to get at least 75 per-cent of the student body to participate in advising, a specific goal laid out in the strategic plan. The 75 percent goal applies both to general advising at the Academic Advisement Center and for each spe-cific department on cam-pus for major advising.

The common commu-nications system includes the Titan Degree Audit, and a note system that advisers will use to doc-ument the nature of the conversation they had with each student, Nwosu said.

The system is also in-tended to provide an in-teractive way for students to find out exactly who all the advisers are on cam-pus, whether in regards to general education or within their designated major.

“The increase in re-sources puts us in the posi-tion to use our technology

different, to train our staff different, to infuse new staff into this area, and to make sure that things are seamless, we don’t want any bumps in the road for our students, we want it all to be connected,” said Berenecea Johnson Eanes, Ph.D., the vice president of student affairs.

In addition to further technology integration to better connect students, the advising task force has also focused on expansion to increase interactive practices.

Graduation specialists, who focus on reducing de-lays in graduation, have been hired to help stu-dents in each of CSUF’s eight colleges.

The university also plans to hire more than 40 full-time advisers.

With the hiring of addi-tional full-time employ-ees, the university will also work toward bridg-ing the gap between gen-eral education and major advising, a problem not-ed in the most recent 2012 assessment for CSUF by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the accrediting body of the university.

“The (advisers) that have been hired so far, they do both, they do GE advising as well as major advising,” Nwosu explained. “They focus on those two things: where’s the gap? How do we get to the students? They’re actually very ag-gressive in terms of work-ing to reach students and looking over their data.”

The university has al-ready hired seven full-time advisers, who have undergone one month of training at the Academic Advisement Center before being deployed to their specific colleges.

“(The training) entails actually understanding GE advising, because not everybody thinks that GE advising is easy,” Nwosu said.

Involved in the training process is the study of ac-ademic requirements, how to appropriately track stu-dent progress, and how to better communicate with students to make their advising experiences better.

Eanes said she feels comfortable that students will be able to feel the dif-ference in their experi-ences with advisement as these trainings start to help institute change on

a semester basis. The uni-versity is also trying to in-crease continuity between freshman advising and major advising, she said.

“We also want to take a really good look at the advising in the key touch points that help you move towards graduation,” Ean-es said. “We want people to know everything and also be able to monitor their own progress, to un-derstand how things are going.”

The newly-hired ad-visers have been tasked by administration to im-mediately help with stu-dents at the junior and senior levels who are

approaching graduation. The university is cur-

rently engaged in an as-sessment to determine which departments have stronger needs for an in-creased amount of ad-vising staff, Nwosu said. He also points to other discussions that are be-ginning to take place to create a mandatory ad-visement process.

“We want to be sure that the students have clear pathways to success, clear pathways that con-nect them to the variety of (advising) services and experiences that will help them be successful,” Ean-es said.

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Mechanical engineering students gathered Thurs-day to share their final projects and prototypes in the Computer Science Building for the Mechan-ical Engineering Senior Design Project. There was an array of engineering presentations, some proj-ects include a prototype of wheel bearings, a hands-free crutch and an auto-mated robotic system for weld inspection.

The projects are a culmi-nating graduation require-ment for all mechanical engineering majors and provide students with op-portunities to hone their creative design skills and learn to collaborate with others, said engineering

professor Nina Robson, who teaches the class.

Robson’s role as a men-tor and professor is to pro-mote innovation in engi-neering design and give CSUF students opportu-nities to become involved within the community and prepare them to be successful mechanical engineers.

As a woman in engineer-ing, Robson said she is pas-sionate about enhancing diversity, aiding individ-uals with disabilities and encouraging students to becoming involved within the engineering field.

“In order for the students to be successful, they have to commit many hours of their time in research, de-sign, development and testing of their proto-types, as well as working on their presentation skills throughout the academic year,” Robson said.

Michael Villavecer, 26, and his team created a

hands-free crutch for peo-ple with lower leg inju-ries, called the Passive Exo-Limb.

“A big focus for the proj-ect was designing some-thing that was a dynam-ic walking, h a n d s - f r e e crutch,” Villa-vecer said.

Their objec-tive is to de-sign a dynam-ic system over a static sys-tem, which is essentially a peg leg. Their design uses a bending knee that moves the lower leg in their h a n d s - f r e e crutch like an actual leg.

In comparison to exist-ing “stiff, static systems” on the market, “ours has this motion that gives it a more natural feel when

you are walking with it,” Villavecer said.

As a result of the stu-dents’ hard work, com-mitment and dedication throughout the year, Cal State Fullerton honored

the Passive Exo-Limb for People with Lower Leg Injuries proj-ect with the Best in Col-lege of Engi-neering and C o m p u t e r Science Over-all award, as well as the Ed Huizinga I n n o v a t i v e Idea – Spe-cial Mention award at the 2014 ECS

Showcase and Awards on May 9.

Vincent Rosas, a 23-year-old graduating senior, and his team cre-ated a prototype of wheel

bearings for the Pirates of the Caribbean Disneyland attraction.

“I think it turned out great,” Rosas said. “The whole experience of actu-ally getting to work with a company about improv-ing their product, it was a real learning experience for us.”

They felt very fortu-nate to work with Disney on the design and to also find ways to improve their product.

“Disney is top 10 in the United States with engi-neering companies,” Rosas said. “So many avenues we had to go down to figure out certain parts we need-ed to improve upon, let alone test on.”

Lexi Schaffer and her team created a visual weld inspection processing system.

“It is going to go under-neath the track in the (In-diana Jones Adventure ride) to take pictures of the

welds,” Schaffer said. Schaffer said the current

process Disney uses is very tedious and time-consum-ing, so this will eliminate the removal of the plates by “taking pictures auton-omously without having to remove plates.”

“Disney will be using our project, it just won’t go into production until the project is continued,” Schaffer said. “We are hop-ing that Disney will give us the okay to extend the re-mainder of the project to next year’s senior design class.”

Teamwork plays a pivot-al role in achieving a final, successful design.

“Our next step is K-12 outreach. We are plan-ning on presenting some of these projects to second graders in the Fountain Valley area school district and try to inspire Ameri-ca’s youth in the broad mul-tidisciplinary field of engi-neering,” Robson said.

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Seniors present projects for crutches, Disneyland rides

Advising to be revamped

Engineering students show off new innovations

As of May 5Advising for Child and Adolescent Development

Major Advising

Advised

Not Advised

General Advising

55.6%

27.18%

72.82%

44.4%

Not all departments have started using the new common communication system for advising. However, advisers can see numbers for some majors, such as child and adolescent development. About 55.6 percent of students majoring in this field have had major advising as of May 5.

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“The whole experience of

actually getting to work with a

company about improving their product, it was a real learning

experience for us.”VINCENT ROSASMechanical Engineering Major

Officer Steve Nelson of Cal State Fullerton Universi-ty Police received an award Thursday from the Orange County Auto Theft Advisory Committee (ATAC) for recov-ering $49,000 worth of stolen vehicles last year.

ATAC, the awarding agen-cy, is a partnership between law enforcement agencies, in-surance companies and and other auto-related compa-nies to reduce theft in Orange County. Every year, the com-mittee gives the top officer of the year award to the officer with the highest vehicle re-covery count.

In 2013, Nelson recovered

eight stolen vehicles within his regular patrol area which is a one-mile radius around the university.

Nelson’s high vehicle recov-ery count within such a small patrol area was what earned him an honorable mention award.

“It was an honor,” Nelson said. “I wasn’t trying to work for it. I happened to drive down the right street, at the right time, and pass the right car.”

He was one of 28 officers recognized for their efforts in reducing vehicle theft in Orange County, and he was the only officer to receive the honorable mention award.

Nelson noticed that most of the stolen cars were being found in or near gang neigh-borhoods, so he would fo-cus his patrol more on those areas.

However, Nelson gave most of the credit to the technology

officers are provided with. Patrol cars have an automat-ic license plate recognition device installed which scans license plates using infrared cameras attached around the car and alerts the officer when a car could be stolen. Seven of the vehicles Nelson recovered were with the help of the license plate recogni-tion device.

To Chief Dennis De-Maio, Nelson’s award was no surprise.

“He’s an excellent officer who is very humble, just puts his nose to the grind,” De-Maio said. “He cares about the mission to keep the stu-dents safe in this university and shows it everyday, and I couldn’t be any prouder.”

Nelson also received the Ashley Nelson award, an in-ternal honor named after a student who was killed in an accident by a drunk driver, in February. This

award is given to the officer with the most DUI arrests; Nelson made 38 DUI arrests in 2013.

But competitions and

awards don’t really matter to Nelson, he said.

“I’m not going to feed off the competition,” Nelson said. “I’m just going to keep

doing what I do.”Last year, there were

27 reports of stolen vehi-cles on campus, nine fewer than 2012.

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Steve Nelson tracked down eight stolen vehicles around CSUF

Officer honored for recovering cars

Steve Nelson (right), who was honored in February for making DUI arrests, recovered eight stolen vehicles which amounted to about $49,000 in value.

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The “titan pride” funds can go a long way to making Cal State Fullerton athletics more successful, Donovan said.

“Let’s face it … there’s no reason why Cal State Ful-lerton women’s tennis can’t be very successful,” Don-ovan said. “We have year-round playing conditions, nice courts centrally located in Southern California ... but when you only have two and a half scholarships, well then, there’s the reason.”

Currently, scholarships are limited by funding, but lack of revenue has limited teams in other ways as well. With-out necessary travel funds, teams may be limited to com-peting at tournaments close to home. That excludes them from competing at tour-naments farther away that could potentially provide better competition, Donovan said.

While athletic scholar-ships and team funds will af-fect only a small portion of

the campus population, the planned facilities improve-ments are drawn largely from student feedback, he said. Student athletes brought the issues to his attention via their coaches, and the new funds will allow the depart-ment to address them.

Student responses to the SSI survey called for addition-al lighting on the intramural fields used by club and intra-mural sports as well as by ki-nesiology classes.

“Now, once the sun sets (the intramural fields are not) available,” Donovan said. Adding lights could make the fields usable as late as mid-night and possibly early in the morning, he added.

Installing the lights comes with about a $2 million price tag. Donovan will be meeting with other administrators in the coming weeks to explore financing options for install-ing the lights, which is the one of the most expensive projects to be addressed. If financing can be approved, installation of the lights may begin as ear-ly as this summer.

Bringing lights to the intra-mural fields is one major proj-ect on the agenda, but many of the student fee-financed improvements come on a much smaller scale. Refur-bishing bathrooms, improv-ing landscaping and revamp-ing outdated rooms will also be covered under the new funding.

The Titan Gym will also re-ceive some of the new funds, as Donovan hopes to improve the ticketing and concession areas of the gym. Eventu-al improvements inside the gym include improving and repairing seats and repairing obvious defects.

Goodwin Field and An-derson Family Field, home to the baseball and soft-ball teams, respectively, will also be included in the plans for improvements. Lighting the fields so they are more suitable for high-definition broadcasts is one of the ma-jor projects being proposed for the stadiums. Currently, national stations that televise CSUF games have to bring in outside lighting to illuminate

the fields well enough for broadcast.

One softball game sched-uled as a doubleheader was cut short due to lack of light-ing, said Brad Justice, manag-er of the baseball and softball fields.

Concession stands in each of the stadiums will also be the focus of improvements with success fee funds. Like

many of the facilities, the stands are in need of improve-ment to improve the experi-ence of attendees, Donovan said. The concession stands at Goodwin Field are in particu-lar need of improvements.

“When we have ... 3,500 people coming to the base-ball game, (the concession stand is) sufficient; it’s just not as nice as we’d like it to

be,” Donovan said. “The trail-er, if it was a horse, we would shoot it.”

Improvements to facilities and team funding can be ex-pected to begin soon after funds from the success fee start rolling in, and the ad-ministration’s hope is that the students’ support will mean more successful athletics for the entire university.

ATHLETICSContinued from PAGE 1

New lighting a top priorityIn the past few years, the athletics department has had issues with deficits in its budget. The success fee, when fully implemented in fall 2016, will give about $2.1 million to the department each year.

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The baseball concession trailer has long been a priority to repair for the athletics department.ETHAN HAWKES / Daily Titan

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The Spring Harvard Youth Politics Poll has just been released, and the findings aren’t too favorable for the federal government—par-ticularly the Democratic party.

Only 32 percent of the polled students said they trust President Barack Obama to do the right thing. A measly 12 percent trust Congress. Another recent survey conducted by USA Today and the Pew Research Center showed that, for the first time in 10 years, more people are leaning toward the Republican candidates running for congress in their district.

These studies, along with others, mark a grow-ing trend of diminished fer-vor for the Democratic Par-ty among young voters. The Democrat Party has always been associated with young-er voters.

This was true six years ago when Obama was elect-ed thanks in part to one of the highest voter turnouts for the 18-to-25-year-old age bracket in this country.

So what happened? The growing disinterest in

politics and the Democrat party can be seen as correl-ative. With a Democrat in-cumbent and many prob-lems still facing America’s youth, it is easy to not have as much enthusiasm for the party.

Similarly, this poses the idea that Republican tactics can do a better job of fixing the many economic issues

that face the nation. The an-ger toward the Obama ad-ministration, in many but not all cases, stems from a fundamental misunder-standing of our government and economy.

When the recession struck many blamed Obama, even though the housing crisis that started years before Obama ever ran for office is what kicked it off.

Some U.S. citizens are quick to blame the president for any problem that strikes the country and then show dissatisfaction when the president doesn’t fix those problems fast enough.

However, Obama himself

is partially to blame for this dissatisfaction. Both his 2008 and 2012 campaigns capitalized on optimistic, al-beit simplistic, themes. His campaign used slogans like “Hope” and “Yes We Can” to appeal to the emotions.

Granted, this is a com-mon tactic in all of politics, but Obama truly exemplified the sentimental appeal. He had a classic, American and Drake-ian started-from-the-bottom story, had a gaggle of celebrity endorsements, and represented change; some-thing many wanted after the Bush era.

One cannot advocate themselves as the change

the nation needs without setting some up for disap-pointment. So when Obama was sworn in, and the coun-try’s problems did not dis-appear, it was natural to feel lied to. Particularly if you were a young, unjaded voter who wholly believed Obama.

“It wasn’t this beautiful Renaissance in our country,” said Tyler Gullbrand, pres-ident of the UNH College Democrats. “I think we ex-pected a lot more––maybe just out of hope.”

By aiming for emotions and youth, the Obama cam-paign fell victim to the dou-ble-edged sword that is The

Campaign Promise.Does this mean that

Obama’s Democratic tactics are faulty?

At the height of the reces-sion, the unemployment rate was at 10 percent. It is now 6.5 percent.

Many issues that face col-lege students specifically, namely student loan rates, have been championed by Obama and his administra-tion, notably in their Student Loan Forgiveness Program.

It should also be noted that the current Republican Congress members have had a history of trying to block measures and bills put forth by the Democrats, to the

point of shutting down the government.

Still, with a terrible roll-out of Healthcare.gov, drone strikes and troops still over-seas, the Obama admin-istration is left with valid criticisms.

With the Democrat Par-ty’s growing disapproval, the Republican party has, as is the nature of politics, tak-en the offensive. However, if the pendulum continues to swing further to the right, the Republicans may face the same problem of grab-bing as many dissatisfied voters as possible, only to set themselves up for unmet ex-pectations later on.

Young voters moving from the left to right

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The commandments of social media

The Ten Commandments of social media. Learn it, live it, love it. It will make life easier and more enjoy-able for everyone.

1. Thou shalt not post vague, whiny rants.

Everyone goes through tough times. Posting com-plaints on social media sites may be cathartic for you, but it’s annoying for ev-eryone else. Buy a journal.

2. Thou shalt not get of-fended without fully un-derstanding what it is that has you so upset.

The world is full of opin-ions, more than likely ones you won’t agree with. But flying off the handle and claiming you’re offended by something you don’t ac-tually understand will only make you look like a fool. Read the full article or post. Consider why the author came to this line of think-ing and then think about what you’re hoping to gain from your response.

3. Thou shalt consider thy audience.

You know who wants to see pictures of your kids, siblings, nephews and niec-es? Family members. That’s it. OK, maybe a few close friends. But the vast ma-jority of your 864 Facebook friends or Twitter follow-ers could not care less that your 3-year-old cousin has a tee-ball game on Sunday. Speaking of which, don’t invite people to events you know they will never even consider attending other-wise. It’s awkward for ev-eryone involved.

4. Thou shalt not post every meal ever consumed.

We get it, you like deli-cious food. You know who else likes delicious food? Everyone. Much like the Fourth Commandment, very few people care about the turkey and cheese sand-wich you had for lunch. No-table exceptions to this in-clude special occasions, ridiculously fancy/ex-pensive meals (but only if they’re a rare occurrence), horrible mishaps in the kitchen that everyone can laugh at, and exceptional homemade recipes that are

then shared.5. Thou shalt check

Snopes.com before post-ing any news articles that seem too good to be true.

No, your uncle doesn’t know a guy who found a Harley Davidson once owned by Elvis, that lady was not rescued off an is-land thanks to Google Maps, and the average per-son does not swallow eight spiders per year. All of these rumors have been dis-proved. Also, if you do de-cide to post something and get called out on it, don’t get upset. You should have done your research before proclaiming to the world that drinking Mountain Dew will shrink a man’s tes-ticles. Newsflash, it won’t.

6. Thou shalt not try to guilt one’s friends and/or followers into liking or retweeting something in support of another per-son or a cause they know nothing about.

That’s great that you liked the picture of the kids on Facebook holding the sign that says their mom will quit smoking if they get one million likes. Good for you. Now leave the normal

people alone. Those posts mean nothing. Other than you’re gullible and probably have a guilty conscience.

7. Thou shalt not ask ce-lebrities or brands to fol-low you.

Why should they follow? Famous people rarely run their own account. Celeb-rities like 50 Cent and Brit-ney Spears have people to run their social media ac-counts, as does President Barack Obama, according to a 2009 New York Times article. They have far better things to do with their time than to comb through thou-sands of mentions from people either telling them how much they hate them, how much they love them, or trying to solicit money from them. Asking some-one to follow you on social media might be the ulti-mate act of desperation.

8. Thou shalt realize that Reddit exists.

Not everyone uses Red-dit, and that’s perfectly fine. But all those hilarious pic-tures you insist on posting and tweeting more than likely originated there. Red-dit is kind of like the begin-ning of the Internet. This means a lot of people have

already seen that picture of the cat you think is just too funny not to share. Don’t take it personally when it doesn’t get liked, retweeted or favorited. It’s old news to a lot of people.

9. Thou shalt not post/tweet anything you wouldn’t say to someone in person.

Don’t be a keyboard war-rior. Just because there’s a computer screen in front of you does not mean there isn’t a real person on the other end. If you’re legiti-mately upset with someone, be a human and reach out to them to resolve it. Don’t post an insulting comment that you know will do noth-ing but make the situation worse. Grow up.

10. Thou shalt have fun.

Social media is there for everyone to share those stupid cat pictures and laugh at old photos from freshman year in high school. Don’t be the per-son who posts the atten-tion-seeking “woe is me” status. Be the person who posts the picture from the senior prom when you spilled punch all over your-self and/or your date.

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In Cal State Fullerton’s Dan Black Hall there is a freezer. In all appearances, there seems to be nothing special about the common kitchen appliance. However, behind its door TV dinners or ice cream are nowhere to be found, but instead the frozen remains of a real-life sea monster.

The freezer belongs to Misty Paig-Tran, Ph.D., a CSUF assistant biology pro-fessor, and the frozen sea monster is the 14-foot-long oarfish that washed ashore last October.

“I like weird fish,” Paig-Tran said. “I really liked bioluminescence, so every-thing that glowed is why I went into marine biology.“

Paig-Tran is a marine bi-ologist who specializes in biomechanics, which uses established engineering sci-ences to analyze biological anatomy and systems. Grow-ing up in Southern California made it easy for her to fall in love with the ocean and ma-rine biology at an early age. It wasn’t until graduate school, though, when she discovered her interest in the biome-chanics of fish.

When an almost com-pletely intact oarfish washed ashore in Oceans-ide, it was a dream come true for any ‘weird fish’ lover and biomechanic. With al-most nothing known about the mysterious fish, it was also enticing for marine

biologists curious about the anatomy of deep-sea organisms.

Paig-Tran acquired the fish last year with the per-mission of National Ocean-ographic and Atmospher-ic Administration. She said she hopes her research on the mysterious creature, as well as her other research, helps her achieve her goal of becoming a tenured profes-sor at CSUF.

The study of bizarre and unique fish seems to be a fixation of Paig-Tran’s. Her focus of study is on some of the most unique animals in the ocean. She observes the mechanics of filter feeding in large marine organisms.

Filter feeding is the way some marine animals strain and then eat suspended food particles from water.

The animals’ filter feed-ing methods can vary great-ly between species. Some of Paig-Tran’s earlier research was on how manta rays and devil rays filter feed.

After observing the struc-ture and shapes of the rays, she used a series of two-liter Sprite bottles to mimic the structure of the rays’ mouth and throat.

From her replica rays she was able to determine that the way the rays eat is sim-ilar to a Dyson vacuum called cyclonic filtration.

As the rays swim through the water, any particle they ingest gets caught in a very powerful cyclone that is cre-ated by the body shape of the ray.

“What happens is as par-ticles are either very dense or very big they are not go-ing to be able to follow that cyclonic motion, they’ll spew out on the sides. Kind

of like if you think of (the movie Twister) the cow at the end. The cow gets spit out before the smaller things get spit out. It is ex-actly the same thing,” Paig-Tran said. “As that cyclone gets smaller and smaller sort of like your bathwa-ter … It starts with the big round part of the cyclone and then it goes down into a small cone and exits out of your bathwater, the same thing is happening so small-er and smaller particles get filtered out until small that they leave with the water.”

This was the first time the process had ever been seen biologically. Paig-Tran also discovered the speed at which the rays travel through the water also determines the size of food their vortex allows them to eat.

Now that Paig-Tran is full-time professor at CSUF, with her own lab and re-search student, she plans to make studying the oarfish a priority for her lab.

Andrew Barrios, a 23-year-old biology major, is her first research student at CSUF. He is working on go-ing through the 75,000 com-puted tomography scan im-ages of the oarfish in order to make a complete model of the fish.

“I’ve made a complete 3-D model of the vertebrae of the oarfish. We’re looking at these hyper-ossified parts in the skeleton,” Barrios said. “Right now, I’m making fig-ures for a paper we’re work-ing on together.”

Possibly the most inter-esting information the lab has uncovered about the oarfish is the hyperossifica-tion on all its bones.

At the tips of all the oarfish’s jelly-like bones, they each have a hyper-os-sified part, or an extra hard bone-like spur.

Paig-Tran said she be-lieves this is the way the oarfish moves in the water.

If the muscles of the

oarfish only had some-thing jelly-like to pull on, it would not be able to move in the deep. Howev-er, if it has a little spot on its bones that’s very stiff, its muscle could pull on the spot and move pretty well, she said.

“We’re finding that it has really strange anatomical structures in its skeleton. We’ve certainly seen simi-lar structure in other fish-es, but not this extreme,” Paig-Tran said. “It turns out that the oarfish is a pretty extreme fish.”

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By studying oarfish, professor hopes to become tenured

Misty Paig-Tran, Ph.D., an asisstant biology professor at Cal State Fullerton, teaches her field marine biology class about carniverous sea slugs in the field in Long Beach.

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For someone who has never been out of the United States before, the realization of being in an-other country begins to sink in once you get off the plane. At least that’s how it was for me.

I’ll try to be honest about my experience thus far in South Korea, but I’m still in the “honeymoon phase” of being a teacher over here.

The one question peo-ple asked me the months, weeks and even days, be-fore my trip is, “has it sunk in yet?”

The 13-hour f light was surprisingly bearable. If you’ve ever f lown interna-tionally, then you should know, and have experi-enced, the complimentary alcoholic drinks.

Needless to say, I took

full advantage of the air-plane services. I had two glasses of white wine, a Budweiser, two meals and too many pretzels. I watched movies, such as Captain Phillips, The But-ler and Groundhog Day. I also took two or three naps and played Tetris for an hour or two.

After the plane landed, I found a woman hold-ing up the “Mr. Julian Lo-pez” sign. It was Anna, my recruiter. She and I hopped on a bus to head to the hectic sector of the airport.

While on the bus, I got to see Seoul at night for the first time. The lights are spectacular and bril-liantly strung along a beautiful metropolitan skyline.

After making the initial “nice to meet you” chit-chat with Anna, we talk-ed about life in Korea, and she enjoyed every aspect of it. That was the first of many reliefs for me.

The biggest relief came when I met my coworkers

and boss the next day at work. I work with five Ko-rean teachers, two Amer-ican teachers and the principal. I work about 30 hours a week, which is split up between 10 hours of prep and 20 hours in the classroom.

I find that the biggest drawback of my job is communicating with the kids.

Their English is a few tiers below basic, but that’s expected. As with any school, some show up to learn and some just show up because their parents want them to get a leg-up in the world.

South Korea is not that different from where I’m from in Orange Coun-ty. In Jinjeop-eup, the small town about an hour south of Seoul where I found this teaching gig, there are a few remedies that one would find in or around Orange Coun-ty. Jinjeop-eup has cafes, pharmacies, markets and a McDonald’s.

Some words of advice, if

you plan on teaching here, or anywhere for that mat-ter, start learning the lan-guage now. I’m getting by on the bowing, smiling and saying hello, goodbye and thank you, but I’d like to know more. I’m going to be here for the next 11 months.

What I’ve learned about Korea so far is that some-times you need to put faith in the person you are communicating with. No-body out here is trying to mess with foreigners, al-though I’m sure there are some people in Seoul, and a few in every small town, that might.

Keeping a sense of ad-venture and an open mind are truly essential tools for an expedition like this. I’ve been to Seoul three times in four weeks, I’ve tried food I thought nev-er existed, I’ve met amaz-ing people and the biggest lesson I’m in the process of learning at this mo-ment is semi-self-reli-ance—what every post-grad needs.

Finding a cure for can-cer is probably easier than putting five kids to bed. I learned this while work-ing as a nanny for my best friend this past summer.

In all of my years of working, I had never had a job that required so much out of me. The kids were supposed to be in bed at 8 p.m. every night. But 8 p.m. would turn into 9 p.m. and 9 p.m. would turn into 10 p.m., and so on.

On this particular night, the clock’s digital reading of 9 p.m. silently accused me as I laid on the small bed squished between two of the five children I was taking care of.

Let me start at the be-ginning, or at least rewind a little bit. The mother of these five children was my closest friend. She had re-cently moved to Florida after sepa-rating from her husband and desper-ately need-ed a nanny. I packed my life up and headed to Orlando.

But now, I wondered if I was adequately prepared for the responsibility I had taken on.

I consider myself a fair-ly responsible person. I maintained a 3.8 GPA as a student at Cal State Fullerton while working at the Cheesecake Fac-tory and as a teacher’s assistant.

All of this taught me how to juggle several hu-mans at once.

I had always been able to hold my own, no mat-ter what was thrown at me–and I had always had a deep love for children.

Yet here I was trying to work as a nanny for these five children, which meant I had five new boss-es, five demanding new bosses who didn’t real-ly care what my person-al needs were. Sleeping past 6 a.m., peeing with

my bathroom door shut, watching non-animated shows and eating while sitting down quickly went out the door.

Whatever illusions I had about being a nanny quickly faded as reality set in.

The kids made endless bedtime requests, such as needing a glass of particu-lar milk and help brushing their teeth with special toothpaste.

Those nightly requests always helped the chil-dren manipulate me into letting them stay up past their bedtime.

It wasn’t just getting the kids into bed on time that proved to be a difficult task. Simple things, such as driving and going out to eat proved to be far more difficult than I would have ever imagined.

Now if you’re thinking a single college gal walking around with five kids gar-ners a lot of unwanted at-tention, then you would be correct.

Everywhere we went, people would stop to com-

ment on the fact that my five children were beauti-ful, well-be-haved and tell me that I looked so cute and young to be the moth-er of five children.

I didn’t know whether I was sup-posed to be flattered or of-fended by this–it seemed like a backhanded compli-ment to me.

After constantly cor-recting strangers, I start-ed to just go along with it to save time.

I experienced a lot as a nanny. From playing ref-eree while the kids fought over ice cream, carrying them around during the summer heat to taking gum out of one of the kid’s hair.

I found myself filled with newfound empathy for stay-at-home moms.

After two months of liv-ing like this, I returned to Orange County. I thought I would enjoy the freedom more, but there are days that I find myself missing the kids and wondering what they are doing.

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Learning to adjust to a new countryJulian Lopez is a Cal State Fullerton alumni who is teaching in South Korea. He visited the country’s capital, Seoul, three times in four weeks.

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Summer is prime time for local concerts and mu-sic festivals.

The Observatory in Or-ange County is a venue that will host several concerts and festivals over the sum-mer. The concert lineups range from acts such as The Horrors to Kid Ink.

One of the first festi-vals that the Observatory in Orange County has set for this summer is Burger a-Go-Go!

The Observatory is pair-ing up with Burger Records to put on Burger a-Go-Go! The festival will show-case Best Coast, Dum Dum Girls, Bleached, Shannon & The Clams, The Fly Traps, Meow Twins and many more.

Best Coast is the featured headliner for the festival. The American rock duo was formed in Los Angeles in 2009. Best Coast is led by vocalist Bethany Cosentino and the multi-instrumen-talist Bobb Bruno. Cosen-tino said her songs have been influenced by Blond-ie, Patsy Cline and others, according to the band’s website.

Best Coast is set to re-lease a new album this summer after the success of their first three albums: Crazy for You, The Only Place and Fade Away. Their latest album has a new confident sound and feel,

according to the band’s website.

“It (Fade Away) reflects the increased confidence that Cosentino and her bandmate … gained in the three surreal years since their break-through al-bum,” according to the of-ficial Best Coast website.

The band’s success has given them opportunities to perform with Green Day, No Doubt, Kendrick Lamar and Iggy Pop. The band has also worked with ac-tress Drew Barrymore who directed one of its music videos.

In addition, Consentino

has created her own record label, which she named Jewel City.

Los An-g e l e s - b a s e d indie rock group Dum Dum Girls will also be taking the stage at Burg-er a-Go-Go. The band was created by lead singer Dee Dee Pen-ny (aka Kris-tin Welchez). Penny said that she is

appreciative at the pop-ularity the band has gar-nered, ac-cording to the band’s website.

“Here is my best attempt at joining the r o c k ’ n ’ r o l l ranks, of chasing pop into the dark, and I am as ever, hum-bled that you listen,” Pen-ny said on

the Dum Dum Girls official

website.The group was formed

in 2008 and just recent-ly released their third full-length album, Too True, earlier this year.

Another band perform-ing at the festival is rock band Bleached, and their first full-length album, Ride Your Heart, is out now. Bleached has drawn their musical influence from bands like the Misfits, Roll-ing Stones, Fleetwood Mac and Metallica, according to the band’s official Face-book page.

The festival will con-sist of performances from

21 bands. All the perform-ers for the event have a fe-male-dominant spice to them. The other bands set to perform include Sum-mer Twins, Peach Kel-li Pop, Death Valley Girls, LA Witch and Teenage Burritos.

The Observatory is on Harbor Boulevard in San-ta Ana. Burger-a-Go-Go! will take place Saturday Aug. 2 and doors open at 4 p.m. The event is open to all ages. Tickets are for sale through the Observatory’s website, starting at $32.50. For more information go to ObservatoryOC.com.

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Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, members of the band Best Coast, are the headlining act for this year’s Burger a-Go-Go! summer music festival taking place at the Observatory in Santa Ana on Saturday, Aug. 2. Best Coast will be sharing the stage with 20 other bands and artists for the one-day event.

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Calling all boho babes, vintage vixens and hip-ster cowboys! Buffalo Ex-change will celebrate 40 years of fashion with an Airstream trailer pop-up shop this week in Orange County.

Buffalo Exchange has been the go-to buy-sell-trade store since it opened in 1974 in Tucson, Ari-zona. Frugal shoppers nationwide f lock to the store, which is home to unique pieces at bud-get-friendly prices. It has become one of the most fashionable names in vin-tage shopping in Orange County and was voted the best vintage store by OC Weekly in 2013.

To mark its anniversary, the store is taking a nod from trendy food trucks by creating a mobile shop that can be hauled across the country. The tour be-gan in early March in Tucson, Arizona and will conclude next week in Boulder, Colorado.

The pop-up shop has a select amount of hand-picked merchandise rang-ing from Western wear to f lowing bohemian frocks. It also boasts of clothing and accessories inspired by different regions, in-cluding Hawaiian shirts and Southwestern jewel-ry. Each city features mer-chandise curated for the specific location.

Every era lends itself into creating the eclectic shop. Earlier stops sold a variety of goods includ-ing 1960s roller skates and 1970s kimonos.

Aside from the shop-ping, the transformed hippie trailer is an at-traction unto itself. A ve-hicle has been toting the 25-foot trailer, circa 1969, from city to city. The Air-stream’s silver exterior is decked in commissioned tattoo art inspired by “ret-ro cowgirls,” according to a press release.

The redesigned interi-or went through a trav-el-themed and vintage-in-spired makeover before getting the approval to hit the road.

“In keeping with the company theme of recy-cling, almost everything in the trailer was pur-chased at thrift stores, f lea markets, and salvage yards,” according to a press release.

The trailer has been refurbished with repur-posed materials to create a vintage feel. Old suitcas-es are used as shelving, sewing spools have been turned into drawer pulls

and sewing machine cab-inets serve as armoires. Plumbing pipes are fash-ioned as wall racks and pay homage to the orig-inal shelves used in the first Buffalo Exchange store.

Celebrating the store’s 40th anniversary by searching for fabulous finds may be the initial motivation for shoppers when stopping at the pop-up shop. However, Buffalo Exchange has many other accomplishments to cele-brate as well.

The retailer has raised nearly $525,000 for local nonprofit organizations and has helped the en-vironment by eliminat-ing the use of 10.4 million bags through its Tokens for Bags program.

The store may also be credited with helping to put sustainable shop-ping on the map as a trendy way to purchase clothing.

Fans of the retailer traveled long distanc-es to attend the pop-up, some even attended

multiple events in differ-ent locales.

“Many people had their calendars marked, and even journeyed up to three hours to check out the goods we had,” the store reported on its blog.

The tour will host spe-cial events at each stop, including promotions and giveaways.

The Buffalo Exchange Airstream pop-up shop will be in the Fullerton Promenade May 14 and at The Lab in Costa Mesa on May 15.

As finals week falls upon Cal State Fullerton, the talented students of this semester’s theatre productions must be ex-haling sighs of relief to see their season finally come to an end. The CSUF Department of Theatre and Dance’s sterling rep-utation was maintained with this semester’s cap-tivating productions.

The fall 2013 semes-ter brought such shows as 12 Angry Jurors, Much Ado About Nothing, Xana-du, and Inspecting Car-ol. With the amazing amounts of drama and comedy showcased by students and faculty, fall 2013 was a tough season to follow and follow it they did.

Many of the stu-dents that appeared in those pro-duction, as well as other B.A. and BFA students re-turned this semester to grace the stage with their talents.

The spring 2014 season began with D o l l h o u s e , the ‘60s ren-dition of Henrik Ibsen’s classic drama adapted by The-resa Rebeck. The adapta-tion follows Ibsen’s orig-inal plot and themes of challenging gender roles, but takes place in a more contemporary suburban setting.

Direction-wise, Doll-house was a slow start to the spring season. Some of the show’s complex themes and devices were not as clearly conveyed as they could have been.

But despite that, the production featured fan-tastic emotional perfor-mances from its leads that were a pleasure to watch.

The season then picked up speed with the off-col-or comedy, The School For Lies. Adapted from Molière’s The Misan-thrope, the play sticks to the original 17th centu-ry setting and dialog of rhyming verses, but is mixed with the vulgar and modern humor of Da-vid Ives.

The performers of The School For Lies f lawlessly

brought the larger-than-life characters to the stage, permeating the el-evated language with sex-ualized humor. A beauti-ful early-modern French drawing room was con-ceived by the set design-ers, and worked perfectly on the thrust stage of the Young Theatre.

Eve Himmelheber, the director of Xanadu during the fall semester, brought her musical theatre mag-ic to Legally Blonde, The Musical. The unashamed-ly girly musical has been a favorite of Himmelheber’s and this semester was fi-nally her chance to direct it.

This spectacle featured a marvelous cast of lead performers and vocalists as well as a large, talent-ed ensemble and sent au-diences home with show tunes stuck in their head. With about a dozen dif-ferent settings that the musical takes place in, the scenic design crew brought a multitude of

different vi-sually ap-pealing and f u n c t i o n -al set piec-es to the production.

In addi-tion to the theatre pro-d u c t i o n s , this year also featured c o n c e p t u -al fall and spring dance shows and 12’x16’ Dance from CSUF’s aw a r d -w i n -

ning dancers and choreographers.

12’x16’ Dance was pro-duced at Grand Central Art Center along with other CSUF productions Replica, The Altruist, The Dream of The Burning Boy and spring BFA Cabarets, which begins May 13.

This season’s main stage shows finished off with And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery. The drama encompassed a black-and-white, film noir concept that set it-self apart from other productions.

The set design, cos-tumes and hair and makeup all fell into the gray-scale color scheme and made for an aston-ishingly well done visual aesthetic.

In addition to the daz-zling concept, each actor gave an impeccable per-formance that heightened the suspense.

CSUF continues its high theatrical standards held in this season as it prepares for the fall 2014 season.

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CSUF closes the curtain on spring season

ZACK JOHNSTONDaily Titan

The 2014 theatre and dance spring season delivered acts

With the amazing amounts of drama

and comedy showcased by students and

faculty, fall 2013 was a tough

season to follow and follow it they

did.

The Buffalo Exchange 40th anniversary pop-up shop takes the form of a redesigned 25-foot Airstream trailer stocked with hand-picked merchandise representing the best of the vintage retailers clothing and accessories selection.

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Buffalo Exchange pop-up shop to make stops in OC

The pop-up shop will be making its Fullerton stop at the Fullerton Promenade on May 14 and then will continue its travels to The Lab in Costa Mesa on May 15.

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The musical talent of one of Cal State Fullerton’s own will fill the halls of one of New York’s most prized musical land-marks in the performance of a lifetime.

CSUF alumna and current In-diana University graduate stu-dent, Michelle Do, will have the great fortune to showcase her talents at the American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2014 at Carnegie Hall in New York City later this month.

The 23-year-old Yorba Linda native has been playing piano since the ripe age of 6 years old, when she was given her first les-son by her mother who was also a pianist when she lived in Viet-nam. She then started study-ing with her first teacher, Sofia Zukerman. Do studied under Zukerman for 10 years.

Zukerman has been a mon-umental inf luence in her ear-ly musical growth and training, Do said.

She continued to pursue mu-sic for her undergraduate de-gree, which she earned at Cal State Fullerton. During her time in the music program, she worked closely with music pro-fessor Alison Edwards, who she said she clicked with instantly.

“Alison was absolutely amaz-ing for me,” Do said. “She re-mains a really good mentor to me to this day.”

Do was one of 500 applicants to enter the American Protégé competition. Only approximate-ly 20 of those applicants were chosen for the final performance at the end of this month.

Do said she is passionate

about performing and the ac-tual performance aspect of her Carnegie Hall debut is what she is most looking forward to about the experience.

“I really, really love perform-ing. Just to be on stage is … this huge rush and it feels almost surreal when you get on there,” Do said.

Although she said her ex-citement for the opportunity is overshadowing her nerves, when she finally takes the stage she is sure a little performance anxiety will take effect.

”It’s going to be silent and the only thing that’s going to break the silence is me, so I have to do everything right,” Do said.

She said she is also looking forward to having the opportu-nity to showcase her interpreta-tion of a classic piece of music that has been played countless times by countless musicians to a semi-professional audience.

Do will also have her family supporting her during her perfor-mance. Her mother and godmoth-er will be making the trip from Southern California to the heart

of New York City to see Do show-case her talent on a grand stage.

She is looking forward to be-ing able to perform for her fam-ily in such a prestigious venue, especially considering her god-mother’s age.

“I don’t know if she has that many years left, so for her to be able to see me play in a hall of this caliber is pretty fantastic,” Do said.

She will be moving back to Southern California to contin-ue her education at USC this fall, where she will be working toward

her doctoral degree in piano. Do said she hopes to eventual-

ly take after the instructors and professors who have inspired and fostered her success as a musician.

Ultimately, she would like to teach music at the college or university level while still fol-lowing her passion for perform-ing on the side.

Do will perform in the Amer-ican Protégé Winners Recit-al on May 26 at Carnegie Hall. This is her first international competition.

CSUF to Carnegie HallMIA MCCORMICKDaily Titan

Cal State Fullerton alumna to perform in international concert

CSUF alumna Michelle Do, 23, of Yorba Linda, will take the grand Carnegie Hall stage in her first international competitive concert at the American Protégé Winners Recital on May 26. Do was chosen out of 500 applicants from around the world to perform in the concert.

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The Cal State Fullerton baseball team dropped the first of a three-game series against the UC Riverside Highlanders, 3-2, Friday at Goodwin Field.

Senior Jacob Smigelski (7-5) took the mound for the Highlanders.

He leads the Highlanders in wins, innings pitched and strikeouts.

Despite leading his team in those categories, he is susceptible to allowing nu-merous baserunners per inning.

The Titans threatened ear-ly when Smigelski walked junior outfielder Clay Wil-liamson to lead off the first inning.

Junior J.D. Davis singled to put runners on the corners with one out. Junior third baseman Matt Chapman drew his 21st walk of the sea-son to load the bases.

Sophomore David Olme-do-Barrera grounded into a double play to end the inning.

The double play silenced the crowd and visibly disap-pointed the team.

“It was a huge momentum swing for them. We were ag-gressive, but it turned out not in our favor,” Davis said.

Thomas Eshelman (6-3) started on the mound for the Titans for the 13th time this season.

He had pitched 25 in-nings in his last three starts,

striking out 17 and carrying a meager earned run average of 1.08.

Eshelman breezed through the first inning with no trouble.

The Highlanders put pres-sure on him in the second.

Senior right fielder David Andriese and Thomas Walk-er led off the inning hitting back-to-back singles to put runners on the corners with nobody out.

Designated hitter Drake Zarate laid down a safety squeeze bunt, scoring An-driese to put the Highlanders up 1-0.

“Everybody is going to get hits. That’s just the way it is, it’s baseball,” Eshelman said. “I had to make my adjust-ments early off this team. They put some good swings together.”

Eshelman was unable to keep the Highlanders off the scoreboard in the third as well.

Center fielder Devyn Bo-lasky singled with one out. Shortstop Nick Vilter hit a home run to put the High-landers up 3-0.

The two-run blast was Vilter’s 10th of the season, which leads the Big West.

It was smooth sailing for Eshelman from the fourth in-ning through the end of the game.

He finished the game al-lowing nine hits and struck out a career-high 12 batters.

“I think my cutter was the pitch that really worked for me tonight. They were swing-ing over the top of it. These guys were aggressive early in the count so I’d throw it for a strike then throw it extend-ed,” Eshelman said.

Friday marked Eshelman’s

third consecutive complete game and second straight complete-game loss.

“It’s rough but you gotta just put your head down. It’s motivation for me to get bet-ter and hopefully get a win under my belt after these last two,” Eshelman said.

The Titan offense missed an opportunity for a big in-ning in the third.

Williamson led off the in-ning with a triple.

First baseman Tanner Pinkston singled to drive in a run.

Davis singled to put run-ners on first and second base

with nobody out. Chapman hit a sacrifice

fly to center field and Pink-ston tagged up to advance to third.

The Highlander bench pointed out that Pinkston left the base early and um-pire Joe Maiden ruled Pink-ston out.

“I actually didn’t have him leaving early but unfortu-nately I wasn’t umpiring to-night,” interim coach Mike Kirby said.

Davis had four of the Ti-tans’ eight hits on the night and was the only Titan to re-cord a multi-hit game.

“I went back to what I was doing early in the season and just tried to hit it up the mid-dle, get a good swing off and square the ball up,” Davis said.

The loss puts the Titans in

fifth place in the Big West, trailing the Highlanders who sit in fourth place.

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

Titan bats fail Eshelman

Despite a single and a run batted in by Pinkston, the Titan offense could not get going on Friday night against UC Riverside. CSUF dropped the opening game of the three-game set, failing to move up from fifth place in the Big West Conference standings.

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Baseball evens series with Garza gem

The Cal State Fullerton baseball team (25-21, 8-9 Big West) continued its three-game series at Goodwin Field against UC Riverside, and they evened it out by defeat-ing the Highlanders, 6-0.

Sophomore Justin Garza made the start for the Titans and shined on the mound, t h r o w i n g eight shutout innings and striking out six batters.

“Just keep them in the game. That’s pretty much it. I’m not saying I have to throw a shutout but just get ahead in my pitch-es and throw strikes,” Garza said.

This was Garza’s first start where he pitched his entire time without allowing a run since Feb. 22 against the Uni-versity of San Francisco.

Garza has managed to find his groove since return-ing from injury early in the season.

“I thought I’ve had flashes of it the past couple of starts. I’ve felt the same on pretty much all my starts,” Garza said.

Interim Head Coach Mike Kirby was also ob-servant of Garza’s steady improvement.

“Justin has been getting

better week by week. Coach (Jason) Dietrich’s doing a fab-ulous job with him as well as the rest of the guys, but Justin has been getting better every start for me,” Kirby said. “I thought tonight he was real-ly good. He had a really good delivery going. The ball was flying out of his hand. He was working from the bottom of the zone up, and he did an outstanding job tonight.”

The Titans also performed relatively well at the plate. In the third inning, junior out-fielder Clay Williamson got

things started for CSUF with an RBI single. Williamson ex-tended his hit-ting streak to 10 games.

“I’m seeing the ball good. When you get in a groove like that, a bunch of other guys start hitting well too so it’s all kind of just getting put together,” Wil-liamson said.

Senior in-fielder Keegan Dale drove in

another run for the Titans in the third with a sacrifice bunt.

The hitting stayed relative-ly quiet for the next several innings, but the Highland-ers threatened in the top of the fifth inning with a triple. Garza escaped the jam with a pop fly.

Garza escaped another jam in the top of the sixth in-ning when he allowed a sin-gle and walked a batter, but the two runners were left on base when junior Drake Za-rate grounded into a fielder’s choice.

After Garza retired the

Highlanders in quick fashion for his last two innings, the Titans added some insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth.

Sophomore infielder Taylor Bryant drove in the first run of the inning with a fielder’s choice ground out, and senior catcher Jared Deacon scored on a throwing error after leading off the inning with a double.

After the bases were load-ed on a walk by Dale and a single by junior J.D. Davis, junior third baseman Matt Chapman hit a deep fly ball to right field and drove in a run

to give the Titans a 4-0 lead.Sophomore David Olme-

do-Barrera extended the Ti-tans’ lead with a two-run single.

Junior pitcher Koby Gauna finished off the game in the ninth, and he disposed of the Highlanders in quick fash-ion to seal the win for the Titans.

The Titans have nine games remaining in the sea-son, and they will look to build on this win and sneak into the postseason.

“Right now we’re chasing so it’s do or die for us. We got-ta win every game we can

and come out and just try to play baseball the right way,” Williamson said.

CSUF has one game re-maining against the High-landers, and they will look to

win the series and put their Big West record at .500.

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

Sophomore pitcher Justin Garza hurled eight shutout innings to record his fourth win of the season. Garza struck out six Highlanders while surrendering only six hits. Garza’s eight innings were the furthest he has pitched into a game since Mar. 1 against Oregon.

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ARIES (MARCH 21 - APRIL 19):

Friendship is becoming more and more important to you as the moon helps you to see how lucky you are. You have many wonderful people in your life, so remember to be thankful. This week you and a close friend could enjoy im-portant chats about your personal life

TAURUS(APRIL 20 - MAY 20):

With the moon opposite your sign, it’s important to remain true to yourself. If you’re involved with someone, make sure that you’re not just going along with whatever your sweetheart com-mands you to do. Be careful to find ways to remain an individual.

GEMINI(MAY 21 - JUNE 20):

Someone you used to date could turn up again when you least expect it. This isn’t necessarily a good thing. Venus is reminding you that sometimes the past is best left in the past. Don’t try to force a reunion with this person if it doesn’t feel right.

CANCER (JUNE 21 - JULY 22):

You could be trying to figure out what it means to be in love or to be in a com-mitted relationship. The moon has you doing a lot of soul searching. This is a good process. The important thing is to make choices that work for you.

LEO(JULY 23 - AUG. 22):

Someone is falling for you, and you might not even be aware of it. Venus is showing you that a friend, neighbor or acquaintance is getting quite attached to you. You need to be careful. Don’t break this person’s heart by leading him or her on.

VIRGO(AUG. 23 - SEPT. 22):

It’s important not to be too critical or bossy with your honey. As a practical Earth sign, you can be very picky. But don’t try to make your partner perfect, since you’re not perfect, either. The sun is telling you to play it cool.

LIBRA(SEPT. 23 - OCT. 22):

You’re in an artistic mood now since Mercury is heightening your imagina-tion. You could write a love poem or a romantic song for your honey. Or you might compose a sexy email or text mes-sage to tantalize your partner.

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There’s a full moon in your sign now, and this means that your emotions could be really intense. You have some things you need to get off your chest. Just don’t slime your partner with too much anger if you’re in a cranky mood.

SAGITTARIUS(NOV. 22 - DEC. 21):

Your honey might need help with some-thing this week. Venus is showing you that a partnership requires giving and being generous, sometimes at the most inconvenient time. Even if you’re busy, you have some work to do.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22 - JAN. 19):

You probably feel that your partner is being unreasonable about something. Maybe you’re right, but maybe you’re wrong. Venus says don’t jump to con-clusions. Try to be empathetic and fig-ure out what’s really going on with your sweetheart.

AQUARIUS(JA. 20 - FEB. 18):

Communication will be rapid for you right now. Just don’t get so caught up in sending emails and texts that you forget to connect face to face with your hon-ey. You need to make sure that the two of you are spending some quality time together.

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The moon could be making you extra weepy. You’ll cry at diaper commercials or lose your mind when your boyfriend asks you how you’re doing. You prob-ably need some time to rest and relax since you’ve been stressed out.

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The Cal State Fullerton soft-ball team got off to a hot start in its last series of the season, taking both games in the dou-bleheader on Friday against Cal State Northridge.

After having their four-game winning streak snapped by UC Davis, the Titans re-bounded in the series opener by routing the CSUN, 14-1.

Leading 5-1, the Titans (32-21-1, 12-8 Big West) explod-ed for nine runs in the sev-enth inning to put the game completely out of reach from CSUN (31-25, 8-12 Big West).

Sophomore third baseman Missy Taukeiaho was a night-mare for Matador pitchers, going three-for-four with five runs batted in. In the sixth in-ning, Taukeiaho hit her 18th home run of the season, mov-ing her into a tie for second place in conference history for most home runs in a single season.

Sydney Colenzo gave a possible preview of things to come in the coming seasons

with a four-for-five perfor-mance. The freshman from Downey knocked in two runs while scoring one run of her own. Her two-run ground rule double in the seventh was the last of the scoring for CSUF.

First baseman Eliza Craw-ford chipped in with three runs batted in of her own, go-ing one-for-three with a dou-ble. The junior’s two-run dou-ble in the third inning got the scoring started for CSUF.

In the circle, freshman Christina Washington picked up her 12th victory of the sea-son, allowing seven hits in a complete-game effort.

The lone run came in the fourth inning when the Mat-adors’ Katie Hooper hit a solo home run to center field. Hooper was two-for-three and was the only Matador to collect multiple hits in the game.

Matadors’ pitcher Brianna Elder dropped to 22-12 on the season after giving up a sea-son-high 10 hits to a Titan of-fense that got 12 hits for the game. Elder entered the game having struck out a team-high 132 batters, but only managed two strikeouts against the Titans.

Elder threw an incredi-ble 148 pitches in six innings

before giving way for reliev-er Crystal Maas, who allowed two hits and one run to the five batters she faced.

Senior shortstop Gabby Aragon was two-for-three with one run batted in. Ara-gon drew two walks, includ-ing one in the big seventh inning, which brought in Taukeiaho to score.

The second game of the doubleheader was not near-ly as lopsided but thanks to a solid pitching performance by sophomore Monique Wesley, the Titans held on for the 2-0 victory.

Wesley (6-6) earned her first career complete-game shut-out, allowing six hits while striking out eight, two short of her career high of 10.

The Titan offense was not as explosive as it was earlier in the day, collecting just five hits for the game. CSUF’s runs

were generated in the second inning, which came without a hit. Shaky pitching and de-fense by the Matadors loaded the bases for senior outfield-er Leesa Harris who drew a walk, bringing in sophomore Samantha Galarza to score for the first run of the game.

The Titans’ second run of the inning came on a wild pitch by the Matadors’ Daph-ne Pofek, who dropped to 5-6 on the season. In a com-plete-game effort, Pofek struck out two while walking three.

Taukeiaho struggled against Pofek, going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, snap-ping her five-game hitting streak in the process.

Senior catcher Ari-el Tsuchiyama was the only Titan with more than one hit for the game, going two-for-four.

The Cal State Fullerton softball team ended the regu-lar season positively, complet-ing the series sweep over Cal State Northridge, 10-1.

It was the first sweep of a Big West opponent this sea-son as the Titans outscored the Matadors 26-2 in the series.

The Titans (33-21-1, 13-8 Big West) got off to a quick start by scoring three runs in the first inning thanks to sophomore Samantha Galar-za’s bases clearing double for a 3-0 lead.

Galarza was one of two Ti-tans who had at least two hits in the game, going two-for-three with three runs batted in and one run scored.

In the first game of the se-ries, the Titans scored nine

runs in the seventh inning and in this game used a six run third inning to hold a comfortable lead en route to a victory over the Matadors (31-26, 8-13 Big West).

Junior first baseman Eliza Crawford went one-for-two and got the big inning started with a solo home run to cen-ter field. After a Matadors’ er-ror allowed Galarza to score, freshman outfielder Delynn Rippy doubled to right field, scoring freshman Sydney Colenzo.

Crawford batted again in the inning and flied out, which was deep enough to score senior Leesa Harris.

Third baseman Mis-sy Taukeiaho finished her first season as a Titan with her typical multi-hit perfor-mance, going two-for-three with a double and launching her 19th home run of the sea-son in the fifth inning.

The round-tripper gave the transfer from Washing-ton sole possession of second place on the Big West sin-gle-season home run list. The

Titans now own the top two spots on the list with Taukei-aho finishing only behind Stephanie Little, who hit 23 home runs in 1999.

It was an incredible year for Taukeiaho as the sophomore hit safely in 45-of-55 games this year and set the Big West all-time single season mark in runs scored with 62.

The game featured the same pitching matchup from the second game of the dou-bleheader Friday as Monique Wesley and Daphne Pofek were in the circle for their re-spective teams.

Wesley improved to 7-6 with her team-high seventh complete game of the year. The sophomore allowed five hits while striking out five.

Pofek fell to 5-7 on the sea-son as she was pulled after two innings after allowing four runs on four hits.

Jordan Sauceda came into the game in the third inning but only recorded one out in the eight batters she faced. Sauceda allowed five runs on three hits while walking

three. The Titans end the year

having won seven of their fi-nal eight games. CSUF fell short of a top three confer-ence standing as it finished one game behind UC San-ta Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The Titans fin-ished only two games behind conference leader Long Beach State. CSUF was projected to finish third in the preseason poll.

The 33 wins for the Titans were the most since the 2007 team went 38-23. The Titans will lose five seniors but have young talent that will be in the mix next season.

The Cal State Fullerton baseball team (25-22, 8-10 Big West) concluded its three-game homestand against UC Riverside Sunday, where the team dropped both the game and the series with an 8-7 loss in 11 innings.

“A lot of little things add up. We didn’t do some lit-tle things. We did some big things, but for the most part we just didn’t do all the little things, and they added up,” said junior pitcher Grahamm Wiest.

Wiest made the start for CSUF, and he pitched six innings. He allowed five runs, only one of which was earned.

This was due to an error by senior infielder Keegan Dale. The Highlanders capitalized with a grand slam by junior Drake Zarate. The blast gave them a 5-0 lead before the Ti-tans could even step up to the plate.

The Titans fought back in the bottom of the first inning, though. Junior third baseman Matt Chapman hit a double that drove in two runs.

Chapman led the Titans on offense with a three-for-four effort that included two runs batted in.

Wiest recovered from his rough first inning to throw five consecutive shutout in-nings, and he finished the game with four strikeouts. He only allowed three hits after the first inning.

The Titans continued their comeback bid in the bottom of the sixth inning by scoring two runs. Sophomore Jake Jef-feries made his first start since April 12 against UC Santa Barbara.

He filled the designated hit-ter slot, and he took advan-tage of his second chance by hitting a two-run single to trim the Highlanders’ lead to 5-4.

However, the Titans left two men on base that inning after being unable to cause any fur-ther damage.

The Highlanders extend-ed their lead to 6-4 in the top of the seventh inning with a single by junior Thomas Walker.

The Titans came close to scoring more runs in the bot-tom of the seventh inning. They loaded the bases with one out, but the Highlanders escaped the jam to preserve their lead.

CSUF returned the fa-vor in the top of the eighth inning though. Junior

Tyler Peitzmeier stepped in for freshman Phil Bickford, and he allowed a single and a walk.

Junior Willie Kuhl then took over and allowed the hit that loaded the bases, but he notched a crucial strike-out and then forced a fielder’s choice ground out to escape the jam.

The Titans took advan-tage of another opportunity to close in on the Highland-ers in the bottom of the eighth inning with a single by junior outfielder Austin Diemer. They left two men on base to continue their offensive struggles.

Junior Koby Gauna allowed what appeared to be an insur-ance run to the Highlanders in the top of the ninth, but the Titans were not ready to fall just yet.

Senior Greg Velazquez hit an RBI double before back-to-back sacrifice bunts allowed the tying run to score.

The Highlanders threat-ened to score again with two runners on base in the top of the 10th inning, but Diemer gunned down senior Cody Hough at home to end the inning.

The Titans looked primed to win the game in the bottom of the 10th, but they left the bases loaded.

The Highlanders took ad-vantage of Fullerton’s failure

to score with the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th in-ning. The Titans went down in order to end the game, and junior J.D. Davis took the loss with one run allowed in two innings. They finished with 13 runners left on base.

The bullpen allowed three runs, but this was only one of many factors that led to the Titans’ loss.

“You can never put it on one thing. It’s baseball. There’s a few mistakes we made and some timely hits that could have went our way and some breaks we could have caught,” Chapman said. “That’s just baseball. You can’t put it on one thing. We win as a team and lose as a team. It’s a tough loss.”

Head Coach Rick Vander-hook will rejoin the Titans when they face UC Irvine next weekend.

“It will be great to have coach Hook back in the dug-out. We really miss him in there,” Kirby said.

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